Monday, March 31, 2014

31 Mar - Blogs I'm Following

2:15pm MDST

Economics for Real People: Old World Crisis, New World Future - Dr Oliver Hartwich

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 49 minutes ago
[image: image] What’s going on at this week’s Auckland Uni Economics Group? Here’s the lowdown: Hi all. In place of our usual Thursday evening meeting, we will instead be attending what promises to be a fascinating presentation this Wednesday evening by Dr Oliver Hartwich titled *Old world crisis, new world future*, a presentation on how global population changes and economic repolarisation are ushering in a ‘new world order.’ The future will increasingly be dominated by the Asia-Pacific region. For New Zealand, which has traditionally been associated as part o... more »

What’s the matter with (the term) “rape culture?”

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago
*MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014* *Valenti opines in the Post:* Jessica Valenti is often featured in the Washington Post’s Sunday Outlook section. Yesterday, she extended a fascinating recent discussion about either 1) the term “rape culture” or 2) the concepts behind the term “rape culture.” The fact that no one seems to know what is actually being discussed shows us something less than great about our emerging “progressive” culture. The current discussion (or non-discussion) started with a cryptic remark by RAINN, which describes itself as “the country’s largest anti-sexual-violence org... more »

What will Google's April Fool be this year?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour ago
Last year it was Google Nose... This year... Watch this space!

Dedication's What You Need

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 hour ago
*BBC Watch* has published a fascinating account from Sam Green about how he finally convinced the BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee to uphold his complaint against the BBC for a *Today *report by Kevin Connolly. It took him two and a half years though. Many would have given up (which is a lesson for us all). He encountered delaying tactics, faulty logic and deliberate obfuscation - and even now still doesn't know whether *Today *or Kevin Connolly actually accept the Trust's findings. Nor does he know what the BBC intends to do to make amends for this inaccurate and mislead... more »

North Korea, South Korea Exchange Fire

LeDaro at LeDaro - 1 hour ago
This guy is crazy and a threat to world peace. Kim Jong Un Fire exchange *More than 100 North Korean shells out of 500 or so fired landed in South Korean waters, prompting marines from the South to fire back with more than 300 rounds in the North's waters, defense officials in Seoul said.Seoul also scrambled F-15s on its side of the maritime border, they said."We believe the North's maritime firing is a planned provocation and an attempt to test our military's determination to defend the Northern Limit Line and to get an upper hand in South-North relations," South Korean Defenc... more »

UN Scientific Panel Releases Report on Climate Change

LeDaro at LeDaro - 1 hour ago
In this Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 photo, a flock of Geese fly past the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets near Emmett, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) | AP *Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that issued the 32-volume, 2,610-page report here early Monday, told The Associated Press: "it is a call for action." Without reductions in emissions, he said, impacts from warming "could get out of control."* ......... *Twenty-first century disasters such as killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in the United State... more »

Thorne Dreyer : PODCASTS | Filmmaking, pupulism, the attack on public education, and Texas politics on Rag Radio

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour ago
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Al Reinert with singer Sima Cunningham; pundit Jim Hightower; education activists Julian Vasquez Heilig and Mike Klonsky; and politics with Glenn Smith and Jeff Crosby. Interviews by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | March 31, 2014 Listen … finish reading Thorne Dreyer : *PODCASTS* | Filmmaking, pupulism, the attack on public education, and Texas politics on Rag Radio

This Be The Verse

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 hour ago
The *Daily Telegraph* broke a highly significant story overnight - Parents who deliberately starve children of love face jail under new Cinderella Law: Changes to the child neglect laws will make “emotional cruelty” a crime for the first time, alongside physical or sexual abuse. The new offence would make it a crime to do anything that deliberately harmed a child’s “physical intellectual, emotional, social or behavioural development”. This could include deliberately ignoring a child, or not showing them any love, over prolonged periods, damaging a child’s emotional development. Ot... more »

Supreme Council Tries To Position Itself As Centrist-Nationalist Party Before Iraq’s 2014 Elections

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 2 hours ago
--> The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and its Citizen’s Alliance is attempting to move into another stage of its political career as it prepares for this year’s parliamentary elections. The party was originally formed in Iran to organize pro-Khomeini Iraqi forces on its side during the Iran-Iraq War. Before the 2003 invasion it aligned itself with the United States so that it would gain a seat in the post-Saddam government that the Americans would put together. Afterward it argued for a Shiite region and gained control of most of the south and Baghdad in the 2005 elections... more »

Hard Runway for Humantiy

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 2 hours ago
There is a hard runway but it is always elusive and it let societies down in a small crash that keeps their economy from being sound and at the end of day the crash investigators say lets let in the IMF to be sure that you do not let any wealth go any other way Because we are like the Pope infallible economists who plan like banks of last resort we own you we own your kids and as a matter of calculated fact we got your grandchildren signed up in a Goldman Sachs account.

Can you hear the gritted teeth?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours ago
Poor Robert Peston is forced to admit that: 'This leads to two stupidly obvious thoughts. First, it would be wrong to characterise the recovery as debt-fuelled. Second, with austerity rolling relentlessly on this year, and GDP at market prices likely to keep rising faster than private sector debts, 2014 should be a year in which the overall leverage or indebtedness of the British economy falls pretty sharply.' Poor Robert Peston, having to report some good economic news with the Conservatives in government.Never mind, I'm sure he and the Labour party will have a new line of attack... more »

WAR GAME AGAINST RUSSIA

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 2 hours ago
US-NATO worked together in the cold, harsh environment of northern Norway as part of exercise Cold Response 2014. Altogether more than 16,000 sailors, soldiers, airmen and Marines representing 15 nations participated in the exercise. Check out the map and see what country borders Norway at the north. Listen to one of the NATO brass say it's time we came home from Afghanistan and war-gamed something closer to home - now who could that be? Spain? Maybe Luxembourg...

"Wear Clothes That Make You Feel Happy" Peter Som's DesigNation Collection For Kohl's

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 2 hours ago
“I participated in a campaign for Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Kohl’s. I received a gift card as a thank you for participating” Kohl's has always been my one stop clothing shop for my entire family. I love their darling and durable children's clothes and my husband willingly wears clothes from their men's department, which says a lot. I can also buy cute, fashion forward clothes for myself. All at the same store. This season I am looking to Kohl's and their new partnership for a new, fun look that I can carry from spring into colorful summer wear. This spring Kohl's has partn... more »

IT'S A TURKEY SHOOT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 2 hours ago
One of the really big stories from last week not covered in the US media. US-NATO are working overtime trying to come up with a way to a justify full-blown attack on Syria. Turkey is a NATO member, if Turkey gets attacked then NATO comes to the rescue. Clean and simple, right? But oops they got caught.....

I Hate Mikheil Saakashvili

Paul Coker at News Spike - 2 hours ago

“Americans Have Become a ‘Slave Race’"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*“Americans Have Become a ‘Slave Race’" * by Bill Bonner “We went down to the town of Cafayate last week from the family ranch: a three-hour drive, mostly over unpaved roads. There, old friends Doug Casey and John Mauldin were holding forth. The "deep state," among other things, was their topic. "The term comes from Turkey," Doug explained. "People noticed that there was the government – you know the government that they teach you about in school. And there was a deeper, more important and more powerful government. It was not described in any constitution. The newspapers didn't rep... more »

Legislative exclusion

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago
Surdivall v. Ontario (Disability Support Program), 2014 ONCA 240: “[L]egislative exclusion can be implied when an express reference is expected but absent”: see *University Health Network v. Ontario (Minister of Finance)* (2001), 151 O.A.C. 286, at para. 31.

"OWN THE UNDERSEA DOMAIN"

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 3 hours ago
- Even though it is officially spring in Maine we still have winter. Just this morning a cold wind blown sleet storm hit us. People here complain about the weather all the time but rarely a mumbling word about climate change is heard. - Yesterday I read a disgusting Op-Ed by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times. He went for a ride on a nuclear submarine under the Arctic Ice to promote that new "field of conflict" to the American consumers. He wrote: I had spent the night on the sub as part of a group accompanying Adm. Jonathan Greenert, the chief of n... more »

Why have people heard so many bogus Obamacare horror stories?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago
*MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014* *We look at what Hiltzik left out:* We just looked in on MSNBC. What we saw was sad. On this deadline day for health care, the warring cable tribes are fighting about the numbers. One tribe is ratcheting the claim of 6 million enrollees up. The other tribe is working hard to whittle the number down. Our “progressive” cable tribunes would rather die than present the larger picture about our health care. Let’s say *sixteen* million sign up. Data like these will remain: *Health care spending, per person, 2011:* United States: $8508 Canada: $4522 Germany: $4495... more »

Satire: "Sheldon Adelson Says No Republican Candidate Worth Buying”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
“*Sheldon Adelson Says No Republican Candidate Worth Buying”* by Andy Borowitz LAS VEGAS (The Borowitz Report)— “The casino billionaire and Republican kingmaker Sheldon Adelson met several 2016 G.O.P. candidates available for purchase over the weekend, but decided to buy none of them, Adelson confirmed today. After hearing speeches by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and several others who were for sale, Mr. Adelson concluded that none of them are worth owning. “I don’t want to spend millions on another loser,” said A... more »

Chet Raymo, “The Seat of the Soul”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
*“The Seat of the Soul” * by Chet Raymo "It was not my first visit. I had been there once before to talk with the great man, to the Castle of Cloux, near Amboise, in the valley of the Loire. He had been living there since 1516, at the invitation of Francis I, king of France. He was 67 years old, bundled up in a thick fur wrap by a roaring fire. His face showed age but not infirmity. Long white hair fell about his shoulders. White beard. Thick, downswept brows shaded his eyes like awnings. A strong nose. And of course the mouth, serious yet generous, not unlike the mouth of the Chris... more »

Easy Slow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 4 hours ago
[image: Housewife Eclectic: Easy Slow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken] This recipe has been one of my mom's go-to favorites ever since my childhood. It is easy to pull together, needs minimal ingredients and is always a crowd pleaser. One of the things I love about this recipe is that you can make it in the slow cooker, or on the stove top. I prefer the slow cooker because it is so easy to throw together, but I love that if I forget to get it going in the morning, dinner isn't ruined. You will need: - Chicken Thighs 3-4 pounds, with skin and fat removed - 1/2 c. soy sauce - 1/2 c.... more »

"Do You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
"Honor is simply the morality of superior men." - H. L. Mencken "He does not believe who does not live according to his belief." - Thomas Fuller Isn't it curious how so many, especially politicians, "talk the talk", and how so very, very few actually walk it? I suppose that's because words are cheap and easy, actions aren't. Real easy to run one's mouth, not so easy to actually do something, is it? - CP ◆ Creedence Clearwater Reviva , “Fortunate Son” - http://www.youtube.com/

Good summary of enhanced parole ineligibility on second degree murder

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago
*R v Kayaitok *2014 NUCJ 11; the decision is not reported yet but I have a copy for anyone who needs it.

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago
*Monday is the deadline to sign up for health insurance subsidy law* *Managing Menhaden: A New Plan For 'The Most Important Fish In The Sea' ~Laine Kapland-Levenson, WWNO* *Report: New natural gas pipelines needed in La. by end of the decade ~Greater B.R. Business Report* *Whistleblower suit claims DuPont’s Burnside plant conceals carcinogenic sulfur trioxide (SO3) leak more than two years ~Louisiana Voice* *Mardi Gras Indians continue storied tradition ~LaTonya Norton, WVUE*

Tecumseh, "Live Your Life"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your people. Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of li... more »

Musical Interlude: Outlaws, “Green Grass and High Tides”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
We're supposed to "make a joyful noise", according to some. Well, hard to beat this... Turn it up! lol Outlaws, “Green Grass and High Tides” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82OM5tzcrk

Musical Interlude: Elton John, "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
Elton John, "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ9wiT9RcMc

Earth Calling

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 5 hours ago
It's bad: Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans, scientists reported on Monday, and they warned that the problem was likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group that periodically summarizes climate science, concluded that ice caps are melting, sea ice in the Arctic is collapsing, water supplies are coming under stress, heat waves and heavy rains are intensifying, coral reefs are dying, and... more »

Education is a Human Right: Stop the Human Rights Violations

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 5 hours ago
A few relevant Articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 22. Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality. *^ Top* Article 23. (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection a... more »

WORLD WITHOUT FACTS, AMEN: Guess who isn’t shown weeping at all?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 5 hours ago
*MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014* *Part 1—Zernike’s zombie idea:* In this morning’s New York Times, Paul Krugman describes the process by which we get fed our “zombie ideas.” Krugman discusses the bogus claim that there is a serious “skills gap” afflicting our economy. He notes that there are quite a few other influential bogus facts out there. He calls these bogus facts “zombie ideas.” According to Krugman—and we strongly agree—we may get fed these bogus facts as an assertion of “tribal identity.” This is Krugman, speaking accurately: *“The point is that influential people move in circles... more »

"That Dreadful Universal Thing..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
“The more one analyzes people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.” - Oscar Wilde

Some Surprising Facts about Income Growth and Inequality

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 5 hours ago
From Brookings's Gary Burtless. A few very nice graphs here, based on CBO data.

MeTA 17: CHAT General Assembly, March 2014

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 6 hours ago
Last March 14, 2014, the Coalition for Health Advocacy and Transparency (CHAT) held its General Assembly this year at Dolce Latte Restaurant, Quezon City. Minimal Government Thinkers is among the original charter members of CHAT when a Civil Society Mapping was held in January 2009 at Diamond Hotel in Manila, two days before the 3-days MeTA National Forum, same venue. CHAT is an alliance of health-focused civil society organizations (CSOs), people's organizations and public policy research organizations or think tanks (including IBON Foundation and MG Thinkers) that works with the ... more »

Footnotes better living through chemisty

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 6 hours ago
Archaic indications that what you say had some basis in fact. Now through modern chemistry we have acrylic testimony. Plastic facts that can resist most natural elements.

A Goddamned Outrage! “One Percenter Convicted Of Raping Infant Child Dodges Jail Because He 'Will Not Fare Well'”; A Comment

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
*“One Percenter Convicted Of Raping Infant Child * *Dodges Jail Because He 'Will Not Fare Well'”* by Ashley Alman "A Delaware man convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter only faced probation after a state Superior Court judge ruled he "will not fare well" in prison. In her decision, Judge Jan Jurden suggested Robert H. Richards IV would benefit more from treatment. Richards, who was charged with fourth-degree rape in 2009, is an unemployed heir living off his trust fund. The light sentence has only became public as the result of a subsequent lawsuit filed by his ex-wife, whi... more »

How to Dress like a Manly Man

CM at LILITH NEWS - 6 hours ago
By Monique Bellamont - March 2014 Ack! It is that word many "manly men" shy away from - *metrosexual*. Which we women find silly because it reveals that many men are so homophobic that they refuse to deal with anything that is remotely "gay". As such men's high fashion has suffered over the decades to the point that men really can only wear suits and uniforms. Anything too risque and they feel they are being emasculated However done right, men's high fashion doesn't have to look metrosexual. What it should look like however is: *Rugged.* *Cool.* *Capable.* And a touch of James B... more »

How about we promote "diversity" and "tolerance" by throwing feces at people who don't agree with us?...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 6 hours ago
*speechless.* From LifeSite News: Gay activists hurl feces at German parents protesting pro-gay school curriculum: report - Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:27 EST As parents in Germany have protested a new pro-homosexual “sexual diversity” curriculum in their schools, homosexual activists have attacked them by hurling feces and destroying their property, according to the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians, which documents anti-Christian incidents in Europe. "Protesters were physically attacked and it was felt that the police failed to protect the parents’ b... more »

Ya, Ollie! – Skateboarding in Iran

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 7 hours ago
Alireza Ansari, founder of the Iranian skateboarding collective TSIXTY, does a kickflip at a skatepark in Tehran. (Photo Credit: TSIXTY) The West is often plagued with a rather blinkered view, coupled with a voyeuristic obsession, of Iran and its people. All too often, news reports, photo essays, and viral videos make the Internet rounds accompanied by breathless, slack-jawed commentary,

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 7 hours ago
*Diet pop can also give you diabetes* *Rubbish. Probable class effect. Poor people drink more pop and have worse health anyhow* Older women who drink two or more diet drinks a day are more likely to suffer from heart problems, high blood pressure and diabetes, a new study shows. Postmenopausal women with a two-a-day soft drink habit were 50 per cent more likely to suffer from cardiovascular-related diseases, the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study discovered. They were also 30 per cent more likely to suffer heart attacks and strokes compared to those who consumed the ... more »

some thoughts on emily brontë's wuthering heights

laura k at wmtc - 7 hours ago
Cover of 1943 Random House edition with woodcut illustrationsEmily Brontë published *Wuthering Heights*in 1847, under a pseudonym. Brontë died the following year, at age 30. It was the only book she would ever publish. How did an isolated young woman, a parson's daughter from a remote area of Yorkshire, who never married, rarely left home, and hated travel, come to create this story of ferocious passion and violent revenge that would shock her contemporaries, and enthral audiences into its second century? The existence of *Wuthering Heights* is one of the great arguments against that... more »

All Is Not Well

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 7 hours ago
Dimitri Soudas is gone. According to Paul Wells, it was not a graceful exit: Tonight, Hand-Picked Dimitri has become Ass-Kicked Dimitri, having resigned (CP’s first version) or been fired (CTV’s version) or been told to resign so he wouldn’t be fired (the later CP version) from his job as dynamic and hand-picked Executive Director. And all with barely 70 days left to go in his urgent, pressing, critical, essential mission to save the Prime Minister and, with him (of course) everything Canadians cherish. Wells reminds readers that, when it comes to executive directors, the Conser... more »

“Islamophobia” and the BBC

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
I hope everyone will be watching tonight’s Panorama. Journalists like John Ware and Andrew Gilligan are too few and far between. However, it’s the shenanigans behind the scenes that are hugely troubling. You’ve got to read the piece that is cross-posted on Harry’s Place and Trial by Jeory This affair should be ringing governmental and journalistic alarm bells. Together with other corrupt scandals and practices such as the plot outlined in the infamous Trojan Horse letter (even though its authenticity is suspect, its substance is demonstrably valid) these emerging third-... more »

"The Market Is Rigged" - Michael Lewis Explains How HFTs "Screw" Investors Every Day ..... Key takeaway -- A reoccurring metaphor Lewis uses in his book "Flash Boys" is one of "prey and predators."According to Lewis, the prey is "anybody who's actually an investor in the stock market." ..... Hat Tip for Zero Hedge for its relentless coverage and prior expose of same ......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
"The Market Is Rigged" - Michael Lewis Explains How HFTs "Screw" Investors Every Day [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/31/2014 08:17 -0400 - Algorithmic Trading - HFT - Michael Lewis inShare It was almost excatly five years ago to the day, on April 10, 2009, that Zero Hedge - widely mocked at the time by "experts" - began its crusade against HFT and the perils of algorithmic trading (which of course were validated a year later with the Flash Crash). In the interim period we wrote hundreds if not thousands of articles discussing and ex... more »

Spring is here - sort of

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago

Turkey Post - Election aftermath March 31 , 2014 -- FULL TEXT: Turkish PM Erdoğan's post-election 'balcony speech' ( payback for enemies promised ) , Main opposition leader sees no failure in local poll results , Ambiguity prevails in Ankara’s election results

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
Ambiguity prevails in Ankara’s election results ANKARA Print PageSend to friend » - - - - - Share [image: CHP's Mansur Yavaş announced the end of the 'Gökçek era in Ankara' in a press conference at 4:30 a.m. AA Photo] CHP's Mansur Yavaş announced the end of the 'Gökçek era in Ankara' in a press conference at 4:30 a.m. AA Photo Only two hours after the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate for Ankara gave a balcony speech to his supporters early in the morning on March 31, in a declaration of victory for the second time within hours, the incumb... more »

Dear Friends of Pattie

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago
Dear friends of Pattie, The news is awful. The second battle with leukemia is over, but this time, Pattie lost. The last effort to treat the disease failed, as she died last night. I thought her friends in the IR business should know. I found out about her struggle late during the first round of Continue reading

Fuddle Duddle 2.0

leftdog at Buckdog - 9 hours ago
*Liberal leader Justin Trudeau used some decidedly un-prime ministerial language when speaking publicly at the Fight for the Cure charity boxing match in Gatineau, Que. on Saturday night.* *Invited by the ring announcer at the Hilton Lac Leamy, Trudeau climb through the ropes and took the microphone to say a few words about the event at which, two years ago, he thrashed a much larger Sen. Patrick Brazeau. (The two mens’ career trajectories since the fight are documented in a Citizen piece this weekend.)* *“I’m going tell you, there is no experience like stepping into this ring an... more »

"How Do We Grieve?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
How do we grieve the loss of our beautiful, precious world, and us, *all* of us, with it? I don't know if there are words for that... I don't know them, anyway... “My heart broke on its shame and sorrow. I suddenly knew how much crying there was in me, and how little love. I knew, at last, how lonely I was. But I couldn’t respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no color or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And whe... more »

Meanwhile... there's an election on: posters!

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 10 hours ago
Out and about in Changhua and Taichung, photo'd lots of signs for the party primaries. This guy is my favorite, running for County Chief. "In the future you'll see me! Look at the new hope!" his sign proclaims. It's a good thing these guys aren't egotistical or anything. The usual small signs. Lots of female candidates, as always. A DPP candidate's truck. Her platform is love and family. Several DPP candidates occupy a large space in Changhua near the confluence of the 1 and Alternate 1, as they do every election. Candidate ads seldom have concrete policies. DPP presidential p... more »

"All That Is Life..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*Click image for larger size.* "You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Duncan Weldon: The shape of bias to come?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 10 hours ago
Radio 4 listeners got a sneak preview of TUC senior economist-turned *Newsnight *economics editor Duncan Weldon last week, and a chance to assess whether those concerns about the likelihood of him bringing more left-wing bias with him to *Newsnight *are likely to be borne out or not. He presented an edition of *Analysis *called *Why Minsky Matters*. The Minsky in question was the American post-Keynesian economist Hyman Minsky, and in the course of the programme we heard from various Keynsians, neo-Keynsians and post-Keynsians - namely George Magnus, Professor Steve Keen and Laur... more »

Musical Interlude: David Lanz, “Cristofori's Dream”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
David Lanz, “Cristofori's Dream” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wxrB41PMhw

The White Wolf threatens the LY protesters =UPDATED=

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 11 hours ago
[image: IMG_7845] UPDATED: Wall of people there to protect LY according to news reports, many locals joining in to protect their students. They know what is at stake. Chang An-le, the pro-unification gangster, is threatening to attack the students in the LY, as Cole reports: Chang, who should be in court defending himself, was released on bail in June 2013 a few hours after his return to Taiwan, which he’d fled amid a nationwide crackdown on organized crime 18 years ago. Rather than be tied up with lawyers and court summons, Chang, also known as “White Wolf” (白狼), has appeared on T... more »

"The Most Precious Resource..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time." - Steve Jobs

A piece of surprising polling data

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
The excellent Political Betting website reports The chart(s) ...based on the finding new form of questioning which has just been tested by Opinium for its latest Observer poll. After the main voting intention question the firm asked *“You said that you would vote [Party] if an election were held tomorrow. Would you say that this is because you’d want to vote for [Party] or because you’d want to vote against someone else?”* For those who indicated that there choice was wholly or partly negative this was followed by a second question *“You said that you’d vote [Party] mainly/partly t... more »

Picture in the blog title, blog description, post title

Peter at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 12 hours ago
Want to have a logo or other picture next to the blog title? No problem. I have tested putting the HTML img tag in the blog title and have found that it is possible to put HTML code in the blog title but subject to a maximum of 100 characters. To put a logo or picture next to your blog title, first thing you need to do is to upload your picture to the Internet. You can do that with a free account in Photo Bucket. After uploading to Photobucket, you will see to the right of the picture a section LINK TO THIS PHOTO. Take the URL listed as DIRECT. Sign into www.blogger.com (Das... more »

NO AMERICAN IS SAFE

Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago
*Rear Admiral Richard Butler, the commander of the Guantanamo concentration camp.* Guantanamo proves that the USA is run by Nazis. These Nazis of course have Zionist and Mafia connections. *A Briton* who was 'cleared for release' in 2007 is still imprisoned at Guantanamo. He has never been charged with any crime. http://www.dailymail. *Countries fully controlled by the CIA* Obama appears to have lied when he said that he was going to close Guantanamo. In Guantanamo, 'beatings are common place'. Two former Guanatanamo guards were recently charged with raping female subordinat... more »

Untitled

JR at GREENIE WATCH - 12 hours ago
*Climate change could make humans extinct, warns health expert* *And pigs might fly. The IPCC has just released its latest round of prognostications so floods of fears are breaking out worldwide at the moment. The article below is one example of that.The very first sentence is a lie. The earth is not warming at all and has not done so for 17 years. What the author has done is look at one of the IPCC "Scenarios" and take it as fact. And the one she has lifted is one of the more extreme scenarios. A 2 degree temperature rise is the one most predicted by Warmists but she h... more »

"F-bomb shows lack of judgement"

Alison at Creekside - 13 hours ago
says the PMO : "This is yet another example of Justin Trudeau's lack of judgement." Well alrighty then. .

Vegan Recipe - Cauliflower and Chickpea Soup

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 16 hours ago
*I'd like to introduce you to Joy (a.k.a. Joybee) and her fabulous blog, Joybee, What's For Dinner. Joybee shares all kinds of recipes on her blog: pasta, fish, beans, beef and, my favorite, Vegetarian. The recipes are diverse and delicious. I found Asian inspired dishes, curries and tacos. One of my favorite collection of articles falls under the heading of "Tutorials" (under "Recipes"). One can learn how to make cold brewed tea, roast garlic, and shape a free-standing loaf of bread.Joybee, What's For Dinner is a terrific blog. I hope you'll check it out!Joybee has graciously a... more »

Video: iRefuse Rally in Long Island, NY (March 29, 2014)

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago
In my post, The Deceptive Push to “Implement” Common Core, I mentioned that my discussion of deceptive “implementation” was part of my remarks at the iRefuse Rally in Long Island, NY, on March 29. I noted that I would post a video link as soon as one was available. Here it is, in this post. Approximately […]

Syria’s Victory Is Turning Point For Western Global Hegemony

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 18 hours ago
[image: 335056]*March 31, 2014 *(Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Since 2011, Syria has been the target of an attempted foreign-backed regime change. Riding on the momentum of the US-engineered “Arab Spring,” protesters took to the streets across Syria, serving as cover for armed militants the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia – on record – had been preparing since at least as early as 2007. It was in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s 2007 article, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” that prophetically stated (emph... more »

We are officially in syndication, and have an updated show page

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 19 hours ago
At the Chalk Face is now officially in syndication, with our first two stations secured in the Boston area. I also updated our main show page, and then stuck it to the blog’s homepage. We have to get this show out there as an oppositional voice to the corporate reform movement. Let any local radio […]

The Deceptive Push to “Implement” Common Core

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 19 hours ago
I just returned home from speaking at the iRefuse Rally on March 29, 2014, in Port Jefferson Station, New York. My trip was an adventure in many ways, not the least of which was in my managing to get to New York. In short, my flight to NYC was canceled; I was able to fly to Baltimore […]

RADIO HISTORY

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 19 hours ago
MB and I just watched this film. It's a great one and we highly recommend it. Legendary New York disc jockey Bob Fass revolutionized late night FM radio by serving as a cultural hub for music, politics and audience participation for nearly 50 years. Long before today's innovations in social media, Fass utilized the airwaves for mobilization, encouraging luminaries and ordinary listeners to talk openly, taking the program in surprising directions.

“Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow; There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
*“Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow;* *There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad” * by Bob Nichols, “Veterans Today” “My opinion only, as requested by Alfred Webre, Dec 28, 2013, 1,024 Days from Mar 11, 2011. *First thing, grasp the difficult concept that this is an ELE or Extinction Level Event. There is no escaping our fate, there are no solutions. * We can extend our lives somewhat, though. These steps are personal. People can do them or not. You will die quicker, or later, your choice. *1. *Take off your shoes and outer ware (coats) when you enter you... more »

The Internet Party: Mostly Clowns

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 21 hours ago
[image: image] The magic of German megalomania continues to transform journalists into either sourpusses, sycophants or clowns. Mostly clowns. Last week was another political and journalistic circus, with both DotCom and the commentariat turning themselves into clowns. The circus started with Dotcom’s “confession” he owned a book, and continued with his party “launch.” A “soft” launch, you’d have to say, since virtually the only thing we heard about it was that DotCom owned both a book and an MP. About the book, a signed copy of Hitler’s *Mein Kampf*, a breathless herd chased d... more »

Albuquerque protests police killing homeless man Sunday, March 30, 2014

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
Albuquerque police fire tear gas, mace, late Sunday night as protesters demand an end to police brutality and killings  11 pm Albuquerque police continue firing tear gas and macing peaceful protesters One woman told Censored News, "They threw tear gas just a few feet from where we were standing. There were kids around! Then they started macing folks who were just standing around. Incredible

Life's too short

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 21 hours ago
Not all my precious time is spent blogging. I have parallel obligations; domestic servant, business partner, confidante to random strangers (dunno why) and a lot lot more. Ugh! I hate “lot lot.” I threw it in to see if you were listening. Some of my time, and yours I bet, is spent looking for things in and around the home. My specialism is the vital message written on a piece of paper. Everything in the vicinity has to be sifted through and no paper must be left unturned. If whatever-it-is *does* turn up at the end of a hard day’s goose-chase, it infuriatingly reveals itself not to... more »

Mispresented, often, but at least she isn’t ignored…

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 21 hours ago
From this morning’s NZ *Herald:* So, who is Ayn Rand? I’m glad you asked. [Hat tip Julian D.] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

VIDEO Sicangu Spiritual Camp Day 1 Rosebud Sioux

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
Today is 'a turning point, a new beginning, and a new life.' Published on Mar 29, 2014 Oceti Sakowin declared WAR on the Keystone XL Pipeline Project, aka Black Snake. The first Spiritual Camp opened Saturday, 29 March 2014, with Media Day. ABC and MSNBC were in attendance. Also see:  Spirit Camp Hosts Opening Ceremony on Rosebud Reservation By Vi Waln " ... A ceremony was led

Alaska - Looking for ALEC Members?

2old2care at Because I Can - 22 hours ago
Always remember when looking for ALEC members that most of them hide their ALEC membership. The best way to find out if they are an ALEC member - is to ask them - is to check their expense accounts and campaign funds. Exposing ALEC members is done by activists - thru research. Most ALEC members do not self identify with ALEC - they know what they are doing for ALEC is wrong and they are ashamed. Only the most corrupt acknowledge their ALEC membership - they are proud of their role in destroying the US. ALECExposed has a partial list. *HERE* And then there is also this list of pa... more »

Did Malaysian Flight MH370 Land At Diego Garcia? Jim Stone Claims Proof Positive With New Article!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 22 hours ago
I have been doing a lot of catching up today on news around the world, and I have spent the last while pouring over some pertinent information about the "missing" Malaysian flight MH370 that from the beginning of its escapade and supposed "disappearance" over the Indian Ocean, I smelled a rat.... I knew from the beginning that something stunk to high heaven with this "missing" flight. This was an extended range Boeing 777 aircraft that could have flown almost anywhere across the Indian Ocean and landed at a multitude of locations... It had enough fuel load to enable it to fly some ... more »

Talk about a false alternative…

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 22 hours ago
Two British leaders, both wrong: [Hat tip Russel W.] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

The Fat Man Grovels for Shelly Adelson's Dirty Money

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 23 hours ago
The signs of our now fully decayed system of democracy are evident just about everywhere that one looks the days. From the ongoing travesty of the Obama administration and the neocon forced march into the jaws of what could be World War III with their ongoing pursuit of the head of Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the garish displays of greed and political fixing that has now overtaken anything that occurs in the voting booth. The latter of these would be the disgusting orgy of political fecklessness that was the Republican Jewish Coalition parade of political whores that is taking... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Read Deal $'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
REAL DEAL $ Posted on March 30, 2014  Mohawk Nation News Please post & distribute.  MNN. MAR. 30, 2014. London bank is falling down! President Obama and the bankers who own the Western banking system failed to start World War III in Ukraine. Soon the worthless USDollar will not be the world currency. More US citizens will join the 44 million who are already using food stamps [vouchers].

Supai Waters message to Lakota Spirit Camp

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Supai Waters message to Lakota Spirit Camp at Rosebud, protecting the people from tarsands pipeline By Supai Waters, Havasupai Censored News Supai Water Long Walk 4 Alcatraz Photo by Leslie Reed When the two helpers who always travel with the flying warriors, who keep the purpose to change the world when humans fall from their nature-centered monotheism, they pay a visit to the

Pretending to Solve Housing Affordability

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*Guest post by Daniel Silva of the **Importers Institute**.* Import News from the Importers Institute: Pretending to Solve Housing Affordability The government is finding it difficult to have a real impact on the affordability of houses. It has now come up with some pretend solutions. The issue is actually quite simple. Some City Councils are run by people who believe that we should all be living in high rises near train lines, so we can ride a bicycle to the closest lentil-and-soy-latte shop. To achieve this vision of life in East Berlin circa 1975, they prohibit people from bui... more »

Unions? We Don’t Need No Stinking Unions

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Unions? We Don’t Need No Stinking Unions. via Unions? We Don’t Need No Stinking Unions.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

The 1 Percent Always Defeats the Middle Class (There Are More of US But They Outweigh US?) One of the Ways It Manages To Survive Is By Working the Public Into Paroxysms of Fear At Those Who Proclaim the Inevitable Destruction of the System

Maybe we're just out of our weight class? (Financially?) Porkwise. When all is said and done, they don't lose money. They never do.- Margin Call (Credit: janecat via iStock) Mar 30, 2014 07:00 AM EST Plutocracy Without End: Why The 1 Percent Always Defeats the Middle ClassThere are more of us than them. But income inequality keeps getting worse - and there is sadly no end in

Misinformed about the common core

skrashen at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
Too many people remain misinformed about the common core. Here is the latest distortion. Alan Greenblatt just attacked the Opt-Out movement, saying that it is irresponsible and selfish. There are over 300 comments on the website. Greeenblatt and most of those who commented have no idea what is going on. His review appears at: > http://www.npr.org/2014/03/28/295270259/of-me-i-sing-americans-construct-an-opt-out-society There is no way to respond to this on the NPR website, other than be one of the 300+ commenters. The opt-out organizers posted an excellent response as a blog: ... more »

A Random Snapshot

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
I have been shooting a series of short videos to serve as chapter introductions for my favorite textbook. These will be available to those using the electronic version of the book, a rapidly increasing share of the market. Just for fun, here is a snapshot from yesterday's video shoot.

Kerry/Lavrov to meet today! - Federated Ukraine on the table

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
*Already mentioned in this post- A federated Ukraine as proposed previously by Russia?* *With a flashback to a DW article from February of this year, excerpts below - *-*Would a federal Ukraine be viable* *Officials, from predominantly Russian-speaking areas, approved a resolution for regional leaders to take full responsibility for constitutional order in their territories.* A few days before the proposal was published, a Party of Regions parliamentarian, *Vadim Koleznichenko, spoke in favor of a "federalization of Ukraine," since the country was on the brink of civil war,* ... more »

The Edtech Trinity: Time, Training, and Tools

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Edtech tools will never replace teachers, but teachers who use edtech tools will replace those who don’t. There’s absolutely no denying that edtech tools are changing the teaching profession. As a result, I’ll argue that the edtech trinity in education must include time, training, and tool searching. As the edtech industry grows and becomes more […]

Why is it that I've spent my adult life believing that the purpose of the IMF has been to help indebted countries out of debt? Whereas its true purpose has been to force those countries to privatize their profit-making sectors, allowing them to be bought off by speculators and global corporations, while forcing the government to cut old-age pensions, government services, government employment, and subsidies to the rest of the populace in order to pay back the IMF for the money that they promised but never really deliver, because the Western banks are given the money (something you surely won't learn from the presstitute "mainstream" media).

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ *Western Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ March 29, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter Western Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun Paul Craig Roberts It is now apparent that the “Maiden protests” in Kiev were in actuality a Washington organized coup against the elected democratic government. The purpose of the coup is to put NATO military bases on Ukraine’s border with Russia and to impose an IMF austerity program that... more »

Greece Political Updates March 30 , 2014 --Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras might soon leave the “electric chair” he has been sitting on since summer 2012 and find a less stressful job at the Bank of Greece. According to Sunday Edition of Proto Thema, Stournaras has allegedly said that his work at the ministry has been concluded........Deputy Agricultural Minister Maximos Charakopoulos resigned from his cabinet position on Saturday evening claiming disagreement with the milk reform. However he would vote in favor of the controversial multi-bill on Sunday in order not to hinder the “proper funding of the country.” .......... Parliament speaker Vangelis Meimarakis on Sunday rejected a censure motion called by SYRIZA against Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, prompting the leftists to lodge a new censure motion against Meimarakis and to walk out of Parliament.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
*http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2014/03/30/greek-finmin-thinks-his-work-concluded-may-get-new-job-as-bog-governor/( Jumping off the proverbial hot seat ..... ) 30MAR[image: Greek FinMin thinks “his work concluded”; may get new job as BoG governor]tagged: Bank of Greece, Finance Minister, governor, Greece,Samaras, Stournaras, to be replaceGreek FinMin thinks “his work concluded”; may get new job as BoG governorPosted by keeptalkinggreece in PoliticsGreek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras might soon leave the “electric chair” he has been sitting on s... more »

The BBC's new Business Editor - Kamal Ahmed

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Rod Liddle has a fine, funny piece over at the *Spectator, *from which a few choice extracts may be drawn. Rod agrees that, generally-speaking, there's "a limp-wristed, whining liberal bias within the BBC’s output," adding that "only a faux-lefty organisation could have poured so much money into, for example, David Hare’s tedious, clunking and predictable production *Turks & Caicos*, which you may have had the misfortune to have watched last week." (Didn't watch it). He says, though, that it's "the boss class [at the BBC] where the problem really resides; a complacent consensus of... more »

BURNING OUR BRIDGES

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Burn baby burn the flames leap into the sky day or night feel the heat see the light We keep burning the bridges and villages and hardening hearts burn baby burn When George Washington's army entered the country of the Six Nations (Iroquois) the Seneca called him Hanadaguyus means “Town Destroyer” the name destroyer still lives sailing the empire's sea lanes burn baby burn Wounded Knee, Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Panama Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Granada, Haiti Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Ukraine burn baby burn The... more »

Weekend Gold and Silver Updates March 29 , 2014 - Ed Steer's Saturday missive - Data for the Week on the precious metals ( CME Daily Delivery Report - Day 1 April Delivery Contract , US Mint Sales report , Commitment of Traders Reports - Gold and Silver , OCC report on Derivatives for Q4 2013 , ......... News and Views ...... Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts - Here Comes April ( Jesse's Crossroads Cafe ) ......Additional items from GATA and Zero Hedge ( Hugo Salinas Price - The US Is Like A Ship With No Lifeboats (Full Of Suicidal Bankers) ..... Koos Jansen discusses US Official Gold Reserve Audits ......

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/japanese-prepare-for-abenomics-failure-scramble-to-buy-physical-gold¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER It was another day where very little of anything happened in the gold price in the Far East. The high tick on Friday came at the 8 a.m. GMT London open---and it was all down hill until the low was set at 9:45 a.m. in New York. The price rallied sharply back to the $1,295 spot mark in less than 20 minutes---and then chopped sideways into the 5:15 p.m. EDT close. The high and low ticks were recorded as $1,299.40 and $1,286.10 in the new front month... more »

Wrapping up the Spring 2014 fundraiser

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
On March 1st, I announced the *Spring 2014 fundraiser for The Realist Report and this website*. My basic idea was a *"Listener Appreciation Month"*, and I encouraged those of you who really do appreciate and support what we're doing both on this website and on *The Realist Report* to consider making a financial contribution towards our efforts. Many of you did and for that I am extremely grateful and thankful. I truly believe that what we are doing here - both on *The Realist Report*and on this website - is vital. We are covering a wide variety of extremely important topics, doing o... more »

THE SOURCE OF LIFE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

Comrade McCain Warns US Corporations on Doing Business in Russia

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
De facto President of the United States and preeminent warmongering psychotic Senator John McCain has slipped the chain again. On Friday McCain issued a veiled warning to US corporations seeking to do business with Russia in the frenzied reincarnation of the Cold War that the neocons have been so relentlessly pushing through every propaganda organ in the land. With McCain fully invested in the unelected occupying government in Kiev, he spent much time over there palling around with neo-Nazis before the US backed coup d'etat went down he is in this thing to win it. In an interview g... more »

Labour's Significant Divide

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
It must be quiet for the lobby hacks at the moment if Andrew Rawnsley's *Observer* piece is anything to go by. With a nod to the silly dichotomies of managerial speak, simmering beneath party unity are five divisions: the 35%'ers vs "majoritarians", "transformers" vs "realists", "devolvers" vs "centralisers", Camp Miliband vs Camp Balls, and "Gloomsters" vs "Zennists". In the interests of accuracy, Rawnsley should have specified that these facile divisions are properties of the *Parliamentary Labour Party*. His grip on what happens in the wider party is no firmer than George Osborn... more »

A Response to NPR's Corporate Socialist "Understanding" of United Opt Out

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
UOO Response to NPR's Total Misunderstanding of What United Opt Out: Of Me I Sing?… *Really?* *(A response from the United Opt Out organizers: Morna McDermott, Tim Slekar, Ruth Rodriguez, Peggy Robertson, Ceresta Smith and Shaun Johnson)* In the effort to stay “current” in reporting about the rising tide of the Opt Out movement (aka high stakes standardized testing refusal), journalists are eager to tell the story…but do they do their homework? Take for instance Greenblatt’s article for NPR see: http://www.npr.org/2014/03/28/295270259/of-me-i-sing-americans-construct-an-opt-out-soci... more »

Of Me I Sing …. Really?

educationalchemy at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
A response from the United Opt Out organizers: Morna McDermott, Tim Slekar, Ruth Rodriguez, Peggy Robertson, Ceresta Smith and Shaun Johnson) In the effort to stay “current” in reporting about the rising tide of the Opt Out movement (aka high stakes standardized testing refusal), journalists are eager to tell the story…but do they do their […]

BC Liberal's executive director refuse to answer questions in Ontario police investigation

paul at Paying attention - 1 day ago
No one has to co-operate with the police when they’re investigating a possible crime. You’re free to tell the officers that you have no interest in helping them and won't say a word. But not if you’re a politician or political operative who hopes to be credible and trusted. Laura Miller, the executive director of the BC Liberal Party, has refused to meet with police officers from Ontario’s anti-racket squad to answer questions. Police believe she could help with their investigation of breach of trust in an alleged high-level illegal coverup in the office of former premier Dalton McGu... more »

Wild Bill: "College Brats and Poison Professors" ...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*I know exactly who he is talking about.*