Saturday, November 02, 2013

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The SNAPping Point

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 minutes ago
I'm just going to make this short and sweet because I have other things to do today (today's first post was dashed off yesterday and put in the can because I knew I'd be busy). If you've been paying attention to recent events, you'll know that President Obama's 2009 Recovery Act (signed into law less than a month after he took office) ended yesterday at midnight, automatically triggering $5,000,000,000 in cuts to the food stamp or SNAP program. Almost a year after Mrs. JP lost her job at the sign shop into which I'd gotten her a month after she moved up here, we had to... more »

pretend

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 22 minutes ago

. Truck drivers Beware, Economic prediction

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 26 minutes ago
When it comes to extrapolating or predicting as some people call what I do some are easy to do others are so out outrageous that are only kept in my private analog diary. Within a few short years 7 to 12 years form today quite a few families whose economy depend on driving a truck, must begin to prepare themselves for the loss of that income today. WHY? Let's look at some jobs that currently use truck drivers, Garbage/ Refuse, Grocery delivery and Fresh produce drivers. How are these jobs in danger of disappearing like the horse carriage and the Ice delivery men? Technology. Eve... more »

Canada's Right Leaning MSM Is Starting To Realize What Progressives Have Long Known About The Distrubing Character Of Stephen Harper ..

leftdog at Buckdog - 30 minutes ago
* *** *Andrew Coyne: Harper speech a parody of a parody of an empty cliché * *You have to understand: He is not ever going to change. He is not ever going to admit error or show contrition or "let people see his heart" or "share his vision" or do any of what the dimestore philosophers in my chosen trade advise him to do.* *Every time Stephen Harper comes to a moment where he's supposed to "pivot" or "raise his game" or "reset," he responds with ... more of the same. Every speech that is supposed to be an opportunity to broaden his message or show a new face or signal his concern or ... more »

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 37 minutes ago
The latest filibuster showdown in the Senate matters, both because it might very well end the filibuster, and because it matters whether or not Barack Obama's choices wind up on the DC Circuit Court. I'm not sure what I have for this week, so I'll just repeat the new research which confirms that open vs. closed primaries don't matter. That's what I have. What about you? What do you think mattered this week?

Outright hatred coming from 5th graders. This is urban school reform manifest.

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 47 minutes ago
I am familiar with a group of fifth graders who are in real crisis. This isn’t some manufactured, fake, phony crisis like A Nation at Risk or something. This is real. I see a classroom of children at ten and 11 years of age so filled with rage and hate and anger that their entire […]

One of our own

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 1 hour ago
From Our Own Correspondent is supposed to be amusing and off beat. It’s the correspondent’s personal take on a subject, in contrast to their real job, eagle-eyed reporting of newsworthy incidents, which crop up wherever he/she is deployed. Listeners hope and trust they can depend on him/her to enlighten and educate us, after having witnessed, on our behalf, all manner of happenings in strange lands and faraway places. Sometimes an episode is quirky, and sometimes informative and entertaining as well. But the personal take is nearly always pure BBC, especially when it comes to matte... more »

When Will He Turn On Them?

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 2 hours ago
Some of Stephen Harper's most perceptive critics are on the right. This week, in the Sun newspapers, John Robson called for Stephen Harper's resignation: Unless it is OK for the prime minister to lie repeatedly and openly on an important matter, Stephen Harper must resign or be dismissed. And this morning, in the Postmedia papers, Andrew Coyne reviews Stephen Harper's speech tot e assembled throng in Calgary: And so we get this damp recital of past slogans, this parody of a parody of an empty cliché of a speech, this 4,000 word migraine. A strong, stable national government! P... more »

Why Would Congress Let Wall Street Gamble With Our Families' Futures?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
Fred Upton's Monkey Court On Wednesday, the House voted 292-122 to gut a significant portion of the Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection law. Irresponsible banisters addicting to risky gambling will once again be able to take those risks knowing that if they get into trouble, the taxpayers pick up the tab. As we saw on Thursday, Wall Street's own political parties-- the Republican Party and the New Dem Party-- forced the dangerous legislation through. I asked the congressional candidates endorsed by Blue America who are running against opponents who voted for the amendment how they see the... more »

Bill Whittle - a great start for Saturday...(video)

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 3 hours ago
From www.BillWhittle.com: In the first of this 11-part series, the Virtual President discusses the need for clear, concise, readable and understandable legislation as the cornerstone of our system and the first step in reclaiming your government.

Heather: Response of I to Mr. Sino

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 3 hours ago
This is a copy of Heather's response of I to Mr. Sino's purported communication, as posted earlier this morning http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/11/in-transparency-documentation.html Response of I to Mr. Sino by breakingthesilence

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago
*Did no one even think to call him Pistol Pierre? ~Library Chronicles* *Mayor Landrieu asks state for $100 million to put City Hall, civil courts at Charity ~Tyler Bridges, The Lens* *Whistleblower in jail abuses case being investigated ~Andrew Vanacor, New Orleans Advocate* *Miss., Louisiana, Alabama have nation's highest percentage of premature births ~Clarion Ledger*

The BBC's speed dial terrorist is killed

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 4 hours ago
I have to say that reading various reports on the death of Hakimullah Mehsud, head of the Pakistan Taleban, the BBC's online coverage has stood out in respect of its tone. Compared to the *Telegraph,* *Guardian *and *Sky News, *the BBC's coverage has concentrated on the negative aspects of his killing by an American drone, especially its implications for the planned talks between the Taleban and the Pakistan government. Even more striking is the obituary of Mehsud published by the BBC. Several commentators at *Biased BBC* have picked up on its peculiar tone. One calls it "a disg... more »

The Nation: Sahlins on Confucius Institutes

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 5 hours ago
Just to let you know... excellent critique of the Confucius Institutes at, of all places, The Nation. So rare to read criticism of China on a lefty news organ.... _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!

Formula One quiz answer

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago
Yesterday I asked 'When was the last time that three drivers of the same nationality finished first, second and third in a Formula One Grand Prix and so shared the podium at the end of the race?' The answer is the 1982 French Grand Prix when three Frenchmen stepped up onto the podium of the Paul Ricard. René Arnoux finished first, ahead of his Renault team-mate Alain Prost, with Didier Pironi finishing third. In fact yet another Frenchman, Patrick Tambay, finished fourth.

If HMOs Had Control of Our Cars

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 5 hours ago
Mechanics would refuse to fix your car or double their labor rates if they knew the car had been worked on previously. Your kid wouldn't be able to drive your car after age 21. While making increasingly exorbitant car payments each month on your rapidly depreciating car, you'd still have to cover the first $8000 of any repair or maintenance plus pay $30-50 for every estimate. Mechanics would refuse to make certain repairs on the assumption it's an unnecessary procedure. You'd be limited to how much repair work you could put into your car each year. Garage... more »

Sisters In The UK Refuse The MMR Vaccine

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours ago
https://www.facebook.com/GMAOQV Sisters refuse to get MMR jab despite judge ordering them to be vaccinated after their divorced parents fight over inoculation by Stephen Adams Dail Mail Online, UK, 12 October 2013 - *Girls' were told it was in their 'best interests' to get the injections* - *But solicitor claims they have no plans to agree to the decision * - *The case was brought by their father who separated from children's mother * - *Parents agreed for children not to receive vaccine when they were married* Two sisters ordered by a High Court judge to hav... more »

"A revolving door"?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 6 hours ago
According to *The Sun*: *BBC’s Labour hopes* THE BBC was last night hit by a fresh bias row after it emerged five former and current staff are in the running to become Labour MPs at the next election. Conservative vice-chairman Bob Neill said there was “a revolving door” between the Corporation and the party. Ex-Beeb journalists Polly Billington, Clive Lewis, Victoria Groulef and Simon Thomson have all been selected for top target seats in 2015. And Matthew Turmaine, the Corporation’s head of client services and fulfilment, is standing for Labour in Watford. Some will see it as ... more »

Western Culture and the Third Gender

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 7 hours ago
Well done Germany. German law has been changed to allow for a "third gender", for legal recognition to be extended to people who are born intersex. This is entirely welcome - it's high time the legalities caught up with nature and acknowledged that not all people are born into one of two discrete biological sexes. The BBC report notes this has now created a problem with the law regarding marriage and civil partnerships which *are*defined in 'traditional' gendered terms. Still, it'll keep the lawyers plenty busy. One of the interesting asides in the BBC piece is its rundown of 'third... more »

In Transparency: Documentation, Conversations and purported letters from Mr. Sino and Swissindo and Delegates

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 7 hours ago
Continued from http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/11/declaration-of-deposit-receipt.html ....from Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf .....I AM also sending over for post tonight, the Skype conversations that I have in Skype, emails, and the most recent documents/hierarchy structure that they sent me for review.... regarding a transparency tool, specifically the tool perceived and purported to be SWISSINDO........: 1. Emails from Melanie Spencer/Mel Ve with attachments (not attached, I will forward the email directly) 2. Skype convos with Ani/Pieta/MelVe post sept 17, 2013 (attac... more »

[DOESN'T] REPRESENT THE US,AMERICANS [?]

Jason Leewig at Our Manmade Disasters - 8 hours ago
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=691451234199361 (posted in its entirety, nothing changed) Global Public Alert - (Unite Yourself Together) @Tina Boldt: " omg, why can't the computer hackers, hack this video and put it on every government website, and every mainstream media website....????? that would be f*cking great to see.....". >> MR. USA LYING SACK OF SH!T DOES NOT REPRESENT THIS AMERICAN; BLATANT PSYCHOPATHIC NARCISSIST! << http://youtu.be/7Lm2QcKmk1Y Published on Oct 17, 2013 The personal is political, the political personal. When you see the big picture, you see how e... more »

ITALY'S NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE

Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago
[image: Pompeii] *Pompeii, near Naples.* Mobsters have dumped vast amounts of toxic waste, including nuclear waste, in the Naples area, in Italy. The Italian Senate is investigating a link between buried waste and a rise of almost 50 per cent in tumours found in the inhabitants of towns around Naples. *dailymail* *Francesco Schiavone of the Camorra, the Naples area mafia, which has links to the Jewish Russian mafia.* In classified documents from 1997, now released to the public, Francesco Schiavone, once the world's number one mafia fugitive, said: "The inhabitants are all at ri... more »

New Banking Documents: Original PDFs

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 8 hours ago
HATJ DECLARATION OF DEPOSITORY DEPOSIT.pdf DECLARATION OF RECEIPT.pdf DECLARATION OF CONVERSION.pdf DECLARATION OF ACCOUNT.pdf WILL AND WORD DECLARATION OF I.pdf

Updates On Syria: Mirage-Like Opposition Refuses To Negotiate, Removal of Syria's CW Going Smoothly, Angry Reaction To Turkey's New Soviet-esque Wall

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago
Title: Syria: "No Geneva-II without opposition", says Brahimi. Source: RuptlyTV. Date Published: November 1. Description: Lakhdhar Brahimi, the UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, said that the Geneva-II conference will not take place unless the Syrian opposition participate, on Friday during a press conference in Damascus. Brahimi also stated his opposition to the arming of either side of the Syrian conflict, arguing that there is no military solution to the conflict. Title: UN Envoy Says Syria Chemical Weapons Plan On Track. Source: IBTimes UK. Date Published: November. Descrip... more »

UPDATED: The Adrianne Haslet-Davis Fraud in Pictures

Jason Leewig at Our Manmade Disasters - 9 hours ago
Boston Bombing — 18 May 2013 http://nodisinfo.com/Home/the-adrianne-haslet-davis-fraud-in-pictures/ Updated with additional photos and commentary, updated, again, May 22, 2013 * The Adrianne Haslet-Davis Fraud in Pictures* * * In the enduring drama of the Boston bombing hoax the identity of the individual known as Adrianne Haslet-Davis is a kind of CIA-like psy-ops creation. Pictures really are worth a thousand words, and, thus, at least initially, rather than quote what are largely lies the pictures surely the photographs alone could e relied upon to demonstrate the truthfulness... more »

Transcripts of Recent Conversations with SWISSINDO Representatives and Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago
Continued from a prior blog post....from Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf .....I AM also sending over for post tonight, the Skype conversations that I have in Skype, emails, and the most recent documents/hierarchy structure that they sent me for review.... regarding a transparency tool, specifically the tool perceived and purported to be SWISSINDO........: 1. Emails from Melanie Spencer/Mel Ve with attachments (not attached, I will forward the email directly) 2. Skype convos with Ani/Pieta/MelVe post sept 17, 2013 (attached).....due to "Skype" wiping out all my convo histories pre-... more »

Message from SaLuSa by MADAD - November 1, 2013

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago
Message from SaLuSa by MADAD - November 1, 2013 Date: Friday, 1-Nov-2013 20:58:36 The higher reality is upon those who chose to experience it as soon as they complete the necessary transformation of their beings, into those aligned with higher energy flow. Throughout their first experiences in their higher realities in this process of Ascension, all others will have great source of information when they decide to finish their own preparations. It will be stored in collective consciousness of all Humanity on Mother Earth and every one that desires to experience more will be guid... more »

JFK50 - Frank Sinatra

Paul Coker at News Spike - 11 hours ago
Suddenly (1954) from Spike1138 on Vimeo. Assuming a role that clearly strays far from his acting comfort zone, Ole' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra portrays a pint-sized low-level mob hoodlum hired to carry out a paid hit. The assassination of the President of the United States by rifle fire from an upstairs window using a high-velocity rifle with mounted scope on the presidential motorcade during a hastily arranged whisltestop tour. This was produced in *1954*, by the way. *Dorothy Kilgallen, New York Journal American (26th February, 1956)* "Success has not changed Frank Sin... more »

Sunday Classics TV Watch: "White Collar" 's Neal Caffrey's Mozart is Leporello's little list

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
*On last week's White Collar episode, "Out of the Frying Pan," Mozzie (Willie Garson) and Neal (Matt Bomer) planned a caper.* *LEPORELLO*: My dear lady, this is a catalog of the beauties my master has loved, a list which I have compiled. Observe, read along with me. (1) *Gabriel Bacquier (b), Leporello; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, cond. Decca, recorded Oct.-Nov. 1978* (2) *Ferruccio Furlanetto (bs), Leporello; Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, cond. DG, recorded Jan. 1985* *by Ken* I thought I was going to be really topical tonight, pouncing on Neal Caf... more »

Ninety-five Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) Documents

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
There is more to a website than the information accessed by clicking its active links. This I learned years ago in my dealings with statistics software that utilizes both windows and code. Armed with such knowledge, yesterday I spent six hours combing the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) website searching for useful information “hidden in plain sight,” so to […]

How in heaven's name could I have missed this?...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago
*today was* Head over to the official *Fountain Pen Day site *to see all the outstanding companies sponsoring Fountain Pen Day. They have a list of a gazillion contests relating to pens and inks. Yay! I love fountain pens! *Two of my fountain pens. The smaller one on the bottom is an old Sheaffer that my Mom received for a graduation gift from high school. The other one is a mismatched (body and cap) vintage Sheaffer that has an awesome nib. * *I have a wonderful Cross for everyday use. My next pen? See video below. *

Property Tax Cost of Living Comparison

Catelli at Not Quite Unhinged - 13 hours ago
A quick discussion on Twitter about relative property tax rates between Edmonton AB, London ON and Cambridge ON started me wondering, what do these various property tax rates mean to a homeowner's bottom line? Property taxes are a tax calculated using a rate and the assessed value of a home. What determines their affordability is your income. Ideally you want to live in an area where your

NEW BANKING DOCUMENTS RELEASED BY HEATHER ANN TUCCI-JARRAF 1 November 2013

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 13 hours ago
On Nov 1, 2013, at 5:17 PM, ciinc group wrote: In love, gratitude, peace, joy and transparency: Okkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!! Rock n roll!!!!!!!!!!!! Attached are the will and word/declarations......I built them with the concept of lego pieces...each piece lawful...and with the intent to honor the perception of each inbodyment every NOW moment...any inbodyment can choose the pieces that resonate with them.... If an inbodyment chooses to "play" with the banks (all lawfully and legally foreclosed)....then they can take the following in to any bank teller and the bank HAS to accept them a... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
Sun City, Arizonastan, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

“America’s Wealthy Are Even Wealthier And Have A New Name: Point-Seveners”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
* * *“America’s Wealthy Are Even Wealthier* * And Have A New Name: Point-Seveners”* By Steven Rosenfeld “The old cliché is true. The rich are getting richer. And there’s a new name for the upward transfer of wealth and richest people in America and worldwide—now called the “point-seven percent”—according to The Wall Street Journal, which, in its typical cheerleading way, boasts that Americans rule the top of the wealth pyramid. “Forget the 1 percent—the statistic that 1 percent of people in the U.S. hold 40 percent of the wealth” brags Jason Bellini on a WSJ video report. “It b... more »

"Alas..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
“Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.” - Thomas Gray

Declaration of Deposit, Receipt, Conversion, & Account: Banking Documents

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 14 hours ago
Are you ready to Rock & Roll? Now it's TIME!!!! The following are the banking documents that many people have been waiting for. The email I just received from Heather: In love, gratitude, peace, joy and transparency: okkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!! Rock n roll!!!!!!!!!!!! attached are the will and word/declarations......I built them with the concept of lego pieces...each piece lawful...and with the intent to honor the perception of each inbodyment every NOW moment...any inbodyment can choose the pieces that resonate with them.... if an inbodyment chooses to "play" with the banks (all l... more »

I thought that Stephen Harper said he had personally reviewed Pam Wallin's expenses .. and they were ok??

leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago
*“I have looked at the numbers. Her travel costs are comparable to any parliamentarian travelling from that particular area of the country over that period of time,”* *Stephen Harper* *Prime Minister of Canada* --=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * **RCMP allege that Senator Wallin defrauded Canadians with her Senate expenditure claims! *

Longest Walk 4 arrives in Utah!

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
The Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz walked out of Grand Junction, Colorado, and across the Colorado River, walking and running, the walk arrived at the Utah border late Friday! Photos by Western Shoshone Long Walker Bad Bear Samspon Colorado Longest Walk 4 Photos by Bad Bear Longest Walk Grand Junction Halloween http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/10/

Spain based Fagor ( Europe 5th largest appliance maker ) going down.... bankruptcy seems likely after its parent firm Mondragon has declined pouring good money after bad....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-01/spain-based-fagor-europes-fifth-largest-appliance-maker-verge-bankruptcy Spain-Based Fagor, Europe's Fifth Largest Appliance Maker, On Verge Of Bankruptcy [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/01/2013 17:46 -0400 - China - Creditors - France - Gross Domestic Product - Market Share - Poland - recovery - Unemployment inShare There has been much media insinuation in recent months that just because Spain's economy has virtually shuttered, and imports have slid to unprecedented lo... more »

Are "good Christians" really incapable of understanding why this is so offensive -- not to mention (one hopes) illegal?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago
*There's audio on the DNAinfo website.* *by Ken* One of the favorite lies of the Christian Right is that the U.S. is a "Christian country." There is, of course, no basis in fact for this assertion, either historical or documentary. And since one of the favorite habits of right-wingers of every stripe is telling lies about our revered Founding Fathers, naturally they love to tell the bare-faced lie about them being good Christians. On the contrary. As one of my favorite New York City walking-tour leaders, Justin Ferate, likes to point out whenever the subject comes up (or he can *m... more »

IT DOES SEEM ODD

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 15 hours ago

An open letter to #AERA. No thank you.

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 15 hours ago
Dearest American Education Research Association (AERA): This week, I received yet another solicitation to renew my membership to AERA. And once again, I will ignore this email and decline membership renewal. But this is the first time I’ve chosen to respond. In this message, AERA is being touted as the following: Your membership helps make a difference […]

Mums Festival Hamilton

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours ago

Republicans Fret As GOP Brand Continues To Disintegrate In California

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
Santa Clarita Assemblyman Scott Wilk is the kind of commonsense, mainstream Republican from the old days-- not hopeless... and still worth reasoning with. Today he's the co-chair of elections for the Assembly GOP Caucus and he's worried that some of his sleazy colleagues, particularly the ones in Washington, are spoiling his party's brand even more than it has already been. He was optimistic about holding three Republican seats against strong Democratic attacks next year. And now he's worried. "Unfortunately," he wrote yesterday for the *FlashReport*, "some people place their perso... more »

Friday Night, Sunday Morning

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 16 hours ago
Radio 4's obituary programme *Last Word *gave its closing spot today to Lou Reed. [You can hear this edition here, for the foreseeable future.] It featured extracts from some of Lou's legendarily prickly interviews, where he made the interviewer's life less than easy - to say the least; though given the tedious predictability of the questions asked, I found myself rather rooting for Lou. I liked his answer to this question, from a later, mellower interview: Q: What's 'The Last Shot' about? The line in it which says, "I shot a vein in my neck". Have you ever done that? A: Steve, t... more »

Today manchurian candidate killer at the LAX - not a TSA worker , allegedly Paul anthony Ciancia held strong anti- government views ( aka a domestic terrorist ) ....looks like someone needed to change the subject after a week's long NSA / ObamaCare / Benghazi screw ups " tommy hammering " .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
LAX shooting - not a TSA worker after all......maybe dead , maybe alive http://www.infowars.com/lax-shooter-identified-as-off-duty-tsa-worker/ UPDATE: Flip-Flop: LAX Shooter Was Not a TSA Worker, May Have Had ‘Strong Anti-Government Views’ - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] *Infowars.com* November 1, 2013 UPDATE: UPI reports that the suspect, 23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia who is reportedly not a TSA officer as previously reported, h... more »

Pakistan attempts to open talks with Pakistani Taliban - hard to see this leading anywhere if Drone strikes have killed the Head of the Pakistani Taliban and other key Taliban members !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
We have heard his death reported many times before, this time it may be accurate - we shall see.... CIA Drone Kills Pakistan Taliban Leader on Eve of Peace talks with Islamabad Posted on 11/02/2013 by Juan Cole The CIA drone strike in North Waziristan yesterday killed 25 persons and targeted a high-level meeting of the Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan or TTP). It finally killed TTP leader Hakimu’llah Mahsoud of the large and important Mahsoud tribe in the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) of northern Pakistan. Mahsoud’s death by drone has been repeatedly announc... more »

Bott on earth?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
One blog I always look forward to reading is that by Damian Thompson at the *Telegraph. * Though neither I nor Sue share his Roman Catholicism, we still tend to like what he writes on many issues. His latest blogpost includes a section that, I suspect, matters more to me than to Sue. It concerns BBC Radio 3, and I agree with it either 97.26% or 102.372% [I can't make up my mind which]: *National treasure jumps ship* Radio 3 under Roger Wright has, miraculously for the Beeb, preserved most of its authentic ethos; presenters such as Petroc Trelawny are the apostolic successors to... more »

Beautiful Day

Southern Man at Southern Man - 18 hours ago
During the work week Southern Man is on the road before dawn and doesn't get home 'till well after dark so beautiful days often slip right by but this morning he stepped out of The Trailer into a gorgeous fall morning. Sure, it's a raw red-earth blue-sky kind of beauty but Southern Man loves it. The cool air, the fall colors (such as they are), the sound of wind and water...*Lord, I am so blessed to live here. Thank you for the beautiful world you've made for us. Amen.*

"Do we not count?"

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 18 hours ago
Blogs about BBC bias tend to focus on the big political issues, but it's the lesser issues that seem to rile up the people I know - the people who don't read blogs about BBC bias. Take, for example, this week's storms. We up in't North, especially here in't North West, barely saw a leaf blown off a single tree, whilst some of you Southerners saw your wheelie bins blown over and four people killed. My 80+ dad was fuming at something James Naughtie said on *Today *- or something someone said to James Naughtie on *Today,* he's not quite sure which - about how we in't North were ge... more »

Halloween Party

Southern Man at Southern Man - 18 hours ago
A kitchen full of characters. Scary Food! Photo by Joanna, our lovely hostess; well, photo cribbed from her Facebook page. Party theme: Zombie Apocalypse. Photo by Joanna. Another Zombie Hunter. Photo by Joanna or Jeri or Patricia, who knows. The Mummy apparently didn't get the memo about the party theme. Photo by Joanna, maybe. Toilet Terror! Photo cribbed from Jeri's Facebook. Avast, surrender ye candy or prepare to be boarded! Saucy wenches. Storm and Captain America! But in these modern times even Storm carries a corporate ID badge on her belt.

Get Ready to Rumble….. NSA vs. State

Jon Western at Duck of Minerva - 18 hours ago
OK, so it’s not exactly Ali vs. Frazier, but NSA and the State Department are not happy with each other. From this morning’s Cable at Foreign Policy, Yochi Dreazen reports: Secretary of State John Kerry touched off the furor when he said some of the NSA’s overseas surveillance efforts — which also included tapping into Continue reading

Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago
*I had a man with military connections tell me there are 3G wireless transmitters in the chipsets of mother boards with Intel i5 and i7 CPU chips (the latest chips). The motherboards can be accessed remotely (I am told) by cell towers. The wireless attennas for this are said to be embedded in the circuit traces of the printed circuit boards which means complete cooperation with the security agencies by motherboard designers and the plants in China. Not surprising I suppose since the USA Corporation is just a Chinese owned corporation. I have not been able to confirm that rumo... more »

Eight years

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 19 hours ago
This blog has been going for eight years. In that time we have seen political practice and public opinion shift continually to the right (especially among the young). From 1990 (approximately) to 2005 the public moved and largely remained on the left. There was nothing that collected and organised this opinion, save for the period when Stop the War was a membership organisation and not a brand name, the salad days of the anti-war movement 2001-2003. The Labour Party spent most of its time in power trying to convince its supporters they were more right wing than they thought. With h... more »

WE HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 19 hours ago
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest. None of this is really possible without global military disarmament. We can't afford militarism and poverty eradication. We have a choice to make.

Tweet, and be damned?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 19 hours ago
Oh, good grief! As a teenager, I made it my weekly mission to tune in, of a Saturday afternoon, to Paul Gambaccini's American chart show on BBC Radio 1. Paul G counting down the latest hits stateside [as DJs would say back then] was an unmissable part of my youth, back in the early-to-mid '80s. Now, Paul Gambaccini has been arrested under Operation Yewtree. He strongly denies the allegations. The Twittersphere has been abuzz today, putting two and two together, after the story broke. The clue given - on which they fed so frenziedly - was that the BBC DJ in question was aged 64.... more »

By-Election Results October 2013

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 20 hours ago
Party Number of Candidates Total Vote % +/- Sept Average/ contest +/- Sept +/- Seats Conservative 29 11,749 22.1% -10.5% 405 +34 -2 Labour 27 19,317 36.3% +7.9% 715 +328 +4 LibDem 21 7,077 13.3% +3.9% 337 +159 +1 UKIP 24 5,596 10.5% -10.8% 233 -26 0 SNP* 4 4,960 9.3% +9.3% 1,240 +1,240 -2 Plaid Cymru** 2 236 0.4% +0.4% 118 +236 0 Green 12 1,234 2.3% -1.0% 103 -11 0 BNP 3 115 0.2% -0.2% 38 -82 0 TUSC 1 21 0% +0.0% ... more »

Snowman Kids Ornament

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 20 hours ago
It is the time of year when I start breaking out my Holiday crafts and ideas, so you can be well done with your crafting by the time Christmas rolls around. I have some fun Thanksgiving ideas too, but I thought we would kick of the holiday crafting season with a kids craft. This craft is perfect for those younger kid and elementary school students. It is easy to pull together and really open to individuality. You will need: Large Popsicle sticks, the tongue depressor type Felt or foam in a few colors, we used purple for the scarf and black for the hat google eyes a black m... more »

Is Obama finished?...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 20 hours ago
William Gensert, who wrote "Stick a Fork in Obama", over at American Thinker seems to think so. He's already received over 400 comments - some agree with him and some don't. Pop over and read the article and let me know what you think. I'll reserve my opinion until I ponder it a bit. *Stick a Fork in Obama* I thought the chicken breast was particularily appropriate given that my demo today is Chicken Cordon Bleu. I do plan on cooking mine, though... *There. That's better.*

Our final World Series in Boston post!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 20 hours ago
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013* *Stood up by the old Boston Braves:* Fenway Park certainly makes a fantastic TV set. When the camera peers in from center field, the fans behind home plate are so close that they seem to be handing you hot dogs. And then, good lord, those glorious walls! From right center field all the way over, Fenway's walls are 17 or 37 feet high. With all those potential bounces! With that in mind: The best seat in baseball must be the one directly along the left field line, halfway up in the section. You’re maybe fifteen feet off the field, looking in at home pla... more »

Mi'kmak Warriors press conference Nov. 1, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago

TOURING THE JEJU MESSAGE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 21 hours ago
Catholic nuns continue blocking Navy base construction gate in Gangjeong village on Jeju Island in South Korea. Priests and nuns have become increasingly determined in their actions in recent months.During the last couple of weeks Maine filmmaker Regis Tremblay has been touring the new documentary The Ghosts of Jeju. Starting in Massachusetts he then went on to the San Francisco Bay area for a couple showings and then up to Santa Rosa before heading to Seattle. He's now dipping back down to Oregon for a couple more showings of the film and then moving on to Minneapolis, Minneso... more »

FUKUSHIMA - DON'T PANIC

Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago
A number of websites WRONGLY stated that the above diagram shows radiation from Fukushima. In reality, this diagram was produced in 2011. It was made by the *National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)*to show the tsunami of 11 March 2011, based on data recorded in the Pacific. *NOAA website* This is explained by Audrey Garric at *le monde* on 29 Oct 2013 (also *Le blog de Wendy*) In a study published this month in the journal *Deep-Sea Research*, scientists have studied the path in the ocean of cesium-137. "The plume of cesium-137 resulting from the disaster is ex... more »

Hedge Fund Operative Gordon Hendry Joins Indiana State Board of Education

Doug Martin at Schools Matter - 21 hours ago
by Doug Martin *Jennifer Wagner** : "I've heard it's (Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error) a lovely piece of fiction."* When Mind Trust board member and Bill Bennett operative David Shane (whose wife is a former Eli Lilly Endowment "education consultant)" recently stepped down from the Indiana State Board of Education, I was not shocked when Mike Pence quickly picked Democrat Gordon Hendry to join the state board. Hendry is married to Jennifer Wagner, the former spokesperson for the Indiana Democratic Party. Wagner has been in bed with the rightwing in Indiana for some time. Her c... more »

Catch of the Day

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours ago
I missed this for some reason earlier in the week, but Brendan Nyhan had a point I agree with completely with regard to this week's sudden obsession with Barack Obama's old claim that everyone would be able to keep their current insurance under ACA: Another possible explanation for the lack of scrutiny given to Obama’s promises is that the press often takes its cues about the flaws in a policy from the opposition party, which is part of a pattern of indexing coverage to the range of debate among political elites. In this case, conservative politicians and pundits often emphasized ba... more »

Limning Minnesota: Ripley bungled these topics too!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 22 hours ago
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013* *In the U.S., the improvement was general:* Was Minnesota number two in the teaching of math around the year 2007? That’s what Amanda Ripley seems to say in her egregious but ballyhooed book, The Smartest Kids in the World. But alas! This and several other claims about Minnesota are either wrong or grossly misleading. Once again, we present Ripley’s basic text on this topic: RIPLEY (*page 72*): Of the three American students I followed, Eric was the only one who did not loathe math. Coincidence or not, Eric’s home state of Minnesota was one of only two st... more »

Contour Crafting: 3D Printing of Homes

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
Posted at: Blacklisted News The Printer That Can Print A 2,500 Square Foot House In 20 Hours. October 31, 2013 Source: Industry Tap We have seen huge advancements in 3D printing. We’ve even seen oversized wrenches printed that measure 1.2 meters in length. Now, we can print an entire 2,500 sqft house in 20 hours. ... In this video, we see a prototype of a machine called ‘Contour Crafting’

Alabama Reactionaries Bobby Bright And Parker Griffith Reemerging From Their Holes?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago
Unless you're from Montgomery, Alabama, I wouldn't blame you if you can't remember who Bobby Bright was. As Mayor of Montgomery, Bright never had to say if he was a Democrat or a Republican. But when Republican Terry Everett announced he would not run for reelection in AL-02, a seat that had been in GOP hands for over 4 decades, Bright avoided the crowded GOP primary by running as a Democrat, albeit as gay-hating, anti-Choice NRA Blue Dog. He won the general election by 1,776 votes (just over a half of one percent). He then went on to accrue the worst voting record of any Blue Dog... more »

The Caligula Caucus

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 23 hours ago
The politically correct are calling it a class war, or even a war against the poor. But that's putting it too mildly. Because the assault of the plutocrats on the body politic is now actually reaching the level of extermination -- or, if you prefer, culling the herd, slow starvation, and legalized homicide. Here are a few of my recent *New York Times* comments addressing this largely ignored crisis*. First, in response to Charles Blow's piece on the partisan hammering that the neoliberal health insurance reform known as Obamacare is now receiving: Lost in the circular blame game med... more »

It's not the crack, it's the character flaws

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 23 hours ago
I for one will be very glad when this Rob Ford business is over. He has been an embarrassing and poorly considered choice for Toronto mayor on all kinds of fronts, and whether he did or didn't smoke crack on video is really just one small detail in the long Ford story. What to do with morally errant politicians? We're all over the map on that one, but for me it mostly comes down to putting the various specifics in context and deciding if the picture of the person who emerges is the kind of person you want running your town, province or country. For instance, politicians c... more »

on the beach

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 23 hours ago

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 23 hours ago
Dia De Los Muertos Familiars. [graphic via La Hermosa Bruja]

Well at least now we know ...

Alison at Creekside - 23 hours ago
... why there are so many photos of Rob Ford squinting up at the sky : Ford himself has been the target of a police investigation that witnessed and photographed him in months of on-the-ground and airplane surveillance ... .

I have lost interest in politics

LeDaro at LeDaro - 23 hours ago
The following cowboy has succeeded to turn me off of politics - Senate scandal and now his buddy Rob Ford is in the news again. This time the video, Ford smoking grass, has become available to police. Too much depressing stuff.

Climbing a tree

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago

"It's a madhouse! A madhouse!"

P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
Valerie Strauss’s *The Answer Sheet* has a discussion of Common Core and text complexity that you must read: Common Core: How are books judged? Strauss ends with: Appendix A of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards has a long and complicated explanation of “text complexity,” which you can read here, that reviews research said to show that the complexity of today’s reading demands for adults have held steady or risen over the past half century at the same time that the material students have read has gotten easier. Another document, titled “Supplemental Information... more »

Two Key Dates In The Duffy / Wright / Harper Scandal ...

leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago
*CBC's Peter Mansbridge examines what went on behind closed doors on two key dates that led up to the current Senate scandal. If you are following the Senate Scandal ... this is 'must see' viewing!* * ** *

WALL STREET JOURNAL VIDEO: U.S. Says Iraq In Danger Of Downward Spiral

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
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