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Will you help John Cook "quantify the consensus"?
Climate fearmonger and kook John Cook sent me, because of this "one of the
more highly trafficked climate blogs on the web" you are just reading, the
following link:
Survey of Peer-Reviewed Scientific Research (University of Queensland)
I suppose that the gibberish characters at the end of the URL will be used
to identify the TRF readers.
If you have fifteen minutes or so, you may try to be asked about 10
randomly chosen (unverified) abstracts of 1991-2011 papers from "Web of
Science" and whether or not (at the scale 1-7) they confirm the "consensus"
on the hysterical man-made gl... more »
Vegan Recipe - Potato Soup
*The calendar may say that it's spring but in my neck of the woods, there
are still more than just a few wintery evenings. On a cool night, nothing
is more comforting than a bowl of soup.
This month's recipe comes from ... me. It is a hearty dish, packed with
flavor. I prefer using whole spices ... in my opinion, they taste better.
One can certainly use ground versions but I encourage you to try using them
whole ... you'll love the complex flavor.
I hope that you and your family enjoy this recipe.*
*Potato Soup*
*Makes 2-3 adult, main-dish servings*
*Ingredients*
1/2 teaspoon Cum... more »
Urban Gadabout: It's Jane's Walk weekend -- be sure to check to see what's happening in your area`
*The NYC subways' Brighton Line had its origins in the Brooklyn & Brighton
Beach Railroad, one of the railroads that connected to Brooklyn's ocean
beaches. The big news in summer gadding is that Jack Eichenbaum is devoting
another of his day-long subway-line odysseys to the Brighton Line.*
*by Ken*
Okay, I've been kind of grumpy about the fact that I'll be on the shelf for
one of my favorite weekends of the year: that of Jane's Walks, in honor of
pioneer urbanologist Jane Jacobs, who did so much to reorient the way we
think about urban life and to empower urban folk to feel that we... more »
Photo radar and taxes and the power of political myths
It’s interesting the way political orthodoxy emerges, without much real
evidence.
Take two examples - photo radar and irrational tax phobia.
Photo radar, it was clear during the leaders’ debate, is seen as political
poison. Asked about reinstating it, all four leaders said no.
The evidence from around the world is conclusive - photo radar reduces
crashes and health care costs and saves lives. In the six years that B.C.
had photo radar, road deaths averaged 408 annually. In the previous six
years, an average 534 people died on the roads. That’s 126 families spared
the death of a loved... more »
First Voices Indigenous Radio: Water, Borders and Resistance
Listen
to First Voices Indigenous Radio
Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota from Cheyenne River
http://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/program_archives
Listen to the Program
May 2, 2013
CANDACE DUCHENEAUX (Lakota) (www.facebook.com) and
type in Mni or Mni Indigenous Water Summit to get the latest information
and
State Of Texas To Enact "Texas-Israel Day" On May 8th... Yes, This Is NO JOKE!
I had closed my files of absurdity a few years back, and maybe that was a
mistake... It seems that these days the lunacy of our society is becoming
more and more pronounced! What you will see in this article is a prime
example....
I came across the following article from the website: Liberty Fight, at
www.libertyfight.com, and I seriously had to do a double take and read it
again to realize it was no joke.... According to this article, that I have
here for everyone to view for themselves, the criminal legislators in the
state of Texas are going to honor (I really want to puke) the... more »
Social Injustice in Medicine
Science has revolutionized medicine but there was no revolution and no plan
for ensuring equal access. Excellence without equity is what you now
inherit. It’s the chief human rights problem of twenty-first-century
medicine, and only when we’re all under general anesthesia of the soul will
we be able to ignore it as the century marches on.
Farmer, Paul (2013-03-02). To Repair the World (p. 18). University of
California Press. Kindle Edition.
The process of drawing inferences from the evidence is not the same as speculating
R. v. Scott, 2013 ONCA 286 holds:
[12] The process of drawing inferences from the evidence is not the
same as speculating. In this case, the evidence at the preliminary
inquiry, fully considered in the context of a drug "rip off" robbery, did
not provide some evidence of the subjective *mens rea** *requirement for
second degree murder.
Peter MacKay's Hole in the Ocean
Sailors often complain that a boat is merely a hole in the ocean into which
you pour money. This brings us to Harper DefMin, Peter MacKay's
250-million dollar hole in the ocean.
*CBC News* is reporting a quirky deal surrounding Canada's Arctic offshore
patrol vessel programme. And, yes, it involves not only MacKay but Harper
hairpiece Rona Ambrose also.
*Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose and Defence Minister Peter MacKay
announced March 7 in Halifax that Ottawa will pay Irving Shipbuilding $288
million just to design – not build – a fleet of new Arctic offshore patrol
ships.*... more »
Historic snows hit Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa – Snowfall unprecedented in the historical record for the month of May
[image: Observed snowfall amounts in inches from the 1 May - 2 May 2013
snowstorm as of 9am EDT, 2 May 2013. A rare and historic May snowstorm
pelted Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin with snowfall amounts unprecedented
in the historical record for the month of May. Graphic: NWS Minneapolis]
By Dr. Jeff Masters
2 May 2013
(wunderground.com) – A rare and historic May snowstorm continues to pelt
Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin with snowfall amounts unprecedented in the
historical record for the month of May. Winter Storm Achilles has brought
15.5" of snow to Owatonna, Minnesota, about ... more »
Tom Corbett And His Big Bong Theory
The Tea Party Tide swept a lot of toxic garbage into governors' mansions
across the country-- Rick Scott in Florida, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Sam
Brownback in Kansas, John Kasich in Ohio, Rick Snyder in Michigan, Bob
Forced Ultrasound McDonnell in Virginia, Nathan Deal in Georgia, Nikki
Haley in South Carolina, Puppet Pat in North Carolina, Jan Brewer in
Arizona, Paul LePage in Maine, Mike Pence in Indiana, Rick Perry in
Texas... to name some of the worst of the worst. How do you actually name
one overall worst though? Very difficult... but no one could leave
Pennsylvania's Tom... more »
Would you sign this?
Teachers and administrators across New York State were told to sign this
“Confidentiality Agreement” before scoring the recent ELA and Math State
Assessments. Are the exams that are used to judge students, teachers, and
schools top secret? Should the public have the right to see the entire
test? State Education bureaucrats keep repeating the importance [...]
Shout out to a new member of the team: Anne Sullivan, the Antique Teacher
Check out the About page here and these are some of her first posts. The
Many Faces of NYSUT Mixed Messages? On Being “College Ready” We look
forward to many more. -At the Chalk Face knows Schools Matter Filed under:
CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: anne sullivan, antique teacher
Bagram aircrash (29 April 2013) explained
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 4 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/lksDISvCmNI - what caused it?
Link: http://youtu.be/eZbH62Bn0oM
Now you know... Center of Gravity too far aft. Have a safe weekend!
John
BEALE AFB DRONE PROTEST IN CALIFORNIA
MARYSVILLE/BEALE AFB, CA. – Five people were arrested around 8 a.m. on
April 30 after dozens of anti-drone demonstrators blocked the entrance to
Beale Air Force Base for hours, resulting in hundreds of vehicles being
prevented from entering the base.
The California Highway Patrol had to be called in to clear traffic which
had lines of hundreds of cars in several directions after peace advocates
from Sacramento, San Francisco, Nevada City and as far away as Fresno
protested President Obama’s U.S. killer drone program.
Those arrested were briefly held on misdemeanor charges, which coul... more »
Risking everything for a better life
Illegal immigrants aboard La Bestia, a notorious Mexican cargo trainIllegal
immigration to the United States is both bane and blessing for Honduras.
A young acquaintance of my boss is currently experiencing the bane side of
things, locked up in a prison in Tyler, Texas after she got caught last
month trying to enter the U.S. illegally. Prison officials are telling her
she'll be held in jail for two or three months as punishment, then shipped
back to Honduras along with the 2,500 or so other illegals from the country
who are deported from the States every month.
The blessing is, of co... more »
What's the Chance of a Northern Gateway Supertanker Disaster? Try 93-99%
Simon Fraser University has released a study of the likelihood of an
environmental catastrophe from the Harper/Enbridge Northern Gateway bitumen
pipeline/supertanker scheme. Not surprisingly, their conclusions aren't
quite as carefree and rosy as those put out by Enbridge.
The chance of a bitumen supertanker disaster during the operating lifespan
of the Northern Gateway? The research suggests it's a near certainty, at
least if you consider a *93 to 99 per cent chance *nearly certain.
Enbridge was claiming an 18% chance of tanker mishap.
Along the Northern Gateway pipeline its... more »
ALEC OKC - Protestors Outnumber, “ALEC Members” Attending
*THANK YOU OK Brothers and Sisters!*
*Oklahoma Labor gets the ALEC Gold Star*
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*What an Amazing Bunch of Protesting People!!!*
Oklahoma Unions set a new standard that
has to replicated in Chicago in August!!
Bigger and Better.
As I noted in a previous post – the ALEC legislative turnout for the OKC
meeting was dismal.
So much embarrassment for the struggling ALEC.
Anyhow on the first day of the ALEC conference – The AFL-CIO, Teamsters –
pushed along by the Professional Firefighters – had a rally – which they
livestreamed.
ALEC Not OK in Oklahoma
05/02/2013
Mike Hall
Not e... more »
Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf responds to Italian accusations on Lack of Validity of UCC Filings
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* *Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf responds to Italian accusations on Lack of
Validity of UCC Filings*
May 2, 2013
*Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf responds to Italian accusations on Lack of
Validity of UCC Filings*
*This is an excerpt from a Skype room conversation this morning May 2, 2013*
* [8:05:26 AM] Heather:* In response to Francesca’s message (or whomever
was making the legal/lawful/commercial opinion) that the OPPT filings
are/were inapplicable t... more »
The Romantic Spirit: Triumph of Death
Title: The Romantic Spirit: Triumph of Death [Full Version]. YouTube Video
Description - [Channel: Steven Steinbach. Uploaded on January 19, 2012]:
"Triumph of Death" [Directed by Jean-Louis Fournier] - The 'art' of death
influences Romantic writers.
Oliver Hartwich: The never-ending Euro crisis - anatomy of an economic policy disaster
*Last night **The New Zealand Initiative**’s Dr Oliver Hartwich gave the University
of Auckland Economics Group an update on the never-ending Euro crisis,
including a brief history of monetary union (we’ve seen all this before!),
and a look at current issues and public debt, and hidden aspects like
TARGET2. “Germany is the key player in this crisis,” he says.
I took notes…*
There is no easy solution any more.
Monetary union: Today's Euro is not the first European monetary union to
have been undertaken, or to fail. Mid-nineteenth-century France pushed for
a Europe-wide monetary un... more »
Appearing tonight on "The Big Picture" with Thom Hartmann
I will be talking austerity tonight with Thom Hartmann on his show, "The
Big Picture." The program reaches 50 million homes in the United States,
and you can look for a station here. Alternatively, you can watch it online
here. The show starts at 7:00pm Eastern Daylight Time, and I am told my
segment will begin about 7:15.
The European Union released its unemployment figures this week. Eurozone
unemployment increased from 12.0% in February to 12.1% in March, up from
11.0% in March 2013. Greece reached 27.2% unemployment in January 2013
(most recent data available), while according t... more »
Does Your Heart Break For The Congressional Republican Leadership?
Yesterday there was a flurry of speculation that Texas' radical right
extremist Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada and is ineligible to serve,
would run for president in 2016. Intensely disliked and mistrusted in his
own caucus, there are probably plenty of Republicans-- cognizant that no
one is going to beat Hillary Clinton anyway-- who would be happy to see
Cruz run, lose and be gone from the Senate. But 2016 isn't going to be a
good year for Senate Republicans anyway. They have a *lot* of vulnerable
seats to defend. A Ted Cruz candidacy would positively kill them.
Oh, Dick Shelby... more »
@HuffingtonPost cheerleading for #edreform.
It seems Huffington Post is confused when it comes to defining civil rights
and labeling groups that fight for civil rights accordingly. In a story
that ran in Huffington Post yesterday, Joy Resmovits opened up with: As
droves of states wiggle out from some of the toughest components of the
much-maligned federal No Child Left Behind Act, [...]
RNC exploits grieving Newtown mother in new ad
It's true that this new RNC ad where they're celebrating their "victory"
over Obama in having squashed gun safety reform hits a new low in tasteless
GOP gloating. But I'm only posting this because it shows the footage of
Obama's last press conference where Jon Karl asked a stupid question about
whether POTUS thought he's "lost his juice" because the bill couldn't even
get to the floor for a simple up or down vote.
Our DC insider media was obsessed with this one stupid question. Everybody
covered it at length. I've seen Obama's response described as sarcastic,
defensive, irritated a... more »
China Crosses 'Line Of Actual Control' With Stealth Invasion Of India
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-02/china-crosses-line-actual-control-stealth-invasion-india
*China Crosses 'Line Of Actual Control' With Stealth Invasion Of India*
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/02/2013 15:10 -0400
● China India Newspaper
Whether this is just a 'misunderstanding' or a land-grab to make up for
Japan's Senkaku actions, the Indians are claiming that a platoon of Chinese
soldiers have crossed the so-called 'Line of Actual Control' in the
Indian-held Ladakh region. They have remained there for two weeks and even
as India complains, the Chinese deny, saying t... more »
This week's All the Hegemony You Can Eat
Here’s an interesting little story. The state of Louisiana currently
legislates for the equal teaching of evolution and intelligent design. The
state’s governor endorsed the act, asking the rhetorical question, “what
are we scared of”?
Disinvestment in science and technology is one thing. Students who hold
that the laws of nature can be suspended at any point are going to struggle
with the sciences. If the state education system will not foster a
scientific culture it will not turn out new scientists and will drive
existing ones away.
It’s an interesting illustration of the practi... more »
Transformational Tubes of Light…
*Transformational Tubes of Light…*
by ÉirePort
Transformational Tubes of Light connect doorways, portals, gateways, along
and within continents of surface Gaia, as well as throughout Inner Gaia.
Those with eyes for viewing these are already aware of the intense
transformational energies involved.
Transformational Tubes of Light are required for the proper direction of
these High Cosmic Frequencies. Tubes will appear and dissolve as required
for Golden Age type upgrades of humanity, to Hue-manity.
Rainbow Bodies become more visible, even to those with relatively
non-developed Hig... more »
How Embarrassing - ALEC Mtg OKC - No Quorum
How incredibly sad.
ALEC doesn’t have a quorum
– for their big meeting about writing and passing ALEC “model legislation”.
Their annual meeting that focuses on ALEC “model legislation and
only 15% of their ALEC legislators show up.
How incredibly sad.
ALEC must be so embarrassed.
No Quorum – the votes on the legislation don’t count
No Quorum – the discussion is useless.
What a waste of taxpayer money –
They have NO quorum – they can’t do anything binding
May as well just put those 15% of ALEC legislators back on the plane and
send 'em home!
Here you have an organization going d... more »
Break up the Too Big To Fail banks
Don't want to get too excited about this just yet, but it's the best shot
at killing the Too Big To Fail beast I've seen so far.
Last week, on April 24th, Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and
Louisiana Republican David Vitter introduced legislation called the
"Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act of 2013 Act," or the
"Brown-Vitter TBTF Act" for short. The bill is a gun aimed directly at the
head of the Too-Big-To-Fail beast.
Who knows if they'll get anywhere with it. Big Finance will be throwing
around a lot of big money to stop them. But there are quite a few sur... more »
The Pope tweets
Yes I know the Pope has something of checkered past. People change over
time. Let the person who has never done something they regret, or changed
their mind about anything, be the first to sit in judgment. Me, I'm taking
this tweet at face value.
Pope Francis: My thoughts turn to all who are unemployed, often as a result
of a self-centred mindset bent on profit at any cost.
Usually ignore the trolling replies but the crackpot con response to this
one is so jaw dropping I read the whole thread. There are some very sick
people on the internets.
Eric Cantor's Dilemma?
Ross Douthat is a fan of the ill-fated House health care initiative last
week, which was torpedoed by a faction who decided that voting for a
program to carry out a GOP talking point would, in this instance, count as
supporting Obamacare. Douthat had previously bashed Republican politicians
for not fighting for the policy ideas that some conservative wonks support,
but now decides that Cantor deserves credit for trying -- because, Douthat
believes, in his position he couldn't do more:
Because the Republicans are a minority in the Senate, because senators
represent broader constituen... more »
For whom the economy recovers
This isn't new, but it shows income inequality keeps getting progressively
worse every day.
In short, our current obsessed-with-profits philosophy is creating a
country of a few million overlords (shareholders) and 300+ million serfs
(employees).
It is also resulting in employees sharing less of the corporate wealth that
they spend their lives creating than they ever have before.
That's not what has made America a great country. It's also not what most
people think America or other lands of opportunity are supposed to be about.
This is an old chart I've had saved for a few mon... more »
GMO MONKEY BUSINESS
Ignoring the many existing alternatives our indigenous biodiversity and
knowledge offers to address the public health emergency of iron deficiency,
India's Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) has
signed an agreement with Queensland University (Australia) to provide AUD
$1.4 million (US $1.44 million) and INR80 million (US $1.43 million)
towards the cost of the Indian component to increase the iron content in
banana through genetic engineering.
Dr. Dale of Queensland University who will receive this generosity from our
government, and has already received $15... more »
WASTING YOUR $$$ IN AFGHANISTAN
Top Afghan officials have been on the CIA's payroll for over a decade,
receiving tens of millions of US dollars in cash. Afghan President Hamid
Karzai admitted to receiving the clandestine financial support, but
dismissed the sum as a "small amount."
You'd think the public and Congress would be screaming about this as we see
cutbacks to vital social programs in the US. Politicians get upset about a
few "welfare Queens" but this corruption makes that look like peanuts.
It Wasn't A Happy May Day, Not In Europe-- And Probably Not At Chez Paul Ryan
Except for Seattle, it was a pretty quiet May Day here in the U.S. where
Boehner, Ryan, Miss McConnell and Obama are introducing the devastating
Austerity agenda more gradually than they did in Europe. May Day was marked
by protests by workers across the globe, starting in Asia, with as many as
150,000 demonstrators getting the ball rolling in Jakarta, while smaller
protests sprang up in Seoul, Phnom Penh, Dhaka and Manila.
With 80 countries around the world marking May 1 as a public
holiday, Istanbul's Taksim Square was in lockdown on Wednesday, after the
Turkish government ban... more »
Mining 17: Palawan, Samar, Surigao and Mine Tailings
There is one lively exchange on mining in the facebook wall of a friend, JB
Baylon. The original exchanges were made last February 19, 2013. Then the
other day, one of JB's friends, that we will just call Mr. U, made strong
anti-mining comments and called those who posted about mining in Australia
and people wearing precious stones as "morons". It's personal attack of
course, shooting the messenger, not the message.
I am posting the raw, unedited exchanges, except the less substantial
comments. With explicit permission from JB and implicit permission from the
others. To see the raw ... more »
Don't give your Beer Money to ALEC!
The latest bad news came from* **Anheuser-Busch *InBev, the world's largest
brewer, which on Tuesday reported a* 4.1% drop* in sales to U.S. retailers
for the first quarter ending in March. Sales for *MillerCoors* brands,
meanwhile, *dropped 3.3%* in the quarter, parent company SABMiller recently
reported, while Heineken USA sales were down by low-single digits.
*From ALECExposed*
Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.[14] Member of ALEC's Commerce, Insurance and
Economic Development Task Force and ALEC's Tax and Fiscal Policy Task
Force[35]
MillerCoors Brewing Company,[15][14] member o... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Indigenous Preparedness'
INDIGENOUS PREPAREDNESS
Posted on May 2, 2013
MNN. May 1, 2013. Theft of our Indigenous resources
is the cause of war. Some of us are standing up to it. All of us
resisting together will end war. A big danger for the bankers is that
the people will come to the Indigenous way and support the protection of
natural resources. In the bankers’ pursuit of world domination the
Top Secret Memo: U.S. Govt Admits UFO Subject is Most Highly Classified in U.S. Rated Higher Than the Hydrogen Bomb
*Citizen Hearing on Disclosure Day 4: U.S. Govt Admits UFO Subject is Most
Highly Classified in US Rated Higher Than the Hydrogen Bomb*
May 2, 2013
This is some of the best testimony I've seen so far. *"UFOs to be "the
most highly classified subject in the United States. Flying saucers exist."
*It doesn't get much more in your face than that! ~BK
Link to Huffington Post article here.
It's international day at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure (CHD), in
Washington, D.C., in which several individuals, including military
personnel, will present testimony of UFO encounters in ... more »
Two Random Things
Almost a decade ago, I spoke to a group of socialist academics and
activists. I said that if we were to move forward we needed to come up with
something big but nevertheless doable with the political system as we know
it.
I proposed utilizing small-l liberal values about democracy and human
rights to begin campaigning for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing
liberal rights of citizenship (including freedom of speech, assembly) of
workers within their workplaces.
It's rather developed and I've discussed it elsewhere (to no effect!) so
you're free to read about it here or at enm... more »
We’ve been right about this too!
*THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013*
*We’ll grant you, it does no good:* Right from the start, for many years,
we’ve warned you about Maureen Dowd.
Make no mistake! Dowd has been very influential over the past twenty years.
Back in 1992, Katherine Boo warned the world about the insipid trend she
described as “Creeping Dowdism.”
Boo’s detailed warning was ignored. The simpering dumbness Boo denounced
has very much taken hold in the mainstream press. This has been a disaster
for modern pseudo-journalism.
We’ve endlessly warned you about this matter. We’ll grant you, it does no
good.
Public edi... more »
Stephanie Miller avoided the truth!
*THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013*
*This is the way the guild works:* Over at the New York Times, Gail Collins
had been off for three weeks.
This morning, she returned with her first column since April 13. Needless
to say, she wrote her column about “The Luv Guv.”
With three full weeks to dream up a topic, she wrote her column about Mark
Sanford, his fiancée and his wife.
The Times has insulted you in this way for a great many years. This brings
us to a striking segment we saw on CNN.
Not that many people were watching, but a problem was clearly defined. Erin
Burnett teased last night’s seg... more »
FILM / Michael Simmons : How Bob Fass Revolutionized Late-Night Radio
Bob
Fass in the WBAI studios in New York. Photo by, yes, Bob Fass. Photos
courtesy Radio Unnameable.
Radio Unnameable:
Bob Fass revolutionized late-night radio
Fass and 'Cabal' changed history and deserve the credit and Lovelace and
Wolfson have provided the first in-depth cinematic look. It resonates
like an epic tale with the hero emerging as a long-shot survivor.
By Michael Simmons /
Dirty coal wants Navajo water, and reporters are helping the cause
By Brenda Norrell
Power lines on Navajoland take electricity to the Southwest
Censored News
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
May 2, 2013
The Salt River Project has not signed the Navajo Generating Station lease signed by the Navajo
Nation. SRP wants the Navajo rights to the Little Colorado River water
for the future, and SRP does not want to pay the amounts in the lease to
the Navajo Nation to
Why Democrats Lost the FAA Fight, and What They Should Do Next Time
I have a new column out over at TAP on the FAA fight:
Here’s what Democrats should have done, and should be ready to do next time
that a Republicans object to a specific program cut...Democrats should
collect all of their sequestration complaints: Head Start, Meals on Wheels,
and on and on. Next time Republicans squawk about a terrible spending cut
(maybe to defense contracts?), Senate Democrats should immediately rush a
bill to the floor to satisfy the Republican complaint along with a
similar-sized Democratic objection. And they should satisfy those
complaints, but not by giving a... more »
Iraq’s Protest Movement And Insurgency Split About Response To Hawija Raid
Iraq has been beset by a new wave of violence following the raid upon
protesters in Hawija in Tamim province. On April 23, 2013, security forces
entered the protest camp in the town looking for the assailants who
attacked a checkpoint four days beforehand that left one soldier dead and
three wounded. That resulted in 30 people being killed, and dozens more
wounded. Immediately afterward there were retaliatory attacks across
northern and western Iraq. The Baathist Naqshibandi group took
responsibility for many of these operations. That insurgent movement and
others have been trying... more »
Kristin Moe : Polluted Houston Neighborhood Draws the Line at Tar Sands
Children from the Manchester neighborhood in
Houston with oil refinery smokestack in the background. Photo by Tar
Sands Blockade. Photo by Tar Sands Blockade / YES! Magazine.
Houston's most polluted neighborhood
draws the line at Alberta Tar Sands
East Texas is the belly of the beast: the heart of America’s oil country and the seat of power for the fossil fuels industry.
By Kristin Moe /
Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S. – ‘The Earth will end only when God declares it to be over’
[image: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887.
Graphic: via youarenownearingtheend.blogspot.com]
By Eric W. Dolan
1 May 2013
(The Raw Story) – The United States has failed to take action to mitigate
climate change thanks in part to the large number of religious Americans
who believe the world has a set expiration date.
Research by David C. Barker of the University of Pittsburgh and David H.
Bearce of the University of Colorado uncovered that belief in the biblical
end-times was a motivating factor behind resistance to curbing climate
change.
“[T]he fact ... more »
5/2 Protest ALEC TODAY - Education on ALEC Tomorrow
From TeamsterNationThursday, May 2, 2013Stand up to ALEC in Oklahoma
Working families in Oklahomaare standing up to ALEC and their state
lawmakers today to march for the middle class.
ALEC(the American Legislative Exchange Council) will hold its annual
meeting today and tomorrow in the Oklahoma capitol. Teamsters, other
unions, working families, politicians and labor leaders will be there to
tell Oklahomans what ALEC is really about.
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March info:
What: March for the Middle Class and Working Family Rally
*When: 4-8 p.m., Thursday, May 2, 2013*
Where: Coca-Cola Event Center, 425... more »
Occupy Tarsands Pipeline Routes
Click image to enlarge
The
oil moguls don't care if there are a few leaks, spills, ruptures, fires
and explosions along the tar sands pipeline routes. Why should they
care, as long as they are getting huge subsidies from the USA and
Canada? When that horrible tar sands rupture occurred in Mayflower,
Arkansas, Exxon didn't even stop transporting that poisonous stuff
through the
TIDE TURNS IN SYRIA
*Syria *
Paul Wood has talked to Syrian revolutionaries who have deserted the Free
Syrian Army in outrage at the atrocities the rebels are committing against
ordinary people.
*Syria*
According to the BBC's Paul Wood, in the UK's Spectator magazine, *the Free
Syrian Army has fallen prey to gangsters and fanatics*
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*The Fxxx Syria Army*
Douglas Murray in the Spectator writes that *if there was ever a time to
intervene in Syria, it has passed*
"What good opposition elements there were have been killed, have fallen
away or otherwise become insignificant...
*Syria.*
"By now eve... more »
WSJ: "Norway Orders BP to Review Safety"
By K. M. Hovland (2013, April 30) The Wall Street Journal, p. B6
[Excerpted] Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority ordered BP PLC to review
its management systems for the second time in two years after concluding
that serious safety breaches caused a North Sea leak that could have turned
into a major accident.... [end]
Majia here: BP has an incredibly bad track record of safety, lies, and
assaults against public health:
1. *Majia's Blog*: *BP* Trying to Avoid All Future Liabilities from Gulf
Oil Spill
*majiasblog*.*blogspot*.com/2011/07/*bp*-trying-to-avoid-all-future.html
... more »
The Human Costs of School “Reform”
A study by Elaine Weiss and Don Long of the Bolder Broader Approach shows
that the corporate school “reform” experiment has claimed to have raised
student achievement but that those gains evaporate upon close examination.
A previous post, “The Benefits (and Costs) of ‘Reform’ in Three Cities,”
discussed their “Market-Oriented Education Reforms’ Rhetoric Trumps
Reality,” [...]
THE PROFESSORIATE FAILS US AGAIN: What made Reinhart and Rogoff tick?
*THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013*
*Part 3— Three unflattering portraits:* Why didn’t *other* ranking
professors check Reinhart and Rogoff’s work?
Beats us! In early 2010, the Harvard professors unveiled a study which
“instantly became famous.” According to Paul Krugman, “it was, and is,
surely the most influential economic analysis of recent years.”
Gack! Reinhart and Rogoff’s famous paper was widely used to promote
economic austerity policies. Meanwhile, some people had doubts, right from
the start, about the professors’ findings.
But doggone it! No one asked the professors to share their ... more »
SHADOW CABINET
*Six members of the newly created Green Shadow Cabinet gathered at the
anti-drone conference in Syracuse, New York last weekend. Front row from
left: Howie Hawkins, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Col. Ann Wright, David Swanson.
Back row: Keven Zeese, and Bruce Gagnon*
**It was a real surprise and honor for me to be invited to serve as
Secretary of Space in the Green Shadow Cabinet. (I joked that I will have
the largest area of responsibility and travel to deep space will take years
at a time.)
Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, the 2012 Green Party presidential and
vice-presidential nominee... more »
Props thundering away
Off from the airstrip in Repulse Bay and on to Coral Harbour:
Testing Crashes in Indiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Minnesota
If Common Core Corporate Standards are to survive and thus fulfill their
function as defining what is thinkable and unthinkable in school, then more
tests, many more tests, will be required to assure everyone is keeping his
thoughts inside the bubbles. I am gratified to see the system already
breaking down before it can even [...]
Iraq’s Women’s Weight Lifting Team Prepares For Championship in Qatar, April 2013
Amidst all the violence taking place in Iraq recently, many citizens are
still able to go about their business. These pictures show the Iraqi female
weight lifting team preparing in a gym in Baghdad’s Sadr City for the Asian
Championship scheduled to take place in Qatar in May 2013. All photos by
Reuters.
Wonky Wankers
Oh, no! A randomized controlled trial reveals that when poor people get
medical insurance because they won a lottery, they don't instantaneously
shed their ravaged, neglected bodies and become pictures of robust
good health overnight. The wonkosphere is going nuts. Pseudoliberals worry
that the "bombshell" results of an Oregon study on insured and uninsured
poor people could put a damper on Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
Republican nihilists are crowing "we told you so" -- you give a bunch of
takers gummint health care and they still get sick, so why waste money on
them?
No matter... more »
ALEC Legislators: Manipulating of the Free-market
All morining I have been thinking - - -
Today in OKC
at the ALEC meeting
MONEY IS SPEECH
and
CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE LAWMAKERS/LEGISLATORS
Whenever you think of American Legislative Exchange Council legislative
members, envision them as pirates, plundering public tax dollars
doing whatever they deem necessary for their for-profit ALEC corporate
buddies.
The corporate buddies that they are meeting with today - secretly, behind
closed doors in OKC - both of them, legislators *&* corporations - writing
and voting on new ALEC legislation.
The corporate buddies that they a... more »
National Day of Prayer, Political Science Edition
Of the 6 churches I passed on my way to the office this morning, 3 reminded
me that today is National Day of Prayer. In the spirit of the day, I’m
following my Grandmother-in-Law’s advice and suggesting that we all pray
for our enemies.[1] Here’s my list: Reviewer 2. Thanks for the
suggestions! XOXO
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Highlights from At the Chalk Face, 6PM EST every Sunday, #blogtalkradio
To the reader and listener out there. When we bring you the radio show
every Sunday at 6PM EST, know that we work hard to bring you the stories
and people in education that mainstream sources ignore. We call all of the
people with whom we speak friends. They fight with all of us to [...]
Nazis ‘shipped arms to Palestinians’ - Israel News, Ynetnews
If anyone is surprised by this then they really haven't been paying much
attention...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248081,00.html
Sub-Criticalities in Daiichi Water Storage Pools?
Are sub-criticalities occurring in Tepco Daiichi's water storage pools or
at some other location at the plant?
Major steam/smoke release
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/alert-for-fukushima-daiichi.html
Black tendrils FROM THE GROUND envelope the plant
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/look-at-black-tendrils-envelope-daiichi.htm
For though I walk through the darkest valley
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/for-i-walk-through-darkest-valley.html
Majia here: I know Tepco’s been having trouble with the spent fuel pool
cooling
*Fukushima nuclear plant's cooling system g... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Jo Ann Pflug, 73.
To the good stuff:
1. Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt go in depth on yesterday's Oregon
Medicaid study. I screwed this up in the Roundup at Greg's place last
night, and I shouldn't have. The initial spin was that the study showed no
health benefits (while also showing substantial financial benefits) from
Medicaid, but that's an incorrect reading. It does show some benefits, but
mainly the evidence is inconclusive -- and it's not clear, Carroll and
Frakt explain, that the study was able to actually reach conclusions on
health outcomes. And at any r... more »
Someone said it again, school closures are racist
And folks are going to keep saying it. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General
News & Commentary Tagged: closures, Duncan, racism, usde
ALEC Eviscerates FoIA / Open Records
Since ALEC, through their most current actions, has effectively destroyed
the presumption that ALEC's records/correspondence with OUR state
legislators are public - we can therefore surmise that ALEC state
legislators now believe that they WORK FOR ALEC.
First of all – let me put this out there.
*
*
*Elected officials serve at the will of the people.*
That being said – any elected official – in fact, any employee in the US -
has no reasonable expectation of privacy – while in the workplace.
AND
That being said – any elected official – has no reasonable expectation of
privacy – whe... more »
Doctor Who "The Silence" Shirt
[image: The Silence Shirt]
I have a confession to make. I am a huge Doctor Who fan. If you know me in
person, it isn't much of a secret. As I sit here typing this I am wearing a
Tardis sweatshirt over a t-shirt that proclaims that "Bow Ties are Cool."
All of this is being watched over by the army of Doctor Who Lego figures
that sit by my computer. It is a little bit of an obsession, that involves
slipping into a British accent and wishing I had Converse to wear. My
husband doesn't understand the Whovian side of me, but he politely
tolerates it and only slightly rolls his eyes when ... more »
When Democrats Go Bad
Are you getting dozens of donor letters from Democrats again? Another
phony-baloney deadline plea... do they come every other week now? They're
starting to clog up my e-mail box. I delete most of them without looking
but Tuesday I got one from a freshman I had contributed to in the past.
She's been a lousy representative-- with a dismal ProgressivePunch crucial
vote score of 40.0-- tied with a handful of conservatives down in Blue Dog
territory. But she-- unlike any of them-- ran as a progressive. 40.0 is
unbelievably bad. Boehner's biggest Democratic supporters in the House,
John... more »
Scientists In Chains
Melissa Mancini, over at the Huffington Post, has documented Stephen
Harper's war on science. Consider the record:
- Environment Canada put out 71 news releases in 2012, compared with 110
in 2005, a decrease of more than 35 per cent.
- The Department of Fisheries and Oceans put out 128 news releases in
2012, compared with 243 in 2005, a decrease of 47 per cent
- The National Research Council put out 14 news releases in 2012, versus
33 in 2005, a decrease of 58 per cent
- Natural Resources Canada put out 154 news releases in 2012, compared
with 176 in 2005, a... more »
Untitled
*Third time no charm as Bill to repeal Louisiana's 'Faith-in-God Science
Act' FAILS*
*"Restoration" Projects Announced: BP Boondoggles Beginning? ~Aaron Viles*
*Ransomware virus impersonates FBI, locks up computers across New Orleans ~Jennifer
Hale*
*Mayor Landrieu vetoes food truck ordinance, citing legal concerns ~Dominic
Massa*
*~Vendors still have hope despite veto of new food truck ordinance ~Tania
Dall*
*Where To Eat Fries in New Orleans, Reader Decided ~Gwendolyn Knapp*
*New Orleans Puppet Festival This Sunday ~Katie Walenter*
*Review: Hugh Laurie proves his musical w... more »
That figures.....staged bombing, fake bomb detector and crisis actors faking as severed limbs bomb victims
20130212 (drafted)
20130502 (updated)
For years we had been warning about fake safety first policies aka SAFETY
FRAUD. We had seen safety in form but not safety in practices in many
industries all over the world. Selling safety is a much better business
than ENRON selling energy which they don't have.
If the accident or disaster did not happen, well fine and good. Nothing
tested and the vendor of the fake "safety" device such fake bomb detector,
continues to rake in millions in unscrupulous profits, thousands of times
over the actual production cost.
The customers feel happy not... more »
Innovative smart RFID-enabled paper
*US scientists have developed a method to embed radio frequency detection
chips on to paper that they say is faster, cheaper and offers wider
applications than current methods. *The patent-pending technology uses
laser beams energy to exactly move the ultra-thin chips. Antennas are also
fixed with the same method.
The method could be used to prevent fraud as well as supply a new sense to
the term paper trail. The findings are presented at the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers conference on RFID in Orlando,
Florida... more »
Citizen Hearing on Disclosure
The Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure being held at the National Press Club
in Washington, D.C. is now half over and I’m astonished at the abuse thrown
by those not in attendance and the press seeking out the few who are
members of the lunatic fringe. I have heard, repeatedly, about two who
showed up wearing headbands with crystals but I never saw them (other than
in a newspaper photo), and I have seen references to tinfoil hats which are
not in evidence.
On the flip side, I see people smeared by association, called out because
their views don’t match those of others, or something ... more »
OR Charter School Terrorizes Teachers - Should be Sued
Charter School Terror ....
Charter School - For profit Entity
Would this have happened in a REAL PUBLIC School - not on your life.
Cammie DeCastro, principal of the Pine Eagle Charter School in Halfway, Ore.,
admits that the plan she had to protect her school from an armed gunman is
in tatters after two masked men stormed in and appeared to open fire on a
meeting room full of teachers last Friday, The Oregonian reports.
Luckily, the bullets were rubber, the gunmen were school staffers, students
were not in the building that day, and the whole thing was a drill. But the
teachers we... more »
ALEC - Parasite Sucking Democracy Out of the US
The ALEC Annual Task Force Summit starts today in Oklahoma City.
Found an excellent entry this morning that is well worth your time to read
and enjoy.
The whole thing is found
*>>>HERE<<<*
*ALEC Holds Annual Meeting in OKC, Looms Menacingly Over Flyover Country*
By Pearl On May 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
This Machine Kills The Poor
Tomorrow and Friday, the overpowered copy-machine known as ALEC (American
Legislative Exchange Council) will hold their large annual task force
meeting in Oklahoma City.
You might expect that such legislation would be mostly fiscal in nature,
dealing w... more »
Bo SingDong
It appears that this purge in the Chinese Communist Party will be in slow
motion as they systematically round up those who matter and put them
through an actual trial. Such a process working its way down will stiffen
Chinese morality for a long time. It is actually a huge reformation that
will ultimately cleanse Chinese society itself in quite the same way Nazism
was scoured out of Germany.
That Bo has abandoned false hope and actively working to save his life is
a huge victory for the present leadership.
In the meantime, his faction can surely be blamed for the aggres... more »
Prowling Deposit Confiscation with Ellen Brown
The problem is simple. Deposit taking institutions must not carry a
significant derivative portfolio whatsoever and that portfolio must be
publicly disclosed as to exposure. This allows depositors to judge their
real exposure which is the second problem. Banks today have abandoned their
risk adverse position and now present real depositor risk.
During the present clean up phase we have been going through, these rules
have been set aside. This must now end if we are to expect independent
depositors to be comfortable again.
The good news is that mortgage lending is now ... more »
Man With Hole in Stomach Revolutionized Medicine
This reminds us of the power of one carefully documented case study. This
is a nice bit of historical research now been seen in perspective that
informs us of its importance. In the same way, recent survival of CPR
assisted heart attack victims are now changing all our protocols for that
particular event.
Both inform doctors to not give up quite so quickly, however tempting.
I suspect that the stomach wall finally grew back together over time and
actually closed of the wound as he made it into old age and heavy work.
*Man With Hole in Stomach Revolutionized Medici... more »
Blocking HIV Reservoirs
This is a huge step closer to eliminating the HIV virus. We know the key
protein and we know that we have to turn it of to win. This is at least a
clear pathway.
The disease itself is now well controlled but certainly not cured.
Eliminating these reservoirs opens the door to an outright cure.
This will ultimately be described as one of the greatest battles in
medical science but also one of the most productive in terms of new science.
I do think that we are in the homestretch with HIV. This is not the only
route now.
*Discovery may help prevent HIV 'reservoirs' f... more »
Labor Econ 12: Wallace, Lenin, Stalin, Mao
No, no, no. Peter Wallace does not advocate the same things as Vladimir
Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung. Peter of the Wallace Business Forum,
is an Australian businessman and consultant who has lived in the
Philippines for nearly four decades now, has a Filipino wife and kids, and
advocates market-oriented reforms in the economy.
I did not feel like writing another paper on Labor Day yesterday as I have
written several papers on labor economics already. So I am reposting
Peter's article in the Inquirer today. I share his ideas on this subject.
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*Like It Is*
*May Day... more »
Euro Collapse Update: 'Get out if you still can'...
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 19 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/UZap5n3zGZ8
The slow-motion implosion of Europe and its Euro-Zone still continuous. *"The
Pantheon of Idiots"* (see clip) that tries to 'govern' this tiny area of
the globe (ever noticed?) still follows the German Kanzler Mrs. Angela
Merkel into the mutual abyss. The German "System", a worn out decadent
politico-industrial master-slave system that doesn't fit any other country
on this planet, should be applied to all Europea nation-states? Even if it
is corrupt? German euro-imperialism isn't going to make it, Farage believes
and so do I. But even in Germany a ... more »
Two dark matter papers
When it comes to the existence of dark matter, I have two news – good and
bad. Let me begin with the bad news.
We often discuss provoking statements by some of the dark matter direct
search experiments that claim that they see evidence of a dark matter
particle under the ground. But there's still one staunch experiment in the
"Dark Matter Is Not Seen" axis of the dark matter wars that refuses all
these claims, XENON100 (soon to be upgraded to XENON1T: yes, the numbers
stand for 100 kilograms and 1 ton of liquid xenon).
The latest exclusion plot described in this paper (click) is rat... more »
OSAMA IN RUSSIA
*Chechnyans*
*
*
The 'Boston Bombers' are from a part of Russia called Chechnya.
The CIA used the bank called BCCI to fund the Islamic terrorists in the
Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan.
On the board of directors of BCCI were the CIA's William Casey and the
CIA's Richard Helms
On the board of directors of BCCI was Adnan Khashoggi, the representative
of Saudi Bin Laden Group in the USA.
*Ricin, Diamonds, and Stingers - Dissident Voice-30 Apr 2013*
*DUDAYEV, former Chechen president. The CIA is reported to have used bin
Laden and al Qaeda against the Russians in Chechnya.*
... more »
May Day 2013
Happy May Day! A couple of links:
Democracy Now covers the Bangladesh factory collapse that killed over 400 people. A demonstration was held today.
Erik Loomis weighs in on Bangladesh and the Texas factory explosion, and also passes on some useful links.
EU Lifts Oil Embargo on Syria - Buys Directly from Al Qaeda
Western media hails EU oil deal as potential game changer, despite
admitting Al Qaeda holds oil fields.
*May 2, 2013* (LD) - It was recently reported that the European Union would
be lifting its oil embargo on Syria, in an effort to help fund what it
calls "rebels" operating there. In the Associated Press article, "EU lifts
Syria oil embargo to bolster rebels," it states:
The European Union on Monday lifted its oil embargo on Syria to provide
more economic support to the forces fighting to oust President Bashar Assad's
regime.
The decision will allow for crude exports from rebel-... more »
$3.1-billion : Now is the time to commit accounting
*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 and spent on "things other than the
anti-terrorism ini... more »
May 1, 1973
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 ... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
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
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
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It’s called a constitution
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?
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