Wednesday, March 13, 2013

13 March - Blogs I'm Following

David Lammy MP speaking at 'Our Community Our ...David Lammy MP speaking at 'Our Community Our Schools' conference (Photo credit: Alan Stanton)
Memorial from the ladies of Steubenville, Ohio...Memorial from the ladies of Steubenville, Ohio, protesting Indian removal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: The New York Times building in New Yo...English: The New York Times building in New York, NY across from the Port Authority. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
National Poverty Hearing 2006 at Westminster. ...National Poverty Hearing 2006 at Westminster. A one-day National Poverty Hearing in Central Hall Westminster, held on Wednesday 6 December 2006, for up to 500 senior politicians, high-profile/influential policy makers and opinion formers in the media and public life and national and grassroots anti-poverty/civil society groups from across the United Kingdom. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
MP David LammyMP David Lammy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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The three faces of the New York Times!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 7 minutes ago
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013* *What hath Ryan’s plan wrought:* If you read today’s New York Times, you may not know what to think. What’s in Paul Ryan’s new budget plan? More specifically, what happens to the marginal tax rate? That’s a *very* basic question. If you read the news pages first, this is what you were told: PETERS AND WEISMAN (3/13/13): Republicans said their plan would balance the budget in 10 years, a contention the White House said was impossible given that *it would cut the top marginal income tax rate, which the wealthiest Americans pay, to 25 percent from 39.6 pe... more »

A conscious decision not to participate in the proceedings bars consideration of a defence for the merits

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 minutes ago
Sunlife Assurance Company of Canada v. Premier Financial Group Incorporated (Premier Financial), 2013 ONCA 151 is a good source for the principle that someone who chooses to ignore a claim is barred from raising even a valid substantial defence: [1] The motion judge found that there was overwhelming evidence that the appellants were personally served and that they decided to ignore the process. There is ample evidence, including video recordings, to support the finding. It is established that a conscious decision not to participate in the proceedings bars consideration of... more »

Applying for Obamacare a bureaucratic nightmare...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 24 minutes ago
*remember - we have a country full of poor sad disenfranchised people who are too stupid or lazy to be able to apply for a photo ID in order to vote. * Someone tell me exactly how are they going to apply for "free" health insurance? Want to see the hot mess they've created? Sure you do... Here's the link. I can't wait to hear the screams of outrage when all sorts of people who used to enjoy private insurance are shuffled off into substandard Medicaid coverage. Meanwhile, a family of four who earn up to 92K will probably qualify for financial help. * Read more: * *Obamacar... more »

BBC News - MP David Lammy apologises for BBC Pope race 'innuendo' claim

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 25 minutes ago
'A Labour MP has apologised for claiming the BBC made a "silly innuendo about the race" of the next Pontiff. David Lammy was commenting on a BBC Twitter message, which asked "will smoke be black or white?". Mr Lammy, tweeting from the Commons chamber, said the BBC message was "crass and unnecessary". He later apologised after Twitter users pointed out the role played by black and white smoke in announcing the election of a new Pope.' More here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21764636 Is David Lammy really that ignorant? Well you could take this into account, David Lammy... more »

12 Imágenes bonitas de animales diferentes

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 26 minutes ago
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THE ORIGINAL SIN: Prejudgment and imagination!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 27 minutes ago
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013* *Part 3—Imagining Penn getting frisked:* Did Trenton Mays and Ma’lik Richmond rape a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio last summer? For ourselves, we’d have to say that we don’t know. But many people already *do* know. They live all over the world. Mays and Richmond go on trial today, having pled not guilty. In this morning’s New York Times, Goode and Schweber report the widespread prejudgment which exists in this high-profile case: GOODE AND SCHWEBER (3/13/13): The case first came to light through Twitter posts and a photo on Instagram. And *the ... more »

Economist and white-collar criminologist Bill Black explains Obama's true intentions (not good) regarding the sequester and how MSNBC is loath to spell this out to its Democratic clientele.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 28 minutes ago
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* March 12, 2013 *Austerity and the Death of Logic* Bill Black: Both the GOP and the White House refuse to support a bill that ends the sequester, it shows the real intention of the Obama administration *Watch full multipart The Black Financial and Fraud Report* More at The Real News *Blogger's Note:* In this video Bill Black says that "Dean Baker has a spectacular column that people should read that basically says [MSNBC's support of Obama even th... more »

Double standards?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 44 minutes ago
Take the *Nakbah* (catastrophe). To Palestinians today, it represents a real-world catastrophe – the terrible, Holocaust-level tragedy that befell their people in 1948 during the first Arab-Israeli war (for Israelis, the “War of Independence”), during which about 3000 Palestinians were killed and some half a million refugees fled. To others, it represents a psychological catastrophe the horrifying *global* humiliation of seven Arab armies defeated by a rag-tag army of the worst of the *dhimmi — *Jews, the weaklings and cowards of 1400 years of Muslim tradition. Compare with the cu... more »

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David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 hour ago
*The Sequester Is President Obama’s Fault* Dean Baker Truthout, March 4, 2013 *See article on original website* Now that we are counting up the days of the sequester instead of counting down, it would be a good time to cast blame. And my candidate is President Obama. I’m not blaming Obama for the reasons that Bob Woodward came up with in his fantasyland. I am blaming President Obama and his administration for trying to be cute and clever rather than telling the public the truth about the economic crisis. The result is that the vast majority of the public, and virtually all ... more »

USNWR Political Science Rankings

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
I performed a similar operation to Scatterplot, e.g., estimated the results of the current poll by assuming equal weighting for both the 2013 and 2009 poll results (explanation). For the Departments that moved from ranked to unranked in the 2013 rankings I assumed a 1.9–as it looks like 2.0 might be the cutoff for ranking Continue reading

Go Aggies!...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 hour ago
*I couldn't help noticing how attractive the students are. * Since I lived in Houston for over 16 years, I consider myself half Texan. Students at the Bush School of Government and Public Service surprised President George H.W. Bush during a recent visit with a Flash Mob. The Bush School is located at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

Climategate 2013 is here: FOIA

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 hour ago
Tom Nelson has already leaked the news so I will follow: Mr. FOIA speaks: "It's time to tie up loose ends and dispel some of the speculation surrounding the Climategate affair" The page above became the "story of the day" at ClimateDepot.com (not to mention Donna and Bishop Hill, Delingpole, WUWT) so I don't think it's a secret anymore although some of us prefer a much more secretive, confidential approach. Yes, your humble correspondent was among a dozen of people in the world who received the e-mail above directly from Mr FOIA – and yes, we have learned it was one person who live... more »

Bill Whittle: The Virtual President on Voter Fraud...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 hour ago
*you know - the thing that democrats say doesn't exist.* H/T Conservative Hideout

WHERE IS THE BEAUTY?

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 hour ago
Where is the beauty in the city? The rough roads are stained by oil. Ugly buildings made of steel and glass have no heart. Prisons they are, an artists nightmare, built to save the banks and insurance companies $$$ by taking the shape and character of a box. Office workers inside cubicles inside a big steel box. A white collar prison. The billboards and neon signs light the dark sky but bring no joy or mystery to the night. Stars are hidden from plain sight by the nuclear glow of the city. Imagine, North Korea is mocked because they can see the stars at night. Noise is ever present... more »

Iraq’s Failure To Diversify Its Economy

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 2 hours ago
Iraq’s economy has huge potential, but also faces major pitfalls. The country is rich in oil for example, but it only provides money. That revenue needs to be used in a strategic plan to diversify the economy, so that it can have sustainable growth. Otherwise Iraq can fall victim to the resource curse where the economy goes up and down with the international price of oil, while other industries are pushed out. That can also undermine its developing democracy, because it breaks the social contract between the public and the government since the latter does not need the former with ... more »

Preston Manning Tells Conservatives That They MUST NOT Say What They Believe If They Want Canadians To Vote For Them!

leftdog at Buckdog - 2 hours ago
Chris Selley considers the portion of Preston Manning’s speech this past weekend that dealt with “intemperate and ill considered remarks” by fellow conservatives. *He mentioned (though not by name) Wildrose candidate and evangelical pastor Allan Hunsperger, whose “derogatory reference to homosexuals” was “dredged up during the recent [Alberta] provincial election,” and “a questionable comment by a prominent libertarian and a good friend of mine, which seemed to imply that the freedom of an individual to view child pornography had no serious consequences for others.” That would be ... more »

Two More Notes on Imaginary Numbers

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours ago
Two more quick notes on the Ryan budget's tax numbers: 1. I said yesterday that what's real about the budget as a whole is that it's an opening bid for further negotiations. That might be wrong. The other possibility, as Ed Kilgore says, is that it's simply a gift to the crazies in exchange for not blocking the debt limit increase last time around -- and perhaps the next time, too. Could be! 2. The implausibility of the tax numbers is drawing a lot of attention. But on second thought, I'm not sure that's fair, or at least necessary. This is a budget, not a tax reform plan. As long ... more »

China plans first commercial trip through Arctic shortcut in 2013

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago
[image: A study in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, led by UCLA geographer Laurence Smith, looks at how the Arctic will change under even modest levels of global warming. Through computer simulations, the researchers found that open-water vessels will be able to, in theory, cross the Northwest Passage and North Sea Route regularly in the summer by 2050 without icebreakers. And icebreaker ships may be able to ram right through the North Pole. Graphic: Smith and Stephenson, 2013] By Alister Doyle, Reuters Environment Correspondent, with additional reporting by B... more »

Should Nonprofits Fear ALEC Legislators?

2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago
It might be more appropriate for nonprofits to consider that there but for the grace of the legislature’s focus on 501(c)(5) labor unions go my 501(c)(3) public charity and I SNIPS From an article In the Nonprofit Quarterly *Why Non profits Should Care about “Paycheck Protection” Bills* Written by –Rick Cohen Created on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 13:39 March 12, 2013; Source: St. Louis Business Journal The decision of the Missouri State Senate to pass “paycheck protection” legislation should be seen as a little shot across the bow for nonprofits, not just labor unions... more »

Rains or not, India is falling short on drinkable water

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago
[image: Women bringing back water from a community tap in Cherrapunji, in northeastern India. Photo: Kuni Takahashi / The New York Times] By GARDINER HARRIS 12 March 2013 CHERRAPUNJI, India (The New York Times) – Almost no place on Earth gets more rain than this small hill town. Nearly 40 feet falls every year — more than 12 times what Seattle gets. Storms often drop more than a foot a day. The monsoon is epic. But during the dry season from November through March, many in this corner of India struggle to find water. Some are forced to walk long distances to fill jugs in springs... more »

Midweek Linkage

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 2 hours ago
Casy Hogle reports on a World Peace Foundation panel on public-advocacy campaigns, which featured the Laura Sey and Amanda Taub. Edward Hugh on the decline of Portugal. The costs of the “eating local” movement: agriculture in the “global south.” Daniel Martin Varisco: “life without honor.” Adam Eluks: “a rack city on a hill: unsolicited advice Continue reading

Koch's - Control the Media, Control the People

2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago
If you were to ask yourself why two billionaire fossil-fuel loving brothers wanted to get into broadcast media the most immediate answer would be becausetheycan. Unless you know their name is Koch and they are the movers and shakers behind Republican extremist groups that evidently need more media time to spread their pro-corporate, fascist agenda From Daily Kos Read it and weep: *Koch Brothers interested in Tribune Co.'s newspapers and possibly its TV stations* We'll be just like China *Control the Media - Control the Message* *Control the Media - Control the People* * * * *

WotW: Achieve the Holy Grail of Inbox Zero

Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 3 hours ago
As you may have guessed from reading this blog and seeing the amazing things my wife creates, she is very meticulous and perhaps borderline OCD. Nowhere is her obsessive personality more prominent than in her email inbox. She cannot rest until her inbox is completely empty. Everything has to be read, sorted, filed, deleted, etc. This is all good, as long as you can stay on top of it, which she's pretty talented at. For the rest of us mere mortals, we quickly fall behind and getting to inbox zero feels nearly impossible. Enter Mailstrom, a brilliant solution from the genius minds ... more »

TV debate - Egyptian style

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours ago
That Mahmoud Shaaban is at least honest about his views on women. I wonder why the Western feminist lobby don't protest about such attitudes which are so prevalent in the Islamic world, whereas they are happy to do so about much more minor matters in the West?

Third Graders Face Retention in 13 States for Failing a Test

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 3 hours ago
In 2000, Louisiana became the first state in the Nation to require elementary school children (4th graders), to pass a test to move on to 5th grade. Since then hundreds of thousands of poor children have learned failure at an early age, with many of them now entering the "correctional" system of Louisiana, which is a major employer in the state. Research shows that failing a grade is as traumatic to 3rd graders as losing a parent, but with the help of Jeb Bush's team and the lawyers from ALEC, we now have this bare-knuckled legislation to mandate 3rd grade retention in 13 states, ... more »

Grayson on the Ryan Budget Proposal

2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours ago
This is an excellent video - with excellent key points by Alan Grayson on the Ryan budget proposal. Excellent! *From Crook and Liars.*

Amartya Sen

Joseph Aprile at GlobaLove Think Tank - 3 hours ago
There is little room for the realities of economic life - faced by the majority of the world’s people - within the scope of widely accepted and conventional economic theory. There is a particular exception to this general tendency and that is embodied in the theoretical framework of Amartya Sen who has clearly brought human compassion into the realm of economics. Amartya Kumar Sen was born on November 3, 1933 and was the sole recipient of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on welfare economics. He is currently a Professor of Economics and Philosophy a... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Will Clark, 49. Good stuff: 1. Brendan Nyhan on Glenn Kessler's plan vs. talking point column. 2. What we don't know from Paul Ryan's budget, from Ezra Klein. 3. But Ryan does appear to be using honest growth estimates, Dylan Matthews reports. 4. Adam Serwer profiles Thomas Perez, who will be the next Secretary of Labor if he can survive a filibuster. My guess? I don't have one, other than a cloture vote is virtually certain and I can't imagine he'll get much more than 60 at best. 5. Senators who won't talk to reporters. Interesting, although I would have liked ... more »

ConservaDem Stephen Lynch Poses As Someone Who Fights For Working Families

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
The ad above is a slick production trying to introduce Massachusetts' most conservative Democratic congressman to voters statewide. Lynch is running against longtime progressive Ed Markey-- who actually has a voting record that shows he *does* fight for working families-- in the race for the Senate seat that John Kerry gave up when he was appointed Secretary of State. Kerry has endorsed Markey-- as has Massachusetts' other U.S. Senator, Elizabeth Warren. (And so have Blue America, MoveOn and DFA.) Obviously, Lynch's ad doesn't say anything about what a consistent fighter he's bee... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago
*Large barge fire continues to burn Wednesday *

Aldous Huxley letter to George Orwell

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 3 hours ago
[image: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/03/07/article-2111440-068EE82C000005DC-166_226x364.jpg][image: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/03/07/article-2111440-0048F29B00000258-225_226x364.jpg]Different visions? The covers of these editions of Orwell's 1984, left, and Huxley's Brave New World, use similar imagery ALDOUS HUXLEY'S LETTER IN FULL... Wrightwood. California. 21 October, 1949 Dear Mr. Orwell, It was very kind of you to tell your publishers to send me a copy of your book. It arrived as I was in the midst of a piece of work that required much reading and... more »

The AFL-CIO Doesn't Know - - That ALEC Does Knows

2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
ALEC boasts that it has 2,000+ state legislators that support ALEC policy 96 members of the US Congress that support ALEC policy ALEC DOES NOT BOAST ABOUT the number of other state federal officials who support ALEC policy which could be a major issue for America. *AFL-CIO Now* * * *Have You Heard of the TPP Yet? An Important Trade Agreement You Need to Know * *03/11/2013* * * *Celeste Drake* (Lots of Snips from that article) The U.S. government is currently working with 10 other countries to negotiate the biggest trade and investment agreement (also known as a “free trade agree... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago
*Flood insurance rates could rise significantly* *Lockheed Martin project will create new gas storage tanks, hundreds of jobs * *List of local St. Joseph altars* *LSU's 'Rising Water' offers honest retrospective on a memory that still stings* *** *

IMF as Valuable US Tool

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours ago
[Excerpted] “The IMF has always been a valuable tool for advancing U.S. national interests globally,” the committee wrote — perhaps inadvertently validating one of the arguments China, Brazil and others have made for why they need a greater say at the fund.” [Majia here: The committee at issue is the Bretton Woods Committee.] Cited in Schneider, H. (2013, March 5) White House Seeks New Money for IMF http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/white-house-seeks-new-money-for-imf/2013/03/05/95c0fcc4-85f1-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines Majia here: The IMF i... more »

Getting Tired And Tiresome

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 4 hours ago
Lawrence Martin wrote in yesterday's *Globe and Mail* that those who predicted Justin Trudeau would be this decade's Kim Campbell may yet live to eat crow: When the poll numbers first came out last fall showing that Liberals led by Mr. Trudeau would beat all comers, no one took the numbers seriously. It was name recognition stuff. Voters weren’t paying attention. No big deal. In the ensuing months came the same polls and the same understandably dismissive reactions. But now there’s been about half a year of it, and Mr. Trudeau has made some mistakes and he hasn’t put forward inn... more »

PMQs predictions 13 March 2013

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours ago
Ed Miliband will make: one 'off the cuff' joke about Teresa May wanting to be the next Conservative leader one 'off the cuff' remark about the loyalty of Michael Gove no apology for increasing debt, immigration and social inequality during his time in government. Update: How did I do? Sorry I forgot to predict Ed Miliband making a stupid joke first, stupid of me. Teresa May 'off the cuff' remark - Yes Michael Gove - I think that was who Ed Miliband meant when he mentioned 'the Childrens Minister' No apology - Of course

Osgoode Hall, Toronto in 1856

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours ago
Note there are no "cow catcher" gates on the fence -- it is a myth that the fence was put up to keep farm animals out

How exciting!

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago
British Telecom have just written to me telling me that they've just rolled out fibre optic technology and introduced BT Infinity on my home area, so I can have speeds up to four times faster than the average speed of standard UK broadband. This is so exciting, well it would be were it not for the fact that I've been on fibre broadband at this address for almost a year now. British Telecom idiots.

Links -n- stuff

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 5 hours ago
*In a pond near my house.* Taiwan Thinktank, a pan-Green operation, came out with a poll on the referendum on the fourth nuclear plant. More than 60 percent of respondents said they would vote in a proposed national referendum on the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s (新北市) Gongliao District (貢寮) and almost 70 percent of those polled supported the suspension of construction and operations at the controversial power plant, a survey released yesterday showed. 8-10% higher than the other polls. Reading this..... People’s concerns about nuclear safety were so strong that... more »

The Apartheid State of Israel

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours ago
Yes I am sick of the lies told about Israel.

Asda / HMV Is It Wise.Com?

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 8 hours ago
Today we read that Asda, the UK arm of Walmart, is ‘considering’ a bid for UK entertainment retail casualty HMV. Administrators Deloitte have already almost halved the number of HMV stores leaving it with some 116 outlets and the deal may be attractive given Walmart’s own position in the same market in the US. It is an interesting rumour given that their two biggest UK supermarket rivals have clearly pinned their money on going after the growing online media marketplace. It also comes on the back of the news that Argos is reintroducing CDs and DVDs into selective stores. The CD an... more »

Dr Colin Ross - everything you ever wanted to know about Mind Control - but were too traumatised to ask

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 9 hours ago
Conspiracy Culture presents 'The CIA and Military Mind Control' a two-hour presentation by psychological clinician Dr. Colin Ross. Dr. Ross talks about CIA Mind Control Experimentation by Psychiatrists, declassified programs, disassociative identity disorder, double agent children, the official mind control timeline and other controversial material/accusations that literally beg the question, "How has this guy not had an 'accident' already?" Ross's Manchurian Candidate Prostitute Thesis at about 01:00:00 is properly ingenious in the realm of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo where *'tortu... more »

Coconut Oil Can Stop Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
The immediate take home here is that age related cognitive decline is directly related to the integrity of the brains energy system and that coconut oil augments and certainly buys time. It also appears that part of this loss is directly due to nutritional failure. We forget that we live long lives and any chronic deficiency must be guarded against as a matter of simple survival. Our real problem has been their recognition in the first place. Now we learn here just how unique the coconut happens to be. We need to identify others obviously. It turns out that the liver c... more »

German Village Achieves Energy Independence

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
This tales reminds us of what is possible at the all important community level. Now imagine organizing society along these lines and internally capitalizing it at this level with its own self managed banking apparatus. This success took years to assemble but it was merely a case of leadership understanding the direction his electors wished to go and actively supporting them. What this emphasizes though is that the core objective of effective sustainability is plausible. And yes it all starts with energy and the production of a surplus to support internal expansion and wea... more »

Giant Energy Waves Drive Weather Extremes

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
This is actually an important contribution and it will now be possible to track these waves on an ongoing basis and link observations to the present state. It also anchors long term predictive protocols allowing us to know what can be generally expected weeks ahead. Even better, when it stalls, preparations can be begun for the onset of extreme weather. We have surely had an excellent demonstration of this phenomena over the past several weeks. We not only had a rarity in the form of hurricane Sandy, we have since been battered by extreme continental weather. It would ... more »

Curiosity Confirms Hospitable Soils on Mars

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
I am not convinced yet that it is possible to locate hard evidence of life here. Carbon based life likes to leave a mess of some sort somewhere and we see no smoking gun as yet. Yet this is reassuring in one regard. It is now plausible to cover a patch of Mars with a large greenhouse and grow things in a controlled environment. A soil is possible. Otherwise, we have to stay underground and be completely artificial in our approach. Again we can do this and will have to in most places. Mars can give us a break. Our first expedition to Mars should pack a large bubble ... more »

Minuscule Canadian Taxpayers Federation in running for ‘Turfy Award’

David Climenhaga at Alberta Diary - 10 hours ago
Former Canadian Taxpayers Federation Alberta Director Scott Hennig, now the group’s Communications VP, in a nice AstroTurf-coloured sweater at last weekend’s Ottawa conference of the Manning Centre for Undermining Democracy. Below: CTF President Troy Lanigan; CTF member … rrrrrrr … supporter, Riley Climenhaga; CTF Operations VP Shannon Morrison. When it comes time to hand out ... more »

Pirate Bay for 3D printing Physibles

Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 12 hours ago
*The company that developed 3D printed gun parts has announced plans to launch a new firm, devoted to copyright-free blueprints for a range of 3D printable substance. *Defcad, as the firm will be known, has previously been dubbed the Pirate Bay of 3D printing. According to its founders the site will become a "search engine for 3D printing. But its breaking of copyright is likely to face legal challenges. The firm is the idea of Cody Wilson, law student and self-styled crypto-anarchist. Last year he set up Defense Distributed, a plan aiming to print gun parts. The project provok... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 12 hours ago
Under the spreading baobob trees.

What up Stephen Harper?

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 12 hours ago
I couldn`t have said it better.. Request to my fellow bloggers and concerned citizens, spread it around, its got a good beat! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz0GDSrkw-Q The Straight Goods Cheers Eyes Wide Open

Time for Weingarten to Go

Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 12 hours ago
*Too bad it took Randi Weingarten 10 years to "get arrested" when the writing was on the blackboard with the obviously insane, destructive and impossible goals of NCLB calling for 100% proficiency by 2014. The noose around the teachers' necks has been getting tighter and tighter and now the ones in the most vulnerable communities are gasping for air and about to expire. The stories form Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle and New York about what's happening to these communities barely made news at all. Does anyone even care that the head of the AFT was arrested?* * The public schools, t... more »

March 12, 1973

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago
The president makes a statement: -- DURING my press conference Of January 31, 1973, I stated that I would issue a statement outlining my views on executive privilege. The doctrine of executive privilege is well established. It was first invoked by President Washington, and it has been recognized and utilized by our Presidents for almost 200 years since that time. The doctrine is rooted in the Constitution, which vests "the Executive Power" solely in the President, and it is designed to protect communications within the executive branch in a variety of circumstances in time of both ... more »

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 12 hours ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great information in this post and I encourage you to read through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might find the following quick links helpful: - The #CTWW Gang - The Honor Society - My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge - This Week's Challenge Last week we took a look at our trash bin and challenged ourselves to find alternate uses for the stuff we ty... more »

Tom Wolf-- A Progressive Alternative To Tom Corbett And Allyson Schwartz

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
No one in their right mind could possibly want to see Tom Corbett reelected governor of Pennsylvania. And polls indicate that voters are more than ready for a change. But does "a change" mean replacing a corporate shill like Tom Corbett with a corporate shill like Allyson Schwartz? As we saw the other day, many Democrats would prefer a more progressive candidate than Schwartz, who, until a couple weeks ago, was a vice chairman of the corrupt, Wall Street-tainted New Dems. Earlier today PPP released a new poll showing that any of the top Democratic contenders could beat Corbett. To... more »

Quantitative easing in a nutshell

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 12 hours ago
Just in case you haven’t seen it for a while … Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

The Book of Mormon

Lori Anne Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 12 hours ago
I knew nothing about this show going in, except that two people I knew saw it and loved it. The Book of Mormon. FREAKING hilarious. Best production I have seen in ages, pretty much loved every second. I saw it at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit with my season tickets, and I read online that every show has sold out for it's 10 day appearance. I am sure you can get tickets on Ticketmaster, through the Fisher ticket exchange, eBay or Stubhub. If you like musicals and comedy and are not easily offended, SEE THIS SHOW.

The Daily "Near You?"

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

"The Scariest Climate Change Graph Just Got Scarier"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
*"The Scariest Climate Change Graph Just Got Scarier"* By Tim McDonnell| "Back in 1999, Penn State University climate scientist Michael Mann released the climate change movement's most potent symbol: The "hockey stick," a line graph of global temperature over the last 1,500 years that shows an unmistakable, massive uptick in the 20th century, when humans began to dump large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It's among the most compelling bits of proof out there that human beings are behind global warming, and as such has become a target on Mann's back for climat... more »

Montanans Need to say NO!!!! to ALEC

2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours ago
Last week I saw this *Conservative group fundraiser draws ire of Montana Democrats* * * *March 06, 2013 2:15 pm • Associated Press* HELENA — A conservative think tank is drawing the ire of some Democrats for using a state building for a membership drive. The American Legislative Exchange Council has helped draft model legislation used by Republican lawmakers. The group was at the state Capitol on Wednesday seeking new members. It offers a two-year membership for $100. Republican supporters say the group plays an important role in helping draft ideas that support "limited governm... more »

John Friend on Rense Radio w/ Jeff Rense

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 13 hours ago
I was a guest on the Jeff Rense Program on *Rense* Radio last night following my conversation with John Kaminski. Jeff and I discussed my article *Was Hitler a Zionist Stooge?* and other aspects of WWII and American history. You can download the program *here*.

Who the hell starts their day at 10:30 am?...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago
*really!* I'm usually up by 5 am. Via *White House Dossier:* Obama's schedule. Wednesday, March 13, 2013 *10:30 am ||* Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing *1:30 pm ||* Meets with the House Republican Conference; United States Capitol *3:05 pm ||* Meets with Secretary of State Kerry *3:40 pm ||* Meets with CEOs to discuss cybersecurity; Situation Room *4:05 pm ||* Meets with business leaders on immigration reform; Eisenhower Executive Office Building *4:30 pm ||* Meets with Treasury Secretary Lew *6:30 pm ||* Delivers remarks at Organizing for Action dinner And could someone p... more »

Sushi...now with chopsticks

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 14 hours ago
I was well into my teenage years before I felt comfortable wielding a pair of chopsticks and a young adult before I required a taste for sushi. Not so for the boy. Of course its okay to cheat every now and then when good food is involved.

Bob Woodward and me

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 14 hours ago
I was a new stay at home mom when the Senate Watergate Committee convened. I watched untold hours of those hearings on the teevee. They were broadcast live on the networks, pre-empting regular programming. There were reams of newspaper reports. Actual convictions ensued. Sure there was a lot of theater, but it felt like a functioning government. And none of it would have happened without Woodward and Bernstein and a major metro newspaper willing to support their investigative work. Hard to believe, seeing what has become of it in the present day, that newspaper was the Washington Po... more »

Pyongyang be buggered, we’re all going to get wet!

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 14 hours ago
Comforting to know that American military monitoring of threats from North Korea and China is in the competent hands of General Bran Flake: America's top military officer in charge of monitoring hostile actions by North Korea, escalating tensions between China and Japan, and a spike in computer attacks traced to China provides an unexpected answer when asked what is the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region: climate change. “The ice is melting and sea is getting higher…” Yes, strap on your snorkels and head ye for the hills, for lo, the threat of seawater ri... more »

The term: 'Political Correctness'

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 14 hours ago
There’s said to be an annual contest at Griffith University, Queensland, calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term. The term this year: 'Political Correctness' The winning student wrote: Political correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, holding forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: Broken Window Fallacy

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 14 hours ago
Here’s the update for this Thursday’s econ session from our friends at the Auckland Uni Economics Group: *Hi all, This week we’ll be talking about the most prevalent fallacy in economics, which (when committed) leads to the biggest economic errors, and (when spotted) starts you thinking like a real economist. We’re talking about what is seen and what is not seen—most popularly known as The Broken Window Fallacy. Date: Thursday, March 14 Time: 6pm-7pm Location: Case Room 3, Level Zero, Auckland University Business School, Grafton Rd, Auckland As always, all... more »

ALEC - It Really Sucks to be Finally Exposed

2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
It sucks even more to be their PR firm. While I was doing my research tonight (very productive, BTW – three new articles coming up) I kept finding things that made me so, so sad for ALEC (not so much). *And this information was only in the last 24 hours.* *And this information was on only the first ten pages of search results.* *Just the snips from the Google results. * ALEC Exposed in Iowa: How Corporate Influence Subverts Our Democratic Process The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - known by its critics as a "corporate bill mill" As Alberta Premier Alison Redford t... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago

Airshow...

Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours ago
...never ceases to live up to his callsign. "Not my fault" he says over his department's inability to find a replacement for DHC Buffalo SAR aeroplanes. As department head, it is his fault, and the faults of any other ministers of public works and industry involved. It really is embarrassing that these people are still in power.

The doctrine of privity of contract is of considerably diminished force in Canada as a continuing principle of contract law

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours ago
Brown v. Belleville (City), 2013 ONCA 148 holds: [79] It is important to note at the outset that the doctrine of privity of contract is of considerably diminished force in Canada as a continuing principle of contract law. It has been subject to a wealth of repeated academic and judicial criticism, leading to frequent calls for law reform in Canada and elsewhere. See for example, *London Drugs*, at pp. 418-26; *Fraser River Pile & Dredge Ltd. v. Can-Dive Services Ltd.*, [1999] 3 S.C.R. 108, at para. 26; McCamus, at pp. 296-301. Indeed, several Commonwealth jurisdictions have... more »

Paul Ryan's plan for social Darwinism

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 15 hours ago
Everybody is talking about Paul Ryan's new budget which is pretty much like his old budget, only with more granny starving. I'd sum it up as further slash the taxes on the wealthy, raise taxes on everyone else and pretty much destroy any government program that might possibly increase the life span of the poors, olds and disabled. The man who spent pretty much his whole life dining on the taxpayers' dollar apparently thinks the government is spending entirely too much money keeping these "takers" alive. In his world they don't need so many poors anymore to do the menial work. Hell, w... more »

Once again, a solid Senate majority isn't enough to confirm a judge. Plus, George Will tells Watergate tall tales

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
*Really, you think that, just because Caitlin Halligan has a solid Senate majority wanting to vote to confirm her nomination to the DC Circuit Court, she should be confirmed? Where have you been?* *"I don't think any reasonable person would find anything about Caitlin Halligan that would constitute 'extraordinary circumstances. The idea that a position that you took as a public official on behalf of your client amounts to an extraordinary circumstance was pretty astonishing."* *-- White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, to *The New Yorker*'s Jeffrey Toobin* *by Ken* Nevertheless, bec... more »

More on the Last Day

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 hours ago
I am discovering all too well the limitations of typing with an Ipad and cannot easily correct my grammatical and formatting errors. So, please forgive them. I want to address the discontinuities I mentioned. First, no effort was made by the facilitators to summarize, synthesize, compare or contrast any of the speakers contributions. The work of sense-making was left entirely to the audience. I believe this was an oversight and added to the disconnects. The most pressing discontinuity stemmed from disconnects in: 1. The empirical findings of animal/human mutations and diseases do... more »

Last Day of Fukushima Conference

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 16 hours ago
As an academic I've been to many many conferences, big and small. I have mixed feelings about the Fukushima Symposium based on my previous conference expectations. What was great about the conference was the wide array of amazing speakers Helen Caldicott was able to assemble. My favorite speaker was Timothy Mousseau, whose work on birds and insects in the Chernobyl zone is amazing and very heroic, given he has increased his personal risks going back many times into contaminated zones to collect animals, none of which he hurts and all of which he returns. I spoke briefly with him d... more »

ALEC Ag-Gag Bill - A Blunder, PR Failure

2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours ago
Steven Maviglio California Cattlemen's Introduction of "Ag-Gag" Bill May be Legislative and PR Blunder of the Year March 12, 2013 @ 11:01 AM [image: Cow]You would think that the beef industry would have its hands full dealing with news reports about the infusion of a distant relative of Mr. Ed in IKEA meatballs and in other "beef" products. But no. Here in California, the California Cattlemen's Association has embarked on what is likely to go down as the biggest PR blunder of the 2013 legislative session. It is sponsoring a bill that would essentially stop individuals from exposing... more »

NEOCONS, ZIONISTS AND M.S.M. IGNORE PALESTINIAN CHILDREN KILLED BY ISRAELIS

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has recently released a preliminary report which has stated that a Palestinian child initially thought to have been killed by Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip was actually killed by an errant rocket that had been launched by Palestinian fighters. Despite due reverence to the death of a child, neoconservatives and Zionists could barely disguise their joy at being handed a propaganda coup enabling them to demean their enemies. Jonathan Tobin writing at the neoconservative *Commentary* magazine certainly couldn’t let the opportuni... more »

Modern air combat - the Sukhoi 27 explained

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 16 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/ccTJrxVqw9g The world is changing and so are strategic requirements. For the one party a drone is the optimum aerial weapon system (in particular when the economy is declining), for the other advanced fighters and fighter-bombers (when you have a vast country to protect). I admire the designs from Sukhoi and its SU27 family. Why? That is pretty well explained and shown in this movie... John

Deplorable

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 17 hours ago
Haiti: Deplorable Conditions for Cholera Patients@msf_usa shar.es/epBwG via @sharethis — John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) March 12, 2013

Threats, Libel, Calls for FDA & Government Action – and a Petition to the Governor: Research Ethics Morass at the University of Minnesota Psychiatry Continues

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 18 hours ago
The sad and disgraceful story about the appalling unwillingness of the University of Minnesota to in any way investigate closer what several pieces of evidence suggest may very well be a major research ethics scandal in its psychiatry department continues. The scandal involves drug trials connected to several major Pharma companies, such as Astra-Zeneca, but for once it is not them who appear to be doing the bad deed – it is the university itself. Former reports on this by myself are here, and here. The reporting of University of Minnesota bioethicist Carl Elliott is assembled here ... more »

Ron Delisle passes

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours ago
Those who knew Ron Delisle at Queen's will be saddened to hear that he passed away this morning at Kingston General Hospital. Canada has lost a great academic and a decent human being.

Those evil Tories

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 18 hours ago
'The wages of ordinary full-time workers barely grew during this period and were negative for the lowest earners... Even workers in the top half saw their wages grow only slowly. It was only the very richest – those in the top 5% - who experienced growth of more than 1% a year. This pattern of wage growth among individuals contributed to a growing polarisation in household incomes.' Those evil Tories, only the top 5% experiencing growth on their incomes, the rich looking after the rich... Just one problem the above is taken from The Resolution Foundation's Report'Squeezed Britai... more »

Comparing Imaginary Numbers

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours ago
How do you go about comparing imaginary numbers? Kevin Drum says: The fiscal cliff deal increased top marginal rates from 36 percent to 39.6 percent. Ryan's plan is based on reducing top rates to 25 percent. In other words, not only does he want to get rid of the 39.6 percent rate, he wants to make it even lower than it was before the fiscal cliff deal. He doesn't accept the fiscal cliff increases at all. Right? What am I missing here? While Suzy Khimm reads the same budget and concludes: Buried in Rep. Paul Ryan’s new budget is one surprising detail: He wants to raise more revenu... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 19 hours ago
*Does stunning collapse of River Birch case portend uglier revelations ahead?*

A Sea of Lies

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 19 hours ago
Yesterday, the first lone bee was gathering pollen from the crocus peeking out of the litter of leaves. As any gardener would know looking at the size of the bee compared to the flower, every year this violet harbinger of spring emerges smaller and more pale. Although the bulbs should divide and spread, as time goes on there are, like the daffodils, fewer and fewer along the long drive that leads through the woods to Wit's End, and less and less along the banks of the Cold Brook where they were planted by the former owner, long before I moved here, when first daughter had yet bare... more »

Salon goes belly (and spread keister) up!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 19 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013* *The death of American journalism:* The horror of modern American journalism is on display wherever you look. Examples: In the next few weeks, citizens will look on as the “press corps” pretends to examine the new Ryan budget plan. (To watch Drum fight with the opening rounds of the nonsense, just click this.) At Slate, Tanner Colby takes a punishing look at the way Bob Woodward was doing business as early as the 1980s. Was this great man *always* a fraud? To examine that question, click here. Last night, O’Reilly’s recent wave of lunacy continued apace o... more »

INSIDE THE MAN

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 19 hours ago
As the creative powerhouse behind hugely influential band The Kinks, Ray Davies was responsible for writing some of the best-loved songs of the 60s, including pop classics You Really Got Me, Tired of Waiting For You, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, Sunny Afternoon and Waterloo Sunset. Alan Yentob meets Davies, a unique talent who describes with rare candor his troubled relationship with fame and the vicissitudes of his career.

Preparing for dryness

risa bear at A Way to Live - 19 hours ago
*Another repost while Risa recovers from the flu she picked up in Calif. :) * Last year at this time, the cold rains returned in March, and for a rainy-day project, Risa built a solar food dehydrator from scraps. It did a fair job of the drying that was asked of it, and there was enough work for two dehydrators, so this year, as it's raining again, she's making another as much like the old one as possible, and again from scraps. First, measure your Craigslist window and then construct a box to fit. This box is made from 3/8" plywood and 2X2" leftovers, about 35X47X6", assembled with... more »

Slaves To Debt... And To Death

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
Did you love Bryan Ferry's song Slave to Love? Me too. You can watch it at the link-- but not at the embed above. That one's much scaried; it's about the essence of the banking industry-- making us all slaves to debt, if not as individuals, then as citizens of countries. And the way they do it is, as President Eisenhower warned us in 1961, through the octopus-like Military-Industrial Complex. The video clip is worth watching. This week 8 Members of Congress concerned about this kind of thing more than many of their colleagues-- Barbara Lee (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Keith Elli... more »

The Mythical Liberal Order: A Reply and Response

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 19 hours ago
Naazneen Barma, one of the authors of the “Mythical Liberal Order,” responded to my post of last week with a reply to my critique. With her permission, I’m posting her message here and my response. Readers, we’d love for you to weigh in with your views. Naazneen had this to say about my original post: I’d Continue reading

"Dogs Are Able To Visually Recognize Their Own Species"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
*"Dogs Are Able To Visually Recognize Their Own Species"* by Lee Rannals "New research reported in the journal "Animal Cognition" claims that dogs are able to pick out faces of other dogs on a computer screen, and can group them into a category of their own. Dr. Dominique Autier-Dérian, who led the research along with colleagues, performed the first study to test dogs’ ability to discriminate between species and form a “dog” category in spite of the variability within the dog species. Previous research has shown that in some species, individuals are able to recognize more easi... more »

Persistent lying about housing land supply

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours ago
*[image: _hugh-pavletich-sml]Guest poster Hugh Pavletich asks why people such as Mayor Len Brown of Auckland are persistently lying about housing issues, and points out however you want to measure the amount of immediately available building land, the only true measure of scarcity or abundance is price.* Supplying affordable new homes today is a very formulaic business indeed – and has been since Bill and Alfred Levitt created the modern production housing construction industry soon after World War 2. This was a remarkable entrepreneurial feat, as the Levitts and many others had ... more »

Christy Clark`s LNG Superpower Dreams Turn Nightmare

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 20 hours ago
More bad news for British Columbia`s LNG superpower dreams.. (Thanks to the Disaffected Lib for pointing this out) http://the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.ca/2013/03/iran-pipeline-to-pakistan-next-stop.html Iran has completed a natural gas pipeline, come Monday construction of the pipeline takes another step, Pakistan has agreed to start construction of the pipeline in their country, this is expected to take 2 years, Iran has huge deposits of natural gas ... This project has been delayed because the USA has been threatening Pakistan, threatening to cut off monies to Pakistan if it has an... more »

The Economy: "Staring Armageddon In The Face But Hiding It With Official Lies"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
*"Staring Armageddon In The Face But * *Hiding It With Official Lies"* – Paul Craig Roberts "According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy created 236,000 new jobs in February. If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I’ll let you have at a good price. Where are these alleged jobs? The BLS says 48,000 were created in construction. That is possible, considering that revenue-starved real estate developers are misreading the housing situation. Then there are 23,700 new jobs in retail trade, which is hard to believe considering the absence of consumer ... more »

Gwich'in Steering Committee Open House March 13, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
inShare Click to view this email in a browser OPEN HOUSE!Co-hosted by the

Satire: "Ryan Budget Plan Gets Endorsement From Ayn Rand"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
*"Ryan Budget Plan Gets Endorsement From Ayn Rand"* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— "Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) was jubilant today after his newly unveiled budget plan picked up a key endorsement from the novelist Ayn Rand. It was a rare public utterance for the late Ms. Rand, who has been damned to eternal torment in Satan’s lake of fire since 1982. “This is a budget I wish I had written,” said Ms. Rand, pausing to scream as white-hot flames licked her face. “Paul Ryan is a great man and I look forward to meeting him someday.” Rep. Ryan acknowledged Ms... more »

Cabañas sobre el agua turquesa

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago
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Dibujos de mujeres bonitas

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago
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Muñequitos de carton en un paisaje de otoño

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago
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Gatito escondido en el sombrero

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago
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Estrellas y caracoles de mar en la arena

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago
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Campo de flores de diferentes tipos

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago
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Our Movement Must Be a Safe Space for Women

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 21 hours ago
Support this initiative by Cath Elliott and Marshajane Thompson and sign the statement below here. We the undersigned labour movement activists stand in solidarity with all women opposing all forms of male violence against women. We recognise that male violence against women is endemic in society, and that our movement is obviously and unfortunately not exempt. We believe that our trade union and labour movement has the potential to transform society for the better. Therefore we have a particular responsibility to confront and challenge male violence against women within our movem... more »

Camellos en el desierto caluroso

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago
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Ave exótica del paraíso

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago
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Aurora boreal y un bello paisaje

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago
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March 12, 2013...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 21 hours ago
*black smoke.*

Arbol de color amarillo en la orilla de la isla

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago
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"The Kabuki Theatre of Demopublicans, Part II"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
*"The Kabuki Theatre of Demopublicans, Part II"* A conversation with Doug Casey by The Gold Report *"The Gold Report:* In the conversation titled On 2013, you say 2013 will be ugly, but merely a warm-up for 2014. Yet the economic trends appear to be positive: the end of quantitative easing by year-end, increased domestic oil and gas production resulting in inexpensive energy for decades to come, more manufacturing jobs, and less unemployment. Is this slow-growing economic recovery masking the effects of the deficit and unfunded liabilities, thus allowing politicians to kick t... more »

Maarten Horst Interviews Brian Kelly on the OPPT March 7, 2013

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
*Here's an interview Brian did with Maarten Horst from* * ET First Contact Radio on March 7, 2013* * * ** * * Had such a blast doing this interview with Maarten. Covered some information I hadn't been given clearance yet to discuss on other shows. I think folks will find it VERY interesting ;) Enjoy! ~ Brain

Cincinnati poll worker charged with voting half dozen times in November | Fox News

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
Now you know why the US Democrats were so against voter registration legislation. How many more similar examples have yet to come to light? 'She admitted voting twice in the presidential election last November, and now, Obama supporter Melowese Richardson has been indicted for allegedly voting at least six times. She also is charged with illegal voting in 2008 and 2011. The 58-year-old veteran Cincinnati poll worker, indicted Monday, faces eight counts of voter fraud. Two others, one of whom is a nun, have been charged separately. Richardson had admitted on camera to a local TV st... more »

Vatican live stream...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 22 hours ago
CBS New York Live Stream

Iran Pipeline to Pakistan. Next stop, China?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours ago
Despite pressure from the United States, Pakistan has reached an agreement for the construction of a pipeline to import natural gas from Iran. Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, the gas pipeline appears to be routed right past Gwadar, the Pakistani southern port, control of which has recently passed to China. Just sayin'

It's Still Fossil Fuel

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours ago
The Japanese have successfully tapped seabed methane clathrates, also known as "flammable ice." Deposits of compressed and frozen methane are fairly common in northern waters. British Columbia has looked at exploiting them. *The gas field is about 50km away from Japan's main island, in the Nankai Trough.* * **Researchers say it could provide an alternative energy source for Japan which imports all its energy needs.* *Offshore deposits present a potentially enormous source of methane but also some environmental concern, because the underwater geology containing them is unstable ... more »

Lunchtime!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours ago

Underestimating China

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours ago
The Chinese keep taking the West by surprise with their technological advancement. We're pretty sure a fair bit of their knowledge is purloined via the internet. Some, probably, but not all. And, speaking of the internet, it seems China is poised to rock the world with a "next generation" internet that is expected to be a world-beater. Just as our conventional internet is nearing it's 4.3-billion full capacity, China is deploying a system that is supposedly 80,000 trillion trillion times larger.

Shhh. Don't Tell Harper

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours ago
With his authoritarian bent, this might just appeal to Sideshow Steve. And, of course, when thinking of Ruler Harper who doesn't think of Albania? *Wired.com* has a neat item about former Albanian strongman Enver Hoxa and his obsession with bunker-building. During the Communist dictator's 40-year rule, he covered his country with 750,000 concrete bunkers. That's one for every four Albanians. Being concrete, they're still pretty much intact to this day.* *The article has a gallery of 22-photos. Here are a few. Photos by David Galjaard from his book, *Concresco.* Post-Commun... more »

It's Official

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 23 hours ago
*"I'd love to be able to do my job, gentlemen, but Goldman Sachs is holding my testicles hostage."* * * Eric Holder's more worthless than Erik Erikson will prove to be for Fox "News." In an amazing round of testimony (or should we spell it "testimoney"?) before the US Senate, Attorney General Eric Holder admitted to Chuck Grassley that Wall Street banks are indeed too big to jail. This is what he'd actually said to Grassley: I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with... more »

No, Not "Everyone" Fell For The Bush-Cheney Call To War In Iraq

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
National Memo kicked off the week reminding us that not *everyone* fell for the Bush-Cheney war propaganda and not everyone went along with their rush to war in Iraq. There were, in fact, millions of people who protested and, in terms of insiders, National Memo spotlights people who criticized the invasion risking their careers and reputations to do so. They focus on Tyler Drumheller, head of CIA operations in Europe, the Knight Ridder Newspaper chain, Al Gore, blue chip journalists Dana Milbank, Walter Pincus, and Maureen Dowd, Jimmy Carter, Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, Carne R... more »

Enhanced credit for pre conviction custody may properly include ineligibility for remission and parole while in remand custody

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours ago
R. v. Summers, 2013 ONCA 147 holds enhanced credit for pre conviction custody may properly include consideration of ineligibility for remission and parole while in remand custody: [8] As I see it, however, s. 719(3.1) of the Code allows a sentencing judge to credit pre-sentence custody at a ratio up to, but not exceeding, 1.5:1 for each day spent in pre-sentence custody where, on consideration of all relevant circumstances, such credit is necessary to achieve a fair and just sanction in accordance with the statutory scheme for sentencing and punishment set out in the Cod... more »

ISA 2013 Blogging Reception

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
The good people at SAGE just sent this image along. It’s a mockup of one side of the reception postcards that will be handed out at ISA 2013. I will be running repeated reminders of the reception from now until the conference. It will be from 7.30-8.30pm on 4 April in Yosemite A. Unfortunately, only Continue reading

Well, That's That Then.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
In an upset, Falkland Islanders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of flipping the bird to Argentina. *Despite near zero temperatures and flurries of snow and rain, the turnout was 92% from an electorate of 1,650. All but three people voted yes to the question posed on the ballots: "Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom?" * Those pesky Argies were not impressed.

In Papal News

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
Let the Conclave begin! Wait, what's that? There's already a snag? Frontrunner Papal would-be, Cardinal Angelo Scola's diocese has just been raided by Italy's anti-mafia cop squad. *Anti-mafia detectives swooped on homes, offices, clinics and hospitals in Lombardy, the region around Milan, and elsewhere. A statement said the dawn raids were part of an investigation into "corruption linked to tenders by, and supplies to, hospitals".* *Healthcare in Lombardy is the principal responsibility of the regional administration, which for the past 18 years has been run by Roberto Formigo... more »

Mr. O was still explaining his outburst last night!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013* *The poodle which didn’t bark:* Last Tuesday night, Bill O’Reilly melted down on his semi-eponymous cable news program. Over and over, he called Alan Colmes a liar, although he began to apologize for the name-calling before the segment was over. The following night, he devoted his opening segment to the fracas, though he kept spreading disinformation about Obama’s budget proposals, the matter which had been in question. See THE DAILY HOWLER, 3/8/13. Those segments aired last Tuesday and Wednesday. But how strange! Last night, O’Reilly was *still* trying to... more »

THE ORIGINAL SIN: Why was Whitaker frisked!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013* *Part 2—The heartfelt belief that we know:* Why was Forest Whitaker stopped, then frisked, outside a New York deli last month? To tell you the truth, we don’t know. Everyone agrees that Whitaker did absolutely nothing wrong—that he was *mistakenly* suspected of shoplifting. But why was Whitaker suspected? To tell you the truth, we don’t know. There has been little reporting about the incident. As far as we know, the name of the deli employee in question hasn’t even been reported; neither has his age or his race or ethnicity. There has been no reporting a... more »

Manila the Miners' Canary of Climate Change

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
The Philippines are now being thought of as the "miners' canary" of climate change. The archipelagic state has reeled under the impacts of sea level rise and typhoons of increasing frequency and intensity. But the capital, Manila, is the worst of all and now faces permanent flooding because residents have compounded sea level rise and storm surges with subsidence caused by draining their aquifers. *In an interview with GMA News Online, Dr. Kelvin S. Rodolfo, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, explained that the over-pumping of groundwater is the main ca... more »

Wing's Presentation on Epidemiology

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
Steve Wing He begins by addressing the limitations of the Hiroshima lifetime study, which include : 1. The study began 5 years after the bombing 2. Studies of cancer began in 1958 3. Fallout was not addressed because the people studied were primarily subject to gamma and neutron radiation from the initial blasts rather than fallout, which impacted populations located further away 4. No research addressed subjects exposure to ingested and inhaled radioisotopes 5. No research addressed birth defects and miscarriages He also addressed a vareity of other issues that impacted statist... more »

Tuesday Morning Linkage Club

PM at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Henry Farrell reflects on political economy, game theory, and methodology [Crooked Timber] ICYMI: Voeten links to Fukuyama on new measures of governance (ungated) [The Monkey Cage, Governance] Fukuyama seeks a measure of the actual quality of governance, regardless of regime type. For my part, I’ll note that I’ve discovered “political scientists measure democracy using quantitative Continue reading

Iraq 10 Years Later (1): How Culpable is Academic International Relations?

Robert Kelly at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
I’ve been thinking a lot about the war this month. I’ll be teaching it in the next few weeks at school because of the decade anniversary (March 20). My quick sense is that any defensible theory behind the war was simply buried by an execution so awful, disorganized, mismanaged, and incompetent that it invalidated the whole Continue reading

After the party, the CVAC's

Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
When we realize our value we will be valuable. When we realize our value we will be valuable. When we realize our value we will be valuable. We are not valuable until we say so. Why do you have low self esteem? Who told you to hate yourself? You were programmed to comply and made to be obedient. When you realize your value you will become valuable. You do not realize your value and so you do not see yourself as valuable. What makes one piece of paper more valuable than another? One rock more valuable than another? An agreement – words like “In God We Trust” or “... more »

A Minor Defense of Ryan and the Republicans

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Since I took it to Paul Ryan and the Republicans in fairly strong language yesterday, and I suspect I'll not wind up saying nice things about Ryan's budget, I'll back up a bit and say one thing in their defense. Ryan is taking a fair amount of heat from some liberals because the budget matches the Romney/Ryan campaign plan and because the ticket that ran on that platform lost. For example, Jared Bernstein: "OK…but the thing is, we had a national election on this preference set, and it lost." I suppose there's nothing wrong with this as a talking point, but really: what else do you e... more »

Their BIG Joke On You Explained: Laundered Drug Money Mainly A Hedge By the Banks?

It's just a favor (almost) that anyone from that level even speaks to us (US) anymore. Have you started to feel that way also? I think we are lucky to have an inside man like Bob Reich. Former labor secretary Robert Reich says, “The idea that most Americans have been living beyond their means is pure fantasy perpetrated by a small minority at the top whose means have gone through the

The Good Ol’ Cold War

Jeffrey Stacey at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
In the aftermath of a long war, a new degree of suspicion ensues between two powerful countries that were nominally on the same side…one rattles its sabre, threatening small countries on its borders…the other shores up relations with the very same countries… a tit-for-tat arms race begins, waged with the advantages of recent technological advances…espionage Continue reading

Beyond Critical Thinking -- a book review by author Jeff Schmidt

Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 1 day ago
Beyond Critical Thinking Review of Denis Rancourt's Hierarchy and Free Expression in the Fight Against Racism By Jeff Schmidt Author of Disciplined Minds jeffschmidt@alumni.uci.edu To understand Denis Rancourt and his book, Hierarchy and Free Expression in the Fight Against Racism, you have to know the difference between critical thinking and independent thinking. Critical thinking is

Iraq Finally Passes 2013 Budget But With Protests

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
At the beginning of March 2013, Iraq’s parliament finally passed the annual budget. Voting on it had been delayed for months, mainly because of disputes between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the central government over the former’s oil policy. The argument was not resolved by the time the vote took place, which led to complaints by the Kurdish Coalition. In terms of the actual budget, it is the largest in Iraqi history. It also has the biggest outlay for investment, but many of the country’s ministries have proven incapable of spending all their money. The budget is ... more »

Chief of U.S. Pacific forces calls climate change biggest worry – ‘You could have millions of people displaced, and security will start to crumble pretty quickly’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago
[image: Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III met privately with security and foreign policy specialists at Harvard and Tufts universities on 7-8 March 2013. He said the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region is climate change. Photo: Jay Directo / AFP / Getty Images]By Bryan Bender 9 March 2013 CAMBRIDGE (Boston Globe) – America’s top military officer in charge of monitoring hostile actions by North Korea, escalating tensions between China and Japan, and a spike in computer attacks traced to China provides an unexpected answer when asked what is the biggest long-term sec... more »

Learning about Hippies in Louisiana's Voucher Schools

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
*Beka Books is owned by Arlin and Beka Horton, who both graduated from Bob Jones "University" in 1951. The company, which now has an extensive product line of semi-literate ultra-fundamentalist teaching materials, made headlines a couple of years ago by changing the Christian unfriendly "Slave Trade" to the "Atlantic Triangular Trade." How offensive an unwholesome to talk about slavery in a Christian environment. From Political Research Associates:* On May 21, Texas School Board member Cynthia Dunbar opened the board’s meeting with an invocation: “Whether we look to the first cha... more »




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