1975 - Only $2.50! ... Florida State campus to become tobacco-free in 2014 (Jan. 6, 2014) ...item 5.. Seeing the light: Learning to believe in FSU's smoking ban (Jan. 26, 2014) ... (Photo credit: marsmet521)What makes a man turn centrist?
Gold...? Lust for power...? Or were you just born with a heart full of
centrality?
What are YOU doing to stop the Un-Fair Elections Act?
What have you THOUGHT about doing? What have you heard about what ANYBODY
is doing?
Isn't it terrifyingly ridiculous how completely devoid of ideas and
initiative we all are?
A government that everyone but the politically-insane recognizes was in
contempt of Parliament, engages in widespread election fraud, stymies the
investigations of said fraud, uses its criminally-obtained majority to ram
through the most appalling omnibus legislation in this country's history,
and then gets a thoroughly partisan weasel like Pierre Poliviere to craft a
massive bill to neuter our already tame el... more »
To all the corporate shills who read this blog...
Dear corporate shills, and WAR WORLD soldiers, I've seen your links
arriving here from your worldwide offices and consoles.
What are you doing?
Seriously, what's the point in you being here, on this blog, reading this
crap?
You're not going to learn anything.
It's not for you.
Please, just leave.
Click onto another website/blog.
Clear your cache of visited websites.
And never come back.
In fact, I can't save any of you. You realise that, right? Whether you're a
corporate shill or just someone who thinks they understand whatever the
fucking hell I'm supposed to be ranting about... more »
Offer and Counter Offer
*Sotiropoulou v. Beaudin*, 2014 ONCA 168:
[4] Counsel submits that the terms of the respondents’
counter-offer were not essential terms of the agreement. However, the law
is clear. As Professor Fridman notes, “[m]ore than once has it been said
that an acceptance must correspond precisely to the terms of the offer”:
G.H.L. Fridman, The Law of Contract in Canada, 6th ed. (Toronto: Carswell,
2011), at p. 57. Otherwise, the purported acceptance is “at most a
counter-offer, and a further communication of assent will be required from
the offeror” before a contract is formed: S.D.... more »
More CPAC: Dan Bongino...
"We are losing the hearts and minds of people"
John Kane, Mohawk: 'Economy? We don't need no stinking economy'
Economy?
We Don't Need No Stinking Economy!
By John Karhiio Kane, Mohawk
Censored News
John Kane
I haven't weighed in much on Canada's Bill C-10 issues but in the
overall scheme of things it is no different than any of the others on
the long list of anti-Native laws, regulations and policies that Canada
and the U.S. have attempted to impose on our people and lands for
centuries and,
Do we need the SAT?
Sent to USA Today
Not mentioned in the discussion of changes in the SAT ("Sharpen those
pencils: The SAT test is getting harder," March 6) is the question of
whether we need SAT-type examinations.
In two different studies, researchers from UC Berkeley, Harvard and
Princeton reported that high school grades were a good predictor of college
success, and that adding SAT scores did not improve the predictive power of
grades alone.
These results suggest that teacher evaluation does a better job of
evaluating student potential than standardized testing does: The repeated
judgments of... more »
Equipping Florida Parents to Expose Jeb Bush’s Florida Education “Miracle”
The purpose of this post is to provide a brief summary for Florida parents
regarding the failure of the spectrum of so-called education “reforms”
introduced and advanced by former Governor Jeb Bush (1999 – 2007). I have
written this brief, two-page “talking points” Word doc to complement the
contents of this post. Thus, parents can use the “talking […]
Paul Ryan's Anthem
Big Ego, Small Bulk *(graphic by Kat Garcia)*
Paul Ryan emerged from the ancient subway tunnel of his mind this week and
unleashed his latest attempt at Ayn Rand fan fiction upon the World Council
of Scholars. In a literary hissy fit largely ignored because of the Ukraine
crisis, he threw his cold, cold water on all 50 candles of the LBJ War on
Poverty birthday cake. It's his Party, and he can cry if he wants to.
And he wants everybody to cry with him. Especially the poor people,
without whom there would be no distasteful Poverty and no need for the
anti-poverty programs that in ... more »
It May Be Ted Cruz Week At CPAC But Today Is Chris Christie Day
Always one of the craziest media circuses on the calendar, CPAC opens today
at National Harbor, Maryland. Chris Christie waddled up to the podium about
an hour late-- after lead-off candidates Ted Cruz, who talked about term,
limits, "petrotyrants" (though not the Koch brothers) and abolishing the
IRS, and Paul Ryan, who talked about being Irish. Although he conspicuously
*not* invited last year-- too kissy-kissy with the demonized Obama-- the
martyrdom of being caught breaking the law has made him a much sought after
celebrity in Crazy Conservative World this year. He joins other... more »
I want my Obamaphone!
By
Capt. Fogg
The younger generation, and to me that means almost everyone, sees a
cellular phone as something much more than a telephone. It's a
*symbol*even if everyone and his 5 year old kid has one and the semiotic
value has
much to do with the snob quotient, the joy of having something before
anyone else has one, and very little to do with making phone calls. So
judging from the jealousy in Rush Limbaugh's voice, the phone to have,
the
phone he doesn't have, is the Obamaphone.
No, being filthy rich won't help, in fact it has no price and it's so
exclusive it doesn't actually ... more »
Another brief word on civility in the #edreform debates
I know I’ve commented on this before, so I’ll keep this brief. Within
debates for and against corporate education reform, corporate reformers
often respond to passionate debate with complaints. “Ouch, you’re attacking
me.” “That’s an ad hominem attack, sir, that’s just morbidly ad hominem.”
Folks like to throw that word ad hominem around. It’s almost […]
GALLOWAY ON UKRAINE
Much of the media's reporting on the geopolitical tensions surrounding
Ukraine has focused on the US and Russia. Missing from that coverage has
been reaction from the European Union.
RT's Ameera David speaks with George Galloway, a member of Parliament from
the United Kingdom's Respect Party, about the Ukrainian conflict and asks
how he would like to see the EU proceed.
Don't Give Up
Listening to my Inner Consciousness is something that I have been exploring
on this amazing journey
Inner consciousness. Not "Higher". This is a thought that has been racing
around my heart for a long while now. I have always had an issue with the
expression "Higher Consciousness", because even if we are talking about an
internal "self", I rebel at the term "higher" as it creates the feeling of
ME being lower or less than. Words are conscious creators that have direct
effect on ourselves and our environment. With that in mind (lol) I will
call it my Inner Consciousness.
Thro... more »
Project Hammer
PROJECT HAMMER
RELOADED
The Ties That Bind – Mapping The Covert Connections
David Guyatt
2003
THE BACKGROUND
Beginning in 1988 and lasting until approximately 1992, Project Hammer was
the latest in a series of highly secretive banking practices – known as
collateral trading programmes – that are used to create, as if by magic,
huge amounts of unaccountable funds for use in specific projects.
These vast pools of unvouchered slush funds are applied to finance a wide
variety of clandestine activities that include secret military projects,
geo-political requirements and the deve... more »
Ted Cruz at CPAC...(entire speech)
*breakfast delayed because I need to hear something positive. *
*How We Win*
Venus Again
I have submitted the following comment to the Steven Goddard site, where
the subject of Venus's hot surface is erupting again:
*Convection does NOT dominate in the global troposphere, the constant
vertical temperature lapse rate (temperature gradient) does; that is the
stage upon which weather (and climate) plays its part. Convection just
drives the weather (primarily horizontally), it does not create or maintain
the vertical lapse rate--the hydrostatic condition does that (and Jerry
Gorline needs to understand that his derivation above is even more easily,
and effectively, done as:... more »
Transformers 4 trailer - Age of Extinction - with dinosaurs!
"I can break it down, strip it for parts. This stuff is what's gonna put
you through college," and thank God Shia LeBoeuf isn't in it this time
(though I might miss his girly scream).
A NEW ERA HAS BEGUN, the Age of the Transformers is over.
Musings On Iraq Security Report For Feb. 8-16, 2014
MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 4 hours ago
The second quarter of February 2014 was just as violent as the first, but
there was a large drop in casualties. The number of dead and wounded went
down by around one-quarter from the first seven days of the month, but that
was not from a lack of trying as the number of attacks went up slightly.
Baghdad, Salahaddin, Anbar, and Ninewa accounted for the vast majority of
security incidents, while there were only a few in Tamim, Diyala, Babil,
Dhi Qar, Karbala, and Wasit. Overall, February is stacking up to be just as
deadly as the previous months.
There were 227 attacks reported in... more »
Ukraine Updates March 4 , 2014 -- Was yesterday constant flashes of "scary " headlines just a bad nightmare ? Putin speaks , tells Russian tropps to go back to their barracks in the Crimea , global equity markets rejoice , US bonds , gold and oil gets slammed ....... But are we really back to " Happy Days " ? A fair read of the whole of Putin's speech indicates that while Putin has restated his view of the Ukraine situation and seemingly softened his hard talk from the weekend , he has not softened the Russian view toward the Crimea at all. And on the 2 billion Ukraine owes Russia for natural gas ( as of the end of February , it's still due and Ukraine is still subject to the cancellation of its discount ! Moreover , the speech is also geared toward heading off not just the reluctant EU on the subject of sanctions , but also head off or truly isolate the US if unilateral sanctions are imposed .
Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Ukraine Government statements of the day.......
Ukraine Defense Ministry Says Repelled Armed Attempt To Capture Warship
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The 'Suppressed' Report Cometh
Continuing from where my last post left off...
Well, that 'suppressed' immigration report has now been published (around
three hours ago)...
....and it certainly proved to be a *very* under-the-radar publication by
the government. Most newspapers, including the *Mail*, have yet to catch
up with the news - so you probably heard it here first.
There certainly are shades of *The Thick of It *then, as *Newsnight* editor
Ian Katz has been quick to tweet:
Only most sceptical Thick of It fan wd wonder if timing of immigration
report release hd anything to do w 2 other big reports comin... more »
CORRUPTION SPREADS: Maddow gone wild!
*THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014*
*Interlude—Our campus for a transcript:* The New York Times can be
frustrating, due to its management of its various editions.
On its web site, the Times shows the front-page display for its “New York
Edition” and for its “National Edition.”
Here on our sprawling campus, we receive a daily paper which is marked
“Washington Edition.”
At Nexis, most Times listings are attributed to something called the “Late
Edition.”
Go figure! In the mix of these different editions, a news report may appear
in the Times without a subscriber seeing it. That’s what happene... more »
Bruce Carson : "the secret sauce"
"You are the secret sauce," Doug Black, President of the Energy Policy
Institute of Canada, wrote to EPIC co-founder and Harper's disgraced
"fixer" Bruce Carson.
*Bruce Carson, former PMO staffer, has banking records seized by RCMP *
According to CBC yesterday, an RCMP affidavit alleges Carson illegally
lobbied many of his former government colleagues - including Nigel Wright
and Wayne Wouters, Clerk of the Privy Council - on behalf of EPIC, an
industry lobby group of 38 energy resource members including Shell, Suncor,
Enbridge, EnCana, Imperial Oil, Cenovus, ConoccoPhillips and C... more »
HARD TIMES AHEAD IN UKRAINE
- RT reports:
The self-proclaimed government in Kiev is reportedly planning to cut
pensions by 50 percent as part of unprecedented austerity measures to save
Ukraine from default. With an “empty treasury”, reduction of payments might
take place in March. Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy reported on
December 1, 2013, that an average pension in Ukraine is $160....The
European Commission offeredUkraine an 11 billion euro loan if Kiev agrees a
deal with the IMF, European Commission President Jose Barroso announced on
Wednesday. As a rule, help from financial organizations suc... more »
A Week From Tuesday-- George Gollin Goes Up Against The Machine In Illinois
Earlier this month we introduced our newest House candidate, Illinois
particle physicist George Gollin. Above is the TV ad he's trying to get up
on stations across the sprawling district that goes from Bloomington and
Champaign, straight through the Illinois farm belt to the northern suburbs
of St. Louis. The election is a week from Tuesday, March 18, enough time to
show this ad to the undecided voters who will cast the decisive ballots in
this hotly contested race.
Even before scientist/Congressman Rush Holt announced his retirement from
Congress, a friend of mine put together t... more »
Essay in The New Republic
I have an essay in The New Republic here following up on the "debate" with
John Holdren. This post is so that readers can engage with me and ask
questions. All are welcome but do note that this blog has a comment policy.
Note also that at Dot Earth at the New York Times, Any Revkin has posted up
a long comment from Martin Hoerling, a NOAA scientist and drought expert.
Well worth a read.
Here it is, have a read, then come back if you'd like to discuss.
The Circular Course Of Things
Yesterday, Pauline Marois announced that Quebecers will be going to the
polls on April 7th. She is prepared to defend her Charter of Values. But
she has said nothing about holding a third referendum.
In 1980, my wife and I voted in the first referendum. But by 1995, like
many of our generation, we had left Quebec -- not so much by choice but
from necessity. I began my teaching career at a new high school in the
Eastern Townships. The school's population was 1,100 students. By the time
we left twelve years later -- because of Quebec's language law and a weak
economy -- the school's... more »
Crimea Referendum vote March 16/14- Donetsk update
Updated once and maybe more to come....
CBC-Lawmakers in the embattled Crimean region of Ukraine have decided to
hold a referendum March 16 on whether Crimea should become part of Russia.
"This is our response to the disorder and lawlessness in Kyiv," Sergei
Shuvainikov, a member of the local Crimean legislature, said Thursday. "We
will decide our future ourselves."
The parliament in Crimea, which enjoys a degree (almost complete) of
autonomy under current Ukrainian law, voted 78 with eight abstentions in
favour of holding the referendum. *Local voters will also be given the
choi... more »
4 Personal Stories Of Vaccine Related Injury & Death
*Personal Stories of Vaccine Damage and Death*
*Here are a few unsolicited personal stories of vaccine damage and death
received by the **Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute.** To read even more
personal stories of vaccine damage, plus a collection of unsolicited
questions, comments and concerns, visit these links: **recent emails** and **multiple
vaccines** administered simultaneously. Also, be sure to watch this
important video on **overdosed babies**. For the most comprehensive
information available about vaccines and the diseases they're meant to
protect against, be sure to r... more »
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*Saturated fat is not bad for health, says heart expert*
*The word is getting out -- at long last*
NHS guidelines which advise cutting down on high fat foods like butter,
cream and chocolate may be putting the public at risk and should be
urgently revised, a leading heart scientist has warned.
Diets that are low in saturated fat do not lower cholesterol, prevent heart
disease or help people live longer, Dr James DiNicolantonio insists.
He is so concerned about misinterpretation of ‘flawed data’ that he has
called for a new public health campaign to admit ‘we got it wrong.’
Briti... more »
SAT Reboot 2016: “Nonsense It All Is”
SAT Reboot 2016: “Nonsense It All Is”. via SAT Reboot 2016: “Nonsense It
All Is”.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
Hillary Surfaces and Compares Putin to Hitler
With the restoration of the corrupt Clinton family dynasty looming the
likely successor to Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham-Clinton has played the
obligatory Nazi card in joining in on the Putin pile on. Mrss Clinton made
her remarks comparing Russian leader Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler during
a private appearance in California, taken along with similar off the cuff
statements in non-public settings by SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia (internment
camps) and former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (screw half of the
country) it is a window into the very deranged mindset of the Ame... more »
@DD1958 cannot answer a straight question but is willing to use synthetic outrage to avoid having to do so
Further to my posts about @DD1958, most recently here yesterday, it seems
that POPS! has decided that synthetic outrage is the best that he can
manage in order to avoid answering my question as to why the 'Palestinians'
and their supporters claim that Israel is 'occupying Palestinian land' in
'the West Bank' and Gaza but had no such problem when Jordan and Egypt
occupied 'the West Bank' and Gaza 1948-1967. Yes he's gone off in a fake
huff...
You can read the truth behind that nasty claim in yesterday's post.
I'd take @DD1958 more seriously had he not revealed his tactics
previously... more »
War watch March 3 -4 , 2013 -- IRAN -- Report: Obama Will Ask Israel to Stop Assassinating Iranian Scientists ( wasn't aware Israel had admitted to doing so , but I guess we just formally outed them on that one .. ) ...... AFGHANISTAN -- Karzai prevails -- Zero-option in Afghanistan called off ? WaPo: “President Obama’s foreign policy is based on fantasy” ........ TURKEY -- Corruption scandals and the ire of PM Erdogan roll on ......
Catharsis Ours - 9 hours ago
Iran.......
AIPAC Dictates Terms on Future Iran DealDemands Iran Dismantle Civilian
Program
by Jason Ditz, March 02, 2014
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A key Israel Lobby convention, the AIPAC Conference was severely
inconvenienced today by the media coverage of Crimean secession, which many
complained was “stealing their thunder.”
Still it wouldn’t be an AIPAC conference if they didn’t treat US foreign
policy as something they could unilaterally dictate, and today that meant specific
demands for what the details of a US-Iran deal would be allowed to include.
Immediately endorsed by a ser... more »
Global GMO Free Coalition Is Coming Soon
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Coming Soon...The Biotech Industry's Worst Nightmare! The world is coming
together. Join us and stay tuned for more.
#GlobalGMOFreeCoalition #GGFC #gmofree #nongmo #labelgmos #boycottgmos
#bangmos #sustainablepulse #gmofreeusa #gmofreecanada
Coming Soon.... The Biotech Industry's Worst Nightmare!
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Thomas: Don’t link teacher pay to student test scores
Thomas: Don’t link teacher pay to student test scoresFiled under: PAUL
THOMAS: Becoming Radical
Ukraine - "they were the same snipers killing people from both sides"
[image: http://rt.com/news/ashton-maidan-snipers-estonia-946/]
Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - leaked EU's Ashton phone tapePublished time: March 05, 2014 12:41
The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired
by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU
foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs
minister, which has emerged online.
UPDATE: Estonian Foreign Ministry confirms authenticity of leaked call
*“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers,
it was not Yanuko... more »
Why Was CourseSmart Offloaded?
This week’s news that the publishing educational joint venture CourseSmart
has been acquired by Ingram’s Content Group should be not a surprise, but
raises some interesting questions about publisher's joint ventures.
Some six years ago whilst speaking at the National Association of College
Stores (NACS) conference in Minneapolis, I was drawn to a cluster of
delegates who were busy taking notes and sat apart from the delegates. I
spoke to them afterwards and discovered that they were all from CourseSmart
and they were obviously sent to press the delegates’ flesh. On being asked
w... more »
Two fresh dark matter stories
*Randall, Reece link DM and dinosaurs; strengthening DM signal in Central
Milky Way*
I want to mention two developments related to dark matter. First, Lisa
Randall and Matthew Reece of Harvard have finally released a preprint – to
appear in Physical Review Letters – linking extinctions and dark matter:
Dark Matter as a Trigger for Periodic Comet Impacts
As the "comments" (an entry in the arXiv form) point out, there are no
dinosaurs in the paper so let me offer you a compensation.
*Holy crap, we forgot to install a thermonuclear missile shield above
Chick-Ku-Klux-Club in the Yuca... more »
Brian Greene's talk on the state of string theory
Stephen and Vincent Della Pietra – who are not *Capo di tutti capi* because
there are two of them; instead, they are fratelli – donated a few million
dollars to Stony Brook and launched their lecture series. Recent speakers
included (or the coming one will include) Wilczek, Linde, Veltman (and
Schwarz).
In October 2011, Brian Greene gave the talk on "The State of String theory"
which was finally posted to YouTube and if you can sacrifice 76 minutes (or
a part of them), you are invited to watch the talk.
There are lots of the usual and some unusual introductory comments related ... more »
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*Calling the Global Warming Charlatans "Nazis" is historically accurate*
*Nature fantasists and authoritarian people-haters in both cases. Details
here -- JR*
By Alan Caruba
On February 20th, the noted meteorologist, Dr. Roy W. Spencer, fed up with
being called a “denier” of global warming, posted a commentary on his blog
titled “Time to push back against the global warming Nazis.”
“When politicians and scientists started calling people like me ‘deniers’,
they crossed the line. They are still doing it,” said Dr. Spencer. “They
indirectly equate (1) the skeptics’ view that glob... more »
WOULD ENGLAND USE FORCE?
*Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party. (Photo Peter
Brunskill)*
On 5 March 2014, at the Market Oracle, 'policy analyst' Andrew_McKillop
asks: *Would England Use Force To Stop Scottish Independence? *
According to Andrew McKillop (Biography):
*1.* Any English action to prevent Scotland from becoming independent
would be a land and resource grab.
*2.* Scotland can model itself on Norway or Switzerland.
"Neither Norway nor Switzerland are member states of the EU, which they
rightly regard as a dangerously unstable Debtors Union run by the 20th
century champion of Eu... more »
'Obamacare' Is Helping Many It Was Intended To Help
By Manifesto Joe
I had misgivings about Barack Obama from the start -- that's why I voted
for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. I doubted
that Obama had the Beltway experience that he needed for an effective White
House. In many ways, I'd say that has proved to be true.
But my sympathies are largely with Obama now, especially in some of his
worst hours. I think the man's heart is generally in the right place, and
he's splattered with mud no matter what he does or doesn't do. Now we even
have right-wing crazies who think he should bomb Russia over what Puti... more »
Is that cigar about to explode?
Just going back to *Newsnight*'s bullish report claiming that the
government suppressed an internal report, and the question of whether Chris
Cook's report was a bombshell or an exploding cigar...
...well, *The Daily Mail* (surprise, surprise!) is now taking issue with
the BBC about it:
Migrants DO cost UK jobs says 'buried' report: BBC attacked after claiming
document was suppressed by No 10
Chris Cook's sources in Whitehall have told him one thing; the *Mail*'s
sources are telling them something else - namely that, contrary to
*Newsnight*'s clams that that the still-unpublished... more »
Lemon Velvet Squares and Lime Jello Parfaits- You're Invited Link Party and Features
Thank you to everyone that participated last week. Each of us will take one
week a month to feature some of our favorites from the party. This week's
features are by Debra from Housewife Eclectic. Make sure you link up some
projects and recipes of your own so you’ll be in the running for next weeks
featured favorites.
[image: You're invited header 2]I love being able to host a party with some
of my favorite people including Jesseca from One Sweet Appetite, Holly
from Bits of Everything, and Jonie from Just Between Friends.
Things have been busy at Housewife Eclectic the last month ... more »
Fukushima Update: "Large Marine Animals Likely Sensed Danger of Fukushima Plume And Fled"
*"Mystery’ Solved? US Gov’t Expert: Large Marine Animals Likely Sensed
Danger*
* of Fukushima Plume and Fled, “Not going to wait until they start to
die
off.” *
Unprecedented concentrations of whales and other sea life clustered just
off West Coast.
by ENE News
*Jeff Feldner, Oregon Sea Grant Extension (NOAA) fisheries
specialist:*"It’s probable that, for one thing, a lot of the larger
animals got out of
there quickly. The other thing is that I suspect animals, like whales
for
instance, I think they would probably be able to tell that something was
wrong. They’re very, very intellig... more »
Disney on Ice Rockin' Ever After
Disney on Ice is one of our favorite Grandma outings of the year, and last
night's Rockin' Ever After was absolutely no exception. Honestly, we have
been to other Disney on Ice shows that featured some of the same
princesses, so I was expecting some repeats, but there weren't any. Even
though the shows featured the same princesses, they were completely
different. I loved how this year's Disney on Ice really focused on the
music and the special effects were amazing.
I wish I could have take a picture of my daughter's face during The Little
Mermaid section, especially the aerial stun... more »
5 Reasons Monsanto’s ‘Science’ Doesn’t Add Up by Ronnie Cummins & Katherinee Paul
5 Reasons Monsanto’s ‘Science’ Doesn’t Add Up
by Ronnie Cummins and Katherine Paul
Common Dreams, 2 March 2014
To hear the pesticide and junk food marketers of the world tell it, anyone
who questions the value, legitimacy or safety of GMO crops is naïve,
anti-science and irrational to the point of hysteria.
But how long can Monsanto ignore the mounting actual scientific evidence
that their technology is not only failing to live up to its promises, it’s
putting public health at risk?
Jim Goodman, farmer, activist and member of the Organic Consumers
Association policy a... more »
FDA, FCC Now Targeting Whistleblowers Video - An Interview With Anthony Gucciardi
March 4, 2014
With activism at all time highs surrounding incognito threats lurking
within the food supply, and major movements throughout the country all
aimed at sweeping things like GMOs from the food supply, it should come as
no surprise that agencies like the FDA are concerned about internal
whistleblowers leaking key intel to the public. It should also come as no
surprise that government organizations from the FDA to the FCC are now
monitoring social networks across the board, all on a quest to track the
flow of information that has now been dominated by the alternative n... more »
Sandy Hook HOAX! Sherry Questioning All Shows Evidence That There Were NO Children At Sandy Hook Elementary School "Shooting" At All!
In previous articles that I posted at this blog from videos and articles
from a great fellow real truth seeker, Sherrie, who writes the excellent
blog: "Sherrie Questioning All" (www.sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com)
evidence was presented that shows that the so called "School" where that so
called "massacre" that occurred at Sandy Hook on December 14th, 2012, could
not have had students at all... It was a dilapidated pig-sty, as well as a
serious health hazard due to horrific amounts of mold and algae. It is a
fact that mold itself is a toxic bio-hazard, and cannot be present in... more »
Red To Blue… Boo Hoo Hoo
DCCC will never win back the House until they get Republicans like this out
of Democratic seats-- but that means recruiting candidates and fighting to
win-- which Steve Israel refuses to do
Now that the DCCC has officially launched its Red-to-Blue program, what
happened to Steve Israel's vaunted Jumpstart program and the candidates he
tapped, many despite primary races back home? The program itself has been
"disappeared" from the DCCC website. Most of the candidates, though, were
automatically placed on the Red-to-Blue list: Patrick Henry Hayes
(AR-02/PVI- R+8), Amanda Renteria (CA-2... more »
Vegan Recipe - Healthy Homemade Granola
*Do you love granola? I do! It's great for breakfast or as a snack and it's
easy to pack for "on the go" munching. Unfortunately, most commercial
brands are expensive and they typically contain less-than-healthy
ingredients. Today's recipe comes from Amber, owner of the wonderful site,
Fettle Vegan. Never visited this site? Well, let me tell you, you're
missing out. Amber shares some amazing dishes. Things like Kung Pao
Cauliflower, Blueberry Streusel Muffins (which are gluten free), Lavender
Scones and Blueberry Kale Smoothie. Don't they make your mouth water?Amber
has a "to di... more »
“My My, Others Read History?”
*“My My, Others Read History?”*
by Karl Denninger
“I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked... Iran may not seem the best vantage
point to observe the convulsions in Ukraine and Thailand. But traveling
through the country last week, I often thought of its constitutional
revolution in 1906 - one whose political legacy exceeds that of the Islamic
Revolution of 1979 and offers more instructive lessons than any European
revolution in why democratic upsurges often produce mayhem, followed in
short order by tyranny.
The effort, led by Iranian intellectuals and activists, to check a
centralized... more »
Crack down on crime where it counts
This morning's paper brought news of a tiny baby found abandoned at the
foot of a tree in a village not far from the Honduran capital of
Tegucigalpa. Next to him was a bag full of baby products - a bottle of
milk, diapers, talcum powder, a bib - and a note asking whoever found the
baby to look after him well. A neighbour saw the news about the foundling
and called in to report the young mother who had abandoned the baby, and
now she's going to prison.
Oh, come on. In the same paper, there were stories about 14 people who
had been fatally shot in Honduras the day before, inclu... more »
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*Senator Robert Adley wants it both ways ~We Saw That*
Free Economic Zones = Mini Banana Republics
*Rift valley near Yuli, rain.*
The Ma government's return to the industrial zone policies of the 1960s and
1970s has an interesting twist. The DPP pointed out:
The project aims to establish free economic pilot zones in Keelung Port,
Suao Port in Yilan County, Taipei Port, Taichung Port, Anping Port in
Greater Tainan, Kaohsuing Port, the Taoyuan Aerotropolis in Taoyuan County
and the Pingtung Agricultural Biotechnology Park to demonstrate a model for
business convenience and liberalization.
“Thirty-three of the 73 articles in the special act are blank
authorizations, which give alm... more »
Government follies ---- Hello HillaryCare: ObamaCare Deadline Extended Beyond Obama's Term and risk corridor payments could hit 5.5 billion for 2015 - that would the taxpayer bailout risk corridor ! File under " we are so screwed " -- Shocker: Federal government’s fiscal deterioration almost 5 times official deficit .........
Hello HillaryCare: ObamaCare Deadline Extended Beyond Obama's Term
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In what is becoming an epic embarrassment, the WSJ reports that the*Obama
administration announced today that consumers can keep insurance plans that
don't comply with the federal health law for another two years*, pushing a
potential firestorm over cancellations and broken promises that "you can
keep your health plan". As The Hill adds, the ... more »
US Israel Partnership Directly Associated with the Chamber of Commerce
Early this morning congress passed this iniative...HR 938 which guarantees
that Israel will get full support from this country, no matter what The
vote was 407 to 1, which once again confirms that our government is bought
and paid for by the New World Order. I will exclude Senator Ron Wyden, of
my district in Oregon who didn't vote, but I can't believe that our elected
representatives are supporting Free Trade and Globalization, while turning
their eyes and ears from the destabilization being done in small countries
like Egypt, Libya, and Syria, and now being done in the Ukraine.
... more »
"Bernanke earns more in one day than he did all of last year as Fed chief" (Reuters/AOL)
*Awww, isn't this adorable?* *Big Al 'n' Big Ben, together! Are they on the
clock? Holy bank balance, Batman! Or maybe it's like one of those glossy
National Geographic photos of a lion or tiger mama tending to one of her
cuddly little offspring. (The official caption reads: "US Federal Reserve
chairman Ben Bernanke (R) speaks with former chairman Alan Greenspan during
a ceremony marking the centennial of the founding of the Federal Reserve in
Washington, DC on December 16, 2013.")*
*"Lawyers and agents say Bernanke, 60, should be able to command around
$250,000 per speech for a wh... more »
"Electronic monitoring is not a primary ground panacea"
R v Sotomayor, 2014 ONSC 500
North Carolina's Duke-Paid Governor's State Environmental Stooge Attempts To Flim-Flam Coal Ash Spill Water Disaster
Did I mention that I received notice from my county government a few days
ago to not drink, bathe in, wash clothes in, or just generally trust our
public water supply? These are the culprits, and although many wags like to
say that North Carolina deserves what it voted for, the Koch-funded
campaigns of the legislative representatives were secret for a long time
(credit is due to the Citizens
The Demise of UFO Magazine
Today, while searching for information about something else, I saw that
there was an Internet listing that suggested there was an “Important
Message from *UFO Magazine*.” Having contributed to it frequently, and
because I know those who have been involved with it in the past including
Don and Vicki Ecker, I clicked on the link. I mean, the magazine hadn’t
been around for a while and I wondered what was going on. What I found was
this:
The owner of UFO Magazine, Inc. has officially noticed [sic] that he is
putting UFO Magazine, Inc. up for sale. We do not know If [sic] there is
cur... more »
Russia's Asia "Pivot" with Focus on Energy
*"Russian Gas Exports to Asia Expected to Quadruple by 2020." Source of
image: US Energy Information Administration.*
Video Title: Russia's Asia "Pivot" with Focus on Energy. Source: YouTube
channel Jay Fidell. Date Published: November 26, 2013. Description:
In this broadcast,"Asia-in- Review" Host Hong Jiang explores Russia's
recent foreign policy and geopolitical shifts into Asia followed by its
fascinating energy moves into the Region with international business lawyer
& professor, David Day.
Next, the conversation turns to the critical and fascinating energy "pivot"
that Russi... more »
Harvard Research Finds Link Between Fluoridated Water, ADHD and Mental Disorders
Joe Martino
*Activist Post*
New research published in *The Lancet* by researchers from the Harvard
School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai (ISMMS) found that various chemicals that many children are exposed
to are having a direct effect on the creation of disorders labelled under
the name ADHD as well as other mental disorders. One of the chemicals said
to be having an effect is fluoride, or variations of fluoride. Governments
have been performing artificial fluoridation for a number of years
regardless of the lack of effectiveness it has in ... more »
Ukraine- How insane is the EU- Sanctions? Lavrov shuns Kiev stooge & more
*Big power talks make little progress*
-High-level diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in Ukraine made little
apparent headway at talks in Paris on Wednesday with Moscow and Washington
at odds and Russia's foreign minister refusing to recognize his Ukrainian
counterpart.
-Russia had earlier rebuffed Western demands that its forces that have
seized control of Ukraine's Crimea region should return to their bases.
-NATO, at a meeting in Brussels, announced it was cutting back on
cooperation with Russia to try to pressure it into backing down on Ukraine
and suspended planning for ... more »
Stephen Harper Throws His Conservative Base Under the Bus(Bring on the Legalized Ganja Edition)
*Written by Grant G*
Interesting times in Canadian politics for sure, developments are coming
fast n furious, special interest groups, the religious right and most
particularly the federal Conservative party base are being thrown under the
bus in a last ditch effort to retain power..
It shows a Stephen Harper in desperation mode, it also shows a Canadian
populous that Stephen Harper has no real values, no real beliefs and no
moral conscience, Stephen Harper is prepared to throw everyone who has ever
supported him and his party under the bus to retain a grip on power, he`s
not w... more »
Back, for a short while... here's some stuff about stuff
I remember a time before the current Golden Age of Television. It was a
time when TV was largely embarrassing and terrible. The age of Mr Blobby
and Jim Davidson.
That said it was also a time when BBC2 wasn't just BBC1 with slippers on.
Friday night you could watch anything from Johnathan Meades to Ren and
Stimpy... that's if you were allowed the second TV.
If we are in a Golden Age it's because multi-channel TV helps viewers pan
through the river of excrement (or Channel Four as it's now known) for
those priceless nuggets. It's channels like BBC3 that do the work. Not much
of it's... more »
Kate Zernike never quits!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014*
*Three pundits, four perspectives on motive:* Over at the New York Times,
Kate Zernike never quits.
Yesterday morning, she said it again. We have no idea why:
ZERNIKE (3/4/14): Court papers filed by a lawyer for Gov. Chris Christie’s
former campaign manager indicate that federal prosecutors are moving
aggressively to investigate the role of the governor’s aides in the George
Washington Bridge lane closing scandal.
An agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation telephoned the campaign
manager, Bill Stepien, in January, about a week after *a cache of
e... more »
50 Is The Magic Number! Have Conservatives Made Obamacare Disappear Now?
Who needs "Democrats" like these when we already have Republicans?
Today, conservatives in the House voted for the 50th time to repeal the
Affordable Care Act-- which is already covering 10 million Americans.
Yesterday, President Obama rolled his eyes and said, "You know what they
say: 50th time is the charm. Maybe when you hit your 50th repeal vote, you
will win a prize. Maybe if you buy 50 repeal votes, you get one free. We
get it. We understand. We get you don't like it. I got it." Kansas
anti-family extremist Lynn Jenkins' bill would delay the individual
mandate, a stupid Republi... more »
Ukraine: Georgian Background to the Western “Invasion” Hysteria
Recalling similar fabrications regarding Georgia’s aggression versus Russia
and examining existing Russo-Ukrainian strategic relations before
Western-backed mobs overthrew the government in Kiev, we can see there is
no “invasion” at all.
*March 6, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci/New Eastern Outlook) -* Invasion (noun) –
the act of invading, especially the entrance of an armed force into a
territory to conquer.*
The BBC reported in its June 2013 article titled, “Five years on, Georgia
makes up with Russia,” that (emphasis added): On 8 August, Georgia will
mark the fifth anniversary of the o... more »
Tom Hayden : Is a new Cold War upon us?
From the residue of the old Soviet Union, a new nationalist, nuclear-armed,
resource-rich Russia has risen to challenge Western claims of triumphalism.
By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | March 5, 2014 Haven’t the Republicans, the
neoconservatives, and the … finish reading Tom Hayden :
Is a new Cold War upon us?
Quote of the Day: On honouring your self
Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey decided he needed to *enjoy watching his
movies as much as he enjoyed making them.* So…
“I got much more selfish. I’m a fan of the word *selfish*. Self. Ish. When
I say I have gotten a lot more self-*ish*, I mean I am less concerned with
what people think of me. I’m not worried about how I’m perceived.
*Selfish *has always gotten a bad rap. You *should* do for you. I wanted
new experiences.”
- Matthew McConaughey, interview with GQ
And on turning his acting around and receiving his Oscar…
When I was 15 years old, I had an important person in my l... more »
Robert Free 'The UN Game of Charades' Boycott Indigenous World Conference
Robert
Free: The UN Game of Charades
BOYCOTT the UN sham World Indigenous Conference!
Robert Free (on left) with Sid Mills Wounded Knee
Robert Free points out that many grassroots frontline veterans have been
demanding the UN Indian NGO World Indigenous Conference promoters
boycott the sham and not give it the token semblance of
credibility. Free, who was among those at the Occupation of
The greatness of the other perspective!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014*
*The impulse to restrict:* Many people have commented on the greatness of
Lupita Nyong’o’s acceptance speech Sunday night.
“It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is due to
so much pain in someone else’s,” Nyong’o said as she started, referring to
the life of the woman she portrayed in 12 Years a Slave.
We’ll admit it—we wouldn’t have thought about that if she hadn’t said it.
On the other hand, once someone has said such a thing, do you get to
celebrate at all? Should Steve McQueen have jumped for joy in the way he
did?
We don’t... more »
Thorne Dreyer and Bob Simmons : VIDEO | Austin’s ‘Underground Goes Overboard’ with Ayers and Dohrn
Bill and Bernardine lead an engaging and often very funny community
conversation at The Rag Blog’s launch party — all captured on Bob Simmons’
video! Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn host an entertaining and provocative
discussion at The Rag Blog‘s … finish reading Thorne Dreyer and Bob Simmons:
*VIDEO* | Austin’s ‘Underground Goes Overboard’ with Ayers and Dohrn
eBook Subscriptions Part 3: The Future Should Be Significant
In the last two articles we looked at today’s subscription market and some
of the players, but what of the future? Do we really believe that the
consumer will continue to want to ‘buy’ eBooks that they effectively don’t
own, that they can’t easily share with others and that they are prohibited
from reselling. Adobe may have backed down from their heavy handed approach
to their initial ACS5 upgrade plans, but DRM remains a millstone around
consumer’s necks and wedded to yesterday’s 'download to a device' ownership
model. Today the media world is moving towards on demand, streamed a... more »
YOU DECIDE
Putin at news conference yesterday.
It's long but quite interesting.
Mariann G. Wizard : VERSE |’Texas gay marriage: Soon come?’
Texas Gay Marriage: Soon Come? By Mariann G. Wizard | The Rag Blog | March
5, 2014 Candidates claiming to support the Constitution need to get hip:
Love’s sweet institution will soon be respected in fair distribution.
Today’s headlines say … finish reading Mariann G. Wizard :
*VERSE* |’Texas gay marriage: Soon come?’
AIM West on Indian Country Today's 'Trash Newspaper'
Yellow
Journalism: Boycott 'Trash Newspaper'
By Tony Gonzales
AIM West
Censored News
AIM West at Dept of Justice San Francisco Feb. 27, 2014
Len Foster,As you are AIM member, Wounded Knee veteran, and a member of
the board of director for the NGO International Indian Treaty council
(IITC), founded by AIM, (and international political arm of the AIM, and
as you being the spiritual advisor
Communities of color have been decimated by corporate reform. Now anger spreads when it affects white folk like @RBNLake
Robin Lake of Seattle writes: As the director of an education think tank
focused on national issues, it feels indulgent to write about my own kids’
experiences in the public school system. But there’s no better way to
illustrate one of the reasons my organization pursues the work it does on
behalf of students. Let […]
The end of Pax Americana has implications
*Like most of his comments, this is too good to waste, so I’ve pulled out
this comment by **Liberty Scott** for a Guest Post…*
…the key point is that the US, particularly the Obama Administration
(although Bush wimped out over Georgia) has withdrawn from the world.
Putin effectively annexed two parts of Georgia, he frightened the US into
not implementing a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic
(despite both countries being members of NATO and wanting it), and now he
has taken part of Ukraine.
China is watching because it wants to see what would happen if it took ... more »
BIlingual education: What does the research say?
Sent to Education Week, March 5, 2014
There are two crucial research findings related to the Sen. Lara's proposal
to repeal Proposition 227 ("Calif. Bill Would Repeal Bilingual-Education
Restrictions," March 4).
The first: study after study has shown that students in bilingual programs
outperform similar students enrolled in English-only programs on tests of
English reading.
The second: As noted by Prof. McField in the Ed Week article, dismantling
bilingual education in California has not improved achievement for English
learners in California.
Both of these findings deserve m... more »
As draft law nears passage, haredi Israelis take to streets
The powers that be, aka Zionist's, in Israel would have us believe that it
is always against them, but nothing could be further from the truth. Many
of the Jews in Israel and throughout the world disapprove of the ongoing
agenda to take control of that part of the world and would prefer to live
in peace. Hundreds of thousands of haredi Orthodox Jews protesting a
measure to draft them into the Israeli military, March 2, 2014. By Ben
SalesMarch 4, 2014 10:37am JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Beneath banners invoking historic calamities from the Egyptian enslavement
to the Holocaust, hundreds of... more »
Tax Cut 17: BIR vs. Physicians
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) made this paid advertisement that
appeared in several national newspapers last weekend I think.
Posting below some comments by doctors expressed in facebook, posted on my
friend Dr. Jed Inciong's fb wall, except those from change.org petition and
Dr. Calimag. My own discussion at the end. Other posters/images are also
posted in fb, copy-pasting them here.
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*(1) Butch Tamesis, March 4, 2014*
This picture shows the PHYSICIAN in general as a burden to the TEACHER, a
representative of the MASA. I wonder if the BIR has really thought abou... more »
Equal treatment for UKIP?
The Telegraph reports that:
'Ukip have been given a boost in the run up to the European elections after
Ofcom ruled that broadcasters have to treat them in the same way as any
other major party.
The decision means Ukip will be given the same status as the Conservatives,
Labour and Liberal Democrats for election broadcasts and news coverage of
the May 22 contest.'
If the BBC do actually give UKIP equal status to Labour, Conservatives and
the LibDems then the type of coverage will be similar to the Conservatives
not Labour. The BBC's coverage of the Labour party will as usual be
ove... more »
Musical Interlude: Peter Gabriel, “Solsbury Hill”
Peter Gabriel, “Solsbury Hill”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-9NEFalsjE
Sandy Hook Police Dash Cam Video does not show children evacuating per Official Timeline.
The One and only photo released of children at SH. Suppose to have
happened at 10:47 AM - would have been in front of police dash cam shown
below. Never happened in front of dash cam. They were not running, but
walking. There is a Police Dash Cam video of the parking lot of Sandy
Hook. I show the official timeline as written out by the Police of what
happened and when. The official
President Obama just doesn't seem to understand! 我認為普京的目標是烏克蘭分裂成東，西，隨著工業和農業生產力的東與俄羅斯對齊。
WATERBOARD THE BITCH!
I mean, just stop and think a moment. Obama claims the authority to murder
a US citizen by drone strike just because they *might* be thinking of
harming US citizens, and here we have the most destructive force ever
unleashed against the American people, the IRS, clearly having committed
illegal actions (or Lerner would not need to take the Fifth) and Lerner
gets to walk out of the room? Remember that using the IRS against political
enemies was one of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon!
Refuse to blow
*R. v. Goleski*, 2014 BCCA 80:
Elements of Failure/Refusal
[71] As discussed in Lewko at para. 9, the elements of the offence that
the Crown must prove are: (i) a proper demand; (ii) a failure or refusal to
provide the required breath sample; and (iii) an intention to fail or
refuse to provide the required sample. In R. v. Moser 1992 CanLII 2839 (ON
CA), (1992), 71 C.C.C. (3d) 165 at 176 (Ont. C.A.), Mr. Justice Doherty
said this:
The essential elements of the offence described in s. 254(5) consist of a
proper demand and a refusal or failure to comply with that demand. The
defen... more »
'MISSILE DEFENSE' AGENCY..... RIGHT ON SCHEDULE
*Fiscal Year 2015 Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Budget Press Briefing *
You might not watch all of this so I thought I share a few of this
officer's words on the new "missile defense" (MD) budget request:
- "due to recent threat developments"
- The new missile defense interceptor "kill vehicle" will allow for "new
tactics in weapons doctrine"
- The MDA is "engineering the kill chain from beginning to end"
- New accuracy will "allow the war fighters to dramatically improve
their shot doctrine"
- The budget will allow the MDA to "continue to support Israel's missi... more »
Ukraine-O-Mania: Kerry Does Kiev
So on Tuesday (a.k.a. Kill List Day in the White House) John Kerry did the
helicopter hustle in Kiev (cue the *Pictures at an Exhibition* music in the
previous post), a bag of bribery cash in one hand, a bouquet of flowers in
the other. Nobody does subtle like the secretary of state:
And nobody does propagandistic bathos like the *New York Times:*
*Trudging through a damp mist, Mr. Kerry stopped first for an emotional
visit to improvised memorials where protesters were gunned down last month
as they voiced opposition to what was then Ukraine’s pro-Kremlin
government.*
*Mr. Ker... more »
THE PLOT THICKENS
Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - leaked EU's Ashton phone tapeRT
The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired
by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU
foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs
minister, which has emerged online.
There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers,
it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition,” Urmas
Paet said during the conversation.
“I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick that up, that’s
inte... more »
Nigel in the Lions' Den
*Managers at the BBC (at the instigation of senior BBC management) have
passed a decree that Nigel Fagage is to debate Nick Clegg on the BBC, with
David Dimblebly presiding, in the run-up to this years's Euro elections. *
In the first year of the reign of Tony Hall, Director-General of the BBC,
came Nickuchadnezzar, Deputy Prime Minister, prince of the eunuchs, unto
the BBC, and besieged it.
It pleased Tony Hall to set over the BBC James Harding.
Now God had brought Nigel Farage into favour and tender love with the
voters of the United Kingdom, and the prince of the eunuchs sai... more »
The evil side of Twitter
I have spoken of @DD1958 aka POPS! before, he's the nasty piece of work who
denies Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, claims all of Israel is
Palestinian land and calls Israel an apartheid state.
What really gets my goat (pun intended) is the way that he and others try
to equate Israel's treatment of the Palestinians with the treatment of the
Jews by the Nazis. This comparison is not only demonstrably false, it's
deliberately offensive.
Earlier today I saw a comparison of Auschwitz and Gaza on Twitter, so I
re-tweeted it to @DD1958 and some others who were associated with t... more »
Kyrsten Sinema-- The Picture Of ConservaDem Opportunism
I can't say I know Kyrsten Sinema well, but I do know her. She briefly
joined a board I serve on and she seemed like a normal, smart progressive
at the few meetings she attended. Back in 2012, when I heard she was going
to run for Congress in a newly created Maricopa County district (AZ-09)
that encompasses much of Chandler and Mesa, a bit of Scottsdale, all of
Tempe and some of the burbs north and east of Phoenix, I was very excited.
The district lines, which are very competitive (because there are more
independents in the district than Democrats or Republicans), gave Obama a
140... more »
The Realist Report - Dr. Kevin MacDonald
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined once again by *Dr.
Kevin MacDonald*. Dr. MacDonald and I will be discussing the history of the
Jewish assault and subverision of traditional Western civilization.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
Below are relevant links for this program:
- *The Occidental Observer - White Identity, Interests, and Culture*
- *Organized Jewry: destroyers of Western civilization* - John Friend
- *Subversive Jewess Carina Kolo... more »
Syria- the chemical weapons meme is making another round- Timing?
*Two stories and I do not believe they are unrelated in the battle for your
mind*
*Chemical weapons used in Syria appear to come from army stockpile: UN*
Notice the use of the word "appear". This is not fact. It just 'appears'
Yet, I am certain where the chemical weapons originated could be confirmed.
So, that headline is immediately suspect. We all know that appearances can
be deceiving.
Chemical weapons used in two incidents in Syria last year *appear* to come
from the stockpiles of the Syrian military, United Nations human rights
investigators said on Wednesday in a report that w... more »
Giveaway: Les Miserables at the Hale Centre Theater
Do you hear the people sing? Last year it seemed like everyone was talking
about the new Les Misérables movie and while the movie was good, there is
absolutely nothing like seeing Les Misérables live, the way it was meant to
be seen. There is so much emotion and and drama in this play, that is hard
to convey through a television screen. That is why I was absolutely
thrilled when I saw that Les Misérables was on Hale Centre Theater's season
line up.
Hale Centre Theater, known as Utah's Premier Family Theater, is located in
West Valley Utah and is one of our favorite places to go if... more »
No bail for doctor who sexually abused sedated women during surgeries: public interest trumps bail
*R. v. Doodnaught*, 2014 ONCA 172:
[15] The public interest component is about the public perception of the
reputation of the administration of justice. This is based on the view of a
public that is reasonably informed of the criminal process and the
circumstances of the case. It requires that I assess the need to review the
conviction leading to imprisonment on the one hand, and the need to respect
the general rule of immediate enforceability of judgments on the other:
Manasseri, at paras. 40-43. This is commonly referred to in the
jurisprudence as “reviewability versus enforcement... more »
Lois Lerner refuses to testify - again: We are well on our way to a banana republic...
*Issa asked questions that I'd really like to hear answers to. *
This smells like the back side of The Yards in Chicago.
CORRUPTION SPREADS: Like John Gorka, we don't expect much!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014*
*Part 3—Rachel’s piddle and pap:* For better or worse, investigations tend
to take a long time.
Along the way, news may sometimes occur. On February 19, a tiny bit of news
occurred in the case of the Fort Lee lane closings.
Everybody knew what it was. On that day, the chairman and vice chairman of
the Port Authority offered that agency’s first apologies for the lane
closings.
The New York Times led with the formal statement by David Samson, the
chairman of the agency. (Headline: “Port Authority's Chairman Is 'Deeply
Sorry' for Lane Closings at Bridge.”) ... more »
Who to believe?
Dropping in on the blog *Biased BBC*, as is my way, I was struck by David
Vance's characteristically pithy post entitled *ALL MEN ARE RAPIST?, *which
highlights a BBC report about violence against women across Europe.
The BBC report begins:
About a third of all women in the EU have experienced either physical or
sexual violence since the age of 15, according to a survey by the European
Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
That corresponds to 62 million women, the survey says.
The figures in the EU's survey are absolutely staggering (if true), finding
that one in 10 women has expe... more »
After the psychiatrist’s chair
Kill or cure remedy for Craig’s phobia about The Big Questions.
The prescription is a half hour dose of Channel Five.. you know, the weird
channel that never feels quite right. In particular, the debate on
immigration, because it made Nicky Campbell look like a colossus, which
might cure your TBQ nightmares, and also, by the process of diverting you
from one pain by giving you another. For example, distracting you from, say
toothache, by pushing you into a bush of thorns.
“The Big British Immigration Row”
Please catch it if you like a nice shambles. It *was* awful but I* laiked*it ... more »
Paper: female scholars of different ranks repel each other
The Australian is among the numerous outlets that were intrigued by a newly
published paper on women in science:
Queen bees won’t work with wannabe’s in academia, study finds (Australian)
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Rank influences human sex differences in dyadic cooperation (Current
Biology, Cell, full PDF)
Benenson, Markovits, and Wrangham of Boston, Montreal, and Harvard looked
at psychology papers between 2008 and 2012 and they found a pattern that is
rather novel but not completely unexpected when it comes to the issue of
"women in science". Senior female scholars are rathe... more »
PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING
My mother used to say "the proof is in the pudding". In the case of the US
strategy concerning Ukraine and Russia the 'ugly facts' are starting to
tell the real story.
At least five of those appointed to the 'new revolutionary cabinet' in
Ukraine come from the ultra-right nationalist (neo-Nazi) Svoboda and Right
Sector parties. One of those appointments is the Deputy Secretary of
National Security & Defense Council which likely means alot of head busting
if anyone 'gets out of line'.
On the question of Russia's 'invasion' of Crimea RT reports:
In 1997, amid the wreckage of the ... more »
Iraq Getting Better At Executing Its Budget But Large Problems Still Remain
Since 2003 Iraq’s budget has steadily increased. That year it was a measly
$6 billion and by 2013 it was over $116 billion. In the first couple years
Baghdad struggled to execute its budget, but that rate has improved as well
with time. Unfortunately the government still has major problems spending
its investment money holding back the rebuilding of the country.
As Iraq regained its sovereignty and petroleum profits picked up so did the
size of its budget. In 2003 the Americans only allocated $6.1 billion for
the Iraqis to spend. That quickly jumped to $19.9 billion the following... more »
Untitled
*Flood insurance bill clears House ~Koran Addo, N.O. Advocate*
*Flood Protection Authority nominating committee to meet Thursday ~Bob
Marshall, The Lens*
*State senator files complaint against levee board case judge ~Marsha
Shuler, The Advocate *
*GreenARMY Action: Water Festival in the Capitol *
*Dear Editilla, *
*Come stand with General Russel Honore in support of the Flood Authority's
lawsuit demanding that the Oil and Gas Industry fix their damage to our
coast.*
*[image: http://gogreenarmy.com/]*
*For more info, tune in to Garland Robinette today at 11:10a... more »
Rob Ford on Jimmy Kimmel
Part of Jimmy Kimmel's interview of Rob Ford:
A lot of people on twitter were saying that Jimmy Kimmel, a comedian,
asked the questions Peter Mansbridge wouldn't, that it was one of the most
hard-hitting interviews of Ford. Kimmel directly confronted Ford on his
domestic abuse charges and drug use. Ford in all this seemed out of it, was
cringe-worthy to watch. It can't have been a good night for Ford, with a
headline like "Rob Ford Ridiculed on Jimmy Kimmel Live" on the CBC. After,
just to show what a joke Ford is, Gonzo the Great - who followed him (for
real) - said he felt ... more »
The Ukraine Drama: What you see is not what you get.
Bill has just published part 5 of his Morocco diary, Link below. He
covers a lot of information- not only about what's going on in Morocco
right now, and in his own adventures on his journey- but also about current
events in the Ukraine.
I am going to add a LOT of info on the Ukraine topic as I have been
following this very closely, and had shared some interesting information
with Bill on this the other day.
.... you might want to get a coffee for this. it's one of "those" D
articles, lol.
What you are seeing in the Ukraine is not what it seems and not what the
media is scream... more »
A bombshell, or an exploding cigar?
Last night's *Newsnight* got off to a bullish start.
The programme's new policy editor, Chris Cook (formerly of the *FT*),
dropped what looked like a bombshell on the government - and, boy, did he
look pleased with himself about it!
He claimed, dramatically, that a new civil service study into the effects
of immigration on unemployment among native Brits is being suppressed by
Downing Street because it fails to back up the government's stance on
immigration.
'What does that say about the government's claim to be 'the most
transparent government in history'?', he asked (rhetorica... more »
Manning Knows His Man
The report from Elections Canada on irregularities in the 2011 election is
due at the end of the month. Lawrence Martin foresees three possible
scenarios unfolding:
One is that Elections Canada finds that the dirty work was limited to just
the riding of Guelph. In that case, no worries for Mr. Harper. We move on.
A second is that Elections Canada finds evidence of robocalls and other
acts of subterfuge in many ridings, but leaves hanging the question of
whether the Conservatives were the perpetrators. In this case, the party
would likely assail Elections Canada as biased (“team je... more »
Susan Collins Unbeatable? Only Inside-the-Beltway… And Mainers Make Up Their Own Minds
Monday we asserted-- and we stand by it-- that there's no legitimate reason
to assume Shenna Bellows can't defeat Susan Collins in Maine. Although she
vowed to Maine voters, she would only seek the Senate seat twice, she's
embarking on her fourth run. And she's not even that popular. How does
Susan Collins’ 2008 re-election vote (61%) compare with other Maine Senate
elections? In 2006 (also a good year for Democrats) Olympia Snowe’s
re-election vote was 13% higher at 74%! And looking urther back, Snowe's
2000 vote of 69% exceeded Collins’ 2002 vote of 58%, and Snowe's Snowe’s
199... more »
Estonia Foreign Minister, Katherine Ashton and whose snipers?
* Not Yanukovych's snipers- *
thanks brian:
*Consider this news, when considering whose snipers?*
In Kiev, an Israeli army vet fights with his fascist bretheren
Untitled
*A ponderous but rather silly article about fat giving you diabetes*
*I really love it when scientists draw conclusions that are the opposite of
what their data shows. We read: "Elevated body mass index (BMI)
associates with cardiometabolic traits". But it doesn't. Bulkier people
were found to be somewhat likely to show some indicators of diabetes but
were found NOT to be more likely to suffer heart disease or stroke. Are we
supposed to be bluffed by the imprecise term "cardiometabolic"? It seems
like it. They had actual diabetics in their samples so why did they not
tell u... more »
You don’t know the meaning of #dontbackdown
I’m pretty angry. Yesterday, I was on a panel discussing Teach For America
with, among others, Josh Anderson- head of TFA Chicago. Overall, I thought
the panel went well. Debate was passionate (mostly on my part) but civil.
Still, at the very end, when Josh gave the final remarks of the event, he
said something […]
Application of Informer Privilege
*R. v. Cook*, 2014 ONCA 170:
[16] I turn first to the issue of informer privilege. It was submitted that
the law is not clear on this point. The leading cases analyze informer
privilege on the basis that some promise of confidentiality express or
implied is necessary. However, in R. v. Barros, 2011 SCC 51, [2011] 3
S.C.R. 368, Binnie J. seems to have left open the question when he stated,
at para. 32: “[i]t might be argued that in a situation of serious potential
danger, the informer privilege (or other public interest privilege) might
apply even in the absence of the contract-type ... more »
Kerry Showboats in Kiev as Putin Shows His Missile to Obama
It is so delightfully ironic that in an epic battle of the comparing of
dicks that Putin has now one upped the insecure Obama by allegedly test
firing a Topol ICBM missile on Tuesday. Let’s just hope that for the sake
of the continuation of human life on Earth that the pathological narcissist
U.S. President doesn’t decide to prove that his is bigger. In the latest
developments of what the western state-corporate controlled media is
breathlessly hyping as Cold War II or the REAL clash of civilizations the
hurricane of bullshit reached category four level with an ominous storm
surg... more »
Quiz Question
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Answer below the fold.
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The Conversation: Moving ‘quality’ teachers between schools will not help disadvantaged children
Moving ‘quality’ teachers between schools will not help disadvantaged
childrenFiled under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical Tagged: disadvantaged
children
4th ICCC in Chicago, May 2010
Less than four years ago, I went to Chicago to attend the 4th International
Conference on Climate Change (4th ICCC), May 16-17, 2010, mainly sponsored
by Heartland Institute. My previous note on this conference is here, Chicago,
4th ICCC, day 1.
Was able to have a photo with Dr. Henrik Svensmark (below, middle), a
Danish physicist at Denmark climate research office, also among the
pioneers of the Sun-Climate theory. Also in the photo is a friend from
Germany, Wolfgang Muller.
With world famous climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer of the Univ. of Alabama in
Huntsville (UAH). He was among... more »
Ukraine Updates March 5 , 2014 -- Sanctions against Russia are considered in both the US and Europe , Countries susceptible to oil price shocks , live updates ( Russia Today for early morning 3/5/14 and late 3/4/14
Zero Hedge......
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-05/futures-unchanged-overnight-remain-nosebleed-levels
( Ukraine snippets.. )
With the world still on edge over developments in the Ukraine, overnight
newsflow was far less dramatic than yesterday, with no "bombshell" uttered
at today's Putin press conferences in which he said nothing new and simply
reiterated the party line and yet the market saw it as a full abdication,
he did have some soundbites saying Russia should keep economic issues
separate from politics, and that Russia should cooperate with all partners
on Ukrai... more »
Five Ways To Avoid GMOs
http://www.sujajuice.com/
The Heart Is The Great Forgiver - A Quote from M.N. Hopkins
*The heart is the great forgiver and facilitator of good deeds and right
action. *
by M.N. Hopkins
Particle fever: where to see
Particle Fever, the universally praised David Kaplan's full-fledged movie
about particle physics, is coming to the movie theaters in the U.S. today.
Lots of news outlets discuss what the movie is all about.
It took 7 years for the movie to be shot, and so on. It is both about
theorists and experimenters and the emotions they have been going through
For your convenience, here is a copy of the dates and places where the film
will be shown. The film's website also tells you about the film festivals
where the movie is participating.
*March 5*
New York, NY - Film Forum
*March 6*... more »
The Universe
“Sometimes, when it seems your wings have suddenly and unexpectedly been
clipped, maybe,
just maybe, there's more to learn by staying where you are. Maybe not. You
decide.”
“Tallyho,”
The Universe
“Thoughts become things... choose the good ones!”
- www.tut.com
US hypocrisy over ‘Russian aggression’ in Ukraine
*March 5, 2014* (Nile Bowie for RT) - As divisions deepen between the
eastern and western regions of Ukraine, the backers of the putsch regime in
Kiev portray Russia as a reckless aggressor to absolve their own
responsibility for engineering the crisis.
[image: A woman and a young boy walk past pro-Russian self-defence
activists standing guard in front of the Crimean Cabinet of the Ministers
in Simferopol on March 2, 2014. (AFP Photo / Genya Savilov)]
A woman and a young boy walk past pro-Russian self-defence activists
standing guard in front of the Crimean Cabinet of the Ministers ... more »
Honor Joe By Hearing His Story - No GMO For Joe Day
[image: Foto: "My story includes some things that might upset some people,
I’m sorry if it does, but it’s the truth. I am sharing some very personal
things with you because I am real and the effects of GMOs on my life have
been profound. If GMOs were labeled it might have saved my son’s life. It
all started about three years ago in the fall of 2010, around Thanksgiving,
when our son was 22 years old..." READ DIANE'S STORY:
http://scoopwithmysoup.com/about-me/ #NoGMOforJoe #gmo #labelgmos
#boycottgmos #bangmos #NeedToKnowGMO #ScoopWithMySoup #gmofreecanada
#gmofreeusa]
* About Me:... more »
John McCain explains everything wrong with U.S. foreign policy
Senator John McCain, perhaps the most traitorous, Jew-loving criminal
"representing" the good people from the state of Arizona in the United
States Senate, explained *everything wrong* with American foreign policy
during his recent speech to the *2014 AIPAC Policy Conference*:
*“So, with you my friends, I see Americans who want our country to be
engaged in events beyond our borders, I see Americans who want an
internationalist foreign policy, I see Americans who want our country to
stand with Israel and our other partners, I see Americans who are willing
to spend their hard earned... more »
Untitled
*Is global warming killing the oysters and other shellfish?*
*Oyster die offs in the West coasts of the USA and Canada have been in the
news for some time now. The latest story below. The claim that the
die-offs are due to ocean acidity caused by global warming is absurd for a
number of reasons so just some comments received from Lord Monckton:"There
are two knockdown arguments against ocean "acidification". The first is
that notwithstanding CO2 concentrations many times higher than today's, the
oceans have remained pronouncedly alkaline for 540 million years (with the
exce... more »
RT Presenter Challenges Russian Foreign Policy, Keeps Job
Another PR coup outflanks decrepit Western "world order."
*March 5, 2014* (LD - Tony Cartalucci) - The BBC was busy attempting to
spin an incident in which Russia's RT presenter Abby Martin directly
challenged Russian foreign policy on-air during her outspoken program,
"Breaking the Set." Ms. Martin was neither reprimanded nor threatened with
dismissal, with RT officially stating that their editorial policy includes
the free expression of their presenters both privately and on the air.
The BBC's article "Russia TV host calls Ukraine intervention 'wrong' on-air,"
comes while the ... more »
EU-Russian Energy Relations; Former U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania Keith Smith On The Energy Situation In EU And Ukraine; The Russian Perspective
*1. Excerpts from, "Global Insider: Russia’s Energy Leverage Over Europe,
Ukraine Considerably Diminished" Global Insider, March 4:*
Russia’s military and diplomatic opposition to the overthrow of former
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has raised concern that Russia might
cut off Ukraine’s gas as it has in previous disputes, disrupting broader
European energy markets. In an email interview, Keith Smith, a former U.S.
ambassador to Lithuania who is currently a distinguished resident fellow at
the Center for European Policy Analysis, explained how Russia’s leverage
over energ... more »
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