English: The logo used by Wikileaks (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Julian Assange (Wikileaks) with nimbus, stencil in Leipzig Connewitz Deutsch: Julian Assange (Wikileaks) mit Heiligenschein, Stencil in Leipzig Connewitz (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Rally in support of Bradley Manning on August 8, 2010, in Quantico, Virginia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Demonstration in front of Sydney Town Hall in support of Julian Assange, 2010, December 10 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg Deutsch: Julian Assange und Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Julian Assange at New Media Days 09 in Copenhagen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Bradley Manning (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Bradley Manning & Bidder #70 (Photo credit: Poster Boy NYC)
Bradley Manning Rally - Oakland - Apr24 (Photo credit: savebradley)Bradley Manning, American hero, pleads guilty to certain lesser charges relating to materials he uploaded to WikiLeaks. This story is related by Michael Ratner, Julian Assange's lawyer and one of the very few witneses allowed in the court room. Ratner describes Manning as a strong, very intellegent, 22-year-old person who really acted on what he saw and his belief in doing the right thing. If only all Americans could watch this video...
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Bradley Manning Tells Court Public Have the Right to Know About US War
Crimes
American Attorney for Julian Assange, Michael Ratner, reports he was in the
courtroom and witnessed Manning speak with confidence and intelligence as
he detailed the outrages that drove him to upload the documents to Wikileaks
*Watch full multipart The Ratner Report*
More at The Real News
Bio
Michael Ratner is President Emeritus of the Center for Constit... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this *Special Edition of the Realist Report*, we'll be joined by *
Truthwillout1003* from the United Kingdom. *Truthwillout1003* is the
producer of the must-watch documentary series *Adolf Hitler - The greatest
story NEVER told!* Calls will be taken throughout the conversation.
You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to Truth Militia
Radio via iTunes *here*. Thanks for listening everyone!
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No Shame in Their Claim: Feds Uncover $300k in Bogus BP Payments ~*NOLA DEFE
NDER*
"Truly Radical..."
"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair
convincing."
– Raymond Williams
"When You're Cutting Social Security, 'Wealthy' Begins at $25K"
*"When You're Cutting Social Security,*
* 'Wealthy' Begins at $25K"*
by Jim Naureckas
"Here's a proposal for Social Security that was on the New York Times'
op-ed page Wednesday (2/20/13): "The top third of beneficiaries (by
lifetime income) [would] receive no annual cost-of-living adjustment in
retirement. The middle third would get half of today’s adjustment, and the
bottom third would receive the same annual increase they do now. Such a
reform…would reduce Social Security spending by more than a tenth over a
decade and fix the program’s long-term financing."
This is par... more »
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LSU did wrong by firing hurricane expert Ivor van Heerden ~Kaare Johnson
Removing the Shackles: Repeat After Me....
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/03/repeat-after-me.html
FRIDAY, 1 MARCH 2013
Repeat after me:
"The Time is NOW- THIS moment of NOW.
We are ready to show our Eternal Hearts to the universe.
We are READY.... NOW!
With Districts As Gerrymandered As They Are, Primaries Are A Last Vestige Of Democracy And Accountability
To the chopping block!
Yesterday we talked a little about an upcoming primary against North
Carolina Blue Dog Mike McIntyre-- and we hope he'll be the next Tim
Holden/Silvestre Reyes character to be forced out of Congress by a
progressive challenger. I'm hearing some excellent rumblings about NYC
corruptionist Joe Crowley as well. And, as you know, Republicans also
encourage primaries against some of their own corrupt barnacles and
troglodytes. If Spencer Bachus doesn't decide to retire, he's likely to
have a primary opponent again next year; Jo Bonner, also in Alabama, as
well.
Cl... more »
Master of Hidden Agendas Has Hissy Fit (Why Again?), Ben Bernanke (Hippie?), and The Dark Gates of Sequestration Mordor (Gov't. By Gimmick)
Bob Woodward is an associate editor of the Washington Post. (Photo: Jim
Watson/AFP/Getty Images) Remember the guy who served as the main mystifier
of what really happened when the CIA broke into the Democratic Party's
offices at the Watergate? Yeah. It was a looooooooooonnnnnggg time ago.
But. He's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccccckkkkk! (Oh come on. He never went away.
He's been spinning his
CON omertà
kirbycairo's definitive post about the Flanagan plummet cuts through the
superfluous noise about "moral panic".
*At the heart of Flanagan's discourse was the legal question of the
efficacy, expedience, and import of prosecuting people who consume illegal
material verses those who are actually involved in the production of
illegality. It is not unlike the question of dealing with those who consume
an illegal product like, say, heroin versus dealing with those who produce
it and distribute it. Now, no matter how sensitive an issue is one might
need to address this basic legal questi... more »
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*Gentrification and its Discontents ~Richard Campanella *
Gentrification and its Discontents: Notes from New Orleans - See more at:
http://www.newgeography.com/content/003526-gentrification-and-its-discontents-notes-new-orleans#sthash.qTEIlkUU.dpuf
Gentrification and its Discontents: Notes from New Orleans - See more at:
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Gentrification and its Discontents: Notes from New Orleans - See more at:
http://www.newgeography.com/content/003526-gentrification-and-its-discontents-no... more »
Conservative writers caught in paid propaganda scam
I've been a bit burned out on BuzzFeed lately, but Rosie Gray posts the
bombshell revelation of the day. That being conservative opinion leaders
paid to shill for foreign governments and at least in Josh Trevino's case,
lying about it for years.
The payments to conservative American opinion writers — whose work appeared
in outlets from the Huffington Post and San Francisco Examiner to the
Washington Times to National Review and RedState — emerged in a filing this
week to the Department of Justice. The filing under the Foreign Agent
Registration Act outlines a campaign spanning May ... more »
Tories and UKIP After Eastleigh
UKIP may well be "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" but they're also
riding high after last night's by-election result. Farage must be kicking
himself for not standing as just 1,800 votes separated his party (and it is
*his* party) from the hapless LibDems. With his profile, had he not ducked
out of the fight the commentariat today would be pouring over a loss as
horrifying to the Tories as Galloway's win in Bradford was for Labour.
In an attempt to put a brave face on the 14-point drop, Clegg said "We
overcame the odds with a stunning victory". A solid LibDem constituency
wi... more »
Best FLOTUS interview ever
The twitter can be hopelessly annoying much of the time, but its saving
grace is over time you get know the Big Media types as people by the
personal vignettes they share in 140char. Thus I've come to really like
Olivier Knox of Yahoo News, who tweets under the handle OKnox, as a person.
He's charming, witty, and apparently a great husband and a fabulous father
to his young son.
He's also a great journalist. Highly recommend you watch the video of his
interview with Michelle Obama instead of just reading the transcript. It's
not that long and the transcript doesn't do the banter ju... more »
Breaking News, 3 BC Liberal Riding Associations Just Quit On B.C. Liberals
(*Last updated at 5:40 pm, Mar/1)*
It`s all coming apart at the seams for Christy Clark..
*More breaking news....Kim Haakstad has fallen on her sword and resigned *(5:40
pm)....Don`t know if investigation ends here..Stay tuned
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Christy+Clark+deputy+chief+staff+resigns+over+ethnic+voters+memo/8037464/story.html
It was just reported on cknw that 3 riding associations in 3 NDP held
ridings have all quit in the last hour, this stems from the *ethnic vote,
quick hit planning document *that was leaked..One of the riding executives
that quit is the riding... more »
What we found in The Feminine Mystique!
*FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013*
*Three passages from Quindlen:* On Monday, we disembarked from Amtrak,
blown away by Betty Friedan’s famous text, The Feminine Mystique.
Our copy of the book includes an Introduction by Anna Quindlen. It was
written in 2001, aimed at the impending fortieth anniversary of Friedan’s
book.
Let’s use three chunks from Quindlen’s text to help praise that brilliant
book.
As she starts, Quindlen describes her housewife mother reading the book at
the kitchen table in 1964. Many suburban housewives were reading Friedan’s
famous book at that time.
Quindlen imagin... more »
Amnesty International: State of Louisiana Must Not Appeal Federal Ruling Overturning Conviction in Angola 3 Case
*(The full text of Amnesty's statement is below.)*
*AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA
PRESS RELEASE*
27 February 2013
*State of Louisiana Must Not Appeal Federal Ruling Overturning Conviction
in Angola 3 Case*
*Contact: Suzanne Trimel, strimel@aiusa.org, 212-633-4150, @AIUSAmedia*
(BATON ROUGE) – Amnesty International called on Louisiana Attorney General
James Caldwell today not to appeal a federal court ruling overturning the
conviction of Albert Woodfox of the ‘Angola 3’ for the second-degree murder
of a prison guard in 1972. Amnesty International has raised serious human
rights concern... more »
Catch of the Day
I really like Jonathan Chait on Paul Ryan's new go-to excuse on why
Republicans can't close tax "loopholes" to raise revenues in regular budget
talks -- because supposedly that would make tax reform impossible.
As Chait points out, the odds of tax reform actually happening this year
are slim at best. But supporting tax reform, at least in theory, is a cheap
way for conservatives to impress centrist Washingtonians.
In fact, Republicans have reserved the symbolic "H.R. 1" designation for
their tax reform bill, thus making the claim that it's the centerpiece of
their legislative agenda... more »
Four reasons the next U.S. budget crisis will be even worse
[image: U.S. President Barack Obama. Photo: The White House's photostream /
flickr]
By Walter Hickey
27 February 2013
(Business Insider) – Sequestration will likely go through as scheduled,
meaning that Congress has not acted on the first of three "mini-cliffs"
that resulted from January's fiscal cliff negotiation.
The next mini-cliff, scheduled to hit on March 27, will absolutely require
action. If events in Congress remain at a stalemate, the effects for the
U.S. could be devastating.
There are four major complications that make the March 27 mini-cliff even
more perilous... more »
Friday Afternoon Linkage
Miscellaneous musings for the weekend. If this is true, then will the
sequester be over by the next Congressional recess? Any idea as to why so
many trips to Switzerland? I seriously doubt it has anything to do
with this. Mattea Kramer and Chris Hellman find that we’ve spent $791bn on
Homeland Security since 9/11 — compared
Continue reading
Hey, how about we start sex education in kindergarten?...
*and skip reading, writing, and arithmetic. *
*Chicago Passes Sex-Ed for Kindergartners*
Because that's why men go to the cinema!
"We saw your boobs" - Seth MacFarlane at the 2013 Oscars
Wide Asleep on CounterSpin Radio
It's
"Argo" all the time these days at Wide Asleep in America.
I did interview with Peter Rendall for CounterSpin, the weekly radio
show of the vital media watchdog group, Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting (FAIR), for this week's program.
You can listen to it here. My interview begins at the ten minute mark
and runs about eight and a half minutes.
Here is CounterSpin's rundown of the
Surely There's Enough of Him to Go Around
Everybody's got a Mike Duffy problem these days. Prince Edward Island has
a Mike Duffy problem. Sideshow Steve Harper has a Mike Duffy problem.
The Senate of Canada has a Mike Duffy problem. The government of Ontario
has a few Mike Duffy problems. Mike Duffy has a Mike Duffy problem.
Prince Edward Island has a Senator who might not be a senator at all.
Steve Harper appointed an Ottawa resident to be a Senator for a province a
good distance away. The Senate has a guy who may not be entitled to sit
with them and who has been collecting pension benefits, a salary and
hous... more »
Brennan Hearings: What is the Legal Basis for Drone Targeted Killings?
DoJ White Paper Released as a Matter of “Discretion” SECRECY NEWS February
11th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood *Updated below*
Late Friday afternoon, the Department of Justice released an official copy
of its White Paper on lethal targeting of Americans to Freedom of
Information Act requesters, including FAS and Truthout.org, several days
after it had been leaked to the press.
The official version appears to be identical to the document posted by NBC
News, except that it contains a notation on the first page stating “Draft
November 8, 2011.” (It also lacks the heavy-handed NBC watermark... more »
He's my brother
Absolute control is invisible. It is the belief that we are not slaves
that most securely reinforces our shackles.
We know just one way of DOing – division, judgment, correction. We are
BEcoming something new. We are BEing Love, utilizing our heart and DOing
Agape. This has not been done before. As we take our first steps, trip,
get up and begin to walk – the Universe watches. They are waiting to see
us run.
We will.
We’ve already chosen Freedom. Now, to figure out what that means. As we
internally shift from mind control to heart guidance, our world will sync... more »
Bubbles support \(10\GeV\) or \(50\GeV\) dark matter
March 2013 is expected to be a great dark matter month, especially due to
the eagerly expected results from AMS-02 that may emerge as early as the
next week (ANTARES has seen nothing a few days ago). Joseph S. has brought
my attention to an excellent astro-ph paper by Tracy Slatyer (IAS) and Dan
Hooper (FNAL)
Two Emission Mechanisms in the Fermi Bubbles: A Possible Signal of
Annihilating Dark Matter
that eliminates all doubts that the authors belong among the very top of
the world's astroparticle physics. They looked at the spectrum of the Fermi
bubbles – that Tracy co-discovered –... more »
Bombing War
This looks like it'll be fairly objective. (Only just started it.)
The Muddled Mind of Lord Prescott
Back when he was Tony Blair's deputy prime minister he was for it but now
Lord/Baron John Prescott says the Anglo-American war on Iraq "can't be
justified."
Prescott says he supported the conquest of Iraq back in 2003 because he'd
been told that George w. Bush would sort out the Israeli-Palestinian
problem.
Speaking on BBC One’s This Week, however, he said he “can't just disown it”
but now thought the war was wrong.
“I go through my thoughts trying to justify it,” he said. “It cannot be
justified as an intervention.”
He had been persuaded of the wisdom of the intervention becau... more »
HARLEM SHAKE; CRYPTO JEW KERRY; CIA-RUN EGYPT
* *
*John Kerry's Jewish Roots*
John Kerry, who has Jewish ancestors, supports the CIA's Muslim
Brotherhood, because the Brotherhood will keep Egypt weak.
*Hundreds of protesters dance outside the headquarters of the CIA's Muslim
Brotherhood in Cairo*
*
*"An Egyptian opposition head said he and colleague Mohamed El Baradei have
turned down invitations to meet Secretary of State John Kerry when he
visits Cairo.
"Hamdeen Sabahi, a leader of the National Salvation Front (NSF), said late
Thursday that he and El Baradei objected to Washington’s call for the
opposition to reconsider its... more »
The Fault in Our Stars: A Book Review
In the Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Hazel is a 16-year-old girl
diagnosed with terminal cancer. Her diagnosis has always been terminal, the
goal is not to save her life, but to extend it. Augustus is a former high
school basketball star who lost his leg to cancer. They meet at a cancer
support group through a friend who is going to lose his eyesight to cancer,
they strike up a friendship and then a romance as they bond through reading
a book about a girl with cancer by Peter Van Houten. They eventually use
Augustus' wish from the Genies (a Make-A-Wish foundation type) to go to... more »
Head Of Mexico's Teachers Union Jailed By Peña Nieto
Enrique Peña Nieto, head of the corrupt old political Establishment in
Mexico, the PRI, stole the presidential election at the very end of last
year and has no mandate and not enough votes in Congress to get much done.
He certainly hasn't done anything to quell the drug cartels. But he did
arrest Elba Esther Gordillo Tuesday. I found out about it by listening to
the NPR report (above). I wonder how much of that story is true and how
much of it is made up. I really *do* wonder; I don't know. I'm always
skeptical about powerful, corrupt government figures cracking down on labor
le... more »
The Divisive States of America
The future of the United States of America looks anything but united.
Government "of the people, by the people, for the people" is being
dissolved to nothingness in a corrosive soup of corporatism, corruption and
soaring inequality.
The America we once knew was a manufacturing giant that invented and made
things for which world markets waited expectantly. It was a nation that
arose in conjunction with what was probably the most vibrant and robust
middle class of any country.
That America was destroyed by rightwing charlatans like Ronald Reagan and
his apostles who junked the ... more »
Rachel takes the predictable dive!
*FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013*
*Who ever heard of Bob Woodward:* On Fox last night, the blind man was
king. Sean Hannity started his ludicrous show with a long interview with
Bob Woodward:
HANNITY (2/28/13): And welcome to Hannity!
Now in just a moment, *I'll be joined by Bob Woodward for an exclusive
interview about whether or not he feels he's being threatened by the Obama
White House. *But first, here is the back story...
The interview went on for two segments. Woodward finally disavowed the idea
that he felt “threatened” by Gene Sperling. On CNN the previous night, he
had let that re... more »
Mississippi Charter Bill Would Remove Local Decision Making in Approximately 100 School Districts
Rep. Busby (R)The next time you hear a Dixiecrat or any white Southern
conservative businessman expound on the necessity for local political
control, ask him why he does not believe that this sacred right should
extend to public education decisions. In Mississippi, white edupreneurs,
businessmen, and various other corporate welfare bottom feeders are doing
their best to remove local control from two-thirds of Mississippi school
districts in order to turn their schools over to corporations to run at
public expense.
The most vulnerable, of course, are the poorest districts where tes... more »
Max Igan Speaks to Freedom Central On OPPT
*Max Igan Speaks to Freedom Central on OPPT w/Host Mel Ve*
I hope you enjoy this dialogue with Max and Mel. Some great points are
made which shine some light on the UCC filings that I believe will help
those who still carry any reservations to their legitimacy. If there are
still doubts, my suggestion, which I've carried since OPPT came out into
the open remains the same; GO WITHIN, ALL the answers you will ever need
are there, waiting to be discovered :)
In Absolute Gratitude to Max & Mel for their incredible DO'ing,
~ Brian
CHASE BANK small business killer
We have to admit sometimes we are our own enemy, but in these tough times
we don't need that, the bank we do business with be our enemy as well...
Case in point... *CHASE BANK* and all the other banks have become nothing
more than leaches upon the us all.
They are worse than the ARMY of my enemy
Currently ALL the banks are in the habit of placing *the largest charges on
your account* ahead of *the lesser charges* that way they will have more
items in your account with insufficient funds.
If you are like this office that has more that 3 account with Chase and
because your vendo... more »
Gifford Arrested, Released, Workers Turned Away Again!
Gifford's tree stand where he lived for 9 days to prevent clear-cutting.
*Milford, PA, March 1, 2013 *– Yesterday, local hero and tree-sitter
Gifford Pinchot was arrested on the ninth day of holding fast in a forest
tree-sit. A tree-sit is a form of non-violent civil disobedience, meant to
stop tree clearing for the Tennessee Gas Pipeline. This morning Pinchot
was released from police custody, while workers were again turned away from
the work site by local protesters.
Last evening at approximately 6:00 p.m., Gifford Pinchot was apprehended in
the forests of Pike County, PA ... more »
Madness In High Places
Can the Obama machine get any more crazy-cynical? I just found this email
from campaign hack Jim Messina in my spam folder:
Karen,
Brace yourself.
If congressional Republicans don't act by tomorrow, we're going to be hit
by a series of devastating, automatic budget cuts called the sequester.
It's a sledgehammer to the budget, our economy, and millions of Americans
across the country -- and the most frustrating part? It doesn't have to
happen.
The majority of Americans support President Obama's balanced approach to
deficit reduction -- add your name if you do, too.
So far, congre... more »
MAN AND MANDARIN: Who should you trust!
*FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013*
*Part 4—Concerning that profile of Ezra:* Should we liberals place our
trust in our new generation of liberal journalists?
According to Megan McArdle, the answer is pretty much no. In a recent
profile, McArdle described a rising class of elite young journalists who
“really are very bright and hardworking”—but who may also be “prone to be
conformist, risk averse, obedient, and good at echoing the opinions of
authority.”
Does that describe our new liberal journalists? Consider that recent
profile of Ezra Klein.
At age 28, Klein is one of the most successful o... more »
bradley manning takes the stand, tells the world why he released the videos to wikileaks
Please watch Michael Ratner, the lawyer representing Julian Assange in the
US, reporting on Bradley Manning's testimony yesterday. Ratner is President
Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York and the
Chair of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin.
WSJ: 'Japan Firms Stance on Disputed Island'
by T. Sekiguchi and G. Nishyama Friday March 1, 2013
[Excerpted] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned his focus to
defense and diplomacy barely touching on the economic stimulus policies
that have dominated the early weeks of his term, during his second major
poltical speech.
Mr. Abe opened his address Thursday, calling for 'a strong Japan,' and he
continued with a muscular vow to protect Japan's territorial claims in a
standoff with China.
Racheting up his rhetoric on an issue that has chilled ties between and
Beijing...
Majia Here: Cold war rising... See here
PREVIOUS ... more »
Sequestration/CR Next Step
As expected, sequestration hit today -- but as some of us have been saying for
a while, the real meaningful deadline is March 27, when appropriations run
out and a new Continuing Resolution is needed to avoid a government
shutdown.
What that means right away is trouble for John Boehner's February talking
point that the House had already passed a sequestration fix twice so the
Senate needed to act next. It was always silly as a logical case (the House
had acted twice in the expired 112th Congress, not the current 113th), but
worked just fine as a political strategy for the time becau... more »
Japan whale poaching fleet leaves the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary – ‘Lowest take by the Japanese whaling fleet in the entire history of their Antarctic whale hunts’
[image: Aerial view of Sea Shepherd Australia ships the Bob Barker and
Steve Irwin escorting the Nisshin Maru out of the Southern Ocean Whale
Sanctuary, 1 March 2013. Photo: Tim Watters / Sea Shepherd Australia]
By Paul Watson, observer
1 March 2013
The Japanese whaling fleet has left the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary and
is heading north.
The ships crossing north of sixty degrees are the *Nisshin Maru*, *Yushin
Maru*, *Yushin Maru No. 2*, *Shonan Maru No. 2*, the *Steve Irwin* and the
*Bob Barker*.
The entire Japanese whaling fleet is now north of sixty degrees and out of
t... more »
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli gets a science lesson
[image: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli disagrees with 97 percent
of climate scientists: 'Too much CO2 is dangerous? But we drink soda all
the time.' Photo: Gage Skidmore / ChesapeakeClimate.org]
By Emily Heffling, Virginia Campus Organizer
22 February 2013
If Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was featured on the TV show, *Are
you smarter than a 5th grader?*, he would have been out before the first
commercial.
In his new book, *The Last Line of Defense*, Cuccinelli has a chapter
called "Weird Science" dedicated to his qualms with climate science and his
use of ta... more »
Sandstorm pushes Beijing pollution levels off the charts
By Ed Flanagan, Producer, NBC News
28 February 2013
BEIJING (NBC News) – Beijing and other parts of northern China were stung
by hazardous air pollution levels Thursday as strong winds blew a sandstorm
through the region.
Air in the capital turned a yellowish hue as sand from China's arid
northwest blew in, turning the sky into a noxious soup of smog and dust.
At 6 a.m. local time, the U.S. Embassy's air quality index showed a reading
of 516 for particles less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter. Known as PM2.5,
such particles are considered particularly dangerous because they can l... more »
. . . and miles to go before 4th grade
For those bigots with low expectations who have been whining about the
eradication of imaginative literature from the Common Core National
Standards and National Testing Delivery System (CCNS/NTDS), you may be
interested to know that I have uncovered a trove of literary gems among the
Standards. Just go to Appendix B of the national standards, the same ones
that the New York Times reports today will cost the City of New York
$56,000,000 for new textbooks this coming year. To provide some point of
comparison, NYC spent a little over $13,000,000 this past year for math and
English *A... more »
GEORG GANSWEIN
*Georg Gänswein*
Georg is the son of a blacksmith who became the owner of an agricultural
machinery business in the Black Forest in Bavaria.
As a teenager in the 1970s, "Georg's favorite musical artists were Pink
Floyd, Cat Stevens and the Beatles.
"He also let his curly hair grow 'pretty long' back then..."
THE NEW ADVENT
*The George Clooney of the Vatican (right) www.bild.de*
Georg Gänswein (born 1956) is now a German archbishop and Benedict XVI's
personal secretary.
At one time Georg Ganswein was a lecturer at a papal university funded by
Opus Dei.
According to Catholic blo... more »
Bio-Terror Research Insanity
Laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been
repeatedly cited in private government audits for failing to properly
secure bioterror agents. Feb 26, 2013
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/25/cdc-bioterror-labs-cited-for-security-failures-in-audits/1945933/
[Excerpted] Laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
have been repeatedly cited in private government audits for failing to
properly secure potential bioterror agents such as anthrax and plague, and
not training employees who work with them, according to "restricted... more »
Trent Wotherspoon, is without doubt, the BEST candidate to lead the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
*Trent Wotherspoon for Leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party*
[image: Progressive Bloggers]
Hobbiton set to shrivel in Waikato drought
[image: PARADISE FADING? Water cuts by the Waikato Regional Council
threaten to turn Hobbiton brown. It's the region's driest summer in five
years and, with no rain in sight, Matamata best known tourist attraction
may become three hectares of parched grass and stressed plants. Photo:
BRUCE MERCER / Fairfax NZ]By Matt Bowen
26 February 2013
(Fairfax NZ News) – Bilbo Baggins' lush green shire could have the life
sucked out of it after Waikato's undeclared drought restricted Hobbiton's
water supply.
It's the region's driest summer in five years and, with no rain in sight,
Matamata... more »
Liability for conspiracy narrow
R v JF 2013 SCC 12 holds there are two schools of thought in Canada as to
how, and under what circumstances, a person can be found liable as a party
to the offence of conspiracy. The narrower approach (the *Trieu* model)
limits such liability to aiding or abetting the formation of the
agreement. The broader approach (the *McNamara* model) extends such
liability to also include aiding or abetting the furtherance of the
conspiracy's unlawful object. The approach to be followed is *Trieu *and
not*McNamara*. Party liability is limited to cases where the accused aids
or abets the ini... more »
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The battle of New Orleans ~Columbia Journalism Review
Harper's parade of perps
Notable how many of Steve's patronage peeps are grifters, conmen, or
alleged perps .
Starting from the left ... picture updated to include Pierre Poutine and
the robocon network [h/t Beijing York in comments] - no charges and no
arrests, 21 months and counting...
Dr. Arthur Porter, "His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of
Sierra Leone", also Harper-appointed chair of CSIS watchdog SIRC and lead
investigator into CSIS' treatment of Abdelrazik. Money once paid to former
Israeli arms trafficker to sell infrastructure deals to Sierra Leone, and
now subject... more »
Obama Should Call A Plebiscite... On Syria
I'm sure John Kerry is happy to be out of the Senate and on his way towards
making a mark in the world. I heard the other day he was in Germany,
talking German and everyone was very excited. Cool! Yesterday, though, he
was in the Eternal City working on overthrowing Syria's government. Don't
we ever learn? *Ever*? He's not even bothering to consult his old Senate
pals about changing U.S. policies in the Middle East-- not even a warmonger
like McCain who's been urging war in Syria before it was, apparently, cool.
An always disgruntled McCain bitched to the press: “It's a half measu... more »
Calling Google Scholar...
Google's good, but not perfect. The number of people linking to sites with
egregious nonsense about my personal details written by agenda-driven Kooks
has boosted their credibility.
No matter.
A bigger problem is that Google Scholar isn't tracking my work very well.
Only 60% of my papers are listed. So here's a definitive list that their
webcrawlers should understand. With luck.
Using Meta-Genetic Algorithms to tune parameters of Genetic Algorithms to
fi nd lowest energy Molecular Conformers
ZE Brain, MA Addicoat * *
*Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesi... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Mark Gardner, 51.
Right to the good stuff:
1. Patricia Wald: confirm some judges!
2. More on spending, presidents, and public opinion from John Sides.
3. Sarah Kliff interviews Jay Rockefeller: health care.
4. And Scalia is overrated as a legal thinker, says Scott Lemieux.
BEWARE OF THE SIDE EFFECTS
I am on the bus from Portland to Boston where I will get on a plane (United
Airlines which has just merged with US Air which will likely merge with XYZ
next year and then merge again with ABC the year after. Soon there will be
one airline and it will be easier to nationalize it) heading to San
Francisco.
I've been invited to attend a private seminar *Techno-Utopianism--- Killing
the World* where I will give an update on the latest happenings in the
world of space technology. There will be an amazing group of presenters,
all with the purpose to try to find our way out of this dar... more »
Tom Flanagan: Controversy of Child Porn Comments
Who are these men—for they are, without exception, men—in Harper’s backroom
brain trust, collectively dubbed the “Calgary School”? : The men behind
Stephen Harper
"The men behind Stephen Harper"?!?! : That's a headline with multiple
interpretations...
Risque joke aside..... I can only say, WOW, at this news.
The Godfather of Canada’s Conservative Party!
Both Mentor and Inspiration to Stephen Harper!
Let’s meet Tom Flanagan: A man who is ok with the exploitation of
children and is or was on the North American Man-Boy Love Association
mailing list for at least two years..
Quoting... more »
Guest Post: Are Workplace Bullies Violating Criminal Stalking Laws?
Today we have a special treat. My associate, Ryan Price, has written a
guest post. Ryan is probably smarter than me, since he graduated at the top
of his law school class. If you read his bio below, you'll see he has a
quite interesting background. This is his very first blog post. I think he
did a pretty nice job. I hope he'll share some more insights with us here
in the upcoming months. Here's his post, about a creative solution to the
very common problem of workplace bullying:
Are Workplace Bullies Violating Criminal Stalking Laws?
*by: Ryan Price, Esq.*
Does this sound familia... more »
Obese Women Don't Do Enough Housework
Yep - that's what a South Carolina "research" study says.
A "research" study funded by Coke.
A "research" study aimed only at women - to denigrate women.
I saw this on the our local FOX channel news
- this morning at 4:30AM
- while I was getting my fat a$$ ready
- to put another ten hour day at work.
Another intentional attack on women.
Yes - intentional - they didn't include anyone but women in this "research"
study.
You dumb fat slob - just do the work god intended you to do.
- stay home barefoot and pregnant and
- by god! you better keep the damn house clean
- or be prepared for th... more »
The Second Coming
The word on the street is the Harper government has informed Washington
that, if it doesn't approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, there will be a
catastrophic rupture in Canadian-American relations -- "the biggest deep
freeze in Canada-U.S. relations ever."
Now, there's a threat which must have caused panic in Washington. Iran is
going nuclear, North Korea is going ballistic, and Canada is going -- *blue*.
If the U.S. doesn't want our sticky oil, what are we to do? It's looking
more and more like the pipeline to Kitimat is a non-starter. Perhaps the
Harperites will have to settle for... more »
Reading University cancels "kill gays" Islamist preacher
'"Thahabi endorses the murder of gay people and of Muslims who give up
their faith. He says women are deficient and encourages the beating of
little girls who refuse to wear the hijab," said Peter Tatchell, Director
of the human rights lobby, the Peter Tatchell Foundation.'
More at the Peter Tatchell Foundation including this:
'Background Briefing on Abu Usamah at-Thahabi
Abu Usamah at-Thahabi has previously urged that gay people should be
punished with death.
"Do you practice homosexuality with men? Take that homosexual man and throw
him off the mountain," Thahabi was recorded a... more »
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*We knew something was wrong when it exploded ~Library Chronicles*
*Graves: Louisiana’s coastal master plan can adapt to sea level rise ~Bob
Marshall*
*Sundrop biofuels closes on land purchase for Alexandria plant*
*Slabbed takes a look back at Theriot v Cyberspace and ties a few things
together as we again call for his resignation*
*Snowball wars end as jury reaches decision on machines, flavors*
*New Orleans Chef's Table meets The Gravy at the Saturday Crescent City
Farmers Market*
*More food truck gatherings on tap*
*30th anniversary French Quarter Festival details announced ~G... more »
Working Before Grad School
A student emails me a question:
I have read all the advice on your blog, and have not found an answer to
the following question. With some modifications I think it's a question a
few pre-PhDs from Harvard/MIT/etc. have, so I hope I'm not being too
selfish in asking.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that I have good reason to believe I'm
in the top 1% of academic-economists-to-be in my generation, possibly
better.
Suppose further that I want to devote my career to important, and mostly
policy-relevant, research. In the medium term I just want to be an academic
(professor with ten... more »
Greg Hunter, “Weekly News Wrap-Up 3.1.13”
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 3.1.13”*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
“To say the drama and panic being put out by the mainstream media (MSM) is
unfounded hype is a gross understatement. The budget cuts known as
“sequestration” will force mandatory cuts to military and social programs.
These cuts are really pretty minor when you look at the more than $3.6
trillion in spending for the U.S. Yes, there will be some pain. Budget cuts
are supposed to be painful, but to position this as an end of the world
scenario is simply spin, poor reporting and fact checking by the MSM. The
budget c... more »
Is the Higgs boson just Higgs-like?
Jester wrote a satirical essay,
When shall we call it Higgs?
that I fully subscribe to. The ATLAS and CMS papers – and some media and
theoretical papers inspired by them – keep on referring to the particle
officially discovered on July 4th, 2012 as "the 125 GeV particle", "the
scalar boson", or – most often – as the "Higgs-like boson".
But it's been quacking like a duck for quite some time. Moreover, from a
theoretical perspective, it looks pretty much inevitable that a Higgs boson
has to be there because the probabilities of the longitudinal W-bosons'
scattering could otherwise ex... more »
FIve Most Popular Posts for February
The five most-read posts of last month were:
1. Support for SWP Central Committee Statement
2. SWP: The End is Nigh
3. How Not to Write About Catholicism
4. The Real Cost of the Bedroom Tax
5. Englishness and Suburbia
As predicted last month, the SWP proved to be front and centre in February.
It never ceases to amaze how posts about an organisation with the
revolutionary potential of my cat's litter tray can command large audience
numbers. As an out-and-proud sect watcher, it's heartening to know many
thousands of others share this little quirk, albeit quietly and furtively.
With t... more »
Beef Stir-Fry
*Beef Stir-Fry*
*
*Stir-fry is such an easy and healthy go to meal. It is low in fat, packed
with vegetables and protein and takes about twenty minutes to make. Love it!
Serves 3
- 1 cup white rice (cooks up to about 2 cups)
- 1 tbsp rap seed oil
- 1 green pepper, sliced
- 1 red pepper, sliced
- 3/4 cup sliced mushrooms
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1inch ginger
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp dried ginger
- 250 g beef fillet, sliced
- 2 large heads of pak choi, sliced
- 1/2 gluten free soy sauce
- 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp agave
1. Cook the rice as instructed on the package.
2... more »
The one hundred and seventy eighth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award
The lesson of Eastleigh is clear: If the Right is divided, the Left will
win via @Telegraph http://t.co/VwwCjAOJ1t -- Telegraph Blogs
(@TelegraphBlogs)
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Friends,
With tree clearing now well under way, The Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company
is preparing to blast through our communities, beautiful old growth
forests, and critically sensitive water bodies and wetlands, all in the
name of maximized profits for the fossil fuel industry. Yet as we bear
witness to this destruction we are also sowing the seeds of a young but
growing resistance.
Last Monday, one day after the largest climate rally in US history, two
brave activists from Pennsylvania and New Jersey put their bodies on the
line to stop construction of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline... more »
Blast from the Past
*Popular Mechanics*, Sept 1924. Captioned: Formosa Women Struggling with
the Family Washing in a Public Basic with Crude Stones (upper left). Even
today, in a few older communities, the old public washing stones may still
be found. Like these, I think.
_______________________
[Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its
sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores
of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums! Delenda est, baby.
The Young Turks are confused by Bradley Manning's decision to Naked Plea
U.S. Army private Bradley Manning, accused of providing the Collateral
Damage apache helicopter gun camera footage and secret documents/cables to
the WikiLeaks website, pleaded guilty on Thursday to misusing classified
material he felt "should become public," but denied the top charge of
aiding the enemy.
Cenk Uygur (of the Young Turks) goes into why the Washington Post and the
New York Times wouldn't cover the story Manning offered them before going
to Wikileaks.
"Horrible journalism," is Uygur's summary of this refusal to cover a story
of THIS MAGNITUDE.
Stress Change After 2011 Quake
What this also does is inform us that by measuring the stress through
boreholes, it becomes plausible to calculate the accumulated stress and
know the maximum available energy for an earthquake event. Adding sensors
us to monitor the situation and see building stress.
It has taken decades, but stress detection is a creditable priority for
drilling exploration around areas of economic vulnerability.
The high risk faults can be determined and then drilled to understand the
level of energy build up. This will not tell you when but it will tell you
the earthquake size po... more »
Protecting Earth From Asteroids
We are going to figure out just what is out there long before we get too
serious about adjusting their orbits. In fact that is effectively good
enough because that should determine just what will strike. We already
know dangerous events are rare. This last one, had we had warning would
have been enough to avoid injury.
If you know everything out there and have a network in place to pick up
new objects as they appear, you are already in pretty good shape. Way more
important, it becomes possible to identify true future threats.
If identified long in advance, disturbing ... more »
39 Birds of Paradise from Cornell
This is a gorgeous treat been put together out of Cornell and worth the
viewing. It captures all 39 species of the bird of paradise for viewing in
one place.
*Science, Beauty Converge in New Birds-of-Paradise Website*
*Exclusive footage reveals facets of evolution in breathtaking detail*
*For release: February 19, 2013*
*http://www.birds.cornell.edu*
*
*
*Ithaca, N.Y.–Thirty-nine of the most extraordinary birds in the world are
flying into living rooms and classrooms this week as a new educational
website debuts from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.*
... more »
Chemistry Trick Isolates Big Eruptions in Ice Record
I am not nearly so optimistic here. There is a lot of volcanic activity
about which we still have little knowledge. We really are only learning.
This will at least help.
What really happens when we have a huge eruption in the Aleutians? The
other big event generators are all pretty well on the Equator and the
potential for not generating a strong signal in the ice exists. We need to
separate the signals and that requires some serious events there.
Otherwise this is a good beginning and will work well for the past several
thousands of years. What we need now is applicati... more »
Australia Orders Another Two Dozen F-18 Super Hornets
Another apparent setback for the F-35 light attack bomber. The Pentagon
has informed Congress of plans to sell twelve more F-18 E/F Super Hornets
plus a dozen electronic warfare F-18 Growlers to Australia. The two dozen
jets, including the electronically sophisticated Growlers, will come in at
around $3.6 billion including parts, training and logistical support.
In 2007, concerned about delays and cost overruns in the F-35 programme and
faced with the need to retire aging F-111s, Australia opted to buy an
initial batch of 24 Super Hornets.
BIEBER; BRAINWASHING; BUTTERFLIES; SANDY HOOK
They're watching us
"Duke University researchers linked the brains of a rat in the US with one
in Brazil - and found the rodents could communicate."
Telepathy is real! Scientists develop mind-reading implant that links the
brains of rats in the US and Brazil
*Sofia Richie - all seeing eye.*
"Lawrence E. Adamczyk, 49, from Illinois, told police he entered a boys
high school swim meet after receiving a brainwave message from Justin
Bieber.
"Following an evaluation at an area hospital, Adamczyk was released back
into police custody and told officers about his initial plan to go to ... more »
Tom Flanagan, neoconservative spiritual leader, consigned to utter darkness
Conservative icon Tom Flanagan’s defining moment. Below: Dr. Flanagan in
happier times; the six signatories of the Alberta separatist Firewall
Manifesto; Richard Nixon saying goodbye during his 1952 Checkers speech.
Unlike Dr. Flanagan’s likely career trajectory, Mr. Nixon came back. Who
could have predicted that yesterday would be the pope’s last day on the
job? ... more »
Frontline Warriors at White Clay Feb. 28, 2013
White
Clay, Thurs., Feb. 28, 2013. Photo by Joey Feaster
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Sheridan County Sheriff accused of being drunk at the scene, as
protesters demand an end to liquor profiteers on the border of Lakota
land at Pine Ridge, S.D.
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Photo by Joey Feaster
Lakota warriors and allies stand in unison against police tonight,
Thursday
Anchor of Biological System Knocked Out by BP Oil Spill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RK5Q4X_-FY
Musical Interlude: Angels of Venice, “Sad Lisa”
Angels of Venice, “Sad Lisa”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE8ET6wTE1Y
ELECTION RESULT
Lib Dems win Eastleigh by-election as Tories pushed into third by Ukip
*1.* The Sir Cyril Smith Party
*2. *The Pentagon-Zionist Party
*3. *The Elm Guest House Party
*4.* The Tony Blair Party
*order-order.com *
February 28, 1973
The New York Times the next day, under the headline "Reluctant F.B.I. Gave
Aide of Nixon Watergate Files."
L. Patrick Gray 3rd., the acting director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, said today that he had originally resisted making the
bureau's file on the Watergate affair available to the White House, but
that he had finally allowed a record of the investigation to be given to a
Presidential assistant.
It's Gray's first day of confirmation hearings, and it's an utter disaster
for the White House -- and for John Dean, the assistant mentioned above, in
particular.
Here's Gr... more »
SCHOOLS AND PARENTS
[image: Form Room]
*By theirhistory*
In the UK, 19.8% of school pupils have special educational needs
(eg learning and behavioural difficulties)
The EU average is 4%
dailymail.
*Photo by Bert Hardy*
Why does one child succeed in life, and another one 'fail'?
In* How Children Succeed*, *Paul Tough* writes that what matters most is
character skills.
These are skills such as self confidence, optimism, perseverance,
curiosity, conscientiousness, and self-control.
In other words, emotional intelligence, as taught by good parents, good
mentors and good private schools, is what matt... more »
Video Wounded Knee Liberation Day 2013
Thanks to Clarence Rowland for sharing!
Vegan Recipe: Yellow Split-Pea Loaf with Almond-Cardamom Gravy
*Welcome to the first Friday of the month ... the day we set aside for
featuring a delicious vegan recipe. Why does a blog about green living
include recipes? Because choosing a meatless meal is one of the easiest
ways to live green. Simply put ... plant-based foods are easier on the
environment than animal-based foods.
I am so pleased to introduce you to this month's guest chef ... Alaiyo of Pescetarian
Journal. Wait a minute ... Pescetarian??? Yep, you heard me right ...
Pescetarian! Alaiyo features both fish and vegetarian recipes which include
sustainable ingredients ... and sh... more »
Count Down To Sequester-- Is Obama Getting It Wrong?
Tomorrow, as the Sequester kicks in, President Obama has the Republican
leaders coming over to the White House for a talk. You know, regardless of
who *thought up* the Sequester, Obama signed it and Boehner pushed it
through Congress, got his entire team to vote for it and bragged that he
got 98% of what he wanted in the deal. These are the folks who got it wrong.
When this ill-conceived legislation passed on August 1, 2011, 174
Republicans and 95 Democrats voted for it and it passed 269-161. An equal
number of Democrats opposed the bill-- 95 of them, including virtually
every pr... more »
Henry Corbin: The Biblical Flood As A Spiritual Event
In December, former U.S. Navy officer and famous oceanographer Robert
Ballard, the man who discovered the Titanic, said he and "his team of
researchers have uncovered evidence that suggests The Great Flood described
in the Bible was actually based on real events," (Source: *"Was the story
of Noah's Ark true? Archaeologist who found the Titanic claims Biblical
flood DID happen 12,000 years ago,"* Leon Watson, Daily Mail, December 11,
2012).
To learn more about this story, read *"Evidence Suggests Noah's Ark Flood
Existed, Says Robert Ballard, Archaeologist Who Found Titanic,"* by ... more »
Koch's to Give ALEC Competition (for their $$'s)
Looks like the Koch brothers are planning on starting their own ALEC.
They must see the writing on the wall for the old ALEC.
Back in the good ol' days the Koch's gave old ALEC lots of foundation money
- and then when ALEC went belly up the Koch's forked over a half a mil two
different times to keep ALEC afloat.
Well - evidently the current ALEC hasn't lived up to the Koch brothers
expectations
*(- yeh - ALEC's been a disappointment to me also)*
So the Koch's are going to do what they do best
- start their own KOCH ALEC - a better version - a more fascist version
than the current one.... more »
Musical Interlude: Tron Syversen, “Moonlight Reflections”
Tron Syversen, “Moonlight Reflections”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1EZ30fUHLA
Fiction peddlers
Reading
MoS, I'm struck not for the first time, that some senior members of the
Air Staff here, I suppose Australia too, live in a fantasy world. If I
were in charge (come on, we all have these moments), I'd retire or fire
any military leader who couldn't see past the F-35.
They be fantasists willing to bet the nation's defence on something
non-existent.
I'm less convinced than ever that Canada
"A Look to the Heavens"
“How many arches can you count in the below image? If you count both spans
of the Double Arch in the Arches National Park in Utah, USA, then two. But
since the above image was taken during a clear dark night, it caught a
photogenic third arch far in the distance- that of the overreaching Milky
Way Galaxy. Because we are situated in the midst of the spiral Milky Way
Galaxy, the band of the central disk appears all around us.
*Click image for larger size.*
The sandstone arches of the Double Arch were formed from the erosion of
falling water. The larger arch rises over 30 meters ab... more »
Chet Raymo, “The Still Small Voice”
*“The Still Small Voice”*
by Chet Raymo
"There is a power in nature, restless and terrible- storm, wildfire,
earthquake, tidal wave. There is a delicacy too, to which we attend with a
more perceptive eye and ear- the woolly bear caterpillar in the grass, the
red-tailed hawk circling high and silent above the meadow, the six-dotted
shadow of the water strider on the bottom of the pond. I think of lines
from a poem of Grace Schulman, a poem called “In Place of Belief”:
“...I would eavesdrop, spy,
and keep watch on the chance, however slight,
that the unseen might dazzle into... more »
WAR AGAINST IRAN: ‘TIME’ MAGAZINE OUTLINES THE PATH TO WAR
In a major article appearing in the latest edition of *Time* magazine,
Massimo Calabresi lays out the reasons why 2013 may be the year in which
the long-anticipated and much threatened war against Iran will be launched
by the US. Rather than précis it here, it is worth going to the link and
reading it in full for yourself.
The argument as to whether ‘containment’ of a nuclear armed Iran was
preferable to ‘prevention’ of Iran becoming nuclear armed is discussed and
the conclusion is that, as far as President Obama is concerned,
‘prevention’ is the only logical step Obama could possib... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Proper Perspective..."
“Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out
how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a
little bit different for our having passed through it. What frustrates us
and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning. Does our being alive
matter?”
- Harold S. Kushner
“All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born.
Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective.
Remember, it is always later than you think.”
- Og Mandino
“Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid t... more »
BC Liberals, Government Of Caught And II Apologies
*Written by Grant G*
Today Christy Clark issued an apology on behalf of the BC Liberal
Government and promised an investigation into the expenditures of public
tax dollars and use of Government employees for partisan party politics,
very rarely do political parties or Government apologize, this happens only
when they`re caught red-handed, and although the written words from Christy
were sincere in tone, and Rich Coleman did speak in humble terms in our
legislature on this issue, Rich spoke in question period, a place where
this Government always throws back with partisan bluster, ... more »
The Poet: Maya Angelou"When Great Trees Fall"
*"When Great Trees Fall"*
"When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down in tall grasses,
and even elephants lumber after safety.
When great trees fall in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid,
promised walks never taken.
Great souls die and our reality,
bound to them, takes leave of us.
Our so... more »
Just a Test!
I'm seeing if the email notifications can include the title of the post.
So sorry!
"Dealing with Difficult People: Opening the Channels of Communication"
*"Dealing with Difficult People: *
*Opening the Channels of Communication"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"We all have the experience of difficult people in our lives at one point
or another and honest but clear communication is the answer. We encounter a
wide variety of people throughout our lives. Many of them touch us in some
positive way. Occasionally, however, we encounter those individuals who,
for whatever reason, can be difficult to deal with. Perhaps this person is
a colleague or close friend that you feel is deliberately being obtuse,
inviting in trouble, or doing ... more »
Interview with Fred Wah
*Wikipedia:*
Frederick James Wah (born January 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist,
scholar and the current Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Wah was born
in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but grew up in the interior (West Kootenay)
of British Columbia. His Canadian-born father was raised in China, the son
of a Chinese father and a Scots-Irish mother. Fred Wah's mother was a
Swedish-born Canadian who came to Canada at age 6. His diverse ethnic
makeup figures significantly in his writings.
On December 20, 2011, Wah was appointed as Canada's Parliamentary Poet
Laureate. Mr. Wah... more »
Will Bob Woodward soon be sleeping with the fishes?
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*"I know you may not believe this, but as a friend, I think you will regret
staking out that claim."*
*-- the "threat" issued by Gene Sperling, director of the National
Economic Council, in an e-mail to Bob Woodward*
*by Ken*
So what do you think? Has the Obama administration taken out a hit on
America's Ace Reporter, Bob Woodward? Should the Woodman be taking out a
special insurance policy on his kneecaps?
For once, I thought there would be an advantage in turning to a
dyed-in-the-wool Village stooge, and I looked at washingtonpost.com's Chris
Cillizza's report, "Bob Woodward vs W... more »
Karma Is a Bitch
I gotta say I'm enjoying the hell out of Tom Flanagan's implosion today.
It's so good to see real-time karma in operation. And in this case two ugly
vultures have come home to roost.
First, it was First Nations youth, possibly/probably aligned with Idle No
More, who instigated it. Arnell Tail Feathers (I've seen two spelling of
that) recorded and uploaded it. Levi Little Moustache (again, two
spellings) did the research and asked the question.
Little Mustache, a youth on the Blood Tribe reserve southwest of
Lethbridge, said everyone was shocked when Flanagan repeated his view.
“T... more »
There are different ways of knowing
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: FerriniProductions]:
Ferrini Productions is working on a film for Umass Lowell's Department of
Work Environment. We found one of Chuck Levenstein's poems. When we heard
it we thought of Earl Dotter's photos. I loved the poem and felt they cried
out for Dotter's images. Adagio for Strings was suggested for the track and
this is the result.
First Nation Terrance Nelson 'Rigged Election!'
Rigged Election!
How Canada controls First Nations, and keeps the 'scouts' on councils
Statement by Terrance Nelson
First Nation Roseau River
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
February 28th 2013
In middle east countries, drones kill anyone who opposes the west.
In Canada it is much more subtle, it is done with divide and conquer and
helping the "good Indians"
The nitty and the gritty . . .
If you Facebook, very interesting pictures and information can be found on Blood-Kainai Tribe Politics & News.
Pity poor Tom Flanagan.
Had his verbal faux-pas occurred at any other conjuncture of the Harper
dictatorship, a hastily-assembled crew of communications serfs would have
nimbly cleaned up his mess.
But the CPC propaganda machine has been woefully stressed to the cracking
point recently, and so Flanagan was unceremoniously jettisoned.
The first sign that his party had dumped him was a tweet from the PMO's
Andrew MacDougall.
It was eventually followed by another tweet, this one quite terse, from
Stephen Taylor stating that Flanagan had been dropped from the Manning
Networking Conference's line-up of speaker... more »
Introducing TruTube.TV
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Tomorrow afternoon, I will be hosting a *Special Broadcast of the Realist
Report* on the Truth Militia Radio network. I'll be joined by *
Truthwillout1003* from the United Kingdom. *Truthwillout1003* is the
producer of the must-watch documentary series *Adolf Hitler - The greatest
story NEVER told!* Calls will be taken throughout the conversation. The
Special Broadcast will begin at 1pm PST. Be sure to tun in if you can!
Satire: "Chinese Hackers Drop US Government From List of High-Value Targets"
*"Chinese Hackers Drop US Government From List of High-Value Targets"*
by Andy Borowitz
SHANGHAI (The Borowitz Report)— "In a rare announcement from a notoriously
publicity-shy group, Chinese hackers revealed today that they were dropping
the United States government from their official list of high-value
targets. “We have to allocate our time and energy to hacking powerful
organizations,” a spokesman for the hackers said. “Right now, calling the
United States government an ‘organization’ would be a reach.” He added that
the hackers’ ultimate goal had been to hurl the U.S. g... more »
50 States, 50 Different Currencies ALEC Legal Tender Act
*TODAY *
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Arizona's* *Republican-controlled Senate passed a bill on Wednesday to make
gold and silver legal tender in the state.
According to Capitol Media Services, Republicans who pushed the measure
through said they feared the value of the dollar could tank, making the law
necessary. While the U.S. Constitution bans states printing their own
currency, supporters argued it does not prohibit private organizations from
minting gold and silver coins.
If the bill is approved by the state House and signed by Gov. Jan Brewer
(R),
*Fifty states*
*Fifty different currencies*
*P... more »
Ugly Problems Loom for F-35 Light Bomber
Australia is becoming nervous about the planned purchase of 100 Lockheed
F-35 light strike bombers.
*The fighter's soaring costs have produced rising consternation in
Australia, with a number of politicians questioning whether the air force
can afford to purchase the 100 fifth-generation stealth aircraft it
initially intended to buy.*
*****U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, principal executive of the
Pentagon's JSF Program Office, candidly addressed the issue of F-35 cost
overruns recently met with Australian defense officials at the Avalon air
show in Melbourne, Victoria.*
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Paul Craig Roberts, “One Nation, Under Monsanto: Polluted America”
*“One Nation, Under Monsanto:*
*Polluted America”*
by Paul Craig Roberts
“In the United States everything is polluted. Democracy is polluted with
special interests and corrupt politicians. Accountability is polluted with
executive branch exemptions from law and the Constitution and with special
legal privileges for corporations, such as the Supreme Court given right to
corporations to purchase American elections. The Constitution is polluted
with corrupt legal interpretations from the Bush and Obama regimes that
have turned constitutional prohibitions into executive branch ri... more »
When aid is a crutch and not a solution
I spent an unsettling afternoon yesterday listening as people from a very
poor village in this region inadvertently revealed to me one of the major
problems with international aid.
The village is home to about 100 families, virtually all of them scratching
out the most meagre of existences from land that's too steep and too full
of clay to be good for farming.
Their five-year-old school is looking the worse for wear, but there's no
money to fix the screens or stop the water that's making its way into one
of the two classrooms. The roof is in danger of collapsing on the local
church.... more »
Can We Talk About....Sequestration?
*Are you serious?*
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*"Both parties see silver lining in cutbacks; Key constituents, core tenets
could withstand effect" by Jonathan Weisman | New York Times, February
28, 2013
WASHINGTON — With time running short and little real effort underway to
avert automatic budget cuts that take effect on Friday, substantial and
growing *wings of both parties are learning to live with — if not love —
the so-called sequester*.
‘‘It’s going to happen,’’ said Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of
Ohio and a leading conservative voice in the House. ‘‘It’s *not the end of
the world*.’’
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**T... more »
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