Wednesday, May 01, 2013

1 May - Blogs I'm Following II

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$3.1-billion : Now is the time to commit accounting

Alison at Creekside - 14 minutes ago
*The Sixth Estate : Who is the Auditor General Protecting on $3 Billion Boondoggle?* * *Auditor General Michael Ferguson on As It Happens yesterday : "... or maybe in fact it was spent on things other than the public, uh, the anti-terrorism-type initiatives. Now there was also the ability for government, for departments, to get approval to re-allocate some of the funding so that could have been part of the story as well." So $3.1-billion, nearly 25% of the Public Security and Anti-Terrorism Initiative, was perhaps re-allocated to "things other than the anti-terrorism initiative" i... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 54 minutes ago
Here there be dragon trees.

May 1, 1973

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour ago
Two pieces of news on this day, the day after Nixon finally let his top two staff members and his Attorney General go and fired John Dean. The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution, sponsored by liberal Republican Charles Percy calling for a special prosecutor. And Nixon was shocked to find the FBI had sealed off the offices of Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, at the orders of new White House Counsel Leonard Garment. Haldeman, Ambrose tells us, had comes to his old office to start preparing for his appearances before the grand jury and the Senate Watergate Committee, but an FBI a... more »

The Realist Report with John Friend

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 hour ago
On this edition of The Realist Report, we'll be joined by Mike Delaney of * Prothink.org* and *TruTube.TV* and Scott Roberts of *TheForbiddenTruth.net*. We'll be discussing a variety of topics in what will be a fairly laid back informal conversation. Calls will be taken throughout the program. You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to the American Nationalist Network via iTunes *here*. Thanks for listening everyone!

Thursday Morning Linkage

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
Here is your Thursday Morning Linkage. Back on the Africa theme from a couple of weeks ago, here are some good reads from the week: More reports on the elephant poaching crisis in CAR Last rhinos in Mozambique killed by poachers with the help of park rangers; time for Kruger fences to come back up Alex Continue reading

It’s called a constitution

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 hour ago
Already, in the first 100 days of his second term, the Prez is discovering that even in its current state a constitutional republic is not quite yet a dictatorship. Which is the real point of having a written constitution, right? Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Time to sleep

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour ago

Tick, Tick, Tick... Will The GOP Actually Lose A South Carolina House Seat In Less Than A Week?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
I suspect that Rand Paul was less reluctant about following Papa Paul in endorsing habitually dishonest South Carolina philanderer Mark Sanford than I was in endorsing Elizabeth Colbert Busch. After all, he's more of a party hack than I am and, after all, the Tea Party Establishment has rallied 'round Sanford after opposing him in the primary. Tuesday the Koch brothers' FreedomWorks, one of the groups Rand is dependent on, got on board. GOP congressional candidate Mark Sanford was formally endorsed Tuesday by Sen. Rand Paul, a Tea Party favorite whose support could help in the f... more »

Art Transforms “Failing” School in Roxbury MA

freetoteach at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 2 hours ago
There’s always so much talk about what can we do to replace the high stakes standardized tests. I am so tired of hearing the same old conversation about what might replace this disastrous policy. Yet, once again, a school proves that children can be motivated, inspired and ready to learn by introducing them to the [...]

Disseminating Moon Phase - Moon in Capricorn/Aquarius

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago
http://oraclereport.com/ Wednesday, May 1, 2013 *Disseminating Moon Phase - Moon in Capricorn/Aquarius* Ruling Mahavidya - Chinnamasta While a purging of grief and a breakdown of old, restrictive, beliefs and systems is underway, simultaneously, beams of energy are being sent in to not only support, but also replenish the structure as a whole. This goes for everything - the world at large and ourselves as individuals. Picture it this way: An implosion is underway inside of us and energetic pieces are flying off. But at the precise moment a piece leaves, a beam of light is shot ... more »

One gay rainbow does not a mayoralty make

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 3 hours ago
It’s astonishing how quickly Maurice Wimpianson’s star has risen. From a bumbling politician sacked by his leader and unsure which way is up to a man everyone wants to talk up. It seems one big gay rainbow and the charming inability to pronounce the word “celibacy” was enough to give him delusions of adequacy, catapulting him to international fame and, now, a tilt at the Auckland mayoralty. The only good thing about that is that i she he won he would leave parliament. That’s the *only* good thing. Why do I say that? Well, as I see it the biggest problem facing Auckland is not ma... more »

New York Field Testing- the madness is not over.

Chris Cerrone at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 4 hours ago
New York Parents, Field testing is coming to your child’s school soon. If your child is in grades 3-8 they just finished 6 days of grueling assessments, yet NYSED and Pearson expect your child to waste more time in test mode. High School students are also impacted with field testing, taking away valuable time as [...]

RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Pedro Gatos and Val Liveoak on Nicaragua, Cuba, and the Global South

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours ago
From left, Pedro Gatos, Rag Radio's Thorne Dreyer, and Val Liveoak, in the studios of KOOP-FM in Austin, Texas, Friday, April 26, 2013. Photo by Roger Baker / The Rag Blog. Rag Radio podcast: Pedro Gatos and Val Liveoak on changes in Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Global South We discuss the legacy of Hugo Chavez, the state of the Cuban revolution, the landmark genocide trials in Guatemala, and the

Documentary: GODSPEED TAIWAN, Friday 3 pm

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 4 hours ago
This was passed around... *++++++++++++++++++++* The new documentary GODSPEED TAIWAN pursues the complicated -- and often controversial -- issue of Taiwanese politics through interviews with top politicians in Taiwan, the US and Japan. Los Angeles-based production company Gatling Pictures has created the first international documentary in more than a decade to look Taiwan’s history of martial law and its uncertain political future. Interviewees include former Taiwanese president Lee Teng-hui, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, US congressional representatives, media mogul Jimmy Lai, filmmake... more »

Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Alpha”; "Where We Make Our Stand"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
Vangelis, “Alpha” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jG--3elufo • *"Where We Make Our Stand"* "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor... more »

Another Message from Off World

Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago
Another message today, with some more information about disclosure and this weeks hearing: *“Sophia, here is a deeper understanding of this event. * *What is always interesting is how "the most sacred wish when fulfilled is unnoticed". But this is the way the Universe was created;) * *Much Peace and Love to You!” http://www.tnetimes.com/article/585-ufo-and-extra-terresterial-disclosure-debbie-west-warner-von-braun-citizen-hearing-stanton-friedman-outer-space-treaty-brazil-edgar-cayce-haarp-archaeology-osmanagich-tellinger-daniken-vatican-sumerian-essenes-law-one-Bible/ * ... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
“This huge ball of stars predates our Sun. Long before humankind evolved, before dinosaurs roamed, and even before our Earth existed, ancient globs of stars condensed and orbited a young Milky Way Galaxy. Of the 200 or so globular clusters that survive today, Omega Centauri is the largest, containing over ten million stars. Omega Centauri is also the brightest globular cluster, at apparent visual magnitude 3.9 it is visible to southern observers with the unaided eye. * Click image for larger size.* Cataloged as NGC 5139, Omega Centauri is about 18,000 light-years away and 150 ... more »

More than Technology

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 4 hours ago
Our View: A life-saving moment for Hannah, and a landmark for Peoria - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com pjstar.com/opinions/ourvi… — John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) May 1, 2013

The Poet: Mary Oliver, "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
* "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?"* "Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives- tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey, hanging from the branches of the young locust trees, in early morning, feel like? Do you think this world was only an entertainment for you? Never to enter the sea and notice how the water divides with perfect courtesy, to let you in! Never to lie down on the grass, as though you were the grass! Never to leap to the air as you open your wings over the dark acorn of your heart! No wonder we hear,... more »

More REAL History Revealed: The TRUTH About The Origins Of World War II - The Unexpected Views Of Four Key Diplomats Who Were Close To The Events

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 4 hours ago
As a student of true history, I have long said that the so called "History" that has been shoved down into our brains in the false and fraudulent so called "education system" is nothing more than a pack of lies... These lies have been done on purpose by criminals who want to keep us unaware of our real history, and as a method of giving us a false history to believe in. The purpose of the false history is only to help these same criminals as they now push for their ultimate aim of world domination... And our enslavement as a result! I have long studied the facts behind the greatest... more »

Man, these wacko VA Republicrooks should be easy pickings for . . . oh, Terry McAuliffe -- never mind!

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
*Is Cuckoo Ken trying to tank this election?* What spell was cast by businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr. to induce forgetfulness and truth-shading from Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and the man who would succeed him, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II? What powers of alchemy does Mr. Williams, a major campaign donor, possess that prompted those two officials, the state's most powerful elected Republicans, to flagrantly disregard Virginia's already flimsy disclosure laws? *-- the start of a Washington Post editorial,* "Virginia's deepening scandal" *by Ken* You don't normally l... more »

Paulo Coelho, "The Seagull and the Mouse"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
*"The Seagull and the Mouse"* by Paulo Coelho "A seagull was flying over a beach in the Black Sea when it saw a mouse. It swooped down from the skies and asked the rodent, “Where are your wings?” Each of them spoke a different language, and the mouse did not understand what the seagull said, but did notice that the animal standing before it had two big strange things emerging from its body. “It must suffer from some disease,” whispered the mouse. The seagull noticed that the mouse was staring at its wings and said quietly, “Poor thing! It was attacked by monsters that left i... more »

Chet Raymo, “The End of Vernaculars”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
*“The End of Vernaculars”* by Chet Raymo “In the early 1770s, East Tennessee was a tinderbox waiting to explode into warfare. Settlers and traders from the Carolinas and Virginia were moving into the country of the Cherokees. Some leaders of the tribe had been invited to Charleston, and had even visited London. They were well aware of the overwhelming material and technological superiority of the Europeans. For these tribal elders, resistance to the whites seemed futile; better to make the best deals one could manage and get on with it. The young warriors, however, were not so... more »

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Know your history

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
“Australian Football is the oldest football code in the world. The first set of rules were writ in May 1859, predating soccer and rugby by four years.” - Earl O’Neill, The Footy Almanac Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

The Most Honest And Truthful Video I Have Seen In A While... Believe It Or Not, It Comes From The Mainstream Media!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 5 hours ago
I am on the road to recovery... I have been taking some extra time off recently to fight off this horrendous virus that has been knocking me for a loop.... I have missed work, been at home sick, and have been listless and coughing up a storm.... But it does appear that finally it is beginning to vacate my body, and I can safely say (now) that I am getting better... I sincerely want to thank everyone for their patience and understanding... I came across this video just today, thanks to my great friend, Noor, who writes the blog: Snippits And Snappits at www.snippits-and-slappits.blog... more »

FILM / Jonah Raskin : Robert Redford 'Keeps Company' with the Sixties Underground

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 5 hours ago
'The Company You Keep': Robert Redford's overambitious take on the Sixties underground He clearly wanted to make an epic about then and now, about Sixties radicals and their kids, and he couldn’t pull it off. By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / May 1, 2013 The Company You Keep, released in December 2012, was directed by Robert Redford with a screenplay by Lem Dobbs based on the novel of the

"Singing To The Deer"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
* * *"Singing To The Deer"* by Patricia Monaghan “At solstice, the woods were bright in a snowy way, the sky pearl gray above the stately maples and gnarled burr oaks. An Alaskan marooned in the urban Midwest, it took me years to find this nearby patch of relatively undisturbed land where I can sense the power of wildness. Now I go there often, watching the seasons unfold their changeful unchanging patterns in the increasingly familiar forest. I especially like to walk among the sleeping trees in the half-lit silence of winter dawns. The trail I follow winds and twists, new patc... more »

"No Mercy..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
“People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you’re dead, when they’ve killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn’t have any character. They weep big, bitter tears– not for you. For themselves, because they’ve lost their toy.” - James Baldwin, “Another Country”

Just one of those crazy accidents

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours ago
Story got such wide play, I wasn't going to talk about the five year old kid who killed his two year sister with his very own gun. Then I saw the marketing stats for "My First Rifle." They are available with different barrel and stock designs, including some made in hot pink to appeal to young girls. Business has boomed since the company's inception in 1996, according to its website. In its first year, it had four employees and produced 4,000 rifles for kids; by 2008 it had greatly expanded its operations, with 70 employees and an output of 60,000 rifles a year. Seriously. Sixty ... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
Loveland, Colorado, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

"The Pig Farmer"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
* * *"The Pig Farmer"* by John Robbins "One day in Iowa I met a particular gentleman—and I use that term, gentleman, frankly, only because I am trying to be polite, for that is certainly not how I saw him at the time. He owned and ran what he called a “pork production facility.” I, on the other hand, would have called it a pig Auschwitz. The conditions were brutal. The pigs were confined in cages that were barely larger than their own bodies, with the cages stacked on top of each other in tiers, three high. The sides and the bottoms of the cages were steel slats, so that excremen... more »

Kierkegaard On Individualism [Plus Commentary By Abraham Joshua Heschel]

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago
Related: * * *Kierkegaard On Socratic Ignorance*. *Kierkegaard On "Man."** * *Kierkegaard On Socrates And The Immortality of The Soul.* *Kierkegaard On God's Love.* *Kierkegaard On Passion.* * Kierkegaard On Martyrs of Truth.* *Kierkegaard On Truth*. *Kierkegaard On The Difference Between "Popular" And "Philosophical."* *Kierkegaard On Religion And Doubt.* * Kierkegaard On Imagination.* *Kierkegaard On Objectivity And Subjectivity.** * *Kierkegaard - God Is Love.* *Kierkegaard On Man's Relation To God*. Below is an excerpt from, *"The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections f... more »

"I'm Sure..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." "I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here." - Arthur C. Clarke

Our precious Bunni has crossed the Rainbow Bridge...w/ Update

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 6 hours ago
*may God bless her and keep her in his loving arms. * *Update: * *Carol, proprietor of Amusing Bunni's Musings blog, passed away last Sunday from an aggressive cancer that was only diagnosed shortly before last Thanksgiving.* *I apologize to anyone who thought "Bunni" was, well - a bunny. On the other hand, Carol would find it amusing. ;-)* *RIP Bunni! * *You brought great joy, laughter, and love to all of your fans.* *You will be missed! *

“Klingon Worlds”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“Klingon Worlds”* by Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute “The latest planets turned up by NASA's Kepler telescope are- like the kids in Lake Wobegon- gratifyingly above average. These new worlds offer both promise and insights, because they've got traits that are both appealing and mildly disconcerting. In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three thousand additional objects, of which probably 80 percent or more will turn out to be other-worldly orbs. Compare this track record... more »

Dine' Louise Benally: Greed, climate change and the dirty coal industry

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago
Louise Benally/Photo by Brenda Norrell By Brenda Norrell Censored News www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com May 1, 2013 BIG MOUNTAIN, Ariz. -- The lease extension continuing the dirty coal industry on Navajoland comes as no surprise to Louise Benally, whose family has been resisting forced relocation and the genocide of Peabody Coal on Black Mesa since Peabody began destroying the earth and the health

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago

Here’s what separatism looks like up close

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
*Iwi are taking the pot of taxpayers’ gold given them by Chris Finlayson et al and are now “exploring long-term autonomy”—Tuhoe for example, after their $170 million settlement, are looking at "**the possibilities that 'Mana Motuhake' opens up … to develop as its own nation in the decades to come**," or at least to “**eventually achieve something close to independence**."* *But what would this look like? And since Maori separatists with the ear of Government have been talking up ideas like iwi “self-rule” and “self-governance” for some time, isn’t it worth looking at how these th... more »

"Google’s Spymasters Are Now Worried About Your Secrets"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*"Google’s Spymasters Are Now Worried About Your Secrets"* by Robert Scheer "A recent article in The Wall Street Journal by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, “The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution,” makes for very scary reading. It is not so much because of what he and co-author Jared Cohen, the director of Google Ideas, have to say about how dictators can use new information technology to suppress dissent; we know those guys are evil. What is truly frightening is that the techniques of the totalitarian state are the same ones pioneered by so-called democracies where co... more »

The Many Faces of NYSUT

antiqueteacher60 at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 7 hours ago
Reblogged from An Antique Teacher: I am really confused by NYSUT these days. A letter was printed in the Albany Times Union by the TEACHER OF THE YEAR whose face graces the cover of NYSUT UNITED. You can read his letter using this link: http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Academic-excellence-to-the-core-4463752.php But, wait........isn't NYSUT planning a RALLY on June 8? Why yes, [...]

Bomb explodes in Dagestan. Russia. You know Boston Bombings???

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 7 hours ago
*Bomb explodes in busy shopping area of Dagestan* . Interesting timing? Considering the Boston false flag? Considering allegations of links between Boston patsy and Dagestan? Considering Russian round ups? Considering ‘resets’? Early warnings? Considering the already dead ( for nearly a year) Canadian man who is today being linked to Tsarnaev. He,William Plotnikov, who allegedly who went to Dagestan but was killed by Russian Security Forces while there? Considering Georgia and the fighters from Dagestan? Etc., Payback? Continued destabilization? Narrative Creation? You want options? We... more »

Obama Derangement Syndrome is destroying us

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours ago
The only surprise here is Sen. Pat Toomey was so explicit in admitting his fellow GOP Senators suffer from terminal ODS. He explains why the Manchin-Toomey admendment failed. "In the end it didn't pass because we're so politicized. There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it," Toomey admitted on Tuesday in an interview with Digital First Media editors in the offices of the Times Herald newspaper in Norristown, Pa. This is not exactly news. It's been the publicly announced... more »

ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: The never-ending Euro crisis - Anatomy of an economic policy disaster

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
[image: The never-ending Euro crisis - Anatomy of an economic...] *Here’s this week’s note from our friends at the **University of Auckland Economics Group** who are proud tonight to bring you a presentation by one of New Zealand's leading thinkers, Dr Oliver Hartwich of The New Zealand Initiative.* *About the event:* As the Euro crisis is now in its fourth year, policies to keep the common currency alive have become increasingly complex. The European Financial Stability Facility, the European Stability Mechanism, Longer Term Refinancing Operations, Fiscal Compacts and Banking Un... more »

the spinning dancer

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 7 hours ago
The Spinning Dancer appears to move both clockwise and counter-clockwise.

Yes, Ted Cruz Could Win the Presidency

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours ago
This morning's big story was Robert Costa's report that Ted Cruz is actively running for president. Well, no one says it that way, but it's how I think of it. In Josh Putnam's formulation, whether or not Cruz will be running *in* 2016, he is currently running *for* 2016 by doing all the things that he has to do right now to be a viable candidate going forward. At any rate, the early prognostication is that his chances are somewhere between slim and none. Jonathan Chait Dan Amira*, for example: What are Cruz's prospects for winning the GOP nomination in 2016, and then the presidency?... more »

Yellow Thunder Camp -- First Hand, First Year

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours ago
Copyright Scott Barta Posted with permission at Censored News www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com On April 4th, 1981 my favorite cousin, Ihanktunwan Hoksina "Yankton Boy" Greg Zephier, Sr., brought three Tipis (borrowed from brother Al who was on the Pierre Indian School Board) to Porcupine, SD on the Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux Reservation to take on the caravan that would take us into the Sacred Black

BBC News - Gatwick Airport: Controlled explosions carried out

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
Testing security systems? Trying to disrupt Gatwick without actually planting any explosives? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-22374309

Stay of prosecution only proper to stop continuing or future abuse

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours ago
Antorisa Investments Ltd. v. Vaughan (City), 2013 ONCA 287 provides: The issue, however, was whether a stay of proceedings was the only remedy to address that abuse in accordance with the test set out by the Supreme Court of Canada most recently in *R. v. Nixon*, 2011 S.C.C. 34 at para. 42. As has repeatedly been said by the Supreme Court of Canada, a stay of proceedings is a prospective remedy; it is to protect against the abuse continuing to be manifest, perpetuated or aggravated through the conduct of the trial or by its outcome and when no other remedy is reasonably capable of... more »

Do The Millions Of Dollars In Bribes To Afghan Warlords Get Sequestered Too?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
What do you know... the same cheerleaders for the disastrous war in Iraq, the endless, draining occupation of Afghanistan and the intervention in Libya are the very same people and special interests urging-- demanding-- that we attack Syria. Israeli dreams coming true! And believe me, Lindsey Graham and John McCain don't give a rat's ass that the new CBS/*NY Times*pollshows that the majority of Americans-- across the political spectrum-- don't want *anything* to do with the mess in Syria. Sixty-two percent of Americans continue to say the United States does not have a responsibili... more »

Holland has a new King and Queen - how they won our hearts

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 8 hours ago
link: http://youtu.be/BC9w3UoYzOs During the evening of inauguration day (30 April 2013) with many festivities in Amsterdam a surprise took place: Link: http://youtu.be/YNK1e7mFiWU Well-known DJ *Armin van Buuren*, performing with the likewise famous Dutch "Concertgebouw Orchestra", unexpectedly got royal visitors on the royal inauguration day. The new Dutch *King William Alexander, Queen Maxima* and their children entered stage! Both King and Queen are very popular in The Netherlands. They are "close to the people" in a modernized monarchy. What you'll see in that movie can virtu... more »

Phil space

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 9 hours ago
The latest from Cassini mission. Its spring in Saturn's northern hemisphere.

Another Nail in the Neocon Coffin

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago
* * * * *Another Nail in the Neocon Coffin* by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. The recent opening of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity was a watershed moment in American history. There has never been anything quite like it. Ideologically diverse, the Ron Paul Institute reaches out to all Americans, and indeed to people all over the world, who find the spectrum of foreign-policy opinion in the United States to be unreasonably narrow. Until Ron Paul and his new institute, there was no resolutely anti-interventionist foreign-policy organization to be found. Neoconservati... more »

Hey Hamas supporters, do you support this?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago
National Post reports this rather nasty news. News that the usual Hamas supporters and apologists that I debate with would rather wasn't made public as it rather queers their claim that Hamas are misunderstood and really rather cuddly, not Islamist terrorists. 'It is three weeks since his arrest, but Ismail Halou still has streaks of purple bruising on the soles of his feet. The 22-year-old was filling cars at his family’s petrol station in Gaza City at 5 p.m. on April 4 when a black jeep pulled into the forecourt and police stepped out to order him into the car. He was blindfolded ... more »

GOOGLE'S SCHMIDT; FALSE FLAGS; PROPAGANDA

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
Pistol Packing Pandas | Facebook. The internet has been used to expose false flag operations. The internet has been used by the CIA to promote its propaganda. *Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen.* CIA Money Launched Google What happens next? *Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen* have written* "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business." * *Engine of humanity: 'The New Digital Age' - FT.com - Financial Times* Pistol Packing Pandas | Facebook. *According to Schmidt and Cohen:* 1. Most people are moderates and the internet allows moderates to w... more »

slaves

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 10 hours ago

The Daily Beast Takes the Bait on Anti-Iran Propaganda

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 10 hours ago
Over at The Daily Beast's Cheat Sheet, which serves as a news aggregator, a post went up today with the eye-catching headline: "Iranian President Ahmadinejad Arrested." The blurb accompanying the post claims: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested Monday while on a visit to a book fair in Tehran, where he was held for seven hours and questioned by the Revolutionary Guards'

Way of the Future: Medical Abortion, Private, Safe, Cheap

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 10 hours ago
This TIME writer has the right idea (my bold). As both pro-choice and pro-life forces attempt to put Kermit Gosnell to use to argue the moral rectitude of their position, and the jury in his trial continues to deliberate, there is a danger that we will lose sight of what Kermit Gosnell really is — an *anachronism*. . . . Gosnell was a stop of last resort for woman late in their pregnancies. They sought an abortion past the point of fetal viability — a choice illegal in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States. For these women, Gosnell and his ilk are their only option. But reg... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours ago
*What’s gonna happen to Chess Piece Face? ~moosedenied*

Duncan (ALEC-ALUM) - Legislating "The Market"

2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours ago
Snips *from HuffPo* this morning - *GOP Census Bill Would Eliminate America's Economic Indicators* Posted: 05/01/2013 7:31 am EDT | Updated: 05/01/2013 9:06 am EDT Rep. Jeff Duncan has introduced a bill to stop nearly all U.S. Census surveys. , WASHINGTON -- The bill, introduced last week by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), would bar the U.S. Census Bureau from conducting nearly all surveys except for a decennial population count. Such a step that would end the government's ability to provide reliable estimates of the employment rate. *Indeed, the government would not be able to... more »

Look at all the hungry people

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours ago
Think Progress looks at real world effects of Meals on Wheels cuts brought to you by the GOP sequester clown car. Directors of Meals on Wheels programs across the country spoke with ThinkProgress about how they are coping with decreased funding. Some, like Meals on Wheels of Western Broome in New York, are private nonprofits that don’t rely on government funding and will therefore be shielded. But by and large, the heads of these programs described facing deep cuts after having already slimmed down in response to lean times over the past few years. The list is depressing but olds g... more »

Best and worst jokes from the weekend’s big dinner!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013* *Obama, O’Brien both score:* We’re sorry to return to Maureen Dowd, but we were struck by the joke she chose to belittle in this morning’s column: DOWD (5/1/13): How can the president star in a White House Correspondents’ Association dinner satirical film pretending to be Daniel Day-Lewis playing Barack Obama in Steven Spielberg’s movie “Obama,” and not have absorbed the lessons of “Lincoln”? “Some folks still don’t think I spend enough time with Congress,” *he said in an alleged joke at the dinner Saturday night.* “Why don’t you get a drink with Mitch McCo... more »

Toronto Maple Leafs - 2013 Playoffs | Shake It Out

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago
Toronto Maple Leafs - 2013 Playoffs | Shake It Out. Source: AMANJOTROCKS.

Bedroom Tax Bedroom Definition

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 10 hours ago
The bedroom tax. An entirely punitive policy allegedly designed to shove “under-occupying” social housing tenants into size-appropriate properties when there is a massive shortage of one bedroom homes. Not that it matters to the Tories, of course. Very few people hammered by this policy are likely to place their cross against the blue party anyway come election time. But there has been something of a black hole in the rules governing the bedroom tax. It boggles the mind, really. If you are creating legislation designed to punish those who do not use all the bedrooms in their house ... more »

Michael James : Hope Springs Eternal

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 11 hours ago
Comiskey Park, Chicago, 1990. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long Haul. Pictures from the Long Haul: Hope springs eternal on opening day at Comiskey Park By Michael James / The Rag Blog / May 1, 2013 [In this series, Michael James is sharing images from the past, accompanied by reflections about -- and inspired by -- those images

She's so sorry

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 11 hours ago
I'm sure you heard retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor issued a sort of pseudo-mea culpa the other day. She didn't apologize for inflicting the Bush years on us by voting to appoint him president, but she was very sorry SCOTUS took the case at all because, in retrospect, it made the court look like a gaggle of politicking assclowns. Today Linda Hirschman at TNR unearths a tasty bit of historical trivia making it rather clear Justice O'Connor voted her personal politics in Bush v. Gore. Although most of O’Connor’s papers are private, her legendary secrecy could not p... more »

Telewarrants not to be granted merely as a convenience

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours ago
R. v. Lao, 2013 ONCA 285 holds: [65] It will be recalled that s. 487.1 of the *Criminal Code *permits an application for a search warrant application to be made by telecommunication where it would be "impracticable" to attend personally. The trial judge found that while it would have been inconvenient for DC Wallace to attend in person to apply for the warrant, it was not impracticable. Having found that the standard of impracticability had not been met, use of the telewarrant procedure was in breach of s. 8 of the * Charter*. [66] In reaching this conclusion, the t... more »

Dog in Repulse Bay

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours ago

Dirty Coal on Navajoland: Hold the media responsible

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
By Brenda Norrell Censored News www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Navajo horseback ride to protect Black Mesa The media, like the Navajo Nation Council, is responsible for that vote for more dirty coal energy from the Navajo Generating Station. The media has refused to tell the real story. Reporters that could have been out on Black Mesa all these years talking to the people, never bothered to

MORE TALKING STUFF

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago
My workshop at the weekend conference in Syracuse.....

@teachingquality, please tell me this is a joke. It has to be. @edushyster?

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 12 hours ago
Am I missing something? Teacherpreneurs, this sounds like a joke. Is this author serious? Exhibit A: I know what you’re thinking. You want to make an impact beyond your classroom while feeding your creative passions (which probably drove you into teaching in the first place). Thirty years of teaching in a silo might not sustain [...]

Harry Targ : Speaking Truth About Violence

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours ago
Window into violence: A boy and his bird in Gaza. Image from chemicalcollisions / Tumblr. Towards a just society: Speaking truth about violence Violence engendered by the rich and powerful and responses from the poor and powerless are embedded in the system of structural violence. By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / May 1, 2013 Establishing causal connections between “variables” and violence is a

ALEC, Legislation Without Representation

2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours ago
*TODAY - on the floor of the Ohio House and Senate s pushing the ALEC right-to-work language. The projection is that Ohio will be a right-to-work-for-less state BY THIS FRIDAY. By Friday - Ohio will be Michigan #2. * *They are limiting the debate. They are limiting public input. * AND THEN this *From Greenpeace today on the ALEC “Electricity Freedom Act” –which previously HAD BEEN seen as a possible victory against ALEC in NC.* Bitter from a lack of support for his attacks on clean energy incentives, North Carolina *Representative Mike Hager is promising some new, dirty tricks to r... more »

Into The Lair Of The Beast... Bula Journeys To A Paul Ryan Town Hall In Elkhorn

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
Yesterday our Wisconsin correspondent, Bula, covered Paul Ryan's town hall meeting at the Monte Carlo Room in Elkhorn the Walworth county seat. Last November it was heavy big margin Ryan had rolled up in Walworth County that helped him overcome Rob Zerban's big win in Kenosha County. *Has The Shine Worn Off Paul Ryan In The Conservative Heart Of WI-01? - by Bula* That was the question I wanted to find out at a Paul Ryan town hall meeting in Elkhorn, WI. This is not an election year for the Congressman, so I was curious to see the turnout. The parking lot was only half full, but th... more »

ALEC Legislators Subsidizing Private Education Profit with Taxpayer $$$'s

2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours ago
*EXCELLENT* article this morning, brought to my attention at Crooks & Liars Almost a month old and missed the mainstream somehow. Here's only two snips - an excellent read *>>>HERE<<< * *The Corporations Colonizing our Public Schools* April 10, 2013 - Culture Brew, News Brew - Tagged: April 15-May 15 Issue, Brooklyn, Charter School, education, Impact Schools, Michael Bloomberg, poverty, Queens, Restart School, schools In an era of corporate aggression into the public sphere, not even the classroom is safe. As the corporate reach extends into public schools, our kids are increasin... more »

I don't think I'll be doing either today...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago
*sigh.* H/T *Jon Acuff*

Watergate and Conspiracy Theories

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours ago
For those who don't read the Watergate posts, I want to draw your attention to a terrific comment from the April 30 edition. I'm just going to make a post of it...this is all commenter Adam: I'll come back and add a bit more at the end: -- One of the key things this retrospective has taught me is not just the limitations of Presidents, but the limitations of *conspiracies*. These posts should be required reading for anyone tempted to believe in a conspiracy theory. Which isn’t to say conspiracies don’t happen. This is, after all, an actual criminal conspiracy at the highest levels... more »

Ottawa "loses track" of 3.1 billion dollars meant "to fight terror"

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours ago
Muddying the waters Between 2001 and 2009, Ottawa awarded $12.9-billion to 35 departments and agencies charged with ensuring the safety of Canadians to use for public security and fighting terrorism. The money was allocated through the Public Security and Anti-Terrorism Initiative...... But Auditor-General Michael Ferguson said only $9.8-billion of that money was identified in reports to the Treasury Board as having been spent specifically on anti-terrorism measures by the departments and agencies. *The rest was not recorded as being used for that purpose. * * "The rest was not ... more »

3 More People in Custody in Boston Bombing Case - NYTimes.com

Eduardo Cantoral at GlobaLove Think Tank - 13 hours ago
3 More People in Custody in Boston Bombing Case - NYTimes.com: "BOSTON — Three additional people were taken into custody Wednesday in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings last month, according to Boston police and a federal law enforcement official." 'via Blog this'

Chief Arvol Looking Horse's Message May 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
Reposted with permission from Raven Redbone 'Make No Bones About It' http://ravenredbone.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/chief-arvol-lookinghorse-message-for-may-2013/ Photo by Mark Johns Colson Hec'el oinipikte (that we shall live) Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Pipe Mitakuye Oyasin! My Grandmother shared with me a powerful time when the people

Aaronson's anthropic dilemmas

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours ago
If you read my previous observations on Scott Aaronson's book including all the comments, you will see my remarks about all the chapters up to Chapter 15 about the quantum computation skeptics – where I agree with almost everything Aaronson writes although he seems to focus on the dumb criticisms and writes too little about the more intelligent ones (and e.g. about the error-correcting codes). Chapter 16 is about learning; perhaps too much formalism if we compare it with the relatively modest implications for our understanding of the process of learning. Chapter 17 is the most har... more »

Climate change compounds rising threats to koala – ‘The koalas are highly susceptible to heat stress and dehydration’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: A koala and its baby. Koalas are susceptible to heat stress, and recent Australia temperatures have been beyond their 'climatic threshold'. Photo: John Giustina / Getty Images] Australia's iconic marsupial is at risk from shrinking habitats, road traffic and dog attacks – and increasingly, global warming By Neena Bhandari for IPS, part of the Guardian Environment Network 30 April 2013 SYDNEY (guardian.co.uk) – Australia's iconic marsupial is under threat. Formerly hunted almost to extinction for their woolly coats, koalas are now struggling to survive as habitat dest... more »

Policy-Relevant Research, Redux

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 14 hours ago
e-International Relations asked me to write a piece about doing policy-relevant research. I thought I’d cross-post it here, especially timely given recent posts on this blog along with Ronald Rogowski’s screed that our work is too policy-relevant but policymakers just don’t want to hear what we are saying (HT: The Monkey Cage). Here is the Continue reading

Why not support the site which is right!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013* *We’ve been right since 1972 and since 1999:* In this morning’s major post,we blow our own horn about the statewide test-score scam we uncovered a few years ago. Of course, when it comes to education issues, we’ve been right since 1972! In that year, we first approached the Baltimore Sun about the problem of cheating in Baltimore schools on the city’s standardized tests. In February 1981, we wrote an op-ed column about some Baltimore schools which had impossibly strange scoring patterns. To peruse the text of that ancient column, just click here. The nation... more »

Your government at work: Terrifying video...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 14 hours ago
*let's make it go viral.* H/T *Cold Fury*

An open admission from a “scholar.” #highered #AERA13

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 14 hours ago
I am not a writer. I am not an author. I’ve written. I’ve authored. But I am not a writer. I am not an author. I’ve written many papers. I’ve authored book chapters and articles. Being halfway decent at writing these documents is likely what set me up to pursue a PhD. It’s not as [...]

Jonathan Karl asks a sensible question!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013* *As Dowd gets her usual pass:* It was left to Obama himself to mock the absurd Maureen Dowd. Two Sundays back, Dowd wrote her usual gong-show column about the way Weakling Obama can’t make the Congress do what he wants. Just before passing out on her shag, Dowd authored this ludicrous thought: DOWD (4/21/13): *The White House should have created a war room full of charts with the names of pols they had to capture, like they had in “The American President.”* Soaring speeches have their place, but this was about blocking and tackling. Dowd had seen President... more »

ALEC – MORE Secretive, Intentionally HIDING Stuff

2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
*What is the American Legislative Exchange Council HIDING? Why do they need to hide it?* * * *Excellent, important read at PRWatch* this morning that documents ALEC’s CURRENT deceptive practices to circumvent any type of transparency about the organization. Snips below - PLEASE READ THE WHOLE THING *>>>>HERE<<<<* *ALEC Covering Tracks in Advance of Oklahoma Meeting* by Brendan Fischer — May 1, 2013 - 8:18am What's on the agenda for this week's meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Oklahoma City? Hard to say. Despite ALEC trying to spin itself as a "tr... more »

Iraq’s Oil Industry Still At A Plateau

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 15 hours ago
After hitting a 30-year high in oil exports at the end of 2012, Iraq’s oil output has since faltered. March 2013 was no different as the amount of petroleum shipped out fell from February, and matched the average for last year. The Oil Ministry tried to cover that up by claiming that the aggregate numbers and revenue were up for the month, but that’s because March has 31 days compared to February’s 28. Overall, the country’s leading industry has hit a plateau for at least the short-term. Tanker docked at one of Iraq's new mooring points in Basra (*Reuters*) March witnessed a drop i... more »

Peters (SD-ALEC) Dems Will Benefit from ALEC

2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
More In relation to South Dakota forcing Dems to belong to ALEC. Don’t blame me – this is what the paper wrote. Group membership fees divide SD lawmakers South Dakota Democrats say it's inappropriate for the state to pay for lawmakers' membership in an organization they believe is a conservative group dominated by Republicans and large corporations. Republicans say the American Legislative Exchange Council involves both parties, along with businesses, and is aimed at developing better policy. The South Dakota Legislature's Republican-dominated executive board voted recently to pa... more »

Seeds of the Dogmatic Scholar

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 15 hours ago
The think tank as a pseudo-scholarly mechanism to promote free market ideology depends on the dogmatic scholar. All aspects of education in the U.S. have been directly and indirectly impacted by the rise of think tank advocacy and dogmatic scholars, even as departments in flagship state universities such as the school choice advocacy coming out [...]

THE PROFESSORIATE FAILS US AGAIN: This is the way our system works!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013* *Interlude—An earlier failure:* Why didn’t anyone fact-check the world-famous Harvard professors? Three years later, why was this task left to three graduate students? Yesterday, we asked these questions about the case of Reinhart and Rogoff, the bungling economics professors who managed to skew the world’s economic discussion. Let’s quickly review the facts: Early in 2010, Reinhart and Rogoff released a paper which became extremely influential. We’ll ask Paul Krugman to give us the thumbnail account: KRUGMAN (4/19/13): *At the beginning of 2010, two Harvar... more »

14 Year Olds Denied Their Civil Rights...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 16 hours ago
*will it never end?* * **The FDA is Pulling 14 Year Olds to the Dark Ages or Something*

Here’s what those “civil rights” organizations really wanted to say

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 16 hours ago
The original post here. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: civil rights, copaa, dfer, easter seals, Education Trust, letter

DRONE STRIKES ARE THE FACE OF AMERICA

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 16 hours ago
Farea Al-Muslimi, a Yemeni youth activist and writer, testified April 23 at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights chaired by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) on the moral, legal and constitutional issues surrounding targeted killings and the use of drones.

It is time for public school advocates to become “irate.”

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 16 hours ago
This video is of a Boston man going into a beautiful rant against right-wing conspiracy nuts affiliated with radio host Alex Jones, who believe that the FBI purposely set the bombs during the marathon. I’m not suggesting we make comparisons between “education reform” and terrorism or vast government conspiracies. However, some are out there pushing [...]

A Luminous Doom

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 16 hours ago
First daughter rides her newest horse Sleeping In The Forest ~ Mary Oliver I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, gr... more »

Why Should Young Voters Be Embracing Cynicism? Barack Obama

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
Keith Ellison is as crystal clear as one can be-- without coming out and trashing Obama completely-- that the president's willingness to compromise with America's mortal enemies (the Republican Party and the oligarchs and plutocrats who own them) is bad for American working families. Yesterday Alex Isenstadt explained the politics of this in a *Politico* piece for people who have been sleeping for the last several months. He explains how Obama has blurred the lines-- lines going back 100 years-- between Democrats and Republicans on protecting working families with popular social ... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 17 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Von Joshua, 65. What's not to like? Picked up on waivers from the Dodgers just in time for a freakishly good 27 year old season, then let go 40 games into the next year after he turned back into a 4th outfielder at best. I suppose the downside is that his "emergence" might have had something to do with giving away Garry Maddox, but the Giants in those years were foolish enough to have done that anyway, alas. Good stuff: 1. Steve M. on "the low-information media." Oy. 2. Andrew Rudalevige has something to say about "juice," too. 3. Yes, Obama beats McCain without ... more »

One May Smile And Smile

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 17 hours ago
Tom Walkom writes that no one should be taken in by the cosmetic changes to the Temporary Workers program, which Jason Kinney announced two days ago: The backpedaling Monday by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney underscores a bitter truth about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. It has been forced to retreat marginally from its long-running campaign to push down wages in Canada. But it hasn’t given up the war. Kenney’s tactical retreat was announced with much fanfare. As cameras clicked, the minister announced numerous changes to Ottawa’s temporary foreign wor... more »

FCC Nominee Wheeler - Former Telecom Industry Lobbyist

2old2care at Because I Can - 17 hours ago
Awhile ago – I put up a request for people to sign a White House petition for Susan Crawford to be the new Chair of the FCC My update to that entry was: *It is so disappointing to me - when people shoot themselves in the foot* and that is exactly what the readers of this entry are doing. You are going to end up with some DAMN old fart from the Telecom industry running the FCC - because you are choosing not to take this blog entry viral - Shame on you. Don't you dare complain about Comcast. CenturyLink, AT&T screwing you - here you have the chance to make a major contribution to ... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 17 hours ago
*John Georges buys The Advocate* *The Advocate: 1 SomeTimes-Picayune: 0 ~Ryan Chittum* *Former Times-Picayune editors will lead Baton Rouge Advocate, which has a new owner ~Andrew Beaujon* *Happy 42nd Birthday Amtrak!* ~*Today marks the 42nd birthday of Amtrak, America’s Railroad, and there’s a lot to celebrate. Not only have we connected more than 500 destinationsacross the country, but we’ve employed tens of thousands of Americans, including the more than 20,000 folks who keep your trains running 365 days a year. *Special thanks for Photo above of the City of New Orleans as she c... more »

Unreasonable verdict

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours ago
The principles applicable when there is an allegation of unreasonable verdict are summarized in *R. v. R.P.*, 2012 SCC 22 (CanLII), 2012 SCC 22, [2012] 1 S.C.R. 746. Deschamps J., for the majority wrote: [9] To decide whether a verdict is unreasonable, an appellate court must, as this Court held in *R. v. Yebes*, 1987 CanLII 17 (SCC), [1987] 2 S.C.R. 168, and *R. v. Biniaris*, 2000 SCC 15 (CanLII), 2000 SCC 15, [2000] 1 S.C.R. 381, at para. 36, determine whether the verdict is one that a properly instructed jury or a judge could reasonably have rendered. The appellate cour... more »

Lin Yi-shih's family gets a walk

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 18 hours ago
*Sand dunes along the seashore south of Yuanli.* Former Executive Yuan Sec-General Lin Yi-shih got an interesting sentence yesterday. The Lin case had been closely watched. Before you read the Taipei Times account below, go back and read my long post on some of the political fallout and prosecutorial issues. Lin got 7+ years, basically two years for one count and five for the other. Taipei District Court spokesman Huang Chun-min (黃俊明) said the court ruled Lin had not violated the Anti-Corruption Act (貪汙治罪條例) because as a lawmaker at the time, he was not in a position to decide wit... more »

China's Labour Camp Expose

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
It has been clear for some time that we have a real civil war happening between the two factions of the Chinese government and they are certainly playing with fire. The reform faction does not have sufficient power to forcibly purge the so called bloody hands faction outright although they certainly have the moral high ground and the apparent leadership high ground. This explains the ongoing agitation taking place on China's borders that serve no conceivable purpose whatsoever except to possibly trigger a nasty border incident and induce all those countries to strengthe... more »

Ancient Microraptors Adapted to Fish

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
It is also pretty clear that larger pterosaurs were likely eating fish by the expedient of diving into the water and going after the fish. They also appeared to be nocturnal. This explains why some apparent extant creatures are rarely seen. The microrapter may have used similar methods. The take home is that fish were hunted during the age of dinosaurs by flying creatures as almost a preferred strategy. Such hunters would generally be immune to most attackers themselves. *Fish was on the menu for early flying dinosaur* * by Staff Writers* * Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Ap... more »

Paper on Chinese Rice Lead Retracted

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
This article is a really good examination of the real difficulties every scientist faces in his attempts to produce good data. Yes, these folks muffed it and they should have done much better, but that it happened at all is a reminder that most data gathering starts of with a ton of mistakes. Then you figure out what works and all is good. Let me share a story with you. When we assay for copper values in a strange piece of rock, we send it to the lab and a value comes back. All good if the chemistry is something the lab is used to. However imagine instead that we are d... more »

Plesiosaur Updates

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
We have come to a pretty clear grasp of the life way of the pleiosaurs that remains extant. I will also add though that there are additional observations that suggests that we have more than one species involved. However they all reside most of their lives in the deep ocean under the thick surface layer, putting them well out of our reach. Present observation is quite poor simply because we make an awful lot of noise when we are at sea and thus never catch them unaware when they do come to the surface. This did happen during the days of sail. The result is rare sightings ... more »

Bad Economic Development Ideas from Conservatives

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 21 hours ago
Good Jobs First today released a new study debunking so-called “business climate indexes” and showing them to be cover for an ideological agenda of cutting taxes and cutting wages. “Grading Places: What Do Business Climate Indexes Really Tell Us?” is written by University of Iowa emeritus professor Peter Fisher, a well-known expert on investment incentives and fiscal policy, with a preface by Good Jobs First director Greg LeRoy. This is an ambitious study that analyzes six different indexes published by five different groups. Four are simple combinations of a wide variety of p... more »

Five Most Popular Posts for April

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 21 hours ago
The five most read posts of the month were: 1. A Vile Product 2. The Demonisation of Paris Brown 3. Thatcher 4. A Quick Note on Ed Miliband and George Galloway 5. Dogging and Dogging Tales Thatcher passes into the night and still the two hideous *Daily Mail*scandals from the last four weeks trump her. An unremarkable post pushing a common sense interpretation on the "secret" meeting between EdM and Gorgeous George got a surprising amount of traction while my pondering of, ahem, dogging pulled in the numbers too. I always knew you were a mucky lot. What will feature next month? Your g... more »

“College and Career Ready” Contest Begins!

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 23 hours ago
There it is again! Arne Duncan and John King said it at almost the same time! “College and career-ready.” If someone would give me one dollar for every time I hear that phrase come out of some Common Core supporter’s mouth, I could probably leave work an hour early every day. Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, [...]

Genus 5+ supermoduli space is not split

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours ago
*In multiloop diagrams, superstring theory is more than bosonic string theory with a cherry on a pie* Three weeks ago, I discussed the possible shapes of the two-dimensional torus. They were parameterized by the parameter \(\tau\in\CC\) with an extra symmetry, "modular invariance" \(SL(2,\ZZ)\), identifying countable sets of values of \(\tau\). The torus may be considered as a genus-one Riemann surface (a sphere with \(h=1\) added handle to it) and it plays the role – aside from other roles – of the 1-loop "thickened" Feynman diagram in string theory (with purely closed strings).... more »

DUTCH ROYALS; NAZIS; PEDOPHILE RINGS

Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours ago
*Holland gets a new King. Qatar's Sheikha Moza bint Nasser al Misned, Morocco's Princess Lalla Salma and Prince Albert II of Monaco. http://www.dailymail.* The Dutch Royal family is popular because of its alleged links to Nazism and pedophile rings? *New Dutch King Willem-Alexander and his wife Queen Maxima* Simon Kuper (The Beatrix factor) writes in the Financial Times: *Holland's "Willem III liked to stand on the balcony of his Swiss villa on Lake Geneva and open his bathrobe when a tour boat steamed past. * "In Dutch slang, he was a 'pencil salesman'." According to The New Yo... more »

wut d kidz r list n 2 deez daze

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 23 hours ago
Stuck standing on the GO bus becauz all d yung-ass punx wanted to hear deez muther-fukkerz: sut=vevah

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 23 hours ago
Red tulips mean I love you. [Source unknown]

Was Kaesong a Hole in the Korean Iron Curtain, or a Subsidy to the Kim Monarchy?

Robert Kelly at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
So it increasingly looks like the inter-Korean Kaesong industrial zone is closed for good. (The Wikipedia write-up is a pretty good quick history of it.) The zone was set-up during the Sunshine Policy period (1998-2007). It was to do 3 things: 1) Lead to some liberal-capitalist spill-over in the North, 2) Expose regular North Koreans Continue reading

Ypsilanti Vampire May Day

rc at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
- As for the crisis of our own lives, in 2009 Matt Taibbi assigned blame to the banks, calling Goldman Sachs “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” Reverend Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, Michigan, referring to the Emergency Manager which was wrapped around the face of his city, said “he’s for the corporations that suck the life out of people.” Banks, insurance companies, and corporations belong to the total circuit of capitalism whence the sucking originates. When Alan Haber, the fi... more »
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