English: Downtown Chicago, Illinois at night. The small building on the left was demolished for Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Under House Republicans The War On Poverty Has Morphed Into A War On The Poor
House Republicans may not have "the time" to vote on important measures
with wide popular support like comprehensive immigration reform, ending
workplace discrimination against the LGBT community (ENDA) or raising the
minimum wage-- none of which Boehner will allow onto the 2013 schedule--
but they do have time to further attempt to steal the food out of the
mouths of children by more chopping from the food stamp program. House
Republicans look at the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas and what
they see is another chance to pass a bill to accelerate their endless class
warfa... more »
Syria and Libya Updates November 30 , 2013.......Syria Peace Talks - An exercise in futility as Assad is not leaving and the Syria Coalition does not represent Al Qaeda and other jihadists linked groups....So , this is just another kick the can exercise , this time foreign policy kick the can.... Updates from forgotten Libya.....
Syria rebels say peace talks destined for failure
by Michael Pizzi
@pizzi89
November 30, 2013 9:00AM ET
Syrian Coalition faces uphill battle in convincing armed factions to sign
on for Geneva conference
Topics: Syria Syria's War International
[image: SyriaRebelBurningFlag]
A rebel fighter burns a Syrian flag found in a building that belonged to
Syrian government forces in the northern city of Aleppo on Nov. 21.Karam
Al-Masri/AFP/Getty
The Bashar al-Assad regime and the Syrian National Coalition, Syria’s
Western-backed political opposition, committed this week to peace talks
aim... more »
Capitalism's Bankrupt Plan for Rating Higher Ed
Spot on, from the Chicago Sun-Times:
By Ann M. Lousin November 27, 2013 2:58PM
President Obama has proposed tying financial aid to American colleges and
universities to a “rating system” of higher education. The administration
has conducted a number of public forums at college campuses over the last
few weeks to purportedly collect input on the proposal. We can only hope
these forums enable the president and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to
see how little they know about the realities of higher education.
Obama and Duncan have, so far, relayed their concern about how many
studen... more »
The Pope's Rhetoric
I see that the pope has decided to weigh in on economic issues:
“Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that
economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in
bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world,” Francis
wrote in the papal statement. “This opinion, which has never been confirmed
by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those
wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing
economic system.”
A few reactions:
First, throughout history, free-market capitalism... more »
What Mattered This Week?
Not much up on a Thanksgiving week. Plus with travel and all I'm sure I
missed plenty. I'm sort of tempted to go with "blue slip" obstruction
breaking through into national news, but I'm not sure yet whether it
matters or not....I'll be dull and just repeat one of my items from
yesterday about the ACA end-of-month deadline: fixes (or failures)
certainly matter to the individuals affected, but I still don't think the
future of the program is at stake, or that how close healthcare.gov is to
fully functional in the next week (or even month) will have much effect on
the 2014 or 2016 ele... more »
BitCoin crosses 900 - will it cross 1000 this week ? What happens next ? Noting a positive development , BitCoin will host its own Black Friday ! On the negative news side of things , note the recent uptick in BitCoin robberies ( Denmark heist of a million BitCoin involving Bitcoin Internet Payment Services , 1.4 million robbery involving Inputs.io , a chinese exchange that disappeared along with 4 million in customer funds , thefts also have occurred in Poland , Czech Republic - how long before a major " Italian Job " type of sophisticated large scale robbery occurs ?
Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-26/bitcoin-surges-new-usd-record-high
( 976 at 7:55 pm EST... )
Bitcoin Surges To New USD Record High (+100% In 7 Days)
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/26/2013 14:31 -0500
- Bitcoin
- Black Swan
- China
inShare4
A week after spiking above $900, before dropping 50% in the following 48
hours amid last week's Senate hearings, Bitcoin has recovered the losses
(i.e. doubled) and is now trading at record high levels against the USD -
$930 on Mt.Gox. Notably, in China, Bitcoin remains well off its reco... more »
Trifecta: How the Better Half Thinks...
*that would be sarcasm of the highest order.*
Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of Miramex Studios, thinks this country is
"embarrassing."
Nashville Limits Charters As Memphis Doubles Down
Nashville Metro has acknowledged the impending $23 million shortfall in
next year's budget is due to the drain from corporate charter schools. As
a result, the school board has decided to cut its losses by restricting the
spread of these segregated zero-tolerance chain gangs. With the TN
Department of Education staffed by TFA cultists and losers from the Gates
Foundation, there is plenty of gnashing in Nashville this winter as bogus
charter reports are generated to show that life cannot continue without the
total compliance punishment boutiques.
We have to wonder when Memphis and ... more »
Untitled
*New Orleans Saints vs Seattle Seahawks connections*
*'Unfathomable City' maps highs, lows of New Orleans ~David D'Arcy, Houston
Chronicle*
*Northshore strawberry farmers breathe sigh of relief after crops survive
freezes ~Heath Alllen, WDSU*
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
~ Henri Rousseau, 1905
This is they way the jungle habitat of the lion looked a hundred years ago
- or at least, it is the way the artist imagined it to be, based on
descriptions of those who had been there, and illustrated books.
This is a delightful short movie about lions, who are as playful as
domesticated kittens. But it is bizarre bordering on freakish that the
filmmakers can sit around the campfire chortling at the images their
robotic camera has recorded without, apparently, noticing that just about
everything other than the lions is dead. I couldn't watch it without bein... more »
"I Could Care Less"
That was Stephen Harper's message to the Conservatives Halloween
convention. This week -- after watching their western numbers drop, after
refusing to call witnesses to testify to the Senate Committee looking into
Mike Duffy's expenses, and after listening to Paul Calandra's absurd
answers in question period -- it's obvious that the Harper Party could care
less about the truth or parliamentary democracy.
Chantal Hebert writes in this morning's *Toronto Star*:
How else to describe a strategy that systematically involves the government
maniacally digging itself deeper in what is fas... more »
Do Public Officials Ever Lie? Better Question: Do They Ever Tell The Truth?
Since taking over from Tim Sebastian in 2006, Stephen Sackur has been the
anchor for the BBC's flagship news interview show, *HARDtalk*, which runs
four times a week. I travel a lot, so I see it a lot. Sackur has a
well-deserved reputation as the voice of Establishment Group Think
propaganda and for asking questions and then aggressively interrupting his
guests when they attempt to answer. He's one of television's most annoying
little twits and I often wonder why credible figures ever agree to be
interviewed by him. Last week, he interviewed Glenn Greenwald. I haven't
been able t... more »
Whats A Guy Gotta Do
Joe Nichols - 'What's A Guy Gotta Do' - some fun country music
Should SC Increase Charter School Investment?
Should SC Increase Charter School Investment?. via Should SC Increase
Charter School Investment?.
Mexico: Alleged “Luminous Entities” Photographed in Playa del Carmen (Quintana Roo)
*Mexico: Alleged “Luminous Entities” Photographed in Playa del Carmen
(Quintana Roo)*
*By Arq. Salvador Mora – Director of La Esfera Azul with D.G. Hernán Bado*
ALL PHOTOS ARE PROPERTY OF ERNESTO Z. ORTIZ, COURTESY OF LA ESFERA AZUL
On March 20, 2013, a highly interesting and controversial event occurred:
photographs of 3 luminous entities at the place known as Plaza Fundadores
in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
These images were taken by Ernesto Z. Ortiz, a known professional with a
master’s degree in Regional Development and Sustainable Tourism, a
Nicaraguan national w... more »
Meanwhile, back in Taiwan... Economy Still in Doldrums, in case you hadn't noticed.
*Rust.*
The statistics bureau threw in the towel this week and sent the economic
forecast below 2%...
The economy may grow by less than 2 percent for a second consecutive year
after the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS)
yesterday cut its GDP growth forecast for this year to 1.74 percent.
The agency’s latest forecast is 0.57 percentage points lower than the
forecast of 2.31 percent it made in August and is the lowest among domestic
economic institutes.
Several trends -- less manufacturing here, more Chinese local production
supplanting Taiwanese good... more »
RCMP: Getting it wrong
So
RCMP Corporal Ron Francis has some of his peers turn up to his
residence and remove his uniforms, the last of which he returned under
his own steam.
Why?
Because he was smoking prescribed medical marijuana whilst wearing it.
Apparently this is such a high crime in the Informal Code of the
RCMPness that it must result in public humiliation and disgrace by ones
peers. Nevermind that in this
More on the ADIZ
*My first half-decent photo of Venus.*
Lots of stuff out there. This Volokh Conspiracy post has good links to
other posts and resources and notes:
China’s assertion of an ADIZ, as Julian Ku says, is not per se
impermissible. But the devil is in the details. *China’s ADIZ raises two
large questions of legality. First, the “not-impermissible” scope of an
ADIZ, that which is accepted in widespread state practice, is a projection
outwards from the coastline of a coastal state. * One might argue as a
matter of international law as evidenced by state practice that a ADIZ has
to bear a ... more »
Left Nationalism. Canadian Survival. And The Great Brainwash.
Fascism And Contemporary Canada. VIII
*Left Nationalism. Canadian Survival. And The Great Brainwash.*
*Written by Robin Mathews*
Informed younger Canadians (under the age, say, of 50) are aware of the One
Per Cent, are aware of “offshore” tax and banking havens hiding illicit
funds in the trillions of dollars: free of taxes, and the law. Younger
Canadians are aware of Canada being made a Pollution Centre of Tar Sands
and Fracked Gas operations, of economic ‘agreements’ built to hand foreign
corporations power over Canadian legislation ... and Canada’s wealth. They
are a... more »
Calling All GE Activists To Canada
Calling all GE activists! Are you looking for a meaningful way to resist
the presence of genetically engineered (GE) foods in Canada? If so, look no
further. Join our team and help the Society for a GE Free BC and the
Vancouver Greenpeace L...ocal Group to organize the eastern leg of the GE
Foods and Human Health: a cross-Canada Speaker's Tour in 2014. We're
looking for keen volunteers in Eastern Canada to help our tour committee to
liaise with host communities, to organize on the ground logistics, and/or
to conduct outreach in both English and French. Prospective volunteers are... more »
Top stories
Understandably, most of the UK's broadsheet newspapers (*The Independent,
The Guardian, The Times*) led today with the trial of the alleged
murderers of Lee Rigby. The news of the police helicopter crash in Glasgow
only came in after they went to press.
Still, the trial of Adebowale and Adebolajo continues to one of the lead
stories on both the ITV News website (Soldier was 'callously murdered') and
the Sky News website (Woolwich Trial: 'Killer Nearly Beheaded Soldier').
Surprisingly, however, the trial story has vanished from the list of lead
stories on the homepage of the BBC N... more »
Who Is Behind Syria's "Opposition Rebels"? Mother Agnes Mariam vs The US Media by Rob Prince
by Rob Prince
Global Research Canada, 29 November 2013
*Mother Agnes Mariam, mother-superior of the monastery of St. James, the
Mutilated in Qara, in the Qalamoun District of Syria, which is north of
Damascus, visited Denver as part of a U.S. tour which is taking her coast
to coast.*
*S*
*he spoke at three public venues in two days and then rushed off to catch a
plane to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she also has had several speaking
engagements, covered by the Nebraska press.*
The Christian Palestinian family of the good mother-superior hails from
Nazareth, now in Is... more »
MYSTERIOUS MICHAEL AND MYSTERIOUS LEE RIGBY
Michael Adebolajo (above) is on trial for the alleged murder of soldier Lee
Rigby, in Woolwich, in London.
Michael Adebolajo was brought up as a Christian.
*Kirk Redpath, a very close friend of Michael Adebolajo. Kirk Redpath was
killed in Iraq.*
Michael Adebolajo has friends in the police and in the military.
*Justine Rigden, girlfriend of Catholic/Moslem/ alleged MI5 agent Michael
Adebolajo.*
Michael Adebolajo has a 'raunchy' girlfriend.
In hospital, after his arrest, Michael Adebolajo told doctors that, as a
Moslem, he did not want to be touched by any women.
'I did it fo... more »
Woody Allen on the Dick Cavett show from the the 1970s I would guess
Woody Allen including the falling whale joke,
Eyes are opened on all levels of Gaia as unfoldment of Gifting Energies occurs
*Eyes are opened on all levels of Gaia as unfoldment of Gifting Energies
occurs*
by ÉirePort
Eyes are opened on all levels of Gaia as unfoldment of Gifting Energies
occurs.
Such energetics present to all of hu-manity gifts of awakening, also to be
called "Gifts of Prime Consciousness".
Subsequent unveiling presents actualities of Ascension as needed.
Clandestine "rabbit habitats" are no longer supported and unfold in an
inner to outer, quickly.
Balance among Hue-Beings is suggested at this time.
ÉirePort | November 30, 2013 at 05:17
URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-qA
Was Feynman cognitively lopsided and illiterate?
Stephen Hsu has discussed a long interview with Richard Feynman (AIP).
Feynman's cognitive style (Information Processing blog)
Because I pretty much share all the features that Hsu calls "Feynman's
cognitive style" and because I find Hsu's comments fundamentally misguided,
skewed, and unflattering, I decided it is important enough to respond.
Hsu starts as follows:
I have always felt that Feynman was cognitively a bit "lopsided" – much
stronger mathematically than verbally. This might be partially responsible
for his way of learning – it was often easier for him to invent his own
... more »
Why do we LEGISLATE for Belief Systems?
Let's say, "I believe," in something... in life after death, in the Holy
Trinity, in Allah, in Reincarnation and Karma... maybe I believe in Pixies
or Unicorns or Extra-terrestrial visitors who come and tend my garden.
Now, what's the difference here?
Well the first three examples of Religious Belief (and that's all they are,
beliefs) will get you put in court if you call them out as IDIOTS and
MORONS and STOOGES for believing such tripe.
The latter three, well you can troll those tin-foil-hat loons all you want,
and they (probably) deserve it.
I realise that 'in this country' we ... more »
Reuters Accidentally Exposes Thai Regime's "Supporters"
Western media exposes Thai regime's "supporters" as manipulated enclave of
impoverished, uneducated rice farmers occupying Khmer Rouge-style "red
villages" who want anti-regime protesters "dead."
*November 30, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Reuters, in perhaps an attempt to
prop up the crumbling Wall Street-backed regime in Bangkok, Thailand, has
attempted to portray it as a popular, "democratically elected" government.
What its article, "Thailand's red-shirt heartland hides its strength," ends
up doing instead, is exposing the regime's support base as a pitiful,
forsaken segment of Tha... more »
Greece updates November 29 , 2013 - Troika visit to Greece delayed - latest of the endless reviews scuppered for now ? Does this reflect a meaningful split between the Troika and ECB , between the IMF and Germany ? Lending falling in the EU Zone while youth unemployment continually rises.....Is another EU Zone crisis around the corner ? Stay tuned.....
*Samaras and Venizelos to hold talks on Monday as troika delays visit*
A failure to reach an agreement with the troika means that Prime Minister
Antonis Samaras and his deputy, Evangelos Venizelos, will hold a fresh
meeting on Monday to discuss how to remove the obstacles that are standing
in the way of Greece’s lenders concluding their latest review of the
country’s consolidation program.
The Finance Ministry confirmed Friday that the troika’s return to Athens
has been put off, apparently scuppering any possibility of achieving an
agreement on reforms ahead of the December 9 Eurogr... more »
"Holocaust survivors" demand more money
The Jewish financial and sympathy racket known as the "Holocaust" never
ends, as the *Jewish Telegraph Agency* recently reminded us:
Breakfast costs Dov Jakobovitz $2. Lunch costs him $2.25. Both are served
in the public old-age home in south Tel Aviv where he lives. But the food
is not to his liking.
Jakobovitz longs for the dishes he ate as a child in Transylvania — gefilte
fish, goulash, chicken wings — rather than the rice-and-salad fare more
typical of the Israeli diet. A restaurant he enjoys in the center of the
city serves such Ashkenazi fare, but he can’t afford it. For din... more »
Sunday Classics preview: "Sing a merry madrigal!"
*Yet until the shadows fall*
*over one and over all,*
*sing a merry madrigal!*
*by Ken*
I'm not going to identify tonight's madrigal tonight, but I also haven't
attempted to conceal its identity. I mean, I could have identified Yum-Yum
as "Lady 1" or "Bride" and Nanki-Poo as "Man 1" or "Bridegroom" and so on.
Obviously those of you who know the music will know that there's a joke
built into it, but for tonight I don't want to think about the joke; I just
want to focus on the beauty of the piece.
*Madrigal, "Brightly dawns our wedding day"*
*YUM-YUM*: Brightly dawns our wedding day... more »
Weather Wars Update & My Accuracy
*Weather Wars Update & My Accuracy*
*Weather Wars: Met Office denies predicting three months of
exceptionally
cold weather amid reports of Britain's coldest winter ever!*
*http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/weather-wars-met-office-denies-predicting-three-months-of-exceptionally-cold-weather-amid-reports-of-britains-coldest-winter-ever-8973755.html*
So
it's not acceptable when the Met Office are misquoted in
articles or
headlines are misinterpreted!
For example the recent six inches of snow headline (please see link
below).
I did feature within the article, but I simply s... more »
Activist Post: Amish Family Flees Country to Avoid 10-Year-Old’s State-Enforced Chemotherapy
Activist Post: Amish Family Flees Country to Avoid 10-Year-Old’s
State-Enforced Chemotherapys a commu
The Medical Mafia is very worried that this precedent will encourage others
to take health back into their own hands. The US is a system that has
become a Gulag for those who freely want a sane choice instead of being
manipulated to BELIEVE in the LIE.
update on kimberly rivera and how you can help
Three days ago, Iraq War resister Kimberly Rivera gave birth to a son,
Matthew Kaden, in a military hospital in San Diego. As soon as her hospital
stay ends (which may have already happened), Kim will be taken back to
prison. Her newborn baby will stay with his father and his siblings... but
his mother will be forced to finish her prison term. Her release is
scheduled for mid-December.
The US Army has rejected all appeals for clemency, and is insisting Kim
serve the final weeks of her sentence, even though it means separating a
mother and a newborn infant.
On Sunday, December 1, pe... more »
SYNOPSIS WITH PHOTOS OF NOV 19:
PHOTOS
Tlakatl: What it Means to be Human
All-Day Student/Community Symposium
Whatever I write here is but a glimpse of what happened on Tues Nov 19 at
the “Tlakatl: What it Means to be Human” symposium at the University of
Arizona. Many photographs were taken and much was videotaped… and this here
too is but a brief synopsis that will give you a feel for this event, but
it does not approximate conveying the historic nature of the gathering.
(Videotape of much of the symposium will be released as soon as all the
permissions are gathered.)
The symposium took place one month after a ... more »
Paul Calandra attacks Glenn Greenwald and CBC
I think Calandra read off his bit of paper from Steve rather well today,
don't you?
Love the bit about how :
"CBC only admitted to their cash-for-news scheme after The Wall Street
Journal *forced it out of them*"
... by cleverly reading Greenwald's byline alongside those of Greg Weston
and Ryan Gallagher at the top of the CBC article.
A byline that has also graced the pages of The Guardian and the New York
Times, where, presumably, Greenwald also got paid as a journalist.
And I'm sure the actual subject matter of the CBC article :
New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in T... more »
A holiday F.U. to NYC Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio from his friends in City Hall and especially at 1 Police Plaza
*From inside the fortress of 1 Police Plaza, NYC's Imperial
Counterrevolutionary Guard will have complete security and surveillance
power over incoming Mayor de Blasio's police transition team, scheduled to
be holed up in a now-unused trailer outside the building.*
*by Ken*
There have been advantages to having a benevolent (at least in his own
mind) billionaire as NYC's imperial mayor for 12 years, including his
imperially ordained extra-legal third term. But if anyone needs a reminder
of why, whatever happens next, we're better off once the little egomaniacal
scumbag is pried out... more »
Oct 8-11 Tucson Community uprising videos
Just learned that you can access these videos even if you are not on
facebook... Many of you receiving this have already seen them, but if you
want to share them, feel free: They are also
at: http://drcintli.blogspot.com/
Shutdown of Operation Streamline Oct 11
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151637544230706&l=5294587605160829072
Oct 11 Operation Streamline - Not a one ounce of afraid
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151637582395706&l=4104919298450160412
Outside Curtroom
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/yourphotos?partnerid=gplp0&pid=5948925742310336770&oid=10557390037... more »
canadian woman refused entry to u.s. based on confidential health records
According to this news story, a Canadian woman named Ellen Richardson was
refused entry into the United States because of a prior medical condition.
That is, when the US border guards swiped her passport, *information taken
from her health records* came up.
Now, the US can refuse entry to any non-citizen for any reason or no
reason. The more important question is *why was a Canadian's confidential
medical information in the Department of Homeland Security database??* How
did it get there? How many of our health records are in the DHS database?
You don't need to wear a tinfoil hat t... more »
O'odham and Anarchist Thanksgiving Day Protest Against Border Patrol
Article
and photos courtesy of O'odham and Anarchist solidarity action
Censored News
"On Thursday, November 28th, 2013, a group of people made up by members
of the Tohono O'odham Nation, the Anti-Colonial Anarchist Bloc, and
various Tucson community members in solidarity with those resisting
ongoing colonisation on stolen Native land, gathered in front of the
gates to the Border Patrol
Weekend Fun 50: Pacquiao, Rios and Pacman U.
Some jokes after Manny Pacquiao beat Brandon Rios last Sunday in Macau.
Brandon Rios started the fight looking like Dennis Trillo, in round 10 he's
starting to look like Korina Sanchez. -- @djmotwister
Dear Pacman, Congrats.
Stick to boxing, stay away from politics .
Yer a great boxer... but as a congressman, yer useless.
-- Monsignor Arturo
Manny Pacquiao will pursue putting up "Pacman University", but not in Gen
Santos, it will be built in Tacloban, Leyte to help the typhoon victims. It
will be called "Pac U" for short. Students will be called Pacquers. Univ.
Administrator willl b... more »
Meet the Rebel Commander in Syria That Assad, Russia and the U.S. All Fear
Saved this last week, fortunately.
*Very, very interesting reading and oh how the alarm bells rang and rang. *
* Posting it entirely since it is now unavailable, in full, at link.*
For months, Syrian government forces hunkered down at a remote air base
north of Aleppo, deftly fending off rebel assaults—*until one morning a war
machine rumbled out of the countryside, announcing that the Chechens had
arrived.*
*The vehicle was notable for its primal scariness: Rebels had welded dozens
of oil-drilling pipes to the sides of the armored personnel carrier, and
packed it with four tons of ... more »
The Goal of My Work
The goal of my work is to encourage learning, thinking, and discussion
about how humankind has created a catastrophically unsustainable way of
life, why the process of collapse cannot be prevented, and how collapse
survivors, if any, might learn from our many mistakes and mindfully pursue
a sane way of life.
Seven-point-something billion people are sleepwalking into a dark and
furious storm because of a sequence of innovative experiments called
progress. Progress is an obsession that continuously provides us with new
tools for destroying the health of the ecosystem more rapidly. ... more »
Climate Tricks 23: Using Typhoon Haiyan for Climate and Energy Rent-Seeking
Below is an abridged article written two weeks ago by a friend, Vice
President of Reason Foundation http://reason.org/, Julian Morris. He is
also the former Executive Director of the International Policy Network
(IPN, London). The full article with two charts is *here*. I added the
chart below and is not part of his original paper.
----------
*The Terrible Toll of Typhoon Haiyan Doesn't Excuse Bad Policy*
Julian Morris
November 19, 2013
The terrible toll of Typhoon Haiyan—estimated to have killed more than
4,000 people—reminds us of the often awesome power of the weather. Some say
... more »
Senate shits the bed, goes back to sleep
Last night's CBC At Issue panel, Nov.28 2013 on the Senate blocking a
witness and the PMO continuing to run the Senate. Former Harper supporter
Andrew Coyne is beyond disgusted.
*Mansbridge* : The government blocks a key witness [Michael Runia, Managing
Partner at Deloitte] from appearing before a senate committee to answer
questions about whether he had tried to massage or even question the firm's
audit of Mike Duffy's expenses.
*Andrew Coyne* : It's incredible. Step back from this. This is the auditing
firm Deloitte that does the audits for the Conservative fundraising arm;
they... more »
The Day of the Doctor - As live blogging, albeit a few days later on a second watch - One for the Doctor Who obsessives only!
Nice retro titles - very original series
76 Totter's Lane and the Coal Hill School with I. Chesterton as Chairman of
the Governors - lovely nod back to the original series
Shouldn't the Doctor be able to escape from a winch?
Why does Matt Smith keep leaving the Tardis doors open, previous Doctors
were very careful to always shut that door.
Love Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewwart's granddaughter's choice of scarf, very
Fourth Doctor.
Why are the Time Lords fighting massive Dalek spacecraft with hand held
weapons, do they not have anything more powerful?
If the Daleks are strafing Gallifrey w... more »
A Pre-Conspiracy Theory: A Very Important Article by an Obamabasher
I’m going to engage here in a thought experiment which may make some
readers a little queasy, but bear with me.
It’s been half a century since the wrenching experience of having a
charismatic young president cut down by bullets in what most Americans
apparently still believe was a dark conspiracy by elements of the US
government unhappy with the direction he was taking the country in
international affairs.
Certainly powerful people like ex-CIA Director Allen Dulles and some of the
nation’s top generals, not to mention executives of what prior President
Dwight D. Eisenhower had l... more »
(96 Billionaires in NYC) Thanksgiving Slashes To the American Heart and Bill Ayers on Heartland Strategy
Joe 'I'm not going to become a lobbyist' Lieberman becomes a lobbyist Let
the games begin? If you ask me, this capitalist game ended some time ago.
And our (rational) world is in shreds. A Sheriff’s department in western
Virginia confirms this morning that a scuffle over a parking spot at a
Walmart in Tazewell County resulted in a stabbing, which is, of course, how
we know that the
Moving the Ball Forward
Today marked another step as I sent off my graduate school applications. I
still have a few documents to take care but the "guts" of my application
have been taken care of and these other items shouldn't be a hassle (knock
on wood). The biggest challenge was definitely the proposal/statement of
intent/statement of purpose etc. portion and something I grappled with for
days. Basically, this is where you try to sell yourself and make your
application stand out.
My old Nunavut blog was a big help in many ways and I actually pulled a
couple writing samples from it to submit. It was... more »
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN?...RACING FOR MORE STUFF
There is now "Grey Thursday" (Thanksgiving day), Black Friday (the day
after) and Cyber Monday (to do online shopping).
Our calendar is being re-written. Even the words we use to describe our
week are being colonized by corporate capitalism.
The reports are coming in fast and furious about the insanity of the last
24 hours as the big box stores are flooded with people trying to save a
couple of bucks on some junk. Fights, shootings, stabbings - the usual
stuff while shopping you know. Wal-Mart has earned a new nickname:
“Brawlmart.”
Let's see if we can help capitalism in their... more »
Even In Oklahoma They Can't Always Escape Reality-- The GOP War Against Contraception (And Sex)
Oklahoma state Rep. Doug Cox (R-OK) is the chairman of the Public Health
and Social Services Committee. First elected in 2005, he's also a physician
who graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1978.
If you think every Republican in Oklahoma is as radical and extreme as GOP
sociopath James Lankford, you haven't met Doug Cox yet. Last February, Rep.
Cox-- who, unlike lunatic freak Dr. Paul Broun, is the kind of doctor who
actually *does* believe in science-- took on his party over a very extreme
anti-abortion bill meant to eliminate the judicial bypass syste... more »
Feeling chilly? A Friday Night Rule 5 post
Here's Kate Upton's recent Sports Illustrated winter shoot to warm you up...
Chemtrails analysed by French Lab
I know, I know, I shouldn't ... but I have to. Another uncorroborated story
about the CHEMTRAILS nightmare we're all allegedly facing. When will people
start to understand that their insane boyish Corporate War Government will
do anything to keep THE TRUTH from people in the name of Profit (the only
real crime on this once-beautiful planet).
Here's a story (machine translatated) from a Spanish site about a French
analysis of chemtrail threads and it's just juicy as fuck.
*The collected samples part of private individuals, they have been
entrusted to Analytika (Center for independe... more »
Thanksgiving Holiday Day 2
(placeholder) In which Southern Man will awake in his hotel room and
geocache some more and visit with family and then meander back home,
possibly with Southern Father (in which case it will be a straightforward
trip) and possibly without (in which case there will be much geocaching and
a stopover in the south end of Southern City for an evening meal with
friends). But in no event will there be anything resembling Black Friday
shopping.
By-Election Results November 2013
Party
Number of candidates
Total vote
%
+/- Oct
Average/
contest
+/-
Sept
+/- Seats
Conservative
23
8,491
20.5%
-1.6%
369
-36
0
Labour
21
14,203
34.2%
-2.1%
676
-39
+2
LibDem
20
3,823
9.2%
-4.1%
191
-146
-1
UKIP
19
6,135
14.8%
+4.3%
322
+89
0
SNP*
1
546
1.3%
-8.0%
546
-694
0
Plaid Cymru**
Green
12
849
2.0%
-0.3%
70
-33
0
BNP
2
152
0.4%
+0.2%
76
+38
0
TUSC
5
211
0.5%
+0.5%
42
+21
0
Independent***
13
4,201
10.1%
+7.9%
323
+217
-3
Other****
7
2,863
6.9%
+3.7%
409
+288
+2
* The... more »
AgentWatch: Attorney Malik Zulu Shabbaz
NOTE: This article was syndicated nationwide from the Washington City
Paper, a freesheet that ran an extra edition by *Mark Cohen*, cover story *Black
Power.*
*This nationally syndicated, freely distributed article ran 1 week after
the George W. Bush Counter-Innaugural in January 2001, 2 week prior to the
death by exploding Brain Aneyrism in Meriat, Georgia of Khalid Abdul
Muhammad, 8 months prior to 9/11 and 8 months following the death by
Exploding Brain Anureysm in Meriat, Georgia of the Senior Senator from
Georgia.*
Jan. 19-25, 2001
BLACK POWER
*The New Black Panther Pa... more »
An Independent Kurdistan: Dream or Reality? 6 Articles + 1 Video
*Related: A Future Republic of Kurdistan?*
*1. An excerpt from, "The Kurdish issue returns to prominence" by Ted Galen
Carpenter, Aspenia Online, November 28, 2013: *
The resurgence of the Kurdish issue involving multiple Middle Eastern
countries puts the United States and its Western allies in an awkward
position. US leaders already worry that ties with Turkey have frayed in
recent years and are anxious to show their support for the position and
interests of a valued NATO ally. Washington also shares Ankara’s goal of
keeping Syria intact in a post-Assad era. Obama administration... more »
Here goes...
I like Mark Fisher’s article, Exiting the Vampire Castle. It’s unfortunate
that he presents his argument in such an intemperate, unwelcoming way
(everyone is petty bourgeois!). Part of me wonders if he intentionally
using the rhetoric and implied values of his (unnamed) opponents to prove a
point. The response has largely been, shall we say, robust. Here is an
example.
But he is onto something. Firstly, the practice of Calling Out, at least as
manifest today, does not engender solidarity. Secondly, people too often
make the leap from Person X has made a regrettable/prejudiced stat... more »
Thanksgiving Zombie behavior by pavlovian shoppers... Walmart hit by union protests on Black Friday .... Be careful today folks , the Walking Dead are among us !
Mobs, Stampedes, Fights, Brawls, A Stabbing And Shooting: A Video
Compilation Of Black Thursday 2013
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/29/2013 08:33 -0500
- Black Friday
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That greatest of all American traditions - the Black Friday Thursday
stampede, this year accompanied with a stabbing and a shooting, is back. A
quick review of all readers may have missed by not lining up in droves
outside of stores that were selling products at just above cost instead of
the usual massive pre-... more »
Police State Updates November 25 , 2013....Yale University on lockdown as police seek gunman in ‘heavy overcoat’ .......On Duty Officer Raped Young Woman On Squad Car ..... Surveillance tactics ramping up ( DC cops go nuclear with traffic cameras , FBI rolling out facial recognition system nationwide in 2014 , unmarked helicopter drone ) ...........Legal gun owners being treated like common criminals in DC - including finger printing and mugshots....Additional articles from our Stasi State / Nanny State / Orwellian Government ....
Catharsis Ours - 23 hours ago
Another lone gunman on the loose....
Yale University on lockdown as police seek gunman in ‘heavy overcoat’
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Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones'
Facebook][image: Infowars store]
*Cheryl K. Chumley*
Washington Times
November 25, 2013
Yale University went on lockdown mode Monday to allow police to investigate
a call of a person walking around campus with a gun.
USA Today reported that police say they received a call from someone who
said his roommate was headed to Yale to sh... more »
Re-run
The two videos that follow were produced in 2011 and 2012. The message
still holds. This post is a response to a request from one of us.
We are the Ones we've been waiting for.
~Sophia
In the spirit of @FrankBruni on #commoncore, I will review Marea in NYC
[In the interest of full disclosure, I have never been to Marea, which is
apparently one of the finest Italian restaurants in New York City. As
commentators regale us with their wisdom on education without ever having
set foot inside a classroom, let alone teach, I consider myself eminently
qualified to act as Mr. Frank […]
Stoned?
Primitive man developed some relatively sophisticated social mechanisms to
enforce male dominance over primitive women. Patriarchal religion was the
biggie, of course, but even before than, ritualized violence worked wonders
in establishing who the boss was and who was subservient. Stoning, later
embraced by patriarchal religions-- at least 'til Jesus came along with a
forward-thinking perspective.
In 1969 I went to Afghanistan for the first time. I recall writing back to
my friends and family in America that it felt more like a journey in time
than a journey in space. Especially... more »
Something is happening Mr Denier
Photo by Hilary White
The photo shows dried up lakes in the Canadian North. Lakes that have been
in balance for centuries. I use the analogy to smoking, whose harm
was coincidentally denied for decades using the same tactics and in many
cases the same people as climate change deniers. Smokestacks and tailpipes
are the worlds cigarettes. Deniers will say man can not harm something as
big as the earth, just like a little tobacco could not harm something
as massive as a human. But the fact is man puts out way more gas
than volcanoes, and no one denies that a single volcano like
Kraka... more »
Past wars and now...
Three
suicides in a week. Twenty-two among Regular Force members in 2011, an
unknown number is 2012. [Evidently reservists are still treated as
second-order soldiers by the system - plus ça change...] There will be
more. There are things that can be done to prevent them, but not all of
them. Like the former Yugoslavia and Somalia, Afghanistan's casualties
will continue to mount long after the
TOE movies: Wilczek, Tegmark, Strominger, Guth, ...
*Off-topic, via Fred Singer: Weak Lensing Contest*: Participate in the
"great challenge" where you should design algorithms decoding weak lensing
("unwarping images of millions of galaxies") and show you're better than
the experts; NASA quiz example (I did it right LOL); Science Daily. Ends in
April 2014. Winner gets $3,000 in hardware.
Someone started a YouTube project of recording 2-minute interviews with
famous physicists about a theory of everything,
facebook.com/toemovie (FB home page)
------------------------------
TOEmovie YouTube channel (videos)
So far, there seem to be e... more »
Catching fire
*"remember who the real enemy is"*
(Image source: StalkerAE)
*An interpretation: * The film shows what can happen when *economic class
differences *are enforced by the Government. They become *structured *rather
than *fluid*. The possibility for advancement is eliminated ..except by
winning the hunger games ..inspiring a false sense of hope.
Attack of the jabberjays
Killing the Blues
Why don't more artists cover John Prine?
The credits on the CD do not have Prine as the songwriter, but if you
google the song he is. Blame the Lawyers
Dawn of the Desperate
Being a socially-, economically- and politically-conscious liberal
gives one a certain amount of moral superiority and schadenfreude. At no
time is this latitude more readily and freely granted than on Black Friday
(now permanently known as Black Thursday).
And maybe this was what the great George Romero had in mind 35 years
ago when he directed the original *Dawn of the Dead* in 1978. It wasn't
lost on film critics nor was it a mere thoughtless and random choice when
Romero centered his movie around a mall. The sight of mindless zombies
staggering around a mall with no ... more »
Food Poisoning and Lice: Holidays in the Trenches with NickMom.com
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop
has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for
Collective Bias and its client.
I torture my husband. Now I have never tied him to a rack for a cute new
pair of shoes, but I do make him spend the holidays with my family. My
family is their own special brand of crazy, not the throwing jars of
ketchup crazy, but the unfortunate victims of weird circumstances. Almost
every time we spent the a holiday with my family, he leaves shaking his
head and wondering how next year could possibly get more... more »
SOS! Immediate Paradigm Shift Requested! Multicultural, Multilingual Focus Necessary to Respond to Changing Demographics!
“To commit ourselves to the work of transforming the academy so that it
will be a place where cultural diversity informs every aspect of our
learning, we must embrace struggle and sacrifice. We cannot be easily
discouraged. We cannot despair when there is conflict. Our solidarity
must be affirmed by shared belief in a spirit […]
The US mainstream media regularly disparages "conspiracy theorists" as though all crimes are committed by idividuals. Here is proof positive that if you DON'T believe in conspiracy theories you are inviting victimization by all manner of conspirators.
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*Three More NYC Contractors Found Guilty in Massive CityTime Scandal to
Modernize Payroll System*
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/27/three_more_nyc_contractors_found_guilty
Three computer consultants were found guilty on Friday of multiple charges
for defrauding New York City of millions of dollars in the largest
corruption case in city history. Private consultants were found guilty of
siphoning tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks from the scandal-ridden
$700 million CityTime payroll project. Last year, the project’s main
contractor, SAIC, w... more »
Your moment of Zen
Southern California. [Marc Adamus photo]
VIDEO: Iraq In Ottoman Times
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