Harper Fall (Photo credit: Jamie Manley)
Former U.S. President George W. Bush, former Mexican President Vicente Fox and Stephen Harper, right, at the Chichen-Itza archaeological ruins in 2006 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Harper's Ferry (Photo credit: Cocoa Dream)
Book
burning in Canada... Fraudulent election, crooks and cons in the
"house", gagging of scientists, MPs, media, RCMP, regulators, gutting
the national protection of millions of our lakes and rivers, letting big
oil write bills and regulate themselves while spending $hundreds of
millions on propaganda, another $billion or so in court wasted trying to
gut more laws and protections, then $3.1 billion goes missing. At what
point can we remove these criminals? How is this even legal?
Harper thinks like his sect http://thetyee.ca/.../2012/03/26/Harper-Evangelical-Mission/ You and I are Satan's helpers.
thetyee.ca
Signs mount that Canada's government is beholden to a religious agenda averse to science and rational debate.
Tragic
example of fascism in USAmerica. They destroyed this man's life work
and livelihood, for no good reason whatsoever. His flutes were no more
dangerous than any other dried wood product. If it had been some rock
star's guitar, it would be News... and the guitar would be a lot easier
to replace than these special traditional flutes that require special
bamboo that has been specially dried for at least two years. These were
not something you could just run out to WalMart (or even a music store)
and replace. Poor guy.
A
Canadian flutist has been left baffled and distraught after U.S.
customs agents decided to destroy his traditional, handcrafted Middle
Eastern bamboo flutes.
Border agents at JFK airport destroyed Boujemaa Razgui's bamboo flutes
in December, considering them to be vehicles for 'exotic plant
pathogens.'
Read more: http://cbc.sh/upLH38l
THIS IS WHY THEY KILLED HIM
According to a Russian article titled "Bombing of Lybia - Punishment for
Ghaddafi for His Attempt to Refuse US Dollar," Qaddaffi made
a similarly bold move: he initiated a movement to refuse the dollar and
the euro and called on Arab and African nations to use a new currency
instead, the gold dinar. Qaddafi suggested establishing a united African
continent, with its 200 million people using this single currency.
During the past year, the idea was approved by many Arab countries and
most African countries. The only opponents were the Republic of South
Africa and the head of the League of Arab States. The initiative was
viewed negatively by the USA and the European Union, with French
President Nicolas Sarkozy calling Libya a threat to the financial
security of mankind; but Qaddafi was not swayed and continued his push
for the creation of a united Africa.
10:30pm MST
Libertarianism Isn't The Answer To Anything
According to ProgressivePunch's reckoning the 10 Republicans who have
bolted their party's House leadership on crucial votes most frequently this
session are:
*•* Walter Jones (R-NC)
*•* Chris Gibson (R-NY)
*•* Justin Amash (R-MI)
*•* Jimmy Duncan (R-TN)
*•* Thomas Massie (R-KY)
*•* Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)
*•* Mark Sanford (R-SC)
*•* Morgan Griffith (R-VA)
*•* Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)
*•* Tom McClintock (R-CA)
Only three could be accurately described as "mainstream conservatives,"
which is what the Beltway media calls moderates these days, Gibson,
LoBiondo and Griffith. The others re... more »
Video Bill Means at AIM West Part 3 of 4
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Indigenous Peoples brought gifts of climate change knowledge and power
of matriarchal societies to United Nations
Bill Means, Lakota, speaks at AIM West in San Francisco in Nov. 2013.
Part 3
By Brenda Norrell
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Bill Means, founder of the International Indian Treaty
Council, describes the 30 year effort at the United Nations which
culminated in the
Who is to blame for the crisis in South Sudan?
The nascent civil war in South Sudan is a product of kleptocratic
governance, systemic corruption, and political posturing that has reignited
deep ethnic divisions between the nation’s two largest tribal groups.
(Nile Bowie - RT) - The world’s youngest nation has been in disarray since
December 14th, when sporadic gunfire and skirmishes broke out in the
capital, Juba. Shortly after, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir announced
that a coup had been attempted by members of his own presidential guard
allied with Riek Machar, the ambitious former vice president who was purged
in July. ... more »
Some Major Developments In Egypt, Iraq, Syria, And Lebanon: General Sisi Will Run For Presidency, Terrorist Group Isis Is On The Rise But Faces Intense Backlash From Citizens And Fighters Across The Region, Violence In Iraq Reaches Mid-2006 Levels
*1. An excerpt from, "Egypt: Abdul Fattah Al Sissi 'to run for presidency'"
Gulf News, January 4:*
*Egypt's deputy prime minister and defence minister Abdul Fattah Al Sissi
is expected to step down in the coming days to pave the way for his
nomination in the upcoming presidential elections, Egyptian media reported.*
*Al Wafd* newspaper reported that his exit will be part of a government
reshuffle in the second half of January that will also see vice president
Ziyad Baha’ Al Deen leave his post.
The paper cited "political sources with connections to ruling cirlces",
adding that the... more »
2013 in Review -- A Prayer to the Janitor of Lunacy,* Part 6 (and last!): In the words of Dan Quayle, "What a waste it is to lose one's mind"
*Exploiting tragedy for a buck; plus Miss America's not American?, "Quote
of the Year" winner*
*[*TO MEET THE JANITOR OF LUNACY, SEE PART 1]*
*Miss America, Missouri-born Nina Davuluri -- zowie!*
*by Noah*
*THE MINDS OF CORPORATISTS: EXPLOITING TRAGEDY FOR A BUCK*
What is it about the corporate mind? How do the idiots who make decisions
in our corporations continually get it so wrong, so tasteless and
obnoxious? Is it a mediocrity-rising- to-the-corner-office thing? Does the
seduction of the perks that come with position make one oblivious? Is that
why the Detroit car companies... more »
West Coast radiation 500 times normal, no alert is human rights abuse
Deborah Dupre
*Human Rights Examiner*
[image: U.S. government's Fukushima radiation coverup, an unspeakable
human rights abuse]
January 4, 2014
County health experts are "befuddled" about why West Coast radiation levels
are at a minimum, five times higher than usual and as high as 500 times
normal, according to officials. Government agents, however, continue
failing to issue an alert and instead, advise that the heightened level of
radiation poisoning is not unsafe for humans, a grave rights abuse.
Since July 2012, this reporter has published articles about people on the
U... more »
TRACKING DRONE KILLS
Since 2002, the US has launched 461 drone strikes, killing over 3,500
people - 457 of whom were civilians, according to recent research. The
strikes occurred in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The Pentagon recently
released its annual report on the use of unmanned systems, which laid out a
roadmap - through 2038 - of how the unmanned aerial vehicle program will
continue to develop.
RT's Meghan Lopez talks about the UAV program's past and future with Mary
Ellen O'Connell, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, and
Abraham Wagner, an adjunct professor of international and pub... more »
The New York Crimes And The Washington Ghost Support Al-Qaeda Terrorism In Lebanon
*The Angry Arab - From the Washington Post: or how to make readers
sympathetic to a car bomb:*
"The bombing in the Shiite neighborhood of Haret Hreik, *which is
controlled by Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement*". What does "controlled" mean?
And does Amal, which has a most powerful presence there, also control the
area? And what about those Shi`ites and atheists and non-Shi`ites who live
there: are they also "controlled" by Hizbullah?
*The Angry Arab - You tell me: does this language justify the bombing of
civilians? From the New York Times:*
"*While the neighborhood is residential*, *... more »
Thinking About Food in the Coming Year
January 4, 2014 Image courtesy of Simon Howden/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Yesterday afternoon, my friends, Kathi and Mary, took me on what turned out
to be a most excellent adventure. After taking me to pick up my
medications, they treated me to … Continue reading →
Why does FREQUENCY have an impact on our health?
A great article by my amazing friend Vera about the impact of frequencies
on our health. Please click the on the link below to go to Vera's site to
watch the video included in the article (that for some reason I couldn't
get to embed here, lol)
Love D
http://scenar4u.blogspot.com/2014/01/why-does-frequency-have-impact-on-our.html
Sunday, 5 January 2014Why does FREQUENCY have an impact on our health?
A UNIVERSAL TRUTH We are all interconnected at the most fundamental level
of being and consciousness.
Cosmic interstellar to intracellular - Resonant frequencies
William Brown, a mo... more »
Boeing Saga Ends with 51% Favoring Revised Contract
As I argued last month, the Puget Sound area of Washington state was easily
the best place, from a strictly economic point of view, for Boeing to build
its new 777x jetliner. This was confirmed when, despite the rejection of
its union contract offer by a 2:1 margin and opening an auction for a new
facility, Boeing came back to the union with a second contract offer (h/t *New
York Times*). Yesterday, by a 51-49 margin, workers voted to accept the
contract.
The new contract ends the company's pension plan in favor of a 401(k),
although it does not "affect the pensions already accrued... more »
Cheese it, it's the Kosher Kops!
*Is this bread kosher or not? Only the rabbi can say.*
*by Ken*
Sometimes I wonder what people outside the Jewish faith make of the truly
nutty system of dietry prescriptions and (especially) *proscriptions* known
as *kashrut*, or that which is "kosher."
Oh, there was indeed once a logic to advising caution with regard to animal
products like pork and shellfish, but those were overcome with attention to
sanitation, improved harvesting, and regulation -- all without recourse to
anything resembling Divine Imperative. And where it all turns truly nutty
is in the fanatical separation... more »
"Do you want to pass along your apologies for this terrible joke?"
It's been a fair while since I've listened to Radio 4's *Chain Reaction*but as ChrisH at *Biased
BBC *said there were some funny things in it I thought I'd give it a go.
I won't re-mount my 'left-wing Radio 4 comedians' hobby horse - despite the
interview's political turn with interviewee Frankie Boyle discussing his
hunger strike in support of Shaker Aamer, the Saudi last British resident
in Guantanamo Bay, and (with interviewer Kevin Bishop's help) and his
mockery of Alex Salmond and other pro-independence Scots. After all, it
wouldn't be a Radio 4 6.30pm comedy programme if lef... more »
Turkey's corruption scandal updates - January 1 , 2014 .....Forced onto the defensive by the corruption probe, the ruling Justice and Development Party looks to go back onto the attack by trimming the wings of the judiciary, especially the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors ........ Senior parliamentary executives of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) and the Peace and Democracy (BDP) will gather to find a way out of the jailed deputy controversy – probably by agreeing to a constitutional amendment. ........ Turkish PM Erdoğan labels graft probe an ‘assassination attempt’ ....... Opposition says no support for government to suppress judiciary ..... Additional links to articles at Today's Zaman concerning the ongoing corruption scandal , the ongoing probes and attempts to black same by AKP and PM Erdogan !
Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-pm-erdogan-holds-unannounced-summit-with-inner-circle.
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[image: Erdoğan held a three-hour long meeting at Dolmabahçe Palace with
Interior Minister Ala, MİT Undersecretary Fidan, Istanbul Police Chief
Altınok and Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ Jan. 3. DAILY NEWS photo]
Erdoğan held a three-hour long meeting at Dolmabahçe Palace with Interior
Minister Ala, MİT Undersecretary Fidan, Istanbul Police Chief Altınok an... more »
Untitled
*Why Do Foles Fall In Lava? ~moosedenied*
Secure, Contain, Protect...
I should have mentioned earlier the winner of the SCP-2000 contest (which I
didn't realise was based around a science fiction theme) is this, not my
favourite but still good. It's based around a counter-factual that William
Burroughs and Brion Gysin often discussed, that modern humans have been
around for half a million years, but modern civilisation only six thousand
years. There has been, it seems, ample time, for more than one civilisation
to rise up, fall down and fade into the faintest of memories.
Sharon O'Donnell and Jumping the Shark
Politics is a rum business. That's why you have to make sure criticisms of
your opponents are grounded in fact and take the whole view, not just the
bits you find convenient. Unfortunately, occasionally something can catch
you unawares. You spot a piece that sounds plausible, undermines government
spin about a foolish, flagship policy and you share it with your Twitter
chums. It goes viral and you bask for a minute in the smug glow of
self-satisfaction. Then something starts pulling at you. You go through
what looked like a good demolition when, in fact, it's a shoddy piece of
supp... more »
Target has a new problem - More trouble for Target after 40,000 gift cards sold over the holidays fail to work ! This occurs as the massive debit and credit card debacle is still an unsolved crime !
Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531660/MORE-trouble-Target-40-000-gift-cards-sold-holidays-not-properly-activated.html
More trouble for Target after 40,000 gift cards sold over the holidays fail
to work
- Target failed to scan the correct barcode on thousands of gift cards
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- Shoppers being told the cards have no value when at the check out
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- Target urged shoppers to seek help in-store or by calling the number
on the back of their gift card
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- It comes 10 days after the store suffered a major data breach, leaving
hackers to get their hands o... more »
The Grating Magpie
Some sounds really set my nerves on edge. One is the sound of magpies in
spring and summer.
Their harsh, grating cackle makes me think of machine gun fire.
With that thought comes an association of magpies with viciousness and
murder.
Many's the early summer morning when I've awoken to the sound of that
cackle and the subsequent squawks of panic, desperation and fear from
other, smaller birds as their myriad babies face butchery at the sharp
beaks of raiding magpies.
Yes, I know that's anthropomorphic, sentimental, irrational twaddle on my
part, and that I - a grown man - should be ... more »
FRIENDS OF SIR JIMMY SAVILE
*1.* Sir Jimmy Savile is known to have had dinner with* Admiral Sir Michael
Boyce*, Chief of the UK Defence Staff at the time of 9 11. (
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/)
*Admiral Sir Michael Boyce and General Tommy Franks*
*2.* Savile visited Israel in 1975 to advise *Israel's President Ephraim
Katzir* on a matter of security. Savile addressed the cabinet of Menachem
Begin. Savile was also a friend of President Sadat's wife. (JIMMY SAVILE
FIXED IT FOR ISRAEL).
*Begin, Sadat, Katzir*
*3. *Savile spent 11 consecutive Christmases at the home of *Margaret
Thatcher.*
*Margaret Thatch... more »
John Friend on Inside the Eye - Live! w/ Dennis Fetcho
I was a guest on Dennis Fetcho's radio program *Inside the Eye -
Live!*this morning during the second hour. We talked about a lot of
different
subjects, including *the recent ADL attack on yours truly*, the *fake
"Holocaust" narrative of WWII*, and media manipulation. You can download
the program *here*.
Bringing Qatar Down A Notch or Two: Egypt Summons Qatar's Ambassador
Population of Qatar: 2 million. Population of Egypt: 84 million. Qatar is
upset with Egypt's political decisions? Too bad. Qatar: Kindly Shut The
Fuck Up. If you love the Muslim Brotherhood so much then make them your
rulers in your neck of the woods and leave the Egyptian people and nation
alone to decide their fate. Don't act like war can't be brought to your
doorstep and don't pretend that you live in some kind of oasis in the
middle of hell.
An excerpt from, *"Egypt summons Qatari envoy after criticisms of
crackdown"* Reuters, January 4:
*Egypt's foreign ministry summoned... more »
Cleverness Sends Us (All of Us) Over the Edge (Yay, Neanderthals?)
Don't you just hate it when you miss a good book? I know I do (take a look
at one I'm currently kicking myself over). All hominids have African
ancestors. Some of them migrated to Asia, where Neanderthals first walked
onto the stage. Some Neanderthals moved to Europe maybe 300,000 years ago,
where they hung out in cool temperate forests. Their primary weapon was a
heavy thrusting spear
Live from Planet BBC...
Radio 4's Immigration: Good for Whom? was billed by the BBC as a debate
between "two leading liberal thinkers" - Prof Paul Collier of Oxford
University and David Goodhart of the centre-left Demos think tank - and
Nazek Ramadan of Migrant Voices and Susie Symes, Chair of the Museum of
Immigration and Diversity. It was hosted by *The World Tonight*'s Ritula
Shah.
It was wholly predictable that it would be a classic BBC discussion,
"neatly balanced between two wary left-wing supporters of mass immigration
and two enthusiastic left-wing supporters of mass immigration." And so it
prov... more »
What Mattered This Week?
Last time here before the big move...
I'm certainly on board with Greg Sargent's comments this week that the spin
over the first few days of ACA exchange plans kicking in doesn't matter.
As far as what does matter on this holiday week...I'm sort of thinking that
Kerry's continuing press on Israel/Palestine might matter. How, I'm not
sure. And perhaps it doesn't really...very hard to tell. But I'll go with
that one.
What do you have? What do you think mattered this week?
Ripley’s Botched Attack on Ravitch: A Euro Is Not a Dollar
In December 2011, writer Amanda Ripley published a post in which she tried
hard to discredit education historian Diane Ravitch’s claim that the US
poverty level is a factor in the 2009 PISA rankings. Even though Ripley’s
piece is over two years old, I only read it yesterday. In her smug attempt
to discredit Ravitch’s interpretation of […]
How to Help the Working Poor
Click here to read my column in Sunday's* NY Times*.
A note from an administrator on new bathroom policies. Hilarity.
I give it to you in all its glory. And I will emphasize what particular
gem, whereby students checking in and out of the bathroom helps meet a
common core standard (or CCS). Who knew that every thing I do on a daily
basis, from taking a leak to brushing my teeth, could be applied […]
LAND OF SCRIPT: What should Schieffer do?
*SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 2014*
*Epilogue—Inventing the script about Rice:* It’s stunning to see the way
our upper-end, elite “journalism” works.
The higher up the ladder one goes, the more pathetic the conduct becomes.
The more the work is tied to script in this, our nation of script.
The more a star’s “journalistic” disasters will be enabled by silence.
In September 2012, a powerful script took shape about the attack in
Benghazi. In last Sunday’s New York Times, David Kirkpatrick debunked two
key parts of that script, while leaving Susan Rice lodged beneath the bus.
Kirkpatrick named... more »
THE HUNGER GAMES
- Our Gov. LePage (right-wing Republican corporate hack) is running for
reelection on the backs of the poor. He wants to drain "welfare" in order
to kill it. In Maine's largest city of Portland the governor has decided
to move the state welfare office from the downtown area out near the
airport which means folks, already without transportation, will have even
more difficulty getting there. Very slimy politics.
- It reminds me of when I was attending the University of Florida after
getting out of the Air Force. I was using the GI Bill to pay for school... more »
Out of the mouth of a merely far-right-winger comes a cry of pain at the peril from far-far-far-right-wingers in West Virginia
*"Career-long tool of the mining industry" Shelley Moore Capito*
*by Ken*
As I've mentioned, I sometimes get my best insight into the minds, such as
they are, of the far-far-far-right-wingers from the merely
far-right-wingers. (Wasn't it Freud who said, "It takes one to know one"?)
By now it's no surprise to hear the MFRWs tsk-tsk-ing the FFFRWs. Ever
since the screaming insanity of the FFFRWs began reaching deafening
proportions during the later years of the reign of "Chimpy the Prez" Bush,
the sound finally began to reach the nervous systems of the MFRWs.
Among the more prominen... more »
Kate Braun : Waxing Crescent Moon is Time to Set New Goals
Moon
Musings: The Waxing Crescent Moon -- which falls on January 4–5, 2014,
is a time to set goals for positive changes in your life.
Waxing crescent moon. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
By Kate Braun | The Rag Blog | January 3, 2013
Waxing moons are times to set new goals, recognize new objectives,
promote new growth, and set forces in motion to help you achieve these
goals, objectives,
Why Aren't Prep Schools Following Corporate Reforms?
Reblogged from Diane Ravitch's blog: This is a terrific article about the
elite prep schools and the fact that they do not follow the "reforms" that
are now pushed by the U.S. Department of Education, the Gates Foundation,
the Broad Foundation, and other corporate reformers. Here are some quotes
from the article: Go ahead and […]
Thailand: Civil War is Impossible
But terrorism dressed as "civil war" likely. Vigilance and swift, decisive
action against regime's leadership can stop it.
*January 4, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci) - The embattled regime of Thailand's
Thaksin Shinawatra and his substantial Western backers are attempting to
hold peace, stability, and the nation's future hostage in order to extort
from Thailand the perpetuation of their current grip on power. Chief among
their threats is the myth of an impending "civil war."
Unfortunately for them, and despite their best efforts, in order to have a
"civil war," you must first have a divi... more »
Nashville School Board Backs Away from Pearson Nonsense-Based Reading Test
During the early years of the Reading First corporate feeding frenzy that
dumped a cool billion dollars a year into worthless reading programs
blessed by crackpot, Reid Lyon, and a handful of his corrupt cronies housed
principally at the University of Oregon, a reading assessment called DIBELS
became required if your state or city wanted a shot the Reading First grants.
It is based, essentially, on counting how many nonsense syllables a child
can correctly identify in 60 seconds.
Surprise--Pearson has developed its own brand of nonsense based reading
assessments marketed under the... more »
Most Distant Galaxy Disproves Palin's Young Universe Theory
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
Texas astronomers have utterly disproved Sarah Palin! They have discovered
the most DISTANT object in the universe, an object some 13.7 billion light
years from earth. The light we see from that galaxy began its journey
toward the earth some 13.7 billion years ago. Therefore, Palin's young
universe of a mere 6,000 years is false and Palin is unfit to teach a
grammar school, let alone, run a nation.
Palin believes that the age of the universe is but a mere 6,000 years, a
figure that she (or her preacher man) may have concocted by adding up the... more »
Buy your own birth control...
*instead of getting "free" birth control after, of course, paying
exorbitant monthly premiums and a huge deductible.*
Seriously, are people really that stupid? Silly question.
We have a world spinning out of control, massive unemployment, completely
unsustainable personal and national debt, and all these loons can talk
about is the "war on women?"
From Doug Ross:
Archdiocese of New York: Obamacare exemptions granted to any and all...
except those with Judeo-Christian belief No exemption for you, little
ladies.
Immaculate conception
Because it's cold outside and the news is stupid.
GUEST no more. Welcome John Kuhn to our lineup!
Revered Superintendent John Kuhn joined our erudite rabble here At the
Chalk Face. Let us all welcome him. Check out his author page here and we
look forward to JOHN KUHN: Empowering Educators. Tagged: at the chalk face,
john kuhn, superintendent
“How Are We Supposed To Live?” Michigan Workers Discover Obamacare Means Impoverishment
[image: Political Outcast]
Posted By Mark Horne on Dec 30, 2013
[image: obama pharaoh]
NBC does some actual reporting on Obamacare. This is what is happening all
over the country.
*The 41 employees of Extreme Dodge in Jackson, Mich., are very familiar
with trade-ins, but this year they’re learning about trade-offs as they
come face to face with the new realities of health care. A few workers say
they’re getting a great deal, but most have a severe case of sticker shock.*
*“I feel like I’ve been taken to the cleaners,” said Neal Campbell, a
salesman.*
*The news was presented at... more »
Maui Needs You Help - Ride The GMO Legislation Wave To A Healthier Hawaii
Maui follows Kaua'i's lead: Bill introduced to require disclosure of
pesticides & GMOs, as well as buffer zones between GMO crops and schools,
medical facilities, daycare facilities and similar operations. Its goal is
"to inform the public ...and protect against direct, indirect and
cumulative negative health impacts."
Maui needs your help: Please email Councilmember Riki Hokama
Tell him, as a visitor to Maui - you don't want to be poisoned on your
vacation. Ask him to pass the GMO/Pesticide Bill!.
Phone calls are even better: to Councilmember Riki Hokama: ask him to bring
up C... more »
Could robots soon have brains that function like HUMANS? Computer chip that carries out tasks without being asked - and learns from its mistakes - to go on sale
[image: MailOnline - news, sport, celebrity, science and health stories]
- *The chip can mimic the human ability for perception, action, and
thought*
- *It will improve everything from navigation to speech, and facial
recognition*
- *The chip's memory will function as synapses would in the brain, with
processors acting as neurons*
- *It could also one day create systems that perform better than humans*
By Ellie Zolfagharifard
*PUBLISHED:* 07:59 EST, 2 January 2014
Computers are about to enter an age where they can perceive, act and even
think for themselves, us... more »
From @johnkuhntx: Ed Reform’s Atari Problem
My cousin John Michael had the first Atari I ever saw. Not long after, my
cousin Philip got one. I went to their houses every chance I got, and while
I was there I hogged their video game machines as much as I could. I still
remember the spongy feel and new plastic smell of […]
The Devil in the Details
Since American students now rank a dismal 21st in scientific
proficiency among their global peers, it should come as no surprise that
four in ten American adults do not believe in the evolution of species.
According to a recent Pew poll, the number of people denying that human
beings slowly evolved over millions of years is about the same as it was
four years ago. The main difference is that the belief gap appears to
be widening based upon political party affiliation:
In 2009, 54% of Republicans and 64% of Democrats said humans have evolved
over time, a difference of 10 percentage ... more »
Getting something off her chest
Lucky Putin.
*Russian President Vladimir Putin gets an eye-opening experience as he is
confronted by a topless demonstrator with a message written on her back
during a tour of the Hanover Fair in Hanover, Germany, on April 8. He was
accompanied by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.*NBC.
I think Putin is having fun and thinking bring on more. :)
Fukushima nuclear debacle updates - January 4 , 2014 - Completely deficient of Souls Japan and Tepco - note Tepco attempts to fleece employes out of relocation funds ......This follows pimping of the homeless to do deadly Fukushima clean up work - crimal syndicates have their hands in this blood pie as well ( nothing to see here folks , move along ) , sadly the homeless don't even se their full pay ( which is only minimum wage ) as two thirds is skimmed off - and some of the homeles actually wind up in debt through the arrangement ( which is why I call this pimping the homeless ) !
Ex SKF.....
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2014/01/tepco-demands-its-own-employees-to.html
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 2014
TEPCO Demands Its Own Employees to Return the Nuclear Accident Compensation
Money, Mainichi Shinbun Says
This has got to be a new low for TEPCO, though TEPCO continues to surprise.
From Mainichi Shinbun (1/4/2014; part):
福島原発事故避難:東電 社員に賠償金返還を要求
TEPCO demands employees who were displaced by Fukushima I NPP accident to
return [part of] the compensation money
東京電力福島第１原発事故による避難に伴う賠償金を巡り、東電が昨春以降、社員に対し既に支払った１人当たり数百万円から千数百万円の賠償金を、事実上返還するよう求めていることが関係者の証言で分かった。確認されただけで、総額は１億円を超... more »
Bitcoin news for January 1 , 2014 - A look back at 2013 , a look ahead !
Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
2013 in review.....
http://www.coindesk.com/china-cyberspace-bitcoin-2013-in-review/
From China to Cyberspace: Bitcoin’s Year in Review
John Law (@scotonomist) | Published on December 31, 2013 at 06:00 GMT |
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*Welcome to CoinDesk’s Yearly Review 2013 – a look at the five hottest,
most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital
currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host … John Law.*
It is a legal requirement for journalists to write an end-of-year roundup,
and John Law is nothing if not law-abiding. One valid set of ... more »
Wounded Knee Photos 1890 -- 1973
More photos at Denver Post
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2014/01/02/wounded-knee-1890-1973-photos/
BBC Bias and Normalcy Bias
The first weekend *BBC Breakfast* paper review of the year featured the man
who is evidently the programme's most regular paper reviewer, Simon
Fanshawe.
Simon is a writer, broadcaster and Labour Party supporter. He holds strong
views and doesn't hold back from expressing them.
Take this morning.
In the first paper review he began by gloating over Nick Griffin's
bankruptcy, denounced the 'Daily Express' as "scandalous" for its reporting
of the Romania-Bulgaria immigration story, attacked politicians for jumping
on the anti-immigration bandwagon, extolled the economic benefits o... more »
Buenos Aires: La Chacarita Cemetery in Pictures
In preparing the *Moonlight on Tombstones* article I requested the
assistance of journalist and photographer *Marcelo Metayer*, who most
graciously agreed to provide photographs for the section on the La
Chacarita Cemetery in his native Buenos Aires, whose landmarks and
monuments he has chronicled in visual form. The photos of this extensive
necropolis, housing the remains of politicians, artists and musical giants
like Carlos Gardel, the best known Tango singer of the 20th century, truly
deserve to be presented separately for the enjoyment of *INEXPLICATA*’s
readers, so that the ce... more »
Thatcher's Ugly Children
The longer a leader stays, the more his or her party takes on the leader's
personality. That's certainly the case with Stephen Harper's Conservatives.
Andrew Coyne writes that, whatever good news the Conservatives may have to
deliver, it gets drowned out by their in your face ugliness:
How could a government presiding over such a strong economy be so
unpopular? It is unusual enough for a governing party to fall, and stay,
below 30% in the polls. But to do so in good times? Unheard of. And while
governments sometimes are obliged to take a hit early in their tenure,
traditionally th... more »
Untitled
*Saints face challenges in playoff game with Eagles ~Ramon Antonio Vargas*
*A different team, a different time ~Ashley Morris*
*Why would Governorcist Bobby Jindal open a $4M contract with NYC-based
Corporate Turn-Around Specialists? ~WVUE*
~*Alvarez & Marsal* is being asked to look at health and human services,
transportation, public safety, revenue, debt collection, facility
management and other general management and financial issues for the state,
with a goal of saving tax dollars.
*Dangerous Winter Blast Plunging into Central and Eastern U.S. this Weekend
~DisasterMap.net*~*"[P... more »
Turkey political corruption updates - January 4 , 2014 - Key comments from President Gul - Turkish President Abdullah Gül has emphasized the importance of the conclusion without outside intervention of an ongoing major graft investigation, which has shaken the roots of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and led to the resignation of three ministers. ...... Parliament Speaker Cemel Cicek : Independence of judiciary done away with ..... EP rapporteur Oomen-Ruijten: International plot claims ‘pure nonsense'
President Gül warns against intervention in judicial process
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Turkish President Abdullah Gül (Photo: Today's Zaman)
3 January 2014 /TODAY'S ZAMAN WITH REUTERS, İSTANBUL
Turkish President Abdullah Gül has emphasized the importance of the
conclusion without outside intervention of an ongoing major graft
investigation, which has shaken the roots of the ruling Justice and
Development Party (AK Party) and led to the resignation of three ministers.
Gül also underlined the inde... more »
Trip Advisor's "12 trips of a lifetime"
*Soar in a balloon above unique landscapes*: *This is the most striking
image of the Trip Advisor "12 trips of a lifetime," and looks like it might
indeed be a cool thing to do -- except for someone with a pathological
terror of heights, who probably has no business in a balloon. (Click on the
photo to enlarge it.)*
*by Ken*
[*Click to enlarge*]You'll be pleased to hear that Howie is back on terra
firma, in Quito (Ecuador), after his sea galavant around the storied
Galápagos Islands.
Long-time readers know that his travels often take him to
off-the-beaten-path destinations, whil... more »
Transsexuals and the Legal System - Scottish Edition
From the Daily Record:
A TRANSGENDER woman has demanded an apology from bungling sheriff court
workers who sent an offensive note with her divorce papers.
Becky Kent was stunned when she read a handwritten memo which officials had
forgotten to remove from her paperwork. It was stuck on top of her divorce
decree and sent to her.
The scribbled Post-it note read: “Colin it’s right!!! Man – changed his
name to woman’s name – statutory declaration attached!!! Takes all sorts!!”
The letter had also been addressed “Dear Sir”.
Doesn't exactly give one warm fuzzies about being treated respec... more »
CCSS: The Black Hole of Education
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the Common Core is “Obamacore.”
No? If you haven’t, then you’ve been living under a rock, somewhere. Yes,
the infamous Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has drawn criticism from
the political left, and the right. It’s fascinating to witness both sides
of the political spectrum unite against […]
No, Maurice, It Won't Happen Here
Canadians, especially Canadians who don't follow the Culture Wars® in the
US, may be shocked by how endangered abortion rights are becoming down
south.
In fact, the Guttmacher Institute reports that fetus fetishists had another
banner year in 2013.
The New York Times reports:
“I think we are at a potential turning point-- either access to abortion
will be dramatically restricted in the coming year or perhaps the pushback
will begin,” said Suzanne Goldberg, director of the Center for Gender and
Sexuality Law at Columbia University.
The anti-abortion groups, for their part, feel e... more »
Not Taking Sides (says Lucy Winkett)
At times like this I almost regret leaving Biased-BBC because our “Is”
readership is comparatively limited, and our contributions come and go more
or less unremarked. We don’t promote ourselves or spam other blogs with
links and ads. Maybe we should, but we don’t.
We don’t orchestrate festivals or raise money for massive publicity stunts
either.
Speaking for myself, the obscurity of “Is” doesn’t bother me, until
something like Bethlehem Unwrapped comes along.
As many people as possible should be made aware of what was wrong with it.
I detect that Lucy Winkett herself is even be... more »
Gorby, Mrs T and John Redwood
Sticking with Radio 4's *UK Confidential *and those fascinating 1984
National Archive releases, the programme featured extracts from the
exchanges between Mrs Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev at their famous first
meeting in December of that year - and very interesting they were too.
What we didn't hear on Martha Kearney's programme was some of the added
detail contained in the reports of the meeting.
For that you have to listen to archivist Simon Demissie on the podcast from
the National Archive.
Here are a couple of examples:
At one point Thatcher does question him on the poin... more »
Harper's LMFAO Program
*CBC* : "Effective Dec.31, 2013, the government will no longer approve *labour
market opinion applications* from employers looking to hire foreign workers
in the sex trade industry, a spokesperson for the department of Employment
and Social Development Canada told CBC News. An LMO is usually required to
prove the need to hire a temporary foreign worker over a Canadian one."
Usually. Usually you need an LMO to prove there's no Canadian looking for
the same work. Unless of course you're an Alberta employer looking to hire
some temporary foreign workers as steam-fitters, pipe-fitters,... more »
JFK50: Henry Cabot Lodge
Telephone Conversation Between President Johnson and Senator Richard
Russell, Washington, May 27, 1964, 10:55 p.m.
Johnson: One of our big problems there, Dick, the biggest, between us and I
don't want this repeated to anybody, is Lodge.
Russell: I know it.
Johnson: He ain't worth a damn.
Russell: Why, of course.
Johnson: And he can't work with anybody. He won't let anybody else work. We
get the best USIA man to put all on all the radios and try to get them to
be loyal to the government and to be fighting and quit deserting.
Russell: He thinks he's the emperor out t... more »
HPV Vaccines: My Journey Through Gardasil Injuries by Elizabeth Wagner
ElizabethFinding Hope after a Gardasil Disaster
By Elizabeth Wagner, Minnesota
Sane Vax, Inc, 25 September 2014
I thought an ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure. Little did I
realize how my simple decision to add Gardasil to my cancer prevention
strategy would result in so many new health conditions. Sometimes, I wish
it were possible to get unvaccinated.
Prior to Gardasil, I was an extremely healthy and active 26 year old woman.
I was always involved in sports and worked out five times per week. I was
enjoying a successful career and on my way up the corporate ladder.... more »
Dr. David Acer, Dentistry and the AIDS Crisis
*"Three years into the Acer investigation, I had fallen deeply into a U.S.
Government cover-up... [t]he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) and Florida health officials had covered up almost all of the
incriminating evidence linking Dr. Acer to thirty six serial killers
studied by the FBI."*
*"I was forced to conclude the authorities covered up the evidence
implicating Dr. Acer to prevent the media, and subsequently the public,
from probing into his background. The legal testimony in the case indicated
he believed he was dying of a virus that the government had create... more »
The Validity of Marriage after Transition in the US
From Indiana Public Media:
Sanders says the ruling will likely serve as an example when this issue
comes up in other courts.
“Around the country there are probably more couples in this situation than
many people realize.” Sanders says. “That is a couple who was male and
female at the time being married and then one of them transitioned genders
and many of them wished to stay married.”
Sanders says couples in this situation need confirmation their marriage
won’t become void automatically if one of the parties undergoes a gender
change.
Sanders says the Indiana appellate court’s decisi... more »
Herbalism, Not Big Pharma, is Oldest and Most Effective Medicine by Christina Sarich
For Better Health
Herbalism, Not Big Pharma, is Oldest and Most Effective Medicine
by Christina Sarich
Natural Society. 2 January 2014
*While many pharmaceutical medications are disruptive to the overall
functioning of the body, numerous herbs actually support the natural
healing powers of our own bodies. Herbs can be so effective at healing that
we are still using them even after thousands of years.* A primary reason
many of us frown on herbal medicine in modern times is because mainstream
Western medicine shuns it. Big pharma spends billions of dollars to make
sure we buy paten... more »
USA VERSUS ISRAEL...
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*Iranian kids by Hamed Saber*
Zbigniew Brzezinski sees Eurasia (Europe and Asia), as the center of global
power.
Brzezinski believes that the USA must ensure that no country, other than
the USA, should be allowed to dominate Eurasia.
Hence the policy of 'divide and rule'.
Hence bombs in Volgograd and Lebanon.
The journalist Pepe Escobar has written about pitting Sunni against Shi'ite
and Arabs against Iranians.
*All in Play in the New Great Game * / *Asia Times *
Pepe Escobar refers to various rivalries:
*1.* The USA versus China.
*2.* Iran (Shi'ite... more »
Free will is hard to define but it exists
Sabine Hossenfelder wrote an essay arguing that the free will doesn't exist
even though she can't quite define the concept. To decide whether the free
will "exists", I think it's almost necessary to define what this concept
means. Wikipedia says:
Free will is the ability of agents to make choices unconstrained by certain
factors. Factors of historical concern have included metaphysical
constraints (such as logical, nomological, or theological determinism),
physical constraints (such as chains or imprisonment), social constraints
(such as threat of punishment or censure), and mental ... more »
The Real 'Alien' Prequel - CRASHLANDING - banned film idea
Woah, what was that?
I thought the Alien Franchise was for adults, oh well. I just got banned
from the Prometheus 2 forum hosted by Scified.com, for posting a series of
scenes (that might (or might not) be in chronological order) for a *REAL
ALIEN PREQUEL*, which Prometheus clearly wasn't, it 'seeming to be' a
REBOOT of the entire 'alien' franchise. Oh, that was a very long sentence,
but I'll leave it as-is. Code-named CRASHLANDING, this pre-Alien treatment
uses that art of H.R. Giger in as complete a fashion as is possible.
Weird how this ties in to my 'something got stolen' dream ... more »
UK Conspiritorial
The National Archive at Kew has released the official Cabinet papers from
1984 under the thirty-year rule.
Their website contains a half-hour podcast where two of the archivists at
Kew run through the highlights from the latest batch. Both are excellent,
engaging speakers and what they have to say is very interesting and
pleasingly free of obvious spin.
Every year at this time Martha Kearney presents *UK Confidential, *an hour
long Radio 4 special devoted to the latest release*. *This too was very
interesting and covered much the same ground as the National Archive
podcast - th... more »
Updates On Syria [1.4]: Syria Informs The UN Of Turkey's Systematic Support For Jihadist Terrorists, More Than Half of Syria's Manufacturing Industry Has Been Destroyed, Syrian National Council Says It Will Not Attend Geneva II Conference
*1. An excerpt from, "Ankara suspected of arming jihadists in Syria" by
Semih Idiz, Al-Monitor, January 3:*
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is already having to cope
with a major scandal that has severely undermined his claim of being a
relentless fighter against corruption in high places, is now faced with a
fresh crisis involving Syria that has the potential to not only
further undermine his credibility but also to damage Turkey’s ties with its
Western allies.
*The latest debacle follows a scoop by mass circulation daily Hurriyet
involving a truck laden with weap... more »
dream - selling the dream - advertising space in your sleep time?
very weird things are happening in the dream time, the sleep time, the
other life of this 48-y.o. blogger.
On New Year's Day it was the realisation that I could deny ANY DREAM
CONTENT, question it, just say "No!" to it, if I wanted.
Last night i.e. four days later, it was AN ACTUAL ADVERTISEMENT for a
product/service: I literally woke up I got so angry. Where my dream time
had been quite quiet since NYD's "No!", I had been having an abnormally
vivid and lively series of dreams. Dream after dream after dream. Question
has to be asked, "Why is a 48-y.o. man like myself still experie... more »
Friday Baseball Post
It's Hall of Fame time. Can't miss this one.
As we all know, this year's ballot for the real voters is unlike any normal
one: instead of being about which marginal guys deserve to be in, it's
about dealing with the strategy of what to do with far more deserving
players than the rules allow. There was a bit of this last year, but now
it's getting silly.
So. Some sorting is in order. Last year I had nine easy choices: Bonds,
Clemens, Biggio, Piazza, Schilling, McGwire, Raines, Trammell, and Bagwell,
all of whom are back this year. Then I had three bubble guys, and said I
would have v... more »
The Way We Were
Congratulations to all my friends who were born in the 1930's, 1940's,
50's, 60's, 70's, and the early 1980s -
[image: Pledge-Allegiance-1950s]
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they
carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and
processed meat, tuna from a can, and we didn't get tested for diabetes or
cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured
lead-based paints.
We had no child proof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cab... more »
Wise Wisdom for 2014
*Earlier today, I received these images from my daughter and wanted to
share them with everyone. Feel free to pass them on.*
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conspiracytheoristimage]
*Whitewraithe~*
VIDEO - AGENDA: Grinding America Down
The Most Important Documentary On America Ever; Destroying America From
Within
*by: Josey Wales*
There is nothing that is taking place in America today that can’t be
understood by examining the 100-year history of the efforts to
destroy America from within.
This is a documentary that takes an in-depth look at the root of our
decline in America; socialism with the ultimate goal of global communism.
This documentary also lays out names and dates and groups that have an
active and growing agenda to bring America down to a third-world country,
from Karl Marx to the Fabian Socialists t... more »
SOCIAL JUSTICE: U.S. shocking redistribution of wealth in the past five years
*WW~Notes: Here ya go, this is "socialism" plain and simple. The political
progressives call it "social justice." Justice for who - I wonder?*
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Anyone reviewing the data is likely to conclude that there must be some
mistake. It doesn't seem possible that one out of twenty American families
could each have made a million dollars since Obama became President, while
the average American family's net worth has barely recovered. But the
evidence comes from numerous reputable sources.
Some conservatives continue to claim that President Obama is unfriendly to
business, ... more »
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