Relics (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The best front page headline ever! (Photo credit: Wayan Vota)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (video game) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)9:02 pm MST
B.C. Liberals In Damage Control - Premier And Cabinet To Hold Emergency Cabinet Meeting Sunday
*There is trouble in BC Liberal land tonight. The Liberal Caucus is
spooked. The BC Liberal 'Ethnic Strategy' memo has infuriated cultural
groups across the province. *
*Change is coming ........ one way or another!*
* *
*Global BC*
Modzilla
I meant to do this post earlier in the week but just got a bit busy so here
goes...
With Highway 63 as our only land link to the rest of the province it
handles a lot of big loads heading to the many oil sands projects in our
region. I've lost track of the number of times I've encountered wide loads
and other impressive and unusual objects making their way long the highway.
I can only imagine the logistics involved in getting some of those loads
to their final destinations which is why I find the story of "Modzilla"
fascinating. What exactly is Modzilla?
About a week ago I star... more »
Important Health News: 5 Vaccines To NEVER Give To A Child (And Any Adult As Well)
I have seen over the last few months many people foolishly line up at
Pharmacies to obtain "free" influenza shots. I had periodically taken the
time to stop some of the people lining up at these Pharmacies and inform
them of the dangers they were subjecting their bodies to. In some cases I
was told to "F--- Off" and to "mind my own business". I had decided that
there was nothing that I could do to convince these people that they were
rolling up their sleeves to accept deadly poisons into their bodies, and I
have stopped trying to get the message out to these brainwashed fools.
... more »
Socialized Healthcare 12: Nurses, Doctors and Other Resources
Last January 24, 2013, I attended a lecture by Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan, a
former DOH Secretary and now a health consultant for many agencies, heads a
health NGO and is back to teaching at the UP College of Medicine. The event
was organized by the Dr. Stephen Zuellig Center at the Asian Institute of
Management (AIM), in partnership with several organizations. It was a good
lecture because the focus is on human resources in healthcare -- nurses,
doctors, dentists, pharmacists and other professionals.
His paper title however, has a negative implication, "Who will heal us
now?", implying ... more »
TV Watch: Saying the long goodbye to "Californication," "House of Lies," and "Enlightened"
*Steven Bochco's Murder One (1995-96) may not have had the courage of the
convictions of its announced premise, but hey, at least it could be watched.
*
*by Ken*
Once upon a time we were told, as I understood it, that we were going to
get a TV series that answered the question, what's it like to be one of
those high-profile defense attorneys we always see defending high-profile
scumbag clients everybody knows are guilty as sin. That sounded like it
might have been interesting, though I suspect the truth is that such
lawyers aren't much different from the rest of the white-collar wo... more »
another frontier: in which my star trek experience enters the 1980s
An historic moment in "what i'm watching" history: I've just seen my
first-ever episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I finished watching Star Trek TOS, the whole series, in order. I was sad
when it ended! I miss Mr. Spock! I want more!
So after one Star Trek-less week, it seemed only right to begin anew.
I remember when Star Trek TNG first came out. I read reviews and was very
interested in the show. But it was 1987. I was busy running around New
York, hearing live music, getting involved in activism, adopting our first
dog. TV was unimportant.
Over the years, I'd see rando... more »
Israel Did 9-11: Sick State Of Israel Celebrates Successful 9-11 Operation On Purim Holiday!
The criminally insane state of Israel absolutely did the attacks of
September 11th, 2001. On that day, their Mossad/Sayanim agents operating
in the United States, as well as key slave puppets within the American
government itself, pulled off that "terrorist" attack that took the lives
of over 3000 innocent American civilians. Sadly, to this day, there has
been absolutely no justice for the families and victims of this horrible
attack by Israel against their "Greatest Friend" the United States of
America!
It is a fact that Israel totally controls the United States and all facets
o... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania. Thanks for stopping by.
"Stop Stress From Killing You"
*"Stop Stress From Killing You"*
by Elizabeth Walling
"What is stress? Physiologically, stress could be considered any event
that triggers a marked response by the adrenal glands. In basic terms, this
response is the release of cortisol. It's the body's natural reaction to
any stressor. For occasional stressors, cortisol can provide a burst of
benefits like increased energy, heightened reflexes and a higher threshold
for pain. However, when stress is chronic, as it often is in modern
society, cortisol levels can remain unnaturally high and lead to damaging
effects, which incl... more »
You Can Vote on This Supreme Court Post
*The view counts will let me know if you like it or not.*
"High court to decide on voter proof of citizenship; Tougher Arizona rule
conflicts with federal law" by Adam Liptak | New York Times, October 16,
2012
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether Arizona
may require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in federal
elections. The federal appeals court in San Francisco had blocked the state
law, saying it conflicted with a federal one.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case early next year, and the
law will remain suspended until ... more »
Population Control 17: China's Depopulation and RH Law
* This is my second guest post in antipinoy.com, posted the other day.
-----------
China’s depopulation has begun. While it’s true that they still have a big
number of younger workers, they also have a rising number of ageing people
who need more healthcare, more pension and other retirement benefits. So
the burden of taking care of the ageing people will really fall on the
shoulders of the younger population.
The China communist government cannot simply dispatch its hundreds of
millions of bureaucrats, or robots, to take care of their oldies.
A friend noted that the “inequaliti... more »
America Has Gone Insane: 7 Year Old Suspended From School For Accidentally Shaping His Pastry (!) Into A "Gun"!
Years back, I used to put up periodic articles that showed the
ridiculousness of our society, and some of the lunacy that definitely seems
to be rampant today... It was called "From The Files Of Absurdity", and
from what I see going on right now in America today, I may have been
definitely premature in posting those files at this blog!
I came across an article today that definitely shows how truly insane
America has become... According to this article, that I discovered at the
"From The Trenches World Report" website, at
www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com, it appears that a 7 year o... more »
I Hope This Supreme Court Post Makes You Happy
*Do you take this post to be your lawfully wedded?*
Court finds US marriage law unconstitutional
High court to consider taking gay marriage cases
*
*Supreme Court considers whether to take up gay marriage
Supreme Court to hear same-sex marriage cases from Calif., N.Y.
Gay marriage backers apprehensive about case
Case is ‘bigger than marriage,’ gay plaintiff says
"Businesses call Defense of Marriage Act unfair; Filing for top court says
same-sex couples suffer" by Beth Healy | Globe Staff, February 28, 2013
Nearly 300 companies and business groups across the country, including man... more »
Sniffing Around the Supreme Court's Decision on Drug Dogs
"Supreme Court sides with drug-sniffing dog" by Robert Barnes |
Washington Post, February 20, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a drug-sniffing German
shepherd named Aldo in ruling that police do not have to extensively
document a dog’s expertise to justify relying on the animal to search
someone’s vehicle.
The unanimous court overturned a Florida Supreme Court ruling. That court
had thrown out a 2006 search of a truck after Aldo ‘‘alerted’’ to the smell
of drugs, saying police must compile detailed evidence of the dog’s
reliability before establishing pro... more »
Important Health News: Video: Toxic Light - The Dark Side Of "Energy Efficient" Light Bulbs!
One very important subject that I continue to cover in this blog is of
course Health related issues. Again, we must understand that the criminals
who are out to enslave us all have been poisoning our bodies and weakening
our immune systems purposely to destroy our abilities to fight back against
their planned tyranny.
I have long stressed the absolute need to never, ever, put Mercury filled
Compact Fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs into your homes. These insidious
little devices are absolutely deadly to human health due to the poisonous
Mercury they contain. It is a little known fac... more »
"A Tale Told By An Idiot..."
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
- William Shakespeare
“Macbeth” Act 5, scene 5, 19–28
Incredible OPPT Art & Video -- Thank You Shawn Foote (Updated)
*Incredible OPPT Art -- Thank You Shawn Foote*
**
Since I posted this, I had a chance to take a deeper look at some of
Shawn's other work and was blown away by his talent. So, I figured I would
share the Love here with everyone. At the bottom is a very powerful YouTube
video, which Shawn also created. It offers some musical/visual
inspiration that illustrates the emotional and spiritual depth to his
fascinating artwork. If you are interested in contacting Shawn, he can be
reached via email at 3foote@gmail.com.
**
*Here is the email he sent to us:*
*Thank you so much for ... more »
*Time Change * 5pm Dinner and Planning Meeting at Alex and Greg's House
The planning meeting at Alex and Greg's house for tomorrow (Sunday 3/3) has
been moved from noon to 5pm in order to accommodate folks who will be doing
actions to stop clearcutting during the work day. If you'd like to join in
those actions starting at 7am or need the address for the Lotorto's, please
call 570-269-9589. We look forward to seeing everyone!
-Alex
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Is On To You, Massive Telepathic Stock Market Conspiracy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/scott-adams-stock-market_n_2791557.html#slide=more255115
*Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Is On To You, Massive Telepathic Stock Market
Conspiracy*
Posted: 03/01/2013 3:58 pm EST | Updated: 03/02/2013 1:06 pm EST
Dilbert creator Scott Adams, best known for churning out decades of
wall-calendar-ready workplace humor and an unusual endorsement of Mitt
Romney, is apparently trying on a second career as a stock-market analyst.
I am happy to report that Adams is not much worse than most stock-market
analysts. By which I mean his analysis is danger... more »
Interdependent originations
*from the journal science [ link ] *
Thank you Bill Baillie
Nation Revisited # 101:
http://nationrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/nationrevisited-101-march-2013-e-mail_2318.html
Contents:
The Special Relationship
Micawber's Advice
No Change at the BBC
Running Out of Time
Five Questions Answered - by Rufus of the News From Atlantis Blog
Gun Control: an American Perspective - by Robert Lyons
Immigration - by Laurel Grove
Thanks to Bill Baillie for the interview. It is refreshing to know that
there is a growing opposition to the common enemy. Until recent times, too
many activists have fallen for the confidence trick of party politics.
In... more »
Teabaggers Witlessly Fulfilling An Old John Birch Society Plot To Destabilize The U.S. Government?
I don't know why I put a question mark at the end of that sentence in the
subject line. The other day I was joking around on Twitter, suggesting that
some teabaggers might find it ironic if the Republican Party's latest
attempt at rebranding included them calling themselves "Tories," "Red
Coats" or the King's Men." I don't know how many teabaggers have a sense of
irony-- certainly none of the ones I've met.
The Tea Party's Austerity Agenda, which is wrecking every single economy in
Europe that tries it, just pushed the U.K. into a triple-dip recession. The
same week that Prime Min... more »
"This Year’s Subsidy To Wall Street Equals The Amount Of This Year’s Sequester Cuts"
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*"This Year’s Subsidy To Wall Street Equals *
*The Amount Of This Year’s Sequester Cuts"*
By Eric Zuesse, Washington's Blog
"Since we’ve bailed out the 10 largest banks $83 billion this year alone,
should they give it back to us by paying into the U.S. Treasury the amount
of this year’s sequester? After all, it’s the same amount. On February
20th, Bloomberg News editors headlined, “Why Should Taxpayers Give Big
Banks $83 Billion a Year?” and issued the first-ever thorough and current
analysis of the taxpayer-subsidy to the Wall Street mega-banks. They found
that this sub... more »
James Plett Slams Premier, Calls BC Liberals Crooks
*Why I Quit the BC Liberals** ** **March 1, 2013*
*written by James Plett *
**
*
"You may actually have heard elsewhere, but today I have resigned my post
as the Vice President of the Surrey-Tynehead BC Liberal Riding Association
and have requested my membership be terminated immediately with the BC
Liberal Party.*
***My resignation has nothing to do with the riding per se, nor with Dave
Hayer — the best MLA in BC — nor with the riding’s acclaimed candidate,
Amrik Virk, but rather with the pattern of arrogance, deceit, and downright
unethical behaviour of the BC Liberal Party.*
... more »
A note to readers
Dear readers,
First, I'd like to thank everyone that reads and supports my blog and other
efforts to get the truth out about some of the most important subjects in
the alternative media and blogosphere. I appreciate all the kind emails,
comments, and critiques I receive. Please feel free to contact me via email
or *Facebook* if you ever have any questions, comments, or concerns.
About two months ago, Monday, January 7th to be exact, I was abruptly fired
from my job for "personal email and internet use". I had been employed by
my former employer for over two years, had a flawless ... more »
The Far Left and the Media
What have the British media got against The King? In the Eastleigh
by-election, the Elvis Loves Pets Party was frozen out by the press, BBC,
Sky etc. You could be forgiven for thinking this blackout represented a
conscious effort by the capitalist media to keep rhinestone suits from the
public's gaze. Still, despite only polling 72 votes Elvis fans can rest
easy knowing its leaflets were seen by thousands of people. I also have it
on good authority that on enthusiasm and campaign vibrancy alone the ELP
were the clear winners. A marker has been put down for advance in the years
ahea... more »
This Is Where Greed Lives
[image: Kinder Morgans Richard Kinder]
This is the massive home of the CEO of Kinder Morgan, the company that owns
the Tennessee Gas Pipeline. His name is Richard Kinder, and the address is
2929 Lazy Lane Boulevard, Houston, TX 77019-1301. Send him a post card and
tell him you don't like what his company is doing! To learn more about
what this guy does to get this rich, read our earlier blog post about him.
Dead Zone
I almost didn't bother to read an article in the New York Times titled *The
Holocaust Just Got More Shocking*. Oh, come on, I thought - how could
anything possibly be more shocking than what is already known...that story
must be some sensational hyperbole. So I was surprised when I got to a
number that made my jaw drop - literally! I had thought that was just an
expression...but there I was, staring at the laptop screen, my mouth gaping
open in astonished horror.
"THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum began the grim task of documenting all... more »
Dirty Tactics: Federal prosecutors aid desecration of Peaks
Boycott
Arizona Snowbowl.
Peaks Defenders Targeted with Federal Charges Coerced into Collateral
Forfeiture Agreement
Flagstaff Couple Felt 'Forced' when Threatened with
Additional Charges
By Dawn Dyer and James Anders
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
English/French
FLAGSTAFF,
Ariz. –Despite wanting to legally fight the charges brought on them by
the
Coconino County
Project Contour and Alien Communication
As I was doing some research the other day, I came across some information
from Mark Shippey (or information attributed to him) about a classified Air
Force program known as Contour. This is how he explained it:
Today I met an old retired Air Force officer who claims that in the 1960s
the Air Force conducted secret projects concerning possible communications
with alien life forms…
He said one project was called “Contour”. He said that this project
involved understanding “linguistic fundamentals of communication between
different species”, and that one part of the project focused on... more »
Community March and Rally on Cummins Hill Road
[image: IMG_7558]
The community rallied today at Crawford Hill, alongside allies from
Philadelphia, Bucks and Wayne Counties, PA, and New York and New Jersey.
Approximately 40 people showed up and the march down the road ended in a
rally in front of the clear cut, with powerful testimony provided by local
residents. *Check back later for video of the residents' speeches!*
[image: tracy speaks2]
Above, local resident Tracy Hoffman speaks to the group about the impact
the pipeline project will have on her quality of life and the local
ecology. She also spo... more »
beautiful ad-free e-cards at jacquie lawson dot com
This is such a good tip, I am almost reluctant to share it. Then again,
most people probably won't use it.
I like to remember people's birthdays. Long before Facebook kept track of
birthdays for us - and I do mean *long* before, as in, most of my life - I
have been in the habit of writing people's birthdays on my calendar, and
buying, and sending birthday cards. This is something I learned from my
mother, although I did not retain her habit of being responsible for other
people's cards, too. It was my mother's job to remember my father's
birthday obligations, too - his mother, his ... more »
“I Hope You’re Ready: The Sell-Off Today Is The Start. Not the End.”
*“I Hope You’re Ready: *
*The Sell-Off Today Is The Start. Not the End.”*
by Mac
"They’d have us believe that happy days are here again. And, if your only
source of information for economic news is the mainstream media and their
talking heads, then in all likelihood you’ve bought into the hype about an
economy on the rebound, consumers being more confident, housing prices in
recovery and a government that’s soon to resolve America’s fiscal woes.
Nothing could be further from the truth. We are very rapidly approaching a
situation that could be much, much worse than what we experi... more »
Worst practices in journalism
Increasingly convinced Big Media is a greater threat to the Republic than
Republicans. The failure to inform verges on criminal negligence. Take for
instance, this process piece glaringly titled, "Obama blames Republicans
for failing to stop sequester." It's not that it's wrong. Obama is blaming
the GOPers but that's because, it's the Republican's damn fault. Yet this
is how The Hill describes the situation.
Democrats are pressing for offsetting the spending cuts through a
combination of increased taxes and replacement spending cuts.
This dutifully transcribes the daily Republican ... more »
DJ!'s Fix for the Broken News Biz
It may well be as we suggested earlier that the Corrupt Party
government-paid army of hacks were too busy with other ongoing trainwrecks
to try to spin Tom Flanagan back out of the hole he'd pitched himself into.
But his brethren and sistren in the media have rallied. I'm not going to
link -- you can find them. They have twisted themselves into various
unattractive pretzels to find grounds on which to defend or mitigate his
faceplant.
One thing they have in common though was noticed by our pal trapdinawrpool.
It appears the gatekeepers are upset the we mere proles took down one of ... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Burning'
MNN: BURNING
Posted on March 2, 2013
MNN. Mar. 2, 2013. The following quote does not
advocate the burning down of anybody’s house. It’s an expression of rage
against the system of brutality that has been forced on the Indigenous
people. Arihwakehte says, “It happens to have the word burning in their
context as a symbol of bringing down a
Mohawk Nation News 'Demand Payment Letter'
MNN: DEMAND PAYMENT LETTER
Posted on March 1, 2013
MNN. Mar. 1, 2013. A letter has been sent to the
Corporation of Canada for full payment to Indigenous shareholder,
kahentinetha, of her share of the ever-growing Indian Trust Fund, also
known as the First Nations Trust Accounts.
Not for long!
FROM: Kahentinetha of Rotino’shonni:onwe
What Mattered This Week?
I'm going to list two. One is the Supreme Court case on the Voting Rights
Act.
The other is another month of reduced casualties in Afghanistan. Only one
coalition death in Afghanistan in February, an American; that means there
have been 9 coalition deaths, 4 of them Americans, so far this year. Last
year through February there had been 59 coalition troop deaths, including
42 Americans. Remember, fighting in Afghanistan is seasonal, so there's
every reason to expect that casualties will rise in the spring. Still, it's
a pretty dramatic drop, worth noting just for itself as well as wh... more »
Sam Jinks - ultra realistic sculptures - retrospective selction
YEP, THEY'RE ALL *SCULPTURES*, NOT PHOTOS
MADELEINE McCANN; THE KRAY TWINS; MARGARET HODGE
*Philip Edmonds.*
Philip Martin Edmonds was at Praia da Luz in Portugal when Madeleine McCann
disappeared.
Philip Martin Edmonds is the nephew of Margaret Hodge.
Margaret Hodge is the UK politician who has been accused of covering-up the
child abuse scandal in the London borough of Islington.
*Margaret Hodge (Oppenheimer), member of the Kosher Nostra. *Margaret
Hodge's family company pays just 0.01pc tax on £2.1bn of business...
The next section is from *MADELEINE - Page 16*
"Philip Edwards married Reina Hazenberg and they have three boys, all of
whom were out with Philip in Pra... more »
SANTOS SPEAKING WITH ANN BRESSINGTON on the confirmed validity of OPPT
SANTOS SPEAKING WITH ANN BRESSINGTON on the confirmed validity of OPPT:
The original article can be found here:
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2013-03-02T08:05:00-05:00&max-results=7
*SANTOS BONACCI*
*02/25/2013* * Santos deals with the subject of Reclaiming Dominion.
Breaking the fictions of Law, Religion and Science. This weeks special
guests were Rena Iliades and** Ann Bressington.*
- Victorian Melton Council Corruption
- Oppt Discussion
Ann Bressington (Australian politician) says she has put the OPPT stuff
past a retired corporate law... more »
Will Long Island Republican Peter King Switch Parties?
I don't expect Long Island Republican Peter King to ever switch parties.
He's a committed conservative Republican, albeit a mainstream conservative,
not some kind of Confederate neo-fascist who gets all his talking points
from Hate Talk Radio, Fox and religionist charlatans the way most modern
Republicans do these days. He's very much *not* like the other Republican
Congressman King, Iowa sociopath *Steven* King.
His Nassau County base was once a white flight suburban area-- like when he
was on the Hempstead Town Council in the late 1970s and then Nassau County
Comptroller but th... more »
Sequestration Scare Continues
*I **can't talk** about it anymore, readers.*
"Sequester goes into effect as both sides trade blame" by David Uberti and
Tracy Jan | Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, March 02, 2013
WASHINGTON — President Obama and Republican leaders held *another fruitless
session* at the White House....
*
**I am beginning to think this is all a cleverly-crafted game where each
blames the other while both really getting what they want. Then they can
turn to their flock of lemmings known as constituents and say see, we
tried, but the other guy.... given an out for why they failed when it's not
... more »
May the Vulcanic Force be with you
As you know, the sequester went forward yesterday. President Obama held a
little presser during the daily White House briefing after a futile meeting
with Congressional leaders. When answering a typically inane question from
the Big Media about why he can't just "lead" our legislators into doing the
right thing, he made the mistake of saying he can't just do a Jedi mind
meld on them. ZOMG! A mixed sci-fi metaphor!!!
Nothing else he said mattered after that. Twitter nerds immediately
exploded into a snarkarama. BuzzFeed had a post up within two minutes and
the rest of the intertoobz... more »
'From Silent Spring to Silent Night'
Dr. Tyrone Hayes from the University of Berkeley visited my campus this
week and presented on "From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads
and Men."
Unfortunately I had to miss the event because I was at another university
event. I offered my students extra credit for attending and writing up a
summary of the event.
Samuel Moore, one of my students, wrote a very nice review of this
interesting talk and its relevance for "consumerism," the topic of the
course I'm teaching:
Dr. Tyrone Hayes’s lecture “From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of
Toads and Men” was larg... more »
WSJ: "Court Rejects Challenge to Wiretap Rules"
by J. Bravin Feb 27, 2013 p. A2
[paraphrasing] The Supreme Court ruled that the government does not need
probable cause for blanket monitoring of international communication
between people in the US and those overseas.
Majia here: In 2008 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
authorized mass surveillance and does not require identification of
specific targets. The Supreme Court upheld the law.
Reuters provides more background
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/26/us-usa-court-surveillance-idUSBRE91P0JS20130226
Choking on Apathy
According to a new study, people the wide world over have suddenly stopped
giving a damn about the filthy air they breathe and the contaminated water
they drink. Concern levels are at their lowest in 20 years. Smog,
schmog. We are suffering, according to the *New* *York Times*, from a mass
outbreak of Environmental Warning Fatigue (not to be confused with
the Outrage Fatigue Syndrome I've discussed in recent posts.)
Hmmm. Isn't it ironic that the paper of record is publishing the results
of a new study on Environmental Meh at the exact same time it decided to
ditch its popular G... more »
Is American TV still making you frightful at the very thought of ever visiting Mexico? If so, you are responding to propaganda designed to prevent you from finding out that life is really much better -- and safer! -- south of the border than it is in many parts of the States.
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Safety in Mexico: Reality vs. Sensationalist Media Hype
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By Cathy Brown / Dec 12 • Categorized as Living Overseas
Original Here
In the last few months, I have had the good fortune to visit Mexico a
couple of times. For a single mom whose family and friends have no problem
with me romping around Buenos Aires, taking my young kids to the Amazon, or
climbing mountains in Africa, I cannot say that I was sufficiently prepared
for the distinct reaction I got when pe... more »
WaPo Editorializes on KIPP Study and Forgets to Report the Findings
When Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. presented the final piece of a study
commissioned by KIPP, Inc. the other day (*"KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on
Achievement and Other Outcomes"*, WaPo’s Editorial Board was quick to
announce “KIPP Doubters Proven Wrong.”
OFFICIALS OF KIPP(Knowledge Is Power Program) have become accustomed to the
doubters who think the success of the fast-growing charter-school network
is too good to be true. KIPP’s positive outcomes are the result not of its
unique learning approach but rather, so the familiar critique goes, of its
ability to attract the bes... more »
Untitled
*New Orleans Levee breaking news: Pothole swallows New Orleans shopper*
The basic shortcoming of Creeping Kleinism!
*SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013*
*It’s right there in today’s Post: *The basic problem with Ezra Kleinism is
on display in this morning’s Post.
It’s on display in Klein's page 2 column. The headline says this, and the
key word is “smart:”
“Some smart alternatives to brain-dead sequestration.”
Plainly, Klein is routinely presented as part of journalism’s Smart New
Breed. On The One True Liberal Channel, viewers are often fed this hook,
along with the pledge that his highly intelligent segments won’t last more
than two minutes.
At the Washington Post, Klein and his underbloggers post each... more »
Saturday Morning Linkage
I’m at a conference with a surprising number of Duck bloggers and
commentators, so this will be brief. I spent some time last night
troubleshooting older podcasts. If you notice a problem please email me.
Kings of War analyzes the impact of the sequester on the US army. Andrew
Yeo looks at “naming and shaming” viz. North Korean human-rights behavior.
Continue reading
Disorder in the court
I'm late to Scalia's scumbaggery at SCOTUS this week during the arguments
on the Voting Rights Act matter. May Tom Toles forgive me for stealing his
work and never giving him any money, but this is the perfect summation of
the moment:
[via The Platzner Post]
Continuing stinks out of University of Minnesota Psychiatry: If it looks like it, smells like it and sounds like it, at least it deserves an inquiry...
This is just to point interested readers to what looks more and more as a
multi-layered bona fide research ethics scandal at the psychaitry
department of the University of Minnesota, involving at least one death and
possible falsified patient documents in order to fake proof of consent. My
US colleague Carl Elliott has been covering this mess for a long time,
patiently trying to have the university's own research intergrity
administration take hold of the case, and work it as they should. However,
instead of doing what a university in this situation is supposed to do –
namely acting... more »
Using Austerity To Gut Social Security: Why "They" Need The Fix (Underfunding Employee Pension Problem Solved!)
If you've been wondering exactly where the big money bets lie . . . here's
a good place to start your search. It's no coincidence (thank you, Jethro!)
that the CEO's involved in this fraudulent crusade have underfunded their
employee pensions for years (and where do you think that money went?).
Phase two, according to Fix the Debt spokesperson Jon Romano, appears to
consist of the hiring,
We don't live in a simulation
In 2011, I already wrote a text about the theories that our universe is a
computer simulation:
Rebooting the Cosmos
Needless to say, a regular reader has seen lots of other criticisms of discrete
physics, a more general concept. Let me return to this topic – and change
the focus somewhat – in the wake of a sensible text at Backreaction,
The simulation hypothesis and other things I don’t believe
As David Tong explained using different words in his Silver Prize Winning
Essay written for a crackpot foundation whose basic mission does include
the promotion of the "Simulation Hypothesis... more »
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*Innovative Thinking On Living With Water ~Ian McNulty, New Orleans Magazine
*
*Where the Water Beats Against the Land ~Poppy Tooker, WWNO*
*How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy ~Nathaniel Rich, NYTimes*
*Fleur de Tease presents "Prison Tales"*
*Hall of Fame Reception Honoring Star Guitar, Perrodin, Salmen March 4 ~
Fairgrounds*
*All the way from New Orleans to Clitheroe for the Hot 8 Brass Band ~Lancashire
Telegraph*
Slow Saturday Special: Coakley $ettles With Cahill
*The timing of the announcement sure is suspicious, but I hope it at least
paid for the going-through-the-motions trial.*
"Cahill to pay $100,000 to settle case" by Peter Schworm and Frank Phillips
| Globe Staff, March 01, 2013
Saying that he hopes to never “see the inside of Suffolk Superior Court
again,” former state treasurer Timothy P. Cahill agreed to pay a *$100,000
fine* Friday for violating state ethics law during his 2010 campaign for
governor.
The decision *settles the public corruption charges* against him and *brings
a close* to a *long-running political saga*. It als... more »
Republican War Against Women Is Backfiring
We covered Boehner's bungling of the whole Violence Against Women Act
fiascoon Thursday. Another self-inflicted disaster in the Republican
Party's
pointless War Against Women. Here was the key paragraph, politically
speaking, in case you missed it:
So this morning they voted, first on the GOP fake version and then on
the
actual Senate bill. Their own crazy thing failed 166-257, only 2 old
school, right-wing, misogynistic Democrats (Lipinski and McIntyre) voted
with the GOP on it. 60 *Republicans* voted with the Democratic
leadership
against it. (Boehner didn't vote.) Immediately a... more »
Does anyone under the age of 35 understand?
http://twitter.com/Fascinatingpics/status/307829256745017344/photo/1
Not Very Bright
The Harperites will troll for votes wherever they can find them. That
includes immigrant communities. But, at their core, they fear "the other"
-- those who don't see the world as they do. That attitude is most evident
in their attitude toward refugees and their access to health care.
Carol Goar writes, in *The Toronto Star*, that a group of Canadian doctors
and lawyers have decided to confront the Conservatives on their policy of
denying healthcare to refugees:
This week, Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care and the Canadian Association
of Refugee Lawyers joined forces to ask the F... more »
NEXT GENERATION OF SURVEILLANCE
Argus Panoptes is the name of a giant of Greek mythology who had a hundred
eyes and who was said to be “all-seeing”. What an appropriate name for
DARPA’s latest wide area monitoring system, described as the “next
generation of surveillance”. When mounted on a drone, ARGUS (which stands
for Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System) has
a 1.8 Gigapixels video system that allows the constant video surveillance
of a small city, complete with the tracking of moving objects and
incredible zoom-in capabilities.
Are we at the point yet that we can see advancing... more »
Digging In
Two days ago the tree sit ended, and yesterday Gifford Pinchot was released
from police custody. Although he was charged with aggravated trespass,
resisting arrest and disorderly conduct he was released on his own
recognizance. This means that the judge weighed Gifford’s actions and
given the options at her disposal decided to levy the lightest burden
possible. This is a victory for the campaign! It underscores the support
that we have in the community and the local political will against the
project. It also means that although the tree sit at Cummins Hill ended,
we did not ha... more »
A Lecture on Income Inequality
From UC Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez. It takes about 40 minutes.
Not funny: BBC supported ‘Comic Relief’ and the demonization of Israel | BBC Watch
BBC and War on Want joined at the hip in hating & lying about Israel
http://bbcwatch.org/2013/03/02/not-funny-bbc-supported-comic-relief-and-the-demonization-of-israel/
Saturday Night Short Shorts + Links
When Beijing Correspondents Write: How one security concern in Asia is
quietly easing. I was going to rip this China-centered ditty until I saw it
was from the Beijing correspondent, then figured there was no point in it.
All parts of it are stiffly mediocre, but especially delightful is the
writer's observation that Chen Shui-bian was "pro-independence" while the
political orientation of Ma and the KMT are never referred to.
Ted Galen Carpenter on the ROC's Senkaku claims says there have been "angry
demonstrations" in Taiwan's cities about the Senkakus. Hahahaha. With
response from... more »
AP News : DHS freed over 2,000 immigrants since February.
'WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department released from its jails
more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due
to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The
Associated Press has learned.
The newly disclosed figures, cited in internal budget documents reviewed by
the AP, are significantly higher than the "few hundred" illegal immigrants
the Obama administration acknowledged this week had been released under the
budget-savings process.'
More here -
http://m.apnews.mobi/ap/db_6776/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=dca5a... more »
O'BRIEN; CHILD ABUSE; GAY PRIESTS
*[image: Saint Mary's College, Blairs, Aberdeen]*
*St Mary's College*
From 1980 to 1985, Keith O'Brien was rector of St Mary's College, Blairs, a
junior Catholic seminary near Aberdeen in Scotland.
St Mary's College had students aged between the ages of 13 and 18.
Ten years after O'Brien left Blairs, a former priest, Desmond Lynagh, was
accused of sexually abusing boys during the Seventies.
He was jailed for three years.
While he was an archbishop during the late 1980s, O’Brien arranged for one
of Lynagh's victims, Michael X, to be paid £42,000.
Michael X has claimed the payment w... more »
Growing Earth and Electric Universe team up to explain 'missing mass'
here it is, here's NASA's evidence for the amount of pseudo-matter that is
directed towards Earth (and all the other planets in the Solar System) on a
daily basis in the form of electric discharge from an Electric Universe
'furnace' i.e. the Sun, it's called a Coronal Mass Ejection and it's a
PLASMA.
One of the big contentions of the Warren S Carey's EXPANDING EARTH concept (slip
cover version online here) popularised spectacularly by Neal Adams Growing
Earth videos is, "Where does the extra matter needed to fuel the 'growing
earth' come from?"
Well, hello!
Our own nearest star,... more »
AGW petition by Ranga Myneni: 1 billion signatures left
When I opened Alexander Ač's blog today, I had to laugh. An unknown
alarmist from Boston University named Ranga Myneni started a petition "with
a billion of linked hands". Before the 144th birthday of Vladimir Lenin
(which comes next year), he wants to collect a modest 1 billion of
signatures.
The petition is short, simple, science-fiction-scale ambitious, and looks
like it was written by a child from a kindergarten:
Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, We, the People of
the Earth, request You to act judiciously and expeditiously to protect the
Earth from a... more »
March 1, 1973
Patrick Gray has another long day before the Senate Judiciary Committee,
with the bulk of the questions pressing him on Watergate and other Nixon
Administration scandals. The bit that made headlines was about Martha
Mitchell:
--
Senator Bayh. I have heard some things floating around and I would just as
soon put this to rest, did you ever interview Mrs. Mitchell?
Mr. Gray. We endeavored to interview Mrs. Mitchell, but Mr. Mitchell said
that Mrs. Mitchell's stories and the things that were in the press were not
so and we were not going to interview Mrs. Mitchell. There was no need t... more »
Cold Resistance Genetic
We always sort of knew that all this was likely true, but we now
understand the genetics.
The boreal forest is essentially open to agricultural development. It will
require a people well adapted to winter conditions there although summer
personnel can obviously be migratory. Winter care of animals will need
locally adapted folks best suited to operations.
Please note that we have developed several protocols for boreal forest
agriculture here that shows it to be quite feasible.
*Cold resistance runs in genes*
*
by Alexandra Zakharova*
*
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Feb 15... more »
Bigfoot and Irish Giants
This item has an alternative explanation for Bigfoot genesis that I do not
support. I expect that Bigfoot is totally independent from the Irish
Giants who can be mapped coincidentally with the European Bronze Age in the
Americas. Bigfoot appears likely to have arrived with the later pulse of
human settlement that came out of the Bering Strait overland as the Ice
collapsed.
Both source human and Wildman populations were available on the Asian side
and seamanship was unnecessary. The first pulse of humanity came by sea
from both East and West in skin craft around 20,00... more »
Device Provide Partial Vision
Here it is. The first direct augmentation of the optic nerve to generate
images with a practical device. It is even good enough to be helpful. We
will now experience continuous improvement until, we develop the larger
device with a broader spectrum used by ET.
In the meantime, this is good enough to eliminate the need for a cane or a
seeing eye dog.
As stated it can only get better and denser in terms of data flow.
*Device Offers Partial Vision for the Blind*
*PAM BELLUCK*
*Published: February 14, 2013*
*The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved... more »
CO2 Argument Cooling
Here begins the long climb down from the high horse of man made global
warming that has bedeviled debate on the warmer climate we find ourselves
experiencing. In time they will reach the point I made when I began this
blog several years ago.
It remains warmer and that is good news. The bad news is that is as good
as it likely gets. If we are lucky, we may get two or three decades of nice
conditions. If unlucky, it will dump and we will be into the deep freeze
again . This warm spell is getting old.
Of course the climb down will switch into a route if we get a sudden chi... more »
WILD SEX
*gallery.oneindia.in*
*
*They behave "as if they have read the Kama Sutra, performing every
position and variation one can imagine.
"For instance, they mate in the missionary position...
"But their sexiness isn't just about mating.
"Most of those variations are sociosexual, meaning that they don't entail
copulation between an adult male and an adult female during her fertile
period.
"The range of partners includes adults of the same sex, an adult with a
juvenile of either sex, and two juveniles together.
"The range of activities includes mouth-to-mouth kissing, oral sex, genit... more »
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*Mort Zuckerman: "America Remains In A Jobs Depression"*
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/17/2013 11:03 -0500
Original here
*Authored by Mort Zuckerman, originally posted in The Wall Street
Journal,*
Jobs! President Obama has set a record. In his speech to Congress on
Tuesday, he uttered the word "jobs" more than in any of his previous
four
State of the Union addresses. *His 45 mentions were more than double the
references to any of the other policy ambitions encapsulated in his
speech*by such words as health, education, immigration, guns, deficit,
debt,
energy, climate, econo... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Even Now”
2002, “Even Now”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2om8NOxN2cg
Van Cliburn (1934-2013)
*SCHUMANN (arr. Liszt): "Widmung" ("Dedication")*
*Van Cliburn plays the Liszt arrangement of Schumann's exhilarating song "*
Widmung"* ("Dedication"), c1970.*
*by Ken*
I want to put off doing a proper memorial to pianist Van Cliburn until I
get the copy of RCA's newly released *Van Cliburn: The Complete Album
Collection* which I ordered as soon as I saw that it exists, not realizing
at the time that he had in fact just died.
The easy way to go would have been with the Tchaikovsky First Piano
Concerto, the piece that became so identified with him when he rocketed to
fame in 1958 ... more »
Fifty People, One Question: Tehran Edition
Amid
constant media coverage on the latest, seemingly substantive and
productive nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1, new blustery
threats of war leveled by both Israeli and American politicians, and
talk of ever more crippling sanctions and the always supposedly imminent
collapse of the Iranian economy (or not), something often gets
overlooked: the people of Iran themselves.
The
"A Look to the Heavens"
"A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula, also known as NGC
3372, spans over 300 light-years, one of our galaxy's largest star forming
regions. Like the smaller, more northerly Great Orion Nebula, the Carina
Nebula is easily visible to the unaided eye, though at a distance of 7,500
light-years it is some 5 times farther away.
*Click image for larger size.*
This gorgeous telescopic portrait reveals remarkable details of the
region's glowing filaments of interstellar gas and obscuring cosmic dust
clouds. Wider than the Full Moon in angular size, the field of view
st... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Cheras, Selangor, Malaysia. Thanks for stopping by.
Chet Raymo, “Things In Themselves, Myself Being Myself”
*“Things In Themselves, Myself Being Myself”*
by Chet Raymo
“One of the consistent themes of this blog has been the search for "the
thing itself," that is, a knowledge of reality that is not mediated by
accidents of history, culture, religion, politics, or personal foibles and
prejudices. Impossible, of course. We are always to some extent prisoners
of our limited perceptual apparatus and the hard and soft wiring of our
brains. Nevertheless, "the thing itself" remains the elusive Holy Grail of
human knowing.
Science is the most effective instrument we have yet devised to mi... more »
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