Food For Thought (Photo credit: Son of Groucho)Though Christie Didn't Put It There, New Jersey Does Have A Severed Horse's Head On It's State Flag
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 27 minutes ago
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As a service to people who watch Fox News, which has made a great effort to
block out the unfolding Chris Christie scandal, here's what happened today
to their shockingly incompetent hero-- aside from this, of course:
Chris Christie succeeded at one thing in his press conference today. He
acted civilly. He didn't thrust a pudgy finger into any women's faces and
scream at them; he had his bullying instincts in check. He announced that
he was "embarrassed and humiliated" that his bridge scandal was un... more »
The Politics of Some One?
Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
Ever since Wikileaks hit the headlines with the release of its Collateral
Murder video I’ve been thinking (and sometimes blogging) about what kind of
actor it is, what kind of politics it represents, what this means for
global governance. But I could never for the life of me figure out how to
really tackle these
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70 NEOCONS PETITION CONGRESS TO EFFECTIVELY ALLOW ISRAEL TO SAY WHEN THE U.S. SHOULD ATTACK IRAN
Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 1 hour ago
Seventy senior Israeli-centric neoconservatives have written an open letter
to Congress imploring them to do more to ensure Iran complies with the
conditions of any agreement finally reached with the P5+1 over Iran’s
nuclear program.
While the neocons are ostensibly asking Congress to ensure compliance, it
is clear that their real aim is to convince members of Congress to support the
bill currently passing through the Senate which calls for tighter sanctions
against Iran in the event of any waywardness on Iran’s part.
The neocons are eager to see the bill get through Congress with e... more »
On DCPS education budgets. Trying to do our jobs with nothing. @valeriestrauss @dcpublicschools
Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 3 hours ago
I teach in Ward 8. A clerical error lead to the District rescinding our
budget until it’s sorted out. So, as of right now, one of the neediest
schools in the entire District is operating with no money. And when I mean
no money, I mean nothing, nada, zilch, zippo, nothing. We paid for the […]
Judge allowed to ask clarifying questions at trial
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago
*Silvio v. 698743 Ontario Limited (J. DiFranco & Son Construction)*, 2014
ONCA 17:
[8] Third, the appellants contend that the trial judge compromised
trial fairness by improperly interfering with the defendants’
cross-examination of witnesses. They set out eight examples in their
factum.
[9] We do not accept this submission. In the context of an
eight-day trial, the small number of interventions during the defendants’
cross-examination of witnesses were directed at clarification of a witness’
evidence, ensuring that the defendants’ counsel was reading properly f... more »
From our A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words Dept.: Do you recognize this Indian diplomat?
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*From washingtonpost.com -- click to enlarge*
by Ken
I'm not sure why I clicked through to the the "*Washington Post* e-"News
Alert" that went out this afternoon at 4:12:14 PM, but I did, and I was
greeted with what you see above. I sat looking at it for a brief while,
then whizzed through the brief text, then sat looking at it for a longer
while.
Am I the only one who took it for granted that the photo was of the
(female) Indian diplomat in question? Possibly at a hearing of some sort
before her departure, dressed in some unusual native garb I'm not familiar
with?
No, as I disc... more »
JPMorgan To Exit Foodstamp, Other Prepaid Cards Business ! How lucrative is the EBT business ? Note the following nugget - Just how lucrative JP Morgan’s EBT state contracts are is hard to say, because total national data on EBT contracts are not reported. But thanks to a combination of public-records requests and contracts that are available online, here’s what we do know: 18 of the 24 states JP Morgan handles have been contracted to pay the bank up to $560,492,596.02 since 2004.Since 2007, Florida has been contracted to pay JP Morgan $90,351,202.22. Pennsylvania’s seven-year contract totaled $112,541,823.27. New York’s seven-year contract totaled $126,394,917 ........ So with revenue streams from other sources impacted , such as mortgage creation impacted by rising interest rates , proprietary trading impacted by the Volcker rule - why is JP Morgan really walking away from this profitable line of business ?
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-09/jpmorgan-exit-foodstamp-other-prepaid-cards-business
JPMorgan To Exit Foodstamp, Other Prepaid Cards Business
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Mess with us, we'll mess with you. That is the message one can derive from
JPMorgan's surprise announcement that it plans to "sell or wind down its
business of issuing prepaid cards for corporate payrolls and government tax
refunds and benefits." Which also includes the in... more »
CONCERNING THE FACTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE TRAGIC DEATH OF PRESIDENTJOHN F. KENNEDY - By Fidel Castro - November 23rd, 1963
Paul Coker at News Spike - 3 hours ago
Always, when something very important has happened,
national or international, we have thought it desirable to speak
to the people, to express our opinions. And in every such case to
express the orientation of the Government, the orientation of our
Party, so that each one of us all know the attitude we should
adopt in each one of these situations.
It is true that we are somewhat accustomed to various types
of unexpected events, important, serious events, because since the
victory of the Revolution our country has had to face a series of
problems, a series of situations that have prepar... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
“This telescopic close-up shows off the otherwise faint emission nebula IC
410 in striking false-colors. It also features two remarkable inhabitants
of the cosmic pond of gas and dust below and right of center, the tadpoles
of IC 410. The picture is a composite of images taken through narrow band
filters. The narrow band image data traces atoms in the nebula, with
emission from sulfur atoms in red, hydrogen atoms in green, and oxygen in
blue.
*Click image for larger size.*
Partly obscured by foreground dust, the nebula itself surrounds NGC 1893, a
young galactic cluster of stars tha... more »
Chet Raymo, “Silence And Speech”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
*“Silence And Speech”*
by Chet Raymo
“The poet Jane Hirshfield was last evening's guest of the college. As I
read her work in anticipation of the visit, I found myself thinking of
Rainer Maria Rilke, and in particular of the "Duino Elegies", among my
favorite poems. "Does a poem enlarge the world/ or only our idea of the
world?" asks Hirshfield in one of her poems. She wrestles with the central
paradox of artistic creation, a paradox that also concerned Rilke.
I recall reading somewhere that the painter Wassily Kandinsky could be
transfixed, enraptured, by the sight of a collar but... more »
Gold and Silver News and Views - January 9 , 2014 - Jesse notes an " Interesting Development at the Comex " ..... Alasdair Macleod: Index trackers and their effect on gold and silver futures .... Royal Mint Runs Out of Sovereign Gold Coins on “Exceptional” Demand ..... Dave Kranzler asks " Comex Gold Inventory: Do You Really Trust The Banks ? " Bill Holter discusses Gold Manipulation 101
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
Articles , news and views from Janaury 9 , 2014 - as we wait the now
traditional Non Farm Payroll and Employment situation PM manipulations on
Friday January 10 , 2014.........
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2014/01/gold-daily-and-silver-weekly-charts_9.html
09 JANUARY 2014
Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Interesting Development at the Comex
I thought it was pretty interesting that 63,877 ounces of gold bullion left
the registered inventory from Scotia Mocatta yesterday. That brings the
deliverable category down to a new low of 416,563 ounces for this leg of
th... more »
Obamacare updates - January 9 , 2014 .....Will There Be an Obamacare Death Spiral in 2015? No ......... AP: Insurers discovering they have no record of some ObamaCare enrollees ...... Surprise: Numerous Insurers push Obamacare payment deadline to late January
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/01/09/ap-insurers-discovering-they-have-no-record-of-some-obamacare-enrollees/
AP: Insurers discovering they have no record of some ObamaCare enrollees
POSTED AT 4:41 PM ON JANUARY 9, 2014 BY ALLAHPUNDIT
Is this the first moderately big tremor for O-Care on the news wires this
year or did I miss something earlier? It’s been so cold in most of the
country, I imagine some significant number of new enrollees decided to put
off their first doctor’s appointment, which means few cases so far of
people discovering technical snafus that have left them in
go... more »
Deep tweets
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours ago
I find this uniquely terrifying. No idea on the cultural reference. Kind of
hoping it's West Wing and this is a bizarre declaration of candidacy.
Can you tell what our favorite show is? http://t.co/t6VfIV8ajo
pic.twitter.com/kEki0rPIcA
— Michele Bachmann (@MicheleBachmann) January 9, 2014
Winter Olympics in dire straits due to ongoing terror attack concerns and threats from Chechen terrorist Doku Umarov ? After the two prior attacks in Volgograd - occurring on consecutive days , we now see this news today ......Numerous Explosives Discovered Near Winter Olympics Site - further underlining the seriousness of the threats , note that the Russian media reported that Russian security forces had come across multiple unexplained deaths and explosive devices in a region near Sochi, resulting in an aggressive "anti-terrorism sweep."
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-09/numerous-explosives-discovered-near-winter-olympics-site
Numerous Explosives Discovered Near Winter Olympics Site
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Just a few short weeks away, the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter
Olympic may go off with a bang, literally, judging by the amount of
"terrorist" chatter surrounding the games. Today however, it is more ... more »
CRACKING DOWN IN THE UK
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 4 hours ago
In the UK, the government is introducing new laws to protect US military
bases in Britain - a person could be punished just for walking a dog
nearby. The government's using legislation enacted over a century ago, to
move ahead without Parliament's approval.
AIM leader who visited Iran now heads chiefs organization
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago
APTN: AIM
leader who visited Iran now grand chief of Manitoba chiefs organization
APTN National News WINNIPEG–An American Indian Movement leader who
visited Iran is now the head of a Manitoba chiefs organization. Terry
Nelson, an AIM National vice-chair, won by two votes on the fourth
ballot during an election Thursday for the next grand chief of the
Southern Chiefs Organization.
http://
Holey Corpus Christie!
Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 4 hours ago
Like many people with nothing better to do this afternoon, I was glued to
CNN's coverage of the Chris Christie marathon news con.
"I am a very sad person today," he sneered.
If there is any justice, the New Jersey governor will get sadder still.
His former Port Authority appointee, implicated in the deliberate snarling
of George Washington Bridge traffic last fall, reportedly is cutting a deal
with prosecutors for immunity in exchange for testimony. It remains to be
seen whether Bridget Ann Kelly, fired over her own gleefully vindictive
machinations, will remain vindictive enough ... more »
Freedom House Photo/Art contest
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 5 hours ago
Call for Photos and Art
Today, Freedom House will begin accepting submissions for its third annual
photo and art contest, Images of Repression and Freedom. We invite
professional and amateur photographers and artists to submit photos and
other forms of art (i.e. cartoons, prints, paintings, graphic art) that
reflect the themes of freedom, political participation, democracy, human
rights, and repression.
Semifinalists chosen by Freedom House will be displayed and auctioned as a
fundraiser on April 10, 2014 in Washington, DC. The top three winners will
be featured on the Freedom Ho... more »
IF YOU HAD DOUBTS....
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 5 hours ago
- It's been a good day. I went to our state capital in Augusta today to
the rally of the Maine Alliance for the Common Good. It's a statewide
multi-issue group that some of us created last year. We had a big rally
during the legislative session in 2013 and today we held a rally on just
the second day of the new session at the capital. About 150 folks turned
out and the event featured mostly young speakers, including a ten-year old
boy speaking about Nestle that controls alot of the water in Maine. Other
speakers talked about climate change, student debt,... more »
McDonald's Wants YOU To Know How To Eat Healthier and Manage Your Poverty, Rethugs Divide-and-Conquer USA Scheme Triumphs As It's Deep-Sixed, and Senators From States With Highest Unemployment Poised to Kill Unemployment Insurance For Their Voters Without Apology
Cirze at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 5 hours ago
It's good to know, isn't it, that McDonald's is truly interested in helping
its employees to be healthier and better prepared to face the adversity of
poverty? But how did the laws in the U.S. let them get away with this type
of behavior for so long? The McDonald's website tried to explain (until it
was "yanked" (deleted)). Just last month the website provided financial
advice, telling
Was the "War on Poverty" a Success? Yes.
noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 5 hours ago
The graph above comes from a new paper by Christopher Wimer and colleagues
at Columbia University (available here in PDF). The paper helps to address
what is a surprisingly difficult question to answer: How has poverty
changed over time?
Wimer et al. explain:
Poverty measures set a poverty line or threshold and then evaluate
resources against that threshold. The official poverty measure is flawed on
both counts: it uses thresholds that are outdated and are not adjusted
appropriately for the needs of different types of individuals and
households; and it uses an incomplete measure o... more »
SIRC - the other board members
Alison at Creekside - 5 hours ago
Big stink this week because in addition to being SIRC Chair, Chuck Strahl
is also a registered lobbyist for Enbridge and for *Alberta Frog Lake
Energy Resources Corp*, a First Nations firm that has partnered with a
Chinese-company to drill for oil. This would probably never have blown up
the way it did this week if ...
- if the Harper government as a whole didn't behave like pro-pipelines
lobbyists and activists themselves,
- if CSIS, the spy agency which SIRC oversees, didn't spy on
anti-pipelines activists, and
- if CSIS director Richard Fadden hadn't publicly ex... more »
A lesson in poverty
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours ago
Went to Fred's Discount store today to get a new shower head. Three people
at checkout ahead of me. First one was an elderly black granny with a
preteen granddaughter. Granny was digging in her purse to pay for garbage
bags. She came up one penny short. The clerk let it go.
The next was an tiny older white woman. She paid for the soup and crackers
with a SNAP card. It was so old it wouldn't scan. They had to punch the
numbers in. She was fifty cents short for the OTC cold medicine. She was
going to use her debit card. I offered to pay the fifty cents because it
would probably cost ... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago
*Doubted at every step of the way, undersized Sproles continues to amaze
~Joe Posnanski*
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago
*David vs. Goliath: John Barry, New Orleanian of the Year 2013 ~Gambit*
Friday Morning Ramble: The “It’s Colder Than a Ticket-Taker’s Smile” Edition
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
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I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but Niagara Falls is
freezing over.
[image: 5]
I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but frigid temperatures
forced an esacped prisoner to turn himself in.
I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but Hell is freezing over
too.
I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but don't try pissing
outside.
I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but water from fire hoses
turns to ice as it hits burning buildings.
I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but Lake Michigan i... more »
Interlude. A screen capture to divert you from your search
Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours ago
I
regularly make the mistake of goggling away to engineer my way onto a
lot of websites. Part of the reason is that I don't bookmark them and I
can't be bothered to scroll through my browser's history. I'm not lazy
... really. I'm just a little disorganized, and I like it that way.
So, when I was looking for The Daily Show recently, I had forgotten that
the U.S. site rejects video requests from
“The Dangerous Militarization of Our Local Police Forces”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“The Dangerous Militarization of Our Local Police Forces”*
By Jim Hightower
“What a Christmas little Bastrop had! It's still a mystery how Santa Claus
got it down the chimney, but Bastrop got a nifty present that most children
could only dream about: A big honkin', steel-clad, war toy called MRAP.
But Bastrop is not a six-year-old child, and an MRAP is not a toy. Bastrop
is a Texas county of some 75,000 people, and MRAP stands for
"Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected." It's a heavily-armored military vehicle
weighing about 15 tons — one of several versions of fighting machines that
ha... more »
How It Should Be: “Very Surprising Reaction From Cop After Refusing Checkpoint Stop”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“Very Surprising Reaction From Cop After Refusing Checkpoint Stop”*
“If every cop not only knew but honored the Constitution and treated
citizens with respect instead of immediate suspicion... We have this. There
now...isn't that better? The way it could and should be.”
- http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread992108/pg1
*Good luck!*
In Hawaii's Senate Contest The Best Feminist Is A Man
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Both of Hawai`i's U.S. Senators rank high in Progressive Punch ratings;
Hanabusa seeks to break up the partnership
U.S. Senator Brian Schatz is a proud feminist-- with a record of
achievement to prove it. And he's running for reelection on it, despite a
big money challenge by conservative New Dem, Colleen Hanabusa, backed by
corrupt war industry contractors and, predictably (albeit sadly), EMILY's
List.
He has an entire section of his campaign website devoted to reproductive
freedom.
And he's an original co-sponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act-- top-priority
legislation for... more »
You Spin Me Round...Like a Record, Baby
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
There's a dramatic-looking instance of BBC bias being reported today.
The *Telegraph *tells us that "David Cameron has accused the BBC of
misleading listeners in Liverpool about the scale of the cuts to their
city" and cites some shocking bias from a BBC presenter:
In testy exchanges on BBC Radio Merseyside, Mr Cameron was accused of
“unfairly” hitting the city with steeper cuts than those faced by the
council in his prosperous constituency of Witney.
Roger Phillips, the host, told Mr Cameron he was “so out of touch it’s
untrue”, adding he should spend a week in the area and visi... more »
The Duggan Riots
Paul Coker at News Spike - 8 hours ago
Croydon MP, Gavin Barwell, said: "I have spoken to well into double figures
of people who saw people with walkie-talkies and radios directing people
around."
I can confirm this. Only the downmarket end of Croydon town centre towards
Thornton Hearh and small businesses were torched.
No corporate multinational premises were seriously dammaged.
In August 2011, three separate police units were following Mark Duggan as
he travelled in a taxi through Tottenham.
*1.* *According to the police*, Duggan threw away a gun.
A gun was reportedly found 20 feet away from the taxi, on the other... more »
Jeff Gerth: From Watergate to Whitewater
Paul Coker at News Spike - 8 hours ago
Bill Clinton and his wife were business partners with the owner of a
failing savings and loan association that was subject to state regulation
early in his tenure as Governor of Arkansas, records show.
The partnership, a real estate joint venture that was developing land in
the Ozarks, involved the Clintons and James B. McDougal, a former Clinton
aide turned developer. It started in 1978, and at times money from Mr.
McDougal's savings and loan was used to subsidize it. The corporation
continues to this day, but does not appear to be active.
Mr. McDougal gave a detailed account ... more »
Malala Yousafzai visits Fort Lee!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago
*THURSDAY,
JANUARY 9, 2014 *
*Mayor Sokolich, before being baited:* Eventually, Mayor Sokolich was
baited last night about being called “that little Serbian.” He tossed
off a
remark about one Christie aide who “deserves an ass-kicking.”
This gave one upright cable show the headlines it had been chasing:
*Christie ex-aide “deserves an ass-kicking”*
Chris Hayes interviews Fort Lee’s Mayor Mark Sokolich about
“Bridgegate.”
On cable, exciting times!
But before the baiting, when the mayor was good, we thought he was
*very*good. Speaking to Chris Hayes, the mayor described his own
nature:... more »
Bill Whittle interviews Dr. Burt Folsom: The Myth of the Robber Barons, Part 1
Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 9 hours ago
*"Market Entrepreneur" vs. "Political Entrepreneur" *
To all the budding entrepreneurs out there: This is how it's done.
“Today's Reserve Currency = Tomorrow's Wallpaper”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*“Today's Reserve Currency = Tomorrow's Wallpaper” *
by Bill Bonner
“Somehow, like it or not, the world turns. Today's hegemon becomes
tomorrow's also-ran. Today's reserve currency becomes tomorrow's wallpaper.
Today's cock o' the walk becomes tomorrow's dinner. Hey, we didn't create
this system. We don't even especially like it. But that's just the way it
is. We'll come back to this in a minute. First, let's just note that
yesterday's markets were losers for just about everyone. The Dow lost 68
points. Gold was down $4 an ounce.
Now, back to our thoughts on money – the same tho... more »
Another bad quarter for Postmedia, and a plan that's not working
paul at Paying attention - 9 hours ago
The latest grim quarterly report from Postmedia sharpens questions about
the company’s future.
Continuing declines in revenue and circulation are too great to be solved
by the company’s current approach.
The corporate strategy is straightforward. Cut costs, find ways to get
readers to pay more, in part through innovations like tablet editions, and
convince advertisers that they should pay more for more effective ads.
It might work, if revenue was not continuing to vanish at such an amazing
rate.
Revenue fell 8.4 per cent compared to the same quarter a year earlier, or
$17.7 million. ... more »
Yet More Fun with Geoengineering
Paul Coker at News Spike - 9 hours ago
*"Nevertheless, an effective political substitute for war would require
"alternate enemies," some of which might seem equally farfetched in the
context of the current war system. It may be, for instance, that gross
pollution of the environment can eventually replace the possibility of mass
destruction by nuclear weapons as the principal apparent threat to the
survival of the species. *
*Poisoning of the air, and of the principal sources of food and water
supply, is already well advanced, and at first glance would seem promising
in this respect; it constitutes a threat that can be ... more »
The "knockout game" has a real face
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago
The "knockout game" has been increasing in popularity in the USA, sounds
like fun?
Here's the reality... A little old white lady smacked in the face by a
young black thug and posted onto Facebook by one of his mates..
Disgusting? I'm sure all right-minded people would agree. How about Diane
Abbott and Lee Jasper, will they condemn such actions or seek to excuse
them?
Here's some background to the "knockout game"
nnn
Former KIPP Students Respond to KIPP Teacher Interview Excerpt
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 9 hours ago
The KIPP damage control machine has not sprung into full action mode yet,
but my recent sharing of a small clip from one interview with a former KIPP
teacher has generated a number of comments here and here and here. (Note
that anyone other than those forced into anonymity for security or safety
reasons should include real names when posting comments at SM).
I include two responses below from two former KIPP students with very
different perspectives on KIPP. The first one offers an unreserved
endorsement of KIPP and all its practices, while the second one offers
something quite dif... more »
10 imágenes con frases bonitas de amor y otras graciosas
José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 9 hours ago
The one hundred and sixty-eighth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago
The Telegraph reports that:
'*We want a United States of Europe says top EU official*
A campaign for the European Union to become a "United States of* Europe*"
will be the "best weapon against the Eurosceptics", one of Brussels' most
senior officials has said.
Viviane Reding, vice president of the European Commission and the longest
serving Brussels commissioner, has called for "a true political union" to
be put on the agenda for EU elections this spring.
"We need to build a United States of Europe with the Commission as
government and two chambers – the European Parliament and ... more »
Catastrophic Cognitive Dissonance Danger Ahead :protect yourself with maximum ignorance against toxic truths
Steve at Thinking Aboot - 10 hours ago
Your Three of a kind that can beat a full house: my Seinfelden Neuman Jerry!
Jerry as usual your performance has insulted my intelligence, but then
again so did the new Superman movie. But in both cases larger than the
periphery was I not entertained?
Catastrophic Cognitive Dissonance Danger
protect yourself with maximum ignorance
if you cant handle the truth.
Referring above subject the huge bandwidth of today's Stepfordan panels
playing melodic symphony's sharp right notes hypnotic word salad giving
birth to child bearing rhetorical certainty. If Rob Ford could only play
the mu... more »
What Is A Human Being?
What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 10 hours ago
Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a gorgeous tropical rainforest
in Africa. Among the many beings living there were three tribes of
primates. They were the ancestors of modern chimps, baboons, and humans. All
of them were tree dwellers. Primates, who evolved whilst bounding from
branch to branch in the forest, have highly developed senses of sight and
touch. On the other hand, lost mammals that evolved for life on the ground
have highly developed senses of smell.
By and by, the climate cooled, the rainforest shrank, and grassland
expanded. The tree dwellers were not... more »
WWII in Europe and the Pacific in Seven Minutes
Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 10 hours ago
We've seen WWII in Europe in seven minutes before, but how about on a
global scale? It's fascinating:
As this is the centenary of the First World War, can we expect the Western
Front in seven minutes too?
The Politics of No One?
Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 10 hours ago
Ever since Wikileaks hit the headlines with the release of its Collateral
Murder video I’ve been thinking about what kind of actor it is, what kind
of politics it represents, what this means for global order. Finally some
IR scholars have written a piece e
Looking For Me? I'm Over At Bloomberg View
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours ago
First post is up:
Will Scandal Cost Christie the Invisible Primary?
Yes, I got "party actors" and who they are into my first post...just worked
out that way. More to come!
Again, my general page over there is also up (will get you first paragraphs
of each post, click through for full thing...alas, true blogs just aren't
happening any more).
And here's the next post:
Catch of the Day
There were a few requests for keeping links here to posts there, at least
until the rss feed shows up (in a few weeks, after their site redesign is
launched)...I haven't decided yet, but I'll try to d... more »
How Will Economic Fairness Issues Play Out In The Midterm Elections
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
I found the above quote this morning on the Facebook page of Jason Thigpen,
the North Carolina Republican-turned-progressive Democrat running for the
House seat occupied by Walter Jones. What a contrast to the talk among
House Republicans this morning-- the ones who have slashed the food stamps
program so that every child and every vet who is struggling to survive on
food stamps gets 20 fewer meals per month-- for starters; they have even
more drastic more cuts to the program they want to pass this month. The
Republicans in the House aren't talking about extending unemployment
ins... more »
Op-Ed: Appeasement is Never the Answer to Festering Despotism
Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours ago
Thailand has those who support the regime, others who boldly oppose it, and
there is another group - those who believe appeasement, idealism, and
denial will solve everything. History disagrees.
*January 9, 2014* (ATN) - Bangkok Post's column writer Voranai Vanijaka is
sharp. He is well informed and a skillful writer. He has demonstrated an
astute awareness of the criminality of Thaksin Shianwatra and the danger he
poses to Thailand as a democracy and as a free, functioning society.
However, like all of us, Voranai is also human. For him, like many people
throughout history when f... more »
The remarkable problem of basic test scores!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2014*
*Is San Diego the best:* Is San Diego the nation’s best urban school system?
We have no opinion about that. We don’t know if there is one single best
urban district.
Diane Ravitch says San Diego is best; she may be right, of course. On
Tuesday, she started a post on the subject like this:
RAVITCH (1/7/14): *Something magical is happening in San Diego.* It is a
good school district. Teachers and administrators and the school board are
working towards common goals.
*San Diego, in my view, is the best urban district in the nation.*
*I say this not based on... more »
Audio: Deal making behind purchase of BHP Navajo Mine
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
Deal
making behind purchase of BHP Navajo Mine
-This audio is in Navajo and English, but we can translate to English if
we get enough requests. PLEASE share with your parents, grandparents,
friends, and neighbors.- This audio is a report by Shiprock's Council
Delegate, Russell Begaye on the purchase of BHP Navajo Mine. It is an
enlightening and totally incredible report on the
Market-Driven Researchers Find that Reality Is Messy III
John Thompson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
This is the third in a series of critiques of Matt DiCarlo’s “The Year in
Research on Market-Based Education Reforms: 2013.” The preceding posts,
here and here, summarized research on some obvious problems with
value-added evaluations that should have been foreseen. This post addresses
pitfalls that were discovered after value-added systems were implemented.
The preceding […]
What is the White Man March?
John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 12 hours ago
Kyle Hunt, host of *The Blitzkrieg Broadcast* on *Renegade Broadcasting*,
is one of the leading organizers of the *White Man March* scheduled for
March 15th, 2014. What follows is a transcript of the questions I asked
Kyle for an article about the White Man March I am currently writing for *American
Free Press*, followed by his responses.
*JF:* What is the White Man March? What is the purpose and ultimate goal of
the march?
*KH:* The White Man March is scheduled for March 15th, 2014, and will
involve coordinated pro-White activity around the world. The purpose is to
spread informat... more »
Game On! Gaming Party Trailer Utah Giveaway
Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 13 hours ago
It's a New Year and that means everyone has a birthday this year! What is a
better way to celebrate then to spend time playing your favorite video game
with your family and friends? Bargains with Brittanie and Trust Me, I'm a
Mom are teaming up with some fantastic bloggers and Game On! to offer our
Utah Readers a spectacular giveaway! Game On! is a company that provides a
mobile video game party trailer dedicated to bringing the finest video game
party right to your front door or where your next party is located. The
gaming trailer provides five internal 55″ HD TVs where gamers can... more »
On Corporate Tax Reform
Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 13 hours ago
An article out of the Richmond Fed offers a nice overview of the issues.
DUMBNIFICATION STUDIES: Scandal!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2014*
*Interlude—Dumbnification is us:* In modern journalistic culture, you *are*allowed to talk about a journalist’s alleged “bias.”
You *aren’t* encouraged to think about his or her level of dumbnification.
Such assessments are considered rude, beyond the pale.
In our view, this constitutes a major flaw in modern press corps culture.
It’s hard to see how dumb our press culture is, especially when the topic
is kept out of sight, out of bounds. And so it continues:
The inability to report even the simplest types of statistics. The
inability to quote or paraphr... more »
Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War
plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War. via Ending Poverty Requires
Community, Not War.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours ago
Yes, I was dubious too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww&feature=youtube_gdata_player
To be honest, I still am!
Watchdog of the Week: Murray Freedman Beats the BBC
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours ago
It is possible to get the BBC to apologise for a piece of bias I've had a
couple of successes in the past. Today, Honest Reporting has news of
another victory over the BBC's anti Israel agenda.
http://honestreporting.com/watchdog-of-the-week-murray-freedman-beats-the-bbc/
Of rats and men
Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 14 hours ago
*Or, In Vino Veritas*
By Capt. Fogg
When I watched Dennis Rodman's drunken rant the other day, I was
astonished, dumfounded and amazed that none of the commentary included the
compelling, obvious, unavoidable observation that the man was dead drunk:
smashed, stewed, tanked, wasted, three sheets to the wind and shitfaced.
It was probably more obvious to the sheepish players sitting next to him
who were, I'm sure, worried about any open flame in such hazardous
atmosphere. If we needed any further reminder of the somewhat erratic
journalistic and public tendency to forgive athle... more »
Progressive Music Classics. "Punk Prayer" by Pussy Riot
Marc McDonald at BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com - 14 hours ago
.
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*By MARC McDONALD*
Welcome to another edition of Progressive Music Classics.
I have to laugh when I hear bands like Green Day described as "punk." Green
Day is about as "punk" as a cup of Starbucks coffee. Green Day wouldn't
know real "punk" if it walked up to them and grabbed them by the balls.
(Not that corporate cowards like Green Day have any balls in the first
place).
In any case, Russia's *Pussy Riot* has more balls than the entire U.S.
corporate recording industry.
Real punk has always been about challenging the system. The Sex Pistols (at
least in their first incarnat... more »
ALEC Corporations - Legislation to Cover Incompetence
2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours ago
PUC = Public Utilities Commission
*New PUC member might hinder Boulder’s municipalization*
*By Jefferson Dodge*
Why did I find this info?
Cause I was following this:
The controversy over the appointment of Glenn Vaad, a member of the
right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), … ALEC, a
group that has campaigned to overturn renewable energy standards around the
country.
ALEC’s “State Legislator of the Year” award in 2012
chair of the ALEC Task Force on Commerce, Insurance & Economic Development,
Vaad received ALEC “scholarships” for traveling to the council’s
c... more »
Steve, Maggie and Ronnie
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 14 hours ago
Stephen Harper has never been a big tent politician. But he has always been
devoted to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Jeffrey Simpson writes:
In March, 1989, with the Progressive Conservative government of prime
minister Brian Mulroney safely re-elected, a young right-wing maverick
wrote a long memorandum about how to create a stronger, sharper
conservative movement.
Stephen Harper was by then a Reformer, having abandoned the PCs, and he
offered advice on how to shift the Reform Party from being a populist
critic of the status quo to what he called a “modern version of the ... more »
Just Say No-- To Fast-Tracking The Corporate "Free" Trade Agenda
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Let me reiterate an old story. Bush I signed the NAFTA treaty at the end of
1992. Bush couldn't get it through Congress so he left his Wall
Street/Chamber of Commerce baby in Clinton's hands and Clinton put
responsibility for getting House Dems to get on board in the hands of a
then little known White House thug from Chicago, Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel was
still bragging, threateningly, at the time that he had lost a finger
fighting off a Syria tank on the Golan Heights. (He was actually making
lanyards at a summer camp for children of wealthy American Jews, nowhere
near the Golan Heig... more »
Greatest Conspiracy
Steve at Thinking Aboot - 15 hours ago
(credit)
In the pantheon of conspiracy theory the winner by far is the Kennedy
assassination. Some real interesting stuff here.
If I was making a purely speculative movie with total poetic licence about
the Kennedy assassination the plot would be as follows.
*Dulles is convinced JFK will not fight in Vietnam. A syndicate is formed
with Dulles, Hoover, Johnson and the Mob. The hit team is lead by GHWB and
the actual trigger pulled by Liddy and Hunt. Nixon has nothing to do with
it. Strange though in real life he was in Dallas that day, even more
curious the reason why?*
*So in my mov... more »
Market-Driven Researchers Find that Reality Is Messy III
John Thompson at Schools Matter - 15 hours ago
This is the third in a series of critiques of Matt DiCarlo's "The Year in
Research on Market-Based Education Reforms: 2013." The preceding posts, hereand
here, summarized research on some obvious problems with value-added
evaluations. This post addresses pitfalls that were discovered after those
systems were implemented.
The preceding post concluded with Dan Goldhaber's and Susanna Loeb's finding
that value-added produced up to 68% false positives and 68% false negatives
when predicting future effectiveness. In other words, value-added
evaluations are spectacularly ill-suited for n... more »
Gold flash crash ( 30 $ ) on January 6, 2014 ( velocity logic circuit today's excuse to run stops and scalp traders - note the trades were not cancelled ) ..... Once the scalp was over , prices for gold and silver recovered all of the crash losses ! Bill Holter covers the major story of last week ( Bundesbank is holing an empty bag as their gold deposited at the New York Fed is long gone.....Koos Jansen's excellent repor covering China huge appetite for gold in 2013 ! Eric Sprott sees 2014 as the year gold and silver breaks prior nominal highs , believes we could see some sovereign banking systems fail - we shall see what comes to pass !
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-06/gold-flash-crashes-halts-trading
Gold Flash Crashes, Halts Trading As "Velocity Logic" Circuit Breakers
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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago
*Kickin’ It Old School ~moosedenied*
*"That sensation you were feeling late Saturday night was the Quickening.
Believe it." ~Grand Master Wang*
*Clueless or Lying ~Library Chronicles*
*Carnival 2014 brings more changes for suburban krewes ~Scott Satchfield,
WVUE*
*Woman found dead in tent under Pontchartrain Expressway overpass after
freezing night ~Robert Morris, Uptown Messenger*
*Rift aired out between police monitor, inspector general ~John Simmerman,
N.O. Advocate*
*University of New Orleans Makes U.S. News & World Report’s “Least Debt”
List for Third Year in a Row*
*Resid... more »
William Hauge
Steve at Thinking Aboot - 16 hours ago
This guy even from across the ocean always irritated me. I do not know if
he is Gay or not, it really does not matter to me. However if William is a
pedophile its a different story. Aangrifan has some interesting views on
the subject. The upper level of England seems to be a overflowing cesspool.
And my conspiracy theory jones loves that deceased MI6 worker Gaerth
Williams found locked inside his gym bag is part of the speculation.
Apparently even though the bag was locked from the outside, it was
determined there was no foul play. Apparently there were no fingerprints
anywhere in... more »
harper is Like the Weather
thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 19 hours ago
Everybody talks about him but nobody does anything about him.
Hamiltonians, not dogmas, pick the right bases, prices, and rates
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours ago
*What big-government advocates and hidden-variable cranks have in common*
This blog post will combine diverse topics – including the philosophy of
science, economics, general quantum physics, quantum field theory, and
string theory. It will try to answer the following question:
What is the most widespread general error that prevents people from
acquiring the rational and/or correct understanding of problems?
My answer is that a vast majority of people constrain themselves by dogmas,
assumptions, group think, and stereotypes – while they should try hard to
impartially look for the an... more »
Early Taipei Mayor Election Prognosticatin'
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 21 hours ago
*Thinkin'....*
The Taipei Times ran a short piece on Sean Lien, the son of Lien Chan, the
former Presidential candidate of the KMT and Honorary Chairman, etc, who is
one of Taiwan's wealthiest human beings. The piece hinted at a couple of
important issues that a longtime politics watcher in Taipei explained to me
over dinner this week. For the first time in a while a victory for the
pro-Taiwan side in Taipei may be within reach. The article observes:
Recent opinion polls have suggested that *Sean Lien is the favorite to win
the Taipei mayoral race, while showing that support for Ko... more »
HOT ARGENTINIAN SEX
Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago
*Fanny.*
Fanny Foxe (Annabelle Battistella) was an Argentinian stripper who became
the mistress of Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills.
Mills was a contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 1972.
In October 1974, Fanny and Wilbur were taking a drive in Washington at
around 2 am when they were stopped by the police.
Fanne attempted to flee the scene.
Wilbur was re-elected to his congressional seat in 1974.
*Maria Belén Chapur and Mark Sanford*
Maria Belén Chapur is an Argentine journalist who had an affair with South
Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.
For six days in... more »
Stalker's Guide To... another new Mike Philbin novel?
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 21 hours ago
STALKER'S GUIDE TO... is a potentially massive novel that's been playing in
the back of my mind for 'a few years' now.
*SGT... started out as an idea for a Video Game, but I didn't 'go through
with it' in any constructive sense, and it's just been there, in the
background. I've explored certain aspects of this story, this
interventionist world, in recent novels Bukkakeworld (2008) and Tandem
(2013) for example, but that's all they are; snippets of, referential to,
jarring visuals from; nothing more than. With my second Free Planet novel
#2 LIBERATOR now in its first-draft (spell... more »
"[T]he White House tells us that ObamaCare is a worthy program even though those who are supposed to be helped by it aren’t because of large deductibles, copays, and Medicaid estate recovery. The cost of this non-help is a doubling of the policy premiums on those insured Americans who did not need ObamaCare and the reclassification by employers of workers’ jobs from full-time to part-time in order to avoid medical insurance costs. All it took was campaign contributions from the insurance industry to turn a policy that hurts most and helps none into a worthy program. Worthy, of course, for the insurance companies." [excerpt]
David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 21 hours ago
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*The Case of the Missing Recovery — Paul Craig Roberts*
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January 3, 2013 | Original Here
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*The Case of the Missing Recovery*
Paul Craig Roberts
Have you seen the economic recovery? I haven’t either. But it is bound to
be around here somewhere, because the National Bureau of Economic Research
spotted it in June 2009, four and one-half years ago.
It is a shy and reclusive recovery, like the “New Economy” and all those... more »
Look at what lane closures in New Jersey have just wrought (updated)
Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours ago
Read this very, very closely.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie was ensnared in a billowing political
furore on Wednesday when newly released emails connected one of his top
aides to a decision to block lanes on the approach to a busy bridge,
causing traffic chaos, apparently in an act of revenge against a
political enemy.
So what, you say. Dirty U.S. politics. Meh! Read a little more.
The Pre-Stonehenge Caucasian Man - far too photogenic? what's going on here?
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 22 hours ago
*Tourists entering English Heritage's new £27 million visitor centre at
Stonehenge will quickly confront its most spectacular exhibit - a man who
was born 500 years before the earliest stone monument appeared at the site.
The well-preserved skeleton was discovered in an elaborate tomb in the
1860s, providing a rare example of the anatomy of Neolithic people. His
face has been brought to life by Swedish sculptor Oscar Nilsson, using
information from bone and tooth analyses. The length of the man's bones,
the skeleton's weight and his age - estimated at between 25 and 40 years
old... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Remember Now”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
2002, “Remember Now”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq4qjI8VVzg
Perhaps their finest work, certainly my favorite... sublime.
MAIZ ORIGINS & MIGRATIONS HISTORY CHANNEL SEGMENT
Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 1 day ago
MAIZ ORIGINS & MIGRATIONS: I got interviewed for a program below by the
History Channel. It will be airing Saturday January 18th at 9PM EST/8PM CST
on the H2 network. They did not give me a script about the rest of the
program. They asked me about Aztlan... but O told them that was not my
primary research, rather, maiz. Think they were more interested in Aztlan,
but I did get to speak about the origins of maiz and its spread throughout
the continent. See what happens.
More info below.
http://www.history.com/shows/america-unearthed.
The 20 Democratic House Incumbents Leading Their Party To Ruin In November
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Gallup was out with some interesting findings this morning: Record-High 42%
of Americans Identify as Independents. Look at that chart! It should be
sending waves of fear through the hearts of the worthless careerists who
run the Beltway establishments of the two corrupt political parties.
Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political
independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured since it began
conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago. Meanwhile, Republican
identification fell to 25%, the lowest over that time span. At 31%,
Democratic identific... more »
BLOGGER - How to change template
Peter at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 1 day ago
First, log into www.blogger.com (Dashboard) and click the down arrow near
the orange pencil icon as shown in the screenshot below:
[image: Dashboard down arrow]
Dashboard > Template
Then at the top right hand corner you will see a tab BACKUP/RESTORE
and you will see a pop-up:
[image: Backup or restore template popup]
First, it is wise to first backup your template before you make any
changes, so click DOWNLOAD FULL TEMPLATE then save the xml file in your
computer where you can easily find it again.
Now assuming you have the new template in xml format save in your computer,
click... more »
inBloom and Data Mining: A Common Core Cousin
deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
This week I posted this piece about a January 9, 2014, webinar promoting
data mining– a webinar with Gates money all over it. (Here is a briefer
follow-up to the post.) The initial post had a record number of comments,
some of which were made by an inBloom representative. The comments prompted
me to further investigate some of the […]
Musical Interlude: 2002, “We Meet Again”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
2002, “We Meet Again”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_OmsxDef9c
"A Look to the Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“How far away is spiral galaxy NGC 4921? Although presently estimated to be
about 310 million light years distant, a more precise determination could
be coupled with its known recession speed to help humanity better calibrate
the expansion rate of the entire visible universe. Toward this goal,
several images were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in order to help
identify key stellar distance markers known as Cepheid variable stars.
Since NGC 4921 is a member of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies, refining its
distance would also allow a better distance determination to one of the
large... more »
Blowing The Sandy Hook Fraud To Bits: John Friend's Realist Report With Guest Jim Fetzer Discuss The Fraudulence Of Sandy Hook!
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
I have long said that the Sandy Hook "massacre" of December 14th, 2012 was
a complete HOAX! The fact is, readers, that Sandy Hook was a criminal
government controlled operation for the sole purpose of creating the
propaganda of fear and grievance to try to convince the American people to
give up their second amendment right to bear arms to resist their own
tyrannical government.... It is a fact that NOBODY died in the Sandy Hook
operation and that the supposed "shooter" himself, Adam Lanza, probably
never existed at all!
For this article, I want to present the following article tha... more »
Professor Bernard McGinn On Christian Mysticism - Meister Eckhart
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
*Wikipedia:*
Bernard McGinn (born 1937) is a theologian, historian, and scholar of
spirituality, affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he is Naomi
Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the
History of Christianity in the Divinity School and the Committees on
Medieval Studies and on General Studies.
Video Title: Meister Eckhart. Source: YouTube channel Eric Gilmour. Date
Published: May 21, 2013. Description:
Interview of Professor Bernard McGinn on Christian Mysticism.
Reading the Mystics
Police State USA - an overview of 2013 in the police state and additional items of note to consider - apart from the NSA revelations ( still unfolding ) , consider the many other events and actions that ave occurred - so many things have come to pass , they probably are a blur in the minds of many !
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-04/nsa-responds-bernie-sanders-whether-it-spies-congress
( Guess that's pretty clear.... )
- Bernie Sanders
- George Orwell
- None
- SPY
inShare
Yesterday, in what we characterized as an episode of a "*real life
magic-mushroom, banana dictatorship envisioned by George Orwell*" gone full
retard, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders asked the NSA point blank whether it
has "spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other
American elected officials?" Today, via the Bezos Post, we got the answer: "*Members
... more »
Hats off to Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Frank Thomas!
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*by Ken*
If you're thinking that the Mssrs Maddux, Glavine, and Thomas fall outside
DWT's normal purview, I think I can explain why it seems to me important to
celebrate them by means of a simple analogy to our more familiar political
and journalistic spheres.
Take "Mo" Dowd -- please! (Ha ha!)
If you looked at the NYT e-roundup this morning, you saw this:
The sensible response would have been to mutter, "Oh, the horror!," and
move quickly on. But let's say that instead you allowed yourself to wonder
whether our Ms. Mo based this brilliant observation on actually having
watche... more »
The 9/11 Commission Concluded that "Al-Qa'ida Appears to Have Relied on a Core Group of Financial Facilitators Who Raised Money from a Variety of Donors Primarily in the Gulf Countries and Particularly in Saudi Arabia"
Cirze at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day ago
U.S. Admits Review of Drone Strike on Reported Yemen Wedding Party Natasha
Lennard Footage passed on to a human rights group shows graphic aftermath
of a strike that enraged Yemenis VIDEO The Saudi plan looks doomed from the
start, though it could get a lot more Syrians killed before it fails. Yazid
Sayegh of the Carnegie Middle East Centre highlights succinctly the risks
involved in the
The Daily "Near You?"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
San Rafael, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Chet Raymo, “Criteria For Truth”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Criteria For Truth”*
by Chet Raymo
“The physicists and cosmologists tell us that the universe consists of 5%
ordinary matter (the kind of stuff your chair is made of), 27% dark matter
(massy stuff of a yet undetermined nature), and 68% dark energy (also yet
unidentified). Dark matter and dark energy are hypothesized to exist
because of their apparent effects on luminous objects \- stars and
galaxies. Which is to say, most of what is is invisible. It's sort of like
hypothesizing the existence of poltergeists to account for moving
candlesticks.
With a difference. Weakly interactin... more »
Alternative news and views - January 8 , 2013 - An Indiana National Guardsman was arrested outside Columbus on New Year’s Day after a state trooper found nearly 50 bombs and the blueprints for a Navy SEAL training facility inside his car, the Madison County prosecutor said yesterday - don't recall hearing about this one on the national news ..... Border patrolman gives refreshing response at checkpoint - hope springs for a minute...........despite the non response by almost every congress critter to the revelation that the NSA spys on them just like any other American citizen - this is a big deal folks .......Ford knows when their customers break the law and where - makes one wonder does the NSA know what Ford knows , have they obtained or can they obtain Ford's GPS data...... Terminators coming closer to reality ....... 911 story crumbling , not that many sheeple give a hot darn.......
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Indiana_guardsman_stopped_for_speeding_had_48_bombs%2C_blueprints_for_a_Navy_SEAL_training_facility/31837/0/0/0/Y/M.html
SOURCE:
COLUMBUS DISPATCHAn Indiana National Guardsman was arrested outside
Columbus on New Year’s Day after a state trooper found nearly 50 bombs
and
the blueprints for a Navy SEAL training facility inside his car, the
Madison County prosecutor said yesterday.
Andrew Scott Boguslawski, 43, also had a remote-control device to
detonate
the bombs, Madison County Prosecutor Stephen Pronai said. Boguslawski’s
civilian job is as a ground... more »
"Boss Sells Restaurant He Has Owned For 17 Years To Pay Medical Costs For Employee, 19, With Brain Tumor"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*"Boss Sells Restaurant He Has Owned For 17 Years To Pay*
* Medical Costs For Employee, 19, With Brain Tumor"*
By Daily Mail Reporter
"A generous boss is selling the restaurant he has owned for 17 years to
help a 19-year-old employee suffering from a brain tumor. Brittany Mathis,
whose father died suddenly from a brain tumor when she was just a child,
was diagnosed last month - but does not have health insurance to cover the
costs of her treatment. Now Michael De Beyer, the German-born owner of
Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar in Montgomery, Texas, has offered to
sell his life's wo... more »
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