détail of meeting where Elijah Muhammad addresses followers including Cassius Clay / World Telegram & Sun photo by Stanley Wolfson. The detail show 2 members of "fruits of islam", the security group of Nation of islam. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Robert A. Heinlein, with Ginny Heinlein Robert and Ginny Heinlein in Tahiti 1980 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)A Country For The Old
Stephen Harper has always been up front about one of his political
objectives -- the destruction of the Liberal Party. Recent polls suggest
that he hasn't succeeded on that front. But, if Frank Graves' latest
numbersare correct, he may well have gone along way to obtaining his
second
objective -- the destruction of the middle class.
Harper bought into the touchstone of the American Right -- Ayn Rand's
dictum that selfishness is a virtue. Graves writes that, in both
countries,
the results have been the same. The middle class is in decline:
A comparison of poll tracking in Canada and... more »
Time to get my genes re-tested.
Identification of de novo copy number variants associated with human
disorders of sexual development. Tannour-Louet et al *PLoS One*. 2010 Oct
26;5(10):e15392.
Disorders of sexual development (DSD), ranging in severity from genital
abnormalities to complete sex reversal, are among the most common human
birth defects with *incidence rates reaching almost 3%*. Although causative
alterations in key genes controlling gonad development have been
identified, *the majority of DSD cases remain unexplained*. To improve the
diagnosis, we screened 116 children born with idiopathic DSD using a ... more »
A New Era for Intersex Rights : The New Yorker
A New Era for Intersex Rights : The New Yorker
People are starting to notice.
My comment :
I find it amazing that so many non-Intersex people are so vehement in
asserting that only *they* know who or what we *really* are. That their
opinion trumps our experienced narrative.
That might not be so bad if you could all agree with one another, but you
can't.
Then there's the overt homophobia - confusing us with gays. The overt
trans- and intersex-phobia, (often from gays ironically enough, who object
to being associated with us). They have a point - the only things we have
in common i... more »
Thought For Today
Heinlein – Specialization is for Insects | Not Always On
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
I prefer to live rather than die gallantly though. That's a last resort.
Instead, I try to fight so efficiently t... more »
Joanne Yatvin: The Common Core Standards May Be Harmful to Children
The following article was written by Dr. Joanne Yatvin, who does a great
job of pointing out problems with specific standards, and how easy it is to
tell that the Common Core Standards were not created by educators or child
learning specialists. Such specialists, such as Dr. Yatvin, have
determined that they are harmful to […]
The Founder of the Nation of Islam...... Looks Kinda White...
Wallace Fard Muhammad
*"Allah came to us from the Holy City Mecca, Arabia, in 1930. He used the
name Wallace D. Fard, often signing it W. D. Fard, in the third year
(1933). He signed his name W. F. Muhammad which stands for Wallace Fard
Muhammad. He came alone. He began teaching us the knowledge of ourselves,
of God and the devil, of the measurement of the earth, of other planets,
and of the civilizations of some of the planets other than earth."*
*The Hon. Elijah Muhammad,*
*Message to the Black Man, 1966*
I quote The Enemy:
*"Historians have used public records to identify Fard... more »
Collectable and eventually playable education activism game cards, courtesy of UOO
The activist organization United Opt Out, that little gaggle always does
things a little differently. Well, in advance of their annual spring event,
taking place in Denver, CO March 28th-30th, 2014, UOO is releasing a
collection of activist game cards that will include the organizers and the
guests who will be in attendance. Now, these […]
Another warm welcome to a new author, Dr. Denisha Jones (@denisha_jones)
Denisha and I go back a few years. We were both graduate students at
Indiana University. And oddly enough, we found our way there from DC, and
now back again. Denisha’s at Howard University. Great institution with a
Dean who’s said some very hopeful things about education reform. Dr. Jones
is in this fight with […]
Censored Native poet, filmmaker and resisters, and a note from Noam Chomsky
While
searching for my articles of travels with the Zapatistas, I stumbled
across one of my most censored articles written in December of 2001. At
the time, I had shared the article with Noam Chomsky, and had since
forgotten about the note he sent back. Noam Chomsky wrote, “Interesting
and eloquent. Thanks for sending."
Simon Ortiz
I'm sharing this again, because of the eloquence and power
Wish you had snow of your own? Eat your heart out!
*Upper West Side (Manhattan)*
DNAinfo caption: *Instagram user Alex Tarhini (@alextnyc) took this photo
of a snow-blanketed Upper West Side street. (Click to enlarge.)*
*by Ken*
Some of you have probably had recent snowstorms of your own, while others
haven't and are probably feeling mighty jealous. I suppose there are some
of you who haven't and are just feeling *Schadenfreude* for us, which is
really mean, but you may enjoy these pictures even more, you rats. Here in
the Big Apple we've had a pretty frosty weekend following our big storm of
Thursday-into-Friday, which made it reg... more »
A Legend Is Born In Pakistan: "Long Live Imran Khan The Great" Scream The Youth of Pakistan
*The heavens bow before him! No illegal drone strike escapes his wrath! No
NATO supply truck is safe on his watch! The man, the myth, the legend, the
great and infallible Imran Khan! *
Imran Khan is the true face of terror in NATO's mind. They control the
Taliban and Al-Qaeda, and help carry out their biggest attacks on U.S. and
international soil, so those militants are nothing to worry about, but an
independent political leader with mass following in Pakistan is what
terrifies NATO generals and U.S. policymakers.
Even the Taliban surrenders at the mere thought of Imran Khan and c... more »
Nice face, shame about the rep
We're newly back from two weeks of travelling on the Caribbean side of
Guatemala and through Belize. It's easy travel in Belize, where English is
the primary language, and the little country is clearly a popular choice
for North American and European travellers. But while I totally get how
nice it is to just breeze through a welcoming country with great tourism
infrastructure, hopefully we convinced at least a few of the travellers we
met to give Honduras a try, too.
The travellers I've met who have been to Honduras always say how much
they loved their time here. It's a gorge... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
Same one that I did for conservatives: who was your rookie of the year for
the first session of Congress? Of those first elected in 2012, who
impressed you?
(Fine. I know you all are going to say Elizabeth Warren. So if you have
runner-up, add that one, too).
Sunday Question for Conservatives
Looking back on the first session of Congress -- who is your rookie of the
year? Who is the best of those newly elected in 2012?
Repugs: The Goal - How to Keep Poor People Poor
It's amazing to me - after decades of programs that have contributed
greatly to our standard of living and to the standard of living of others -
now the Repugs and RepubliCONS want to get rid of them.
So be it - they have hated these programs and policies for decades - but in
the past, they haven't been as adamant about destroying them - and thereby
destroying our way of life in the United States.
If you stop for a minute and think about it - we are currently in a time of
* Corporatocracy, *
* dollarocracy, *
* plutocracy, or *
* fascism.*
Therefore anything that is... more »
Sovereignty 101:Installment 7 - Who's driving?
The course of a god is individually set. Each of us is on that course. The
choice to incarnate as human is made freely. The opportunity for growth is
sort of exponential here.
Some of us came with different agendas. All of us came to set in place a
real opportunity to create. So what is creation?
We have evidence of it daily as children are born, cakes are made and
movies are produced. Yet it is understood that another level of creation
exists – a level that appears to be magical, powerful and beyond our
ability.
Everything necessary for us to create worlds exists within ... more »
MSM Again Fail To Tell All Sides Of Story On 'Obamacare'
By Manifesto Joe
When it comes to the Affordable Care Act, known pejoratively to critics as
"Obamacare," our Mainstream Media have, again and again, generally failed
to tell the whole story. The reports have mostly focused on the early
failures of the federal website, admittedly a debacle at first.
But there are other sides to this story that are rarely being told. One
rare case was a recent lead story in the middle-market daily newspaper of
Wichita Falls, Texas -- I believe it is called the Record-News, owned by
the Scripps chain.
The report tells the story of Julie Coley of Wichi... more »
The Role of Poetry in Expressing the Divine Presence
Video Title: The Role of Poetry in Expressing the Divine Presence. Source:
RecoveringtheSacred. Date Published: December 1, 2012. Description:
Patrick Laude, International Sufi Symposium 2007.
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, January 5th, 2014
It is indeed good to be back…. I missed last week's rant due to fear of
having a heart condition, and I am now doing a lot of catching up….
First and foremost, I truly want to thank Whitewraithe for helping me out
at this blog during my short absence…. I really do hate hospitals, and even
after getting a clean bill of health on my heart, I came down over the last
few days with a very intense cold and fever. I do suspect that I caught
that during my hospital stay! The angiogram is healing up nicely, but my
right wrist does hurt like the dickens, and even as I type this rant, I am ... more »
Killing the Canadian Coast Guard. One massive hack at a time.
You
would naturally believe that Harper and his hillbilly cohort would be
strengthening the Canadian Coast Guard for several reasons, not the
least of which would be to strengthen any claim on the Arctic with
positioned Arctic escort ships, search and rescue and just plain hanging
a flag. Another reason would be the woefully inadequate CCG resources
to deal with the upcoming traffic jam in
TV Watch: Okay, "Downton Abbey" deprivees, tonight's the big night* -- and wait, there's more!
**Of course, don't forget to check your local listings.*
Tough Justice with Michelle Dockery from Michelle Dockery
*"She's not Lady Mary anymore."*
*by Ken*
Noah passed this on to me, and at first I assumed it was real -- yet
another case of a gosh-darned Brit taking away American j-o-b-s. It turns
out to be *better than real* (kind of scary-real, actually). And isn't
"better than real" the post-Reagan American Dream?
Note: In case it doesn't play (and I have a bad history with non-YouTube
embeds), here's the link.
(I've got my *Downton Abbey* Season 4 Blu-rays on pre-order, for ... more »
Argentina: Light Formation Over Tucumán
A possible triangular UFO over Tucumán, Argentina?
Contributing editor *Guillermo Gimenez* provides us the following photo
from *Luis Burgos*'s FAO site. The image, taken by *Javier Lopez Posse*, is
accompanied by the following text: "Attention, Tucumán! Today at 09:03 p.m.
I captured three white lights in the shape of a triangle (possible
triangualr UFO) flying from East to West at a 60-degree elevation. I was
looking at it from North to South, apparently heading toward Cerro San
Javier. It gave the impression of being translucent, with white yet opaque
lights. If anyone else ... more »
KAISER WILHELM II, GAYS, FREEMASONS, JEWS AND WORLD WAR I
*'Little Willie'. Wilhelm in 1863*
Scandal erupted in Germany in 1907.
Various top people in the military and in the royal court were named as
homosexuals.
Kaiser Wilhelm II's intimate friend, Prince Philip von Eulenberg, was put
on trial.
*(Professor John C. G.-Rohl "The Kaiser and his Court, Wilhelm II and the
Government of Germany",1966)*
*Prince Philip von Eulenberg*
A journalist called Harden claimed to have hard evidence of the Kaiser’s
homosexuality.
During Kaiser Wilhelm's annual hunt in the Black Forest, the chief of the
Military Directorate died of a heart attack... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Sound of Music'
SOUND
OF MUSIC
MNN. Jan. 5, 2014. The orenda [energy], oyendera [body] and onikonra
[the mind] all work together to be healthy and to communicate with the
natural world. We are spirit beings with inherent vibrations. Taking us
off natural sound and natural time creates divisions in our mind so that
we can be separated from the oneness.
Pope Disney to corporatists: “You take over
Human-animal hybrids by artist Liu Xue
some of the best sculpture art this blogger has ever seen has come out of
China. Here's another example, my first art post in 2014, the bizarre and
alluring human-animal hybrid sculptures of Liu Xue that explore tradional
images of beauty in an unconventional (and highly original) fashion.
*image courtesy of **beautiful decay*
*image courtesy of **beautiful decay*
Ronald Reagan's Secret Rabbit-In-Hat Plan To Subvert Our Society So Much That David Brooks Now Appears As A Serious Philosopher
Yes, Virginia, we're here in American due to a secret society's desire for
power, eminence and riches. And freedom. Don't forget freedom! Ronald
Reagan often spoke of America’s divine purpose and of a mysterious plan
behind the nation’s founding. “You can call it mysticism if you want to,”
he told the Conservative Political Action Conference in 1974, “but I have
always believed that
Sunday Unwrapped/Interrupted
As predicted, when the Bethlehem Unwrapped item was featured on Ed
Stourton’s Sunday, Radio 4, time ran out just as things were (might have
been) hotting up. Having been trailed throughout, the discussion was nipped
in the bud before anything significant or new had a chance to get its boots
on.
This sort of thing happens so frequently it’s beginning to look like a
conspiracy by some mischievous BBC producers ‘aving a larf.
Lucy Winkett reiterated the same claims she has stated many times in the BU
publicity and subsequently in the Guardian, with knobs on. Alan Johnson,
putting ... more »
We Rode with the Zapatistas
The impenetrable stronghold of the Zapatistas
By Brenda Norrell
Marcos with Tohono O'odham near Arizona border
Photo Brenda Norrell
Censored News
When people speak of Che, they often speak of his deep love, love for humanity, love for Indigenous People, and love of justice.
Those of us who traveled with, rode with, and supported the Zapatistas over the past 20 years, were drawn
Editorialising
What should a media organisation which is bound by statute and its own
editorial guidelines to report impartially do when a UK politician appears
to be engaging in shameless electioneering? Should it say so?
*The Times *reports tonight:
David Cameron rejected suggestions today that he has decided to protect
pensions ahead of offering immediate help to working people because the
retired are more likely to vote. The Prime Minister used his first major
interview of the new year to announce the Government’s pledge to commit to
the “triple lock”, which guarantees that pensions rise by ... more »
Libya updates January 5 , 2014 - oil blockades and political intrigue roll along.....
Oil Protests and blockades continue....Oil pipeline blocked at Nalut by
protesting guards
*By Seraj Essul.*
*Tripoli, 4 January 2014:*
Petroleum Facilities Guards based in Nalut have blocked an oil pipeline
from the Wafa field to Mellitah, claiming that they have not been paid
since last March and that all they have received from the government are
their uniforms.
The gas pipeline from the Wafa field to the Mellitah gas processing plant
was closed for some weeks by protesting Amazigh demanding a greater say in
the drafting of the constitution. However the deputy head of Nalut local
... more »
A new blog for you to check out from Canadian educator Tobey Steeves
It’s called ReMapping Education. I’ve always had very insightful chats
with Mr. Steeves on Twitter. Hopefully we’ll cross paths in person sometime
down the road soon. Hopefully fatherhood doesn’t keep his thoughts away
from us for too long. Wish him luck on that one, @symphily on Twitter.Filed
under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk […]
Dana Antiochus Confronts Jewish Privilege on RT
If
you weren't already aware, RT is basically a kosher operation. I rarely
even bother visiting the site. Dana Antiochus of *Renegade
Broadcasting*did an excellent job exposing this fact. Please watch and
share this short
video with friends and family.
The Bete Noire of the French Establishment- La Quenelle in English
*Hat tip to Gallier for leaving all the information that will be posted
below!*
gallier2January 2, 2014 at 9:24 AM
Hi Penny, happy new year and all that. I wanted just drop you a link to a
nice video explaining with a song what the Quenelle is all about.
gallier2January 2, 2014 at 12:46 PM
And here an excellent summary of the Quenelle situation in France
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/01/the-bete-noire-of-the-french-establishment/
*Merci Gallier deux!*
This movement, originating in France, first got my attention a couple
months back via The Vineyard of the Saker. Gallier clarif... more »
The Daniels-Lumina-ALEC-Sallie Mae-Purdue-Gallup Index: What Everyone Needs to Know
by Doug Martin
As a means to hold Purdue and other universities “accountable,” Mitch
Daniels, in late December, announced the Purdue-Gallup Index which will
track how well students in higher education fit into the US workforce. Anyone
who followed Daniels' corporate school agenda while he was governor (or
anyone following the corporate school leaders anywhere, for that matter)
understands that using false measurements is a way to slash art teachers’
jobs and classes, fire teachers to create a temporary teaching workforce,
turn schools completely over to private companies, and train... more »
Bruckner 7 -- a symphony built on its opening pair of musical twin towers
[*As I explained at the top of Friday night's preview, this is the second
part of a three-part Bruckner series, begun December 6-8 with "Bruckner's
Fourth Symphony -- four stories for four movements," a reprise of a January
2010 post I've always been fond of. This Bruckner Seventh preview post
appeared originally in July 2012. The Bruckner series -- and, I'm
projecting, Sunday Classics -- will conclude with a new post on the Ninth
Symphony.* -- Ken]
*The string chorale that bursts out shortly after the start of the Adagio
(at bar 4 above) of the Bruckner Seventh*
*by Ken*
As prom... more »
Share My Lessons, Brought to You By AFT's Innovation Fund (Gates Foundation)
As Bill Gates like to say, if you can't beat 'em, then buy 'em. Which is
what he has done with American education policy, from control of the
Business Roundtable's education agenda all the way through the AFT and NEA.
Since 2009, Weingarten has been adding to AFT's nine-digit bank balance by
accepting corporate foundation cash to promote Common Core, VAM tests,
teacher evaluations based on test scores, and other CorpEd initiatives.
From the AFT's website in 2010:
. . . ."Effective teachers are the single greatest school-based factor in
raising student achievement," said Vicki L. P... more »
Zapatistas fed up with media terrorism
Democracy
Now!
Chiapas Professor Peter Rosset: Well, I think we face in Mexico and in
the world—in the United States, as well, and in many countries—what
Subcomandante Marcos has called "media terrorism," and that the
mainstream media, what it does is it frightens people with unexplained
images of threats and violence, making people support right-wing
governments and repressive measures, and
Mitt Romney speaks on the targeting of his black adopted grandson by MSNBC...
*pure class.*
Compare Mitt's behavior to the shuck and jive hateful rhetoric that spews
forth daily from the current occupant of the White House.
Women of Fukushima
Women of Fukushima-English subtitles from Paul Johannessen on Vimeo.
Here's some important Sunday reading for you...
*you're welcome.*
*The Denaturalization of America*
*and *
*Obama To Americans: You Don’t Deserve To Be Free*
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. Let us know if you'd like bulk copies
for
local distribution. We just ask you to pay for the postage.
- Sung-Hee Choi has posted the current Jeju prisoner information this
... 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
Outbreak
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 »
Untitled
*Saints' surprises: Run game and road win ~Mike Triplett, ESPN*
*Saints Beat Philadelphia Eagles In Wild Card Thriller, 26-24 ~Jason Saul,
WWNO*
*10 Annotated Pictures of Popeyes Chicken & Green Gatorade ~Bradley
Warshauer, Black and Gold Review*
*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 »
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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 - 19 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
.
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 »
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