English: City of Tuscaloosa. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Photograph of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Socks the Cat: 12/13/1995 (Photo credit: The U.S. National Archives)
English: The Bama Belle Riverboat in Tuscaloosa, AL. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Lake Tuscaloosa in Tuscaloosa, AL. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)A N A M N E S I A ( a loss of forgetfulness )
ANAMNESIA : a loss of forgetfulness from StrangeLoop on Vimeo.
A N A M N E S I A
( a loss of forgetfulness )
for the interactive net-narrative visit :
www.anamnesia.net
a TeachingMachine production
in association with the Institute for Cinema Studies
presented by Brainfeeder
director / animator
David Wexler ( Strangeloop )
assistant director
Micah Nelson
producer
Jake Bloch
executive producer
Wai Trask
story by
Strangeloop and Darryl Cobb
*with a special acknowledgement to Leigh J. McCloskey
string compositions and arrangements
Gavin Gamboa and Jake Bloch
sound design
MonoPo... more »
Ontario Budget
Would raise the income eligibility threshold for legal aid services to
allow an additional one million low-income Ontarians to be able to find a
lawyer
Why not visit Tuscaloosa?
*THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014*
*We find those photos pleasing:* Tomorrow, we plan to resume our series of
posts about the Tuscaloosa schools.
In the meantime, why not visit Tuscaloosa itself?
In yesterday's installment, we linked you to photos of black and white kids
together in the Tuscaloosa schools (city and surrounding county). We think
those photos are pleasing.
We’re glad those Alabama kids are getting that kind of experience. We’re
grateful to the many people who are making those schools function. And of
course, we believe in those kids.
Do you have some other suggestion? Aside f... more »
Fake "Moderate" Republicans Like Susan Collins Defeated The Minimum Wage Increase-- What Next?
The vote yesterday to shut down the Republican Party filibuster of the
minimum wage bill ended badly, 54 in favor, 41 opposed (not counting Harry
Reid who had to switch his vote to oppose so he can bring the bill up again
later). It needed 60 votes to overcome the filibuster. Five votes shy. The
only Republican to cross the aisle and vote with the Democrats was Bob
Corker of Tennessee, meaning Susan Collins (R-ME), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Dean
Heller (R-NV), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Rob Portman (R-OH) weren't in the
moderate mood yesterday or are perhaps never in the moderate mood on
... more »
Harper Conservatives REFUSE Inquiry Into RCMP Report Of 1000 Murdered And Missing Aboriginal Women In Canada
*Call it what you like. I call it what it is ..... racism.*
*"OTTAWA - The Conservative government is resisting renewed calls for an
inquiry into murdered and missing aboriginal women and girls despite a
media report that suggests there may be hundreds more cases than previously
thought.*
*Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney was asked Thursday to finally call a
inquiry in light of a report by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
that Canada may be home to more than 1,000 cases of murdered and missing
women.*
*His answer, in short: no*
Montreal Gazette
Natives get restless RE Hillary Clinton!
*THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014*
*Collins and Chozick start up:* We’ll admit it. We can’t quite believe that
Hillary Clinton could win in 2016.
We’re not saying she *can’t* win, since she certainly can. We’re saying we
have our nagging doubts.
If you watch MSNBC, you’re being propagandized differently. A few weeks
ago, the children filled your heads with sugarplums about how far Clinton
is ahead of leading Republicans.
Joy Reid pleasured us rubes while guest hosting at Hardball. We were struck
by how *small* Clinton’s margins were:
REID (4/16/14): We’ve got new polling on possible preside... more »
Recommended reading
BBC Watch has posted a series of articles forensically deconstructing Jeremy
Bowen’s recent series of reports about the expiration of the Middle East
‘peace deadline’, Mahmoud Abbas’s joint venture with Hamas and John Kerry’s
clumsy remarks about Israel and apartheid.
The latest post reveals some relevant background (which Bowen’s reporting
conceals) surrounding the ‘man-in-a-cave’ broadcast, in which a Palestinian
man is presented to us as a helpless victim of Israeli racism, when in fact
Khaled al-Zeer is a known agitator with a criminal record. There’s a
pattern here, the BBC tak... more »
More Competition
Steve Cecchetti and Kim Schoenholtz are blogging, mainly on issues related
to money and banking.
The blog seems meant to complement and promote their textbook. Who would
ever think to use a blog for such a purpose?
The EU's 20 absurdities: a poll
Around May 24th, the citizens of EU countries will vote deputies to the
European Parliament. This "parliament" isn't terribly important – for
example, it is not allowed to propose any legislation (it is the only
"parliament" in the world with this minor defect) but we may still think
that it's important that the right people will be able to speak on that
forum.
Various parties opposing the creeping European unifications are expected to
make a strong showing. It's very likely that I will vote the Euro-skeptical
"Party of Free Citizens [SSO]" for the first time because I am obviousl... more »
BBC Trending
A new-to-me category of the online BBC website is titled “BBC Trending” This
article looks like little more than a gratuitous attempt to garner and
gloat over the Israel-bashing and holocaust-denigrating comments that are
bound to follow barely hidden under a threadbare cloak of *innocent face*
concerned ‘inquiry’. Creepy and mischievous. The comments below the line
illustrate the inevitable.
“ *Who is too young to learn about the horrors of the Holocaust? A new law
in Israel means kindergarten children will be taught about the Nazi
genocide for the first time, triggering an acer... more »
Ottawa's 1.2 million requests for private information from telecommunications companies
If this does not upset you then I don't know what will. Harper regime is
watching you.
How to Get Internet Service in Aouchtam Morocco
As many of you know Aouchtam sits in a steep valley and has really poor
cell and 3G data reception because there is no local Moroc Telecom cell
tower, the nearest ones are near Oued Laou and Amsa which are a few
kilometers away. The Internet issue is problem for all the bloggers
currently here.
I wish I could take credit for this idea but it was suggested by our
resident Russian engineer Levon... I love the way Russian's think! But I
did build it and test it out and it does indeed work well!
Basically its a D-LINK 3G router available at Marjane in Morocco (the
Walmart of Morocc... more »
Ineffective assistance of counsel
*R. v. Zheng,* 2014 ONCA 345:
[22] In *R v. Archer*, (2005) 293 O.A.C. 56, at paras. 119-21, this
Court summarized the principles relating to an appellate court’s analysis
of a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. The appellant must
demonstrate: (i) that the material facts in support of the claim have been
established on a balance of probabilities, where those facts are contested;
(ii) that counsel’s acts or omissions amounted to incompetence; and (iii)
that counsel’s ineffective representation caused a miscarriage of justice.
Trial counsel’s performance at trial is ... more »
anti-Soviet ops heating up for the cold war
Things are heating up in the Crimea - now that it is part of Russia, the
New York Times is writing about how bad it is since a Ukranian was not able
to get good service at the consulate. As if after the US 'annexing' Iraq
and Afghanistan the natives were able to get any service at all anywhere...
So Professor Cohen at NYU is now telling us we are in the middle of a cold
war.
Cold wars seem to go all over the globe...they include media wars and trade
wars, with a umber of Soviets now blacklisted from the US and US citizens
barred from doing business with them.
And in all Soviet frien... more »
METRO | Lamar W. Hankins : Rick Perry investigation may have legs
Did Governor Perry try to strong-arm Rosemary Lehmberg into resigning? Upon
reflection, some of the criminal complaints against Perry may have a
legitimate basis. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | May 1, 2014 When
they were first … finish reading *METRO* | Lamar W. Hankins : Rick Perry
investigation may have legs
Eighty activists intercepted Russian tanker carrying first Arctic oil
Early
this morning, 80 activists intercepted a Russian oil tanker, delaying
it from docking in Rotterdam harbour. The tanker was carrying the very
first oil from icy Arctic waters.Among the activists were #Arctic30
members Sini, Faiza, Tomasz, Phil, Gizem, Pete and Anne Mie, who spent 2
months in a Russian prison last year following a peaceful protest at
the very same platform this oil came
Ukrainian Crisis Was Always About Containing Russia
A secret no more, NATO's continued existence is hegemonic in nature - its
meddling in Ukraine an act of war against Russia.
*Image: NATO expands. Who is the aggressor? **May 1, 2014 *(Tony Cartalucci
- LD) - To careful and honest observers of the events unfolding in Ukraine,
it was clear from the beginning that the US and EU through NATO were
creating unrest in an attempt to foster regime change in Kiev. They had
done so already, admittedly according to the Guardian which would admit in
its 2004 article, “US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev,” that:
*…while the gains of the oran... more »
Class Struggle as a Process of Production
I have just finished Michael Lebowitz's *Beyond 'Capital'*, which is a
truly extraordinary book. In lieu of a proper post this evening, here's a
small chunk.
Just as every activity of the worker alters her as a subject who enters
into all activities, similarly the process in which workers struggle for
themselves is also a process of production, a process of purposeful
activity in which they produce themselves in an altered way. They develop
new needs in struggle, an altered hierarchy of needs. Even though the needs
that they attempt to satisfy do not in themselves go beyond capital,... more »
MAY DAY: LET THE WORKERS BUILD RAIL
*Let the Workers Build Rail *
Let the workers build rail
and let their children have life
We need to transform
diversify
convert
swords into plowshares
it says so in a holy book
some call it the word of god
others say it just makes
good sense
better use of our resources
sitting on the train
gazing out the window
as the world passes by
I want to go back
to the way the good lord
made us
wise advice
swords into plowshares
In the present
the swords rule
the land is paved over
car parks
the earth cries out
for breath
we don't hear
our minds occupied
*$$$* and success
our hearts hard... more »
Rigging The System-- Our Congress In Action
If there's one lesson I'm getting out of the new Elizabeth Warren book, A
Fighting Chance, so far, it's that the system is rigged-- fixed against
ordinary Americas to favor economic and political elites. "Economic and
political elites"... where is the line that even differentiates them these
days? In an essay Bob Borosage wrote for Truthout, Corporate Tax Breaks:
How Congress Rigs The Rules, he starts with a quote from Warren:
*The game is rigged and the American people know that. They get it right
down to their toes.*
Most people may roll their eyes when they hear a phrase like "... more »
The look of a racial pseudo-discussion!
*THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014*
*When experts pretend to discuss:* What do pseudo-discussions look like?
Consider the pseudo-discussion of the term “Uncle Tom” on Don Lemon’s CNN
program last night.
Last weekend, Rep. Bennie Thompson dropped the UT-bomb on Clarence Thomas.
He then defended his use of the term to CNN’s Dana Bash, who didn't seem to
know how to question him about it.
(Basic question: Are such insults OK? As always, opinions may differ.)
Was it OK to drop that bomb? Last night, Professor Ogletree offered this
analysis:
OGLETREE (4/30/14): I'm a good friend of Bennie Thomps... more »
what i'm reading: what's a dog for by john homans
John Homans' *What's a Dog For? The Surprising History, Science,
Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend* is my kind of dog book. I
don't care for memoirs of heartwarming doggie hijinks or heartbreaking
rescue odysseys. I've lived those stories myself, and books of that sort
don't advance my knowledge of the species I've shared most of my life with.
I am endlessly fascinated by canine behaviour - by what we know, and don't
know, about dogs. So is John Homans. Homans is the executive editor of New
York magazine, and before he adopted his lab-mix Stella, was a relative
novice a... more »
Almost Half of Worcester Central School Students Refuse State Tests
from the Times Journal:
Jim Poole
*4/30/2014*
Nearly half the students at Worcester Central School refused to take
mandated tests in third through eighth grades.
Thanks to a concerted social media effort, 45 percent of the
students--maybe the highest percentage in the state--opted out of the
English Language Arts and math tests.
Repercussions for the school lie in the future and are unclear, according
to Superintendent Bill Diamond.
Fed up with mandates and standardized tests, Stacy Serdy, the mother of
three elementary students, led the social media efforts.
"It really has ... more »
The one hundred and eighty ninth weekly "No shit Sherlock" award
The Commentator reveals that 'Leaked documents reveal Tory spinners in
intensive anti-UKIP media briefings - The Commentator.
No shit, Sherlock.
TRUTHOUT: Taking Back Cinco
TAKING BACK CINCO:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23422-taking-back-cinco
Thursday, 01 May 2014 09:26
By Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Truthout | Op ED
From no acknowledgment at all, to a proud celebration of "Mexican-ness," to
a commercialized beerfest, Cinco de Mayo has seen many transformations in
the last half-century. It is time to transform it again and recover meaning.
I grew up before Cinco de Mayo was celebrated in this country. I grew up at
a time when Cinco de Mayo became a day that celebrated a victory (May 5,
1862) by an underdog, a ragtag Mexican army that repelled ... more »
May Day Mayday
The best part about May 1st is that the April 30th midnight deadline for
more annoying-than-usual Democratic fund-raising has passed. Here's a
typical example, titled "Crumbling Down" --
Karen:
The FEC deadline at midnight is a big deal.
If we don't meet our goal, we will fall behind.* If we fall behind, we risk
our work crumbling down because the Koch brothers' chosen candidates will
walk into office.*
We can't afford to let these guys to win. We have to fight back.
*If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your
donation will go through immediately:*
*Expres... more »
The Art of Removing the Rotten Core
Coming on the heels of the rapacious profiteering and privatizing scheme of
NCLB, and designed in the dark by a tiny team of technocrats led by the
prissy Platonist, David Coleman, the Common Core was doomed from the start.
Designed, without doubt, to be the testing delivery system to guarantee
another generation of harder tests and more school meltdowns and subsequent
takeovers, the arrogant education antiquarians in charge of CorpEd's
strategies seriously under-estimated the wrath and power of parents,
teachers, students, and the man on the street. The fight, for sure, is not
o... more »
EYES OFF THE PRIZE: Where in the world was the so-called press?
*THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014*
*Part 3—Ostracizing the blowhard:* In this morning’s Washington Post, E. J.
Dionne—a very careful person—offers some pleasing pabulum.
Dionne offers some pleasing pap about the recent conduct of NBA players. As
he closes, he ladles this spoonload of porridge:
DIONNE (5/1/14): The NBA players showed how possessing real power can bring
about change within a few media cycles. Their voices would be welcomed by
those trying to stop efforts to rob rank-and-file African Americans and
others with low incomes of democracy’s most fundamental right.
*It’s nice that Oba... more »
May 1: Today, we have the comment of the century.
The only story in Section A worth reading - and even that only for a sort
of bitter amusement - is "Tories set to tackle spending:: premier". Wow!
The Flash in person.
It took him four years to recognize there is a problem - and it's a
problem New Brunswick has had for a very, very long time. And he's going
to do something about it. Yep. He's going to order cabinet ministers to
stay within their budgets. Well, that should wrap it up.
The problem is that neither he nor Mr. Gallant has given the slightest
indication of any understanding what has caused our economic problem in the
fi... more »
You can get anything you want
By Capt. Fogg
You hear a lot about "enlightened self-interest" and mostly from people who
think Ayn Rand's fiction illustrates a paved path to a better world. Of
course I can't argue against enlightenment in principle or against the fact
that as living beings we must put self-interest on a high plane. My problem
though, is with the slipperiness of the term. In general it resembles
self-interest wearing a nice Sunday suit, but everyone has his own ideas,
from the ascetic practicing Ahimsa, to the libertine, to the employer or
Investor amassing wealth. It's hard to pin down, but you... more »
The Mystery Of Malaysian Flight MH370's Disappearance Continues: Jim Stone's Flight 370 Summary Report
Over 55 days now, and the trolls, liars, and misfits in our so called
"mainstream media" are continuing their lies and deceptions about Malaysian
flight MH370's "mysterious" disappearance... They continue to promote the
LIES that this aircraft turned southward after definitely turning west
towards the US military installation at Diego Garcia, and are still
parroting the laughable fraud that the aircraft "crashed" in the Indian
Ocean off the coast of Australia in very deep water.....I have long given
up on these clowns and their lying BS, for we all know the truth now that
this aircr... more »
To wax or not to wax, that is the question
The subject o body hair seems to becoming more and more of an issue as the
relatively recent supremacy of the waxed female body is challenged.
A film 'Secret Garden' examines the issue, here's a preview
Meanwhile The Mirror is shocked by the display of female body hair, as the
headline reveals:
'Madonna's not the only one to flaunt hairy armpits - here's more famous
faces who forgot to shave'
Here's that shocking Madonna image...
Gosh! I'm lost for words. Don't The Mirror's 3AM team ever see real women?
It's interesting that The Mirror believes that women must have forgotten to
... more »
Revisiting James Baldwin’s “Black English”
Revisiting James Baldwin’s “Black English”. via Revisiting James Baldwin’s
“Black English”.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
Very Important Video: The (US) Federal Reserve Explained In 7 Minutes
The United States of America is entering its final stages before it
collapses... It can no longer project the power it once did across the
globe, and the nation is now one of destitution, ruination, and poverty...
That sadly is fact.... The other fact is that most of the American people,
who I have always admired for decades, are totally unaware of their
upcoming demise... I have said it before that many will wake up one day
with their economy collapsed and their nation in ruins, and only then will
they be asking: "What the HELL just happened"... At that point it will be
too late to... more »
Plaintain: This Little Weed Is One Of The Most Useful Medicines On The Planet by Jess Smith
[image: not weed weed]This Little Weed is one of the Most Useful Medicines
on the Planet
by Jess Smith
You’ve stepped on it, ignored it, and tried to eradicate it from your lawn.
However, this innocuous little weed is one of the most useful medicines on
the planet, just begging to be harvested.
There are two major types of plantain in BC, Canada: Lance and Broadleaf.
Generally, all 200-plus varieties of plantain yield the same results. It
grows especially well in poor, rocky soil (such as driveways) and is often
seen alongside dandelion. More often than not, you will see plantain
... more »
The Global Warming Fraud: The Deadly Diesel Deception
The Global Warming scare is a massive hoax and swindle..... Right now we
are watching as our planet is going through a natural cooling phase due to
diminished solar radiation output from our Yellow Dwarf star, Sol.... This
is a natural cycle that has gone on for billions of years..... But the
fraudsters and hucksters behind the Global Warming fraud are still pushing
their criminal agenda forward and are right now trying to convince our
governments to fleece their own citizens with more taxation through the
scam of "carbon taxes" to "curb Carbon Dioxide emissions"...
For this artic... more »
Urban Nomad Film Festival May 9-18th
In the coming week; from May 9th up till May 18th, the Urban Nomad 2014
Film Festival will be running at the Lux Cinema in the Ximen area.
This has a whole slew of 21 documentaries and films with something for
everyone's taste.
Go to www.urbannomad.tw for full schedule
also found at urbannomad.blogspot.tw
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*Deal would derail coastal lawsuit ~Mark Ballard, New Orleans Advocate*
*Prospective St. Roch Market tenants say city too slow to act ~WWLTV *
*I-Team: Perricone, Mann surrender federal licenses ~WDSU*
*Lee Zurik Investigation: Questions abound in Alario's campaign spending
reports ~WVUE*
*Art at the intersection ~Sharon Litwin, NolaVie*
*Fruit-based drink gives entertaining, healthy alternative ~Keyle Peveto*
Rob fucking Ford
Busy day, as par yooshoo-al. But I can't resist typing something about the
cretinous poster-boy for right-wing failure; Rob Ford.
It's in all the papers, yeez can read about it yerselves if you haven't
already. Rob Ford was supposedly smoking crack about last weekend at his
sister's place. And he was drunk and belligerent in public last Monday.
There's a video for the crack smoking and audio of the drinking.
Oh, and "Ford Nation"? Any statements you make about his economic
achievements and how they outweigh his gigantic hypocrisy and obnoxiousness
just show you for the deluded ignor... more »
British Healthcare Fact of the Day
"In Britain, even though they're already paying for the National Health
Service, six million Brits—two-thirds of citizens earning more than
$78,700—now buy private health insurance. Meanwhile, more than 50,000
travel out of the U.K. annually, spending more than $250 million, to
receive treatment more readily than they can at home."
Source.
Discussing Research Methodology with the Gates Foundation
Rick Hess, in “A Small Request for My Friends at Gates,” was kind enough to
urge the Gates Foundation to consider three of my research proposals. Rick
Cantrell, the Senior Program Officer for Research and Data, responded to
Rick’s post. Dr. Cantrell and I talked for nearly 1-1/2 hours. I would
again like to thank […]
Donald Sterling: It's Not Just The Racism... It's The Grotesque And Oppressive Nature Of Economic Inequality Writ Large
Sterling's wife, Rochelle, is suing his girlfriend, V. Stiviano, claiming
she received more than $2.5 million in lavish gifts from the Clippers
owner, including a $1.8 million duplex, a Ferrari, two Bentleys and a Range
Rover
You've probably read a *lot* more about Republican Donald Sterling than you
have about Dr. Gloria Bromell Tinubu, the Democratic nominee for SC-07.
That's the way the media works. It's a big deal that Sterling, a lifelong
racist and sociopathic bigot, is barred from even *attending* an NBA
game... for life. It looks like at least three teams nudged the NBA into... more »
Bring back firing squads?
From The Plague, by Albert Camus:
"Have you ever seen a man shot by a firing squad? No, of course not; the
spectators are hand-picked and it's like a private party, you need an
invitation. The result is that you've gleaned your ideas about it from
books and pictures. A post, a blindfolded man, some soldiers in the offing.
But the real isn't a bit like that. Do you know that the firing-squad
stands only a yard and a half from the condemned man? Do you know that if
the victim took two steps forward his chest would touch the rifles? Do you
know that, at this short range, the soldiers... more »
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*GOP's Common Core Re-brand Hustle*
By Michelle Malkin
This weekend on "Fox News Sunday," anchor Chris Wallace credited his guest,
Republican Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, with leading the nation as the "first
state to fall out of the Common Core national education standards." If only
it were true.
Wallace didn't do his homework. And presidential aspirant Pence was too
busy daydreaming about 2016 to correct him.
Reality check: Last week, Pence faced the anger of hundreds of Indiana
parents, educators and activists at a public Indiana Business Roundtable
meeting to discuss his phony ch... more »
Labour Racketeering
There has been a lot of sound and fury of late about the Temporary Foreign
Workers Program. Terry Glavin writes that the program was set up in 1974 to
ease bottlenecks in the labour markets.
But, in 2002, the Chretien government instituted the "Pilot Project for
Hiring Foreign Workers in Occupations that Require Lower Levels of Formal
Training." That is when the train went off the rails. And, under Stephen
Harper, the Pilot Project became official government policy:
Just how many guest workers are we talking about anyway? The numbers appear
to be far, far larger than is generally... more »
We need to vote out NC ALEC Legislators
Saw this tweet last night and thought - well...
ask and you shall receive
More garbage for public schools in North Carolina. We need to vote out all
of the #ALEC legislators http://t.co/JbHkUOxopV #ncpol
— Eric Bracke (@EricCBracke) April 30, 2014
But remember - this is only a partial list because
ALECers hide their membership - because they know what they are doing is
wrong and they are ashamed.
Really - get rid of these slimeballs that belong to the extremist,
pro-corporate American Legislative Exchange Council.
*North Carolina - Past and Present*
Austin Allran NC Tom Apodaca... more »
Syria Updates May 1 , 2014 --- Various updates regarding the ongoing Syria Wars , One pitting the Government vs against insurgents / jihadists / mercenaries - and their funding sources and freedom fighters , the other ongoing War is internal among the various insurgents / jihadists / mercenaries and their funding sources and freedom fighters ...... news on the political fronts - domestic and international ......
Syria ......
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/05/al_qaeda_in_kurdista.php
'Al Qaeda in Kurdistan' breaks ranks with ISIS over Syria
By BILL ROGGIOMay 1, 2014
A group calling itself "al Qaeda in Kurdistan" sided with al Qaeda's emir
against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in the ongoing dispute over
control of the jihad in Syria. In doing so, the group also renewed its
pledge of "allegiance" to Ayman al Zawahiri and Mullah Mohammad Omar, the
leader of the Afghan Taliban, and said it would fight the ISIS if needed.
Al Qaeda in Kurdistan released its statement on ... more »
Can't John Kerry Just Shut the Hell Up?
Secretary of State John F. Kerry is off the chain, continuing to spew so
many allegations without proof that he could be a permanent replacement for
the blowhard Congressman Mike Rogers on the Sunday morning 'news' show
circuit. It is pretty obvious by now that the neocons best laid plans to
stick it to Vladimir Putin by launching a coup in Kiev while the Russian
leader was distracted by the Sochi Olympics has gone up like a bag of
flaming dogshit. The US-EU-NATO debacle in Ukraine has all of the hallmarks
of a neoconservative foreign policy misadventure and is going swimmingly,
l... more »
The Limits of Self-defense, the Threat of Violent Right-wing Extremism and the Job of Leviathan
One night, I'm being attacked in my home by a right wing extremist
neighbour, who doesn't like the anti-racism slogan on my door. He catches
me by surprise when I come home from this evening's grocery shopping and,
armed with a stick and bottle, he forces himself into my hall as I unlock
and open my door. Inside, he starts to push me further in, yelling violent
threats and hitting me. But I manage to regain the initiative, because a
friend of mine is sitting in my living room, waiting for me to return, for
us to prepare some dinner together, and when she joins me, we outnumber the
e... more »
Six string pheno papers
*It's the first of May:* time to read the Czech children's most memorized
poem, Karel Hynek Mácha's romantic 1836 poem "Máj". Try the translation by Edith
Pargeter or James Naughton or the translation to some other languages(including some audios).
May Day turned out to be a busy day on the arXiv, especially when it comes
to papers on string (and string-inspired) phenomenology. I will briefly
mention six papers, including three articles on string inflation.
First, Savas Dimopoulos, Kiel Howe, and John March-Russell of
Stanford-Oxford (a perfect rhyme, indeed) wrote about
Maximally... more »
Notes from the Road: Some Observations about What is Wrong with the Good Fight
by Doug Martin
During my talk recently to the Southeast Education Task Force in
Indianapolis, a member of the Indiana Department of Education said there
wasn’t a manufactured crisis in education, that our kids were indeed, many
of them, failing. She quoted some Ph.D who appeared with Condi Rice
recently, the former Bush official who has a Exxon tankernamed after her
and helped the profiteers handsomely by sending our kids off to a war in
Iraq to die along the side of the road. Luckily, John Harris Loflin, a
social justice activist in Indy, responded, pointing out that measuring
... more »
Musical Interlude: Era, “Avetino”
Era, “Avetino”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGSek7n9kS8
Five Most Popular Posts for April
The five most popular posts of the month were:
1. A Defence of the SWP
2. UKIP's Turn to the Workers
3. What is Len McCluskey Trying to Achieve?
4. Peaches Geldof and Celebrity
5. UKIP, Politics and Populism
That hundreds and hundreds and hundreds flock to read stuff about the SWP
never ceases to amaze me. What is it about our movement that causes
disproportionate numbers of fine activists, socialists and not a few
keyboard class warriors to pour over what is a diminutive and rapidly
diminishing political party? It would take me a while with my finest
sociology hat on to come up wit... more »
Happy May Day 2014
May Day. Also known as Labour Day.
In many countries, May Day is also Labor Day. This originates with the
United States labor movement in the late 19th Century. On May 1, 1886,
unions across the country went on strike, demanding that the standard
workday be shortened to eight hours. The organizers of these strikes
included socialists, anarchists, and others in organized labor movements. Rioting
in Chicago's Haymarket Square on May 4th including a bomb thrown by an
anarchist led to the deaths of a dozen people (including several police
officers) and the injury of over 100 more.
... more »
Turkey's Whirling Dervishes - Why did modern dance lose its spin?
everything in this universe spins, or has spin, and I was wondering when
the act of dancing lost its spin factor.
Look at kids when they do the happy dance, what do they do? Spin, on the
spot or in groups. Spinning (and laughing) is a natural part of what Nature
is. But apart from the recent break-dancing (back-spinning craze), these
days, dancing is a one-plane stepping ritual, usually guarding a hand bag
on the dance floor. You move from one side to the other, stepping with your
left foot, then stepping with your right foot. Sometimes there's a flip, a
hand clap or a turn.
Bu... more »
KC-390 Prototype Final Assembly Underway At Embraer
[image: KC-390]Embraer will begin final assembly of the first KC-390
multirole tanker transport at the end of April, marking a major milestone
in the Brazilian company’s ambitious plans to diversify into the military
airlifter market.
The fuselage, empennage and wing sections of the first aircraft are being
completed prior to assembly at a specially built production site at Gaviao
Peixoto, Embraer’s extensive test facility near Araraquara in south-central
Brazil.
The final body join, expected to take around three weeks, starts the clock
ticking on a fast-paced development-and-test... more »
Two new missile corvettes to join Russia's Caspian flotilla
[image: Buyan class FS]Russia's two newest missile corvettes, the Grad
Sviyazhsk and the Uglich, have successfully undergone navy sea trials and
will be assigned to the Caspian flotilla by July, a spokesman for the
Southern Military District said Wednesday.
"The two ships are due to join the Russian navy at the end of the first
half of 2014. Most likely, they will be assigned to the Caspian flotilla by
July 1," the spokesman said.
He added the pair will be the first Buyan-M-class corvettes to join the
Caspian flotilla.
Read more
Russia Starts Combat Helicopter Training Flights on Baltic Border
[image: Mi-28NE Havoc]A newly formed Russian army helicopter brigade has
begun training flights in the northwest of the country near the borders
with the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia, a spokesman for the Western
Military District said Wednesday.
“Helicopters of the army aviation brigade of the Western Military District,
based in the Pskov region, have begun regular training flights in the skies
over northwestern Russia,” Col. Oleg Kochetkov said.
Kochetkov said the flights involve dozens of Mi-28N Night Hunter and Ka-52
Alligator attack helicopters as well as Mi-8MTV-5 and Mi... more »
Push for Growler jets points to military growth despite spending cap
[image: EA-18G Growler]It wasn't looking good for the Growlers. The
Boeing-made fighter jets, used to jam enemy radar, were left out of the
Pentagon's budget for next year. And with spending strictly limited by a
budget cap, the plane seemed headed for extinction.
But in reality, the Growlers aren't dead yet. Like dozens of other
programs, the EA-18G Airborne Electric Attack Aircraft, as they're
officially known, have ended up on something called the "unfunded
priorities list," an inventory of what the Pentagon would like to buy if it
had several extra billion dollars to spend.
Sec... more »
Sweden appoints new Swiss ambassador amid fighter jet scandal
[image: JAS-39 Gripen]Sweden appointed a new ambassador to Switzerland
Wednesday, a day after a media report that the current envoy lobbied Swiss
parliamentarians to promote the sale of Swedish fighter jets.
The Swedish government denied any links between the replacement of Per
Thoeresson and the planned sale of 22 Gripen aircraft -- approved by the
Swiss parliament last year, but still pending a May 18 referendum on
financing.
"Everyone working at the (Swedish) foreign ministry is part of a rotation
system," foreign ministry spokeswoman Catalina Axelsson told AFP.
Read more
Nimitz sets sail for flight deck qualification
[image: USS Nimitz (CVN 68)]The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) got
underway April 28 for the first time since returning from a nine-month
deployment in December 2013.
Nimitz set sail for a routine flight deck certification. Completing flight
deck certification is essential in preserving the ship’s warfighting
capabilities.
“We are excited to get back to sea,” said Capt. Jeff Ruth, commanding
officer of Nimitz. “The crew has worked hard to maintain the ship since we
returned from deployment. We are motivated to get back out and make sure
our ability to launch and recover aircr... more »
Defence officials scramble to figure out details of military force heading to Europe
[image: HMCS Regina]Although Canada’s CF-18s are joining NATO units in what
the Conservative government says is a show of force over the crisis in
Ukraine, defence officials can’t yet say whether the warplanes are going to
be armed.
Clarity on Canada’s role in the crisis didn’t improve Wednesday with the
announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper that a Canadian frigate in
the Arabian Sea will join NATO maritime forces responding to the situation
in eastern Europe.
Department of National Defence officials couldn’t provide details such as
where the ship is headed and when it migh... more »
Frigate combat systems to be upgraded
[image: HMNZS Te Kaha]A Canadian company has won a large contract to
upgrade the combat systems on two New Zealand navy frigates.
The contract is worth $446,000 and will involve work on the radar, missile
and sonar systems on the HMNZS Te Kaha and HMNZS Te Mana.
The work will be carried out by Lockheed Martin Canada, and is due to begin
in 2016.
Read more
Philippine Navy eyes French frigates
[image: FS Prairial]Amid territorial disputes in the South China Sea, the
government is looking at French frigates for the Philippine Navy’s use.
Naval officials were given a tour yesterday of the French Navy’s
surveillance frigate Prairial – a 93.5-meter ship with both military and
civilian characteristics, making it ideal for multiple purposes including
disaster relief and other humanitarian missions, operations against piracy
and international drug trafficking, and territorial patrol.
The Prairial is one of two French warships deployed in the Pacific – one in
Tahiti and the other... more »
B&W Announces $195 Million in Naval Reactors Contracts and Orders
[image: USS George H.W. Bush]The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) announced
today that its subsidiary B&W Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. (B&W NOG) has
received contracts and orders from the U.S. Naval Reactors Program worth
approximately $195 million.
Four new incrementally funded contracts totaling $76.8 million were awarded
for engineering design, fabrication and further development work on the
Ohio-class submarine replacement program.
A new contract valued at $18.8 million was also awarded for disassembly and
recovery of highly enriched uranium materials in FY2014.
Read more
Western Military “Monitors” Turn Up in Eastern Ukraine
*May 1, 2014 *(Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Bloomberg reported in their
article, “Russia Faces More Sanctions as Monitors Held in Ukraine,” that:
*In Ukraine, pro-Russian militants yesterday captured a bus carrying
observers sent by member states of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, a 57-nation group that includes Russia and the U.S.
focusing on conflict prevention and preserving human rights, Ukraine’s
Interior Ministry said in a statement on its website. They were holding 13
people hostage in Slovyansk, it said. *
*The observers — who include four Germans and c... more »
Funding to Replace Nuclear Subs Up in the Air
[image: USS Main]A key U.S. House panel leader says Congress won’t create a
special funding stream for nuclear-armed submarines this year, but he
thinks the idea of bankrolling the vessels outside of the Navy’s strained
shipbuilding budget is almost certain in the long term.
Representative Randy Forbes (R-Va.) told reporters on Tuesday morning that
replacing today’s Ohio-class ballistic-missile vessels “is a national
strategic concern” that cannot be allowed to fall victim to an already
underfunded naval ship-procurement plan in coming decades.
That plan, by his estimates, is $4 bil... more »
Dhowan sharpens focus on undersea capabilities
[image: Scorpene class SSK]The navy appears to be focusing on efforts to
strengthen its undersea warfare capabilities to counter the rapid expansion
of China’s submarine fleet.
The main thrust of Admiral Robin Dhowan’s maiden visit to Vizag as navy
chief is expected to be the refit of an attack submarine leased from Russia
and deterrent patrols to be launched by India’s first nuclear-powered
ballistic missile submarine.
Dhowan’s two-day visit to the Vizag-based Eastern Naval Command (ENC) is
seen as significant as the nuclear-powered submarine, INS Chakra, is set
for a three-month... more »
Untitled
*Did global warming cause the tragedy on Everest?*
*This is so brain-dead as not really to deserve reply but maybe I should
nonetheless point out the obvious. Since there has been no global warming
for 17 years, any recent warming in the Himalayas can only be due to local
changes, not global ones. At any one time glaciers across the world are
both retreating and advancing due to local effects -- mostly changes in
precipitation. Geoffrey Lean is an old Greenie propagandist from way back
so the fact that he felt the need to write the tosh below shows how
desperate the Warmists n... more »
Drift Away
"*Day after day I`m more confused, yet I look for the light through the
pouring rain"....*
Don`t have much to say as of late, shaking my head wondering why, wondering
why our media has turned into simple minded repeat after Simon, 200 plus
members of the BC Liberal spin/ communications gang, also known as Simons,
well, at least as far as our cowardly media is concerned they are Simons,
....Simon says...
And like trained seals they flap their flippers, begging for Simon to
handfeed them herring, doesn`t anger me anymore it saddens me..Keith
Baldrey is the epitome of a social and ... more »
Musical Interlude: Constance Demby, "Ocean Without Shores"
Constance Demby, "Ocean Without Shores"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl1Pn-KrvGA&html5=1
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new
light would have suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a
few weeks. Today we know this light was from a supernova, or exploding
star, and record the expanding debris cloud as the Veil Nebula, a supernova
remnant. This sharp telescopic view is centered on a western segment of the
Veil Nebula cataloged as NGC 6960 but less formally known as the Witch's
Broom Nebula. Blasted out in the cataclysmic explosion, the interstellar
shock wave plows through space sweeping up and exciting interstellar
ma... more »
"After A Time..."
“After a time, you may find that *having* is not so pleasing a thing,
after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.”
- Mr. Spock, “Star Trek”, "Amok Time"
Chet Raymo, “The Sadist Next Door”
* “The Sadist Next Door”*
by Chet Raymo
“The current TLS (“Times Literary Supplement”) has an absorbing review of
American Historian Joel Harrington's book on the manuscript diary of a
16th-century German executioner, Franz Schmidt of Nuremberg. Remarkably,
Schmidt kept a full record of the criminals he executed, the crimes they
perpetrated, and the gruesome ways they met their fate. It is a tale that
would chill most 21st-century readers.
Hangings, beheadings, burnings at the stake, and breakings with the wheel.
In the latter custom, a heavy cartwheel is dropped onto the person to... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Hulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia. Thanks for stopping by.
"Never Alone..."
"On this earth as beyond this earth you never are alone,
But are in constant company of things and beings
That take a share in your life as you take a share in theirs.
As you seek them, so they seek you.
As you partake of them, so they partake of you."
- Rumi, “The Book of Mirdad”
“Creationists Hit the Panic Button After Neil DeGrasse Tyson Demolishes Their Myth That the Universe Is 6,000 Years Old”
*“Creationists Hit the Panic Button After Neil DeGrasse Tyson*
* Demolishes Their Myth That the Universe Is 6,000 Years Old”*
By Dan Arel
"Creationists find evolution so offensive that this week they attacked Neil
deGrasse Tyson and his show "Cosmos" over the claim that stars evolved and
created life as we know it. In episode 8 titled, "Sisters of the Sun,"
Tyson highlighted the stellar evolution and explained in detail the life
and death of stars.
Of course creationists take issue with stars that are scientifically proven
to be billions of years old. The creationist website that's... more »
Beignets and Growth Charts
So many great projects and recipes have been linked up and we really can’t
wait to see what you’ve got to share today. This party is being hosted by
Debra from Housewife Eclectic.
[image: You're invited header 2]This last month has been a crazy one for
me. I am actually cuddling a five day old baby as I write this. My favorite
posts this last month included tulle fairy wands and absolutely delicious
beignets. You can find the links for them below.
Getting To Know You Questions with Apothecary Jars // Man Catching Beignets//
Tulle Fairy Wands
I loved everything that was linked up last... more »
2013 Film Roundup, Part 3: Noteworthy Films
(The
annual post-Oscar film roundup is a pre-blog tradition, but was greatly
delayed this round. It comes in four parts. In addition to this
section, there's "The Oscars and the Year in Review," "The Top Six" and
"The Rest (The Good, the Bad and the Godawful)."
Gravity: The best spectacle-popcorn movie of the year boasts innovative,
dizzyingly kinetic camerawork for a story of survival
2013 Film Roundup, Part 4: The Rest (The Good, the Bad and the Godawful)
(The
annual post-Oscar film roundup is a pre-blog tradition, but was greatly
delayed this round. It comes in four parts. In addition to this
section, there's "The Oscars and the Year in Review," "The Top Six" and
"Noteworthy Films.")
Monsters University: Pixar's prequel to Monsters, Inc. isn't as good as
the studio's masterpieces, but that's a high bar, and it's certainly an
enjoyable flick.
Hours
I didn't really need Stats Canada to tell me about this but it was still
interesting to see actual numbers. Yes, on average, Albertans work more
hours per week than anywhere else in Canada. What did surprise me was the
figure of 32.1 hours per week as I thought it would be higher. No doubt
this is because living where I do, long hours by Canadian standards are
just par for the course. It would be interesting to see what the Alberta
average is with Fort McMurray taken out of the equation.
I recall one of my foremen telling me just a few weeks back about a fellow
he knew who w... more »
Mayday, Mayday!
*“When, at the age of twelve, at the time of the Russian revolution, I
first heard the Communist principle that Man must exist for the sake of the
State, I perceived that this was the essential issue, that this principle
was evil, and that it could lead to nothing but evil, regardless of any
methods, details, decrees, policies, promises and pious platitudes. This
was the reason for my opposition to Communism then— and it is my reason
now. I am still a little astonished, at times, that too many [adults] do
not understand the nature of the fight against Communism as clearly... more »
Video Indigenous Youths Collective Resistance 'Reject and Protect' from Keystone!
.
Published on Apr 29, 2014
Indigenous youth and leaders from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, the
Ponca Nation, and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation speak to their
visions and their work. From connecting with the land, to replanting
sacred corn, to building energy sovereignty. Their collective resistance
to the Keystone XL Pipeline and the Tarsands brought them all together
at the
Koch Brothers War Against America Suffers A Set Back In The Supreme Court
Clean air-- clearly a Marxist plot against the esteemed Koch borthers
The *NY Times* called it "a major victory for the Obama administration" but
the 6-2 ruling by the Supreme Court yesterday to allow the EPA to regulate
the smog from coal plants that drifts across state lines from 28 Midwestern
and Appalachian states to the East Coast was a victory for the American
people first and foremost. And no one is more incensed than the Koch
brothers! "Republicans and the coal industry," asserted the *Times*, "have
criticized the regulations, which use the Clean Air Act as their legal
author... more »
2013 Film Roundup, Part 2: The Top Six
(The
annual post-Oscar film roundup is a pre-blog tradition, but was greatly
delayed this round. It comes in four parts. In addition to this
section, there's "The Oscars and the Year in Review," "Noteworthy Films"
and "The Rest (The Good, the Bad and the Godawful)."
12 Years a Slave: A powerful, moving piece, 12 Years a Slave is a
relatively faithful adaptation of Solomon Northup's memoir
While Ukraine , Donald Sterling , Malaysia Flight 370 glom headlines , quietly Asia is sending out distress signals ........chinese currency falls to 18 month lows , China PMI and Aussie PMI data very disappointing !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-30/chinese-currency-collapses-18-month-lows-nears-pboc-limits
Chinese Currency Collapses To 18-Month Lows; Nears PBOC Limits
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/30/2014 22:32 -0400
- China
- Morgan Stanley
- Volatility
- Yuan
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After widening its tolerance for real world volatility mid-March, the PBOC
has faced a daily battering of USD buyers and CNY sellers which have driven
the *Chinese currency to its weakest level in over 18 months*. However,
things are starting to become problematic.... more »
What if the standardized tests were wrong? (A thought experiment)
Prologue: What if, following the end of slavery with the Emancipation
Proclamation, formerly enslaved black and brown people created an amazing
resurgence of economic, educational and political successes? (They did).
Would the elite in power squelch that budding success with New Jim Crow
laws? And, what if to counter the gross systemic and violent inequities
created […]
John Kane, Mohawk: 'No Honor Among Chiefs or Thieves'
No
Honor Among Chiefs or Thieves
By John Karhiio Kane, Mohawk
Censored News
I have to begin my column this week by stating up front that I am
Haudenosaunee. I support traditional governance based on the
Kaianerehkowa and a culture grounded with the Ohenton Karihwatehkwen
(Words Before All Else) and the Tiohateh (the Two Row Wampum). I must
emphasize that it is traditional governance I
Putin brushes off US and EU's latest sanction on April 29 - 30 , 2014 -- Putin Questions US Motivation Over Sanctions; Reconsiders Western Company Energy Deals ...... apart from brushing of the latest brushback pitches from the West , Russia tightens ties with China , Iran , Qatar and Bahrain !
Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-29/putin-questions-us-motivation-over-sanctions-reconsiders-western-company-energy-deal
Putin Questions US Motivation Over Sanctions; Reconsiders Western Company
Energy Deals
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/29/2014 15:23 -0400
- Eastern Europe
- European Union
- Ukraine
- Vladimir Putin
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Having been quiet all day, Vladimir Putin chose just before 330 on a
Tuesday to respond to US and EU sanctions:
- **PUTIN: U.S., EU SEEKING TO BLAME RUSSIA FOR UKRAINE CRISIS*
- **PUTIN SAYS HE C... more »
Mike's Story, Part 10: Burundanga
*By **Jenna** Orkin*
Mike had burned his bridges in haste; now he was repenting in sorrow. With
the exception of phone-calls to FTW colleagues, he was reduced to
approximately one conversation a week in English. To save money and avoid
explaining his status as asylum-seeker to inquiring strangers, he cooked
his meals on an electric burner in his hotel room. At night, the car horns
honked incessantly.
Not only that, but he'd learned that Chavez had made statements implying he
wasn't sure that an actual plane had hit the Pentagon.
Mike had tried to warn the government against a... more »
Satire: “Millionaires Unite To Defeat Minimum Wage”
*“Millionaires Unite To Defeat Minimum Wage”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)- "A broad-based coalition of millionaires
converged on Washington today to defeat a bill that would have increased
the minimum wage for American workers to $10.10 an hour. Leaving behind
their mansions and yachts, the millionaires were motivated by what they saw
as an existential threat to the country, Mitch McConnell, a spokesman for
the millionaires, said.
“This was an extremely diverse coalition,” McConnell said, noting that
everyone from the rich to the very rich to the super-rich un... more »
“17 Facts To Show To Anyone That Still Believes That The U.S. Economy Is Just Fine”
*“17 Facts To Show To Anyone That Still Believes *
*That The U.S. Economy Is Just Fine”*
by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog
“No, the economy is most definitely not "recovering". Despite what you may
hear from the politicians and from the mainstream media (shrugging off
today's terrible GDP print), the truth is that the U.S. economy is in far
worse shape than it was prior to the last recession. In fact, we are still
pretty much where we were at when the last recession finally ended. When
the financial crisis of 2008 struck, it took us down to a much lower level
econom... more »
War watch April 29 , 2014 - Debka reports on Secret US-Hizballah talks. Washington plans to include Lebanon, Syria deals in Iran nuclear pact ....... War-Torn Iraq Prepares for Bloody Wednesday Election Much of Anbar Won't Be Participating in Vote ...... Egypt Sentences Brotherhood Chief, 682 Other Protesters to Death ....... AIPAC Livid Over ‘Offensive’ Kerry Warning on Israeli Apartheid ADL: 'Unfair' to Suggest Israel Could Become Apartheid State ( and Kerry quickly apologized ... )
Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
http://www.debka.com/article/23876/Secret-US-Hizballah-talks-Washington-plans-to-include-Lebanon-Syria-deals-in-Iran-nuclear-pact-
Palestinian
leader Mahmoud Abbas' initiation of a unity pact with the Hamas
extremists last week did not come out of the blue. It was prompted by
the
direct contacts the Obama administration has secretly established with
the
Lebanese Hizballah. Abbas reasoned that if Washington can start a
dialogue
with a terrorist organization, so too can his own PLO and Fatah.
DEBKAfile’s Washington sources report that the Obama administration
appears
to have carried ov... more »
Electromagnetic Beam Weapon
Taking the opportunity to again mention my latest book, *The Government UFO
Files*, (for those who want to know about such things) I can use it to add
something more to the discussion of EM effects and an Earth-based
technology that is of interest to us. Please note, so that I’m not forced
to explain this time and again, I am not offering this as a solution to
those UFO reports that mention EM effects and stalled car engines, only
that this is a somewhat interesting side discussion.
During World War II, as the allies attempted to learn something about the
Foo Fighters, they sent a ... more »
"You can say what you like, but he was a good man to us" (a maid of Adolf Hitler in the '30s, in 2008)
*A view of the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden, in the Bavarian Alps*
*"At no point in her interview with the Salzburger Nachrichten does
[Elisabeth Kalhammer] criticize the German dictator or mention his
atrocities. . . . In fact, she remembers life as being pretty good at the
Berghof."*
*-- the *Washington Post*'s Gail Sullivan, in* "Hitler’s former maid
remembers the good life at Der Fuhrer’s mountain retreat"
*by Ken*
When it comes to all matters Hitler-related, I can count on my friend Leo
to keep my up to date, which is a nearly full-time preoccupation, since as
he notes frequent... more »
The Temporary Foreign Workers Pipeline
For some time now we have had a government in the business of preventing
people from working within their own country, as Boris from the Beav once
put it.
This is the Cons' other pet pipeline - their TFW Pipeline.
In 2007 they raised the length of a temporary foreign worker permit from
one year to two; in 2011 they raised it again to four years.
And today we add Canadian helicopter pilots to the growing list of
occupations that are filled by cheaper temporary foreign workers - some
pilots working at half the going wage according to one of them.
The Cons are shocked, shocked I tell... more »
AIG having a bit of Internet trouble?
Got this from an anonymous source.... -AK
Labor Econ 14: Labor Day and Government-Mandated Minimum Wages
It is International Labor Day today. Many labor unions and allied groups
will be marching in Manila and many other cities worldwide to demand higher
government-mandated minimum wage, higher bonuses, other issues. Before
further discussion, here are some basic data.
Table 1. Minimum Wages in Metro Manila.
Source: National Wages and Productivity Commission,
http://www.nwpc.dole.gov.ph/index.html
So it is P429/day for SMEs and P466 for large corporations. Next high wages
would be in Region 3 or Central Luzon provinces, as well as in Region 4A or
the Calabarzon provinces. Wages ther... more »
Fed Open Market Committee Day - April 30 , 2014 ( but wondering what was discussed during the Fed's apparent " expedited emergency meeting between 4 Fed Governors ) and various manipulations ( apart from FOMC Day ) Fed Reverse Repo ( window dressing manipulation ) rises to 208 billion ( when will it hit a trillion ) ........ Fed Cuts May POMO To Only $24 Billion From $30 Billion ( money for nothing Fed manipulation ) ........ ......
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-30/month-end-window-dressing-sends-fed-reverse-repo-usage-208-billion-second-highest-ev
Month-End Window Dressing Sends Fed Reverse Repo Usage To $208 Billion:
Second Highest Ever
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/30/2014 15:50 -0400
- Reverse Repo
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We can finally close the book on the "mystery" (if there ever was one)
behind the Fed's fixed-rate reverse repo operation.
Yesterday, when we noted that the total notional of the most recent 1 Day
reverse repo operation was a whopping $183.3 billion, we ... more »
More Good News From National! [update]
The great news is, National MPs are still leaving in droves!
[image: image]Minister of Signage Maurice Williamson is the latest to fall
on his sword For The Sake Of The Party– resigning as minister, if not (yet)
as MP.1 The loss to the country from the resignation is incalculable –
mostly because there is not a single lasting achievement from a lifetime in
politics to add up.
So this makes, by some counts 15 National MPs about to leave the building
for good.
Grounds for celebration, almost.
The bad news, however, and one reason not to celebrate yet, is that there
are still peop... more »
Bank of America , JP Morgan , Citigroup and Deutsche Bank - Can you say Derivativ-nados ?
Catharsis Ours - 22 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-28/re-bank-america-remember-lessons-cyprus
Re: Bank Of America. Remember The Lessons From Cyprus
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/28/2014 19:47 -0400
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Citigroup
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Federal Reserve
- Reality
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*Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,*
And another one bites the dust. Now it’s Bank of America, one of the
largest banks in the Land of the Free, that is inadequately capitalized.
*Last month, Bank of Ame... more »
Peter King's Terrorist Pal Arrested in Murder Investigation
Congressman Peter King has long represented the institutionalized moral
rottenness of the American political class in the current foul incarnation
that exists today. A trusty regular on the Sunday morning propaganda
circuit, King can always be counted on for loudly advocating for the
disembowelment of the US Constitution and the imposition of every single
tool in the fascist box upon Americans but most particularly Muslims.
Congressman King you see is one of the most bigoted racists in the US
Congress which when taking into account the collection of the dregs of
society that is th... more »
Steyn on Sterling on the Right to Be a Bigot in Your Own Home
No doubt you’ve heard about the owner of the LA Clippers basketball team,
who’s had his wings clipped by the NBA’s Commissioner and his team stripped
from him for being “recorded saying that he didn’t want black people at his
basketball games.”
Mark Steyn wonders (writing under the best headline of the whole schmeer)
if that’s the whole story. And why it’s really news.
Russia has seized the Crimea, China is threatening to seize Japanese
islands, Iran is going nuclear, and, at President Obama's Sunday press
conference on his Asian tour, the accompanying reporters took time out fro... more »
Cura de la Diabetis?
Cura de la Diabetis?
Este articulo no esta terminado. Cuando se termine se le hara un vinculo
donde puedan localizar los articulas necesarios para correjir la
condicion....
Hipotesys
La Diabetis es un DES-ORDEN de la sangre...Cuando nuestro cuerpo ya no
puede balancear, limpiar o filtrar la sangre apropiadamente es hay cuando
la Diabetis y otras enfermedades relacionadas de la sangre occuren.
Pregunta para ustedes, que organo en nuestro cuerpo es responsable por
limpiar y balancear la sangre?
EL HIGADO Lea mas Aqui
El Higado hace mas 500 diferentes funciones.
y tiene las sigu... more »
Tony Blair on Terrorism
A good conversation, here, over the weekend, on fighting an ideology.
*Meet the Press* Sunday, host David Gregory suggested to former UK Prime
Minister Tony Blair that the US, Britain and others made a mistake when
they went after Saddam Hussein, which Gregory said only led to more
terrorism.
Watch Blair’s response.
It makes you wonder whether his incredible unpopularity might just be
because he still has the ability to concisely state uncomfortable truths.
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Canada takes over military leadership of military OSCE mission- Poland
Military is being stressed for the simple fact the NATO media lied about
what the OSCE observers were really about... And the real reason why
eastern Ukrainians (anti-coup) did not want them in their neck of the woods.
Canada is stepping into the increasingly tense showdown between Kyiv and
Moscow over the future of eastern Ukraine by taking over leadership of an
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s* military observer
mission* in the central European country.
Three Canadians from the Directorate of Arms Control Verification are to
lead a nine-member team, Defense M... more »
Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC): E-mails link White House to Benghazi...(video)
*why is he not Speaker of the House???*
CA-31-- Will Eloise Reyes Be Congress' First Ever Onion Topper? That's Way Better Than Another Crooked Bank Lobbyist
Speaking about her inspiring life story in her first TV ad, Eloise Reyes
talks about the hard work and perseverance it took to go from topping
onions as a small child and working her way through school and law school
to the middle class and now running for Congress. "I made the journey," she
says, "but for people these days, that journey has become so much harder."
Eloise isn't a Republican or a corporate tool like her opponent, Pete
Aguilar. Republicans and corporate tools want to pull the ladder up behind
them and kick the people in the face who are trying to climb out over
dis... more »
The Dirt on Bob Behning’s Reelection Money
by Doug Martin
In my book *Hoosier School Heist*, I detail the corporate/theocratic
billionaires who are out to destroy Indiana public education, and the same
people in my book are behind Bob Behning’s reelection campaign.
In fact, the Hoosiers for Economic Growth PAC, founded by an Amway/Besty
Devos/Walmart/Overstock.com/hedge fund front group, just gave Behning
$45,000, two days ago. Hoosiers for Economic Growth slid him $25,000 at
the beginning of this month, too (page 4). Back in 2013, the super PAC
handed Behning $2,000 (page 5). This PAC is where Walmart and DeVos'
Amer... more »
The Self-Inflicted Palestinian Victimhood | FrontPage Magazine
'American and European aid money has bought brand new SUV's for PA
officialdom, the best in (with cheap labor) construction and luxuries, but
nothing has changed for the Palestinian refugees, who are being kept in
deliberate misery by their fellow Palestinians. Yet, western (American and
European) charity is meant to ameliorate the condition of the refugees.
Instead, the camps are administered by the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency, better known as UNRWA, whose primary aim is self-perpetuation of
the camp bureaucracy, paid for primarily by the West. UNRWA has fostered
and e... more »
Gerry Adams Questioned By Police Over Murder
It's fascinating how stories 'break'.
Sky News is just reporting *Gerry Adams Questioned By Police Over Murder*.
BBC News beat them to it by about five minutes, with *Adams held over
McConville murder*.
Yet, between the BBC's very brief first take and their sketchy second take,
the* Daily Mail* had published a very detailed article *Sinn Fein leader
Gerry Adams arrested over murder of widowed mother abducted from her home
in 1972*, providing the full background to the story.
We're only a few minutes in but the much-derided *Daily Mail *is leading
the way.
"What You NEED To Know About The Wealth Inequality Debate"
*"What You NEED To Know About The Wealth Inequality Debate" *
by Bill Bonner
Gualfin, Argentina. “Dow up another 86 points. Can anything stop it? Yes.
We're just waiting to find out what. We began this series with a question:
Isn't it possible the same savants who now presume to address the problem
of wealth inequality were those most responsible for causing it?
The question arose as we discussed a publishing sensation: Thomas Piketty's
“Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” As you will recall, the book – all
700 pages – was recently number one on the Amazon.com bestseller list.
W... more »
"Withering test prep regimens" Continue in New York Despite New Law
With absolute fealty to Wall Street and the vulture philanthropists who pay
for the Governor's allegiance to New York's 21st Century segregated
cultural sterilization testing camps, Cuomo dares not touch the urban
sprawl of charter school programs for the poor, which are based, of course,
on round the clock test prep. After all, how else, without test scores,
could these dehumanizing hellholes produce the numbers that are used to
justify the rampant human rights abuses and behavioral neutering that
occur, Orwellian-like, in the name of educational equality.
As a bone thrown to par... more »
Racial separation in Tuscaloosa’s schools!
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014*
*How pernicious is it:* Taken at a glance, Nikole Hannah-Jones paints an
unappealing picture in her lengthy report about the Tuscaloosa City public
schools.
The lengthy piece was written for ProPublica. It also appears in The
Atlantic.
Hannah-Jones is largely concerned with the alleged “resegregation” of the
Tuscaloosa schools. Early on, she paints a rather gloomy picture of this
“resegregation:”
HANNAH-JONES (4/16/14): Tuscaloosa’s schools today are not as starkly
segregated as they were in 1954, the year the Supreme Court declared an end
to separate ... more »
make trouble
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty
when the State becomes lawless or corrupt.
Mahatma Gandhi
April 30: We're a world leader...
....The CBC has the story. Most of the world has it, I suspect. But you
won't find it anywhere in the Irving press, not even in that bowl of
intellectual pabulum it calls a Business page.
Recent figures show the US leads the world in the income gap between 1% and
everybody else. 47% of all wealth generated in the last twenty years has
gone to the top 1%. Result? In addition to high unemployment, average
income in the US has slipped back to where it was 40 years ago.
But (sing a chorus of O Canada.) we're number two at 37%. So much for the
crapola we hear about how shale gas will mak... more »
THE LATEST FROM CHIEF BLOVIATOR
Washington is spinning the wheel of blame in regard to the Ukrainian
stand-off. This time it is pointing at the EU. The criticism came in
comments made by US Secretary of State, John Kerry. For more on this RT is
joined by Gayane Chichakyan.
"Changing everything"
A year ago, two bombs left near the finish line of the Boston Marathon
killed 3 people and injured 264. As a result, this year in Boston (and, I
expect, all future years) was completely different in many ways, all
designed ostensibly to ensure security.
But this wasn't the first time a large group of people watching an event
had been bombed. Back in 1916 (see p. 3 of the link), a "Preparedness Day"
parade in San Francisco was being held, the largest parade ever held in the
city, with more than 50,000 marchers (!) and who knows how many people
watching. A suitcase bomb, most likely ... more »
OPERATION STREAMLINE AND SALAZAR: MAN IN THE MIDDLE
OPERATION STREAMLINE AND SALAZAR: MAN IN THE MIDDLE: Last night's event at
the University of Arizona showcasing a student video "Exposing Operation
Streamline" and the showing of the Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle
documentary was very successful. Both included student research and
presentations. The Salazar presentation included a panel of former
journalists, professors and a student. Here are a few photos and the link
for the Streamline video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gabxf9ArwfU
Deep tweets
Really just too barbaric for words.
Details of OK's botched double execution are horrible. Lockett had "vein
failure." After 40 minutes, he sat up and said "something's wrong"
— allisonkilkenny (@allisonkilkenny) April 30, 2014
Bayley Elise McBride reporting from the scene.
Arthur Darvill is not just Rory from Doctor Who and he wants to sing about it
Arthur Darvill (Rory from Dr Who) performs 'The Ballad Of Arthur Darvill',
sung to the tune of Let It Go from Frozen for the Matt Edmondson Show on
BBC Radio 1.
Classroom Activity: Shared Threat and Delayed Elections
This activity comes after students are to have listened to a
lecture (slides) about domestic politics helps us understand variation in
the likelihood of international conflict. I focused particularly on whether
the spread of democracy explains Europe’s transformation from one of the
most violent parts of the world to one of the most peaceful and how the
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New Research on Issue Selection in Global Policy Networks
At long last, the journal article version* of the research my team
conducted on the human security network is published (complete with
color-coded tag clouds and network graphs)! International Organization has
very kindly agreed to temporary un-gate the article until May 30, so check
out the TUG.pdf here! My co-authors Sirin Duygulu, Alexander Montgomery,
Anna
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josh lueke is a rapist and why we should continue to say so
Stacey May Fowles has written an incisive, biting, and definitive piece
about shaming men who rape. I can scarcely quote from it (although I will),
because every word is not only necessary but perfect. Please join me in
reading this stellar essay, and in cheering for Fowles and every survivor
of sexual assault, and in calling out every Josh Lueke we can find.
May I add, too, that this essay explains exactly why I will *never* stop
saying *animal torturer* and *dog murderer* every time I hear or read the
name Michael Vick. A blog reader recently told me I should give it up
because Vi... more »
dark times in canada, part 2: marci mcdonald on jason kenney: "and you thought harper was right-wing?"
You won't catch me implying that Stephen Harper and his corrupt,
anti-democratic, anti-human government is moderate. But there's always room
to move even further to the right, and that space is called Jason Kenney.
Marci McDonald, author of *The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian
Nationalism in Canada*, has written a lengthy exposé of Kenney in *The
Walrus*. (I've had the print edition for a couple of weeks, and have been
waiting for it to post online so I could share it. The "and you thought
Harper was right-wing?" tagline is from the print edition.) It's very long,
but if yo... more »
dark times in canada, part 1: the lancet: the case against canada as a world citizen
I want to share two articles from well-respected venues reflecting on
what's happening to Canada now - where it is and where it may be going.
In *The Lancet Global Health*, one of the foremost medical journals in the
world, there's "A rising tide: the case against Canada as a world citizen",
Chris David Simms. It begins:
A generation ago, Canada was perceived to be an exemplary global citizen by
the rest of the world: it took the lead on a host of international issues,
including the Convention of Child Rights, freedom of information, acid
rain, world peacekeeping, sanctions against ... more »
200+ Reasons to be in KC to Protest ALEC
*ALEC Protest*
*Kansas City, MO*
*Friday, May 2*
*11:30 - 1pm*
*Kansas City Marriott Downtown (200 W 12th Street)*
*Barney Allis Plaza *
Any one who has followed me for awhile knows that ALEC identified me as a
"radical opponent" in a *March 2011* newsletter to their State Chairs.
Why?
Because I was the first person ever to compile and publish names of past
and present ALEC members.
Being that they have a meeting coming up - guess it's time to take a look
at part of the list again.
*How do people get on an ALEC list?*
That question comes up all the time. The most common are:
They... more »
If You Are Going to KIPP's Free Happy Hour Recruiting Sessions, Read This First
Excerpt of interview with former KIPP teacher:
*INT: Let me ask you this question: if I were a friend of yours
interested in teaching at a KIPP school and I asked you what was it like
there, what would you tell me?*
*R: I would say honestly, I’ve had that question before. I would never
ever – I told them I wouldn’t wish that experience on my worst enemy.
That’s exactly what I say every time--I wouldn’t wish it on my worst
enemy. And I have no enemies but I wouldn’t wish it if I had an enemy. I
wouldn’t put anyone through that. Anyone. It was probably – you give up
you... more »
The Republican Party Is Making Itself Over As The Party Of Anti-American Sedition
Many Republican Party leaders, always sensitive to their hate-fueled,
paranoid base, are still clinging to their racism and bigotry. Its
reflected in their policy agenda, the Ryan budget, their refusal to pass
the bipartisan Senate comprehensive immigration plan (which even Boehner
admits is being held back by the hate mongers in his caucus). Take this GOP
thought-leader and political boss:
*LIMBAUGH:* You just gotta be who you are, and I think it's time to get rid
of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug
Basketball Association, and stop calling th... more »
Progressives now say the darnedest things!
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014*
*48 minutes a slave:* We progressives! Amidst all the current excitement,
William Rhoden appeared on Hardball last night to discuss his new book.
Improbably enough, the book is called “Forty Million Dollar Slaves.” Chris
Matthews started like this:
MATTHEWS (4/29/14): In his book, Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise,
Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete, William Rhoden, who’s right here,
argued that while African-Americans may have achieved wealth from the
[NBA], they haven’t necessarily gained or exercised real power within it.
And with us now is... more »
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*John Barry keeps sending me emails. Oil & Gas Industry wants to settle
with Louisiana!*
[image: https://twitter.com/Editilla]
Always watching, never wavering.
*Dear Editilla, *
*Two important pieces of news:First, last week Louisiana’s Attorney General
Buddy Caldwell made public something I've hinted at in my talks: there are
on-going conversations about a statewide settlement. On the Jim Engster
radio show last week (listen here), Caldwell announced that because of the
SLFPAE lawsuit, major oil companies have come to him seeking a statewide
settlement. We've al... more »
MARINA'S STORY
*Marina after meeting child in session four*
*Born in Ireland, 46 years old, catholic, breech birth who suffered
emotionally, sexual and physical abuse from father ~ Marina voluntarily
became my last private practice Skype client and in the process of reading
my Kindle book on Radical Therapy and doing its seven heart centered
self-healing sessions, Marina not only found the emotionally lost 5 year
old child within herself but also gave that child a voice. Marina's story
represents a universal lifelong quest for many to find that same precious
c... more »
National Day of Prayer, Political Science Edition 2014
It’s almost that time again: National Day of Prayer is tomorrow. It’s a
day for us to come together and pray for those who need praying for.[1]
Like last year, I have some political science related prayer requests:
Fixed effects and people who ask for them to be included in revisions.[2]
Campus parking, any institution
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Poetry Month's Last Day Fragment
*Poetry Month’s Last Day Fragment*
Of days marked by verses sung
across clocks and rulers
songs to celebrate all our gold
variously graded, finely ground
against boot marked hardwood desks
for eons of crumpled yellow tablets
and shavings of graphite hissing
anti-insouciant intensities coded
and set loose on verbal metronomes
calibrated to cross one another
without ever touching, ticks
and tocks bending past to future,
out to in:
Per tons of crocus blossoms
dried by a million days of salty sun
wet sanding moonlit nights
held in dewdrops magnifying
dark and light within, withou... more »
May Your Life Be Narrated by Sarah Palin
There's a bumper sticker slogan that made the rounds a few years ago:
"I want my life to be narrated by Morgan Freeman." There's something that's
comforting about having one's mundane life functions chronicled by Mr.
Freeman's smooth Southern baritone.
"He wearily rises from his bed and begins the latest of countless
treks to the bathroom. And he's going to make water regardless of what the
Miss Daisys of the world say..."
To me, the most vicious imprecation one can bestow upon any gun
clutcher, homphobe, Teabagger and garden variety right wing nut job is to
have Sara... more »
EYES OFF THE PRIZE: Punish them all!
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014Part 2—Roxane Gay and the soul of Salon:* This
site exists to critique our press corps, not our NBA owners.
That said, we’ll have to admit that we’re glad to see Donald Sterling
getting the boot.
How absurd a figure is Sterling? This 2009 profile from ESPN makes him
sound like he’s next in line to rule North Korea, so weird does his
long-time conduct and thinking seem to have been.
(Are you sure there are no organic brain problems? We *wouldn’t* feel real
sure of that.)
For ourselves, we always favor “pitying the poor immigrant.” Would *you*want to be t... more »
More on Two Americas
More on Two Americas. via More on Two Americas.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS:
Becoming Radical
Beruit
On September 26, 1983,* "the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted an
Iranian diplomatic communications message from the Iranian intelligence
agency, the Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS),"* to its
ambassador, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, in Damascus. The message directed the
ambassador to
*"take spectacular action against the American Marines."*
The intercepted message, dated September 26, would not be passed to the
Marines until October 26: *three days after the bombing.*
*The explosion of the Marine Corps building in Beirut, Lebanon on October
23, 1983 created a la... more »
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Canadian citizens with no criminal record surveilled on purpose. I go no
problem if you thought I was going to plant a bomb. The fact is that your
more likely to win the lottery than to find a Canadian Citizen that would
do a fellow citizen indiscriminate harm. The terrorist threat is an an
invention because we have some kind of peace between nations. Why do we
need so many cops when the crime rate is dropping? Same for the military.
Who you going to fight with $200 million dollars fighters that
aerodynamically would have been grounded in Vietnamm?
We already with first past the pos... more »
Evidence on a voir dire forms no part of trial proper
*Sadikov* [2014] OJ No. 376:
30 A voir dire is held to determine the admissibility of evidence
proposed for admission by a party to a criminal proceeding: R. v. Parsons (1977),
17 O.R. (2d) 465 (C.A.), at p. 469, aff'd [1980] 1 S.C.R. 785. On the voir
dire, it is for the trial judge to determine whether the conditions
precedent to the admissibility of the proposed evidence have been met. The
voir dire is a separate proceeding from the trial proper and the evidence
taken on a voir dire forms no part of the evidence at trial unless the
parties expressly agree to its incorpora... more »
Never Mind the Ethics - Get Children Reading
Today we are alarmed at the report in The Bookseller that Kobo and Fast
food chain McDonald’s are teaming with, Hodder Children’s Books and
National Literacy Trust (NLT) to give away ebooks to children when they buy
a Happy Meal Box at the fast food chain.
Every Happy Meal box will come with an e-book voucher, which will allow
customers to download a Famous Five book by Enid Blyton from Hodder
Children’s Books. This new promotion is in addition to the existing one,
where boxes contain one of six of Blyton’s Secret Seven stories and a £1
voucher that is redeemable to buy a Secret ... more »
Another Election Surprise For Iraq?
April 30, 2014 Iraqis head to the polls in the general election. Iraq’s
last few elections have all provided surprises, and this one looks to be no
different. In 2009, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s new State of Law (SOL)
party swept the south and Baghdad in the provincial elections building upon
his success against Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Basra, Maysan, and
Baghdad, his military campaign against insurgents in Mosul, and challenging
the Kurds over the disputed territories the year before. The Islamic
Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) was the big loser as the voters punished... more »
Bob Hoskins R.I.P.
I was shocked to learn that Bob Hoskins has died at the age of just 71. It
was only a few days ago that Mrs NotaSheep and I were watching him in
Mermaids, a much underrated performance of his.
I'm sure most of the reports will centre upon his role in the mediocre (in
my view) Who Framed Roger Rabbit but I prefer to remember him in that great
1980 London film The Long Good Friday.
Hopefully one of the TV channels will show this film in its entirety, and
if they do you MUST watch it, but in the meantime here's the ending of that
marvellous film with one of the great Londoner speeches... more »
Every breath you take
I wonder if anyone cares that the Federal Government of Canada asked the
telecoms 11 million times to see the activity of Canadians. I am not doing
anything wrong. Thats not the truth I have done a lot of things wrong. The
end point is the goverment sells the ruined lives of the people they
prosecute for profit. Watch now while that job he is ten times
overqualified is denied because the database said he was a liberal. Think
it will not happen, Jebus people in the last century saw this so clear and
made some money writing books about it.
Teachers at International HS at Prospect Heights Refuse to Give NYC ELA Test
From Monty Neill:
**Media Advisory**
26 Teachers and Staff of International High School at Prospect
Heights refuse to give NYC ELA Performance Assessment Test
WHEN: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 7:45-8:20am,
WHERE: International High School at Prospect Heights, 883 Classon
Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
WHAT: Teachers will hold a press conference to announce their
refusal to administer the NYC ELA Performance Assessment. 26
teachers and staff at Prospect Heights International High School are
refusing to administer a new assessment that is part of the new
teacher evaluation system ... more »
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*Still Parading: Second-line shooting survivor returns to the route ~Nancy
Parker, WVUE*
*Inmate advocates want Gusman held in contempt over fire safety shortfalls
at OPP ~Jim Mustian, New Orleans Advocate*
*Mayor Mitchmo seeks special riverfront tax district to pay for decrees and
pensions ~Tyler Bridges, The Lens*
*French Quarter bar cited for having crime cameras, flood lights ~Paul
Murphy, WWLTV *
*Fair Grounds pledges upgrades for license renewal ~Ted Lewis*
*West Bank levee authority to get new director ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans
Advocate*
*May is American Wetlands Month!*... more »
Someone Else Will Pick Up The Tab
The Harperites promised Canada's Afghan Veterans a National Day of Honour.
But they're not going to pay for it. Tim Harper writes:
Corporate Canada and True Patriot Love, the charitable foundation that is
raising the money to get families to the capital to be properly honoured,
deserve credit.
They have stepped in to allow the Harper government to do this on the cheap.
The highlight for families arriving in Ottawa will be a private breakfast
with Prime Minister Stephen
Harper and other VIPs, with corporate donations of $10,000 or more
guaranteeing your company prime signage and r... more »
Ukraine Updates April 28 , 2014 --Kharkiv mayor Gennady Kernes has suffered an attempt on his life on Monday ( shot in the back , in surgery fighting for his life ) ...... Anti - russian sanctions to hit German economy hard ........ Appointed governor of Donetsk region calls for holding all-Ukraine referendum May 25 ........ US to roll out additional sanctions against Russian individuals and companies Monday ( Putin not on list .) ........ Federalists have now taken approximately a dozen town in south - eastern ukraine .......... EU also set to unroll its additional sanctions today ( 15 individuals added to blacklist ) .......British Official william Hague say he' willing to accept economic damage to the British economy to hurt Russia , Austria leads skeptical EU nations regarding blowing up their economies in an attempt to harm Putin....
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-28/mayor-east-ukraine-city-kharkiv-shot-back
Pro-Russian Mayor Of East Ukraine City Of Kharkiv Shot In The Back
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/28/2014 05:55 -0400
- Barack Obama
- Reuters
- Twitter
- Twitter
- Ukraine
inShare
On the day in which Barack Obama announced earlier he would unveil another
round of sanctions against Russia (most likely involving the heads of both
Gazprom and Rosneft), moments ago the already tense situation took another
turn for the worse when Interfax blaste... more »
People Want To Know Why We Endorsed Bonnie Watson Coleman In NJ-12 Instead of Linda Greenstein. OK, Here's Why
Bonnie knows what team she's playing for-- New Jersey's working families
When Blue America decided to endorse Bonnie Watson Coleman one thing that
weighed heavily on our decision was how-- when the climate was tough--
Bonnie stuck with Barbara Buono while the Linda Greenstein was running ads
touting her fealty to Christie. It drove many of us at Blue America up the
wall at the time and it made our endorsement of Bonnie pretty much
inevitable. There have been a lot of people telling us that either would be
a good replacement for Rush Holt and that both are "progressive Democrats."
Tha... more »
Up a tree????
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