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11:03pm MDSTChet Raymo, “Strange”
* *
*“Strange”*
by Chet Raymo
“In a review in the “New York Times” Book Review, Daniel Handler writes:
“And strange? Well, let's get this straight: All great books are strange.
Every lasting work of literature since the very weird "Beowulf" has been
strange, not only because it grapples with the strangeness around us, but
also because the effect of originality is startling, making even the oldest
books feel like brand new stories.”
Strange: Out-of-the-ordinary, unusual, curious. "The strangeness around
us," says Handler. There is a paradox here. What could be less strange than
t... more »
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: On libertarians
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Bananas, Natural Radiation, and other Nuke Cabal Ploys
In April 2011, the state of Arizona's radiological protection agent told
me
that radiation fallout from Fukushima is akin to the radiation in
*a*banana. He also drank some milk while he was talking to me. He
reminded me
of the Atomic Energy scientists who referred to all radiation in terms
of
"sunshine units" when speaking with the public.
I didn't believe him at the time, but I've spent the last two years
coming
to understand why he was, and continues to be very, very wrong, both
about
the banana and the milk.
I learned he was wrong about the milk when I spoke to the guy in the
lab... more »
Signs of the Coming Revolution in America’s Education System
Alternet publishes “real” education news for those who still remember what
a “real” education is. Signs of the Coming Revolution in America’s
Education System The recent revolt against standardized tests as well as
legislative concern over testing corruption are just some of the of the
signs of an approaching education “revolution.”
http://www.alternet.org/signs-coming-revolution-americas-education-system
Filed under: […]
Why in the world would Connecticut's top prosecutor , the Governor's office and select legislative leaders seek to secretly draft a new law to block the release of records related to the police investigation into the December 14 , 2012 incident at Newtown Elementary School only ? There allegedly are no additional perps , right ? So why the rush to " secretly draft a law " , why keep this from the public until Tuesday when the plan initially was apparently to sneak this to the Governor's desk right before the Holiday weekend ? Why the rush to cover up photos , death certificates , tapes of 911 calls and how is it that families decide what evidence is worthy of being subjects of public interest consistence with right to know law / FOI laws ? And of course the true tell , why just Sandy Hook and not ALL crimes generally ?
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-secret-foi-bill-0523-20130522,0,2770809.story
Secretly Drafted Bill Would Leave Release of Some Newtown Investigative
Records Up To Families
The staffs of the state's top prosecutor and the governor's office have
been working in secret with legislative leaders on a law to withhold
records related to the police investigation into the Dec. 14 Newtown
elementary school massacre.
By JON LENDER, EDMUND H. MAHONY And CHRISTOPHER KEATING, jlender@courant.comThe
Hartford Courant
8:38 p.m. EDT, May 22, 2013
A secretly drafted bill to block release ... more »
NZ Government to introduce charter hospitals
Activism in paradise - Voices from down under at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 2 hours ago
Reposted from this brilliant NZ satirical website The Civilian. This
beautifully captures the ideological nonsense behind charter schools. ————–
These minimum wage surgeons may be unsure what to do next, but with enough
private funding, the Government is confident they’ll figure it out. The
National Government has today announced plans to introduce a number of […]
China HSBC PMI prints contraction level for GDP ( 49.6 versus 50.4 expected ) ...... Meanwhile JGB market halted at open ( again ) ..... bond selling globally continues as JGM ten year bond hits 1.00 yield , 5 year bond yield hits 47 bps ! Put in perspective , today's move by itself translates to 1.5 percent of blended Tier ! capital off the entire japanese banking system - this is just what happened this evening ! What else needs be said about the state of growing insolvency for japanese banks ?
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Chinese Economy Enters Contraction With First Sub-50 PMI Print Since OctoberSubmitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2013 - 22:04
For the first time since October 2012, HSBC's China PMI (Flash) printed at
a sub-50 level (49.6) missing expectations (50.4) quite notably. *This is
the worst two-month drop in 17 months*. This is problematic for the PBoC who
are being arbitraged left, right, and center and know that any stimulus
will merely serve to exacerbate the problems they face (as we noted here
that China simply cannot function with 'moderate' growth). *Eve... more »
New Zealand’s national standards in education are not national or standard.
Activism in paradise - Voices from down under at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 2 hours ago
By Allan Alach Reposted from The Daily Blog At the end of this month the
New Zealand government will release the national standards data that will
a) ‘prove’ that their education policies are ‘raising achievement’ and b)
‘prove’ that there is a wide variation of school effectiveness and that
teachers’ performance is therefore deficient. All […]
Does the Common Core really motivate? Seriously.
The Common Core promoters are always in constant motion, but something has
really struck a nerve with me lately. Does the Common Core motivate and
inspire teachers? Two items have come my way recently that caused me to
ask that question. The Common Core cheerleading started with an email from
Commissioner John King linking to […]
madrid, day two
Today was the second half of our Madrid art tour.
We were out early again, went back to the same local joint for breakfast
(the counterman remembered what we wanted, which we enjoy), and were once
again at the museum before it opened. This was Reina Sofia, the national
art centre and museum specializing in 19th and 20th century art, and home
to Picasso's "Guernica".
Finally seeing Guernica in person was, for me, a highlight of this trip and
one of the most moving art experiences I've had. I was quite overcome - in
tears - both at the power and emotion conveyed in the painting, and b... more »
madrid, day one
After our cheap *pollo asado* dinner, wine, and a shower, we had a new
perspective on life. We woke up early the next day, had a little breakfast
in a neighbourhood joint, and got to *Museo Nacional del Prado* - otherwise
known as The Prado - before it opened. Our hotel in the Cuatros Caminos
barrio is right near a big metro station where four different lines
converge, and it was very easy to zip downtown.
The Prado is a big museum, not quite as huge and sprawling as the
Metropolitan or the Louvre, but too big to see all of it. We had already
decided to do a "greatest hits" tour, us... more »
HAS THE WEST’S WAR AGAINST ISLAM RADICALISED WESTERN MUSLIMS?
The so-called ‘war on terror’ is now seen for what it really is; a
euphemism for a war against Islam. It began as a war fuelled by Western
greed and power as European colonialists divided and conquered Islamic
lands in order to plunder their riches. The war about religion and beliefs
had long run its earlier course during the Crusades. By the nineteenth and
twentieth century it was no longer about religion; it was about oil. Today
it has come full circle; it’s still about oil, as well as regional control
and hegemony, but for those that resent the West’s intrusion into their
lands a... more »
Greek unemployment at 75 percent in some areas as greek prostitution skyrockets ! Chicago carries out largest round of school closings in US History ... US a few years from attaining a state of affairs like Greece ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-22/greek-prostitution-soars-150-youth-unempoyment-hits-75-some-areas
Greek Prostitution Soars By 150% As Youth Unemployment Hits 75% In Some
Areas
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2013 17:35 -0400
- European Union
- Eurozone
- Greece
- Unemployment
With Greece suffering the biggest economic depression in decades, all so a
few rich men can preserve their wealth and not have their EUR-denominated
savings wiped out (even if the alternative means finally being able to
rebalance externally using ... more »
Defending the "indefensible": Anwar al-Awlaki
Today the U.S. government acknowledged killing Anwar al-Awlaki with a drone
strike. Was this killing "just," as Eric Holder says?
The U.S. says it was because not only was Awlaki *saying* bad things, but *
doing* them - actively participating in and planning a variety of terror
plots. If that were true, *and* proven, you would probably concede the
killing was justified, at least "morally" if not legally.
But here's the thing - this claim is just that, a claim. An assertion. It
rests on secret evidence. Not only is the evidence itself secret, but so is
the method of obtaining that e... more »
Quadruple Murder, Government-Style
The
*New York Times* is now in the True Confessions business. In an
obviously pre-approved leak immune from DOJ subpoena, the front page
articleby Charlie Savage can best be described as the warm-up act to
tomorrow's
killer of a speech by Barack Obama. To soften the Obama shocker for
those
who've not been paying attention, Attorney General Eric Holder is
finally admitting that our government has killed four Americans in drone
strikes! One of the homicides, says Holder, was the planned offing of
radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
The other three, including the killing of Awlaki's 16-yea... more »
Checking Off My Bucket List- My KSL TV Interview
I have a bucket list about a mile long. It includes visiting all 50
states, reading the entire works of William Shakespeare and the most scary
for me, being on live television. Today I had the opportunity to check off
that last one. Housewife Eclectic was featured as KSL News' Blog of the
Week. I was a bundle of nerves right up until the moment the camera's
started rolling and then a calm came over me and I actually had a really
amazing time. Here is the interview.
I want to thank all of the people at KSL and a few of my favorite bloggers
and best friends in the whole world t... more »
The world is getting better
Yes! Good news!
Bad news sells. There are big and real problems on our horizon. But with
doom and gloom all around (and yes, I confess, you’ll read it here too)
it’s worth stepping back occasionally to see the big picture: that human
economic activity is making the world a better place in which to live.
Check out the 31 Charts That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity, and
you’ll see what I mean.
[Hat tip Kelly Valenzuela]
*UPDATE*: Good news of human achievement needs suitable visuals. So here’s
the Empire State Building:
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Fiscal conservatives are killing us
It's always useful to remember budgets are only political documents.
They're a rhetorical weapon of mass deception. Appropriations are the real
deal. And more proof that the GOP really doesn't give a flying leap about
budgets, even as they now refuse to go to conference to pass one, Republicans
are furiously slicing and dicing funding to circumvent the sequestration
cuts.
Of course they never offer specifics but the plan "focuses the biggest
cuts" on aid to local school districts, health research and enforcement of
labor laws. Also:
Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security and the Pen... more »
Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, “You and Me”
Moody Blues, “You and Me”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UZ5oVYmb8
The Daily "Near You?"
Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands. Thanks for stopping by.
The Religion of Peace: Another London Edition
Yes folks, the Religion of Peace has struck again in broad daylight, in
Woolwich, London.
News updating here: Terrorists scream Alluha Akhbar as they cut a British
soldier's head off in broad daylight
*UPDATE*: A note from Bosch Fawstin on the inevitable excuses to come:
Muslims have been killing Non-Muslims *because* they're Non-Muslims for
over a Thousand years because Islam Exhorts them to. Every other reason is
Pretext.
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The Poet: Mary Oliver, "When Death Comes"
*
*
*"When Death Comes"*
"When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn,
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps his purse shut;
when death comes like the measle-pox;
when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flo... more »
Free Download: Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"
"Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others...
And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
~ Walt Whitman
•
Freely download "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman here:
- http://manybooks.net/titles/whitmanwetext98lvgrs10.html
Keep Oklahoma in your prayers tonight after the massive F- 5 Tornado hits Moore , Oklahoma !
Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
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Cruz (TX) Doesn't Like Anybody
'cept himself.
Had to laugh when I saw this.
I know people like him.
They don’t like anybody but themselves
I’m pretty sure that’s a DSM-V diagnosable condition known as
Sociopathic Narcissism
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday defended his objection …
"The senior senator from Arizona urged this body to trust the Republicans.
Let me be clear, I don't trust the Republicans," Cruz said. "And I don't
trust the Democrats."
The Coming Corporate Control of Medicine Will Undoubtedly Line Their Pockets and Pick Ours
I've been against the onrushing locomotive of the new (and final?) USA
health care system/program (debacle) advocated by the Obamabots since the
first moment I heard it was merely the old MA Romney-care (rewritten in
secret by the Heritage/Koch Foundation insurance company radicals) dressed
up in/by a 21st century outfit. I also have been thoroughly convinced that
when Obama is given the chance
Are Russel Norman and Bernard Hickey watching?
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was voted in promising the electorate he
would “print” money to infinity. The promise, premised on destroying his
currency, was supposed to boost Japanese exports and throttle imports.
So five months after the election, you might be wondering how Abenomics is
doing? Well, he got his wish about the Yen. It is being destroyed…
But how about the promises he made when this happened—that it would produce
prosperity and boost exports?
Japan's insane policy has so far pumped the stock market up by 35% and
crushed the yen down by 22%. The results? Impor... more »
Introduction
Welcome to *Sustainable or Bust!* This collection of rants and reviews
explores facets of genuine, ecological sustainability. In the
old-fashioned sense of the word, sustainability has to do with living in a
way that doesn’t diminish the ecosystem over the passage of thousands of
years. The ravens, deer, and salmon have mastered a way of life that has
no need for soil mining, water mining, fish mining, forest mining. Only
humans have figured out how to break the laws of nature, and nature is not
amused.
Good old-fashioned fundamentalist sustainability is largely ignored these
da... more »
Ted Cruz don't trust nobody but himself
You'll recall the House GOP passed a ridiculous budget based on Paul Ryan's
roadmap to ruin back in March knowing full well it had zero chance of
survival. Boehner thought he was being very clever with this pass the buck
manuver. The GOPers immediately launched a mass tirade demanding Democrats
pass their own damn budget in the Senate. Much to everyone's surprise, the
Democrats did just that two months ago. According to normal process, the
two budgets would go to a Senate/House conference committee shortly
thereafter and a single compromise bill would emerge.
But there is no normal... more »
“A ‘Grandiose Government’ Experiment”
*“A ‘Grandiose Government’ Experiment”*
by Addison Wiggin
“I have a grandson who is afraid to get out of bed at night,” Mike Kelly
(R-Pa.) told the besmirched former head of the IRS on Friday. “He thinks
there’s someone under the bed that’s going to grab him… most Americans feel
that way about the IRS.”
The scene: a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. We
happened to catch this particular piece of political theater as we were
getting ready to leave our hotel in Sao Paulo for the return trip to
Baltimore. Even in Brazil, the spectacle of our Internal Revenue Serv... more »
History revisited: on the trails of no longer lost civilizations
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 8 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/etmhB2ZwqJs
*When fiction and facts meet*, thanks modern technologies, we may get
different views on the history of civilizations than we were told before.
History as we appear to 'know' it, is a hodgepodge of fables, even the
modern parts of history. Often it is merely what we were told to believe.
Large parts of European history for example were constructed for religious
reasons. Going back in time over 1.000 years we get lost in fragmentary
remains that could mean anything to different people, leaving us to believe
what others told us about them centuries a... more »
BTW: Trey Gowdy was right! Lois Lerner to be hauled back to testify...
*the God's of truth are doing the happy dance.*
From Politico:
*Darrell Issa: Lois Lerner lost her rights*
Trey Gowdy at his best!
"IRS: Incredible Abuses of Democracy"
*"IRS: Incredible Abuses of Democracy"*
by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"Professor William Black is an expert in white collar crime. When it comes
to the IRS scandal, Dr. Black says, “This is everybody’s fear. This is a
real fear and not made up. You can produce incredible abuses of democracy
if you use the IRS as a weapon.” Dr. Black contends, “It was precisely
First Amendment activities that the IRS targeted under the Obama
Administration. At best, they were completely asleep at the wheel.” Dr.
Black isn’t sure higher-ups are going to jail but says, “The clear
unbelievable thin... more »
Something a little special
I found this on Bowiesongs Extras, the final page of the original
manuscript of James Joyce's *The Dead*. The blogger quite aptly says "I
cannot imagine what it's like to sit at your desk, look down and see that
you've just written *those* lines".
Trifecta: Obamacare: A looming nightmare...(video)
*have I mentioned the IRS will be overseeing your healthcare?*
On a brighter note, over at *Huff and Puff, *of the over 7000 comments
about *Lois Lerner taking the 5th *almost 100% of them are against Obama.
Now tell me again about his high approval ratings. *
*
I apologize for not answering comments and the lack of posts. The overload
of both my outside work, my three day work schedule, and the unending
scandals has left me worn out and dispirited. I believe Alinsky would call
it "overloading the system."
I also apologize to those of you who have linked to me. I never look at... more »
Petraeus, king of the self-promoters!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013*
*His response to a sane man’s request:* In this morning’s Washington Post,
Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung present an important front-page report.
Kevin Drum gets the nugget quote right. But first, let’s get clear on the
background.
In the wake of the Benghazi attack, some of the capital’s decent people
wanted to behave in a responsible way. Not everyone in DC is crazy.
According to Wilson and DeYoung, at least one congressman wanted to avoid
the most obvious types of errors:
WILSON AND DEYOUNG (5/22/13): The controversy over the Obama
administration’s r... more »
Big cats and stuff
There is an extract in today’s Guardian taken from an upcoming book by
George Monbiot, called Feral. Judging by the Amazon review, it seems to
cover a similar area to Mike Davis’s essay Maneaters of the Sierra Madre,
from his Ecology of Fear (civilisation-nature, environment-consciousness
etc). The extract is about big cat sightings in Britain.
There is no big cat population in Britain. Though there may be feral big
cats loose in the countryside at any point in time they will be
individuals. Though big cats are elusive (the most commonly described cat
resembles the black leopard –... more »
And Now, a Word From Cyril Blubberpuss, Esq: Athletics edition
Dear St. Charles Borromeo Seminary:
I have read* *with great relief and strictly manly shedding of tears
of your program that starts tomorrow and lasting through the 26th and seeks
to purge hale, all-American heterosexual young men of the bane of same sex
attraction through your sporting camp. Because if manly virility cannot be
vouchsafed by celibate, androgynous men wearing robes, funny shoes and
hats, then to whom will the task fall?
In fact, speaking of banes, I was saying to Mitt Romney the other day
as I'd just shoved my freshly-shined size 10 wingtip into the bo... more »
Games? We Don’t Have Time for #Games!
I’d like to share the moment I realized that school was no longer a place
for learning, but had instead become a place for training. In 2009, I
taught math in a middle school in Oregon. It was close enough to the
Common Core implementation that we were starting to hear the buzz and
receive […]
Woolwich Murder: Spectacle and Message
Barbarism. That is the only word fit to describe the events that unfolded
on a Woolwich street this afternoon. According to eye witnesses a young man
wearing a Hope for Heroes shirt was run over and then hacked to death by
two men of "Muslim appearance" [sic]. The perpetrators then explained their
motives to passers by and into camera (now hosted by ITV News) and
apparently shouted "Allahu Akbar" at irregular intervals. When the police
showed up, they allegedly charged them and were promptly shot by armed
officers, then taken to hospital.
Let's just be clear about a couple of thin... more »
Outsourced Trolling, Weak Replies and More Bad Research:Javedanfar's Former Students Unsuccessfully Defend Their Mentor
In
response to a recent article I wrote addressing a number of false
statements made by Israeli analyst Meir Javedanfar in an April
22 Guardian op-ed, a few comments were posted on Muftah, an online
magazine for which I am an editor, and where my article was originally
posted.
The comments, in general, are inane and eye-roll worthy. Still, as they
were clearly posted at the explicit urging
Still crazy after these twenty-four hours!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013*
*The meltdown of CBS News:* One day later, we were puzzled.
Did CBS News really do that, we found ourselves wondering. On May 10, did
they really publish the crazy news report we looked at yesterday, via that
link from Glenn Kessler’s Fact Checker piece?
For yesterday’s post, just click this.
Out of curiosity, we clicked Kessler's link again—and sure enough, there it
was! In the CBS report as it now appears, Sharyl Attkisson explains the way
the Benghazi talking points were formulated in mid-September through an
extensive e-mail exchange.
Attkisson presen... more »
No, Don't Wait Two Months For Public Opinion Effects
Is it worth a post over a headline? I suppose so...that's what people read,
after all.
Michael Catalini writes over at National Journal today goes over the public
opinion reaction to Watergate, Iran/Contra, and Lewinsky. His accounting of
Iran/Contra and Lewinsky are fine, but he's a bit tripped up on Watergate.
I wouldn't bother, but the headline and subhead are awful:
Wait About Two Months, Then Check the President's Approval Rating
Reagan and Nixon saw their approval ratings drop two months after
Iran-Contra and Watergate. Clinton was a different story.
Actually, I wrote about t... more »
Global Warming Debunked: NASA Report Verifies Carbon Dioxide Actually COOLS Atmosphere!
It has indeed been a while since I put up an article to take a shot at the
fraud known as man-made "Global Warming". I figured that this was an
appropriate time considering the very long and very cold winter that we
have just been subjected to here in North America.. That alone should have
finally convinced the most ardent "Global Warming" supporters that they
have been taken for fools and that the entire "Global Warming" stunt is a
massive scam...
I had put up many articles already at this blog where I laid it out plain
and simple that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is absolutely NOT a so ... more »
The Calm Before
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left
and live it properly.”
― Marcus Aurelius, *Meditations*
It has been a strangely entrancing but melancholy May. Imagine, the title
of this post was drafted days ago, before the havoc from the Oklahoma
tornadoes. I decided on it even before early wildfires began in unlikely
places, and before the massive floods in China, because of the overwhelming
sense that this spring's little calm hiatus here at Wit's End can only be
temporary. Anyone who is paying attention (and, apparently that's not very
many!) has t... more »
Statement from Leonard Peltier on Oklahoma Tornado Tragegy
Statement from Leonard on the Oklahoma Tornado Tragedy Friends, Relatives, Supporters, and to the People of Oklahoma,
There are so many things in life that we question. We think that life
isn't fair. We wonder why so many innocent people have to suffer and
what the lesson is, in all of this. I am thinking of the many, many
people who were devastated by the tornado that ripped through Moore
Satire: “Obama Asks Staff to Start Cc’ing Him on Stuff”
* *
*“Obama Asks Staff to Start Cc’ing Him on Stuff”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “In a dramatic departure from existing
White House procedures, President Obama requested today that his staff
start cc’ing him on stuff. “Look, I know a lot of you think I’m really busy
and you don’t want to bother me,” the President reportedly told his staff
in an Oval Office meeting. “But cc me anyway. It’s good for me to keep up
on what’s going on around here. It’s not good when I turn on the news and
they’re talking about something at the White House and I’m like, whoa, whe... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Designer Terrorism'
DESIGNER TERRORISM
Posted on May 22, 2013
Peace at last!
MNN. MAY 21, 2012. The word government means; to
control (govern) the mind (mente), this action is terrorism. Canadian
Prime Minister Harper’s job is to continue using this terrorist
strategy. A terrorist attack, demonizing tactic or friendly dictator is a
scripted performance. Terrorism is the constant use
WIFI stops cress growing
that thing that's in your house, probably on all the time, connected to
your mobile phones and wireless devices i.e. WIFI ... it kills cress. Or
rather five girls from form 9b in Hjallerup School in North Jutland DK have
found that, "If you're trying to grow cress don't put it near the WIFI
router." *[forwarding source TAP]*
Okay, got that?
cress grown away from WIFI
cress grown beside WIFI router
“It is truly frightening that there is so much affect, so we were very
shocked by the result”, says Lea Nielsen, one of the girls.
NOTHING WRONG WITH WIFI then, it's totally safe.
The "Malibu Effect" and Why Greed is Not Good for You
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
Inflation is crudely defined as too many dollars chasing too few products.
A good example of inflation: in 1960 $30,000 would buy you a mansion.
30,000 today will buy you an outhouse. That's most probably inflation.
Not inflation, however, is the effect that income disparities have on
markets. When a smaller percentage of the population takes in a greater
percentage of the nation's wealth, people who may seem to be earning the
same amount of money are actually LOSING ground because of what I call the
Malibu effect. As the rich get even richer... more »
Untitled
*Saints coach Sean Payton listed as highest paid coach in US sports! ~Forbes
*
*NOPD asks: Have you seen this pig statue? ~Gambit*
The cause of the attack remains a mystery?
When even the BBC report thus:
'1744:
Senior Whitehall sources have told the BBC that the Woolwich attackers are
thought to have tried to film their attack whilst shouting "Allahu Akbar" -
God is Great, says political editor Nick Robinson.
The Prime Minister is expected to speak to the Home Secretary at 18:15 BST
from a train to Paris about what is now being treated by government as a
suspected terrorist attack, Mr Robinson says.'
If this is true then can anyone seriously doubt that this was an Islamic
terrorist attack?
Presumably the cause will excused as being because of the B... more »
Catch of the Day
From last evening, actually: Dave Weigel notes that Ted Cruz, Rand Paul,
and Mike Lee have invented a "tradition" that it takes 60 votes to raise
the debt limit. He also makes an excellent point about why most Senators
don't want to establish any such tradition:
Nobody likes to have a pro-debt limit vote on the record, so votes to raise
it are usually pretty limited and partisan. In 2012, the last time the
Senate gave the thumbs-up to a debt limit hike, it got only 52 votes. So
the Cruz/Paul/Lee gambit will fail, it's in the interest of most
Republicans that it fail, and the rebels ... more »
Forget Peak Oil, start worrying about Peak Water – Between 1900 and 2008, the US lost 1,000 cubic kilometers (240 cubic miles) of groundwater
[image: Cumulative groundwater depletion in the coastal plain aquifer
system of Georgia and adjacent northeast Florida, 1900 through 2008.
Graphic: USGS]
By Todd Woody
20 May 2013
(Quartz) – A report released today by the US Geological Survey (USGS) today
shows that Americans are sucking dry the aquifers that irrigate their crops
and supply their drinking water. Between 1900 and 2008, the US lost 1,000
cubic kilometers (240 cubic miles) of groundwater. That’s twice the volume
of the water in Lake Erie.
It gets worse. The rate of groundwater depletion is accelerating,
according ... more »
Syria: Strategic battle for Qusair. Israeli talkin' tough. What about Qatar?
*Two related updates at the bottom: scroll down *
*Consider this an update on the post from yesterday*: *Syria: Turkeys'
military escapades; Israeli jeep enters Syrian territory & more*
Concerning the taking, by the Syrian Army, of a strategic town near Lebanon
This town has got to be extremely important, judging by today's news
*NATO merc footage:*
*Syria opposition calls for reinforcements in embattled Qusair*
*(this story has changed from this am. quotes below are from original.)*
Syria's leading opposition group called on Wednesday for rebels across the
country to send reinfor... more »
In-between
One of the things we do when it's too wet to play in the garden, and in
between other projects, is get in wood. This used to involve sharpening the
gasoline powered chain saw, fire up the pickup, go get a permit, head forty
miles into the mountains, compete with other homesteaders for the
picked-over trashwood on the landing, load up, and drive the groaning truck
back down the sharp mountain curves, trying not to run over other, often
not dirt-road-wise, permittees scrabbling their way up the washboard gravel.
We're a little too old for that. But still cooking on wood. Our own plac... more »
RepubliCONS are FAR TOO NICE!!!
Oh my god!
These folks are definitely smoking something!
Evidently - they are not aware of the obstruction happening inCongress.
Evidently - they haven't been watching the news lately - what was that
about again
- Republicans lying???? again and again and again
And wasn't there another vote to repeal Obamacares - oh yeh, for the 37th
time.
Here's a piece from the Tea Party
When it comes to politics, the left plays hardball. They go for the throat
every time.
*Conservatives are far too nice. We want to get along and go along*. We
believe in the free market of ideas and *we be... more »
Climate-change disasters worry UN – ‘Natural disasters are not only becoming more frequent but are becoming more vehement’
[image: Opening ceremony of the Fourth Session of the Global Platform for
Disaster Risk Reduction at the International Conference Center of Geneva,
21 May 2013. Photo: Jean-Marc Ferré / UN]
New York, 22 May 2013 (AFP) – The world needs to wake up to the risk of a
spike in natural disasters linked to climate change and strive to find ways
to cut the human and economic cost, the United Nations warned yesterday.
"We live in a time of huge natural disasters which are made worse by
climate change," the UN's deputy secretary-general, Jan Eliasson, told
reporters at the start of a three-... more »
Steve, the Accountability Guy
That was Stand Up Comedy for Canada from Mr. Accountability Guy, Stephen
Harper, in 2006.
Yesterday Steve never mentioned the under-the-table Perrin/Wright/Duffy
hush money cheque, nor the cheque issuer or recipient in his speech about
it to his caucus. But just a little over 100 words into his 1000 word
speech, Steve did spare a moment to mention Adscam and his pissy mood about
what he did not mention, before blowing off the whole unmentionable thing
as a "distraction" and winding up with "Let's get back to work".
Today, however, from the distance of some 6000 kms away in Peru, ... more »
The First #Finland Comparison I’ve Cared About in Months
I’ve told people that I’m tired of hearing the ongoing, back-and-forth
debate about Finland’s educational model. Christine McCartney is a New York
teacher currently teaching and researching in Finland, which means I’m more
likely to listen to her. She has been putting together some pretty great
material and resources to help put both sides in […]
Fiduciary duty
The Toronto Party v. Toronto (City), 2013 ONCA 327 discusses how fiduciary
duties arise:
[37] The concept of fiduciary obligation has a venerable lineage
rooted in the notion of breach of confidence, an original head of
jurisdiction in Chancery: *Gué**rin v. The Queen*, [1984] 2 S.C.R. 335, at
p. 383. Where by statute, agreement, or perhaps by unilateral undertaking,
one party has an obligation to act for the benefit of another and that
obligation carries with it a discretionary power, the party thus empowered
becomes a fiduciary. Equity intervenes to supervise the relationshi... more »
The new network dramas must be very dumb!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013*
*Even Dowd says they’re too shlocky:* Luckily, nothing of significance is
going on in the world today. There is no issue that needs explanation or
clarification.
We know that because Maureen Dowd is writing about the major networks' new
TV programs. Apparently, these shows are so dumb that even Dowd has
noticed. And the famous Pulitzer winner is just *plenty* annoyed:
DOWD (5/22/13): *It turns out that Washington isn’t the only place where
ideas go to die.*
TV honchos cling to outmoded programming traditions even as many younger
Americans, gorging on a m... more »
Vitamin C kills drug resistant TB
Vitamin C can kill multidrug-resistant TB in the lab, scientists have
found.
The surprise discovery may point to a new way of tackling this increasingly
hard-to-treat infection, the US study authors from Yeshiva University
An estimated 650,000 people worldwide have multidrug-resistant TB.
Studies are now needed to see* if a treatment that works using the same
action as vitamin C* would be useful as a TB drug in humans.
While the findings of this study appear promising, further research to
confirm the observations would be essential before Vitamin C can be used to
supplement TB t... more »
ARE YOU SAFE?
The manchurian Candidate..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpYxkNf94LU&feature=player_detailpage
Manchurian II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gO72dK4HjA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XpYxkNf94LU
Seed Newsvine
Open Hearts Gives Marie a Second Chance
Open hearts give Haitian patient a 2nd chance - The Naperville Sun
couriernews.suntimes.com/lifestyles/200… via @napervillesun
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) May 22, 2013
Top 10 warning signs you may be a ‘Guardian Left’ anti-Semite from CiF Watch
Here's the first two:
' 1. You claim the mantle of human rights yet find
yourself running interference for anti-Semitic world leaders and helping
to spread the propaganda of Islamist extremists - and even terrorist
leaders who openly call for the murder of Jews.
2. You claim to condemn racism at every opportunity yet are strangely
silent or seriously downplay even the most egregious examples
of antisemitic violence.'
More here
http://cifwatch.com/2013/05/22/top-10-warning-signs-you-may-be-a-guardian-left-anti-semite/
I wonder how many of these apply to certain people who I ha... more »
FIGHT BACK GROWS IN NORTH CAROLINA
Fifty-seven protestors were arrested Monday at the North Carolina General
Assembly, bringing the demonstrations led by the state chapter of the NAACP
to their highest total in their fourth straight week.
Hundreds thronged the Senate rotunda to show support for demonstrations
that are drawing increasing numbers of people to Raleigh for what the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is calling
"Moral Mondays." General Assembly Police Chief Jeff Weaver placed the
arrest count at 57, which brings the total over four weeks to 158.
The beauty is to see the diversit... more »
Study Finds Vitamin C Kills Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
*Activist Post*
In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College
of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills
drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture. The
finding suggests that vitamin C added to existing TB drugs could shorten TB
therapy, and it highlights a new area for drug design. The study was
published today in the online journal Nature Communications.
TB is caused by infection with the bacterium M. tuberculosis. In 2011, TB
sickened some 8.7 million people and took some 1.4 million lives, according... more »
Lois Lerner: "I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations, and I have not provided false information to this or any other Congressional committee."...
*other than that, she really doesn't have anything to say to the committee
or the American people. Thanks for taking time out of your very busy
schedule to stop by, Lois.*
*Meanwhile:*
* Under The Radar – Gang of Ocho Immigration Reform Advances While Everyone
is Distracted….. (Must watch video)*
*More:*
Michelle Malkin: *The Obama crony in charge of your medical records*
Freedom Works: *It’s No Longer Obamacare — It’s IRScare*
Wednesday Addams Linkage
It’s so disorienting to be posting on a Wednesday! I’d like to begin with a
bleg: I’m in the market for a platform that allows for easy screencasting.
In other words, if you wanted to have 6 to 10 users simultaneously viewing
a series of slides, but you thought that Google Hangout was just a
Continue reading
Mapping IR Theory
Thanks to the patience of the former EJIR editorial team, PTJ and I will
have an article in the forthcoming special issue on the “End of IR Theory?”
Only the first 35-40% resembles the working paper (PDF) we posted at
the Duck. Even the name has changed. We still argue in favor of thinking
about international-relations theory
Continue reading
IMF Calls on Cameron Tories to Change Course
Britain's Conservative Cameron government are the High Priests of
bone-crushing austerity. David Cameron and his gaggle of privileged
Saville Row suiters are not interested in sparing the lash when it comes to
Britain's weak and vulnerable. Meanwhile, Steve Harper looks on with
fawning admiration at everything he wishes he could be.
Yet Cameron has now run afoul of that bastion of radical socialism, the
International Monetary Fund. The IMF is crying "enough already" and pleading
with Cameron to reverse course if only to boost the British economy.
*It said the £10bn-worth of sp... more »
Xbox One next-generation: Microsoft
Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox One which will go on sale later on this
year. The next-generation console was shown off alongside a new Kinect
sensor and a redesigned gamepad. The US firm described the voice and
gesture-controlled machine as an all-in-one system offering games, live TV,
movies and music. *The firm's Entertainment and Devices Division accounted
for $9.6bn worth of sales in Microsoft's last economic year. *
That only represented about 13% of its total revenue for the period - but
one analyst said the importance of this launch should not be
underestimated. *Microso... more »
The Pearson Test
From Stan Karp: Take the Pearson Test: See if you qualify for millions in
tax breaks too! 1. NJ is giving over $60 million in tax subsidies to the
British-based test publishing giant Pearson, even though the company: A. is
sending over 500 jobs out of NJ to NYC B. made profits of $1.4 billion last
[…]
It feels like the Right has split irrevocably - Telegraph
Something to worry any democrat.
'The prospect of PR should fill us with horror. It allows politicians to
stitch up deals after the voters have had their say and denies the country
strong government at moments of crisis. But if neither Labour nor the
Tories are capable of commanding a broad sweep of public opinion on polling
day, it is where we are headed.'
More here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/news/politics/ukip/10068930/It-feels-like-the-Right-has-split-irrevocably.html
Did Somebody Mention Bruce Carson?
Oh yes, I did. I mentioned Bruce Carson simply to reinforce the point that
the beating heart of corruption within the Harper government is, in fact,
the Prime Minister's Office, the PMO.
The denizens of the PMO aren't all outstanding, accomplished A-List types
like Nigel Wright. Harper's PMO has been a comfy way station for real
scoundrels such as convicted fraudster and disgraced, disbarred lawyer
Bruce Carson, who used his position inside to pursue his nefarious ways.
Remember what Bruce Harper had to say about Stephen Carson? (wait, did I
get that mixed up? no, they're sort ... more »
Just do it!
By Capt. Fogg
Perhaps Fred Phelps Jr. is getting slow, or perhaps he has to type with one
hand because he's so exited at God's wrath being inflicted on Moore,
Oklahoma. The very thought of little children being crushed or torn to
pieces as they scream in terror must excite him past the point of self
control. It took him hours to inform us that this disaster was the result
of Oklahoma City Thunder basketball star Kevin Durant’s public support for
gay basketball player Jason Collins. God works in mysterious ways, but
there's nothing mysterious about Fred unless you're interested in ... more »
TARIQ ALI ON SYRIA
Hezbollah militants have joined forces with pro-Assad troops in the fearce
fight for control of a rebel stronghold on Syria's border with Lebanon. The
town of Qusair is considered a key entry point for smuggling arms into
Syria. Middle East expert Tariq Ali believes the recent escalation of
sectarian violence in the region is being used by the West to target Iran.
DC schools bet the farm and then some on #commoncore. Good luck with that.
DC loves its reform. Especially those based on faith, not evidence.
Education Week writes about what they call the “common core era.” Wow, I
thought, you know, at least six months had to pass before we’re officially
in an era. In a year, it might be an epoch. How well the school district
can reach […]
Iraq Announces New Date For Delayed Elections In Anbar And Ninewa Provinces
Iraq recently held provincial elections in twelve of its eighteen
provinces. Voting did not take place in Anbar and Ninewa however, because
the government had indefinitely postponed them there. Now a date has
finally been given for those governorates to have their day at the ballot
box in June 2013. Security was the official reason given for the delay, but
it was widely believed that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wanted to stop
candidates supported by the protest movements there from gaining power.
That move has likely backfired as the demonstrations are going on as strong
as eve... more »
Celebrity Losing Popularity?
George Parker looks at celebrity, building on the renewed interest in The
Great Gatsby: What are celebrities, after all? They dominate the landscape,
like giant monuments to aspiration, fulfillment and overreach. They are as
intimate as they are grand, and they offer themselves for worship by
ordinary people searching for a suitable object of devotion. […]
BE GMO-FREE
On Saturday, March 25 there will be a Global March Against Monsanto.
In Portland, Maine I will be attending the protest at 2:00 pm at Monument
Square.
Stand up and demand to be GMO-free!
New York Mall Kiosks Raided by Homeland Security for "Terrorism" Goods
Activist Post
Some people still might be unaware of just how long the reach of Homeland
Security has become. How about counterfeit goods as possible terrorism?
That is what has been suggested fairly recently as DHS has begun to conduct
an increasing number of raids in several states over the past few years
aimed at rooting out this "threat to our liberty and economy."
Operations such as 2012's "Operation Fashion Faux Pas" was part of a
six-month crackdown that closed 20 businesses. As the video below
illustrates, hundreds of others have been swept up in similar raids, many
of whic... more »
25 Reports That Can Put You on the Terror Watch List
Anonymous* *
*Activist Post*
A concerted effort has been afoot for some time to merge local police with
federal authorities to respond to the implementation of citizen spy
"snitch" programs. This has been best illustrated by the role of threat
fusion centers, which are integrating data from public and private sources
alike -- even universities.
The FBI has now made public their "Communities Against Terrorism"
Suspicious Activity Reporting flyers.
I myself have seen documents like this as a former retail store owner. One
day, roughly 10 years ago, I received a flyer in my mailb... more »
THE REFUSAL TO FIGHT: Adopting Isikoff’s Fox-tinged line!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013*
*Part 3—Rachel just isn’t that sharp:* With how much skill has The One True
Channel analyzed the Benghazi nonsense?
Has this channel been willing to fight?
Alas! Consider the “analysis” which emerged last Wednesday night, May 15,
when Michael Isikoff appeared with Rachel Maddow. A bit of background:
Five days earlier, on May 10, ABC’s Jonathan Karl had released twelve
versions of the talking points which were crafted last September concerning
the Benghazi attack. On May 14, it had been revealed that Karl misquoted
one of the e-mails which helped shape thos... more »
WotW: 10 Tips for Taking Better Cell Phone Pics
[image: Tips for Taking Better Cell Phone Pics]
I have a confession to make: I like Instagram. You're probably thinking,
"Of course you do. Who doesn't?" The thing is, I didn't think I would. I
mean, the very concept is ridiculous: a social media platform where people
can post pictures of food, random street signs and selfies (can we all just
agree to ban this word and type of photography as a crime against
humanity?).
Far and away, most of the pictures are mediocre at best, but every now and
then you come across a truly impressive picture and wonder how they were
able to take su... more »
Man shot dead by FBI agent knew Boston bombing suspect, friend says
FOX 35 News Orlando
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City Waiting on Water-Supply Fix
Rachel Rindfleisch at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 16 hours ago
By: Nathan Lamb
Residents of a southern California city may have had drinking water
contaminated by a nearby munitions complex, according to this story from
the Los Angeles Times.
Multiple city wells have been shut down in the City of Rialto, which is
importing drinking water until widespread groundwater contamination is
fixed.
The wells are tainted primarily with perchlorate, a persistent contaminant
that can cause thyroid problems, especially with pregnant women and
children.
A 2012 study by the California Department of Public Health indicated that
drinking water supplied to R... more »
The funniest Blackadder exchange?
General Melchett: Is this true, Blackadder? Did Captain Darling pooh-pooh
you? Captain Blackadder: Well, perhaps a little. General Melchett: Well,
then, damn it all! What more evidence do you need? The pooh-poohing alone
is a court martial offense! Captain Blackadder: I can assure you, sir, that
the pooh-poohing was purely circumstantial. General Melchett: Well, I hope
so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've learnt from being in
the Army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a Major, who got
pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh. He pooh-poohed it!
Fat... more »
Today the CPS board will vote to enact the largest mass public school closing in American history.
Reblogged from Fred Klonsky: In typical Rahm fashion, four more schools
have been removed from the closing list. CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett is
expected to withdraw her recommendations to shutter Marcus Garvey
Elementary School and Mahalia Jackson Elementary School on the South Side;
Leif Ericson Elementary Scholastic Academy on the West Side, and George
Manierre […]
FBI shoots and kills alleged person of interest regarding Boston bombings - man shot allegedly attacked Agent .....
This is odd , have to wait and see what develops......
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fbi-shoots-florida-man-possibly-linked-boston-bombing/story?id=19231642#.UZy5h6LtWSo
The man shot dead by an FBI agent in Orlando, Florida early today was
"about to sign a statement" admitting to a role, along with Boston Marathon
bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in an unsolved triple murder in
Massachusetts in 2011, two people with direct knowledge of the case told
ABC News.
Ibragim Todashev "just went crazy," and pulled a knife during his interview
with the FBI, said state and federal law enforc... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Jay Carney, 47.
Also, don't forget the good stuff:
1. Harris Mylonis on nation building.
2. Dan Larison on signaling.
3. And the Reagans, mowing. From Amber Lautigar Heichert.
Thank You - Wisconsin
Currently in North Carolina a movement is building.
Weekly rallies – arrests of peaceful protestors.
It makes the news every week.
But what is hidden in the background is just as important.
From an article on Common Dreams this morning:
*Thank You - Wisconsin!*
*NC - UPDATE later that day*
**
*Battleground North Carolina: 100+ arrests in 3 weeks resisting right-wing
attacks*
By Zaina Alsous and Ben Carroll on May 21, 2013 » Add the first comment.
North Carolina — Addressing a packed church April 28, the night before more
than a dozen community members would engage in an act of c... more »
Their Howard Beale Moment
Yesterday Stephen Harper held a pep rally and beat it out of town. He gave
no answers. He thinks it will go away. But, as Lawrence Martin wrote
yesterday in the* Globe and Mail*, the integrity issue is reaching a
critical mass. It's not about Mike Duffy or Nigel Wright anymore. It's
about Stephen Harper himself, for the government and the man are one:
Mr. Harper and his band might be able to make people forget about the
Senate scandal, and other affronts to the integrity of the system. But
there’s simply too much out there for this government to escape the
reckoning – a dire one.
... more »
Weiner's In Again.
Heard this on the radio and then found it on HuffPo.
*Anthony Weiner Enters 2013 New York Mayoral Race*
He doesn't understand the issue
Just because Sanford and other Repugs were able to come back to politics
from scandal doesn't mean Weiner can.
If you are a Republican and you do something immoral - -
you can get re-elected - - - -
cause Republican voters have no moral compass.
BUT
Democrats have historically had more morals than Repugs
and they act on them
which means that Weiner won't get in, again.
Just because someone thumps a bible 24/7 - doesn'... more »
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report for May 22 , 2013 - Testimony of Bernanke today and Fed minutes will be a highlight for the PMs !
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/ted-butler-blockbuster-in-gold
Ted Butler: Blockbuster in Gold
May
*22*
- Yesterday in Gold and Silver
- Critical Reads
- The Funnies
- The Wrap
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"As last COT Report showed, the precious metals are configured for a major
move higher"
¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER
After an exciting day on Monday, trading in the Far East was very
quiet...and the attempt to break through the $1,400 spot mark around 1:30
p.m. Hong Kong time was the start of a long, slow sell-off that ended at
the London p.m. gold fix. The low tick at that... more »
Why Are They Trying to Kill Us?
For weeks now I have been asking myself - why are they trying to kill us?
The corporations - GMO's, pharmaceuticals, food processors, fossil fuel
The politicians - cuts, cuts, cuts - not only in programs, slashing
regulatory agencies
Why are they trying to kill us?
What have we done - that makes those in power consider us dispensable?
I intentionally did not write anything on it - cause I don't have an answer
- and I questioned if I actually had a viable question. And I couldn't
figure out a way to come at this without having to put on a tin-foil hat.
But it works out that my thou... more »
Untitled
*Columnist Stephanie Grace, reporter Laura Maggi join The Advocate**~Also~ *
*Sara Barnard has been named director of sales and marketing for The
Advocate in New Orleans.*
*Sean Payton: 'Mr. Positive' for 2013 New Orleans Saints ~Gregg Rosenthal**
*
* **Times-Picayune Changes Stolen Handle to Nola Dining ~Gwendolyn Knapp,
Eater New Orleans*
*Oh, brother, where art thou? Is state income tax really why Nikesh Jindal
split? ~Mark Moseley, The Lens*
*Seafood board bill heads to new waters ~Jeremy Alford, Daily Comet* *Shell
Shocked, Film Screening: 7:00pm Friday ~Press Street*
*City alcoh... more »
The Psychology of Authority
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*When we see somebody doing bad things, we assume they are bad people to
begin with.* – Dr. Philip Zimbardo, The Stanford Prison Experiment
Image Source Anna Hunt, *Contributor*
The foundation for understanding the psychology of tyranny and human
obedience is based on classical studies such as the Stanford Prison
Experiment conducted in 1971 by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, and the Milgram
Obedience Experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the early 1960s, with
very little done since then in terms of research into this form of extreme
behavior.
These experiments showed that ordinary peop... more »
Socialized Healthcare 15: Over-extending Government Role in Health
There is a new article from the New England Journal of Medicine
(www.nejm.org) by Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, Director of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA.
It is a good article, except that the role of government in public health
is over-extended and over-rated. For instance, on top of the old or
long-standing role of government, there are more, newer roles. Like new
laws and prohibitions where people can smoke and where they cannot.
Mandating alcohol ignition interlock devices in cars, reduction of sodium
in package foods -- with penalties and fines for vi... more »
Republicans Fixing a Problem? NEVER been done!
A new tweet roll that I am lurking in and reading (*ExposingALEC*) had a
great tweet this morning that had to be shared.
*How many Republicans does it take to fix a problem?*
*No one knows,*
*It's NEVER been done*.
Damn - that is good - the truth hurts.
The Palestinian Textbook Fiasco | TheTower.org
A fascinating read.
http://www.thetower.org/article/the-palestinian-textbook-fiasco/
Proof of Heaven Popular
It is the ultimate irony. That the heavenly abode should butt its way into
our consciousness as a living reality in the Age of Modernism is utterly
confounding. It is also doing it in ways that makes denial impossible and
as delusional as we would have held those same opinions in the past.
You end up knowing a new living reality of the soul. You do not exit the
experience holding a shred of doubt. In my own interlude, reported a few
months back, I simply went into a trance or what we now describe as a
luminous dream state. I found myself in a grey forest of young c... more »
A serious question re the Hammersmith Apollo
Every time I go to the Hammersmith Apollo or see anything filmed there I
notice that the end of act music is by Warren Zevon. Now I am a massive
Warren Zevon fan but why?
Here's 'Lawyers, Guns and Money'
NYSUT L2L
As I actually had some time to read/clean out my email, I found this little
gem. I am still on the “list” from my days as President of my local over a
decade ago. Here we have it – NYSUT’s response to criticism about a Gates
Foundation Grant. I must note that the email asks […]
Mummified Skeleton Found in Atacama Desert
A teensy skeleton with a squashed alien-like head may have earthly origins,
but the remains, found in the Atacama Desert a decade ago, do make for
quite a medical mystery.
Apparently when the mummified specimen was discovered, some had suggested
the possibility it was an alien that had somehow landed on Earth, though
the researchers involved never suggested this otherworldly origin.
Now, DNA and other tests suggest the individual was a human and was 6 to 8
years of age when he or she died. Even so, the remains were just 6 inches
(15 centimeters) long. "While the jury is out rega... more »
Klaus Dona - Lyddite tools, Conehead skulls and Glowing sculptures - 17,000 years old
I'm surprised I haven't featured this March 2010 video presentation from
museum curator turned archeological investigator Klaus Dona on Free Planet
before.
Highlights, for me, are the Lyddite instruments, the Conehead skulls and
the Glowing sculptures stretching back as far as 17,000 years into a human
history that's not supposed to have existed.
REVOLUTION?
David Icke on defeating the BAD GUYS without violence.
Coming together.
Meanwhile in Watford:
What is going on?
Oslo Runs Out of Garbage
Photo courtesy: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0
Nearly 40 years ago, I worked with a very sensible, down-to-earth man who
always maintained there was money in garbage. He said it didn`t matter what
part of the garbage industry you were in, there was money there if you just
cared to look. I have found many, many times over the next four decades
that my co-worker was right. Garbage is a vastly under-rated commodity.
So...here`s to Oslo and garbage.
Oslo, the capital of Norway, has a strange garbage problem. Too much? No,
not enough. At first it might seem like any garbage is too much garbage,
... more »
Poachers Kill Last Rhino in Mozambique
African rhino. Photo courtesy: flowcomm/CC BY 2.0
No one can say for certain when African rhinos first began to inhabit the
forests and plains of Mozambique -- but we do know when their reign there
ended. Conservationists say that the nation's remaining 15 rhinos were
found dead last month, butchered by poachers and robbed of their horns.
The endangered animals were discovered on the grounds of Great Limpopo
Transfrontier Park, a wildlife reserve along Mozambique's southern border
where rhinos numbered in the hundreds just a decade ago. Authorities
believe that park rangers, charge... more »
CHILD ABUSE: POLAND, UK, AUSTRALIA, USA...
Children who complain about being raped by pedophile rings are up against
the Freemasons.
The security services and the criminal justice system are infested with
Freemasons.
*Masonic cover-up*
Freemasonry unites Nazis, Zionists and Mafias.
Reportedly, Freemasonry is based on the rites and rituals of the Jewish
religion and the mysticism of the Jewish Cabala
In the UK, children can be taken from parents and given to strangers.
"Furthermore, it has become politically correct for homosexual couples to adopt
children.
"The motivation of Social Services tends to be money in a mul... more »
World's Most Insane Health Care Billing System
In a rational world, this would be described as criminal enterprise rigged
to exploit the desperate who inevitable need service immediately by the
time they activate the service. In fact this report is so insane, I do not
know how a single American can still stand up to defend it. As soon defend
Hitler’s special treatment of the Jews.
Even better it practices genocide on those who cannot afford to access the
system by outright gambling with their lives.
I would generate a petition outlining this position properly and get every
elected official to sign of on his endorse... more »
Brain Prosthetic?
I do not think that this will allow you to activate photographic memory
but it also might well be able to do that. My point is that a prosthetic
device will be in demand for everyone in short order once it proves
possible.
This also strongly informs us of the ways and means to developing brain
training, which presently is also abandoned to those most in need. The
results of brain training needs to be universally applied.
This is well worth pondering.
*How to Make an Implant that Improves the Brain*
*Loren Frank*
*Enhancing the flow of information through the ... more »
Magnetic Graphene
This a core breakthrough that pretty well makes certain that graphene will
be able to do everything better and pretty quickly even. I have no doubt
that graphene will be the core of electronics from here on out.
It has actually been quite a ride and long running since the original
discovery several years ago.
As I have posted before this is the enabler for both the Holodec and the
Magnetic Field Exclusion Vessel and just about anything else we may
imagine. How about an intelligent super strong nano cable able to locally
modify its behavior?
*New magnetic graphene m... more »
Abusing Prisoners Decreases Public Safety --An interview with educator, author and former prisoner Shawn Griffith
*Abusing Prisoners Decreases Public Safety*
*--An interview with educator, author and former prisoner Shawn Griffith*
*By Angola 3 News*
If given the attention it deserves, an important new book is certain to
make significant contributions to the public discussions of US prison
policy. The author, Shawn Griffith, was released last year from Florida’s
prison system at the age of 41, after spending most of his life, almost 24
years, behind bars, including seven in solitary confinement. *Facing the US
Prison Problem 2.3 Million Strong: An Ex-Con’s View of the Mistakes and the
Solutio... more »
Don’t look now, the govt’s just withdrawn all your money
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You don’t have to live in Cyprus to find you bank account stripped by
government agents. Just ask Queensland pensioner Adrian Duffy, who emerged
from a quintuple heart bypass only to find his bank had emptied his
account, handing more than $22,000 to the Federal Government—the result of
a move last year to strip every bank account in the country the government
deems is being under-used. The money was only returned when a newspaper
took up their cause.
Governments all around the world are short of money, and they’ll do almost
anything to get it.
Stealing from fo... more »
-- The Harpranos --
*(Canada's newest mob show is dominating the entertainment ratings) *
*(Click on images above to enlarge ...)*
*No one is producing better graphic representations of the
Harper/Conservative/Senate Scandal than Simon from the Montreal Simon
blogsite. Kudos sir!!*
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solidaridad: End Racist Scholarship at Harvard University
solidaridad: End Racist Scholarship at Harvard University. Filed under:
ROBERT D. SKEELS: Schools Matter Tagged: bigotry, education, harvard,
neo-eugenics, racism, white supremacy
Musical Interlude: Gregorian, “The Sound of Silence”
Gregorian, “The Sound of Silence”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7c44bXST-o
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of The Realist Report, we'll be joined by J.B. Campbell of *J
B Campbell: Extremism Online*. J.B. is the founder of the modern militia
movement in America, which began when be published his book The New
American Man - A Call to Arms back in 1989. J.B. and I will be discussing
his background and unique experiences, some of his essays, potential
solutions to the problems facing America, and related matters. Tune in for
what will surely be a fascinating and hard-hitting conversation!
You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to the American
Nationalist... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Computer Use
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a
complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »
Richard Branson to Class of 2013: Do Something Bold
*Richard Branson founded and ran Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin
Airlines, Virgin Megastores, Virgin Radio, Virgin Rail and Virgin Galactic.
Among other ventures. Leaving school at 15 clearly did him little harm.
Here’s his speech to a graduating class who didn’t follow his early example.
*
Class of 2013: You'll Never Again Be so Unburdened; Do Something Bold
The best advice I could give any graduate is to spend your time working on
whatever you are passionate about in life. If your degree was focused upon
one particular area, don't let that stop you moving in another dire... more »
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: Planning without central plans
[image: The never-ending Euro crisis - Anatomy of an economic...]
Here’s your invitation for tomorrow night’s meeting from our friends at the
Auckland University Economics Group:
We all go about our daily lives unaware of the plans others have made for
theirs, yet somehow, for the most part, our plans coordinate. We go for a
beer, and the pubs have beer; we go to for hot chips and fine dining, and
the city delivers. We leave the house with just pieces of printed paper and
a plastic card, and fully expect all our reasonable needs to be met. (And
even some of our unreasonable needs!... more »
ALEC Corp Member - Yes, We Can - Screw the Workers
I guess if you can’t enact right-to-work for less as an ALEC member – you
can find other ways to screw union workers.
Patriot Coal, created by Peabody Energy 2007 with 43 percent of Peabody’s
liabilities but just 11 percent of its assets, filed for bankruptcy in
July, 2012. Patriot has filed motions *demanding the effective elimination
of the current system of health care for retired miners and drastic pay and
benefit cuts for active workers. *U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Kathy
Surratt-States is scheduled to rule on the company’s motions on or before
May 29.
*Because Patriot was ... more »
A Man of No Integrity and Limitless Hypocrisy
Stephen Harper's performance before the Conservative parliamentary caucus
this morning spoke volumes for the integrity and sense of raw power and
privilege of what passes for a prime minister in Canada today.
Harper played victim and complained about how he was very upset at the
conduct of certain Parliamentarians (i.e. Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau) and
how he'd been let down by his own Prime Minister's Office.
Having, like Pilate, washed his hands of the affair, Harper demanded the
Senate reform itself forthwith, clean up its act, put an end to these
transgressions.
But what exactl... more »
The Big Corporate Lie
Today a federal court threw out the case the unions had filed against HD
Mining...
http://www.theprovince.com/business/mining+company+justified+hiring+Chinese+miners+court+rules/8415940/story.html
Our BC election has ended, the Government of the corporate and for the
corporation has prevailed, no need to carry on the mock concern over the
needling details of the HD Mining fraud, deception and denial, or of the
temporary foreign worker program..
Unemployment levels in Europe of 20%..In America of 15%...In Canada of
10%...Yet the big lie continues, the skilled worker shortage..
... more »
Tom Vander Ark is selling snake oil.
Why do Common Core supporters get to make unsubstantiated statements? Why?
Look at the latest piece in Huffington Post by Tom Vander Ark. Below are a
collection of statements made by Mr. Vander Ark. It’s exciting to see 45
states voluntarily adopting common college and career ready expectations
for students — it makes the U.S. […]
We Are All Chicagoans Now, In Open Rebellion Against the Oppression of Corporate Reform Schools
After cataloguing a long list of atrocities, Chris Hedges offers this
advice in a recent essay: “Rebel. Even if you fail, even if we all fail, we
will have asserted against the corporate forces of exploitation and death
our ultimate dignity as human beings. We will have defended what is sacred.
Rebellion means steadfast defiance. […]
Marie Goes Home
Marie goes home....blogs.pjstar.com/haiti/2013/05/…
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) May 22, 2013
Nigel Farage on Europe
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage is one of the world’s few
politicians who says what he thinks, and seems to mean what he says. Even
when he’s wrong—as he is when he talks about immigration. He talks here
to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) about Europe’s many
problems, and in so doing displays some of his own:
[Hat tip David McGregor]
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New Documents: Occupy Portland, Ore, and Boston: Politics and spies
Occupy Portland arrests 2011: Ray Whitehouse/The
Oregonian
The Eviction of Occupy Portland, Ore.:A Supremely Political Affair
New Documents Also Show More Detail into Boston Law Enforcement Focus on Peaceful Protests in 2011
By Partnership for Civil Justice Fund
The latest
trove of documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund
(PCJF) from the Department of Homeland
Dept of Interior's Long Relationship with ALEC
This article is getting a lot of re-posts the last couple of days across
the web.
The “shock” of the announcement - the horror of it all - chills to the
bone.
Obama Admin. Approves ALEC Model Bill for Fracking Chemical Fluid
Disclosure on Public Lands
On May 16, the Obama Interior Department announced its long-awaited rules
governing hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on federal lands.
I sit back and shake my head!
What fools these mortals be.
People want to think that lowly - state legislators from ho-bunk nowhere
are the only ALEC threat - but it goes much bigger than that.
A... more »
2nd MUST READ - Before the Chicago ALEC Protests
The first must read came out only two days ago.
From TruthOut
On March 27, Chicago teachers and their supporters - including parents,
students and community residents - rallied against the largest mass public
school closure in US history. News of the mobilization sparked huge public
interest before the demonstration - including from an undercover police
officer calling himself "Danny Edwards."
*Read the whole article*
* *
*>>>>HERE<<<<*
It’s long – but very informative
War on Christmas 2013
Great news for public school kids jammed into overcrowded classrooms in
falling apart buildings with outdated textbooks and underpaid teachers.
They can't have art or music classes, or play sports unless they can afford
the fees but by golly in the great state of Texas their teachers can wish
them a Merry Christmas. Because, freedom *of* religion, not from religion.
One can only hope they don't live next door to an unregulated fertilizer
storage facility just waiting to explode, so they live long enough to hear
them say it.
The known universe
Commander Chris’s space-borne rendition of Bowie’s *Space Oddity* has
helped revive popular interest in the universe around us.
Which is so vast as to be almost incomprehensible—but not wholly
indemonstrable:
[Hat tip Whale Oil]
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The known universe
Commander Chris’s space-borne rendition of Bowie’s *Space Oddity* has
helped revive popular interest in the universe around us.
Which is so vast as to be almost incomprehensible—but not wholly
indemonstrable:
[Hat tip Whale Oil]
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Kill the filibuster before it kills us
I'm one of the last holdouts on this. I've argued for years that we should
keep the filibuster to protect the Senate minority. But that was before the
entire Republican party's brains melted before our eyes. Now convinced Paul
Waldman is right.
The crackpots have taken over the GOP. When they manage to take the
majority again, and they will, they will kill the filibuster. My only
quibble with Paul is I don't think they'll wait a hot minute. They'll kill
it preemptively on the first day of the session. So Harry Reid should just
let it die with dignity now, while we still have a chan... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Oklahoma Whirlwind'
OKLAHOMA WHIRLWIND
Posted on May 21, 2013
Mohawk Nation News
www.mohawknationnews.com
MNN. May 21, 2013. We send greetings to our Oklahoma relations, all the
people, animals, plants, birds, fish and all that are part of the
natural world. We especially send our utmost regards to the four winds –
owera – who continue to
Open Thread
Busier than usual day and I'm drier than a Republican's eyeballs. Any
interesting stories you'd like to share, cry about?
in which i officially become a librarian
We interrupt this travelogue to bring you an important announcement. I got
my first librarian job!!
This is a part-time, temporary position in the children's department of the
Central Library, where I was a page for 14 months. I am thrilled.
But wait, there's more!
I also interviewed in a competition for eight part-time positions, not
librarians, but great experience doing reference and programming. I was one
of the top scorers and was offered my choice of four of these positions,
including two that are permanent.
So what does this mean? It means I can be a part-time librarian unt... more »
Maturing with H.L. Mencken
*Look in any good dictionary of quotes, and after Shakespeare and Oscar
Wilde you’re likely to find one **H.L. Mencken** coming in third for the
number of quotes included. **Samples**: “Democracy is the theory that
the
common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard”
–“Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere is having a good
time” – “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an
endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Guest poster Bill Bonner arg... more »
Bok Kim hints Fed cannot never leave Q E to Infinity or the World will come to an end financially.... Speaking of debt , we now have a new debt ceiling - debt as high as an elephant's eye ...... ..... Meanwhile , does Koroda and the BOJ have anything up their sleeve or will the bond market suffer disappointment come Thursday ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-21/and-new-us-debt-ceiling
( 16 trillion seven hundred billion in debt , ten year bonds less than two
percent - that is just sick......)
And The New US Debt Ceiling Is...
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/21/2013 16:38 -0400
- Ben Bernanke
- Debt Ceiling
The grace period between February and mid-May, when the US spent like a
drunken sailor without regard for even structural limitations, and raked up
over $300 billion in debt, or said otherwise when it was without an
official debt limit, is over as of t... more »
LEARNING ABOUT THE BAY
I did something different today which was nice for a change. I was asked
to volunteer at the Spring Bay Day held by the Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
(FOMB) - a local environmental group that I belong to.
They hold this event each year for local school kids to come and learn
about the interconnected web of life that lives in and around the
Merrymeeting Bay that is in our part of Maine. Over 250 fourth graders
were brought to the headwaters of the Bay and I served as a chaperone for
one of the groups from nearby Phippsburg. There were three sessions where
the kids were taken to di... more »
Tea Party launches lawsuit against IRS
This is too precious. The biggest grifter born of the original Tea Party
uprising is suing the IRS for making them wait too long and work too hard
to get their for tax-exempt status.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, the NorCal Tea
Party Patriots accused the IRS of violating its constitutional rights due
to the "intensive and intrusive scrutiny" it received while seeking
tax-exempt status. [...]
The lawsuit has the backing of a group calling itself Citizens for
Self-Governance, a group launched by the co-founder the Tea Party Patriots,
Mark Meckler.
"We ... more »
Highest level cover up in the UK
However, it is understood the alleged breach in Lord Blair’s senior
management team, which regularly discussed matters of national security,
was never passed on to the Commissioner.
The former commissioner first learned of the report when a whistleblower
handed it to him in December 2011 at the height of the Leveson Inquiry.
When he learned that Met anti- corruption officers had intelligence to
suggest his senior team had been compromised six years earlier yet told him
nothing about it, Lord Blair visited Scotland Yard’s headquarters in
Victoria. He passed the report to detective... more »
Release of monies seized under civil remedy legislation so as to retain counsel
In AG v $104,877 US, 2013 ONSC 2955, just released, Justice Perell allowed
monies to be released from funds seized and preserved under the civil
remedies legislation to allow civil counsel to be retained. Civil counsel
(not myself) will now be retained to dispute the seizure.
Apparently this is the first time monies have been released in this way.
The decision is careful and sets out the necessary standard. I expect it
will be released on line soon but I have a copy now for anyone who needs it.
The soaring confidence of the bourgeoisie
Roger Carr (no relation to Jimmy I presume?) the Head of the CBI has
attacked David Cameron for moralising about tax. A little indication as to
just how much things are going the ruling class. David Cameron has done
more for the British bourgeoisie than any recent Prime Minister,
drastically redistributing wealth upward and reducing all practical
opposition to austerity to nought… but that’s not enough for Roger Carr.
He wants the debate about corporations and taxation to be framed thus.
1) No morality, it must be all about the rules, or in other words what
can’t be got away w... more »
Harder living in Hamilton [updated]
The notion of the so-called “living wage” essentially is that employees are
to be paid not for what they do, but for how many mouths they have to feed.
It’s called a “living wage,” but to the extent the wage is paid above what
the wage-earner produces, the extra has to be paid for by someone—whose own
living is thereby made correspondingly harder. And to the extent the wage
is made irrelevant to what wage earners produce—their production being the
reason they were employed in the first place—their incentive to produce is
disconnected from their incentive to earn.
At a stroke thi... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Harper at CFR'
HARPER AT CFR
MNN. May 17, 2013. This is the “between the lines”
translation of Canadian Prime Minister Harper’s remarks to the Council
of Foreign Relations( CFR) bankers in New York City. He reassured them
he has our resources and will stop our griping about the theft. Canada
is one of the world’s main providers of war material. He thinks the
Indigenous can’t interfere as
Nintendo: A Lament
I am sat here watching the live feed of Microsoft's unveiling of their new
games console, the imaginatively named Xbox One. 'Xbox' because you cannot
possibly change the name of a system these days, and 'One' because it
concentrates a whole range of multimedia functions into an
anonymous-looking case. It sounds impressive, and with upgraded SmartGlass
and Kinect it will prove a very tough act to follow when the beast launches
toward Christmas time. But this doesn't really interest me. I'm a luddite
when it comes to modern video game systems. For instance, I am only just
now contemp... more »