Emperor spring (Císařský pramen) in the moor of Soos close to Františkovy Lázně (Franzensbad) (Photo credit: Steffen Poe)The Times’ reporting has been Wildsteinesque!
*SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014*
*So too with Maddow’s performance:* Kevin Drum says there’s no chance that
David Wildstein was conducting a traffic study when he closed two traffic
lanes leading out of Fort Lee. Click here for the analysts' favorite.
We don’t completely agree with Drum, for reasons we’ll offer below. It
wouldn’t be our first bet that Wildstein was acting in good faith. But on a
*journalistic* basis, we would say that possibility hasn’t yet been
disproved.
That, of course, doesn’t speak to the question of the New York Times’
reporting of the Fort Lee affair. We’d say ... more »
The Egyptian situation
I don't know where it is headed to. More death and destruction. From Arab
Spring to Arab tragedy and it is getting worse.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Euroskeptics may overtake EU Parliament
*...but differences between them start to emerge...*
Yesterday, Russia Today released a story – perhaps a slightly exaggerated
story – painting Nigel Farage's UKIP, The United Kingdom Independence
Party, as the strongest party in the U.K. according to recent polls.
This claim suggests that there are nonzero chances to win the May 2014
elections to the European Parliament and perhaps some later national polls,
too. That's quite a success for this relatively new, Euroskeptical and
climate skeptical party. They may overshadow the Conservatives, the Labor
Party, and the Liberals, too.... more »
SADLY HYPOCRITICAL
Our friends at St. Pete for Peace (Florida) have shared these important
news bits:
*HOW CAN THIS BE?*
A new national survey by the Pew Research Center and *USA TODAY*, conducted
Jan. 15-19 among 1,504 adults, finds that black people, women and Democrats
are *more* likely to support the NSA spying program than white people, men
and Republicans. According to the poll NSA approval rates are as follows:
- 43% of Blacks and 39% of Whites
- 43% of women and 38% of men
- 46% of Democrats and 37% of Republicans
Support of the NSA is down since polling was done in June, 2013... more »
Battlefield Shapers
Dick Clark exemplifies how given the correct exposure a single individual
can dictate the taste of a whole country or in his case much of the world.
This clever manipulation of public opinion is the art and war of politics.
Stephen Harper has rained a tong war of manipulation down upon Canada.
Millions and millions of publicly funded advertising that looks to me like
propaganda. Billions of terabytes of media content from friendly providers
clogging up the airwaves and fiber superhighways.
Weathering this assault can be tiring. It can make one apathetic and even
drive some to nih... more »
The Zionist State of Deseret
"Liberals find it necessary to deny recurring suspicions that they are
*antinomians*, moral relativists, and secularists set on removing religious
values from the public square."
Sentence Example, Oxford English Dictionary
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"President" Brigham Young of the Zionist Republic of Deseret, on the
"curséd scoundrel" Abraham Lincoln, 1861:
*“He with many others had assented to the deaths of innocent men, and
through that he is subject to the influence of a wicked spirit!”*
*"I am the voice of God and anyone who doesn't like it will be hewn down. *
*God has revealed to me that ... more »
Rapporteur Anaya meets with Peltier, renews call for clemency
Meeting
with Leonard Peltier
24 January 2014By James Anaya, UN Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples
USA (24 January 2014) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the
rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, today met with Leonard
Peltier at the federal penitentiary located in Coleman, Florida where
Mr. Peltier is incarcerated.
Mr. Peltier is an activist and leader in the American Indian
Dear Hanna: Where Are You?
Dear Education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera: I have to admit, I’m
starting to get the feeling that you don’t want to talk to me. Or anyone
else, for that matter. Just in case you’re not quite sure who I am, here’s
a quick reminder. I’m the guy that has already personally seen education
reform (as your […]
Saturday afternoon reading
It's raining and blowing a lukewarm gale outside, Morecambe F.C. are being
held 1-1 at home by Portsmouth (having blown a penalty opportunity) and
I've got a few spare minutes, so what better time to read a fine article
about BBC bias from a former BBC producer, Scott Grønmark, at The Salisbury
Review?
(I do like ex-BBC insider pieces).
Scott wonders, "Why does the corporation keep doing things seemingly
designed to confirm right-wing conspiracy theories?"
His suspicion is that it's something to do with "malfunctioning feedback
loops".
And what explains those "malfunctioning fe... more »
Hey MSM - did you know there was a March for Life in Washington DC on the January 22nd?...
*I didn't think so.*
And people say they report the news?
*More:*
Truth Revolt: * Baby Panda Gets 6 Times More Coverage Than Pro-Life Rally*
CNS: * Babies Aborted in NYC in 1 Year Would Fill the Super Bowl Stadium*
Rep. Hartzler: *More Americans Aborted in 2008 Than Died in 7 Wars
Combined*
INTERNET HELD HOSTAGE
*The Colbert Report*
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HEY, HEY, HO, HO, TPP HAS GOT TO GO!
In Augusta, Maine......
Lisa Savage (on the right in the video) writes:
I have been called many things in my activist life, but last night was a
first. We were called "unprofessional" repeatedly by the security guy at
the Civic Center in Augusta, Maine. He also told me we had "no class." The
extent to which US citizens are cowed by fear of hurting their standing in
the community would be surprising -- if I weren't a student of history,
that is.
Thanks to videographer Martha Spiess for her swift work getting out this
great video of our unprofessional antics last night. Martha is t... more »
Free Planet - it's too good to be true!
"Well, of course it is!"
what other answer is there? Do you think the MI(C)C or Military Industrial
(Congressional, they rarely mention that) Complex is going to allow You The
People (sniggers) to go ahead and instigate something like 'a Free Planet'?
Think again, sheople.
The ONLY WAY such a (chuckles) 'free planet' will be allowed is iff the
Free Planet Idea itself came directly from WITHIN THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL
COMPLEX.
CUSTODIAN: free planet book one, was all about poor old deluded mankind
offered 'something for nothing' by those rulers it never voted into office
... more »
Ecuador abandoning high standard of defending Rights of Nature
Ponca
Casey Camp in Ecuador/Photo courtesy Pennie Opal Plant
Addressing Host Country Ecuador’s Own Rights of Nature Challenges
Censored News
During the Rights of Nature Tribunal on January 17, 2014, in Quito,
Ecuador, eight cases were heard as 400 representatives gathered from
around the world. Pachamama Alliance reports that Ecuador is abandoning
its high standards:
It is fitting
A very perceptive tweet from Michael Crick
Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) tweeted at 2:20 PM on Sat, Jan 25, 2014:
On 1 Dec Balls said budget surplus goal by 2020 depended on economy; now
it's a binding pledge. Has economy improved that much in 8 weeks?
(https://twitter.com/MichaelLCrick/status/427083479835492352)
I look forward to the BBC asking Ed Balls this very question... Ha Fucking
ha
Federal Courts cyber hacked and apparently computer filings halted Friday January 24 , 2014 .....Hacked CNN Reports "China Dumps All US Bonds" ...... Bug Exposes IP Cameras, Baby Monitors ..... Gang Rigged Pumps With Bluetooth Skimmers -- cybercrime / glitches in the matrix / high tech boosting....
Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/cyberattack-federal-courts-102594.html
( Is anything secure ? )
Court system hit with cyberattack
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By TONY ROMM | 1/24/14 6:30 PM EST
Unidentified hackers took aim at the federal court system Friday, blocking
access to its public website while preventing lawyers and litigants from
filing legal documents online.
The incident affected uscourts.gov, the federal court’s public hub, as well
as most if not all federal court sites — not to mention the federal court
... more »
Duncan’s Bizarro World, Where Lie Is Truth and Truth Is Lie
Superintendent of Montgomery County (MD) Joshua Starr is rightfully
disturbed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s recent comment: What
these two places also had in common was a succession of leaders who told
educators, parents and the public the truth about educational
underperformance and who worked closely with educators to bring about real
changes. In order […]
Whistleblower: Google Chrome Can Listen To Your Conversations ( and note Facebook might be doing the same thing as per the terms of the Facebook terms of agreement ) .... Wonder why Facebook and Google seem to be deploying espionage tools against their customers , why the proverbial trail of bread crumbs keeps coming back to the same major Tech Companies ? Ever wonder what else is used to track your moves , what you say in your home , what you type on your keyboard ? While we are aware of what some of the NSA programs are to spy on US Citizens are thanks to whistl-blowers like Edward Snowden , keep in mind many companies are spying every day on you without warrants and without restraints !
Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
Whistleblower: Google Chrome Can Listen To Your Conversations
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Programmer goes public four months after company failed to fix exploit
*Paul Joseph Watson*
Infowars.com
January 23, 2014
A whistleblower who privately informed Google four months ago that their
Chrome browser had the ability to record conversations without the user’s
knowledge has gone public after the tech giant failed to fix the issue.
In th... more »
Untitled
*Alabama lawsuit challenges Corps of Engineers permit for oil pipeline
~John Sharp*
*Can Oil & Gas Industry's Undeclared Liabilities Undermine Investor
Confidence? ~Dr. Ezra Boyd, DisasterMap.net*
*City Council committee discussing Spay/Neuter program for musicians in
French Quarter ~Andrew Vanacore, New Orleans Advocate*
*Zack Kopplin: Louisiana Public School System’s Harassment of 11-Year-Old
Buddhist Student “Child Abuse” and “Potentially a Hate Crime” ~CenLamar*
*Politico Ranks La. 2nd Weakest State ~NOLA DEFENDER*
*5 best moments in the Saints 2013 season ~Alex Hoegler, via
B... more »
Emerging market volatility January 23 - 24 , 2014 - focus on Argentina's looming default chaos and currency " troubles " .... Turkey and Ukraine face different types of political crisis , however , the Turkish lira has been buffeted recently and Ukraine also facing currency impacts in addition to real economy impacts..... China has financial sphere issues threatening to become too big to control without blowback ..... Venezuela faces shortages of paper products , food products , a currency hyperinflation if one looks at their black market.......
Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
1/24/14.....
CME Hikes Turkish Lira, Nat Gas Margins
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Once upon a time, the only CME margin hike releases the investing
population cared about were those for gold (because no matter how high the
E-Mini went, the CME never seemed too bothered). Now, the CME has more
"important" things to worry about - such as preventing the "heating bill
shock" that will come in February when the majority of the population opens
their electricity and heating statements for Ja... more »
Tinfoil Super Bowl Terror Alert - On a FWIW basis .....Several things to ponder ( looking at the CC's , was this sent out before the start of the playoffs ? ) President Obama and Governor Chris Chrisite would benefit from the obvious refocusing of American attention in the wake of a terror event...... False Flag events have happened in the past , have happened during GOP and Democrat Administrations and it has been quite the while since we have had a major terror event here in the US ......If one wanted to select an event which would capture world attention this year , the sporting events would be the Super Bowl , Sochi in russia or the World Cup in Brazil - only one event would change the subject for PTBs in the US .....With so many potential enemies to chose from ( Bad Al Qaeda , Taliban , Iranian supported terrorists ) , it would be easy to sell such an event to gullible sheeple......But let's hope we just see a football game on February 2 , 014.....
SuperBowl False Flag “TreasonBowl” Letter Sent to Before It’s News
Friday, January 24, 2014 14:20
(Before It's News)
We received this letter yesterday from an anonymous source via US mail.
Before It’s News is just a conduit for your news and we thought this
information might be of value to our readers. Here is the fulltext of this
letter, from people who claim to have worked on the design and construction
of the new MetLife Stadium (original jpeg scans of the letter are below the
text). The upside down American flag stamp on the outside of the envelope
is an interesting touch. V... more »
A Failed Economist
As Lorne over at Politics and Its Discontents noted yesterday, there has
been much gnashing of teeth as the Canadian dollar has slid down to 90
cents (U.S.) But Tom Walkom writes this morning that the dollar can and
should fall farther:
With luck, it will end back up at roughly 80 cents. Under the purchasing
power parity rule, which compares the prices charged for identical goods in
two countries, that’s about where it should be.
The rise of the dollar was predicated on the prime minister's ambition to
turn Canada into a petro state and himself into a blue eyed sheik. But that
d... more »
21 Traits of an Awakening Soul
*(this article is very much needed by many who may have found this blog,
and actually come back to it from time to time . . . Awakening can seem
awesome at times, but very troubling at others, causing even doubts about
whether we even belong in this world . . . just start reading it, and if
the words resonate, keep going . . if not, just click away, lol . . if
you read the article, please also click at the bottom to also read the
comments . . they are amazing . . )*
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May 10, 2013 | By WakingTimes | 137 Replies
Christina Sarich, *Contributor*
*Waking Ti... more »
Republicans, the "right to life gang", freezing Unemployed Americans (including FETUSES) in the Northeast
I just took this snapshot of our weather here in the Northeast:
Right now in the northeast, we're experiencing a multi-week cold snap of
the sorts that I cannot remember, including a Polar Vortex. It's safe to
say, knowing we're experiencing extremely high unemployment, that many
thousands of Americans in the northeast need their unemployment to purchase
heat to keep warm. Since January 1, the unemployment extension has been
filibustered by the Republicans along party lines. You need a
super-majority of 60 in the senate to pass the unemployment extension, not
51-49. You need 60 vot... more »
Conservatives Have Always Had A Problem With Women
Boehner was so proud yesterday that he picked a girl to give one of the
god-knows-how-many "official" Republican responses to the State of the
Union message. He seems delusional enough to think that women voters will
flock to the GOP because he named some obscure woman congressmember from
rural northeast Washington who votes with the Republican patriarchs on
everything. I guess he had no choice after Huckabee's idiotic statements
betraying the fear conservative men have and have always had about the
depravity of runaway lady libidos. Meanwhile, this morning President Obama
was doi... more »
Abandoning Chelsea Manning
So Chelsea Manning heroically brought evidence of massive US war crimes to
the attention of the world. Then Chelsea was betrayed by some rat-fink,
twisted piece of shit and ended up in a military prison where she was
tortured for years before finally coming to trial and sentenced to 35 years
in prison.
American progressives show their cluelessness by *asking* President Obama
to pardon her. Obama is a Constitution-shredding, imperialist war-monger,
shill for Wall Street criminals scum-bag. Obama would probably have
preferred that Manning had been executed. You don't ask for justice ... more »
Libya updates January 25 , 2014 - Egyptian diplomatic staff seized in Tripoli, embassy prepares to evacuate -- retaliation for the arrest in Egypt on Friday of the head of the Libyan Revolutionaries Operation Room (LROR), Shaaban Masoud Khalifa, also known as Abu Obaida Al-Zawy ? A report from Congress’ Interior Committee says that 643 people were killed in Libya in 2013, mostly in assassinations and extra-judicial killings. The figure is said to be a significant increase on 2012. ....... Libya’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani had ordered revolutionaries to “eliminate” alleged criminals resisting arrest in the Warshefana area and pro-Qaddafi forces in Sebha. .... Sarir oilfield attacked , power lines cut.......Political dramas continue , PM Zeidan still in power ( so to speak ) but toothless as ever.....
More Egyptian diplomatic staff seized in Tripoli, embassy prepares to
evacuate
*By Libya Herald staff*.
*Tripoli, 25 January 2014*:
Four more staff members from the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli have been
kidnapped, following the abduction of a man understood to be the embassy’s
administrative attaché last night.
Spokesman for the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Said Al-Asoud, told
the *Libya Herald* that, at dawn this morning, the cultural attaché and
three employees from the Egyptian cultural centre were taken.
The Egyptian ambassador to Libya, Hesham Abdel-Wahab, confirmed that f... more »
Obamacare updates January 25 , 2014 Weekend thread.....The data to date ( using California as one example ) fails to reflect any real dent has been made in providing insurance to the uninsureds .......
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/01/24/california-another-state-obamacare-success-story-that-wasnt/
California: Another state ObamaCare success story that wasn’t
POSTED AT 8:11 PM ON JANUARY 24, 2014 BY MARY KATHARINE HAM
On the West Coast, we have more of those reluctantly released enrollment
numbers for Obamacare. *The Weekly Standard*‘s John McCormack weighed the
numbers and found them wanting despite WonkBlog’s assertion that this constitutes
success. The short story is 900,000 lost insurance because of Obamacare’s
new regulations and 500,000 have signed up via the exchange. Ab... more »
The soundtrack of our lives
I think I'll have to make some sound files as keepsakes of our time here
before we head back to Canada this spring.
The blog posts, the photos, the videos – sure, they’ll all keep the
memories alive. But an audio clip of all the noises that go on outside our
door every day would probably be the thing that would instantly bring me
back to this kitchen table, where the soundtrack of daily life is the
rumble of cars a foot away from our front door, the
*BROO-broo-broo-broo-broo*barking of the dog next door, the blaring
television from the house across the street where we’re ... more »
Shooting Ourselves in the Foot
No one, myself included, expects a profession to hold lockstep to only one
voice—including teachers.
But Help teachers improve their craft, an Op-Ed by a public school teacher,
calls for helping teachers become better educators, but in fact,
perpetuates the worst aspects of the education reform movement.
In the end, this piece repeats misguided claims about school and teacher
quality as well as student achievement. It misrepresents the real problems
schools face in SC (poverty, inequity), and suggests that one political
leader is the source of overcoming those misrepresented problem... more »
Shooting Ourselves in the Foot
Shooting Ourselves in the Foot No one, myself included, expects a
profession to hold lockstep to only one voice—including teachers. But Help
teachers improve their craft, an Op-Ed by a public school teacher, calls
for helping teachers become better educators, but in fact, perpetuates the
worst aspects of the education reform movement. In the end, this […]
US seems to signal no desire to reach a final resolution of the nuclear issues with Iran - instead , the US just might be content to string this along for years , with six month extensions granted and miserly removal of sanctions if milestones are reached. And similar to what we have seen with Syria , war talk , threats and pessimistic chatter and sudden escalation of US demands will accompany the nuclear talks every step of the way !
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-240114.html
*Rouhani and the 1914 remix*
By Pepe Escobar
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is at the moment the hardest-working man
in (geopolitical) show business. He has just stepped into the lion's den -
or goldfish bowl; the World Economic Forum at Davos. And he charmed them
all just with his "prudent moderation" strategy, which broadcasts what
every Master of The Universe, real or fake, really wants to hear; Iran is
open for business.
Rouhani stressed what even BRIC-inventor Jim O'Neill has acknowledged; Iran
has the potential to ... more »
A Small Farewell
It is cold in the scriptorium, my thumb aches. Actually, it isn’t. I’ve
just always wanted to use that line from the end of Name of the Rose. In
fact its about room temperature in the American Institute Library and my
thumb is thriving. Anyway, I don’t blog much any more because of work and
Continue reading
EFN Asia 33: Chatib Basri on Subsidy and Protectionism for the Poor
My first exposure to international and regional free market network was in
2004. First in the US in April-May that year when I was one of the
International Fellows of Atlas, then in Hong Kong September of that year,
during the Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia Conference 2004, sponsored
by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) and co-sponsored by five Beijing-
and Hong Kong-based institutes.
Among the great presentations in the HK conference was one by Dr. Chatib
Basri, who was then a faculty member of the University of Indonesia and
individual member of EFN, now Indonesia's Fina... more »
Saturday morning reading
This morning's interesting BBC-related reading includes:
*Spectator*: Ed West - Why do most children’s books have a liberal bias?
...and now only children's books. Ed now believes he's not losing the plot
when he detects a liberal bias in today's children's TV. He's found that
he's not alone. Contrasting the conservative values enshrined in *Thomas
the Tank Engine *with the liberal messages enshrined in today's *Mike the
Knight* on CBeebies, he suggests that today's children are being instilled
with liberal values from a very early age - and that the BBC's in on it.
*Spectator* (£)... more »
The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation Video with F. William Engdahl
*January 4, 2014*
F. William Engdahl is an American German freelance journalist, historian
and economic researcher. "Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of
Genetic Manipulation" This lecture at the Open Mind Conference 2013,
focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish
its control over the very basis of human survival, the provision of our
daily bread. Control the food and you control the people. This is no
ordinary lecture about the perils of GMO.
Engdahl takes the audience inside the corridors of power, into the
backrooms of the science labs, be... more »
No Justice For Organic Farmers In The USA
JUSTICE HAS NOT BEEN SERVED.
The Supreme Court has upheld Monsanto's ability to sue farmers when the
farmers' fields are inadvertently contaminated by Monsanto's GMOs. The
court decision was based on Monsanto's supposed promise not to sue f...armers
whose crops contain traces of the company's GMOs.
READ: http://www.osgata.org/2014/supreme-court-denies-family-farmers/
#SupremeCourt #GMOs #gmo #OSGATA #Monsanto #SeedPatents
#geneticcontamination #geneticpollution #Farmers #CourtOfAppeals
#gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa
Rick Duarte.
*Source:*
*GMO Free USA*
Support Canadian Farmers - Stop Bill C - 18
CALL TO ACTION: Stop Bill C-18!
On Dec. 9, 2013, bill C-18 amends several Ag laws to give multi national
corps greater power and control over Canada's seed industry.
The National Farmers Union (NFU), has released "Fundamental Principles ...for
a Farmers' Seed Act" which recognizes the inherent rights of farmers to
save, reuse, select, exchange and sell seeds:
READ: http://www.nfu.ca/story/fundamental-principles-farmers-seed-act
TAKE ACTIONS HERE:
http://www.nfu.ca/issue/stop-bill-c-18
“Those who control seed control food, and as a sovereign nation we must
ensure that control ... more »
HSBC restricts withdrawls, UST steals 401Ks, and Jamie gets a Raise!!
A little more Financial News for your Saturday morning read.
First up, HSBC is showing a lovely bit of transparency.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-24/bank-run-fears-continue-hsbc-restricts-large-cash-withdrawals
Bank-Run Fears Continue; HSBC Restricts Large Cash Withdrawals
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Following research last week suggesting that HSBC has a major capital
shortfall, the fact that several farmer's co-ops were unable to pay back
depositors in China, and, of course, the liquidi... more »
WISDOM FROM NEAR-DEATH
doingcostarica.blogspot.com.
*Dr Penny Sartori*, who worked as a nurse in a British hospital for 21
years, has conducted research into the near-death experiences (NDEs) of her
patients. In 2005 she was awarded a PhD for her research into NDEs.
60-year-old *Tom* Kennard was suffering from sepsis after surgery for
cancer.
In his hospital ward, Tom collapsed and became unconscious for three hours.
Tom later told his nurse, Penny Sartori, what happened during these three
hours.
He said he "floated upwards to the top of the room. I looked down and I
could see my body on the bed. It w... more »
Tech giants caught in massive wage suppression scheme ? Sadly , the list of greedy schemers include such titans of technology , who engaged in a formal arrangement to suppress pay to the tune of $9 billion , such as Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit, and Pixar. The jury trial is et for May 27th - get your popcorn !
Why George Lucas, Eric Schmidt, (and yes, Steve Jobs) Should Go to Jail:
Conspiring to Reduce Wages of 100,000 Tech ProsPosted on January 24, 2014
by Yves Smith
One big difference between West Coast and East Coast oligarchs is that a
lot fewer people lionize the Eastern ones. Even though the media and sadly
too many regulators treat the likes of Lloyd Blankfein with far too much
deference, the broader public has wised up. Even MBAs, who normally side
with the rich and powerful, have asked me, “When is Jamie Dimon going to
jail?”
But Silicon Valley’s royalty occupy a class of thei... more »
Oh that's priceless, who on Earth would believe that of Ed Balls?
It seems that Ed Balls has pledged Labour to balance the UK's books and do
away with the budget surplus in the next Parliament if it wins the 2015
election. The Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said Labour would pass a law to
ensure it adheres to "tough" and binding fiscal rules. These rules would
include eliminating the deficit and reducing debt as a share of GDP between
2015 and 2020.
Doe anyone seriously believe that Ed Balls is capable of adhering to such a
policy? Ed Balls, the great deficit creator. Ed Balls, the deficit denier.
Ed Balls, the man who did more to destroy the British ... more »
The Common Core: A Disaster for Libraries, A Disaster for Language Arts, a Disaster for American Education
Stephen Krashen
Knowledge Quest 42(3): 37-45 (2014).
There never has been a need for the common core and there is no evidence
that it will do students any good. The common core ignores the real problem
in American education: Poverty. The common core will continue the process
of turning schools into test-prep centers, and bleed billions from places
the money is badly needed, where it can help protect children from the
effects of poverty. The only real goal of the common core is to do the
opposite, to profit a small group of the elite, the .01% at taxpayer
expense, a classic case of ... more »
Gold News and views for January 23 - 24 , 2014 - JPMorgan's Gold Vault Has Biggest One-Day Withdrawal Ever ...... Ed Steer's daily report for January 24 , 2014 ........... Harvey Organ's daily report for January 23 , 2014 ..... articles to consider on gold from Zero Hedge , Gata , Jesse's Crossroads Cafe , the Golden Truth and Koos Jansen ......
Catharsis Ours - 10 hours ago
1/24/14....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-24/jpmorgans-gold-vault-has-biggest-one-day-withdrawal-ever
( Customers getting their gold out before February delivery demands hit ? )
JPMorgan's Gold Vault Has Biggest One-Day Withdrawal Ever
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Newsnight: What's the story?
Continuing on the theme of this week's *Newsnight*, here's a run-down of
the stories they chose to cover.
Monday 20/01/2014: (a) the Lib Dems "mess" over Lord Rennard, (b) Syria,
(c) the Rosetta comet-chasing probe and (d) a new kind of cafe.
Tuesday 21/01/2014: (a) the Lib Dems "mess" over Lord Rennard, (b) David
Baddiel on Nicholas Anelka and the quenelle, (c) UKIP's un-PC
pronouncements, (d) 24 hours in A&E and (e) China's tax-evading elites.
Wednesday 22/01/2014: (a) the latest unemployment figures, (b) Syria, (c)
sex pests (in the light of the Lord Rennard story), (d) khat
Th... more »
Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Beautiful Planet Earth”
Vangelis, “Beautiful Planet Earth”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Akb1t37T4E
(Much Larger Framework Overlooked?) Pretense of Divinity On View At Davos Moneycaust, How Billionaire Liberals Sold US Out, Suicide of D.C. Lifer, the Wisdom of Ed Snowden, and Dimon Days
Why is this man missing? Shades of Dr. David Kelly's death in the
Oxfordshire woods which may be the ultimate "key to a much larger puzzle."
Solons gather at Davos? Skiing solons? And no one bought off by the NSA
guys? From Alternet: Masters of the Universe, vaguely real or totally fake,
who want to play savior all flocked to Switzerland this week. In Montreux,
one may "save" Syria at the
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem Threw The Gauntlet Down On Saudi Arabia In His Geneva II Speech
An excerpt from, *"Geneva2 begins with paticpation of Syria's offical
delegation, headed by al-Moallem"* Syrian Arab News Agency, January 22:
They lectured Syria – a distinguished, virtuous, sovereign state, they
lectured her on honour whilst they themselves were immersed in the mud of
enslavement, infanticide and other medieval practices. *After all their
efforts and subsequent failures, their masks fell from their quivering
faces, to reveal their perverse ambitions. A desire to destabilize and
destroy Syria by exporting their national product: terrorism. They used
their petrodoll... more »
Who's up for a jography quiz? Plus Garrison Keillor's "personal geography" of "home"
*The cover story of the February 2014 NationalGeographic is "The New
Science of the Brain."*
*by Ken*
I don't know how long National Geographic was including a monthly geography
quiz on the mailing insert that includes the subscriber's address on
subscription copies before I noticed it. But however long it was, it spared
me that many months' or more likely years' worth of humiliation. Because
once I started looking at the quizzes, I started stinking at them. So let's
not kid ourselves, the fact that this month I suddenly got all five
questions right probably has something to do w... more »
Your moment of Zen
A winter sunrise in Norway. [National Geographic photo]
Fossil fuels are immoral?
Are they?
Center for Industrial Progress president Alex Epstein tells John Stossel
“we live on the cleanest, safest planet in history … *because* we burn
fossil fuels.”
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On Teaching: An Open Letter to Marc Tucker
Marc, I have read your article, On Writing, and I am wondering about a
couple of issues that I address in this post. The first issue is
pronoun-centered– who “we” are. The second involves your discourse on
“lower ranking” teachers. I end by offering my own suggestions. Who Are
“We”? One of the striking quotes in your […]
The Paleo Rodeo is up...
*some great links.*
*Paleo Rodeo*
"How It Really Is"
Oh, let's not just pick on California. It's the whole country, too...
- CP
"Heroes Are Rare..."
"Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have
scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then,
perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or
forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another
kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember
court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of
their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the
madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is
mostly divid... more »
Global Warming Hits the Philippines, Part 3
It is rather cold these days in the Philippines that many legislators are
seen with their hands in their own pockets. Partly joke, partly true.
Cold mornings, even at noon time, are common these days in Metro Manila and
the rest of the country. A friend of a friend, Mike Blanco Ella Sarsoza,
posted this image this morning. 14 C in Binan, Laguna, just a few
kilometers south of Metro Manila. Wow.
This morning in the house around 5am, I was forced to wear jacket while
checking emails. Much colder than previous mornings. And here's why...
(source, gmanews)
The cold spell has been wit... more »
"Why Are You Waiting?"
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make,
who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
~ Stephen Levine
Thomas Berry, "The Meadow Across the Creek"
*"The Meadow Across the Creek"*
by Thomas Berry
"I was a young person then, some twelve years old. My family was moving
from a more settled part of a Southern town out to the edge of town where
the new house was still being built. The house, not yet finished, was
situated on a slight incline. Down below was a small creek and there across
the creek was a meadow. It was an early afternoon in May when I first
looked down over the scene and saw the meadow. The field was covered with
lilies rising above the thick grass. A magic moment, this experience gave
to my life something, I know n... more »
Global warming hits the Philippines, part 3
(Note: in this series, here are Part 2 and Part 1)
Global warming threatens to sink half of Navotas
By TJ Burgonio
Inquirer, First Posted 01:58:00 04/30/2007
MANILA, Philippines -- Global warming threatens to submerge parts of Manila
and wipe out entire islands, a conservation group warned, as it brought its
campaign to cut carbon dioxide emissions to the Philippines.
“The Philippines is extremely vulnerable to the ravages of climate change,”
the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said. “Food and freshwater shortages,
receding coastlines and an increase in political and economic ... more »
Economist's Absurd "Divided Thailand" Commentary
*January 24, 2014* (ATN) - The Economist has recently floated a narrative
that the current Thai regime could flee to the north and "separate" the
region from Thailand. Far from a legitimate government seeking to "preserve
democracy," it a Western-backed proxy regime carrying out the tried by true modern
imperial agenda of divide and rule.
First, it should be remembered that the Economist publishes paid-for
op-eds. It is not news, it is not analysis, it is simply the message told
by the highest bidders - the corporate-financier interests of Wall Street
and London. These interests ar... more »
"Fight or Flight: Who Runs Your Life?"
"Fight or Flight: Who Runs Your Life?"
by Tony Schwartz
"Think, for a moment, about the life you're living. You skitter from
activity to activity. The consequence is that you don't do anything
particularly well. You're easily distracted and have difficulty paying
attention. You rarely read anything challenging, if you read much at all,
which is why so much of your knowledge is superficial. The same is true of
your relationships. How does that description strike you? Have I got it
pretty much right? My suspicion is I do, even if you are compelled to deny
it.
Okay, now take a moment... more »
Dana Milbank notches a threefer of phony apologies -- from NJ Guv KrispyKreme, ex-VA Guv "Handsome Bob" McD, and -- wait for it -- Glenn Beck!
*Say it ain't so, Glenn B! Did you really "ma[k]e an awful lot of mistakes"
that "help[ed] tear the country apart"?*
"Chris Christie is terribly sorry that his staff lied to him about things
they did without his knowledge, and he feels remorse that the partisan
media are targeting him with a witch hunt.
"Bob McDonnell is really sorry that an overzealous federal prosecutor is
going after him for doing perfectly legal things.
"And Glenn Beck feels just awful that people were so 'fragile' that they
allowed his rhetoric to tear the country apart. . . .
"Christie's problem is the fault... more »
“Solar Lull Could Trigger Another 'Little Ice Age,' Sun Scientists Say”
*“Solar Lull Could Trigger Another 'Little Ice Age,' Sun Scientists Say”*
By Macrina Cooper-White
“If you thought the polar vortex was bad, get a load of a new climate
phenomenon that just might be coming our way. Scientists say we could be
headed for another "Little Ice Age," given how eerily calm the sun has been
in recent years.
First, a bit of background. The sun goes through cycles that last roughly
11 years, marked by the ebb and flow of sunspots on its surface. At peak
sunspot activity, the so-called solar maximum, the sun sports lots of sunspots
and is steadily unleashing ... more »
Ukraine: America leads/EU follows- no compromise and time for sanctions
*All the ducks are lining up...*
[image:
http://socketsandlightbulbs.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/ducks-in-a-row.jpg]ducks
in a row- militarized ducks
*Cue t**he peaceful protests that were not peaceful *
*Up the violence *
*Make demands that can never be met*
*Up the violence*
*Make more insane irrational demands *
*And always continue escalating*
*In a no holds barred/no win situtation*
*First up-* *Klitschko- Situation could get out of control*
I am going to highlight the interesting bits in three articles. Ready?
DW: How can further violence be stopped?
Vitali Klitschko:* I will ... more »
Something Ominous May Be Coming At Us - let's connect some dots ! First , Earlier this week 30-day/4-wk T-Bills were auctioned off a 0% rate. Intra-day, after the auction, the rate went negative. Negative short term rates were last observed in 2008, before the Lehman/AIG/Goldman collapse occurred ....... Second , we see JP Morgan Gold Vault sees its biggest one day withdrawal -- ever ! Third , we read China considering teaching investors a lesson in moral hazard with allowing a Trust Default (
http://truthingold.blogspot.com/2014/01/something-ominous-may-be-coming-at-us.html
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014
Something Ominous May Be Coming At Us
Earlier this week 30-day/4-wk T-Bills were auctioned off a 0% rate.
Intra-day, after the auction, the rate went negative. Negative short term
rates were last observed in 2008, before the Lehman/AIG/Goldman collapse
occurred. Of course, Lehman was allowed to implode and Goldman, who's
ex-CEO was the Treasury Secretary, was bailed out. AIG was the beneficiary
of that bailout because Goldman had impaled itself on AIG nuclear waste.
The po... more »
Geneva 2 opens up ...... Some items of note on the Syria Conference !
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Russia Today.....
Syrian opposition refuses to meet govt face-to-face at Geneva 2 talks
Published time: January 24, 2014 00:41
Get short URL
[image: Syrian National Coalition (SNC) leader Ahmad Jarba gives a press
conference on the "Geneva II" peace talks, on January 23, 2014 at the
Intercontinental hotel in Geneva.(AFP Photo / Philippe Desmazes)]
Syrian National Coalition (SNC) leader Ahmad Jarba gives a press conference
on the "Geneva II" peace talks, on January 23, 2014 at the Intercontinental
hotel in Geneva.(AFP Photo / Philippe Desmazes)
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YRC Temasters start voting on revised Labor contract this Friday with additional voting sessions on Saturday and Sunday ! What are the stakes here — The financial future of trucking company YRC Worldwide again depends on the outcome of a vote on a revised labor contract with Teamster members,
http://www.todaystrucking.com/yrc-teamsters-to-vote-on-revised-labor-contract
YRC Teamsters to Vote on Revised Labor Contract
Posted: Jan 23, 2014 03:48 PM | Last Updated: Jan 23, 2014 04:04 PM
OVERLAND PARKS, KS — The financial future of trucking company YRC Worldwide
again depends on the outcome of a vote on a revised labor contract with
Teamster members, which will be held this weekend.
“Our members made their voices heard about the company’s initial proposal,
and we went back to the company and negotiated significant improvements
that will give the members another opportunity... more »
A Rocking Musical Interlude: Outlaws, “Green Grass and High Tides”
Outlaws, “Green Grass and High Tides”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82OM5tzcrk
*Turn it up!*
Europe's Modest Proposal To End Unemployment: Slavery --- here is the skinny from Zero Hedge ....... " Having spent weeks talking amongst themselves about the chronic and dangerous rise of youth unemployment in Europe (as we warned here), the Center of planning and Economic Research in Greece has proposed a controversial measure. As GreekReporter reports, the measure includes unpaid work for the young and unemployed up to 24 years old, so that companies would have a strong motive to hire young employees. "Unpaid" work sounds a lot like slavery to us... but it gets better; the report also suggested "exporting young unemployed persons." No comment... " Of course , why not Spain with their evergrowing unemployment and high youth unemployment ? But where do they propose to " export " young unemployed youth to - and how much do they think they might get in exchange for said " exports " ????
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-24/europes-modest-proposal-end-unemployment-slavery
( I have an idea , let's start with the worthless Greek politicians .... )
Europe's Modest Proposal To End Unemployment: Slavery
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/24/2014 18:10 -0500
- Greece
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Having spent weeks talking amongst themselves about the chronic and
dangerous rise of youth unemployment in Europe (as we warned here), the
Center of planning and Economic Research in Greece has proposed a
controversial measure. As GreekRep... more »
"a Tory minister who fell from grace"
Moving back in time to the Tuesday 21st January edition of *Newsnight, *let's
turn to the programme's remarkable savaging of UKIP for some of its
member's distinctly un-PC comments.
Kirsty Wark's introduction to this feature dripped drooled with unfriendly
sarcasm and Emily Maitlis's subsequent report did that thing of showing
Emily sitting pretty in some unfamiliar part of the *Newsnight *studio
speaking on the telephone to some poor chap from UKIP who'd committed the
unforgivable sin of tweeting something that wasn't to *Newsnight*'s taste -
a jokey tweet calling Barack Obama "I... more »
'Working Street'
Following on from the completely-and-utterly one-sided pro-drug (khat)
piece on Wednesday's night's *Newsnight*, what can we say about the rest of
that edition?
Well, it contained three other topics: (a) the latest unemployment figures,
(b) Syria and (c) sex pests (in the light of the Lord Rennard story). Let's
look at the first of those.
The bias in the khat piece can be excused (at a push) by saying that it was
a non-BBC 'personal view'. The 'latest unemployment figures' report, in
contrast, was an entirely inhouse report. It came from the BBCs Andy Verity.
It's framing imagery... more »
What does "China" and "JP Morgan have in common?
What does "China" and "JP Morgan have in common?
..... a gold vault!?
Oh darlins.... it just keeps getting better and better!!!! On January
23... the same day that purportedly CNN got hacked and "someone" posted
that China had dumped US Bonds on the market..... the very same day
JPMorgans gold vault has the BIGGEST withdrawal EVER!!!
... Pop Quiz: Who now owns JPMorgan's gold vault?
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2013/10/massive-global-financial-facepalm-but.html
JPMorgan's Gold Vault Has Biggest One-Day Withdrawal Ever
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Submitted by... more »
Argentina: A Humanoid at El Rincón Viejo? (01.21.2014)
*Argentina: A Humanoid at El Rincon Viejo? (01/21/2014)*
By Luciano Mazzoni
*The First Encounter*
Around 21:30 on Friday, 17 January of this year, seven (7) people were
traveling in a Ford F100 pickup truck at a speed of some 40 kilometers an
hour. Franco and Javier were in the payload of the vehicle with their two
siblings. Their parents and grandmother were inside the cabin. They were
returning from San Eduardo, Santa Fe, and in order to reach the field where
they live it was necessary to traverse the 15 kilometer stretch that
separated them from their destination.
Amid the soy... more »
Just sayin' .....
*We are well into 2014. The Canadian political scene has remained
relatively quiet in the post Christmas/New Year period. The current lull
should not be considered an accurate reflection of the raucous year that
ended 2013 for the embattled Harper Conservative administration.*
*Expect things to heat up at the national political level very soon. In a
big way ... *
*Just sayin' ..*
John Kane named interim host of First Voices Indigenous Radio
John
Kane interim host of First Voices Indigenous Radio
WBAI-FM in New York City
By Liz Hill
Censored News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 23, 2014) – John Kane, Mohawk activist and
national commentator on Native issues, has been named Interim Host of
the long-running weekly one-hour radio program, “First Voices Indigenous
Radio” (FVIR) at WBAI-FM 99.5 in New York City. Starting Thursday,
Look what the khat dragged in!
As someone who (for my sins) has been deeply immersed in the world of blogs
about BBC bias for many years now, I think I can safely say that there's a
perception about that the BBC advances a liberal position on drugs - from
the many, many, many blogposts of Home Editor Mark Easton which report
(uncritically) the statements of some pro-liberalisation group or bigwig
through to Andrew Hussey's *Heroin* on Radio 4.
Wednesday night's *Newsnight *tackled a drugs story. At issue was the UK
government's decision to ban khat - a drug popular with Somali immigrants.
I suppose you might ... more »
Friday Nerd Blogging: Mocking the New and the Old
Because we are late with Friday Nerd Blogging, we have a two-fer–one that
is mocks a TV program to come and one that mocks an old show but lovingly
so: And for the kids out there, Bosum Buddies is among the very best
short-lived TV shows. No spaceships (Firefly) but realistic portrayal of
the desperation
Continue reading
GOP seeks weak Tea
Old guard GOPers looking to avoid the bloodbath of 2012 primary season have
a plan to shut down Tea Party conservatives.
A Republican National Committee meeting to compress the 2016 primary
schedule grew heated Thursday, as supporters of rule changes beat back
repeated attempts by a handful of conservative activists to torpedo them.
The push to shorten the presidential nominating process and have an early
summer convention is an effort to give the eventual nominee time to raise
money, unite the GOP, and hopefully avoid excessive infighting in the
party. Many Republicans believe th... more »
How much income inequality is explained by varying parental resources?
When people think about inequality of incomes, a key issue is inequality of
opportunity. Some people are born to rich parents who can afford private
schools, summer camp, SAT tutors, etc., while others have poorer parents
who cannot easily afford such things. One might wonder how much of the
income inequality we observe can be explained by differences in the
resources that people get because of varying parental incomes.
Let me suggest a rough calculation that gives an approximate answer.
The recent paper by Chetty et al. finds that the regression of kids’ income
rank on parents’ inc... more »
Enthusiasm Gap? More Than A Few California Republicans Want Their Pathetic Party To Endorse Jerry Brown This Year
Crackpot Tim Donnelly could signal the end of California's Republican Party
No one serious thinks there's a Republican who can defeat California
Governor Jerry Brown in November. He turned Schwarzenegger's deficits into
surpluses and, other than zombie-partisan rightists, voters love him. In
2010, despite Meg Whitman's jaw-dropping $160 million spend, Brown beat her
by over a million votes and she limped ito the finish line with a mere
40.9%. This coming November, the Republicans will be lucky if they go much
beyond 33.3%-- and they know it.
But they need a plausible candidate and a ... more »
When conservatives commit campaign fraud
Funny thing about conservatives. The same people who vigorously defend
voter suppression laws because, five Democratic voters in all of America
were caught casting fraudulent votes will instantly wail selective
prosecution when one of their own is caught breaking the law. And of
course, our Lady of the Winebox, Ms. Althouse is not alone in inquiring if
indicting the perp isn't just so much overkill for such a minor crime.
To be clear, I'm not big on the schadenfreude. I take no pleasure in seeing
the tiresome blowhard Dinesh D'Souza indicted for campaign finance fraud. I
do however... more »
It’s another form of brotherly love!
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014*
*The cheating spreads to Philly:* Stop reading if you’ve heard this one
before. But today's report in the New York Times took us back quite a few
years.
The report by Motoko Rich concerns the latest cheating on standardized
tests. This time, it happened in Philly.
Here’s how the report started:
RICH (1/24/14): The first sign that something was wrong appeared more than
two years ago when a company grading student tests from Philadelphia
noticed that *erasures from wrong to right answers showed what
investigators delicately called “statistical evidence of ... more »
A New Year for a New You at Cafe Fraiche and Vivesque Hair Salon
It always seems like everything changes right around the new year. I
always find myself in deep cleaning mode in my house. Everything I have
been saving for that yard sale I always say I am going to have end up in
the donation pile. I scrub everything down and set goals for pretty much
every aspect of life. I usually end up with somewhere between 30-50
resolutions, a completely crazy amount. On the list for this year was to
feel better by eating better and to finally find a hairstyle and color that
I love which are low maintenance.
Cafe Fraiche at Brick Canvas is one of my favorit... more »
Burning through Teachers and KIPP's Public Shaming of Children
Here is a tiny clip from one interview with a former KIPP teacher that I
have been re-reading today. Sadly, it represents the norm for the total
compliance testing camps where these former teachers taught:
. . . the first thing I would say would be, like I said, there is zero down
time. And they are completely understaffed. For example, because the school
was on such a ____________, we couldn’t get hot lunch deliveries. And there
was no kitchen in the building because it was an office building that was,
you know, leased to KIPP. So one thing that the teachers had to do, every
teach... more »
China Dumps US bonds? Part 2
Further to the article I wrote earlier today: "Did China Dump US Bonds?
...and does it really matter?",I am posting a couple of follow up comments
and links.
So, the spin doctors are of course stating that CNN got hacked- their
Twitter and Facebook accounts- which begs the question: how did the hackers
of Twitter and Facebook manage to post an article on CNN? Really?
REALLY?! And of course since the whole was just a joke/hack and nothing
really happened.... then of course, nothing happened in response to the
alleged Hack, Right?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/short-term-t... more »
"Google Chrome Can Hear Your Conversations!"
*"Google Chrome Can Hear Your Conversations!"*
By Live Free or Die
“This newly released video report from Tal Ater is very bothersome and
shares that a bug with Google Chrome allowers malicious websites (or
others) to ‘listen in’ to your conversations after remotely activating your
microphone. According to our videographer, by exploiting bugs in Google
Chrome, malicious sites can activate your microphone while listening in on
anything and everything that is said around your computer, EVEN AFTER
you’ve left those sites. As if ‘big brother’ wasn’t bad enough, this new
information is ... more »
These professors today just keep letting us down!
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014*
*Is Richard Sherman a thug:* Is Richard Sherman a thug?
We’re the wrong people to ask. As far as we know, we’ve never called anyone
a thug. And if we were going to start, we certainly wouldn’t start with
Sherman, a former Pacific-10 great.
We support *all* former Pacific-10 greats around here, especially those
from Stanford. Not to brag, but we took an official recruiting trip to The
Farm at one time ourselves.
This is the game we officially saw. We even sat in the card section holding
up cards. If Richard Sherman is a thug, that basically makes us one t... more »
Shame on THIS Magazine
THIS magazine's 4,000-word cover story, "No Choice: Why the pro-choice
movement won't let women grieve after abortion", is a piece of crap.
First the title, sheesh.
Next the deck (likely not written by author):
The anti-abortion movement has newly latched onto Post-Abortion Syndrome, a
controversial diagnosis that it claims mimics PTSD.
No. Not 'newly latched onto'.
The tactic is more than 30 years old as the article itself acknowledges a
few paragraphs down.
Next, your *de rigeur* pseudonymous, but like totally believable victim of
the piece, "Yana", who is 23 years old but wh... more »
BBC technology boss John Linwood sacked
Google News is invaluable in letting you track how a new story spreads
around the media.
I can't quite tell whether it was *Broadcast* or the *Guardian* which broke
it first, but the* Guardian* certainly published the story at 16.19 this
afternoon:
*Broadcast*'s version states:
*BBC technology boss John Linwood sacked*
The BBC has revealed that John Linwood, the technology boss that oversaw
the £100m Digital Media Initiative fiasco, was formally relieved of his
duties in July last year.
The *Guardian*'s version says:
*BBC boss in charge of scrapped DMI project left without a pay... more »
Now that we don't have to worry about Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson, we can shift our focus to Justin Bieber instead of paying attention to what's really going on in the world...
*seriously.*
While there are plenty of people in this country who are working two or
more jobs, have families to raise, money worries, and maybe some health
issues, it isn't going to exempt them from the fire storm that is getting
ready to ignite.
*Here are some things to read and ponder.*
The Sleuth Journal: * The Psychology Of Being A “Non-Conspiracy Theorist”*
Liberty's Torch: *Writing On The Wall Dept.*
The Blaze: *This obscure French pamphlet from 1850 predicted today’s
America*
** * * *
The BBC documentary "The Century of the Self", is becoming almos... more »
Congressman Clay Aiken (D-NC)?
North Carolina's second congressional district was carefully drawn to skirt
Fayetteville in the south and Greensboro in the north and to stay clear of
Chapel Hill and Raleigh. Democrats live in those cities and Art Pope's
bought and paid for legislature was determined to make sure this Piedmont
swing district would be safe territory for a conservative Republican who
could vote for any unpopular, crackpot legislation Pope deemed important
without worrying about reelection. Drastically altered, it went from a
Republican-leaning district Democrats could win (R+3) to a solidly red
he... more »
THE NEW SAM-AND-COKIES: What in the world is a traffic study?
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014*
*Part 4—The Times on the head of a pin:* Is it even possible?
Is it possible that David Wildstein was trying to conduct a traffic study
when he closed two access lanes from the town of Fort Lee?
That wouldn’t be our first guess. That said, guesswork is massively
overrated—and everything is possible! In this case, that possibility hasn’t
yet been disproven.
That wouldn’t be our first guess! But whatever Wildstein was trying to do,
he went to a lot of trouble to do it—and he burned the time and energy of
quite a few state employees in the process.
You’d n... more »
Market Driven Economy VS Performance Driven Society
Can you imagine how varied our streets would be today, if at the cessation
of hostilities in 1946 the US goverment had mandated all brands selling
cars in the USA must have one model line made of Aluminum.
To kickstart this they could have offered a hundred year supply of
aluminum in the form of surplus aircraft etc. Aluminum is the most common
alloy on our scarcely resourced planet. It is also one of the easiest to
recycle. Mined once used forever. If this goverment intervention had been
planned today Aluminum would be incredibly cheap. Likely used instead of
plastic in most app... more »
Maajid Nawaz on Jesus and Mo
I'm a bit late to the Maajid Nawaz Jesus and Mo controversy, but there are
a couple of points I think have lost amid the hubbub.
First things first, I don't think religion-baiting is particularly smart
politics. As Nawaz is a liberal I cannot speak for him, but as a socialist
politics is, or should be, about getting as many people into the labour
movement as possible. The sharing of common endeavours, of being part of a
collective condensation of broadly similar interests as working people, our
movement has and remains the most fertile grounds for socialist ideas. This
is not an e... more »
Untitled
*Rejoice, rejoice! We have no choice… (Part 1) ~moosedenied**~Welp. Welcome
to another offseason, bitches. Might wanna grab yourself a drink and settle
in for a while, because we're about to go all TL;DR on your asses. Even
moreso than usual, that is. *
WARNING: There will be math. Lots and lots of math. Lies, damn lies,
advanced lies and statistics (both advanced and remedial.) We will also be
pulling some things straight out of our asses and asking you to accept it
as credible analysis. So while we eagerly await what are sure to be
incredibly entertaining 2013 post-mortem pieces fr... more »
Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa
Freedom House has just published its 2014 report and here's the freedom
figures for the Middle East and North Africa from that report, first for
2010 - 2014 and then just for 2014
In case you are wondering, the Palestinians are not forgotten, the Gaza
Strip and 'West Bank' appear under a list of territories, here's their 2014
ranking for comparison...
In the above tables, "PR" stands for "Political Rights," "CL" stands for
"Civil Liberties," and "Status" is the Freedom Status.
Political Rights and Civil Liberties are measured on a one-to-seven scale,
with one representing the ... more »
If they are that ignorant then they shouldn't be allowed a vote
From the BBC report on the Lords blocking the possibility of a EU
Referendum following the next general Election comes this passage:
'As it stands, the bill states that voters should be asked: "Do you think
that the UK should be a member of the EU?"
...
The Electoral Commission has already said the existing question needs
further thought, suggesting that some people are not aware that the UK is
already a member and might not understand the premise as a result.'
If people aren't aware that the UK is already a member of the EU then they
shouldn't have a vote on anything.
“The Persian Deck” – An Interview with Diba Salimi
Aces
in “The Persian Deck,” original playing cards with hand-drawn designs
and artwork by Iranian artist Diba Salimi
“I am hoping to make my art accessible by designing products that play
parts in your lives,” writes Iranian designer and artist Diba Salimi
about her latest project, “Surena: The Persian Deck,” a set of
beautifully hand-drawn playing cards inspired by Persian art and
history.
An acknowledgement of debt recommences the limitation period
Limitations Act:
*Acknowledgments*
*13.* (1) If a person acknowledges liability in respect of a claim for
payment of a liquidated sum, the recovery of personal property, the
enforcement of a charge on personal property or relief from enforcement of
a charge on personal property, the act or omission on which the claim is
based shall be deemed to have taken place on the day on which the
acknowledgment was made. 2002, c. 24, Sched. B, s. 13 (1).
*Interest*
(2) An acknowledgment of liability in respect of a claim for interest is
an acknowledgment of liability in respect of a claim ... more »
My Article in the Washington Post on January 23, 2014
Below is the text of my article entitled, A Challenge: Teach Eighth Grade
Common Core Before Endorsing It, published in the Washington Post on
January 23, 2014.
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On January 21, 2014, Valerie Strauss’ Washington Post education blog, The
Answer Sheet, ran a supposed “reaction to” education historian Diane
Ravitch’s January 11, 2014, speech at the Modern Language Association […]
Friday Morning Trance
So
Southern Man arrives at the high school for his early-morning
concurrent-enrollment Astronomy course only to find that the public
schools
were cancelled because of - cold. They sure didn't do that back when
*he*was a lad. So instead of teaching this morning Southern Man is
scouring the
web for the morning's entertainment and came up with some trance music
by
French composer VJ Aurel set to a mash-up of footage from dozens of
science
fiction films from the past several decades.
Hat tip to Optimal Human Modulation.
Questions from Congress, Part 2: Responses to Rep. Suzanne Bonamici
*U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES*
*COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY*
*Subcommittee on Environment*
*RESPONSES OF ROGER PIELKE, JR. TO*
*Hearing Questions for the Record*
*The Honorable Suzanne Bonamici*
*A Factual Look at the Relationship between Climate and Weather*
Dr. Pielke
1. In your testimony you acknowledge that anthropogenic climate change is a
real phenomenon with real consequences for the climate. You also condemn
“activists, politicians, journalists, corporate and government agency
representatives and even scientists” for making claims about climate change
bei... more »
Questions from Congress, Part 1: Responses to Representative Lamar Smith
*U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES*
*COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY*
*Subcommittee on Environment *
*RESPONSES OF ROGER PIELKE, JR. TO*
*Hearing Questions for the Record*
*The Honorable Lamar Smith*
*A Factual Look at the Relationship between Climate and Weather *
Dr. Pielke
1. Everyone from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the
President to the journal Nature have admitted it is very difficult to
attribute specific weather events to climate change. However, Dr. Titley
and Dr. James Hansen have argued that man-made climate has resulted in the
deck being s... more »
Dream Destroyer still in REM mode
The Boeing Dreamliner was supposed to be the apogee of subsonic passenger
aircraft. It firmly remains a work in progress. Its like a luxury sedan,
fantastic when it works but so disappointing due to continual nagging
deficiencies that place it on hold. IMHO the key reason the Dreamliner has
had such a troubled takeoff is Boeing's spiteful biting its nose off to
punish Seattle Unions. First the move of HQ to Chicago. Next outsourcing
almost everything. The Dream liner is to big to fail so Boeing will find a
way to make it work. But instead of being a triumph it will be a bitter
hub... more »
March 28-30, Denver, CO: Be There
*"Parents in this year’s opt-out movement are standing up for something
larger than their own child’s test-day happiness: the conviction that all
children have better things to do with their days than fill in bubbles on a
multiple-choice sheet, and that all children have better things to do with
their heads than bang them against a table in despair." --The New Yorker,
01.23.14*
Be a part of the Action in Denver March 28-30. Registration details HERE.
Untitled
*A quip on Twitter lands me a public audience with Louisiana’s coastal
chief, but it could have been worse ~Mark Moseley, The Lens*
*Rob Ryan: Uniquely New Orleans ~Ryne Hancock*
*Gusman’s son works at law firm with lucrative contract with sheriff’s
office ~WWLTV*
*Excitement Builds Over Refresh Project*
*A Hurricane Katrina tale of love and loss ~Sheila Stroup*
*Creole Families of New Orleans ~ Denise Olson, Moultrie Creek Books*
*Sunday Second Line: Ladies and Men of Unity Parade, January 26 ~WWOZ*
Dinesh D'Souza-- Prison Or Deportation? Or First Prison And Then Deportation?
To American right-wingers Dinesh D'Souza is a household name. Many normal
people are vaguely aware that D'Souza is a right-wing operative who appears
on right-wing owned and operated media to spread Republican Party
propaganda. He's well-paid for his efforts and even made a movie he thought
would win Romney the election, the little seen *2016: Obama's America*,
which was based on his 2010 book, *The Roots of Obama's Rage*. The film,
like all D'Souza's work, was widely panned outside of extreme right-wing
circles. Most people just see him as a kind of slightly less tawdry male
Ann ... more »
U.S. Investigating Dennis Rodman for Busting Sanctions - did Dennis Rodman simply become too much of an annoyance to further ignore ?
Photo by Kim Kyung Hoon/Reuters
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01.24.14
U.S. Investigating Dennis Rodman for Busting Sanctions
Dennis Rodman reportedly brought thousands of dollars in luxury gifts to
Kim Jong Un for his birthday. Now, Washington's looking into whether those
gifts violated U.S. sanctions.
Dennis Rodman was already having a rotten month, between the trip to rehab
and the global condemnation for cozying up to a dictator. Now things may be
about to get much worse. The U.S. Treasury Department is investigating
whether he viol... more »
Turkey updates January 22 , 2014 -- Here Are 350 Billion Reasons Why Banks Want You To Ignore Turkey's Turbulence ..... Turkish Lira Crumbles To New Record Low As Erdogan Blames Fed Not Politics .... Political instability continues as corruption scandals percolate !
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Turkey's
building financial turbulence.....
Turkey to repay $168 billion in foreign debts in 2014
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Hot Air
Stephen Harper likes to crow about his government's management of the
economy. But the facts are out of synch with the hype. Two days ago, Alex
Roberts tallied up the record after eight years of Conservative
stewardship. The report should be read in full. But consider just a few
excerpts:
National unemployment rate in January, 2006: 6.6
National unemployment rate in December, 2013: 7.2
Increase in the number of unemployed in Canada since January 2006: 236,200
Youth unemployment rate, January 2006: 12.2
Youth unemployment rate, December 2013: 14.0
Rank of Canada’s unemployment rate ... more »
Did China Dump US Bonds? ...and does it really matter?
Well considering my article yesterday about China's financial troubles,
this piece is very interesting!!
**side note: 6 hours later.... this is another long one my friends- go get
a coffee!*
First off, this is the screen shot I took:
This is a screen shot of a CNN page from yesterday, January 23rd, 2014. It
can only be found in a search of their web cache. It is literally gone
gone gone. Now, Daily Kos is calling this a hoax, saying that CNN was
hacked:
CNN Hacked: Fake story about China dumping bonds and S. China Sea
Hacked CNN Reports "China Dumps All US Bonds"
CNN
1 min... more »
Gold news and views January 21 , 2014 -- Grant Williams missive covering 2013 ( for the seismic events concerning gold ) ..... Fixing the London gold Fix a topic of the day.... Chinese Gold Leasing : A Hidden Danger -- Koos Jansen ..... Additioanl items to ponder including a further look at Germany missing gold and their attempts to regain same ...... .
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/things-make-you-go-hmmm-gold-bullion-gordon-brown-growling-bundesbank
Things That Make You Go Hmmm... Like Gold Bullion, Gordon Brown, & A
Growling Bundesbank
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/21/2014 20:34 -0500
- AIG
- American International Group
- Central Banks
- Goldman Sachs
- goldman sachs
- LIBOR
- None
- United Kingdom
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*2013 was an absolutely seismic year for gold*, but, as Grant Williams
details in his latest letter, the way in which the tectonic plates sh... more »
Monopoly Money, "IOUs" and Where's the gold anyway?
Removing The ShacklesThursday, 23 January 2014Time 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 real... more »
Everything you ask Google sounds a lot more stupid when you actually ask Google.
What if Google was a guy? Quite amusing...Related articles
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