The frontispiece of the book Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Deutsch: Titelblatt von Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Local Council By-Elections January 2014
Party
Number of candidates
Total vote
%
+/-
Dec
Average/
contest
+/-
Dec
+/- Seats
Conservative
9
3,812
25.2%
+8.4%
423
+178
-4
Labour
8
4,935
32.6%
+1.1%
617
+7
+1
LibDem
8
1,139
7.6%
-1.6%
142
-49
+1
UKIP
7
1,960
12.9%
-1.6%
280
+59
+1
SNP*
2
1,190
7.9%
+2.1%
595
-245
0
Plaid Cymru**
0
-5.8%
-393
Green
3
331
2.2%
-0.7%
36
-71
0
BNP
0
-0.3%
-41
TUSC
1
43
0.3%
-0.9%
43
-6
0
Independent***
3
1,679
11.1%
-0.7%
560
-249
+1
O... more »
Classroom Video Camera Project Spending Millions to Extend Teacher and Student Surveillance, Part 2
In Part 1 of this story, we shared how a little-known Gates Foundation
grant pumped over $3 million into the Tennessee Department of Education to
create a classroom video collection and sharing project, with video data
and notes stored on a server owned by the camera company, *thereNow.net*.
From talking with the camera project director, Courtney Seiler, the TDOE
never had a plan for how children’s images would be protected. In fact,
the TDOE left data security to each system to manage on its own, with
varying results.
For instance, Putnam County officials indicated that letters w... more »
The Economy: Gerald Celente: “We Are In A Global Depression”
*Gerald Celente: “We Are In A Global Depression”*
By Live Free or Die
“Gerald Celente comes right out and says it how it is; we are now in a
global depression. While countless Americans believe that we are somehow
still in a ‘recovery’, followers of alternative news understand that we are
anything but ‘recovering’. This is a jam packed 11 minute video with Alex
Jones and Gerald Celente that sugar coats nothing.”
- http://beforeitsnews.com/
Piercing the Corporate Veil
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. v. 6470360 Canada Inc. (Energyshop Consulting
Inc./Powerhouse Energy Management Inc.), 2014 ONCA 85:
[43] I agree with Shoppers that the motions judge did not refer to
*Fleischer*. *Fleischer* is the appropriate test to apply to piercing the
corporate veil in Ontario. In*Fleischer*, Laskin J.A. stated that only
exceptional cases that result in flagrant injustice warrant going behind
the corporate veil. It can be pierced if those in control expressly direct
a wrongful act to be done. At para. 68, he stated:
Typically, the corporate veil is pierced w... more »
Income Inequity
There has been much wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth of late about
"income inequity" or the idea that some people having more money than
others is a Very Bad Thing. Southern Man will now explain why income
inequity is inevitable and why you shouldn't worry about it and why it is
actually a Good Thing.
Capitalism and free enterprise are the greatest engines of wealth that the
world has ever seen. They are engines of wealth because they enable people
to provide goods and services that other people want. And even in their
highly regulated and overly taxed form here in the goo... more »
Online Media Caucus at the ISA: The Time Is Now-ish
The events of the last week within the International Studies Association
indicate that there is much ignorance about social media and its role in
21st century IR scholarship and teaching. On the bright side, the
reactions to the ISA’s misguided proposal demonstrated that there is a
vibrant community of scholars who rely on “web 2.0″
Continue reading
Russell Investments' chief economist found dead in Tacoma Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/01/30/3019967/body-discovered-in-west-tacoma.html#storylink=cpy
Mike Dueker - Chief Economist Russell Investments
*Russell Investments' chief economist found dead in Tacoma*
The Associated Press
January 30, 2014 Updated 19 hours ago
Russell Investments chief economist Mike Dueker was found dead Thursday,
and police said it appeared he had taken his own life by jumping from a
ramp near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
An officer who knew Dueker was missing in the area spotted the body about
8:30 a.m. at the base of a 40- to 50-foot embankment for a state Route 16
ramp, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.
Dueker’s car was parked at nearb... more »
Arctic Bay Promo
This post actually has nothing to do with Fort McMurray or even Alberta,
but I felt compelled to do it anyway after seeing an amazing video promo of
one of the communities in Nunavut where I was privileged to live prior to
moving out here. It was created by InMotion, based out of Ottawa and
posted on Facebook by Clare Kines, current Economic Development Officer in Arctic
Bay. Truly a magical place.
For me it was definitely a treat to see a professionally-done video about a
place a woke up in almost every morning for 4 years. I instantly
recognized the mountain I climbed a handf... more »
Guest Post From A Steve Israel Constituent
There are no words to describe the contempt I feel after reading an op-ed
by my Congressman, Steve Israel, entitled *The State of Our Middle Class*.
How pretentious that the same man whose mortgage obligation was forgiven by
"friendly" banksters would opine on the struggles of the middle class.
People all across Long Island are struggling under the weight of upside
down mortgages, and most could never get the sweetheart deal that
Congressman Israel obtained.
It is therefore rather shocking that Steve Israel is the current
Congressman in our district. He and his second former wife ... more »
YANG'S LONG JAIL SENTENCE
Professor Yang Yoon-Mo hits his 365th day in prison today (January 31).
Tomorrow is his birthday. It is Yang's 4th imprisonment for trying to block
Navy base destruction vehicles on Jeju Island. He still has about six more
months on this jail sentence.
During his previous times in jail Yang has undertaken hunger strikes that
nearly killed him.
He was a renowned professor and movie critic in South Korea and came back
to his native Jeju to fight against the Navy base. An earlier interview
with Yang, filmed before the Gangjeong villagers were removed from their
sacred rocky coast,... more »
A STONES THROW FROM HELL
Footage of what appears to be a group of cheering Afghans stoning a wreck
of a Predator drone. The MQ-1 Predator drone is used extensively by the
NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan for surveillance and to deliver
airstrikes which frequently kill innocent civilians.
Drone crashes are normally not reported by the Pentagon or the CIA, which
operate them in countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. Some
transparency campaigners say the DoD is stonewalling their Freedom of
Information requests for drone crash records.
Yet such incidents happen fairly often, especially with the fl... more »
Sorry, not sorry kids, there's no free lunch
There are some conservatives who would call this a teaching moment. One
wonders what lesson they think they're teaching these children.
Up to 40 kids at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City picked up their
lunches Tuesday, then watched as the meals were taken and thrown away
because of outstanding balances on their accounts — a move that shocked and
angered parents.
ason Olsen, a Salt Lake City District spokesman, said the district’s
child-nutrition department became aware that Uintah had a large number of
students who owed money for lunches. [...]
As a result, the child-nutritio... more »
THE STATE OF THE UNION IS: Fatuous, sad!
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2014*
*Part 4—A celebrified Planet Bullshit:* “My fellow Americans, the state of
the union is fatuous—celebrified, sad!”
The president didn’t say it.
It certainly would have been true if he had! Consider a rarely discussed
historical fact:
As many others have reported, John Kennedy was elected president in
November 1960. In his iconic book about that campaign, Theodore White
described the scene as Kennedy announced that he would be running.
You can read the description on page 58. Senator Kennedy announced he was
running on January 2—January 2 of 1960, the s... more »
Brooks Whigs Out
(graphic by Kat Garcia)
David Brooks, concerned that the president he frequently canoodles with is
in "stately decline," has a solution. Barack Obama can battle Lame Duck
Syndrome by appointing commissions made up of the Davos/Aspen Ideas
Festival crowd to lay out the framework for his successor's agenda! Obama
can become a Whig, and follow in the pragmatic footsteps of Lincoln! Never
mind that Abe forsook Whiggery because of its regional factionalism and
became a Republican. Brooks is counting on readers not to have boned up on
any actual history.
In the world of David Brooks, Ob... more »
Definition of irony - A Friday night Rule 5 lipstick lesbian post
I hear that one of the bands chosen to open the Winter Olympics in Sochi on
February 7 may be t.A.T.u.
Back in 2003 tATu and especially the video for their single 'All The Things
She Said' were accused of promoting homosexuality among teenagers. This
would seem to be somewhat contrary to Vladimir Putin's stance on
homosexuality.
Actually it seems that neither of the singers in t.A.T.u, Lena Katina (the
red-head) or Yulia Volkova (the brunette), were in fact lesbians and that
the video was just to garner them some attention, a tactic that really
worked.
Just in case you are too yo... more »
From all viewpoints, string theory is "just right" to go beyond QFT
*From QM to QFT to ST*
Tomorrow, the Physics Stack Exchange should experience a silent completion
of a Holy Trinity. Users are given a golden "tag" badge when the answers by
a single user to questions with a particular tag reach the score 1,000.
I have just learned it has to be from at least 200 questions now. A third
"tag" is waiting to join the elite club; it had the score 998 and 195
questions today. After the daily update, it should break through both
thresholds, unless I am overlooking some other condition in which case I
apologize for the wrong rumors in advance. ;-)
For th... more »
Obama's Suicide Pact with the Death Worshippers of Capitalism
It's time to drink your kool-aid or turn over the tub. We can't wait for
our grandchildren to act, as they are being cognitively disabled to make
resistance impossible. From Alternet:
Are there any self-respecting environmental organizations out there that
are still behind President Obama? After his State of the Union on Tuesday
it's hard to imagine there could be. In his address, Obama proudly
declared, "The 'all the above' energy strategy I announced a few years ago
is working, and today America is closer to energy independence than we have
been in decades."
Based what we kno... more »
KIPP Teacher's Nude Photos Shared by Students
Something that is not in the Doug Lemov miracle book of behaviors to make
you a great teacher is the admonition to leave your phone home, at least
the one with your nude pics. Perhaps this KIPP high school teacher did not
have time to download her nudies to a personal phone after another evening
of being on call to 10 PM.
Anyway, the phone was on the desk, she was not in the room, and some
KIPPster was not as KIPPnotized as he should have been. The results:
Of War and Murder
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
The following joke is attributed to Hermann Göring who was at the time on
trial in Nuremberg, charged with conspiracy to commit crimes against peace;
planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war-crimes; and crimes
against humanity:
One Englishman --an idiot; Two Englishmen --a club; Three Englishmen --an
empire!
One German --a scholar; Two Germans --an army; Three Germans --a war!
A mere joke, in bad taste! But consider the source. It is also a simple, if
simple-minded, analysis of data. It even hints at the science of emergent
... more »
VETERANS SPEAK ON PALESTINIAN ISSUE
I went to our Veterans for Peace monthly meeting last night in Augusta.
We made final plans for this exciting event tomorrow evening in nearby
Brunswick. Two of my favorite activists in the US are coming to speak about
their recent trip to Palestine. Tarak Kauff and Ellen Davidson (both from
New York) are active members of Veterans for Peace and are really dedicated
and fun people. They've been up to Maine before and we are glad to have
them coming back again.
Yonatan Shipira will be with us via Skype to report on his experiences in
the Israeli occupation forces.
If you can ma... more »
State of disunion for working "folks " - Obama offers the sheeple MyRA - just recall the Poland example "folks " ..... Most food stamp payments issued to working Americans for first time ....... speaking of food stamp programs , note another attempt to block transparency shot down by Federal Courts - -- A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture can’t use an exemption in the Freedom of Information Act to keep secret how much businesses receive annually for participating in the food stamp program.
Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-28/obama-introduces-myra-no-risk-guaranteed-return-retirement-savings-bond
( Does MyRA stand for " My Ripped Arse " ? Which would be the case if the
Poland example comes into play ... )
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Obama Introduces MyRA: The "No Risk, Guaranteed Return" Retirement Savings
BondSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 01/28/2014 - 22:32
*"Today, most workers don’t have a pension. A Social Security check often
isn’t enough on its own. And while the stock market has doubled over the
last five years, that doesn’t help folks who don’t have 401... more »
The Prime Directive: Do Nothing
When it comes to managing the Canadian economy, Tom Walkom writes, the
Harper government's prime directive is do nothing and let the American
economy drag us along. The strategy is nothing new:
It is, in fact, a classic Canadian strategy. The Liberal government of Jean
Chrétien and Paul Martin used it to great political effect during the
downturn of the ’90s. But it requires the U.S. to play ball. The Americans,
somehow, have to goose their own economy.
The problem this time is that Barack Obama faces a House of Representatives
who believe in the same mythology which infects the ... more »
Screaming Headlines, Old News: The Media Hype Over Iran Continues
Director
of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill in
Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, before the Senate Intelligence
Committee.
(Photo Credit: AP Photo / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
On January 29, 2014, the Times of Israel published what seemed to be
some truly alarming news.
“Iran now has all the technical infrastructure to produce nuclear
weapons should it make
Reduce GHGs or Increase Energy Access?
At the Center for Global Development Todd Moss and Ben Leo have a
provocative analysis up about an obscure but consequential decision facing
the US Congress. It has to do with a little-known US government agency
called the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Moss and Leo explain:
President Obama’s Power Africa initiative, launched in June 2013, aims to
increase electricity generation and access to modern energy services in six
low-income countries. The success or failure of this effort will be
determined in large part by the investment decisions of a dozen or so US
government ... more »
Racism Takes A Pivotal Role In Determining Republican Party Immigration Agenda, According To Lindsey Graham
Matt Hildreth works for America's Voice and his tweet (above) about the GOP
immigration dilemma went right to the point: are they the Party of Abe
Lincoln, the Great Emancipator or the Party of Jeff Sessions, a KKK
sympathizer. Yesterday, Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned House Republicans not to
support the Republican leadership's plan for comprehensive immigration
reform. He called their plan to give legal status to immigrants "amnesty,"
code among Republicans that the world is coming to an end. “I think it
would be a mistake if House Republicans were to support amnesty for those
here ille... more »
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*Vitter likely to leer over state Legislature as he preps for 2015
governor’s race ~Tyler Bridges, The Lens*
*Atlas Shrugging ~Library Chronicles *
*Battle of the brands: A newspaper war in New Orleans ~Roger Yu, USA Today*
*U.S. Catfish Farmers Emerge As Big Winners in 2014 Farm Bill ~Dan Flynn,
Food Safety News *
Friday Nerd Blogging
May the bard be with you. See also “The Empire Striketh Back.”
Reason For Outrage On Sunday: Unpaid Super Bowl "Volunteers" Are Illegal
The NFL will have an estimated 13,500 "volunteers" working at the Super
Bowl. The NFL just announced that 1500 of these "volunteers" will now be
paid. The rest will have to sign waivers agreeing not to sue, not to
participate in a class action suit, and to arbitrate if they do sue.
Since when is the NFL a not-for-profit agency? Am I missing something?
There's no such thing as an unpaid volunteer working for a for-profit
company. Period. Ask Major League Baseball, which is now defending against
a class action suit for all the "volunteers" it had working without pay at
for profit eve... more »
War Watch January 31 , 2014 - US trying to push every button to get Karzai to sign that BSA ( Hagel blasts Karzai , meanwhile Afghanistan not trustworthy with US Aid audit made public ) ...... Iraq daily death dealing not a shocker , Justice Department allegations that US and Kuwaiti contractors gave US soldiers unsanitized ice from temporary morgue trailers is shocking ..... Syria sees foreeign fighters getting on the ground training in Syria - and then they will go home , US grouses over slow speed of Syria chemical weapon disposal - how could syria security concerns being unfounded as shipping of the chemical weapons has to occur from the port of Latakia - deep within rebel held territory ( and note the Rbels have already hit Syria chemical arms sites twice since the disposal program commenced ) ?
Afghanistan......
Hagel: Afghans Must Stop ‘Foot-Dragging’ on Troop DealClaims Karzai's
Position 'Changes Constantly'
by Jason Ditz, January 30, 2014
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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel expressed growing frustration about the
Karzai government’s refusal to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA),
saying they “can’t just keep deferring and deferring” because it’s screwing
up Pentagon plans.
The BSA would keep US troops in Afghanistan “through 2024 and beyond,” and
US officials have repeatedly demanded President Hamid Karzai sign the
pact, though he has insi... more »
War watch January 29 , 2014 - Obama's " State Of Disunion " rambler certainly reflects US Foreign Policy ..... US secret funding of Syria Rebels threats to derail Geneva 2 Talks , Homs remains under siege as humanitarian aid isn't worked out , Aleppo coming into play for Syria government forces - taking Aleppo would be the end of the War as presently constructed ........ Blowback for Saudi Arabia's intrusions against Syria and Iran could be coming - Iran, Iraq Plan Challenge to Saudi Control Over Oil Market Nations Plan to 'Flood the Market' With Increased Oil Production , Iran plays ball with Un inspectors while looking to improve ties with the UK , Iran sanction Bill stalled in Senate..........Senators: US Should ‘Drop’ Karzai Hope His Successor More Amenable to Occupation ....... Talks Now an Afterthought, Pakistan Taliban Clash Looms ....... Iraq sees another day of countrywide death dealing , Kurds playing hardball against PM Maliki , Syria War impacting Iraqi oilfields and pipelines.....
Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
State Of Disunion - Foreign Policy Version .....
http://news.antiwar.com/2014/01/28/obamas-muddled-foreign-policy-message-buried-in-state-of-the-union/
Obama’s Muddled Foreign Policy Message Buried in State of the UnionLittle
Content and a Lot of Recycled Rhetoric
by Jason Ditz, January 28, 2014
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A rambling, 80+ minute State of the Union Address tonight gave President
Obama an opportunity to lay out his foreign policy positions, but 60
minutes into the talk he hadn’t touched the matter at all.
When he finally did, what followed was a confusing muddle of claims o... more »
Bad Egg
Isn’t it odd that the BBC lags behind events in oh so many ways? When
something they find distasteful comes along they drag their feet until they
simply can’t ignore the elephant pounding on the door.
This time it was the black egg over on Channel 4. I rarely watch Channel 4
news because of the obvious political bias of Jon Snow. He really can be a
disgrace, as Richard Millett will testify.
But via Harry’s Place (I know) I was urged to watch the episode of Channel
Four News that was aired on the 28th. It was broadcast before the Newsnight
edition I mentioned here.
That probably exp... more »
Non Partisan Senators
The dramatic announcement of Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader that Senators
formerly sitting as Liberals will no longer be a formal caucus has shaken
up Canada's political landscape. Some ask how can the Senate function
without political parties. What about the concept of the Government and the
Opposition? Surely this is essential to a Westminster style legislative
body?
Well, no - a parliamentary system can work without political parties.
Indeed one of Canada's legislatures is explicitly not party based.
And more, historically the Canadian Senate is probably better structured
wi... more »
An Econ Conference for Undergrads
In April in Washington, DC.
Meditation Alters Genes: Mind over Matter
Mind over Matter? It does work- I have practiced this myself many many
times in the past.
As conscious BEings, we are the creators of ourselves. More and more
studies have shown that sound, thoughts and emotions are all frequencies
and vibrations. If you apply this simple understanding to your own health,
you can positively effect your body.
Where you pay your energy is where you are directing your energy. Do you
wake up in the morning and complain? Do you worry about your sore knee?
Your headache? Your teeth? Or do you say to yourself "I am happy and
healthy!" Both options ... more »
Why Are Banking Executives In London Killing Themselves?
[image: The Economic Collapse]
The Economic Collapse By Michael Snyder, on January 28th, 2014
[image: JPMorgan Tower In London - Photo by Danesman1]Bankers committing
suicide by jumping from the rooftops of their own banks is something that
we think of when we think of the Great Depression. Well, it just happened
in London, England. A vice president at JPMorgan's European headquarters
in London plunged to his death after jumping from the top of the 33rd
floor. He fell more than 500 feet, and it is being reported by an
eyewitness that "there was quite a lot of blood". This comes on... more »
Busy with the fizzy
As this is a blog (primarily) about the BBC, I’d better stick to the way
the BBC has been reporting the Scarlett Johansson business. Naturally I
think she’s fantastic. A celebrity role model who is sticking to a
principle, and a good one. But the way the BBC is reporting it is odd. In
some ways it’s balanced because for once they have aired the Israeli
argument, but - as if they were afraid of being criticised for doing so -
they’ve sought out the opposition in an almost gratuitous way. I would
argue that it’s gratuitous because that particular position has been
adequately covered ... more »
Where the Hell is Matt? Dance Around The World Video
*Published on Jun 20, 2012*
Put # and then your city and country/state in your comment so I know where
you're from. #Seattle, Washington
Download the video to your computer/tablet/phone:
http://store.wherethehellismatt.com/
Wanna dance with me in in your town?
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/9h7qzss
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhereTheHIsMatt
"Trip the Light" on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/772ot8k
Vocals by Alicia Lemke of Alice and the Glass Lake
www.aliceandtheglasslake.com
*Lyrics:*
www.wherethehellismatt.com/about/faq#triplyrics
The dancers in Syria are blurred for their s... more »
Co-Imagineering our ONEderful New FREEality
A question asked. It is one that each person must weigh and evaluate and
decide for themselves. |
For the greater good? or for the GREATER Good. It's a tough one....
Thank you Pete.
http://peoplestrustsaskatoon.blogspot.ca/2014/01/lets-co-imagineer-our-onedeful-new.html
LET"S CO-IMAGINEER our ONEdeful New FREEality
* There are many many distractions thrown at us. Why is this? Maybe it is
known that these distractions can delay change indefinitely? I doubt that
very much as the positive vibrational frequency just keeps building and is
not going to stop! Or will it?*
* Are we... more »
The Wisdom Of Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov - Light
*Daily Meditation: Friday, January 31, 2014 *
*Light - springs to mind when we meet a true sage "In certain people’s
presence, when you see the expression on their face, how they look at you,
and feel everything they radiate, the word that immediately springs to mind
is ‘light’. As if they were able to distil an imponderable substance in
their heart and soul and then project it out in the form of light. Or as if
they had captured something of the light diffused in space and had
condensed it within them. Their whole body seems made of a translucent
substance within which a flam... more »
Belated Cheers For the Demise of "Free Dominion"
Internet discussion boards appear to be dying. But the rumours of "Free
Dominion's" death* have nothing to do with sociological trends. Like many a
right-wing boor, some person or persons on the site slandered and libeled
an actual person and thought it was protected free speech.
Here's a (too late) legal tip: If you actually believe what you're writing
about someone, then it's libel.
To whit: If you really think someone is a terrorist sympathizer, and you
say that someone is a terrorist sympathizer on a public forum, you can't
turn around later and say you were exaggerating for eff... more »
Greg Hunter, “Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.31.14”
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.31.14”*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
“Let’s go back to the Middle East for the top stories. The Syrian peace
talks have gone nowhere. Absolutely nothing has been accomplished from the
U.S. perspective. They have failed and the best thing you can hope for is
another round of talks. The Syrians and the Assad regime, on the other
hand, look to be the big winners. They claimed to be destroying their
chemical weapon stockpile but are way behind schedule and have only come up
with a little more than 4% of their stockpile. Secretary of Defense Chuck
Hagel is c... more »
HOT SEX IN SWEDEN
* King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (top left).*
The Danish tabloid *Se og Hør* posted an article on its website speculating
that Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf was a suspect in the investigation of
the 23 January 2014 murder of reputed Stockholm underworld kingpin Mille
Markovic.
Danish tabloid fingers Sweden's king as a murder suspect
*Markovic*
*Milo 'Mille' Markovic* was a Serbian-Swedish gangster and 'porn club king'.
Markovic claimed he had photos of *Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf* in
compromising sexual situations with naked strippers.
On 23 January 2014, Markovic was shot de... more »
Leader of the Free World
*Like a good, hardworking Southern Baptist, President Carter apparently
didn't have time for something so silly as turkey pardoning, and so staffed
it out to Roselyn, thereby completing her hat-trick of dubious photo-ops,
alongside Jim Jones and John Wayne Gacy.*
*Arguably, this is an impeachable abuse of power - but only if you believe
that turkeys are subject to the Man's Law, and can be indicted for anything
other than having been born naturally tasty and delicious.*
*Baptists, it seems, are not big on Original Sin.*
Ukraine and How the West Treats Comparable Events in Satellite and Non-Satellite Countries Differently - by Stephen Gowan
The uprising in Ukraine represents a struggle between the West and Russia
to integrate Ukraine economically, and, ultimately, militarily, into their
respective orbits. I take no side in the struggle. All the same, each side
wants me, and you, to take sides. Since I live in the West, and have
greater exposure to the pronouncements of people of state in the West, and
to the Western mass media than I do to their Russian counterparts, I’ll
concentrate herein on analyzing Western efforts to shape public opinion to
support the Western side of the struggle.
*First, a few points by way of... more »
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*Tropical cyclone frequency falls to centuries-low in Australia *
*In America big wind events have been unusually rare in recent years.
Warmists call them "extreme weather" and pretend that they are MORE
frequent and also in some way "proof" of global warming. Skeptics simply
point to the statistics. So it is interesting that in far-away Australia
we have exactly the same situation -- including a proclamation that the
unusual rarity of these rare events "proves" global warming. Hurricanes
and cyclones prove global warming and the absence of hurricanes and
cyclones also proves ... more »
Supporting "Green" Through Our Purchases
[image: Supporting "Green" Through Our Purchases]
The most Eco-friendly purchase is, of course, no purchase at all.
But sometimes we need stuff and when we do, it's important to research
products and buy from companies who make an effort to minimize their impact
on the environment. Supporting such companies sends a clear message that we
insist on products which don't harm the earth through their manufacture,
use, or disposal.
Sounds easy enough, right? Unfortunately, it's not.
Living green has become a trend; consequently, advertisers want to
capitalize on our desire to live a more... more »
Cornered Rat and Pathological Liar Clapper Cries Wolf
Coming on the heels of the all hype and little substance State of the Union
Address in which President Barack Obama once again established himself as
the nation’s preeminent bullshit artist we were all today offered up the theater
of the absurd of a seasoned liar engaged in standard fear-mongering. Obama
may have been devoid of shame when he cynically trotted out wounded Army
Ranger Cory Remsburg to a thunderous roar of bipartisan support for the
perpetual warfare state but as has always been the case for our fine
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper he is in a league of... more »
Shameless: NSA Data Mining Includes Angry Birds
Nothing is sacred to the NSA Stasi and their Norsefire partners across the
pond at GCHQ. In yet another of those very embarrassing revelations that
have generated perverse fantasies among the guilty of the murder of former
government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden the ravenous
security state monster is also conducting data-mining operations on cell
phone apps including the extremely popular Angry Birds game series. In a
collaborative effort by *The Guardian,* The *New York Times* and *Pro
Publica *it was revealed that the Anglo-American surveillance machine ha... more »
Bush Era Goons Issue Open Letter to Decry RNC's NSA Resolution
Remember, remember the eleventh of September. That is the message being
delivered by Bush era thugs in an open letter to RNC Chairman Reince
Preibus over Friday’s daring “Resolution To Renounce The National Security
Agency’s Surveillance Program”. The letter invokes nearly every bullshit
talking point that Americans were fed after the September 11, 2001 attacks
that were then seized upon by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats
(including the signatories) and used to launch two ruinous Middle East wars
and redistribute billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the national
securi... more »
Fanatical Peter King Explodes over Republican NSA Resolution
Predictably the RNC’s resolution to restrain the unconstitutional
activities of the NSA has already met with fierce resistance from one of
the more deranged defenders of the fascist security state. Representative
Peter King of Long Island (as well as the terrorist Irish Republican Army)
exploded over the brand new “Resolution To Renounce The National Security
Agency’s Surveillance Program” before the ink had even had time to dry. For
a very brief time the first step upward out of the gigantic hole that has
been dug for the Republican party by the likes of George W. Bush, Karl
Rove... more »
If Serious, Republican Interest in Curtailing NSA is a Winner
Let us assume just for the sake of argument that the Republican party’s sudden
interest in protecting the privacy of Americans isn’t just a political
gimmick. This is after all a political party that has time and again showed
that they would be willing to sell their own grandmothers and any serious
proposal that comes from this entity should be viewed with extreme
skepticism. But the demographics are rapidly changing and the pandering to
racists, religious fanatics, cranks and outright idiots is increasingly
becoming not only a recipe for losing elections but for becoming a
shrink... more »
Coming to America? Ukraine Burns as Crackdown Looms
In an ominous sign of what will soon be coming to America the Ukranian
government has begun targeting protesters through the tracking of cellphone
metadata. The ongoing unrest that was sparked by President Viktor
Yanukovych’s decision to reject overtures by the European Union to enter
into a trade pact in favor of a rapprochement with mother Russia continues
to rage in the streets of Kiev with no end in sight. The pictures and video
that are put out show a surreal and twisted winter wonderland scene of
fire, paramilitary riot police forces in the traditional Darth Vader
regalia i... more »
Return of “the Decider” - Obama Disagrees With Privacy Board Report
Former U.S. President George W. Bush was widely mocked for his now infamous
utterance in the course of defending Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld -
*"I'm the decider, and I decide what's best"*. Bush passed into history as
one of the least popular and disastrous leaders in American history but now
his once immensely popular successor, Barack Obama is giving the man a run
for his money. Obviously more than a bit miffed over Thursday’s bombshell
report by the report released by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight
Board rebutting Obama’s ongoing defense of the indefensible... more »
After Obama’s Big Speech NSA Programs are Still Illegal
The latest blow to the ongoing national disgrace of unconstitutional mass
surveillance that is being conducted with zero oversight by the NSA came
Thursday morning. The government’s own Privacy and Civil Liberties
Oversight Board released a report that confirms what any rational, thinking
American who is not in the bag for big surveillance already knew: that the
NSA programs to collect phone metadata are illegal. Not that this is a big
deal to President Barack Obama who is still riding high after basically
telling everyone to go to hell in his overly hyped speech last Friday at
th... more »
Blowhard Mike Rogers Can’t Back Up Russian Spy Charges
With the Sunday morning appearance of the two members of Congress that are
the most derelict of their official duties to uphold and protect the
Constitution Mike Rogers and Dianne Feinstein both accusing Edward Snowden
of essentially being a Russian spy the system continues to fail. Despite
these serious allegations, more likely than anything the part of a rapidly
growing narrative to paint the former government contractor turned NSA
whistleblower as an enemy of the state there has been absolutely no effort
from the state-corporate media to confront either of the two NSA toadies
f... more »
Obama's Dilemma: How to Best Kill Snowden
Barack Obama has a problem, with his heralded Friday announcement of NSA
"reforms" being just the latest bill of goods foisted off on a doomed
public by a professional con artist it should now be crystal clear that
there will be no attempts to reign in the American Stasi. What Obama now
has to do is to find an acceptable way to eliminate the source of the
surveillance state's problems which is of course former government
contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden from the equation. Barry's
dilemma is that with Snowden continuing to receive public support -
including what is li... more »
Princeton Snob Sean Wilentz's Epic Snowden-Greenwald-Assange Hit Piece
The establishment is bringing in the big guns to escalate the propaganda
war on former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward
Snowden. In a massive hit piece just published by liberal establishment
magazine The New Republic Princeton historian and writer Sean Wilentz
empties the dirty trick bag in a deranged and rambling knee-capping. In
addition to Snowden - who is likely rising to the top of Obama’s kill list
after El Presidente nixed NSA reforms on Friday –the author also delivers
shots to journalist Glenn Greenwald as well as Wikileaks’ Julian Assange.
I must a... more »
Obama Will Reform NSA Just Like He Closed Gitmo
The fix has always been in on any meaningful accountability or reform for
the NSA under the Obama regime and Sunday morning’s state media propaganda
forums indicate just how powerless that the American people truly are.
Appearing on NBC’s Press the Meat were the NSA Stasi’s two biggest
cheerleaders, apple pie authoritarian House Intelligence Committee capo
Mike Rogers and Senate Intelligence Committee boss Dianne Feinstein. Both
of whom are an ongoing disgrace to any concept of a free country as well as
two serial violators of their oaths to uphold the Constitution and they
gushed... more »
Chump Change: Obama’s NSA “Reforms”
Not that this is exactly earth-shattering news but El Presidente of *The
Homeland*, commander of the U.S. killer drone fleet and overlord of the
U.S. Stasi unconstitutional surveillance programs just pissed down the
backs of all Americans today and told them that it was raining. The much
hyped speech today on the NSA gathering of metadata on the phone calls of
millions of law-abiding American citizens was delivered in the grand hall
of the Department of Injustice and the bullshit artist in chief delivered a
masterpiece of spin, obfuscation and long stale talking points as he
doubl... more »
DISHFIRE Revelations are Opening Act to Obama’s Big NSA "Reforms" Announcement
In the ballyhooed lead up to dear leader’s Friday speech in which he will
outline NSA “reforms” in an effort to begin to put a coat of fresh
whitewash on the rampant unconstitutionality of surveillance programs run
amok the latest revelation of snooping broke today. Not that anyone should
be the least bit surprised given what has already been exposed in terms of
the American Stasi’s frenzied spree of collecting the metadata, emails,
browsing habits, purchasing histories, political views and everything
outside of what Orwell referred to as those *“few cubic centimetres inside
your ... more »
The Al Qaeda Switchboard: Did CIA Obstruction of Justice Enable 9/11 Attacks?
The arguments being presented by the defenders of the NSA Stasi’s metadata
harvesting efforts, in particular federal judge William Pauley whose
post-Christmas ruling erected a firewall for the activities of the
unconstitutional fascist surveillance state should be carefully
scrutinized. A recent article in *The New Yorker *entitled “The Al Qaeda
Switchboard” poses some critical questions for arguments made to justify
the intrusions on the telephone data of tens of millions of law abiding
Americans. The story which was written by the Pulitzer Prize winning
Lawrence Wright who wrote... more »
Financial Times Predicts Bright Future for Libertarians
An article in the online version of the Financial Times, “The tide is
rising for America’s libertarians” by Edward Luce provides some valuable
insight in that younger Americans, coming of age in the era of the abject
failure of big government to do anything but subsidize Wall Street casinos,
wage war and spy on everyone are turning away from the corrupt two party
system. The system, now past any reasonable expectation of ever being fixed
and getting worse by the minute cannot be fixed and while things are bleak
for those of us who are currently entrapped by it the future belongs to... more »
Forked-Tongue McCain Calls for Congressional Investigation of NSA
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Surfacing again on the Sunday morning state propaganda circuit,
blood-thirsty Arizona Senator John McCain, the politician best loved by the
corrupt media made an appearance where he routinely calls for U.S. military
action. On CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley 'flipper' shockingly
commented that there has been "overreach" by the NSA and suggested that a
select committee be formed for Congress to investigate the agency. It was a
rare moment of rationality for *"bomb, bomb Iran"* McCain and should be
taken with the necessary grain of salt. Firstly, any sort of select
commi... more »
Citing Secret Report Fascist Rogers Claims Snowden Aided Terrorists
In the manner befitting the defenders of the NSA mass surveillance programs
House Intelligence Committee head Mike Rogers has now accused former
government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden of putting
our blessed troops in danger. Rogers and his crony Congressman Dutch
Reppersberger (D-Md) whose district just happens to contain Fort Meade
where the the American Stasi headquarters are located used a secret
Pentagon report to back their latest media crusade against reforming the
fascist spying colossus. Not only are they accusing Snowden of putting our
heroic imper... more »
Chris Christie's Colossal Abuse of Power
Watching the presidential hopes of anointed Republican savior Chris
Christie go up in flames like the Hindenburg, another gas giant that met an
untimely demise in New Jersey is a well needed bit of comic relief along
the daily path to the great collapse. The New Jersey Governor, long a
favorite of the corrupt GOP establishment of the Karl Rove wing of the
party has been brought low by the very trait that so endeared him to so
many, his arrogant, sarcastic, bullying way of doing business. He enraged
the so-called tea party wing with his appearances with Barack Obama last
fall prior... more »
Back to Fallujah
The famous warning by George Santayana that *"those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it"* is like pearls cast before swine in the
land of the permanent war that is the Homeland circa 2014. With the
reverberations from former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ sucker punch
to the solar plexus of former boss Barack Obama now in their second full
day the dogs of war are howling and their keening pitch is that of
Fallujah. This is the Iraqi city that was descended upon by American forces
in spring of 2004 after the brutal ambush, murder and hanging of the
mutilated... more »
Media Hypes Pissing Contest Between War Criminals
Like the vast majority of well known former government officials Robert
Gates, the Secretary of Defense for both Bush Jr. and Obama has capitalized
on his gig to write a tell all book and the early excerpts have elicited a
near orgasmic response from the punditry. Gates book, "Duty: Memoirs of a
Secretary at War" firmly embeds the hatchet between the shoulder blades of
the narcissist in chief and the knives are out in a media attracted to
sensationalist sleaze, tabloid tales and best of all political back biting.
Not that Obama doesn't have it coming, his administration's contempt ... more »
The Hypocrisy of Obama's MSNBC Water Carriers
Seldom discussed as a propaganda organ that is in its own right every bit
the equal of Fox News MSNBC plumbs the depths of political discourse in
providing a constant forum of dishonesty and hypocrisy. The network, which
is owned by GE, one of the largest defense contractors of the U.S. military
industrial complex regularly shills for more war albeit wrapped up in the
bright shining lie of a package of humanitarian interventions. The
resulting dead from the collateral damage of wars of aggression or missions
of ‘mercy’ are no different and the profits reaped by GE remain constant.... more »
Insane Demagogue Peter King Goes the Full McCarthy
*"**"If we listened to Rand Paul hundreds of New Yorkers would be dead
today"*
*- Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-IRA)*
When it comes to screwing America there are few more guilty than New York’s 2nd
Congressional District that continues to return the psychotic bigot Peter
King (R-IRA) to his overly prominent position as the craziest bastard in
the U.S. Congress. The one thing with King is that he never ceases to amaze
with his uncanny ability to one up his latest asinine proclamation with yet
another that is even more batshit crazy than the one befor. After an ... more »
Big Sister Napolitano is the Latest Ghoul to Defend NSA Stasi
With the massive establishment counteroffensive against efforts to bring
the American Stasi under control it was a virtual certainty that this
week's Sunday morning state media propaganda shows would feature a
veritable parade of Nazis to smear the New York Times, the ACLU, federal
Judge Richard Leon and of course former government contractor turned NSA
leaker Edward Snowden. You know that it is all hands on deck when none
other than Big Sister herself, former Department of Homeland Security head
Janet Napolitano appeared on Meet the Press very appropriately via
telescreen. Napoli... more »
A Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy: Main Core and PROMIS
*“Over the last two weeks I have encountered just such an apocalyptic
situation, where I and the Department of Justice have been asked to be part
of something that is fundamentally wrong.”(Excerpt from Deputy Attorney
General James Comey’s draft letter of resignation to President Bush, dated
March 16, 2004, which Comey did not in the end send.)"Nothing was your own
except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull"(George Orwell: 1984)*
*I: Main Core and PROMIS*
Suppose that the United States Government, or more likely an unaccountable
privatized intelligence colossus empowe... more »
India's Corrupt, Dysfunctional Politics Comes To California
The first time I got to India, in 1969, I went the hard way-- overland in a
VW van from Europe. What a trip, and I stayed in India, Nepal, Ceylon and
Pakistan for two years. Over the years, I've been back many times, most
recently over the Christmas holidays in 2012. And in the last decade, every
time I went, there was some kind of election involving a fascist Indian
politician, Narendra Modi, head of India's far right Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), which, in the right-wing constellation, is as more akin to the Nazi
Party than the Republican Party. Imagine Paul Ryan's economic agend... more »
Kaya Henderson Implicated in Rhee Cheating Scandal that Will Not Die
*From CBS WASHINGTON* — An elementary school principal’s claim that she saw
teachers erasing answers on students’ test sheets had reached District of
Columbia Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson’s desk within 24 hours of the
alleged incident in late 2010, according to emails obtained by The
Associated Press through a public records request.
Henderson was notified about the alleged cheating by two officials with the
Washington Teachers’ Union, the emails show. However, school system
officials did little to investigate the specific claims and never
interviewed the principal about them, ... more »
After Supporting Al-Qaeda Terrorism Against The Egyptian State, Al Jazeera Gets A Strong Response
Al Jazeera Journalists Face Egypt Terror Charges: Cairo charges journalists
with aiding 'terrorists'. Source: JewishNewsOne. Date Published: January 30.
Guess who is not in favoring of Al Jazeera facing strict justice for their
support for Al-Qaeda terrorism and their crimes against the Egyptian
people, nation, and state? None other than John Insane McCain, *the nutjob
who posed with Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria last year*.
Whatever John Insane McCain is against, it means it is good. Whatever he is
for, it means it is bad. So it is a good thing that the Egyptian people and
state... more »
Fukushima Daiichi is Steaming Pink Today
I was too busy today to watch the cams much but at 5:15 p.m. US west coast
time I saw what looked like an earthquake on the TEPCO cam, followed by a
pink haze surrounding the plant, which was then followed by the cam going
down. TEPCO cam remained down even when I tried a new browser.
I had to leave and just got back to my computer 2 hours later. The site
still looks very strange, pink, and pixilated. The TEPCO cam looks like it
is failing, but the TBS cam has the same quality of shimmering waves of
pixilation as visible on the TEPCO cam. Something at the site itself may be
produci... more »
Friday Afternoon Ramble: The State of Disunion Edition
America, and half of what was once the free world, shut down last night to
listen to a bloke talk nonsense.
“… I used to fume and fume about our latter-day Speech from the Throne, but
lately I’m no longer sure it’s worth the bother. For the speech to be worth
getting worked up about, somebody would have to be listening.”
*The State of the Union Is…Irrelevant* – Gene Healy, CATO AT LIBERTY
“President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday wasn’t what I
wanted to hear. This is what the president should have said.”
*Re-state of the Union: What Obama Should Have Said* – Jo... more »
Natural Gas Prices
They can no longer be natural. Put on the tinfoil if you must, but those
safe behind the waves of reality distortion see what was once an option now
has become a must.
Untitled
*Louisiana-Army Corps agreement to provide new money for coastal
restoration projects ~Mark Schleifstein*
Hey, sports fans, it's raining phony 100s in Super Bowl City!
*Plus: "Mullah John Smith" update*
*No, this isn't the alert for the current wave of phony $100 bills flooding
Super Bowl City. Still, I think it conveys the general spirit of the
current excitement in the Big Apple.*
*by Ken*
Here in the Big Apple some of us are in the grip of Super Bowl XLVIII
Mania. Or I should probably say "here in the Greater NY-NJ Metropolitan
Area," since the NJ folk are touchy about being preempted by the Big Apple,
what with the game being played in their state -- in East Rutherford's
MetLife Stadium, the home of the, er, New York Giants and New York Jets... more »
How Do You Change a Policy That Doesn’t Exist?: the combat exclusion one year later
Despite numerous calls to ‘Let Women Fight’, internal reviews of the
policy, and growing evidence of women’s contributions to operations in Iraq
and Afghanistan, the January 2013 announcement that the combat exclusion
would be removed was not entirely expected. For years leading up to the
announcement, Congress and the Department of Defense had justified the
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the devastating impact of Obamacare. One employee said, “they call it the
affordable health plan? There is nothing affordable about it … wake up
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False Flag alert ! Intelligence reports say there is a threat of a terrorist attack on US soil by an Al-Qaida-linked group based in Syria. But despite the Mideast country increasingly resembling a haven for terrorists, the US is still not convinced it wants to deal with the government. James Clapper should have been fired for perjury before our spineless Congress - anyone who trust him or believes a word from his lips is a fool ! But assume the intel has merit - why did Congress just secretly approve providing more weapons to Rebels who will promptly have them seized by the much stronger and aggressive Al Qaeda elements in Syria ?
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Intelligence reports say there is a threat of a terrorist attack on US soil
by an Al-Qaida-linked group based in Syria.
But despite the Mideast country increasingly resembling a haven for
terrorists, t... more »
330 US drone strikes in Pakistan recorded in Leaked official document - simply amazing ! Key takeaways -- The Bureau is today publishing a leaked official document that records details of over 300 drone strikes, including their locations and an assessment of how many people died in each incident. The document is the fullest official record of drone strikes in Pakistan to have yet been published. It provides rare insight into what the government understands about the campaign. It also provides details about exactly when and where strikes took place, often including the names of homeowners. These details can be valuable to researchers attempting to verify eyewitness reports – and are often not reported elsewhere. But interestingly, the document stops recording civilian casualties after 2008, even omitting details of well-documented civilian deaths and those that have been acknowledged by the government.
330 US drone strikes in Pakistan recorded in Leaked official document
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The Bureau is today publishing a leaked official document that records
details of over 300 drone strikes, including their locations and an
assessment of how many people died in each incident.
The document is the fullest official record of drone strikes in Pakistan to
have yet been published. It provides rare insight into what the government
understands about the campaign.
It also provides details about exactly when a... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Just-In Time'
JUST-IN
TIME
Mohawk Nation News
Posted on January 30, 2014
MNN. Jan. 31, 2014. It was May 1979 when a silver limousine pulled up
beside my daughters and I on Wellington Street in, Ottawa, by the
Parliament Buildings. A man in the back seat motioned me to roll down my
window. It was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. He told me he would call
me the next day. I thought nothing more of it.
Mohawk Nation News 'Steering the Revolution'
STEERING
THE REVOLUTION
Posted on January 29, 2014
Mohawk Nation News
MNN. Jan. 29, 2014. Canada and the true globalists are trying to steal
the agenda through “Idle No More Inc.” When Idle No More incorporated,
it became registered as a sub-corporation within the rules of the
Corporation of Canada. Idle No More Inc. is not grassroots, grassroots
don’t have millions of dollars to
The only education policy consideration that matters.
Every decision in education, whether it be made by: A classroom teacher, a
principal, a district administrator, state or federal officials, corporate
leaders or philanthropists, should apply the following consideration:
“Would you want your own child to learn under this policy?” Connect with
Chris Cerrone on twitter: @Stoptesting15 Filed under: CHRIS CERRONE: The
"Parentucator"
MyRA hyping begins......Treasury Secretary follows up with speech to hype President Obama's State of the Union Executive Action MyRa scheme ..... short answer as to what's in this for the average Joe and Jane - not much !
The MyRA Propaganda Begins: "A Start To A Secure Retirement" Promises
Treasury Secretary
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- Barack Obama
- Federal Deficit
- None
- Obama Administration
- Recession
- recovery
- Student Loans
- Treasury Department
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You didn't think the US could at first slowly, and then all of a sudden,
expropriate retirement accounts and invest them in the "*no risk,
guaranteed return*" MyRA Ponzi scheme introduced by Obama during the State
of the Union address without... more »
Sex: What Our Genes Have to Say
*Guest post by Doug Hornig, from the **Casey Daily Dispatch*
Human sexuality. It's complex and the subject of never-ending debate within
our society. Could genetics help shed some light on the issue? Turns out,
yes.
Specifically, it has something to say about what our "natural" pattern of
mating behaviour might be.
Yes, I put "natural" in quotes because there probably is no such thing.
Given human cultural variability, any kind of generalizing is about as
useful as classifying flowers by stalk length. But there are a few things
of which we are certain.
First of all, humans are ... more »
First Step: Republicans Win Food Stamp War - Nation Dies (Your Representatives Just Gave Your Winter Food Money To 'Thugs - Diaper Dave Vitter At the Helm) Thug Rule In NC Deepens? (SOTU Farce Called)
I will organize and vote against any politician who votes to hurt those at
the bottom of the wealth pyramid, and especially against those who vote to
cut food stamps, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And you should
too. After all, that's the only way to counter the malicious damage being
done to our country by the TeaThugs. BREAKING: Conservative Dems Work With
Republicans To Cut
Al Qaeda groups in Syria want to attack US ?
*As I read this headline- the first thought that comes to mind is ‘wow the
US just never gives up” on pushing the ‘terror’ meme!But then it serves
them so dam well?Recall I had mentioned so many months back about that
changing narrative? From arab spring to fighting terrorIf AQ is in Syria
and it want’s to attack the US... does this mean the US with it’s NATO
subordinates will just have to intervene?*
*If AQ is in Syria, why is it the US just keeps sending arms that way?*
*Clapper is ‘flapping his lips’ for some reason. *
Syrian al-Qaeda-linked groups want to attack the United Stat... more »
“A Glimpse into the Coming Economic Collapse”
*“A Glimpse into the Coming Economic Collapse”*
By Jeff Thomas
“Beginning in 1999, we predicted a systemic economic collapse that would
take place in the First World and would impact all other economies. We
began to list some of the "dominoes" that would fall as the collapse
evolved and described that the "Great Unravelling," as we termed it, would
take roughly ten years. At that time, we guesstimated that the first two of
the dominoes, a real estate crash and subsequent stock market crash in the
US, would begin in about 2005.
We were premature in this prediction, as the first of t... more »
American Addict- Gregory Smith and John Rappaport
*Excellent Interview!*
*With much thanks to Lana @ Radio3-14 *
The film American Addict unveils how America has gone from the land of the
free to the land of the addicted. America represents 5% of the world's
population but consumes 50% of the world's prescription pills and over 80%
of the world's prescription narcotics; this is not a coincidence. We'll
discuss the relationships between the FDA, big Pharma, physicians and the
media that are in place to ensure that medical problems are treated
primarily with pills. We'll talk about the horrific consequences that
result from this. G... more »
Is Howard Hughes Dead and Buried Off a Greek Island? - BY MAE BRUSSELL AND STEPHANIE CARUANA (From Playgirl magazine, December 1974)
*Is Howard Hughes Dead and Buried Off a Greek Island?*
*A noted theorist on conspiracies, a contributing editor, and an informer
named Tiger Eye bring us an unlikely tale. Or is it?*
BY MAE BRUSSELL AND STEPHANIE CARUANA
*(From Playgirl magazine, December 1974)*
------------------------------
Howard Hughes is dead," said Tiger Eye. "He died on Tenos, a Greek
island, on April 16, 1971. His coffin was lowered into the sea the next
day, off the coast of Tenos.
"Lots of people know, they just don't talk about it. It's called the
Golden Silence -- *omerta*."
Reference: a fr... more »
Thursday Linkage (I’m not even going to pretend it’s morning…)
Your humble blogger (I like saying that. Now that Dan Drezner no longer has
a blog [sniff], I will say it for him)…Your humble blogger is in London,
and after a red eye flight, a noon presentation, ten hours of a sleep coma,
another presentation, I’m ready to provide you with your latest in belated
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My Proposed (but not accepted) Bet with Paul Krugman on the Obama Forecast
Scott Sumner declares that I would have been the winner.
Glory Road
There is so much money invested every day in entertainment trash. The key
to making profits is a good story. You can put great actors into a bad
place and lose a lot of money. You can put unknown actors into a great
story and make superstars.
If I had a million dollars this is the story I would tell.
What worries Americans?
When Gallup recently asked Americans what the biggest problem facing the
United States is, the four most common answers were dissatisfaction with
government, the economy in general, unemployment, and healthcare. Each was
mentioned by more than 15 percent of those polled. The gap between rich
and poor was mentioned by only 4 percent.
If President Obama wants to make the 2014 electoral debate about income
inequality, as he seems to, he has an uphill climb ahead of him.
Easiest Question Of The Day: Why Is Henry Waxman REALLY Retiring?
When Henry Waxman retires next year, he will be 75 years old. He will have
served in Congress for 4 decades… 40 years! Even before being elected to
Congress he had been a member of the state legislature. The man has served
his country for a long time. He has 5 grandchildren. This morning he announced
his retirement. People are reading much more into it-- as they did when
George Miller announced his retirement-- than they should.
The lesson? Democrats aren't really counting on re-taking the House in 2014.
Waxman is the fourth top Democrat on a House committee who has either
calle... more »
Why This Connecticut Teacher Wants to Give Up Teaching
*"My value as a teacher is now reduced to how successful I am in getting a
student who has eaten no breakfast and is a pawn in her parents' divorce to
score well enough to meet my teacher evaluation goals."*
Why This Connecticut teacher wants to give up teaching.
Unfortunately, government attempts to improve education are stripping the
joy out of teaching and doing nothing to help children. The Common Core
standards require teachers to march lockstep in arming students with
"21st-century skills." In English, emphasis on technology and nonfiction
reading makes it more important for ... more »
By their tweets do ye know them
The ever-attentive DB at *Biased BBC* has highlighted a revealing Twitter
response from a BBC News journalist, Roland Hughes, to the news of Scarlett
Johansson’s decision to cut ties with Oxfam over the charity's criticism of
her adverts for Israeli company SodaStream.
Please give it a read. It shows a BBC journalist revealing his anti-Israel
hand - and then hastily deleting it.
And if that doesn't call for a picture of Scarlett Johansson I don't know
what does!
The Economy: “The Return of the Worldwide Crack-Up Boom”
*“The Return of the Worldwide Crack-Up Boom”*
by Bill Bonner
“A kiss is still a kiss. A sigh is still a sigh… And a bubble is still a
bubble. When a kiss is over, it’s over. When a bubble pops…well…that’s all
she wrote! All kisses end – even the wettest “French” kisses. And so do all
bubbles – even sloppy mega-bubbles of liquidity. This one will be no
exception. But of course, it’s not the certainties that make life
interesting… it’s the uncertainties – the known unknowns and the unknown
unknowns, as Mr. Rumsfeld says. We are all born of woman and end up where
all men born of women... more »
The Newsnight of the Living Dead
Fans of Radio 4's *Down the Line *will know of the recurring character
Khalid. He invariably rings up to ask 'What is point?' of something or
other. Well, in the spirit of Khalid, what is point wasting time analysing
*Newsnight*?
After all, according to the *Daily Mail*, *Newsnight* attracts a paltry
600,000 viewers a night on average. The *Guardian *suggests the figure
fluctuates somewhere between 600,000 and below 800,000, averaging somewhere
in the middle of those two figures.
Either way, those are truly dreadful viewing figures, and *Newsnight* ultimate
demise seems now to b... more »
i am really a librarian: in which i attend my first ola, and get paid for it, too
For the next three days, I'll be attending the Ontario Library
Association's annual Superconference, always referred to simply as "OLA".
As the name implies, this is a gigantic conference covering issues related
to all three types of libraries - public, academic, and special. You can
see a program here.
In library school, we were strongly encouraged to attend OLA. Students can
volunteer to help run conference sessions in exchange for free attendance.
I never did (honestly, I never even considered it), so now I attend my very
first OLA, already a professional, and in place of three w... more »
Old in your face
Some things just shout out to your perfectly toned body and mind, slathered
with wrinkle cream and mind exercises that your getting old. We are living
in the future today, but like everyone else I already knew that yesterday.
A hardy shout out to Southern Man and Oldphartte. In particular Oldphartte
is like my version of the Drudge Report.
Trance music gets real old with me real quick, but sample this.
Today University of Arizona continues exploitation of Native Americans
University
of Arizona continues exploitation of Native American resources: Water
rights, desecration of sacred lands, racial profiling and militarization
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
TUCSON -- Today the University of Arizona in Tucson continues its
exploitation of Native people and their resources, with a featured
speaker on water rights who is opposed by Navajo and Hopi people.
Navajos and
Davis flap hits Times front page!
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014*
*Complete with lack of reporting:* Did Wendy Davis ever misrepresent her
widely-discussed life story?
We’d have to say we aren’t really sure, though she perhaps maybe might
have. We’d also say that some of the backlash has been standard-issue
disgraceful, including the venomous statements by Fox’s predictably
horrible Erick Erickson, formerly of CNN.
This morning, the flap hit the front page of the New York Times, complete
with the famous newspaper’s famous lack of reporting.
Too perfect:
In part, the Times is assessing the claim that Davis has misrep... more »
The "RV", China, SwissIndo and Slavery 2.0
The past 18 hours have been brought to you by a mixture of adrenaline and
caffeine. My greatest wish at this point of my exhaustive state is that I
wish I had made a recording of the past 22 hours as I now have to rely on
my brain to organize the massive amount of information that we have been
through in the past 18 hours. ... it would of been a hell of a lot easier
to have been able to just post the recording of the discussions!
At the bottom of this article I am going to blast you with a massive amount
of links to transparent news stories that I feel are important for people
to r... more »
Can You Tell Someone Is Conservative Just By Looking At Their Face?
Would you ever in a billion years imagine either of these 2 gentlemen is a
liberal?
By now, everyone has seen Staten Island Mafia thug Michael "Mikey Suits"
Grimm (R-NY) in action at the State of the Union address. You may have
missed Sean Hannity though. He was there as a guest of right-wing kook
Louie Gohmert (R-TX). And, in fact, Hannity has been threatening to leave
New York and move down to Texas, where more people appreciate his
anti-democratic leanings-- and where rich people don't pay taxes. When
someone on Facebook asked him if he'd consider running for office in Texas,
he ... more »
NFL'S SUPER SHAME / CTE
*As we get ready for another super bowl, the NFL's super shame, becomes
more obvious as former NFL player's brain injuries and CTE deaths keep
piling up ~ for example there were 152 NFL concussions in 2013 with the
majority being wide receiver and corner back positions and the obvious
danger of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) proportionally increased
along with the NFL's shame: Allen L Roland *
*A few nights ago I watched League Of Denial on Frontline and was amazed at
the depth of the NFL's concussion crisis. *Watch this hour long documentary
on the hidden s... more »
You Make My Heart Saur Valentine with Free Printable
[image: Housewife Eclectic: You Make My Heart Saur Valentine with Free
Printable]
I have enjoyed making and sharing our Valentine's this year so much. Today
I am sharing our sixth printable. This Dinosaur Valentine is really easy to
pull together and perfect for anybody.I found these Grow and Glow Dinosaurs
at the dollar store with four to a package. If you buy just regular
dinosaur figures, you can get more out of one package, but I thought my
nephews would love the glow and grow dinosaurs, so I went with them.
You will need:
- printable valentine found at the end of this blog ... more »
Tennessee Classroom Video Camera Project Spending Millions to Extend Teacher and Student Surveillance
*Tennessee Classroom Video Camera Project Spending Millions to Extend
Teacher and Student Surveillance*
Jim Horn and Denise Wilburn
In a move to quell growing concern among parents over security issues
related to new Common Core testing and the collection of student data, Tennessee
Commissioner of Education Kevin Huffman recently assured skeptical
lawmakers and parents that “the federal government is prohibited from
establishing a student-level *database* that would contain assessment data
for every student.”
Despite these assurances, the TN Department of Education has been eng... more »
Science and Politics with Henry Waxman
Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) announced today that he will not be running
for re-election in 2014. He has been a true role model as a public servant
and member of Congress. The nation is better for his service. I wish him
all the best in what comes next for him.
I have had several opportunities to present Congressional testimony before
Mr. Waxman. My favorite exchange occurred in 2007 when I was testifying
before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the
subject of the science shenanigans of the Bush Administration.
My testimony was focused not on the partisa... more »
BUSY DRONE ACTION SPRING COMING
*CALL FOR SPRING DAYS OF ACTION – 2014*
Today we issue an international call for *Spring Days of Action – 2014, *a
coordinated campaign in April and May to:
* End Drone Killing, Drone Surveillance and Global Militarization *
The campaign will focus on drone bases, drone research facilities and test
sites and drone manufacturers.
The campaign will provide information on:
1. The suffering of tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Yemen, Somalia and Gaza who are under drone attack, documenting the
killing, the wounding and the devastating impact of constan... more »
WHAT A GIFT
This creative video is from Gangjeong village on Jeju Island. Grace Kim
writes, "It's an experimental short fiction film [by Han Kang Joung]
composed of documentary footage from Gangjeong. The film follows the
routine of a 'supernatural' living in Gangjeong and helping police to lift
up the protesters in the air."
I also wonder what the police are thinking. When the Global Network held
our annual conference on Jeju this time two years ago we saw many police
who were roughly preventing Korean protesters from getting into kayaks to
go out onto their sacred rocky coastline to protec... more »
Are You One Cold (Or Super Bowl Flu) Away From Being Fired?
It's cold and flu season, so you may be sick right now. It's likely you'll
be sick at some point this year. Maybe you'll suffer from Super Bowl flu on
Monday after too much partying on Sunday (or your boss will assume you
partied too much if you call in sick Monday).
So what are your rights? Can you be fired for being out sick? What if you
have a doctor's note? Connecticut and six cities (Jersey City, NJ; New York
City; Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC)
have paid sick leave laws. Nebraska and California legislators recently
introduced bills to require... more »
A bit of believing
“Now it takes a bit of believing that someone could be put in fear of their
life by a cartoon but that’s the world we’re living in. When a Liberal
Democrat candidate was shown a cartoon showing Jesus and Mohammad and then
Tweeted that image, he so irritated some members of the Muslim community
that they’ve demanded that he be stripped of his position in the party.
Maajid Nawaz Tweeted that he didn’t feel threatened by the image despite
the Islamic prohibition on likenesses of the prophet.”
..............said Jeremy Paxman introducing the Jesus and Mo T shirt
debacle on Newsnight.... more »
Response to Obama’s Early Childhood Education Plan
President Obama promised us something in his State of the Union address
that I think is bad news for our kids. Here is the excerpt, with my reply
underneath: Race to the Top, with the help of governors from both parties,
has helped states raise expectations and performance. Teachers and
principals in schools from Tennessee […]
In which BBC News abandons all pretence of fact checking | BBC Watch
The story here
http://bbcwatch.org/2014/01/30/in-which-bbc-news-abandons-all-pretence-of-fact-checking/helps
to illustrate why I and many other supporters of the only multi
cultural democracy in the Middle East, Israel, hate the BBC.
Children Tortured at Medomsley Detention Centre UK
For those of you that say the ritual child abuse does not go on, does not
happen, or for those that still turn away and refuse to see here is
shockingly the chilling true tale of how more than 143 people have come
forward to tell Durham Police of the horrific sexual, mental and physical
abuse that they suffered at MEDOMSLEY detention centre, since this BBC
report this number has doubled.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-25834368
“Boys at a detention centre asked other inmates to break their legs in
order to be moved elsewhere and escape being abused by staff, a former
d... more »
We learn a great many false facts from elites!
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014*
*Maddow does it again:* As we noted in our last post, we get a lot of the
things we “know” from our ruling elites.
Our elites settle on a “fact.” We all get told that it’s true.
It’s a bad way to proceed. Often, our elites agree to tell us facts which
simply aren’t true. One example:
In the fall of 2012, the nation was told a bunch of crap about the things
Susan Rice supposedly said.
Plainly, the things we were told weren’t true. But so what? Everyone agreed
to say them, or at least not to challenge the script. Example:
For two solid months, Rachel M... more »
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART SIX
*Barnardo's Duncroft Scool.*
*2009* - Jimmy Savile is interviewed under caution by Surrey police
investigating an alleged indecent assault
at Duncroft school.
Four teenagers claim they were abused by Jimmy Savile at Duncroft Scool in
Surrey when it was run by Barnardo's.
The notorious Crown Prosecution Service advised there was insufficient
evidence to take any further action.
Police failed to interview headmistress.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...llegation.html
Cherie Blair, wife of Tony Blair, is President of Barnardo's.
There have been many child abuse allegations c... more »
Edward Snowden - NWO actor
Subscribe to *The Realist Report on YouTube*
*Mike King on The Realist Report*
JPMorgan Loses 44% of Gold Inventories in 4 Days!
I am posting this to further the point I am about to make with the next
article .....
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=298034
*JPMorgan Loses 44% of Gold Inventories in 4 Days!*
*Posted By: igots2noDate: Wednesday, 29-Jan-2014 16:31:08 *
In another stunning withdrawal, JP Morgan had an additional 321,500 oz gold
ounces removed from its vaults today.
Since last Thursday, JP Morgan has lost 44% (20 metric tons = 643,000 oz)
of its gold inventories.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the table below is worth over
$400 million (at current market prices): ... more »
Vote Now! Demonstrate the Blogging Contributions to IR Scholarship
One of the best ways to respond to the ISA Executive Committee proposal is
to demonstrate the professionalism and the significant intellectual and
scholarly contribution that blogging makes to the IR profession. We’ve
assembled a slate of impressive nominees in four categories for outstanding
On-line Achievements in International Studies (OAIS) Awards for this year.
If
Continue reading
Harper's Conservatives Further Damaging Canada
Are Harper's CONs completely out of touch? Don't they realize this is a
multicultural country? Harper's CONs seem to have no use for Muslims, given
statements by Harper's Chief of Communications towards a leading Canadian
Muslim group, the National Council of Canadian Muslims, deriding them as a
group with "terrorist" ties. This derisive statement reinforces negative
stereotypes against Muslims, and is unbefitting for someone speaking on
behalf of the Prime Minister. The flippant attitude of the Conservatives is
appalling, especially in light of a libel action by the Muslim group
... more »
Musical Interlude: Michael Jackson, “Earth Song”
Michael Jackson, “Earth Song”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAi3VTSdTxU
Billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra Seeks Personal Fiefdom in Northern Thailand
*January 30, 2014* (ATN) - For years, Thaksin Shinawatra, his political
machine, and his Western backers have attempted to sell "liberation
ideology" to the north and northeast of Thailand, in an attempt to
implement imperialism's favorite stratagem - divide and conquer.
Now, the Western media and Thaksin Shinawatra's embattled proxy regime are
openly making plans to consolidate their crumbling support base in the
north of Thailand in the city of Chiang Mai, and declare it the "capital."
*Image: “This country has no justice. We want to split the country” (Photo
by Saiarun Pinad... more »
Forced Displacement Returns To Iraq Part II
Starting in the summer of 2013 disturbing stories began emerging from Iraq
of both armed groups and regular citizens forcing people out of their homes
due to their sect or ethnicity. This occurred in Diyala, Ninewa, and Babil
where the Islamic State of Iraq and other insurgent groups were likely
responsible. There were also reports of refugees from Dhi Qar and Basra as
well where angry citizens forced people out because they were blamed for
violence, or being scapegoated for the actions of militants in the rest of
the country. It now appears that this trend actually started a bit ... more »
Philadelphia Ritz East Theater Feb. 6th, 6 PM
*STANDARDIZED Lies, Money & Civil Rights: How Testing Is Ruining Public *
*Education**: **A Documentary*
By Daniel Hornberger
January 28, 2014
*Philadelphia, PA *– Reading-based Rockfish Productions’ documentary *STANDARDIZED
*will make its Philadelphia debut at 6PM onThursday, February 6th at The
Ritz East Theater (S. 2nd Street). *STANDARDIZED *opens with a brief
synopsis of the history of standardized testing in public schools. While
many point the finger at the failed NCLB program, the desire to create a
national curriculum began many years before the presidency of George W.... more »
THE STATE OF THE UNION IS: Heavily scripted!
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014*
*Interlude—Preschool’s one brief shining moment:* Something unusual
happened this morning.
For that reason, we’ll postpone, until our next post, the topic we had
planned to discuss here.
Something unusual happened today! On the New York Times op-ed page, three
different columns discussed the explosive, hot new trend toward preschool
education.
Attention to a public school issue? This sort of thing just isn’t done! We
thought we’d give you an overview.
Two of the pieces were written by regular columnists—Gail Collins and
Nicholas Kristof. By way of co... more »
A Force To Be Reckoned With
Yesterday, Justin Trudeau gave Stephen Harper and Tom Mulcair migraines.
Micheal den Tandt writes:
In one bold, risky and unexpected gambit, Justin Trudeau has turned the
national debate about the Red Chamber on its head, blasted a crater-sized
hole in the Conservative government’s strategy to sell its version of
Senate reform, and forced NDP leader Tom Mulcair to play catch-up on his
marquee issue.
Trudeau knows that the Supreme Court will rule that the Senate cannot be
reformed without the participation of the provinces. He also knows that
Harper doesn't negotiate with the pro... more »
Elizabeth Warren: "It Hurts... It Just Makes Me Madder Than Hell"
*-by Mike Lux*
She has always been willing to push for what is right no matter how
powerful the lobbyists on the other side are. And it was fitting that the
event we did with her was in a church, because the politics she preaches
are deeply moral-- the politics not of right and left, but of right and
wrong.
President Obama gave a terrific State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
His message was broadly progressive in a wide variety of ways, really
focused on economic issues which will help low and middle income families,
which was great to see.
I was especially delighted by his ... more »
EU has secret plan for police to 'remote stop' cars - Telegraph
' The European Union is secretly developing a "remote stopping" device to
be fitted to all cars that would allow the police to disable vehicles at
the flick of a switch from a control room.'
More here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10605328/EU-has-secret-plan-for-police-to-remote-stop-cars.html
Because there's no way that a car could be disabled by mistake or the
disabling device activate mistakenly or be hacked... Bloody dangerous and
contrary to civil liberties. I presume the British Labour party are
therefore in favour...
Under Ed Miliband's plan, unions will have 90pc of the Labour leadership vote. What the hell happened? - Telegraph Blogs
A bloody good question but not one that the BBC will ask. More here
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100257433/under-ed-milibands-plan-unions-will-have-90pc-of-the-labour-leadership-vote-what-the-hell-happened/
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