English: Shrine in Chiang Mai (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Tuk-tuk used as a police vehicle. Photo taken at Tapae Gate during the Sunday Evening Walking Market in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Deutsch: Ein Chinnaraje Lanna (Polizeiausführung) am Tapae Gate in Chiang Mai, Thailand. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Anciant walls around Chiang Mai (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: A street in Chiang Mai City (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Moat surround Chiang Mai town -- Chiang Mai, Thailand (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Tuk-tuk waiting for passengers in Chiang Mai (Photo credit: Wikipedia)SPACE ALERT
- I am beginning work on our next Global Network Space Alert!
newsletter. Articles are coming in from around the globe - it's always a
great learning experience for me as I pull these various strands together
and make some sense of the greater Pentagon and Space Command strategy of
global dominance through space control. Hope to have it printed and mailed
by the third week of January.
- Sung-Hee Choi has posted the latest Jeju prisoner information this
morning on the No Naval Base on Jeju Facebook page. It reads:
Mr. Yang Yoon-Mo (Prison #301) hits 3... more »
Thailand: Regime's "Red Shirts" Attack Protesters
Regime directly controls "red shirt" enforcers, is directing violence and
intimidation as it clings to power.
*January 5, 2014* (ATN) - Regime "red shirts" attacked peaceful protesters
in the northern city of Chiang Mai today, as thousands of fellow protesters
marched simultaneously in Bangkok. Thailand's English paper Bangkok Post
would report in their article, "Reds attack Chiang Mai protesters," that:
Anti-government protesters were intercepted and attacked by red shirt
supporters while staging a reform-before-election campaign in Chiang Mai's
Muang district on Sunday.
The rep... more »
Unsealed: Alien Files.... Seriously?
While searching for something interesting to watch, I stumbled across a
program called *Unsealed: Alien Files* and my only comment is, “Seriously?”
This is one of the reasons that we have trouble getting science and
journalism to take UFO reports seriously. It is one of the reasons that so
many people have so little time for UFOs or who believe those seeing UFOs
are deluded. This program, in the guise of a documentary, was filled with
every half-baked idea, every conspiracy theory associated with UFOs, and
every lousy piece of evidence available. It was horrendous.
What surprised m... more »
Historic cold described as a polar vectors places much of US in a deep freeze ! Paging Victor Fries !
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A 'Polar Vortex' Is Charging Toward The US, Bringing A Historic Cold
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-05/jfk-shuts-down-after-plane-skids-ice-skating-rink-runway-entire-nation-blanketed-sub
JFK Shuts Down After Plane Skids Off "Ice Skating Rink" Runway: Entire
Nation Blanketed In Subzero Deep Freeze
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/05/2014 09:35 -0500
- Fail
- Las Vegas
- National Weather Service
- New York... more »
Pearson's aimsweb Behavior Module
If you like Pearson's DIBELS-style nonsense reading test for young children,
you are sure to find a place for Pearson's Behavior Module for turning
children in test-passing robots. Like Pearson's other product lines in the
*aimsweb* suite, it is entirely web-based so that your children's records
can be stored for as long as there is a reason to manipulate their data and
their lives.
With aimsweb Behavior control system, you can begin keeping seamless
records in pre-K for every behavior infraction, regardless of how small.
You can also get extra help (or entirely creeped out) in we... more »
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*Saints' surprises: Run game and road win ~Mike Triplett, ESPN*
*Sunday-Monday freeze watch for southeast Louisiana, including New Orleans,
Baton Rouge ~Mark Schleifstein*
*Why we should have incarcerated BP execs and confiscated all their US
assets when their oil spilled ~Richard Thompson*
*James Gill; Songwriter changes tune on plantation plans ~New Orleans
Advocate*
Minister for Propaganda.
Harry Patch, the last surviving British veteran of World War One on World
War One:
When the war ended, I don't know if I was more relieved that we'd won or
that I didn't have to go back. Passchendaele was a disastrous battle
thousands and thousands of young lives were lost. It makes me angry.
Earlier this year, I went back to Ypres to shake the hand of Herr Kuentz,
Germany's only surviving veteran from the war. It was emotional. He is 107.
We've had 87 years to think what war is. To me, it's a licence to go out
and murder. Why should the British government call me up and take me out... more »
I wonder if Secretary Duncan heard our students’ stories?
Last spring, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited my school.
Following the unfortunate tragedy that occurred at Sandy Hook, the purpose
of his visit was to meet with students, and staff, to discuss school and
gun violence. The video below (4:23 minutes) is a condensed version of the
hour-long discussion. The full video (51:36 minutes) […]
How Would You Get People Out In The Streets?
And what would you do with them once you'd gotten them there?
Most leftists don't appear to give much thought to these questions. It's
pathological. We imagine that sitting at home, complaining to like-minded
friends online or in real life is sufficient.
I'll continue to type these little complaints off and on until I'm inspired
to write about something different.
Disproportionate Evaluative Rigor and the Three Laws of Data
I promised in a recent post called The Tyranny of the Datum to write about
some guiding standards for appropriate data usage, in the spirit of Isaac
Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, and I will do that here today. Before I
get to that, though, I’d like to briefly discuss–in a general sense–what I
see […]
Are Markets Moral?
A good friend from Malaysia, Wan Saiful Wan Jan, posted this in his fb wall
today, a forum he attended in Delhi, India.
"Are Markets Moral?" My answer is Yes. No one is putting a gun on someone's
head to sell or buy something. Competition, not coercion or monopolization,
gives more choices, more freedom, more happiness, to people.
"In a free enterprise system, do justice and virtue win or lose?" They win.
Voluntary exchange, absence of coercion, gives justice to people. The only
coercion that must be maintained, is to over-penalize, over-bureaucratize,
criminals like murderers, thi... more »
GOP Class Warriors Are Determined To Block Extension Of Unemployment Benefits
Here at *DWT*, once we saw Patty Murray and the Senate Dems sacrifice
the
working poor to the voracious appetite of conservative predators in
their
shameful compromise with Paul Ryan, we amped up our coverage of the
Republican
War on the Poor and the Republicans' latest advances in the highly
effective class war they've been fighting against America's working
familiesfor decades. This isn't just about cutting food stamps, refusing
the raise
the minimum wage, repealing health insurance for poor families and
refusing
the extend unemployment insurance for workers thrown out of their j... more »
New Left Blogs December/January
New year. New blogs.
1. A Political Education Network for Labour (Labour) (Twitter)
2. Bilgewatch (Unaligned)
3. BlackAndRedFlag (Unaligned/anarchist)
4. blinking ti.me (Labour) (Twitter)
5. Cllr Danielle Stone (Labour) (Twitter)
6. How Not to Suck at Game Design (Unaligned) (Twitter)
7. Kidbrooke with Hornfair Labour (Labour) (Twitter)
8. Latte Labour (Labour) (Twitter)
9. Pat McCarthy Blog (PeopleFirst) (Twitter)
10. PCS Young Members' Network (PCS) (Twitter)
11. Queer Friends of Chelsea Manning (Unaligned) (Twitter)
12. Revolting Pleb (Unaligned/anarchist) (Twitter)
13. stevencharlesrae... more »
Freezing independence for the DPP?
*Lotus in the mud...*
The DPP made the news last week with party whip Ker Chien-ming calling for
the party to "freeze" its independence plank if it wants to return to
power. This proposal was greeted with unicorns and rainbows by Beijing, and
summarily rejected by the DPP.
What a coincidence, eh? That's the same Ker who was the subject of KMT
Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng's alleged influence peddling. That
MaWangMess focused on Ma's bizarre attempt to oust Wang, and Ker was sort
of ignored with the media and political junkies riveted by the spectacle of
Ma suffering abject def... more »
The Epic Journey of Gilga-Mike!
I would like to direct your attention to the adventures of a friend of
mine- my soul brother mike.
*U*man*Mike* took on the adventure of a lifetime, in the seeking to follow
his path where ever it takes him, with no more than a beat up backpack, a
guitar, a couple of euro coins and a wholllllllllleeee lotta love in his
heart to share everywhere he goes.
Mike speaks from the heart, with the deepest kNOWing, and speaks openly,
without guile or prettying up the language- my kinda guy!!!!
His adventures are being updated whenever he's made some money to drop into
an internet cafe and... more »
P.J. and P.H.
Well, Sue, Peter Hitchens agrees with you. And I agree with you both.
I rather enjoyed singer P. J. Harvey’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s Today
programme. It wasn’t that much more Left-wing than it normally is, and I
agreed with its strong support for liberty, its dislike of war and its
condemnation of torture.
It was far more honest and blatant than usual about its bias – which of
course makes that bias much easier to resist.
The BBC’s real partiality is effective because most people don’t notice it
– the careful selection of subjects and guests to exclude some views and
help othe... more »
All in the past?
There seems to be a pattern emerging.
Several senior BBC figures - from Mark Thompson to Helen Boaden - have made
various *mea culpas *about BBC bias in recent years. This is all for the
good, and shows that those who criticised them for it at the time were
right all along.
These senior BBC figures, however, always seem to go on to say that such
bias, however regrettable, is 'historic', 'a thing of the past', and that
the corporation is now getting it about right.
This weekend the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson has backed up Helen
Boaden's admission of 'liberal' bias over... more »
TPP & Corporate Globalization International Call To Action On 31 January 2014
CALL TO ACTION: January 31 Inter-Continental Day of Action vs TPP &
Corporate Globalization.
READ:
http://www.canadians.org/blog/call-action-january-31-inter-continental-day-action-vs-tpp-corporate-globalization
#GMOs #TPP #InterContinentaldayofaction #Mexico #USA #Canada #gmofreeusa
#Corporateglobalization #MéxicolibredetransgénicosGMOFreeMexico
#gmofreecanada
For those in other Lands:
*http://inagist.com/all/418588877041844224/*
No more Secrets! Reading your friend's minds?
Dr. John's World - Dr. John's Hiding Place - 6 hours ago
Imagine one could read your brains? Science fiction or science fact? Dr.
Michael Persinger [...]
And now the Shipping Forecast...
For those who were never quite sure exactly where North Utsire and South
Utsire are, here's a helpful map courtesy of the Met Office.
All together now...
Rockall, Malin, Hebrides. Southwest gale 8 to storm 10, veering west,
severe gale 9 to violent storm 11. Rain, then squally showers. Poor,
becoming moderate.
New Evidence Shows That Organic Soy Is Far Superior To GMO Soy
BREAKING NEWS: New independent peer reviewed study shows that contrary
to
claims by the GMO industry and the FDA, GM soy is NOT substantially
equivalent to non-GM soy.
Glyphosate tolerant GM soybeans contain high residues of glyphosate
and...its toxic breakdown product AMPA, but conventional and organic
soybeans
contain none of these agrochemicals, according to the study. The study
also
found that organic soybeans showed the healthiest nutritional profile.
ORGANIC ROCKS!
READ:
http://gmoevidence.com/dr-t-bohn-glyphosate-accumulates-in-roundup-ready-gm-soybeans/
#soy
#gmo #gmo... more »
'BLANKET' JACKSON
*Children of Michael Jackson and property developer Mohamed Hadid. Prince
Michael II (Blanket) front. Michael Joseph Jr. (far left), Paris Michael
Katherine (center). dailymail. Mohamed Hadid, born in Nazareth, grew up in
Damascus and Beirut. His father worked for the CIA's Voice of America in
Washington.*
Blanket (Prince Michael II) has launched a cartoon series about a young boy
avenging the murder of his father.
Blanket, who is 12 in February 2014, is named as the writer and creator of
the five sketches entitled *Kill Them All*.
*Horror show vendetta of Michael Jackson's son ... more »
Earth probably has no dark matter ring
Three days ago, Nude Socialist was probably the first source that mentioned
a provocative suggestion.
In the article GPS satellites suggest Earth is heavy with dark matter, Anil
Ananthaswamy mentions an unpublished proposal voiced by Ben Harris at a
recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Harris determined the Earth's mass from the trajectories of the satellites
and his result was between 0.005 and 0.008 percent higher than a figure of
the International Astronomical Union. So he decided that the extra mass is
due to a 190-kilometer-thick ring of dark matter surroundin... more »
The first 'Sunday' of 2014
Here are my first impressions about this morning's *Sunday* on Radio 4.
The first *Sunday *of 2014 began with an interview between Edward Stourton
and the Archbishop of Sudan, Daniel Deng, discussing the descent into chaos
of South Sudan - the world's newest nation - after just two and a half
years of independence from the Muslim north. Archbishop Deng says it's not
a tribal conflict, rather it's a political issue, a power struggle. (That's
not quite what I've been reading). He wants the outside world to pressurise
both sides.
The first Muslim-related story of the year came next.... more »
RSS AMSU 2013: 10th warmest year on record
Roy Spencer et al. claim that 2013 was the fourth warmest year of their
35-year-long satellite era. Their satellite friends/competitors at RSS AMSU
which has been my primary source of temperature data since the beginning of
this blog seem to disagree.
*RSS, 1979-2013, graphics by Mathematica.*
According to the RSS AMSU data, 2013 was actually the tenth warmest year –
quite a difference for two datasets using "almost" the same methodology.
The ranking is summarized by the table below.
01: {1998, 0.55},
02: {2010, 0.472},
03: {2005, 0.33},
04: {2003, 0.32},
05: {2002, 0.31... more »
Libricide. The Harper Government's Plan to Murder Science.
How
close to home does Harper's plan to transform Canada have to get before
it arrives like the grim reaper on your doorstep?
It has arrived on mine.
Stephen Harper is destroying our scientific libraries.
Years ago this country thought well enough of me to end my combat
service and to send me off to become a scientist. Admittedly there was
an ulterior motive. I would become one of the few
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
Censored News
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 - 19 hours ago
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-pm-erdogan-holds-unannounced-summit-with-inner-circle.
Turkish PM Erdoğan holds unannounced summit with inner circle
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[image: Erdoğan held a three-hour long meeting at Dolmabahçe Palace with
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Erdoğan held a three-hour long meeting at Dolmabahçe Palace with Interior
Minister Ala, MİT Undersecretary Fidan, Istanbul Police Chief Altınok an... more »
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*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 similar to 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 Gun
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 - 20 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 ) !
http://rt.com/news/fukushima-radiation-water-leak-186/
‘Duct tape, wire nets’ were used to mend Fukushima water tanks - worker
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As TEPCO began preparations for the cleaning of the drainage system with
tons of leaked radioactive water at the Fukushima power plant,a former
employee reveals the reason for so many leaks was cost cutting measures
such as using duct tape,Asahi reported.
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Bitcoin news for January 1 , 2014 - A look back at 2013 , a look ahead !
Catharsis Ours - 1 day 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 »
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