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Bruce Lee's Best Productivity Tricks
Bruce Lee is one of history's most productive people, which is
pretty amazing considering he died at 32 years old. He was not only an
action film star and martial artist, but also an instructor,
screenwriter, director, and philosopher. Here's just a small bit of what
we can learn from him.
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My Grandfather was a small town lawyer in the 1930s. One of his
less fond memories was the difficulty of getting paid for his work (plus
ça change, plus cest la même chose). People did not have money but
they did have other items and he would often have to take his fees in
chickens or eggs or firewood. Even today, when I do work in , I am
asked to take carvings or sealskins rather than money.The problem, of
course, with barter is that you do not always get what you want or need –
I have plenty of carvings and have very little need of sealskins. My
Grandfather had a lot more chickens than h
“Shame” on you, ISA
Dear ISA Governing Council,
Greetings. You probably don’t know me but I’m a long-time user of your
services. My first real conference experience was at ISA Chicago in
2007. I practiced my 10 minute presentation for hours in my hotel room
and had to borrow $250 from my mom to attend. I really benefited,
however, from the feedback I received from all 7 people in the
audience. I’ve routinely attended ISA conferences in the time since
2007 and have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I’ve reviewed and
contributed to ISA journals multiple times and am currently serving the
Association as both
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Scientist sues NASA over alien life on Mars
Rhawn Joseph is taking legal action on the basis that NASA isn't
doing enough to investigate alien life. The author and researcher has
filed the unusu...
The Very First Porsche Was an Electric Vehicle
Via: Cnet: The very first Porsche, an electric carriage, sat
untouched in a warehouse for 111 years, but now it’s come home. On June
26, 1898, Ferdinand Porsche’s “Egger-Lohner C.2 electric vehicle,”
better known as the “P-1,” rolled on to the streets of Vienna for the
first time. In 1899, the P-1 took the gold […]
Flatulent cows cause methane gas explosion
A herd of cows managed to cause a significant gas explosion on a
dairy farm in Rasdorf, Germany. Police investigating the peculiar
incident concluded ...
Tax funded namecallers? Clive Hamilton, The Conversation are the same: beyond reason
What we need is a mature national discussion. But what The
Conversation (and the Business Spectator) gives us is
logic-according-to-Clive, which is a black and white world where complex
debates are reduced to yes or no answers and there are no shades of
gray. How much will our climate warm? Clive says “Yes”. Clive Hamilton
is an Australian “intellectual” a Professor of Public Ethics and holds
the
“What have you heard about Barry Seal having flown a get-away plane out of Dallas after the Kennedy assassination?”
Via: Mad Cow Productions: Is there evidence that there was a get-away plane? The answer is yes.
Scientists film how brain makes memories
For the first time ever, researchers have caught on video the
process responsible for memory formation. The remarkable footage depicts
the complex pro...
Climate change violates Newton’s Third Law of Experts
Climate change violates one of Newton’s Laws First published on
OnlineOpinion Dec 2007 and unfortunately still very applicable. by
William York The claim that the science debate over cimate change is
settled violates the most important of Newton’s Laws. This violation is
not of the famous Laws of Motion but of a little known set of derived
bylaws, Newton’s Laws of Experts, a major contribution to
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The NSA and the 9/11 Deception
by James Corbett
GRTV.ca
January 26, 2014
As the public finally becomes outraged over the NSA’s illegal spying,
members of government and the corporate media wage an information war to
misdirect that anger to issues of less importance. To counteract this, a
bold new citizen-led initiative to nullify the NSA is now gaining
momentum around the United States. This is the GRTV Backgrounder on
Global R
Divide and Conquer: Politics and the Left/Right Fraud
by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
January 28, 2014
From education to the environment, business to banking, housing to
health care, it seems that there is no issue in the world that the
industrialized western democracies cannot reduce to a simplistic
paradigm of “liberal” vs “conservative.” In fact, this point has been so
hardwired into the modern political system that it has been distilled
int
Who is Behind the Ukrainian Riots? – New World Next Week
Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from
Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important
developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: Ukraine Opposition Sets 24-hour Deadline As Protests Rage
http://ur1.ca/ghhxb
Putin Scores a New Victory: What Really Happened In Ukraine
http://ur1.ca/ghhxc
Ukraine Texts Citizens: Hey, We See Yo
Interview 811 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from
Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important
developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: Ukraine Opposition Sets 24-hour Deadline As Protests Rage
http://ur1.ca/ghhxb
Putin Scores a New Victory: What Really Happened In Ukraine
http://ur1.ca/ghhxc
Ukraine Texts Citizens: Hey, We See Y
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Where have all the sea cows gone?
Something is killing Florida’s manatees, but no one’s sure what. Scientists try to piece together the puzzle
Bees With ‘Backpacks’ Might Help Unlock the Mystery Behind Die Offs
Australian scientists fit bees with radio sensors to monitor behavior
Fracking is Shaking the Earth in Texas
When Texans say “no” to oil and gas development, it’s a sign that times are a-changin'
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Central African Republic Elects First Female President
Source: BlackAmericaWeb.com
Congrats are in order for Catherine Samba-Panza. This beauty has been
elected as the first female president of the Central African Republic.
Previously, Ms. Samba-Panza was the mayor of Bangui and became the
interim president after beating rival, Desire Kolingba, son of the
ousted president. President Samba-Panza is tasked with ending the
sectarian violence that has be
What is more detrimental to the Black community: Gay Marriage vs. Interracial Marriage
In light of the all the media buzz about Good Morning America host
Robin Roberts publicly announcing her same-sex relationship (here), and
in the wake of the Duck Dynasty Phil Robertson controversy (here), I
wondered to myself: “why are we as a society so fascinated in who’s
f*cking who!?”
There are numerous media outlets, from TMZ to Bossip, which feeds our
cravenous appetites for such informatio
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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
Nothing sudden about the death of newspapers
My journalist friends and I are doing a lot of hand-wringing
these days over the death of the Kamloops Daily News, which has a
history as a good, strong community newspaper. The News is not the
first nor the last newspaper to die in these difficult times, but that a
paper should die that journalists themselves thought of as a good paper
perhaps feels weightier to us. It’s all very sad, of
Nice face, shame about the rep
We're newly back from two weeks of travelling on the Caribbean
side of Guatemala and through Belize. It's easy travel in Belize, where
English is the primary language, and the little country is clearly a
popular choice for North American and European travellers. But while I
totally get how nice it is to just breeze through a welcoming country
with great tourism infrastructure, hopefully we conv
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Philip Corso and The Day After Roswell, Again
(Blogger’s Note: In the last few days I have been asked about
Philip Corso and his tales of seeing the Roswell bodies and of seeding
alien technology into American industry. I have updated the information
to reflect what we now know. This is my take on the stories Corso told,
and once again, I find myself attempting to explain why I don’t accept
what he said as real.) As everyone now knows, Philip
Rumor Control
There are a couple of things that I think need to be straightened
out. First, as I was surfing the net (yes, I googled my name… Oh yeah,
you’ve never done that) I discovered a number of my books were being
offered as free downloads. There are apparently many out there who
believe that if a book is twenty years old, there are no copyright
issues. Well, this isn’t true. The books are still under cop
Unsealed: Alien Files.... Seriously?
While searching for something interesting to watch, I stumbled
across a program called Unsealed: Alien Files and my only comment is,
“Seriously?”This is one of the reasons that we have trouble getting
science and journalism to take UFO reports seriously. It is one of the
reasons that so many people have so little time for UFOs or who believe
those seeing UFOs are deluded. This program, in the guis
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Friday Baseball Post
It's Hall of Fame time. Can't miss this one.As we all know, this
year's ballot for the real voters is unlike any normal one: instead of
being about which marginal guys deserve to be in, it's about dealing
with the strategy of what to do with far more deserving players than the
rules allow. There was a bit of this last year, but now it's getting
silly.So. Some sorting is in order. Last year I had n
Recently at Bloomberg View
I suppose I'll start a new post, and update it throughout the
week, with links to current posts over there. As always with these, I
may or may not update here in a timely way; your best bet is just to go
over to my main page there.Here are the weekend links:Friday Baseball
PostWhat Mattered?Sunday Question for ConservativesSunday Question for
LiberalsAnd Monday, January 13:Read Stuff, You ShouldWh
Looking For Me? I'm Over At Bloomberg View
First post is up:Will Scandal Cost Christie the Invisible
Primary?Yes, I got "party actors" and who they are into my first
post...just worked out that way. More to come!Again, my general page
over there is also up (will get you first paragraphs of each post, click
through for full thing...alas, true blogs just aren't happening any
more).Also yesterday:Catch of the DayAnd today, beginning
Moving Day
Yes, boxes are being packed and unpacked at Plain Blog world
headquarters today for the big move...well, figuratively at least. But
in fact the big day is tomorrow.Bloomberg View is here. And they already
have a page for me, here. Empty now, but by late morning tomorrow there
should be something there. I'm afraid at first there won't be a
dedicated rss feed, but they're actually a few weeks away f
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Update to Collected Poems
collected poemsBy risa bearView this Author's SpotlightPaperback,
74 Pages PreviewPrice: $9.99Ships in 3-5 business daysThese poems,
collected for the first time, appeared in the books Desire for the Land
and Lettuce in Winter, and in the journals Bellowing Ark, Sand River
Journal, New Zoo Poetry Review, Lynx: Poetry from Bath, Aerious,
Disquieting Muses, Ariga: Visions, Writtenmind, and Rockhurst
Fogged in
The neighbor's sheep.Fog for the last two weeks, fog predicted for
the next two, hovering around the freezing mark. I feel as if I've
retired from farming and am spend my time, as you may have noticed,
bringing my titles up to date at Stony Run Press, to meet the
requirements for Amazon distribution.The ducks have been banished from
the garden, to their great dismay, and the chickens have been let
New blog (like you don't have enough to read)
With the high-ridge fog continuing at about 32F much of the time,
I've been mostly doing plumbing and housework. And, umm, being a
nuisance on the Internet. So this is an announcement of a new blog,
which will consist initially of the buddhism/permaculture posts that
appeared here late in 2013, and maybe go on from there. Here's the link,
if ya wanna go there.http://buddhismpermaculture.blogspot.c
New cover for Viewing Jasper Mountain
Viewing Jasper MountainBy Risa BearView this Author's
SpotlightPaperback, 163 Pages PreviewPrice: $9.99Ships in 3-5
business daysA journal, with a chapter for each month of the year, of
the author's thoughts during a year of living at Stony Run Farm, a small
homestead in Oregon's Willamette Valley. By the author of Starvation
Ridge.This thing is a bit anachronistic by now, as it chronicles lif
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Tools to Terrafom Mars
Herschel telescope detects water on dwarf planet in asteroid
beltFor the last century, Ceres was known as the largest asteroid in our
solar system. But in 2006, the International Astronomical Union, the
governing organization responsible for naming planetary objects,
reclassified Ceres as a dwarf planet because of its large size. It is
roughly 590 miles (950 kilometers) in diameter. When it first
All seeing Narus
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CIA connects the Dots
NOT....The Camp Chapman attack was a suicide attack by Humam
Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi against the Central Intelligence Agency
facility inside Forward Operating Base Chapman on December 30, 2009. FOB
Chapman is located near the eastern Afghan city of Khost, which is
about 10 miles northwest of the Pakistani border. One of the main tasks
of the CIA personnel stationed at the base was to provide in
Femen العنف تركيا الاحتجاج ضد المرأة
الانضمام للاحتجاج أو
المساهمةhttp://www.femen.org/ناشط من Femen النسائية المدافعة عن حقوق
يستعد للمشاركة في تظاهرة ضد العنف المنزلي مارس اسطنبول 8، 2012. وكالة
رويترز / عثمان أخترنا.الشرطة تعتقل أحد الناشطين في مجال حقوق المرأة
الأوكرانية، وأكدت تنظيم مظاهرة عاري الصدر للاحتجاج على العنف المنزلي ضد
المرأة في تركيا، في اسطنبول، الخميس 8 مارس، 2012، بعد ساعات فقط من رجل
قتل بالرصاص احدى قريباته. ورد
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Dr. Denis Rancourt files application to the Supreme Court of Canada for his right to an impartial court
An Ontario superior court judge had strong personal, family,
emotional, and contractual financial ties to a party intervening for the
plaintiff in [the] case, and also to the law firm representing the
party in court, and did not disclose any of these ties. This party was
also the employer of the plaintiff in the lawsuit, and funded the
plaintiff’s litigation. The judge was tasked with
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Addict
Saturday night, I made this spur of the moment decision to stop
drinking caffeine.I drink diet pop ALL DAY LONG, so this seemed to be a
daunting task. I pretty much get up in the morning, open a pop and sip
it while getting ready, drink about half. Come to work, open another
drink it until about lunch time. Drink another and sometimes another in
the late afternoon. Come home, drink 1-2 more. I
Two Months
Hi from me and baby Midas, who now tops the scales at 16 pounds!
He is growing like a little weed and seems to have increasing energy
every day which exhausts Kurt and I as well as Gretel. We still love the
little guy though,.I have no clue where to start and cannot believe
it's been 2 months since my last post! Life has been crazy busy. So
much to do, so little time. Literally.Plan right now i
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America'S Nuclear Radiation Cover Up 1946 - 1958 / Barbaric Racism
Bravo nuclear explosion / Project 4.1 / March 1st, 1954The Public
Broadcasting Industry paid for and is now suspressing 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 RolandThe Republic of t
WHAT MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr WOULD DO TODAY
Martin Luther King was above all a truth teller, the ultimate
whistle blower, and we can carry on his legacy by insisting on nothing
but the truth and settling for nothing less than the truth. King was far
more than a moderate reformer ~ King was a change agent who advanced
strong policy changes that went against the grain of the nation’s
corporate state, and insisted that “only by structural ch
Celebrating My Sunset Years
As I approach my 80th birthday on this planet, I realize I'm
still celebrating life with good health, a deep loving relationship with
my partner, Keiko and a life filled with many fulfilled dreams as well
as a major gift for mankind ~ which probably won't be recognized until
after I've passed on. My gift for the planet is my discovery and sharing
of the Unified Field ~ A Unified field of love an
Revolt Is In The Air Again
WW I Veterans Bonus March on Washington,1932Here's a blast from
the past that clearly shows that the public can be mobilized for a cause
as it once was in 1932 ~ when thousands of WW1 veterans marched for
their promised bonus electrifying the country in the process ~ but now,
with the Internet, true revolution and change is possible: Allen L
Roland Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to governmen
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智慧的話，我覺得！
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1101&MainCatID=11&id=20140115000029
请邮寄此无处不在，你看到的文章声称，沙特做9-11，是恐怖分子等，这是为下一步的入侵又一石油资源丰富的国家。 作为媒体试图帧沙特阿拉伯9-11（就像他们在伊拉克所做辩解战争），你可能要花点时间回去看一些的9-11的故事。
The Secret Service at Booker Elementary: The Dog That Did Not
Bark SUPPRESSED DETAILS OF CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADING LEAD DIRECTLY INTO
THE CIA'S HIGHEST RANKS The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9-11 Odigo
Workers Received Warning of 9/11 Attacks All 9/11 Airports Serviced by
One Israeli Owned CompanyThe Israeli Spy Ring THE CONTROLLED COLLAPSE OF
WTC 7 The BBC Announced WTC 7's Collapse 26 Minut
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A Message to Supporters from Albert Woodfox
(Page one of Albert's letter to supporters)I would like to take
this time to express my profound gratitude to all the wonderful friends,
supporters and comrades around the world for your unbelievable
solidarity and support!I'm not sure what the New Year means to you. For
me, it's the realization that another year of mental and emotional
torture has started! I constantly ask myself, is this the yea
A Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's Third Overturned Conviction and 41 years in Solitary Confinement
Rev. Dr. Patricia Bates speaks A Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's
41 Years in Solitary Confinement, Despite Three Overturned Convictions
--An interview with Rev. Dr. Patricia Teel BatesBy Angola 3 News This
past Fall, Herman Wallace of the Angola 3 made news headlines around the
world when his conviction was overturned and he was dramatically
released from prison after 41 years in solitary confin
Albert Woodfox's Hour in the 5th: A reportback on the Jan. 7 oral arguments
MEDIA COVERAGE: Lauren McGaughy, Times-Picayune II Daily
Journal / Associated Press II UPIVIEW / DOWNLOAD: A3 info flyer for
Jan. 7 II Listen to audio from the oral arguments II Rev. Patricia
Bates / NRCAT statement(PHOTO: A3 supporters at the Court on Jan. 7)For
those who were unable to attend, Albert's oral argument in the 5th
Circuit Court of Appeals, defending Judge Brady's decision
Amnesty International says: Drop the vengeance! Free Albert Woodfox!
Featured below is the full text of an action alert for Albert
Woodfox, released today by Amnesty International, timed to build public
pressure in the days leading up to Albert's oral arguments in New
Orleans on Tuesday, January 7.(PHOTO: Louisiana State Capitol, April 17,
2012)This could be the end of Albert Woodfox's 40-year plus prison
nightmare, if you act now.On Tuesday morning, Jan. 7, the 5t
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Failures of Intelligence
US intelligence agencies have been guilty of four general types of
error — or more, depending on counting rules. The most costly type of
error is a failure to recognize and pull together “actionable”
intelligence in time to foil bad surprises. Type I errors are typically
abetted by compartmentalization within the intelligence community. The
failure “to connect the dots” prior to 9/11 wasn’t new; i
A Chinese “Nuclear Umbrella” for Ukraine?
No.
Two of our graduate students review Chinese-language materials to shoot
down that silly story from a few weeks ago about China giving Ukraine a
nuclear umbrella.
That’s Not What Xi Said!
By Catherine Dill and Jonathan Ray
Catherine Dill is a research assistant at the Center for
Nonproliferation Studies. Jonathan Ray is a former MIIS student and now
Research Analyst at Global Commercial Insi
Handling Iran’s Weaponization File
The following post was authored by Mark Hibbs and Andreas Persbo.
When the six powers and Iran announced in Geneva on November 24, 2013
that they had agreed to an “initial step” toward comprehensive
resolution of the nuclear crisis, some critics glumly predicted that a
final deal would never materialize. It was more likely, they asserted,
that Western states keen to curb Iran’s nuclear program wo
Whatever Happened to Minimum, Credible Deterrence?
This graphic of the nuclear competition on the subcontinent was
compiled by my colleagues, Julia Thompson and Lita Ledesma, to
illustrate the contents of Stimson’s new book, Deterrence Stability and
Escalation Control in South Asia. It’s a sobering depiction of
high-octane missile development programs and lethargic diplomacy. It
still doesn’t begin to reflect the difficulties national leaders in I
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Freedom and Responsibility (Phil Robertson Edition)
Via Bob Mann:
Gay people, more often than not, throw the baby out with the bath water
when it comes to religion. But we have a good reason. We’ve been
scarred. Religion has damaged us. And I try to share with them the light
I have seen in the Episcopal Church. But every time I get close to a
breakthrough, something happens that brings out the worst in people.
One year it was Chick-fil-a. This yea
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Music For Those Who Hate the Grammys. Progressive Music Classics: "Joe Hill" by Paul Robeson
..By MARC McDONALDWelcome to another edition of Progressive Music
Classics.I didn't watch the Grammy Awards this year. In fact, I never
watch the Grammys (which are nothing more than a wankfest of the corrupt
U.S. corporate recording industry to celebrate another year of the
utter mediocrity that clogs up today's pop charts). Anyone who thinks
the Grammys celebrate the "best" of U.S. pop
Progressive Music Classics. "Punk Prayer" by Pussy Riot
..By MARC McDONALDWelcome to another edition of Progressive Music
Classics.I have to laugh when I hear bands like Green Day described as
"punk." Green Day is about as "punk" as a cup of Starbucks coffee. Green
Day wouldn't know real "punk" if it walked up to them and grabbed them
by the balls. (Not that corporate cowards like Green Day have any balls
in the first plac
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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
unem
"We, The Jewish People, Control America, and the Americans Know It" ~ the recently deceased Ariel Sharon
You've probably seen the MAINSTREAM MEDIA eulogizing the "great"
former leader of Israel Ariel Sharon. In all the coverage you've seen,
have you seen his quote: “Every time we do something you tell me
Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something
very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the
Jewish people, control America, and the Americans kn
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AuthorCare Begins With Transperancy
Today we read Hugh Howey’s blog post ‘Bread and Roses’ on what he
believes the Authors Guild should be focused on and an author’s
perspective on today’s marketplace. His views will not be shared by all,
but they convey a frustration that is often felt by many, not
necessarily on the activities of the Guild, but on their position within
the market. It is a given that we have to both encourage autho
Digital Warming: Can We Avoid the Destruction of the Physical Book Habitat?
In our last article we wrote about the market impact of Digital
Warming, which like its more famous environment equivalent, global
environment warming, can result in unpredictable effects. Today we have
to ask the question of whether it is now not wise to adjust our
behaviour, not only to mitigate some of the extremes of today’s trade,
but to also protect and reduce the risk from irreversible dama
Digital Warming
Global warming is effecting our weather and being blamed for the
extreme weather we are witnessing around the world. This year alone we
have had exception gales and flooding across the UK, a heat wave down
under and polar freezing weather in the US and Canada. We understand
some of the causes, but we still appear powerless to predict the future
weather past the short term.Publishing has been effec
Adobe Accept ACS4 Broken?
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 t
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It starts ....Even MSM Political Opinion Starting To Turn On Harper's Dictatorial Ways....
The political columnist of the Saskatoon Star Phoenix gives a
fairly accurate opinion of what is going down in the ranks of the
Federal Conservative Parliamentary Caucus lately:"This newly found sense
of independence among federal Conservative backbench MPs is obviously a
good thing.What's so often lost on us is that we elect individual
members of Parliament, of whom we require that they form
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' ..
Sask Progressive Doug Taylor Passes
Douglas James Taylor1956 - 2014I lost a very good friend this
week. Doug Taylor, author of a number of progressive Canadian political
blogs died on Monday, January 13, 2014.Doug obtained a BA in sociology
at the University of Regina in the 1970's.. His first employment after
university was a contract to write the history of SGEU. This was the
first of a number of works he authored, edited or cont
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Signifying Nothing
The image was the thing. Those serried American flags beneath their
burnished and distinctly imperial eagles. Obama’s speech on the NSA was
devoid of meaningful content. The threats against Snowden and the
references to America’s right to spy on its potential enemies – which
seemed to mean everybody – were obviously heartfelt. The “restrictions”
on the NSA were devoid of intent, mumbled and
Syria and Diplomacy
The problem with the Geneva Communique from the first Geneva round
on Syria is that the government of Syria never subscribed to it. It
was jointly chaired by the League of Arab States for Syria, whatever
that may mean. Another problem is that it is, as so many diplomatic
documents are, highly ambiguous. It plainly advocates a power sharing
executive formed by some of the current government plus
War Criminals on TV
Seeing Tony Blair speaking at Ariel Sharon’s Funeral – one war
criminal eulogising another – was so horrifying it has jolted this blog
back out of retirement. There may be no justice, but there can be
truth.
Those Romanians and Bulgarians
One achievement of which I am very proud was my part in ensuring
that the UK did not place restrictions on the right to free movement of
the first EU Eastern European accession wave. The arrival of so many
Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Latvians etc in the UK has been a brilliant
social and cultural development and provided some support for an economy
wrecked by the reckless greed of bankers.
There c
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Europe's Rosetta comet-chaser phones home
Rosetta, Europe's comet-chasing spacecraft, has woken from its
sleep. A signal confirming its alert status was recognized by
controllers in Darmstadt, Germany, at 18:17 GMT. Rosetta has spent the
past 31 months in hibernation to preserve power as it arced beyond the
orbit of Jupiter on a path that should take it to Comet
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August. Engineers will at the present poise
the
In-App Purchases by Kids: Apple Will Refund $32.5 Million to clients
Apple Inc will repay clients at least $32.5 million to settle
venerable complaints that the technology company billed U.S. consumers
for charges incurred by children buying mobile apps without their
parents’ consent. Under the conditions of the settlement, announced on
Wednesday by the national Trade Commission, Apple also will be necessary
to change its billing practices to ensure it has obtaine
China overtakes US as world’s biggest goods dealer
China has claimed that it is very likely that it overtook the US
as the world's top trading nation, a title the US has held for decades.
According to the most recent data, China's total trade grew at an annual
rate of 7.6% to $4.16tn last year. The US is yet to release its
full-year information, but its trade for the first 11 months of 2013
totalled $3.5tn. China became the world's largest goods
Samsung unveils Amazing Bendable TV
Samsung has shown off the Bendable TV - an 85in prototype that
allows the curvature of its screen to be managed by remote control.The
LED set was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. LG
has also announced a smaller 77in flexible TV of its own that is based
on OLED technology.The tech would allow the sets' owners to determine
how bent the screens should be taking into account how
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A Holodeck Videogame Designed to Train Soldiers
If the Army is going to keep up with military readiness pressures
while also seeing a reduction in troop size and stagnant budgets, then
it's going to need more cutting-edge videogames.
Navy’s 757-Sized Drone Will Provide Big-Time Surveillance
A new drone with the mammoth wingspan of a Boeing 757 is set to give the U.S. Navy some serious surveillance power.
The Pentagon Wants to Communicate With Big Inflatable Balls
The Pentagon has seen the future of communications, and it is ... inflatable.
Congress Blocks Plan to Transfer Drone Control From CIA to Pentagon
An effort by President Obama to transfer America's lethal, highly
classified drone program from the CIA to the Pentagon appears to have
been thwarted by lawmakers wielding a secret weapon of their own.
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Smiling Brown: Gente de Bronce – People the Color of the Earth
Re the Smiling Brown: Gente de Bronce – People the Color of the
Earth Project: A draft of a preliminary article appears in
Truthout.org:
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/17461-smiling-brown-people-the-color-of-the-earthIt
has been reworked and updated and submitted as an academic article for
the spring of 2014. It is slated to become a book, play and videologues.
This week, I’ve received ab
President Obama, You Are Invited To Visit Arizona’S Operation Streamline At The Federal Courthouse
SPECIAL INVITE TO OBAMA & HOLDER RE OPERATION STREAMLINE:
Please sign and share this far and wide... 24 human rights activists put
their lives and liberty on the line to end this for-profit scheme
called Operation
Streamline.http://www.notonemoredeportation.com/2014/01/24/streamline/ To:
President Barack ObamaTo: First Lady Michelle ObamaTo: Honorable
Attorney General Eric HolderWe are writing
Maiz Origins & Migrations History Channel Segment
MAIZ ORIGINS & MIGRATIONS: I got interviewed for a program
below by the History Channel. It will be airing Saturday January 18th at
9PM EST/8PM CST on the H2 network. They did not give me a script about
the rest of the program. They asked me about Aztlan... but O told them
that was not my primary research, rather, maiz. Think they were more
interested in Aztlan, but I did get to speak about th
New Year’s Resolutions from the State of Arizona
A new sunrise New Year’s
Resolutions from the State of Arizona:#1 Force President Obama and
Attorney General Holder to come to Arizona to visit Operation
Streamline…. so that we can permanently shut it down, with or without
the assistance or actions of the above: End this criminalization,
dehumanization and for-profit scam!#2 Force President Obama and Attorne
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Dangerous Corporate Medicine in Peoria
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Daniel--January 2014 (Photo by John Carroll)[/caption]Dangerous
Corporate Medicine in PeoriaI am going to make a case that Peoria's
OSF-Saint Francis Medical Center’s CEO Keith Steffen should be
terminated from his position at OSF. In my opinion Keith should be
removed by whoever in the huge OSF System has
Catholic Tribunal Courts Not Used Often Enough
Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria refused a Tribunal Court against
OSF. He wanted to protect OSF like other bishops wanted to protect
pedophile priests.Bishop Jenky declined Tribunal Court...Pope Benedict
Defrocked 400 Priests in 2 Years for Child Abuse http://t.co/X91S68DEWF
via @TIMEWorld— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) January 17, 2014
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This Is My Hiroshima
Initially, I was a bit hesitant to do this but spurred on by
fellow blogger Theresa, and also because I haven't posted anything in
forever and a day, I decided to take the plunge. If you are at all
familiar with the latest ramblings of Neil Young you have a pretty good
idea as to the motivation behind this post. Theresa raises an excellent
point (which I don't think is emphasized enough) that of
The Birds of Hiroshima
Evening grosbeaks and Pine grosbeaks eeking out their existence in a nuclear winter.
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Early Whistle Blower Ex CIA John Stockwell @ Stop Watching Us Ralley
John Stockwell in 1989 John Stockwell -
CIA's War on Humans Soliloquy
Monologues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ioJGMCr-Y#t=227
_________________________ THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA:by John
StockwellA lecture given in October, 1987Part I - Part IIJohn Stockwell
is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency and go
public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gatherin
The Zionist City of Tel-Aviv was designed before Israel was formed
The Streets of Tel Aviv: The New City and Its
Setting As Tel Aviv expanded, rows of apartment blocks and commercial
structures were erected where previously there were sand dunes, orange
groves, olive orchards, and vineyards. Agrarian villages, too, were
swallowed up by the forces of urbanization. During the early 1940s the
adjacent German colony Sarona was also annexed to Tel Aviv.
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Lightning Round--Year End Edition in Review Edition Edition of 2013 Edition
NYTimes: Six months ago, Russia passed a law that limited what
they broadly define as "homosexual propaganda." Journalist Mark Gevisser
looks at life in one of the areas where the ban was piloted. Open
Culture: Kate Rix offers a primer on the International Children’s
Digital Library, which collects "outstanding children's books from all
over the world."Ethan Siegel: 2013 saw t
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Syrian Sarin
A new report, authored by Richard Lloyd, a former United Nations
weapons inspector, and Theodore Postol, a professor of science,
technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, has cast serious doubt on the claim that sarin-carrying
missiles were launched from Syrian government-held positions, and thus
serious doubt on the charges made at the time by the Unite
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Maira interview
Prof. Sunaina MairaWhat follows is a complete transcript of an
email interview I recently conducted with UC Davis professor of Asian
American Studies, Sunaina Maira:Rifkin: As you know, the members of the
American Studies Association have endorsed the Association’s
participation in a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. You are
listed as being on the ASA Council. I would appreciate your respo
Wolf interview
Prof. Diane WolfI posed the same questions I asked of Sunaina
Maira to other faculty at UC Davis, including Professor Diane Wolf. What
follows is a complete transcript of her response to my inquiry.Wolf:
Thank you for your questions which are very thorough and thoughtful.
This is clearly a very complicated issue. I think that the ASA and the
Association of Asian American Studies which was the fir
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New Rob Ford video, Toronto mayor drunk
A new video of crack smoking Toronto mayor Rob Ford has surfaced,
this time showing a drunk (and possibly high) Rob Ford talking to some
men in a fast food restaurant while speaking in a fake Jamaican
accent.The photo from the right and further below are from the new Rob
Ford drunk video.The video has reignited calls for Rob Ford to resign as
mayor and seek rehab for his drug and alcohol addiction
The Parti Québécois has lost touch with reality
The first week of hearings into the Parti Québécois’ new "charter
of values" concluded Thursday - and it is self evident that the Parti
Québécois has lost touch with reality. Why? Because they are making up
fictional scenarios to justify the implementation of the charter.The
charter is a proposed ban on public-sector workers in Quebec wearing
religious symbols - specifically kippas, yama
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On Vacation, Back Soon
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song. I may be worried
now, but I won't be worried long.Will be back with a vengance in
February. -- mj
MSM Again Fail To Tell All Sides Of Story On 'Obamacare'
By Manifesto JoeWhen it comes to the Affordable Care Act, known
pejoratively to critics as "Obamacare," our Mainstream Media have, again
and again, generally failed to tell the whole story. The reports have
mostly focused on the early failures of the federal website, admittedly a
debacle at first.But there are other sides to this story that are
rarely being told. One rare case was a rece
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January Tax-Cast Focuses on Romney's Favorite Tax Haven
The January Taxcast, from the Tax Justice Network, is just
out.Though of course it says nothing about Mitt Romney, there is a great
deal of focus on Romney's favorite tax haven, the Cayman Islands.In
addition, another valuable nugget, though given in far less detail,
concerns transfer pricing. The bottom line is very simple: If you want
to combat transfer pricing abuse, look at what India does, an
Boeing Saga Ends with 51% Favoring Revised Contract
As I argued last month, the Puget Sound area of Washington state
was easily the best place, from a strictly economic point of view, for
Boeing to build its new 777x jetliner. This was confirmed when, despite
the rejection of its union contract offer by a 2:1 margin and opening
an auction for a new facility, Boeing came back to the union with a
second contract offer (h/t New York Times). Yesterday
Cost of Recession and Austerity in Convenient Clock Form
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 t
France Flirts with Recession as it Incomprehensibly Embraces Austerity
Dean Baker and Paul Krugman are just two of the economists who
have noted recently that French President François Hollande has lost his
mind. As Krugman notes, Hollande has quite literally invoked the
discredited doctrine known as Say's Law, when Hollande said “supply
actually creates demand.”In other words, Hollande has fallen victim to
austerity fever, despite its lack of success in other Eurozo
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CNT-f Faces Eviction
CNT-F FACES EVICTION FROM LONG-TERM HEADQUARTERS The CNT-f is
the larger of the two anarchosyndicalist/revolutionary syndicalist union
federations in France. They have traditionally been called the
'CNT-Vignoles' after their headquarters at 33 rue Vignoles in Paris.
They have survived a previous attempt to evict them in 1996, but now
they are facing a fresh attack from the Mayor of Paris.
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Fighting the Mysterious and Merciless Enemy
Written by Sajjad Shaukat
In the past era, the two warring parties used to follow the rules of the
game and Geneva Conventions, while knowing each other’s target.
Contrarily, war against terrorism is quite different, as it is against
an invisible, mysterious and merciless enemy which does not respect any
rule. It is a war in which offence knows its target, but defence does
not know.
In this regar
Uncertainty in Bangladesh Frightens Pakistani Investors
By Sajjad Shaukat
Basically, prosperity of a Third World country depends upon foreign
investment which needs political stability in that country in the modern
era of economic development. On the other side, political instability
which creates uncertainty in a less developed country, is not conducive
for external businessmen.
In these terms, the case of Bangladesh is of special consideration,
where
Indian Diplomat’s Arrest Exposed US Double Game
By Sajjad Shaukat
During his visit to India in 2010, US President Barrack Obama signed
multiple agreements with New Delhi in various fields such as $10 billion
in trade deals and creation of more than 50,000 US jobs besides the
measures, America would take regarding removal of Indian space and
defence companies from a restricted “entities list”, and supported
Indian demand for a permanent seat in
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Don't choose sides in the false rivalry of Judaism and Islam: Reject BOTH.
In Europe today we are faced with a pincer-style assault on all
that we hold dear. From the top we have the fully Judaised
Establishment's legal obliteration of our culture, traditions, freedom
to speak the truth and - which is the worst of all - freedom to have
pride in ourselves and our kin. From the bottom we have the Islamic
colonisation of our towns and cities, with its destructive use of rap
2013 - 2014. Different date, same liberal genocidal agenda
2013 was a year of absolute liberal lunacy. The New Year is
already shewing signs of continuing the ever-accelerating march to the
total genocide of the European nation and all that we hold dear.In 2013,
the liberal bigots shewed their true colours in their hypocritical
reactions to the deaths of Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. Whilst
anti-Internationalists treated the deaths as simply a wel
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In Defense Of the Right to Be Outrageous
"Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"
Justine Sacco via Twitter.
The viral reaction to the above tweet resulted in Justine Sacco losing
her job. Many condemned and judged her as racist and agreed with this as
just punishment.
My reaction to that sentiment, "What the fuck is wrong with you people?"
I don't find that statement racist. I find it to be
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Vatican's unsuccessful Dove message of peace & love since Pope Benedict XVI
Ill omen? Pope’s doves of peace for Ukraine attacked by angry
birds (PHOTOS)Published time: January 26, 2014 19:23 Edited time:
January 27, 2014 10:39Get short URLPope Francis (C) watches as children
release doves during the Angelus prayer in Saint Peter's square at the
Vatican January 26, 2014 (Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi)Pope Francis on
Sunday prayed for the start of a “constructive dialogue” in
All Wars are Bankers' War - youtube link not allowed
please watch and share. Youtube do not allow posting of
links.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4Published on Feb 4,
2013Written 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 p
Who had weapons Tesla September 11, 2001? Study elements of the global ekotsidno-genocidal program
The search for truth is not done with joy, and with the excitement
and anxiety, but still need to look for it because without finding the
truth and not love it, you will die.Blaise Pascal , French
mathematician, physicist and philosopher ( 1623-1662 ).Opening
Keely would lead to the acquisition of one of the most occult secrets,
secrets that can never be given to the disposal of the masses.EP Blav
Zionist global Imperial journey - summary
by BK Lim, FASEI, et al (Dec 14, 2013). Note & forward: (Dec
31, 2013) We apologise for the delayed publication of this series of
articles. Our original investigation into BPGOD (BP Gulf Oil Disaster)
led us into a rabbit hole much deeper and wider than we had originally
thought. When it became abundantly clear in 2011 that BPGOD was a
planned mega disaster (PMD), almost all of our insider fr
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Another bad quarter for Postmedia, and a plan that's not working
The latest grim quarterly report from Postmedia sharpens questions
about the company’s future.Continuing declines in revenue and
circulation are too great to be solved by the company’s current
approach.The corporate strategy is straightforward. Cut costs, find ways
to get readers to pay more, in part through innovations like tablet
editions, and convince advertisers that they should pay more for m
Tax increases in Honduras, and linking aid to fair, effective tax policies
Taxes are big new in Honduras, as the outgoing Congress pushes
through a bunch of last-minute increases.The Congress is controlled by
the National party, which won the November election. The increases are a
way to get the unpopular deeds done before the new president takes over
in two weeks.It doesn’t look much like good governance, mostly because
there are apparently no studies of the impact of t
The strange obsession with school uniforms in Honduras
I’ve come up with a clever, no-cost way to reduce poverty and
increase school attendance in Honduras.Get rid of school uniforms.The
uniforms - white dress shirts, navy blue pants or skirt, black shoes and
white socks - are mandatory in public schools. Teachers are quite
crabby about it, to the point of telling kids to stay home if they
aren’t dressed in the right kit.No desk, but kids better have
Grimmer news for League Investors - some $355 million of their money gone
The news keep getting worse for investors in Victoria-based League
Assets. And the financial disaster is still not getting adequate media
coverage.Back in November, I predicted massive losses for the investors
League, which promised investors security and great returns through real
estate investments.Based on the latest filings from PWC, the news is
even worse than I expected.League Assets, the cr
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UK Set to Sell Out it's Population's Medical Data and Records to Private Industry and Health Insurers
I posted almost a year back about a then apparently more
restrictive, but to my eyes still outrageous, move of the UK government
to frivolously open up a genomic database created out of the medical
records and samples collected within the NHS in the course of normal
health care (for diagnostics, safety and quality assurance purposes) for
research not only by public research institutions, but also
More on the UK Sellout of NHS Medical Data and Records: How to Opt Out and How It's Being Hidden
Just a few days ago I once again pointed to the relentless
determination of the UK government to set up a sellout of individual
medical data and information, collected in the medical records of the
National Health Service to private interests, such as the
pharmacological industry and health insurance companies. This apparently
without any type of safeguard for the many misuses easily imagined as a
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Who killed the Palestinian Ambassador with an exploding safe, and other questions
First, Happy New Year! I closed my FB page - keeping up with the
comments was too time-consuming. Here, I can decide when I want to set
time aside to go through comments - there, I couldn't.
So I will likely be posting here more often. I love Twitter for sharing
news stories, like this one: "The safe that exploded and killed the
Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic had been in daily
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Vegan Recipe - Quinoa Mushroom Pilaf (Gluten-Free)
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
Review & #Giveaway - Homemade Cleaners by Mandy O'Brien & Dionna Ford
Have you ever considered making your own household cleaning
solutions? I have! Commercial varieties usually contain toxic chemicals
which are bad for our health and bad for the environment. There are
"green" cleaners available but one has to be careful about them because
they aren't always as green as the label implies and, they tend to be
expensive. Making my own just makes sense.But he
Holistic Living - A Definition
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 defin
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Adjust The Thermostat
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! Wondering how to
live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we challenge
ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're already
doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to C
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I'm taking long walks in the woods, along the banks of the frozen Exeter River, but mostly writing, writing, writing...
Thanks for stopping by though. If you can, embrace quiet moments by a body of river. Beauty never fails to show up...
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Help! My Employer Is Making Me Work Overtime Off The Books. What Do I Do?
This question from an AOL Jobs reader reflects an all too common
situation that many hourly workers face: Hello. I was reading an article
10 Tricks Employers Use To Cheat Workers Out Of Their Overtime. Here's
my problem. My fiancée works at a restaurant, and she recently received a
raise from $9/hr to $12/hr. But the owner asked her to take her
overtime off the books. The first 2 weeks went by wit
Does Your Religion Excuse Homophobic, Racist or Sexist Behavior At Work?
When I wrote the piece about Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson and his
suspension for making racist and anti-gay comments in an interview done
to promote his show, many readers told me that Mr. Robertson should be
protected by religious discrimination laws. After all, the argument
went, he was only expressing his religious beliefs about gays. Bob Tt is
not freedom of speech, it is freedom of RELIGION-
Just Because Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson Survived Doesn't Mean You Have Free Speech At Work
Unless you've been out of the country for the holidays, you
probably heard about the brouhaha over Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil
Robertson's anti-gay and racist comments. He was interviewed by GQ and
made comments that got him suspended indefinitely by A&E Television
Networks, LLC. That caused an uproar, with petitions from Robertson
supporters flying and claims that A&E violated his First A
If My Office Is Closed For Snow, Do I Get Paid?
With a blizzard hitting the Northeast and Midwest, now is a good
time to discuss what happens to your pay when your office is
closed.Whether you're entitled to be paid when the office is closed
depends on whether you are "exempt" salaried or not. If you're salaried,
it doesn't necessarily mean you're exempt from the requirements of the
Fair Labor Standards Act. Many employers misclassify
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The Battle between ISIS and Syria’s Rebel Militias
The Battle between ISIS and Syria’s Rebel Militias
by Joshua Landis (with invaluable help from A.J.N.)
For Syria Comment, January 4, 2014
A major confrontation has broken out between the Islamic State in Iraq
and Syria (ISIS) and Syria’s other rebel militias. It is being led by
two newly organized coalitions, called Jaysh al Mujahidiin and the Front
of Syrian Revolutionaries. But many other militi
“Observations of a Homsi living in Tartous,” by Aboud Dandachi
Aboud Dandachi in Istanbul, where he recently acquired his
residency card.
Observations of a Homsi living in Tartous
by Aboud Dandachi
Written for Syria Comment, January 20, 2014
*Aboud Dandachi is a Syrian activist from Homs, currently living in
Istanbul. He is the author of the blog “From Homs to Istanbul” at
www.adandachi.com/istanbul (The Dandashi family is a well known Sunni
family.)
Over th
New ISIS Leaks Reveal Particulars of al-Qaida Strategy
by Matthew Barber
A new Twitter account that appeared last month is making waves within
the jihadi community and rebel groups of Syria. It has not yet been
noticed by the international media, but if the author’s claims are
legitimate, it may significantly help to shape our understanding of
ISIS.
The author of the @wikibaghdady Twitter account claims to be leaking
inside information about the backg
“Why Syria’s Assad heads to Geneva from a position of strength,” by Joshua Landis
Analysis: Why Syria’s Assad heads to Geneva from a position of
strength
By Joshua Landis
for Aljazeera America, Edited by Tony Karon
January 22, 2014
His army is stronger, his allies are more committed and regime’s
capacity for brutality has kept it in charge.
Syrian troops celebrate as they take the village of Haydariya on May 13
as part of a push to cut supply lines to their opponents in the str
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Reshaping the World
The elite of the planet met in Davos, this week, for the World
Economic Forum, as they have for over forty years. The theme of this
year’s get together was, “Reshaping the World”, with global inequality
one of the “hot” topics.
This same week, Oxfam International released a report, “Working for the
Few” that showed, among other things, the world’s 85 richest individuals
owned as much wealth as the
This World IS My Home
January 18, 2014
I have no real blog post today. I am too tired and frustrated with the
endless warnings that business as usual can’t continue and the constant
propaganda that it can/will/must.
A few weeks ago, I put up a picture on my Facebook page of Rex
Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, with a quote from him that said, “What’s
the point of saving the planet if humanity suffers?”
Most people, read
Coming out of the Cold
January 11, 2014
We went from zero for a high (with a low of -10) on Monday or Tuesday of
last week to thirty-four for a low tonight and sixty degrees for a high
tomorrow. Like much of the country, I have weather whiplash. The
backyard went from eight or nine inches of snow to what seems like an
equal amount of mud after a day or two of sunshine and above freezing
weather followed by rain and te
Thinking About Food in the Coming Year
January 4, 2014
Image courtesy of Simon Howden/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Yesterday afternoon, my friends, Kathi and Mary, took me on what turned
out to be a most excellent adventure. After taking me to pick up my
medications, they treated me to lunch at a local Korean restaurant,
followed by a trip to Sam’s Club for grocery shopping.
The lunch platter (served, literally, folks, on a small platter,)
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The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage
"Emergent Phenomena": Failed Thinking Infesting Science
I submitted the following comment to the wuwt site of Anthony
Watts, where Willis Eschenbach reiterates his idea of climate as
"emerging phenomena" (and which I understand as "magical
self-creation"): "Emergent phenomenon" is an argument from incompetent,
third-rate thinkers like Richard Dawkins, determined to push Darwinian,
or undirected, evolution upon students of
The True Origin of Geocentrism: Another Truth That Must Not Be Mentioned
When you are a scientist with research findings that strike at the
heart, not only of the current consensus, nor even the current paradigm
in science, but at the whole tangle of man's most obsessively and
religiously affirmed beliefs, and their uncounted variations, over the
full course of known history--well, suffice it to say that you find
yourself in the land of perpetual experiment, strugging
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The Ergosphere
The Fukushima Dai'ichi Unit 4 tragedy continues
TEPCO has announced that 220 fuel bundles have been transferred
from the Unit 4 fuel pool to the common storage pool, roughly 1/8 of the
total. Despite this, the islands of Japan, the west coast of the USA,
and the world in general remain habitable.
This on-going tragedy affects the scaremongers, whose credibility may be
irreparably damaged by this continuing state of normality. Perhaps
they
Not Even Wrong
Top Stories
Scientific Bookstores, RIP
A few days ago I tried to stop by the Barnes and Noble store here
in New York at Fifth Ave. and 18th St., just to find that it had closed
earlier this month. This was the first book store I had access to as a
high school student that had a serious collection of math, physics and
astronomy books, and I’ve been buying such books there for about 40
years. The huge 18th St. store dates back to 1932, and by the early
1970s was the only Barnes and Noble store, at the time that the company
was revived and started its huge expansion.
With the closing of this store, there now are no longer any bookstor
Platonism CageMatch at MoMath
After spending two hours in the middle of the day hearing about
unexpected uses of twistors to study particle scattering amplitudes,
yesterday I went down to Manhattan’s relatively new Museum of
Mathematics, which had scheduled a “Family Friday” event, featuring
Edward Frenkel and Jim Holt. The event began with Frenkel giving a
presentation about math, kind of an introduction to his wonderful new
book Love and Math. Everyone in the audience hoped that the kids in
attendance didn’t catch his comment about a typo in reference to the LHC
(given Frenkel’s film experience, some had suggested that a
The Principle
I just found out about a new film coming out this spring, which
appears to exemplify exactly the dangers I was pointing to in my last
posting. It’s entitled The Principle, and features physicists Michio
Kaku, Lawrence Krauss and Max Tegmark, with Kate Mulgrew (aka Captain
Janeway) as narrator.
You can take a look at the trailer, this blog, or this interview to
start to get some idea of what’s going on. The person behind this is
Robert Sungenis, a bizarre figure with extreme religious views. He holds
a Ph.D from an institution located in Vanuatu, and is an advocate of
the idea of “geocentrism”,
Jan 26
I am not now and never have been a creationist
Max Tegmark seems to have decided that my criticism here of the
emptiness of ideas in his recent book is “similar to hate-mail I’ve been
receiving from a Young-Earth Creationist”. Also, the fact that I have
fans at a certain Intelligent Design blog shows that I’m “against the
spirit of science”. Given this, I guess I need to formally make the
statement that
I am not now and never have been a creat
Jan 25
The Amplituhedron and Twistors
Yesterday Nima Arkani-Hamed was here at Columbia, giving a theory
seminar on the topic of the Amplituhedron, which is a characterization
of the integration region in a calculation of scattering amplitudes by
integrating over regions in the so-called positive Grassmannian. This is
a modest advance in mathematical physics, one that for some reason a
few months ago garnered a lot of hype (see here fo
Topcites 2013
The people at SLAC for a long time have been compiling “Topcites”
data which includes various lists of the most heavily-cited papers in
HEP. From 1997-2003 Mike Peskin each year would write something about
the significance of the lists. I first wrote a blog post about one of
these lists nearly 10 years ago, about the 2003 list (see here). The
2013 list has just appeared, with a blog entry here, an
Jan 23
Not Giving Up
One question I’ve been wondering about for the last 20 years or so
has been what SUSY proponents would do when the LHC finally gathered
data and found no SUSY. Would they finally admit this was an idea that
hadn’t worked out, or would they never give up, no matter what the data
said? The answer is now in. John Ellis was a co-organizer of a Royal
Society conference earlier this week, and a report f
Jan 17
Our Mathematical Universe
Max Tegmark has a new book out, entitled Our Mathematical
Universe, which is getting a lot of attention. I’ve written a review of
the book for the Wall Street Journal, which is now available (although
now behind a paywall, if not a subscriber, you can try here). There’s
also an old blog posting here about the same ideas.
Tegmark’s career is a rather unusual story, mixing reputable science
with an
Jan 13
What Scientific Idea is Ready for Retirement?
Every year John Brockman’s Edge web-site hosts responses to a
different question. This year the question was What scientific idea is
ready for retirement?. It shouldn’t be too hard to guess what I chose to
write about, with results available here.
Every year Brockman manages to attract more responses, so this is now
getting to be a statistically significant sampling drawn from the
population of pe
Jan 06
This sort of thing seemed to be dying down (2013 required a record
low number of “This Week’s Hype” postings), but 2014 is starting off
with the usual promotion by physicists of nonsense about how they have
“found a test for string theory”. This time the news that Scientists
find a practical test for string theory comes from a group at Towson
University, who are basing their claims on this paper,
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