Thursday, January 23, 2014

23 Jan - Blogs I'm Following II

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Bitcoin news January 21 - 23 , 2014 -- Cryptocurrency Exchange CoinMKT Announces US Banking Partner ... Las Vegas Casinos Accept Bitcoin, But Not for Gambling ..... University of Cumbria - first university in UK to accept bitcoin , while Bylls allows Canadians to pay bills in bitcoin ....... Finland classifies bitcoin as a commodity.....

Catharsis Ours - 5 minutes ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/jp-morgans-jamie-dimon-on-bitcoin-2014-1 Jamie Dimon Goes On The Attack On Bitcoin SAM RO 35 MINUTES AGO 0 - - inShare - - - EMAIL MORE [image: jamie dimon bitcoin] CNBC The fact that we're still talking about Bitcoin seems to suggest that it has some staying power. However, Jamie Dimon believes its standing as a currency will eventually end. Dimon, who is the CEO of JP Morgan, spoke with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin about the so-called digital cryptocurrency. And he went on the attack. "It's a terrible store of value," said... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 19 minutes ago
A wish for our planet. [AFSC image]

Looks Like Huckabee Missed Those RNC Classes On How Republicans Should Talk To About The Ladies

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 25 minutes ago
This week, a 20-year old woman in Subalpur in West Bengal was sentenced to be gang raped by the sick, deranged conservatives who run her village. The village chief and the 13 rapists were arrested yesterday. After she couldn't pay a 25,000 rupee fine ($459) for dating a Muslim man, the village council decreed she be raped. She's in the hospital after the brutal assault but has identified all 13 of her attackers. Condemning the incident, a member of the National Commission for Women, Nirmala Sawant Prabhavalkar, highlighted the plight of women in West Bengal state and said that ju... more »

Holistic Living - A Definition

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 25 minutes ago
Since receiving your comments asking for posts on holistic living, I've given the topic a lot of thought. While the way I live my life is holistic in many ways, I've never really thought about it or considered it's relationship to living green. To get us started, I'd like to share my thoughts on what holistic living means to me. It is, by no means, the absolute definition ... it is simply my definition and what I'll use as the basis for future posts. Ready to explore the subject with me? [image: Holistic Living - A headache can cause irritability.] Have you ever noticed how a very sm... more »

Frye Festival: Frye & McLuhan (Video)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
*Wikipedia:* Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century. An international literary festival The Frye Festival, named in Frye's honour, takes place every April in Moncton, New Brunswick. An excerpt from, *"Northrop Frye, 78, Literary Critic, Theorist and Educator, Is Dead"* by Peter B. Flint, The New York Times, January 25, 1991: The professor, who tracked voluminous themes and images to the Old and New Testaments, was hailed by many scholars and reviewers as the... more »

Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts, and former Wall Street bond trader, Dave Kranzler, deduce how and why the Fed has been manipulating the price of gold, and they come to the stunning conclusion that the Fed has been stealing gold bullion loaned to them by foreign banks and selling it cheap to China. They further believe that the Fed has very little physical gold left, the selling of which has been the source of their cash to continue Quantitative Easing. When they finally run out of gold the "too big to fail" banks will fail anyway, and the currency markets will depreciate the dollar, making Chinese products much more costly for American consumers. Take heed America ...because you will not hear this from the "mainstream" media until it is too late.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 hour ago
------------------------------ *Is the Fed’s ability to manipulate the price of gold running out?* ------------------------------ January 21, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter Is the Fed’s ability to manipulate the price of gold running out? Paul Craig Roberts interviewed on USAWatchdog by Greg Hunter http://usawatchdog.com/fed-they-do-not-have-any-more-gold-paul-craig-roberts/ ------------------------------ *Blogger's Note:* The following video is what you would find, together with sel... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
"This lovely starfield spans some seven full moons (about 3.5 degrees) across the heroic northern constellation of Perseus. Just right of center it holds the famous pair of open or galactic star clusters, h and Chi Persei. Also cataloged as NGC 869 (right) and NGC 884, both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much younger and hotter than the Sun. Separated by only a few hundred light-years, the clusters are both 13 million years young based on the ages of their individual stars, evidence that they were likely a product of the same star-forming region. *Click ... more »

PUTTING THE PEACE ISSUE ON THE TABLE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 2 hours ago
- This art work above was made by Suzanna Lasker here in Maine. She's become one of the most prolific political artists in the state. Maine has a wonderful organization called the Union of Maine Visual Artists. They support one another across the state and have been a great resource to our progressive movements. - The printer delivered our Global Network *Space Alert* newsletter today and I began filling the many bulk orders that have come in from all over the US and around the world. We didn't used to get many bulk orders for our newsletter but o... more »

Say, aren't Floridians -- white ones, anyways -- SUPPOSED to carry guns (and stand their ground with 'em)?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Robert Marucci -- "an admirable young man" in more than one way* *"I think he's the most awesome person in the world. He stood up and he was the man of the house when I couldn't be."* *-- Robert's mother, Melyssa Lieb* *by Ken* Earlier versions of this story, it appears, have been circulating online since the weekend, but I didn't catch up with it till a friend forwarded the AOL Jobs account below (links onsite), with the subject line "An admirable young man." One aspect of his admirableness is reflected in the photo above. (Alas, AOL didn't include any video. One suspects that t... more »

The Badasses Saddle Up

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 3 hours ago

Children's Authors Beg Obama for Relief from Testing Insanity

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 3 hours ago
Wish in one hand, and spit in the other; see which one fill up first. From MSNBC, of all places: Famed author and poet Maya Angelou and 120 other children’s book authors are challenging President Obama’s national education policy over what they call an “overuse and abuse” of standardized testing. They say the focus on testing hurts children’s imaginations and has a negative impact on children’s love of reading. Obama’s signature education program, “Race to the Top,” has been criticized for heightening the value placed on students’ performance on standardized tests as an indicato... more »

An Opt Out must read.

Chris Cerrone at @ THE CHALK FACE - 3 hours ago
I have been involved in the Opt Out movement for two years and have read many articles and opinion pieces about boycotting high-stakes standardized testing. This essay from the The New Yorker hits home on many levels, including the history of testing, is the best piece I have read to date. A must read: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/01/the-defiant-parents-testings-discontents.html?mobify=0 […]

Thailand protests force Government to declare sixty day Emergency period for Bangkok ! Note the military is keeping a close watch on violence by the Government and a military coup has not been ruled out !

Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
Thailand Government Declares State of Emergency for BangkokMeasure Takes Effect Wednesday and Will Continue for 60 Days Email Print Save↓ More Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn - smaller - Larger By WARANGKANA CHOMCHUEN CONNECT Updated Jan. 21, 2014 7:16 a.m. ET Thai antigovernment protesters waved national flags as they marched through downtown Bangkok on Tuesday. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images BANGKOK—The Thai government declared a state of emergency for 60 days in Bangkok and nearby provinces to deal with the continuing antigovernment protesters who h... more »

Two step test for Summary Judgment

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours ago
Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7: Summary judgment motions must be granted whenever there is no genuine issue requiring a trial. There will be no genuine issue requiring a trial when the judge is able to reach a fair and just determination on the merits on a motion for summary judgment. This will be the case when the process (1) allows the judge to make the necessary findings of fact, (2) allows the judge to apply the law to the facts, and (3) is a proportionate, more expeditious and less expensive means to achieve a just result. The new fact‑finding powers granted to motion judg... more »

China’s Coming Default?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
*NZ’s rock star economy is relying heavily on China this year for our economic progress. In this guest post, David Howden wonders how long China’s own progress can last un-busted– and is pessimistic.* Last June I pointed to four unfortunate facts in the Chinese economy. 1. Overall credit had increased to $23 trillion dollars, up from $9 trillion as recently as 2008. 2. This amount of credit was over 200 percent of GDP, an increase of 75 percentage points in just five years. (By comparison over the same period the United States’ ratio of debt-to-GDP increased by 40 p... more »

Mariaromocasino Moves to the Edge:  The Wagons Circle And Declare Wall Street Healed (Eyes, Ears and Noses Tightly Closed), PR Firms Solidly Engaged? (A Major Bust!)

I'm sure you've heard that the money honey, bond babe, Maria Bartiromo of CNBC, has joined with the forces of evil, Fox News, and will now be hawking her wares to the real rubes. I guess when the fake rubes won't buy anymore, she's got to move on. My guess is she'll just be the first to leave CNBC for Fox. As economic times worsen, the floodgates will open and all Hell will descend on those

Your awakening from the illusion, from the unreality in which you have apparently been immersed for eons is imminent!

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago
City Awaken by Younhee Paik *Jesus Message from John Smallman* *Your awakening from the illusion, from the unreality in which you have apparently been immersed for eons is imminent!* There is only the ONE! You all know that, even if many of you have trouble accessing that knowledge, that deep inner knowing. God, our Father, the Source of all that exists and in which all is contained, just IS. And the Source is infinite, limitless, without boundaries – there is no beyond, there is only within, which has neither beginning nor end, it just IS, ALWAYS, EVERYWHERE. It is inevitable, una... more »

Raging libido

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours ago
Well you can't spell Huckster without the Huck and here comes Mike Huckabee peddling his own special brand of social populism. Huck is here to tell us the GOP is not waging a war *on* wimmin, it's waging a war *for* the little ladies. The real enemy is those evil oppressive Democrats. Huckabee said Democrats rely on women believing they are weaker than men and in need of government handouts, including the contraception mandate in Obamacare. "If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providin... more »

Smoke On the Water and Fire in the Sky

noreply@blogger.com (Niles) at DAMMIT JANET! - 6 hours ago
Facts are inconvenient truths. The above statement is a trope. It's a truism. It's many variations on the sardonic commentary that you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Nobody likes it when they discover that you're just making shit up as you go along, *lying* to get your own way. Facts push non-factual accounts further and further and further out onto a ledge where more and more witnesses can examine the merits and find them so wanting that it's a 'meh' reaction when the non-factual account finally leaps off into oblivion. One of the defenses of non-factual... more »

9/11: Some Numbers

Paul Coker at News Spike - 7 hours ago
*"The Earth looked very beautiful from space, but I did not see our Great Wall," * *Yang Liwei,* *First Chinese Man in Space* *"As an interstate agency, the Port Authority was not subject to local laws and regulations of the City of New York including building codes."* *Some numbers: * Number of properly issued death certificates in Lower Manhattan on the day of 9/11: *3* Claimed loss of life on 9/11* - * *2996* Number of Fatalities claimed by live reportage by CBS News from St. Vincent's Hospital, Lower Manhattan, around 6pm on the Day of 9/11: *6* Public funds (initially... more »

Monopoly Money, "IOUs" and Where's the gold anyway?

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 7 hours ago
Time for another episode of "*As the world Turns*... its stomach!" In our last episode, we saw the Federal Reserve making up new magic tricks to try to save their asses by inventing $200 Billion for their bankrupt cousins, the Tobigtofail Family. ..... This week, just so that our viewers don't think that this is just an Americancentric show, we introduce you to the Chinese kingpins that also seem to of lost their checkbook!!!! .... ok enough with the cheesy 80's TV!!! ............ although seriously? It kinda is like watching a really terrible 80's Soap Opera!!! Bill posted thi... more »

Jan Schakowsky Draws A Pair Of Fringe Crackpots

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Today's Illinois Republican Party… very sad Any list of the most effective and dedicated progressives in Congress wouldn't be complete without 8 term Chicagoland icon Jan Schakowsky. The former public school teacher has been representing IL-09 since 1999, a safe (D+15) blue district that covers the north end of Chicago's lake front from just above Diversey Harbor, through Evanston, Wilmette and Winnetka, across to Northbrook, Des Plaines and way out west to Arlington Heights. Although some progressives grouse she is too ready to give Obama's less savory agenda items the benefit of th... more »

More bears

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago

Thaksin's Mad Dash to Sham Elections (Op-Ed)

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 7 hours ago
Terrorism, boycotted elections, and now a draconian emergency decree are the ingredients of dictatorship, not democracy. *Image: Not entirely unlike North Korea, Thaksin Shinawatrais presiding over what are essentially one-party elections,under a state of emergency that allows him to censor, arrest,and otherwise silence all opposition. This state of emergencywas enacted after a terror campaign admittedly carried out byhis own supporters. It is not difficult to understand whyprotesters are desperate to dislodge Thaksin from power.**January 22, 2014 *(ATN) - Torn from the pag... more »

The Secret War in Libya

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 7 hours ago
*January 23, 2014* (Eric Draitser - Stop Imperialism) - The battles currently raging in the South of Libya are no mere tribal clashes. Instead, they represent a possible burgeoning alliance between black Libyan ethnic groups and pro-Gaddafi forces intent upon liberating their country of a neocolonial NATO-installed government. On Saturday January 18th, a group of heavily armed fighters stormed an air force base outside the city of Sabha in southern Libya, expelling forces loyal to the “government” of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, and occupying the base. At the same time, reports from ... more »

Playful bears

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago

Why We Fight

Paul Coker at News Spike - 7 hours ago

You know what they say about men with big feet!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 7 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014* *Can Salon repeat:* Early this morning, we clicked to Salon. This was the excitable site’s featured news report: *BIGFOOT EROTICA EXPERT SPEAKS* Salon talks with Virginia Wade, author of highly popular sasquatch smut, about the appeal of "monster porn" TRACY CLARK-FLORY At the start of the month, we made the announcement: Salon’s deliberate, spectacular dumbnification had been the media event of 2013. Somewhere in the great northwest, big ol' Sasquatch is strutting his stuff. In Las Vegas, smart money says the gang at Salon may repeat.

Occupy Bangkok’s Quest to de-Thaksinize Thailand

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 8 hours ago
[image: Occupy Bangkok 01-23-14] January 23, 2014 (Eric Draitser - Stop Imperialism) - As hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the streets of Bangkok demanding the ouster of the Shinawatra government, the Western media continue their one-sided portrayal of events in Thailand, misrepresenting the protests as anti-democratic. On January 13, 2014, the largest Thai protests in decades officially came together under the banner*‘Occupy Bangkok’*. Demanding an end to the regime of Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra, the protesters, who come from all social classes and all walks of life, h... more »

AMERICA'S NUCLEAR RADIATION COVER UP 1946 - 1958 / BARBARIC RACISM

Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 8 hours ago
*Bravo nuclear explosion / Project 4.1 / March 1st, 1954* *The Public Broadcasting Industry paid for and is now suppressing a documentary film "Nuclear Savage" that explored nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands 1946-1958 ~ that exposed Pacific Islanders to deadly overdoses of radiation just to send a message and get more data on killing and maiming people: Allen L Roland* *The Republic of the Marshall Islands covers nearly a million square miles of picturesque islands, thriving coral atolls, and crystal clear blue waters …. undoubtedly one of the most interest... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago

"Treating Extreme Wealth As a Disease"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
*"Treating Extreme Wealth As a Disease"* By Rob Kall “Psychiatry has been shifting to a model that is designed to identify psychiatric pathologies in most of the population. If there are no biological markers or indicators then the psychiatric diagnostic manual puts together patterns of behavior. Once it's characterized there's, very conveniently, a drug for that. Using this Big-Pharma driven model of diagnosis creation, I'm partially playfully and partially seriously offering some potential diagnostic categories for the very wealthy. Remember, this is half satire, I am not a m... more »

Ben Ginsberg surrenders some billable hours!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014* *Gets praised by the nation’s top liberal:* We really felt sorry for poor Jackie Calmes this morning. Calmes strikes us as the sanest person at the New York Times. Through absolutely no fault of her own, she had to report the recommendations from Obama’s blue-ribbon panel about the best ways to reduce voting delays. In the real world, this is what you call pap. Remember, these are just recommendations—*nonbinding* recommendations: CALMES (1/23/14): *Among the commission’s recommendations:* *All citizens should be allowed to register to vote or update t... more »

Employment Stats UK

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
In preparing this week's forthcoming *Newsnight *reports I found myself having a read of the latest Office for National Statistics report on UK employment. It's not something I usually do (no, honestly!) but I might well be doing so again as they are very interesting - as I hope you'll agree. So here are the nation's latest stats:. • The number of people in employment in the UK is 30.07 million, • The number of UK born people in employment in the UK is 25.68 million. • The number of non-UK born people in employment in the UK is 4.38 million. • The number of men working full-time is... more »

Guess what today is...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 8 hours ago
*besides Thursday.* It’s National Handwriting Day As a product of the 1950’s, I was taught Palmer Method handwriting. Today most schools are abandoning the teaching of cursive all together. It’s just another way of dumbing down the populace. It’s been years since I taught religious ed at my church, but I still remember the shock at the inability of the 7th through 12th graders to write cursive and forget about even being able to write a complete sentence. Punctuation? Forget it. These modern day geniuses couldn’t even print very well. Sadly, since I type so much, my han... more »

No basis for US spinning Geneva communiqué to demand Assad’s resignation

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 8 hours ago
Preconditions placed on attending the Geneva 2 conference insisted on by the United States are detrimental to building a conducive environment for ending the fighting in Syria. Despite months of effort by diplomats and the international community, the long-awaited Geneva 2 peace conference is in disarray. The opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) – an exiled umbrella organization supported by Western and Gulf states that represents a negligible segment of rebel groups on the ground – has agreed to attend the talks under heavy pressure from their backers. Division runs deep for... more »

Evidence

Paul Coker at News Spike - 8 hours ago

'When writing the SPM, the authors are facing a dilemma: either they speak as scientists and…recognize that there are too many unknowns to make reliable predictions…or they try to convey what they “consensually” think…at the price of giving up scientific rigour. They deliberately chose the latter…they have distorted the scientific message into an alarmist message…'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
'When writing the SPM, the authors are facing a dilemma: *either they speak as scientists* and…recognize that there are too many unknowns to make reliable predictions…*or they try to convey what they “consensually” think*…*at the price of giving up scientific rigour*. *They deliberately chose the latter*…they have *distorted* the scientific message into an alarmist message… [bold added; click here for the full, unedited version]' These are the words of one of the world's most distinguished physicists, Pierre Darriulat. For nearly 50 years, his professional life has been devoted to... more »

Newton's Third Law of Cartoon Physics

Paul Coker at News Spike - 8 hours ago
*Newton's Third Law of Cartoon Motion: * *"Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter."* Also called the *"silhouette of passage"*, this phenomenon is the speciality of victims of directed-pressure explosions and of reckless cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through the wall of a house, leaving a cookie-cutout-perfect hole. The threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction. If you found the above image either physically repulsive or actually offensive, and the one immediately above it no... more »

RoboCon Pop Quiz : Spot the Difference!

Alison at Creekside - 9 hours ago
Thwap asks a very good question : What exactly is the difference between 1. Elections Canada and federal prosecutors granting immunity to Con deputy campaign manager Andrew Prescott this month in the 2011 Guelph robocall election fraud case, and 2. Elections Canada refusing to grant immunity to a group of donors willing to testify about giving $1,000 each to Dean Del Mastro’s campaign, allegedly in return for receiving $1050 back from Del Mastro's cousin. *July 2012 : Elections Canada refuses immunity request for donors to Dean Del Mastro* "Elections Canada has rebuffed an offe... more »

'FALSE FLAG ATTACK COMING IN INDIA'

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
*David Headley's name is not on record in any US prison database.* *"For all you know he may be back in Mumbai or Delhi laughing his head off while plotting another attack!"* David Headley's Last Laugh *Ken Haywood 'of the CIA'. KEN HAYWOOD AND 'CIA TERRORISM' IN INDIA. The Tehelka newspaper revealed that, in India,over 100 US Christian evangelical groups were fronts for the CIA. (Tehelka)* *A big false-flag terror attack is expected in India within the next few months.* *According to Satya Sagar: * "A strategic terrorist attack" or "an abrupt and devastating economic crisis en... more »

The latest stooshie

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
That report, which I mentioned a few posts ago, from the University of the West of Scotland which claims to have found empirical, statistical evidence that the BBC is biased against Scottish independence is now available to read online, and is pleasingly compact. Whatever your views on Scottish independence, the ensuing stooshie [noun (Scotland): the disruption caused by a disagreement or misunderstanding] has been interesting. The BBC is not happy. According to (pro-independence) former BBC Scotland host Derek Bateman, the BBC is doing what it always does when presented with e... more »

“Almost Everything in 'Dr. Strangelove' Was True”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*“Almost Everything in 'Dr. Strangelove' Was True”* by Eric Schlosser “This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy about nuclear weapons, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Released on January 29, 1964, the film caused a good deal of controversy. Its plot suggested that a mentally deranged American general could order a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, without consulting the President. One reviewer described the film as “dangerous… an evil thing about an evil thing.” Another compared it to Soviet propaganda. Al... more »

Do YOU know what Chlorpropham is?

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 10 hours ago
Chlorpropham... ever heard of it? I certainly hadn't until I watched this awesome video put together by a 5th grader. Elise tells the story of her project about sweet potatoes, and her effort to get one to sprout..... and what she learned about the chemical Chlorpropham that is sprayed on a lot of vegetables and fruit to stop them from sprouting... Now, we all know about the evil of GMOs and pesticides, but have you ever heard of this chemical Chlorpropham? I certainly had never heard of it before! So I decided to do just a little bit of research - and I mean a very little ... more »

Scriptwatch: Now they’ve even got Merrow!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014* *With respect to the public schools, it’s novels all the way down:*According to the leading authority on his life, John Merrow “is a broadcast journalist who has reported on education issues for more than three decades. He serves as the education correspondent for the PBS NewsHour program.” We’ve seen Merrow do sober work on the NewsHour. That’s why we were disappointed by this recent post on his blog. *Deeply* disappointed. Gack! Merrow critiques a recent piece in which John Buntin compared and contrasted Michelle Rhee and Diane Ravitch. We were amazed... more »

Important Health Report: 10 Things You Need To Know About Soy!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 10 hours ago
It has been a while since I put up any important health reports at my blog... The last while I have been covering important world news, and the ridiculous fighting that has been going on in this "truth movement"... I figured it was time to take a slight detour and cover health issues that I do find important enough to share with readers... Recently, I have taken an interest in Soy and Soy protein, mostly at the request of my better half who has had her own concerns about Soy in our diet... And what I have discovered has been alarming... It seems that Soy and Soy protein is EVERYWHER... more »

Inequality-- The Conservative Way

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Did you read Ken's post last night about Davos and economic inequality? If not, here's another chance. OK, so who doesn't love traveling by private jet? I mean, everyone knows how sucky airplane travel has become, right? Especially all the way to Davos! When I was president of Reprise, I had several awesome private jets at my disposal if I needed to fly to New York, which I did almost every month. I mean I did fly to New York. I didn't fly by private jet. You know how many times I asked my assistant to book me one of the jets? Never. Not once. A trip to New York on one of those bab... more »

THE NEW SAM-AND-COKIES: In search of a possible traffic study!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014* *Part 3—Real conduct which did occur:* Last night, at the start of his cable program, one of the era’s biggest con men offered an overview of the Fort Lee fiasco: MATTHEWS (1/22/14): Good evening. I’m Chris Matthews in San Francisco. Let me start tonight with this: Like barnacles on a boat, suspicious matters now cling to the New Jersey governor’s office in Trenton. It began with an e-mail from Governor Christie`s office setting the clock for “traffic problems in Fort Lee.” Who struck up that conspiracy which led a deputy chief of staff to simply aler... more »

Stephen Harper Receives Honorary Doctorate from Tel-Aviv University

LeDaro at LeDaro - 11 hours ago
I feel sorry for students and graduates of Tel-Aviv University, this must be an embarrassment for them. I hope this doesn't damage the university's long-term reputation. Harper's Netanyahu love-fest continues, many in Israel are critical of Netanyahu's hardline politics, but Harper is blindly obedient to the Israeli prime minister. To top the day off, Harper visited a bird sanctuary named after him.

Canada and Nunavut

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours ago
This week Canada's National Newspaper has had a special focus on the North - and that is a good thing. The main story clearly tried to understand Nunavut and put it in context - but it is striking that in so doing the very distance between (the rest of) Canada and Nunavut became obvious. And I don't mean physical distance only. The story was of an adventurer in a strange land far from home -- and it is very true that most Canadians haven't the faintest idea about the North. The writer was clearly a visitor who would go home and stay there. The sense of Nunavut being Canada, the ... more »

Connecticut Teacher Does Not Want Common Core; Weingarten Refuses to Validate the Sentiment

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
On January 17, 2014, veteran Connecticut teacher Elizabeth Natale wrote in the Courant about her disillusion with the pressures of corporate reform upon her West Hartford, middle-school classroom. In her article, Natale makes it clear that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are part of that disillusion– not only the CCSS assessments– but CCSS itself: When […]

Drinking with Bob: It's not because you're black. It's because you suck...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 12 hours ago
*why am I not surprised that Obama is still playing the worn out ridiculous race card? * I've also noted that people in Minnesota (my place of origination), are mighty quiet about their "history making black POS president." Hot Air notes today that MNSure, their highly touted insurance exchange, is a complete and utter disaster. Any comments Obambots? Thought not...

You Are Out Of This World Valentine with Free Printable

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours ago
[image: Housewife Eclectic: You Are Out Of This World with Glow In The Dark Stars and Free Printable] My third Valentine is perfect for just about any kid. Who doesn't love those little Glow in the Dark stars that you stick to your ceiling and stare at instead of going to sleep? This Valentine's are super affordable to make because so many of those little stars come in one package, but they have the wow factor of being something the kids actually like. Bonus points for the favor not being candy. This Valentine comes together super fast and most kids could probably make them all ... more »

It's a Small World, Uber Alles

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 12 hours ago
The crypto-fascist transformation is complete. The corruption is right there, out in the open for all to see. Living, breathing human beings have now been formally declared mere appendages to the piles upon piles upon piles of cold hard cash dictating policy in America, and elsewhere. The blaring headline in today's *New York Times* makes it official: *Biggest Liberal SuperPac to Fund Possible Clinton Bid.* If you think they got it back-asswards, then you got it right. It appears that candidates don't even have to formally announce their own candidacies any more. The Big Money is do... more »

BIG ISSUE IN MAINE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 12 hours ago

Realtime global wind, temperature, cloud, rain, pressure map

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours ago
*The ultimate realtime weather map for the inhabitants of our blue, not green planet* One month ago, we learned about Cameron Beccario's excellent global wind map . *Overlay: none* He's been improving the web page at earth.nullschool.net (you must click this!) and it boasts many new functions. Note that you may always click the label "earth" in the lower left corner of that page to get settings, legend (meaning of colors: hover over a color on that scale for a second to see the corresponding numerical value!), or make the settings disappear again. *Overlay: wind. Winds nearly... more »

Ukraine: Cargill acquires stake in UkrLand Farming/food control = people control

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 12 hours ago
*It's obvious the protests in Ukraine are cover for an overthrow. A coup attempt. * So, let's look at this as one of the myriad of reasons for that overthrow. I have mentioned some of the other reasons in previous posts- Nuclear industry. Banks. EU. NATO. * Ukraine and the West's monopolization of the nuclear industry *Ukraine Eurevolution? Who benefits? The EU and NATO Control the people by controlling the food...................... Cargill, the US-based agriculture trading group, has doled out $200 million for a stake in UkrLandFarming, Ukraine’s largest agribusiness holding, in a... more »

Has economic mobility declined?

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 13 hours ago
No, says a new paper by Raj Chetty et al.: "We present new evidence on trends in intergenerational mobility in the U.S. using administrative earnings records. We find that percentile rank-based measures of intergenerational mobility have remained extremely stable for the 1971-1993 birth cohorts....[C]hildren entering the labor market today have the same chances of moving up in the income distribution (relative to their parents) as children born in the 1970s."

Anbar Before And After The Awakening Pt. IX: Sheikh Sabah Aziz Of The Albu Mahal

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 13 hours ago
Sheikh Sabah al-Sattam Fahran al-Shurji Aziz is the primary sheikh of the Albu Mahal tribe located in western Anbar that stretches into neighboring Syria. After the 2003 invasion the tribe joined the insurgency to fight the Americans and was actually allied with Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). In 2005 it decided to turn on the Islamists for a number of reasons making it the second tribe in the province to do so. Its revolt was short lived, however. Sheikh Aziz’s story not only highlights the change in Anbar from rebellion against the U.S., to fighting AQI, but also the beginning of a new S... more »

Vegan Recipe - Quinoa Mushroom Pilaf (Gluten-Free)

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 13 hours ago
*I love the holidays and all the associated culinary indulgences. By January, though, I'm ready to get back to healthy, clean food. While on hiatus, I cruised the vegan boards on Pinterest and found a ton of recipe inspiration. I also discovered some great blogs like the Gluten-Free Goddess. Karina, head chef and blog owner, creates amazing dishes. All of her recipes are gluten-free and quite a few are also vegan (check out her Vegan Recipes Page).Karina graciously agreed to let me republish one of her recipes here. It is a beautiful, healthy and delicious dish.* Quinoa Mushroo... more »

Undergrads discover closest supernova since 1980s

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours ago
*It was named SN 2014J* If you're an undergrad and you are being shown a telescope, watch carefully. You may very well find one of the most important dots that temporarily appears in the skies. The BBC was among the first ones that informed the public about the new observation: Nearby supernova dazzles astronomers The supernova was spotted during a telescope class at the University of London Observatory led by Steve Fossey who may be expected to lick enough milk from the kids' discovery to build his own Milky Way. That's what I call good luck. Since that time, the new supernova was... more »

Downsized

Southern Man at Southern Man - 14 hours ago
What used to be a 19 oz can is now a 14 oz can. Same price. Same spot on the shelf. No warning that we now get a third less chili for our money. Tragically, this is "lunch" most days at the office.

“Class War Victors Get Higher on the Hog”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
*“Class War Victors Get Higher on the Hog”* by Chris Floyd “On Monday, the New York Times featured, on the front page of its website, a long piece of giddy gush about the latest trend in luxury hoteling: super-suites for the super-rich, costing up to $28,000 a night. For more than 1,100 words, the Times gives us an uncritical (indeed, adoring) panorama of the new high-swankery expected by our owners as they perambulate around the global plantation. There’s the $25,000-per-night room in the New York Palace, a three-story “penthouse Versailles,” the Times, all atremble with excitemen... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*krewedelusion Crowns DJ Soul Sister for 2014! ~NOLA DEFENDER ~via our pals at MardiGrasParadeSchedule.com* *French Quarter musician Steamboat Willie speaks out after attack on friend, band mate ~Scott Satchfield, WVUE* [image: http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/police-identify-two-in-french-quarter-musician-beating/-/9853400/24071916/-/j0s25n/-/index.html] *One arrested, one sought in beating of French Quarter musician ~WWLTV * ~According to a news release from the New Orleans Police Department, *Reeshawn Arnold and Terrell Belvin* are sought in connection with the crime... more »

Why Should Any Real Democrat Give Steve Israel DCCC Dues? His Agenda Is Antithetical To Real Democrats

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Jennifer Garrison-- does she look sort of like Erin Zeigler? Steve Israel, an ex-p.r. flack (and Blue Dog), who Steny Hoyer forced Nancy Pelosi to appoint DCCC Chairman, got an idea. One of Israel's Long Island neighbors, a constituent and on the board of the synagogue Israel attended, wrote this on his blog a few months ago: My "Representative" Steve Israel is more than someone with whom I disagree with politically. He is a man with the moral fiber to stiff a Synagogue out of thousands of dollars when he decided to move (a debt that was eventually paid by an anonymous donor when a ... more »

What Are The 4 Myths The Nuclear Industry Wants You to Believe? with Arnie Gundersen

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago
*16 January 2014* http://fairewinds.org/media/fairewind... http://tinyurl.com/mucfbxz *In order to produce more nuclear electricity, the nuclear corporations and proponents need you to believe that nuclear power is safe, no one has ever died or become ill from nuclear power accidents, nuclear power will counteract global warming, and it is the cheapest form of power. Listen to Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen tell you the truth about these myths.* Steve Wing discussing cancer after Three Mile Island (Part 1) http://fairewinds.org/media/fairewind... http://tinyurl.com/lvy889q Steve Wing... more »

Chris Christie " Bridgegate and Bullygate " scandals updates -- January 23 , 2014 - SCANDALS AND INVESTIGATIONS OVERSHADOW CHRISTIE INAUGURAL ...... Fallout: New poll shows steep drop in Christie’s numbers in New Jersey after Bridgegate

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/01/22/scandals-and-investigations-overshadow-christie-inaugural/?p=all SCANDALS AND INVESTIGATIONS OVERSHADOW CHRISTIE INAUGURAL MARK J. MAGYAR | JANUARY 22, 2014 It was an Inauguration Day like no other, as Democratic leaders upstaged Gov. Chris Christie by announcing agreement on a joint committee to investigate Bridgegate and other alleged abuses of power by his administration just minutes before his inauguration, then trekked over to the War Memorial to listen to Christie deliver a speech that made no mention of the crises that threaten to c... more »

The Liberal Paradox

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Tom Walkom writes this morning that the public celebration of Jean Chretien's 80th birthday underscores the paradox which is the Liberal Party: The Liberals are a paradox. They build institutions and then demolish them. They insist they walk the middle line even when they don’t. They pride themselves on their crafty pragmatism. But they can be fooled time and time again by their own PR. Consider what happened during Chretien's fifty years in politics: He was lauded for being part of the Liberal government that, 50 years ago, worked to build and expand the great social programs of... more »

Detroit bankruptcy updates January 23 , 2014.....Pension and Detroit DIA bailout in the works ? Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced a plan Wednesday to commit $350 million in state funds to help shore up Detroit's pension funds and prevent valuable city-owned art from being sold to pay the bankrupt city’s debts.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Governor backs $350M plan for Detroit financial woes January 22, 2014 4:54PM ET The plan endorsed by Gov. Rick Snyder would help to sustain pensions, historic art threatened by the city's bankruptcy Topics: U.S. Economy Detroit [image: Rick Snyder] Gov. Snyder, pictured, said the plan was not a bailout, but a way to help Detroit settle its bankruptcy and recover. Rebecca Cook / Reuters Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced a plan Wednesday to commit $350 million in state funds to help shore up Detroit's pension funds and prevent valuable city-owned art from being sold to pay the bankrupt... more »

On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff’s Critique of Ravitch

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 16 hours ago
On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff\’s Critique of Ravitch. via On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff’s Critique of Ravitch.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

John Cowperthwaite, Statistics and Central Planning

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 17 hours ago
Interesting article here shared by a friend, Andrew Work, co-founder of Lion Rock Institute (LRI), a free market think tank in Hong Kong. He is also the CEO and Publisher of New Work Media, which publishes Harbour Times, among others. When Andrew was Executive Director of LRI, he would often mention to us Mr. John Cowperthwaite, the main architect of Hong Kong's free trade, free market philosophy and public policy. Today, Andrew posted this article in his facebook page, No Statistics, No Mischief by Andrew Ferguson, about the man. Reposting portions of it here, original article is ... more »

Elections Canada and Legal Immunity

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 18 hours ago
Here it is! Elections Canada has rebuffed an offer of information about an alleged reimbursement scheme involving Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro’s 2008 election campaign, saying it doesn’t have the authority to give witnesses immunity from prosecution. Toronto lawyer Allan Kaufman wrote to Elections Canada in June, offering details of reimbursements of campaign donations allegedly paid by Deltro Electric Ltd., a small Mississauga contractor owned by Del Mastro’s cousin, David. In exchange, Kaufman requested immunity for a group of donors who had each given $1,000 to Del Mastro’s c... more »

Adobe Accept ACS4 Broken?

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 18 hours ago
Adobe have long been associated with publishing and the development tools associated with the development of content and although they have successfully seen off the likes of Quark and established InDesign as the tool of choice to many, they have long floundered in the area of DRM. Today we read of their latest step change to introduce ACS5, which is aimed at tightening the security and replacing the easily broken and much maligned ACS4. There is a question as to whether it will be widely adopted and also of whether how quickly it will be broken by those who wish to break it. There... more »

A Google Maps Easter Egg - Doctor Who related

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours ago
View Larger Map Go to Earls Court Station in Google maps and locate the police telephone box outside the station or just put the search location in as "Police Telephone Box" and enter Street View. As you get close to the police telephone box you'll see a set of double >> pointing at it. Click on them and enjoy a Doctor Who treat...

Muslim outrage in perspective

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
Thanks to Harry's Place for the cartoon spot.

All Wars are Bankers' War - youtube link not allowed

Jason Leewig at Our Manmade Disasters - 20 hours ago
please watch and share. Youtube do not allow posting of links. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4 *Published on Feb 4, 2013* Written and spoken by Michael Rivero. The written version is here: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTI... Video by Zane Henry. This video is in the public domain. The producers have waived their copyright to this video. Listen to a post production conversation between the producers by clicking on this mp3: https://soundcloud.com/eonitao-state/... You are welcome to make copies and to distribute this video freely. A free downloader is available here... more »

Buh-bye Shelly, don't cry...

noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 20 hours ago
Juxtapose. Harper government Cabinet Minister Shelly Glover is rightfully under scrutiny with regard to $1200 *donated* at a fundraising organized for the CPC, held at a private residence in her riding. *Groups from the Manitoba arts and culture community, who lobby Ottawa for money, were invited to a fundraiser last week on MP Shelly Glover’s behalf.Federal rules say cabinet ministers can’t solicit money from anyone who may have lobbied or may lobby them in the future.Glover and event organizers said the gathering was strictly to raise money for the party’s local riding a... more »

1938 Doniphan 7th and 8th Grade Students

Chet at JUSTICE AND PEACE - 20 hours ago
A newspaper clipping that has my Aunt Gloria Hildebrand with her classmates. Mrs. Hageman was also my 8th Grade teacher.

BEAUTY - Rino Stefano Tagliafierro - animatic'd art

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 20 hours ago
well this is kinda interesting (read HORRIFICO MAXIMO), BEAUTY is a short film made by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro, using classical and gothic art as animated vignettes. WARNING: not all this highly-subjective art content is safe for family viewing.

SEX, DRUGS AND MERCENARIES

Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago
*The child sex trade, supported by the police and politicians.* *Zen Gardner has written: Not Without Our Consent* *According to Zen Gardner:* Wars, and other bad things, happen - because we trust the bad people and cooperate with the bad people. For example, "no worldwide massacres would happen without soldiers." Why do we allow the bad people to get away with it? "Because waking up to the true reality around us is too much work, and way too uncomfortable." *Too many people trust the military, the royal families, the scientists, the TV newsreaders and the religious leaders.* ... more »

Evidence of Potential Censorship of Tepco Cam and Strange Anomalies

Majia's Blog - 21 hours ago
I have pretty good evidence of potential censorship of the TEPCO cam, which I watched for over 8 hours today while doing other work. (The TBS cam was black all day) On the TEPCO cam, hot gasses could be seen streaming UP the front of the screen-all day. I realize weather conditions played a role in making those hot gasses more visible. However, today's effects cannot all be explained by weather conditions. At one point a quick change in the image caught my eye. Look at these two shots carefully. They were taken 7 minutes apart. The shot immediately below was taken at 5:57 <img alt... more »

Cost of Recession and Austerity in Convenient Clock Form

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 21 hours ago
You've probably heard of the U.S. Debt Clock. I'm not linking to it because its goal is to strengthen deficit hysteria, one of the techniques used to try to destroy the welfare state. But have you seen the U.S. Lost Output Clock? This is much more informative, showing us just how high the cost of recession and slow recovery (due to austerity, especially at the state and local level) has been. The total now stands at over $5.2 trillion. (H/t @nielsandeweg and Dean Baker) Here is the clock as of about 2:00pm EST January 22: United States Lost Output Clock $5,202,951,507,765 Lost Nati... more »

Wealthy Have Become Blinded To the Needs of the Lower Classes?

One danger that such wealth brings is that many who have it become blinded to those who don't. So, the news that most of our congress critters are now in the millionaire class speaks volumes about why this institution of American democracy is so undemocratic. It has been striving ceaselessly to provide more government giveaways to Wall Street bankers, corporate chieftains and other

The Root Of Economic Inequality Goes Right Back To Inequality In Educational Opportunity

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
One of the brightest hopes for progressive governance in the L.A. area going forward-- not garden variety, corrupt Democratic Party hackish governance but *progressive* governance-- comes from Micah Ali, president of the Compton Board of Education and a candidate for the 64th Assembly District open seat. I've known Micah for many years and he's been a go-to expert for this blog on reforming California's educational system. This guest post once again deals with an issue he never stops putting in people's faces: the value to society and to the individual of early education programs.... more »

Inequality-- The Conservative Way

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Did you read Ken's post last night about Davos and economic inequality? If not, here's another chance. OK, so who doesn't love traveling by private jet? I mean, everyone knows how sucky airplane travel has become, right? Especially all the way to Davos! When I was president of Reprise, I had several awesome private jets at my disposal if I needed to fly to New York, which I did almost every month. I mean I did fly to New York. I didn't fly by private jet. You know how many times I asked my assistant to book me one of the jets? Never. Not once. A trip to New York on one of those bab... more »

Syrian Foreign Minister Wallid Muallem To UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon: Syria Always Keeps Its Promises

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
*Ban Ki-moon: Dance for your masters in D.C. and then get off the stage. That is your only job.* An excerpt from, *"Syria's Foreign Minister clashes with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at peace conference,"* The Sydney Morning Herald: *Ban:* Can you just wrap up in one or two minutes? *Moallem: *No, I can't promise you, I must finish my speech. ... You live in New York, I live in Syria. I have the right to give the Syrian version here in this forum. After three years of suffering, this is my right. *Ban: *We have to have some constructive and harmonious dialogue, please refrai... more »

Neil Young Draws Blood from the Oil Sands Development

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
I never knew that. Neil got the CAPP to admit that even using their maximum minimum spin on a daily basis the Oil Sands extraction creates half the green house gases as all the cars in Canada. Thats sick! I am for reasonable development of resources, but that number does not sound reasonable. How much energy is produced on a daily bias by all those cars? So a similar amount of energy is being used to produce just bitumen, which then needs to be further refined? This sounds like a terribly inefficient use of energy. At this point I think we should ask Norway what to do! I would lov... more »

UN: Mining industries increase sexual violence in Indian country

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara land, North Dakota 2011 Photo Brenda Norrell James Anaya: Oil and gas industry and mining increasing sexual violence and birth defects in Indian country By UN Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya International Expert Group Meeting on the theme: “Sexual health and reproductive rights: articles 21, 22(1), 23 and 24  of the United Nations

Mohawk Nation News 'Palest'Indian Issue'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
PALEST’INDIAN ISSUE Posted on January 22, 2014 MNN. Jan. 22, 2014. The common denominator of the corporations called “Canada” and “Israel” is, they are both founded on crimes against humanity bordering on genocide.  “Corporatist dating service was right. We have so much in common!” Canadian CEO Harper falsely claims to speaks for the majority of Canadians while giving

Mexican Citizens Topple Cartels And Are Rewarded With Government Retaliation ......Confirmed: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel ..... Why is there a war on Drugs again if both the US and Mexico line up with various Drug Cartels anyway ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Mexican Citizens Topple Cartels And Are Rewarded With Government Retaliation [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/22/2014 18:21 -0500 - Corruption - FBI - Mexico - national security - Totalitarianism - Transparency inShare2 *Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market blog,* There is one rule to citizen defiance that, in my opinion, surpasses all others in strategic importance; and it is a rule that I have tried to drive home for many years. I would call it the “non-participation principle” and would summarize it as follows: *Wh... more »

Sneak peek of @unitedoptout version of Dvorak, only available if you register for their spring event in Denver.

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
This will be a playable deck of collectible trading cards, people, of all those involved (Defenders) and those against (Deformers). I have not seen anything else like it, anywhere, so get your hands on this one-of-a-kind item. That is, only if you register, and pick them up in person in Denver, although we may make […]

Economic inequality will become a thing of the past with a wave of the magic wand at the Masters of the Universe World Economic Hoedown in the Alpine Fairyland of Davos,

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*The Alpine Fairyland of Davos, site of the Mastersof the Universe Annual World Economic Hoedown* *"[J]ust days after a stunning report was issued by Oxfam saying that the 85 richest people in the world are as wealthy as the poorest half of the global population, or about 3.5 billion people[,] a good chunk of those 85 are likely to be fretting on the slopes about this horrible state of affairs."* *-- Al Kamen, in his WaPo "In the Loop" report* *by Ken* Ooh, that economic inequality! It makes me so mad, I could just spit! Economic inequality is like the weather. Everybody talks ab... more »

Goodness gracious, the PARCC samples are ready! Thanks @PARCCplace

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Is there no irony sensed that PARCC Place is a play on words of the most expensive place on the Monopoly board? Ok, let’s shoot on over to PARCC Place, then, and see what they’re about. Let’s practice! Damn it!! All right, all right. I’ll play along. Even though all the cool kids use Chrome. […]

Court rules in favor of Native Youths attacked in Flagstaff Arizona

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Racism in Flagstaff Arizona Court rules in favor of Native Youths attacked at Flagstaff Dew Downtown event  City council and mainstream media continue to ignore racist attack By Indigenous Action Media Posted at Censored News FLAGSTAFF, Arizona — A Flagstaff Judge ruled today that Snowbowl ski area supporter Lindsay Lucas, must pay restitution for assaulting two Native Youth at a

Chet Raymo, “Roofs”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Roofs”* by Chet Raymo "It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long." Good advice, Mr. Thoreau. I came here to this island for its unobstructed sky. Built a house called Starlight House. I'm no poet or saint, but I settled in to nurse what slender gifts I have. The sky has not disappointed. Except occasionally. We have just come off a rare four-day string of cloudy days, and the celestial bodies have been... more »

With all due respect @jeffbcdm, this doesn’t sound like a good idea at all

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
There are a lot of folks out there nibbling at the edges of this Common Core ordeal. We get it, it’s a “flashpoint,” or what have you. It’s tough to debate because so many emotions enter the conversation; that is, if you care about this sort of thing. I think a poll of the larger […]

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Has Big Oil & Gas’ Undeclared Liabilities Undermined Confidence in the Industry? ~Dr. Ezra Boyd, DisasterMap.net*

Tower 217 Breathes Life into Classic GI Building

Chet at JUSTICE AND PEACE - 1 day ago
A classic tower in downtown Grand Island finds new life. It won't be the luxury hotel that had been proposed, but there's hope it will spur redevelopment efforts. "Either somebody has to do something with the building, or the building has to come down," City Planning Director Chad Nabity said. City leaders don't have to worry about the Masonic Temple coming down if Amos Anson has anything to say about it. Read More

$100,000 shoplifting ring busted at Albuquerque store

Chet at JUSTICE AND PEACE - 1 day ago
If you've ever shopped at the Mexico Lindo store on South Broadway, you know two things: the shop has a good selection of products and the prices are unbeatable. But authorities discovered the owner was stocking his shelves with merchandise stolen from local merchants in the Albuquerque area, and after a four month investigation, the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department moved in. More 

* Consider the source. J.P. Morgan is one of what I suspect as Robber Barons even today.
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