A protest in Utah against Wal-Mart (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Review - Chi Bar
Do you ever crave something sweet but avoid sugary, unhealthy candy bars?
Like me, you might browse the granola or energy bar selections thinking
that they contain nutritious ingredients ... and then feel disappointed
seeing things like hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup on the
label. The few wholesome bars on the shelves often lack flavor or a
pleasant texture ... I tried a sample which made me think of sawdust.
[image: organic chi bar]
The kind folks at Chi Foods invited me to try Chi Bars.
Before agreeing, I visited their site to learn about the product. Words
like U... more »
Christy Clark and the Manning Centre for Building Conservatives
In March 2012, Christy Clark gave the opening remarks to the Ottawa Manning
Centre Networking Conference, the yearly "conservative family reunion". She
was introduced by her then chief of staff, former senior Harper advisor,
Enbridge lobbyist, and Alberta 'firewall manifesto' signatory Ken
Boessenkool, who was her very first campaign manager back in 2010.
"We have a duty to Canada" to easy the flow of products to Asia, she told
her audience at the Manning Centre [a year ago]. "We support pipelines in
British Columbia."
BC Conservative leader John Cummins was not invited.
Mannin... more »
Paul Ryan Gets A Letter From A Constituent
Hey Paul Ryan!
What do you think of the $52 billion in profits to the US Treasury made by
the government taking over student lending?
Haven't heard you praising the outcome of a "Government Takeover."
Why?
Could it be that those profits would have been gravy profits to your
benefactors?
It sure seems to me this is an excellent example of Government gone right.
I understand why this is not something you would not like to discuss. Like
a wealthy guy (hmm... you!) paying for a private school college education
on the Social Security benefits you want to cut.
Same with Obamacare. Yo... more »
Great Short Video By Snordelhans...Warning! Iran HAS The Bomb!
With the failure at this moment in the sick Israeli/US attempts to get
their regional war going in the Middle East through Syria, the Jewish media
has now began their push for an invasion of Iran (again) through the usual
false claims that Iran is "months away" from building a nuclear device....
We have heard the same lies for years now, and I hope that this time people
are no longer taking the bait...
To help show the sad history of the vain attempts by the criminals in both
the terrorist state of Israel, and their useless idiot slaves in the United
States, to get a war on Iran goi... more »
49:1 Is Not 50:50
Forty-Nine to One is not Fifty-Fifty. Climate change denialists like to
spread it on thick and claim there's some fierce debate over the reality of
anthropogenic global warming and there are a good many disinformed,
misinformed and simply delusional types who think there is no consensus and
it's a toss up.
That's simply garbage served up by people who manufacture garbage for
people willing to consume garbage.
Yet another peer-reviewed study into the great body of climate change
research studies finds 97.1% endorse the consensus view while a miserably
underwhelming 1.9% reject the... more »
WSJ: Wal-Mart Crafts Own Bangladesh Safety Plan
Banjo, S., Zimmerman, A., & Kapner, S (May 15, 2013)Wall Street Journal, p.
B1.
[Excerpted] Wal-Mart Stores Inc. broke with major European retailers on
Tuesday by announcing its own plan for improving safety at Bangladesh
garment factories....
The proliferation of competing proposals may undermine their effectiveness,
some experts said, and voluntary efforts have a poor track record. "Without
a legally binding contract that the European retailers have signed, it's
just putting lipstick on a pig," said Bob Ross, a critic of sweatshops who
teaches sociology at Clark University in Wo... more »
FRIDAY MORNING RAMBLE: The boring bloody budget edition
*Anyone have links to good Budget commentary? Because I struggled to stay
awake throughout Bill’s self-justifying dirge, so failed to post my own.
(And I’m betting I’m not the only one who so struggled.) How about you add
good links in the comments, if you have any, and I’ll add them up here as I
see them. In the meantime, while Americans were sleeping…*
[image: Photo: SHARE if you think politicians like Obama are the reason we
need term limits!]
One measure of today’s housing crisis: Remember when a new subdivision
wasn’t national news?
*New subdivision gets green light* – RADIO... more »
Paulo Coelho, “The Well of Madness”
* “The Well of Madness”*
by Paulo Coelho
“A powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a
magic potion in the well from which all the inhabitants drank. Whoever
drank that water would go mad. The following morning, the whole population
drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his
family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not
managed to poison.
The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a
series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and
inspectors, howev... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Keauhou, Hawaii, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Satire: “Republicans Agree to Stop Using Word “Scandal” in Every Sentence If Obama Resigns”
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*“Republicans Agree to Stop Using Word “Scandal”*
* in Every Sentence If Obama Resigns”
*by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “Arguing that the American people are
sick and tired of hearing the word “scandal,” a growing chorus of
Republican lawmakers said they would stop using the word “scandal” in every
sentence if President Obama resigns from office immediately. “Mr.
President, for the past week, the American people have heard nothing but
scandal,” said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California). “Scandal, scandal,
scandal, and more scandal.” “You have called for inves... more »
More you, as needed . . .
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HEAP BIG BREAKTHROUGH: According to George Dvorsky at io9, scientists
have made human stem cells by Dolly-type cloning. Check out his article,
"Scientists Use Cloning to Create Embryonic Stem Cells".
The Godsquad's gonna freak . . . but the 'Genie' is out of the bottle,
er, test-tube. Essentially your unique DNA can be used to grow more you
to fix things that need fixing with you. Now,
Ian Hutchinson: The Scientism Delusion
Related: *Prof. Ian Hutchinson - Monopolising Knowledge: A Refutation of
Scientism*.
Title: Ian Hutchinson: The Scientism Delusion. YouTube Video Description -
[Channel: VeritasForum. Published on May 5, 2012]:
http://www.veritas.org/talks - Since its beginning, science has
demonstrated its uncapped ability to uncover and explain our universe... or
has it? MIT Professor and Christian Ian Hutchinson argues that the fairly
recent view that science can explain everything, or scientism, makes
unrealistic promises of the scientific method. Instead, Hutchinson opens up
a world in whic... more »
Civilized Humanity: Obama and Erdogan Must Go
The administrations of Obama and Erdogan are supporting Al-Qaeda and other
terrorist groups in Syria financially, militarily, and logistically. They
must go in order for civilized humanity to get a chance at life in that
region, and in this century.
DOWN TO THE DOCTOR’S: “Oh teachers are my lessons done? I cannot do another one.”
*[image: _McGrath001]This week, Libz leader Dr Richard McGrath wonders what
about registering a teacher makes them safe?*
Boyish Labour MP and teachers' pet Chris Hipkins seems convinced that if
teachers in charter schools aren't registered, children will be at risk and
the sky will fall.
I thank him for his concern. We can all be reassured that where a teacher
is registered and under scrutiny of the Teachers Council, our children will
be secure...
*Registered teacher James Parker admitted at least 74 charges of sexual
offending young boys. He is still on the register of teache... more »
Common Core Meme Break
A little more light-hearted way to sum up the reality. Yes, I need a little
brain break. Filed under: KRIS NIELSEN: First, Do No Harm Tagged: common
core
Anybody Heard of the 'Government Telecommunications and Informatics Service?'
My Duffy post earlier today seems to have drawn the attention of some
Ottawa outfit called the Government Telecommunications and Informatics
Service. Anyone know anything about them?
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*Benefit for shooting victims May 23 at Tip’s!*
*Fund for Deb Cotton *
Off with their heads
Yet another ritualistic resignation at the IRS, as required by the optics
under what passes for civil society these days.
An internal IRS memo says Joseph Grant, commissioner of the agency’s tax
exempt and government entities division, will retire June 3. Grant joins
Steven Miller, who was forced to resign as acting IRS commissioner on
Wednesday.
Grant joined the IRS in 2005.
But Booman is right. In a sane society, this is what should have happened
to Tea Party group tax exemptions.
I am infuriated by these stories about Tea Party groups who are complaining
that seeking tax-exe... more »
How did we become the Evil Empire?
*I received this essay a few days ago. I have edited the text for
readability, and corrected the English idioms and expression, English is
not the author's first language, but it remains essentially as given in the
narrative. I think you can feel the love of the writer for his flawed and
well meaning father who thought he was doing his patriotic duty for his
country but awakened too late to realize he was working for corrupt bankers
and business interests. Particularly interesting is how his father's love
for his son caused him to confess the true nature of his work and that ke... more »
Southern Man Rescues A Turtle
Southern Man saw this good-sized common snapping turtle (*chelydra
serpentina*) trying to cross six lands of traffic...
He was a beast, easily capable of taking a finger. Southern Man managed to
get him by the tail and put him by the side of the road.
And then Southern Man found a box and transported the beast to The Land.
Here he is near the dock pilings.
The Beast wasn't too happy about the move, but The Land is and always will
be a turtle and snake sanctuary. He'll make a fine home down there in the
bottoms by the lake.
Mothers Day 2013
The ever beautiful Southern Mother.
Southern Father unloads conduit from The Titan.
Stella is a Good Dog!
Choral Concert
It's time for Teen Daughter's Spring Choral Concert - why, yes, she does
have a solo part - so Southern Man and Southern Mother made the drive Up
North to see her.
Southern Mother in the crowd.
Yes, Teen Daughter is right in the middle of this photo. Not that you can
tell.
Dinner at Twisters.
Drop-off at school the next morning, where Teen Daughter (as she often
does) declined to be photographed.
Of course there was geocaching. Southern Man snuck in a couple after
dropping off Teen Daughter and before heading back to the hotel for
Southern Mother.
One was in this beautiful... more »
Singles Dance
It's the once-monthly singles dance! Whoo hoo!
Hey, why aren't you dancing?
Pool Sharks
As before *none* of the actual dance-floor pics came out, and few of the
low-light shots. Southern Man must wean himself from "auto" and actually
learn how to use his fancy new camera.
“Truth Is Offensive”
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*“Truth Is Offensive”*
by Paul Craig Roberts
“In America truth is offensive. If you tell the truth, you are offensive. I
am offensive. Michael Hudson is offensive. Gerald Celente is offensive.
Herman Daly is offensive. Nomi Prins is offensive. Pam Martens is
offensive. Chris Hedges is offensive. Chris Floyd is offensive. John Pilger
is offensive. Noam Chomsky is offensive. Harvey Silverglate is offensive.
Naomi Wolf is offensive. Stephen Lendman is offensive. David Ray Griffin is
offensive. Ellen Brown is offensive.
Fortunately, many others are offensive. But how long before... more »
Rob Portman Has A Shovel And He Keeps Digging That Hole Deeper
Rob and Wayne's fabulous adventure
I suppose if one of Senator Portman's family members was bowling and some
idiot with a gun in his shorts pocket accidentally shot him, Portman would
change his mind on gun safety regulations... in a couple of years. Until
then, Portman could just continue lying by claiming he did vote yes on
background checks for criminals, terrorists and insane people wanting to
buy guns. But Portman voted NO on background checks. Portman voted NO on
deterring firearms trafficking. Portman voted NO on regulating military
grade assault weapons. Portman voted NO on r... more »
Iraq’s Troubled Agricultural Sector
In May 2013 Deputy Agricultural Minister Ghazi Obeidi told the press that
Iraq’s farm sector was booming. He claimed that the country would soon be
meeting domestic demand for fruits, vegetables, and wheat. Obeidi went on
to state that was due to the Agricultural Ministry’s policies, which
include the banning of certain imports, and providing new crops to help
Iraqi farmers. Agriculture is one of the most important industries after
oil and gas. It is the second largest employer, and one-third of the
population lives in rural areas. Currently the countryside is suffering
from high ... more »
Al-Qaeda Supporting Bullies Afraid Of A Little Rain
Flashback: *"Guess who isn’t afraid of a little rain? Mitt Romney attends
rally, shakes hands of vets in downpour."*
If We're Going To Do This With Drones, Why Does Anyone Need the F-35?
With the launch yesterday of the X-47B from the deck of the USS George HW
Bush, the case for the F-35 just got a lot weaker.
The X-47B is a prototype of a U.S. Navy UCAV or unmanned combat air
vehicle. It's a stealth light bomber which is pretty much the same sort of
aircraft as the F-35 only without the guy inside.
The X-47B is intended to penetrate hostile airspace, undetected, drop a
couple of bombs on a heavily defended, high-value target and then try to
get back out again. The F-35 is intended to penetrate hostile airspace,
undetected, drop a couple of bombs on a heavily d... more »
The cost of repealing Obamacare
Not talking about the costs as related to health care or the deficit. This
is simply the cost to the taxpayer for the time it takes Congress to keep
producing these "message bills" the crackpot cons insist on repeatedly
bringing to the floor in order to impress the rubes back home.
Steve Daines represents Montana, which, at last count, takes in $1.92 of
money from big government Beltway solutions for every dollar in taxes
Montanas send to the rest of us. And, by the time the House arranged to
define the word "quixotic" for the ages for the 33rd time, which was almost
a year ago, t... more »
Pennsylvania business and military leaders lack 8th grade writing skills.
Someone has to say it! Pennsylvania business and military leaders lack 8th
grade writing skills and need a serious academic intervention before they
make one more stupid suggestion about teaching, learning, child
development, and public schools. As reported today in The Triadvocate,
Mission Readiness (a supposed “nonpartisan” group) released: All Children
Prepared for Success: Common […]
The Price of War
The folks at *UpWorthy* have published a photo-perspective showing the
faces of soldiers taken before, during and after war. Here's one
example. Follow the link above to see the rest.
President Trumps Arne’s Celebration of Astounding and Amazing and Extraordinary Teachers with Charter School Week
I haven’t been able to say anything printable about Obama’s dissing of
teachers that accompanied his Proclamation declaring Charter Schools Week
on Friday before the beginning of last week’s Teacher Appreciation Week.
Obama’s odious Proclamation did not deter his corporate jackrabbit at ED,
however, from posting his own notice of celebration on that began on […]
What the Heck's Going On With the Obamaites? The Law Behind the A.P. Phone-Record Scandal Is Ours, So, Holder Like Arctic Ice Is Gone? STFU Grads & Be Glad Your Masters Have Jobs
The difference in the two parties today (if you listen to their true
concerns about environmental and economic devastation in light of the
rapidly oncoming (as we breathe) sacred fracking/shale oil
climate-destroying missions) seems to be "in how enthusiastically the
lemmings should march towards the cliff." Is "intelligence a lethal
mutation?" (Watch the video below for the unsurprising
GOP agree: Feed the rich, starve the poor
Rebuffing Democratic attempts to stop this inhumane pandering to special
interests, Republicans rammed a bill through committee that starves
children of the poor and impoverished olds in order to give more money to
wealthy corporate farmers.
A Republican-controlled panel in the U.S. House of Representatives on
Wednesday approved the biggest cuts in food stamps for the poor in a
generation and a potentially expensive expansion of federally subsidized
crop insurance. [...]
Almost half the savings in the House bill would come from a $20.5 billion
cut over 10 years in spending on f... more »
"What TARP Boss Neil Barofsky Told Me Yesterday Should Shock You"
*"What TARP Boss Neil Barofsky Told Me Yesterday Should Shock You"*
by Bill Bonner
"The financial news is getting boring. The Dow goes only one way – up. But
gold fell below $1,400 per ounce yesterday. Rather than trying to figure it
out, yesterday evening we drove down to Zombietown. A friend in Washington
had promised to introduce us to Neil Barofsky, inspector general of the
TARP program. You remember TARP? It was the feds' $700 billion program to
rescue the US economy from a correction. Neil Barofsky was in charge of it.
So we decided to go down and ask him how it turned ... more »
Benghazi grandstanding blows up in Issa's face
After months of pounding the podium in outrage, demanding answers, suddenly
Darrell Issa needs to think about whether to question the lead Benghazi
investigators. It's one thing for Darrell to accuse them of incompetence on
the TV. Quite another to allow them to defend their work:
In a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa exclusively obtained by CNN, the
co-chairmen behind an independent review of September's deadly attack in
Benghazi, Libya, expressed irritation over the House Oversight Committee
chairman's portrayal of their work and requested he call a public hearing
at which they can te... more »
MYSTERIOUS RYAN FOGLE
*Like any large city Moscow features many gay cruising areas.*
Newspapers have suggested that the 'CIA spy' Ryan Fogle was trying to gain
information about the Boston marathon bombers.
Report: Alleged CIA spy in Russia probing Boston bombings
One assumes that the CIA knows that one of the 'Boston bombers' had
meetings with the CIA and not with the FSB.
BOSTON BOMBER'S MEETINGS WITH CIA
So, Fogle was not trying to find out what the CIA already knows.
*Gay spy Burgess.*
Fogle was reportedly trying to recruit a Russian spy, an FSB agent who
specialized in Islamic extremism in Russia... more »
Twitter Outs the Haters
Check this out. It's a twitter-based map of racism in the United States.
*A team of geographers from Humboldt State University has developed a map
of the United States which plots the intensity of discriminatory speech in
social media, including racism, homophobia and ableism.*
*The team -- headed up by Dr Monica Stephens -- used a database of
geotagged tweets called DOLLY to scan the Twitter output in North America
between June 2012 and April 2013. They were scanning for a list of words
along with the sentiment attached to those words -- this was done manually,
with undergradu... more »
Ignore the Twitter News Cycle on Scandals
On Tuesday, they were measuring out the president's tomb. Today, with no
big revelations on any of the current scandals (or "scandals" as the case
may be), liberals at least, and I get the sense much of the neutral press,
is almost ready to announce the whole thing a dud.
They were wrong on Tuesday; they're wrong today. The truth? We mostly don't
know what will happen.
Look, the Benghazi thing remains, as far as I'm concerned, just as big a
nothing as it's been all along; the talking points, which have been the GOP
focus, just don't matter. That said, however, there's nothing that's... more »
Laws for a Country That Holds Itself Above the Law
America has increasingly been turning itself into an outlaw state. It
practices indefinite detention without charge or trial. It resorts to
torture. It violates foreign sovereignty to kill as it sees fit. It even
kills its own citizens on executive whim.
It is within this context that we have to make sense out of the Obama
administration's intentions about enacting a shield law to protect
journalists from the intrusions of a torturing, murderous state that holds
itself above its own constitution.
They're going to protect the privacy of journalists, really? When they're
just... more »
Akkermansia, Bacteria que evita la diabetis y la elimina!!!
*Señoras y Señores...*
*La mayor noticia que se les escapo...*
*La nueva ciencia de la Flora instestinal nos sigue dando sorpresas...*
*En el articulo abajo que fue traducido bruscamente nos dice lo siguiente;
La bacteria Akkermansia que vive en los estomagos humanos saludables es
responsable de DOS condiciones. *
*1) El estar delgada/o*
*2) Evitar la Diabetis*
*Piensen en lo que escribo, Que la falta de esta Bacteria llamada
AKKERMANSIA en nuestro systema digestivo nos lleva directamente a la
obesidad y la Diabetis.*
*Esto lo digo con la mayor certidumbre possible...*
*"Y como me benef... more »
What's it going to take to set things right?
The latest stats are in around poverty in Honduras, and as profoundly
discouraging as ever. Almost two million people - a quarter of the
population - are living on the equivalent of a buck a day, and another 2.5
million aren't doing much better. Another 1.6 million are living in
relative poverty
Contrast that against the amount of aid that has poured into the country in
the last decade, and you can't help but wonder what it all means. The U.S.
alone has spent $836 million in grants and aid to Honduras since 2003, and
hundreds of European and Asian organizations and governments have ... more »
Scott and Zelda and Edith and us!
*THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013*
*Not far from our own sprawling campus*: With all the excitement about The
Great Gatsby, we decided to take a break from the action.
We walked over to Park Avenue to brush up on Scott and Zelda.
That’s right! Just a little more than a block from the northeastern corner
of our campus, an historical marker tells the world that Scott and Zelda
once lived there.
And not only that! Directly across the street from that spot, a second
historical marker remembers part resident Edith Hamilton. In 1930, she
wrote The Greek Way, in which she praised "the calm lucidi... more »
They Have Re-Elected Their "Liberal" Lapdog - Now They're Coming For Our Coast
It will probably be sooner rather than later before we find out whether
Christy Clark will become British Columbia's Judas Goat to the Northern
Gateway and Kinder Morgan pipeline/supertanker fiascos.
Steve Harper, Alison Redford and Enbridge just need to buy or coerce
Clark's capitulation, make her sell-out the province and people of British
Columbia, and then ram those goddamned pipelines down our throats.
They've got plenty of markers to call in after her Hail Mary election win.
Clark will have to be ready to deal with unrest of a wide range from First
Nations and other group... more »
I Can't Blame KirbyCairo
Sick at heart of all the stupidity and evil being rewarded, Kirby Cairo has
thrown in the towel when it comes to blogging. Joining Boris at the
Galloping Beaver and Rural at Democracy Under Fire. Alison at Creekside
took a hiatus from hopelessness not too long ago; perhaps with Christy
Clark's surprise majority she'll take another pause. And I've been blogging
lightly for a while myself. (At least it feels lighter. Like I don't care
or something.)
Blogging is speaking out to the world, hoping that like minds will agree
and that perhaps (if only in a small way) we can add to a collec... more »
Tommy Vietor gets it right on the Benghazi attack!
*THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013*
*With just one basic correction:* Yesterday, the White House released a
pile of the e-mails which created the talking-points on Benghazi.
Also yesterday, Tommy Vietor published his thoughts about the whole talking
points flap. Until recently, Vietor was spokesman for the National Security
Council.
While in that position, he helped create the now famous talking points.
It seems to us that yesterday’s events have made a few blindingly obvious
points just that much more clear.
Comprehension often involves repetition. With that in mind, let’s briefly
return ... more »
Red Nations shut down US 'consultation' on tarsands in South Dakota
Department of State “Consultation” Shut down by Red Nations Opposing Tar Sands
By Kent Lebsock, Owe Aku International
Censored News
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
RAPID CITY -- This
morning at 9:00 a.m. the United States Department of State attempted to
hold what they call a consultation with tribal representatives of the
Great Plains Red Nations regarding the effects of the
Groundwork to justify strike on Syria being laid out via the media by Israel ?
* This has false flag possibility written all over it.*
*
**UPDATED WITH ADDITIONAL INFO*
Coming days after Israel downplayed these previous strikes as 'errant fire'
*JP is promoting a different narrative *altogether
*First, here is the news about this being errant fire *
*Mortar shells fired from Syria have hit the popular tourist site of Mount
Hermon in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.*
***However, an Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson told Haaretz that based
on similar incidents in the past, they were most likely to have been errant
shells fired during fighting between Syrian... more »
Navajo Nation and Peabody Coal secret meeting to sell Navajo coal to China
Peabody Energy and the Navajo
Nation are planning a trip to China to sell Navajo coal! The meeting is today in Flagstaff.
The Economy: “To The Media: Stop Sucking Obama On The Debt”
*“To The Media: Stop Sucking Obama On The Debt”*
by Karl Denninger
"This is completely out of hand. The media continues to cite the so-called
"expectation" that Treasury will run "only" a $600-odd billion deficit this
year, and they cite this as source:
*Click image for larger size.*
This shows ~$488 billion in operational deficits from October 1st to April
30th. There's a problem with this number however- it does not reflect
reality. In other words it is a bald and intentional lie. This reflects the
truth:
*Click image for larger size.*
What is that? It's simply a reproduc... more »
Could You Become a Victim of Car-Hacking?
It's not carjacking. Nobody with a gun jumping into the driver's seat and
speeding off with your ride.
It's car-hacking. A cyber criminal hacking into a car's computer systems
to wreak havoc.
*Senate Commerce Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia
Democrat, said while he's excited about safety improvements through
technology, he's concerned about new risks including cyber security.*
* *
*"As our cars become more connected – to the internet, to wireless
networks, with each other, and with our infrastructure – are they at risk
of catastrophic cyber attacks?" Senator ... more »
“How Your Brain Reacts To Watching TV”
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*“How Your Brain Reacts To Watching TV”*
by Benjamin Plackett
“I’m showing you slices of the brain,” Joy Hirsch, the Director of fMRI
Research at Columbia University Medical Center tells me. More specifically,
she’s talking about some images of an fMRI brain scan she took while her
subject was watching a video sequence. “Every possible visual area is just
going nuts,” she adds. What does this mean?
It shows that the human brain is anything but inactive when it’s watching
television. Instead, a multitude of different cortexes and lobes are
lighting up and working with each othe... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Brain Police'
BRAIN POLICE
Posted on May 16, 2013
MNN. May 16, 2013. A Washington DC Think Tank
advisor on programs and policies from Harvard’s Kennedy School of
Government found that Hispanics, meaning Indigenous People, have a low
IQ. He doubts we will ever reach IQ parity with whites. This is a “trial
balloon” to get a reaction. He resigned. The government will
Scarlet Macaws
[image: Kenyon Gibson's macaw painting]
These are Scarlet Macaws, painted by Ken Gibson of New York. Lots of these
in fact in that city,
but they are native to Central and South America, especially Bolivia. In
some parts of Mexico and Central America they have been driven to the point
of extinction.
There are two subspecies, *Ara macao macao*, pictured here, and *A. m.
caynoptera.*
The latter is believed to have more blue on the tips of the yellow wing
feathers, but that may not
be as definitive as some are inclined to believe.
At one point buyers prefered 'Bolivians' - so much so tha... more »
This Post Is Only For Californians-- Unless You Also Live In A State That Gets Wildfires
It's wildfire weather in L.A.-- temperatures in the 90s and very dry. There
are plenty of reasons to be angry about the irresponsibility of Members of
Congress who voted for the Sequester-- and inconvenience at airports is the
least of them. The possibility of losing homes and lives to wildfires is
far more serious. Monday Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who's in
charge of the U.S. Forest Service, and Secretary of the Interior Sally
Jewell were in Idaho were in Idaho explaining that Congress' Sequester had
tied their hands in terms of using prescribed burns for fire preventi... more »
In Guatemala: Precedent for Abya Yalla?
the newyorker.comGuatemala Genocide Conviction Should Prompt More Just
Vision for American Continent
By Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Truthout | Op-Ed
Throughout the duration of the RÃos Montt dictatorship, his regime was the
bloodiest on the American continent. Why did the world permit his
brutality, and why did it take more than 30 years to successfully prosecute
him? His genocidal campaigns, in full view to the world, were committed in
real time. The simple answer is the actions - and inactions - of US
President Ronald Reagan, the man who provided cover for every tin-pot
dictator on... more »
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*Breaking: Steven Newhouse to join The Advocate! ~American Zombie*
"What Are These Weird Street Signs Being Installed in Las Vegas?"
*"What Are These Weird Street Signs Being Installed in Las Vegas?"*
by Paul Joseph Watson
"Strange new street signs being installed across Las Vegas are prompting
suspicions from concerned readers, one of whom sent us the following
images. Are these new signs part of the nationwide ‘Intellistreets’ rollout
of so-called “smart” hubs that eavesdrop on conversations?
“My neighbor brought it to my attention that these very suspicious-looking
road signs are being installed throughout Las Vegas on the major streets,”
David wrote to us. “The enormous amount of road construction th... more »
Hustle Bustle and Flow
With atmospheric carbon dioxide now reaching Pliocene Epoch mass
extinction-causing levels, is it any wonder that all the oxygen is
apparently being sucked out of the brains of what passes for our national
leadership? Money pollutes, pollution corrupts, and the absolute corruption
of American politics is well nigh complete. The mass extinction of
government for the common good certainly seems to gathering breakneck speed
this week in what is overheatedly being called The Scandal Trifecta.
(Benghazi, I.R.S, A.P. -- or, if you really want to be Beltway-trendy, *
Bengirsap-gate*)
Perha... more »
video of normal contrail and skylong chemtrail in sky TOGETHER crossing at cruising altitude
I've taken a couple pictures myself of contrails and chemtrails in the sky
at cruising altitude in the same sky, sharing the frame
BUT THIS IS VIDEO of such, taken by a dad in Alice Springs AU outside his
daughter's school.
The planes (one contrailing normally, the other chemtrailing abnormally)
approach each other and then pass each other in the same region of the sky.
The shorted one doesn't pass through a somehow damper/colder part of the
sky and get longer. The chemtrails one doesn't diminish to a normal
contrail once it's out of humid-air.
"Follow the Piggy - He Might Lead You to Sussex Drive" - Guest Blog Post by The Mound of Sound
*Buckdog Politics is going to share a great post with you today. (When the
time comes for the 2013 Canadian Blog Awards .. I'm voting for this one!)*
*So, let's run this scenario, Mound's favourite passtime. How might the
timeline of Mike Duffy's expense woes play out now that we know a few more
details.**It begins (for our purposes) when senator Mike Duffy has a brown
hemorrhage on realizing there is going to be a forensic audit of his
expenses triggered by questions about the legitimacy of his housing
allowance claims. That sends him into a panic trying to get PEI to get him
... more »
We Are Fat and Happy and Can Suckle Some More
When I think of a certain line in *Gladiator*, one spoken by the late
Oliver Reed, I think of the US government and the countless war profiteers
it employs: "And the great whore will suckle us until* *we are fat and
happy and can suckle no more." That line could've been spoken by any of the
contract procurement specialists whose job it is to dispense multi-billion
cost-plus, no-bid contracts like alms to the already rich and bloated.
And then when I hear this line, I think of those who've been
entrusted with the lives and welfare of our troops overseas and this
could've b... more »
Of Bitumen and Pirates
The Harper government never ceases playing up the terrorist threat that
Canada faces. They're here, they're there, they're everywhere.
Supertankers heavily laden with bitumen. How vulnerable are they to
terrorism and just how do you protect them?
Vancouver's inner harbour might seem a terrorist's dream. There are places
where you could sink a tanker and block the harbour for who knows how long
while the bitumen aboard wreaks havoc.
What if the bad guys just seized the bridge, commandeered the vessel and
used it to attack the Lion's Gate or Second Narrow crossings?
Presumably w... more »
Presidential Approval Probably Isn't Stuck At Midrange
Ezra Klein poses a hypothesis I've heard a few times before at the end of a
nice post earlier this week:
Tucked inside Abramowitz’s take is an interesting structural prediction
about American politics: As party polarization increases and the
persuadable middle dwindles, scandals and gaffes will become less
meaningful as they’ll only be able to convince those who want to be
convinced. It’s not clear that the IRS mess, Benghazi, or the DoJ/AP issue
will rise to the level of being a useful test of this thesis. But something
will.
It's tempting to believe that polarization is producing... more »
DO GOOD THINGS
- I got a call from a media outlet last night just after 11:00 pm as I
was climbing into bed. They said something about a nuclear device that had
fallen off a truck somewhere in West Virginia and wanted my comment. I
told them it was late and to call back in the morning. I knew they
wouldn't. This morning I did some searching on the Internet and found the
story. Yes, indeed do call if you find it! Here it is:
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is searching for a
nuclear gauge that apparently fell off a truck on Interstate 81 near the... more »
Robert Jensen : The Collapse of Journalism
Graphic
treatment by James Retherford / The Rag Blog.
The collapse of journalism and
the journalism of collapse:
From royal, to prophetic, to apocalyptic
When we strip away supernatural claims and delusions of grandeur, we can
understand the prophetic as the calling out of injustice, the
willingness not only to confront the abuses of the powerful but to
acknowledge our own complicity.
By
Norman Pagett and Josephine Smit : Grain of Truth
Image
from UCL.
Grain of truth:
Our precarious food supply
Global food production has been allowed to fall into the hands of fewer
and fewer megacorporations, and their aims are simple: to deliver
short-term profits and ultimately to control the entire system of world
supply.
By Norman Pagett and Josephine Smit / End of More / May 16, 2013
“A hungry world is a dangerous world. Without food,
The Fall And Rise Of Man - A Poem by M.N. Hopkins
The Fall And Rise Of Man
*So, you have lost faith in man.*
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*Yes, man is an ignoble creature ruled by ego and the lower elements.*
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*Yet to evolve into Man.*
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*Man, ruled by Self amd from a world without elements.*
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*Man, once the nobest of creatures.*
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*Now, the lowest.*
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*Once again to be reborn and renewed by Faith.*
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*Once again, We return to our former Glory.*
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*Once again, Man.*
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*M.N. Hopkins*
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*Note:* This poem was written over two days. born of inspiration and
formed partly with intellect.
Man is intended to refer to Mankind. In man, we have male and ... more »
Dried Framed Wedding Bouquet
After I was married, my mom took great pains to hang my wedding bouquet
so that it would be preserved for me to display in my house. She gave it to
me when we got home for our honeymoon and I promptly put it in a box and
forgot about it. Every time we moved across the country, I would find the
box, make my husband swear it would reach our destination in one piece, and
then forget about it again.
When we moved into our townhouse, I finally had some room to craft and I
swore up and down I would finish all of the projects I always said I would
get to. This was one of the first proj... more »
Rounding up the Phils/Taiwan mess: Take 3 =UPDATED=
*A spider awaits prey in the early morn in a field near my house.*
Well, by now I'm sure you know that the Ma Administration rejected the
Philippines apology as "lacking in sincerity" (yes, well Mr. President,
that's a common problem with apologies extracted at gunpoint). Sanctions
have now been imposed. The Taipei Times listed....
The eight measures proposed yesterday morning by the government after a
national security meeting, are issuing a travel warning that discourages
Taiwanese from traveling to the Philippines, the suspension of high-level
meetings at the World Health Assem... more »
Standardized Tests Remain Chief Weapon in Class War
Just as the incomes of the affluent have grown much more rapidly than those
of the middle class over the last few decades, so, too, have most of the
gains in educational success accrued to the children of the rich. –Sean
Reardon Valerie Strauss has a new piece that reminds us with this chart
from […]
An interesting insight into Jordanian views on how serious shooting unarmed schoolgirls is. They were Jewish so that might colour their opinion.
'Last month, 110 Jordanian parliament members signed a petition calling for
the release of Ahmad Daqamseh, a Jordanian soldier who gunned down a group
of Israeli schoolgirls on a field trip to the "Isle of Peace" border area
of Naharayim in 1997, killing seven.'
Context here
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jordan-mulling-diplomatic-and-legal-measures-against-israel/
NC - ALEC House Bill 683 - Destroys Consumer Protections
House Bill 683, the "Commonsense Consumption"bill, would also prohibit
people from filing "frivolous lawsuits" against food manufacturers or
packagers for obesity, weight gain or health issues related to consumption
of their products.
The bill is model legislation promoted by pro-business advocacy group
American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC
*or health issues related to consumption of their products*
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*or health issues related to consumption of their products*
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*or health issues related to consumption of their products*
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*or health issues related to consumption of ... more »
ALEC - Have Veterans Build the XL Pipeline
Well – ALEC has really pulled one out of their “magic” hat yesterday in the
name of right-wing "patriotism".
I suppose you could call it the "magic bullet" to save the XL Pipeline.
Pushing the XL Pipeline in a new and unique way.
Have veterans ruin the environment – then it will be more palatable to
Americans.
Put unemployed veterans on the front line of protests – to shore up the
construction of the XL Pipeline.
Gonna give them weapons too???????
*In Honor of Armed Forces Day: A “Helmets to Hardhats” Remedy to an
Unemployment Challenge*
ALEC Blog Team | May 15, 2013 |
By The Hon... more »
BULLROAR OVER BENGHAZI: Matthews and Lawrence and Sharpton all fail!
*THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013*
*Part 4—Some things never change:* An especially ridiculous moment occurred
on Monday evening’s Hardball.
Chris Matthews had been condemned to discuss Benghazi with Rep. Mike
Turner, an utterly hapless Republican congressman from the state of Ohio.
Turner has served in the Congress ten years, but his skills, and his
knowledge of Benghazi, seem extremely limited. Again and again and again
and again, he repeated a limited mantra:
*The White House deceived the public about Benghazi through its agent,
Susan Rice! *
Turner said it again and again and again. B... more »
Valtr Komárek: 1930-2013
*U.S.:* As predicted and discussed on TRF exactly 3 months ago, Ernest
Moniz became the new U.S. secretary of energy.
Valtr Komárek died today (Fox News). He was one of the key minds behind the
Velvet Revolution, in some sense a senior collaborator of the current Czech
president and the previous one, and a left-wing politician whom I respected
– and be sure they make up a very exclusive set.
His unusual biography reflects the dramatic history of Czechoslovakia and
the whole world in the 20th century.
He was born out of wedlock to a Jewish family in HodonÃn, Moravia, in 1930.... more »
'Guardian'/'Newsnight' shocker!
You will doubtless be delighted to know that the *Guardian*'s deputy editor
Ian Katz has been appointed to the position of editor on *Newsnight*, BBC
Two's battered flagship.
Wikipedia has this nugget on Ian Katz:
In August 2004, for the US presidential election, the daily G2 supplement
launched an experimental letter-writing campaign in Clark County, Ohio, an
average-sized county in a swing state. G2 editor Ian Katz bought a voter
list from the county for $25 and asked readers to write to people listed as
undecided in the election, giving them an impression of the international
... more »
Publication ban on name of complainant can properly be made without notice to media
CBC v. Her Majesty The Queen, 2013 NUCJ 06:
[20] I am satisfied that section 486.4 is applicable where the Crown only
wants a publication ban on the name of the complainant. The order would
usually be requested at the first appearance in court and there is no
requirement to give notice to the media. However, where the Crown seeks to
ban publication of the name of the accused or other details contain within
the information in the court file or revealed in court, it must abide by
the provisions of section 486.5 and give notice to the media as provided in
4 (b) above.
CHILD ABUSE COLLEGE; COMMON PURPOSE
There have been allegations concerning snuff films at *Oxford and Cherwell
College*, in the UK.
The following people are all in the notorious *Common Purpose*organisation, which may be linked to Mossad and MI5:
*Joanna Simmons, boss of Oxford County Council, *
*Sally Dicketts, boss of Oxford and Cherwell Valley School, *
*Sarah Thornton, Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police.*
*Police and Oxford protect paedophile rings*
Oxford. City of dreaming spires? Not any more. Today a centre for Satanic
abuse, Common Purpose and paedophile networks.
* Anonymous said...*
"My son was t... more »
Follow the Piggy - He Might Lead You to Sussex Drive
So, let's run this scenario, Mound's favourite passtime. How might the
timeline of Mike Duffy's expense woes play out now that we know a few more
details.
It begins (for our purposes) when senator Mike Duffy has a brown hemorrhage
on realizing there is going to be a forensic audit of his expenses
triggered by questions about the legitimacy of his housing allowance
claims. That sends him into a panic trying to get PEI to get him a health
care card via Fed Ex Overnight, yada, yada, yada. That doesn't work.
Duffy comes clean with the PMO (if they don't already know) that it's more... more »
Oil Companies SCREW Public for More Profit.
Escalating gas prices are all news this morning in Minnesota where we saw
our gas prices go up
40 cents a gallon in less than 24 hours.
go up 40 cents a gallon in less than 24 hours
*Refinery repairs lead to soaring gas prices*
The closure of two Chicago-area refineries for repairs is driving gas
prices toward record levels across the Upper Midwest.
By: News Tribune staff, Duluth News Tribune
Gas prices in the Twin Ports reached $4.19 a gallon Wednesday at some
stations, including this one on London Road. The record high average gas
price recorded by AAA in Duluth was at $4.05 o... more »
Man Clinically Dead For 40 Minutes Brought Back To Life
I had the good fortune of receiving twenty minutes of properly applied
CPR and was then successfully resuscitated several years ago. In London we
have had someone go an astounding two and one half hours and walk out
after. I do not know if I was the first known example but the case was so
clear that it brooked no further discussion. Since then we have seen a
global change over take place in medical thinking and the emergence of
resuscitation practice.
This is from this item on the way to becoming very effective and very
portable. A mechanical cpr machine will be in ambul... more »
A Win for the Bees
Two things are happening:
1 The bee population collapse is continuing and possibly accelerating. It
is certainly happening everywhere the pesticides are been used. The bees
are been subjected to a winnowing gauntlet and at a certain threshold, the
population does collapse.
2 The actual science is steadily trickling in and a damning body of work
is been amassed. Yet the industry continues to play their game of
obstruction, denial and misinformation to postpone regulatory action.
The third shoe is also about to drop. It is that the protocol that
saturates the environm... more »
Oil Pulling
Here is a protocol that I have not seen before. It appears to be
effective to some degree and may well be way more effective in the face of
a serious pathology. It is certainly safe enough to experiment with.
It would also be an effective way to deliver a drug directly into the
tissue in one's mouth. Certainly something to experiment with if the need
arises.
We have been brainwashed into accepting pill technology almost as a sole
delivery process, except that it all ends up in an enzyme bath that must
affect any drug. Been able to safely hold it in your mouth while agi... more »
Fed Explanation for CCD
The only item on this ridiculous laundry list that deserves to be
considered at all is the last one which has been introduced newly into the
environment and for which we are now discovering increased toxicity in
combination well beyond expectations.
Bluntly the pesticide protocol is now entering an era of maximum damage
and rapidly declining effectiveness. This year the CCD problem became a bee
pandemic and is impacting everywhere. Worse there is no evidence of it
running itself out as yet. It is certainly not biological as that will run
itself out and we have no sign of... more »
Water, Water Everywhere-- And An Obstructionist Senate Who Won't Allow It To Be Cleaned Up
This morning I was going over the Senate votes from Tuesday and I found a
strange one. The Republicans successfully filibustered an amendment by
Bernie Sanders to Boxer's Water Resources Development Act of 2013, which is
co-sponsored by Louisiana Republican David Vitter. And in fact, Vitter was
one of just 3 Republicans who broke with Miss McConnell's filibuster
machine on Sanders' amendment. The amendment would essentially allow FEMA
to rebuild bridges and other infrastructure to the state's high standards,
so that they don't collapse in the next storm. It was interesting the Texa... more »
Why Hasn’t Duncan Be Dumped Already?
Secretary of Education Rod Paige, who used his false claims of success in
Houston to push for No Child Left Behind, was awful enough. If his
statement that we are in an “education recession” was not boo-worthy, it
deserved ridicule. But, neither he or the Bush Administration’s other
Secretary of Education did the harm that […]
ACTION: You DON'T Have the "Right" to Vote - Change That!
EVERYONE AROUND THE COUNTRY SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF
AND SIGN UP ON THIS ONE.
*John Nichols: *
* *
*Why Mark Pocan* [AND Kieth Ellison] *wants constitutionally guaranteed
right to vote*
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made a point of emphasizing during the
Bush v. Gore arguments in December 2000 that there is no federal
constitutional guarantee of a right to vote for president. He was right
about that. Indeed, as the reform group FairVote reminds us: “Because there
is no right to vote in the U.S. Constitution, individual states set their
own electoral policies and procedures. Thi... more »
Duffy Campaigned on Taxpayer's Dime
This could explain why the Prime Minister's Office told Duffy to refuse to
cooperate with the forensic audit into his expenses. Not only was Duffy
pocketing tens of thousands of dollars in living expense allowances but he
was also *claiming expenses while on the campaign trail* for the
Conservatives.
The reason Sideshow Steve Harper appointed Duffy to the Senate, in addition
as payment for services rendered during his last few years at CTV, was to
serve as party pitchman at fundraisers from coast to coast. A mutual
friend used to regale me with details of how tirelessly Duffy wor... more »
Sheer Brilliance from Paul Chefurka
The following essay is by Paul Chefurka. The original is posted at his
website. It is a beacon of light for three reasons (that come to mind
before coffee). First, it deftly sidesteps all the political squabbling
over whether climate change is happening or not and goes straight to the
heart of the intractable human conundrum. Second, his main thesis - that
our dilemma is both inevitable and insoluble - is robustly supported by
irrefutable evidence (unless you subscribe to mirages, but then I can't
help you). And third, he offers the only way for an individual to live
humbly a... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to David Boreanaz, 44. Totally impossible for me to get my
mind around the idea that there are people who think of him as the guy from
Bones; he still has a few more episodes as Angel, but not very many. Angel
is my least favorite of the Whedon TV shows, but I am happy to see that
Gunn is going to be on the Avengers show. Excellent.
Oh, I shouldn't forget the good stuff:
1. I only have a very plain blog, full of what are apparently technically
called text-heavy pieces of content. Nevertheless, I agree with Chris
Cillizza.
2. Sarah Kliff on the Senate actually confir... more »
Did ALEC Help CCA Perfect Their Lobbying?
NO other organization, in the history of the United States, NONE, has had
the sole purpose of bringing legislators and corporate lobbyists together -
in the same room - in secret, behind close doors - to develop policies and
legislation - ALEC is the ONLY organization that has done this, as their
sole purpose to exist!!!
For forty years the American Legislative Exchange Council has given
corporate lobbyists unprecedented and secret access to legislators.
And ALEC legislators - state and federal - have been very beneficent to
corporations - mostly, because of their involvement in ALE... more »
Obama Administration Merry - G- Round - Eric Holder getting walked to the door in exchange for Mass Gov Deval Patrick ( once the heat dies down ) ... Susan Rice moving up to National Security Adviser Post once Tom Donilon decides to hit the bricks !
http://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room/other-news/300099-liberal-talk-radio-host-bill-press-calls-for-holder-to-be-fired
Talk radio host and former chairman of the California Democratic Party Bill
Press said Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder should be fired over
the subpoena of reporter phone records.
* * *
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/is-this-the-end-of-eric-holders-tenure-at-the-justice-department/275830/
Benghazi, the IRS, and now the AP phone-records bombshell: If Obama wants a
symbol of accountability in a time of scandal, the attorney gene... more »
Gangster State USA ?
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Financial collusion....
Gangster State America
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*Paul Craig Roberts*
Infowars.com
May 14, 2013
There are many signs of gangster state America. One is the collusion
between federal authorities and banksters in a criminal conspiracy to rig
the markets for gold and silver.
My explanation that the sudden appearance of an unprecedented 400 ton short
sale of gold on the COMEX in April was a manipulation desig... more »
That Vision Thing
Tom Walkom's analysis of the BC election is interesting. In the end, he
writes, British Columbians were asked to choose between two negatives:
On Tuesday, B.C. voters were left with two negative questions: Did they
hate the Liberals enough to get rid of them? Or did they fear the New
Democrats enough to avoid them?
In the end, they chose fear over hate.
Fear seems to be the operative word these days. It was fear that was at the
heart of Adrian Dix's campaign. Like Stephen Harper, Dix didn't offer a
vision. He simply portrayed himself as an incrementalist:
Throughout the campa... more »
Caterpillar to Butterfly - no MUSHY chrysalis mid-phase
here's an example of the way kids are taught to understand what happens
inside a chrysalis, "The caterpillar makes a cocoon of silk around it that
hardens, the caterpillar *liquifies* then the butterfly forms from that
'soup' before emerging."
*NOT SO:* recognisable structures remain intact showing certain essential
control structures (certain major organs, like the trachea and lungs) don't
go mushy, they're just carried over from the caterpillar to butterfly
transition...
UKIP and Masculinity
This morning, Diane Abbott gave a heavily trailed speech on the crisis of
masculinity. Simplifying her argument somewhat, cultural change and the
restructuring of the jobs market has thrown young men into a state of
anomie. In one direction they're being flattered as gendered consumers into
clothes, gadgets, cars, booze and footy. From another comes the pressure of
'pornified culture' to shag around as much as possible. And there is the
ever-present expectation that a man should have a job that can provide for
himself and any family that comes along. The problem of course is this
h... more »
Untitled
*Gov. Jindal declares emergency as river rises ~DisasterMap.net*
~ USGS~Flood Stage Levels current 'real-time' guage readings. I use the
USGS maps to get oriented to the states and their flood gauges. This is
active data.
~ New Orleans,LA ~Bonnet Carre Spillway, LA ~Baton Rouge, LA ~Old River
Outflow Channel, LA ~Atchafalaya River @ Simmesport, LA ~Knox Landing, LA ~Natchez,
MS ~Vicksburg, MS ~Greenville, MS ~Wolf River @ Memphis, TN ~Cairo, IL ~*Cape
Girardeau, MO ~St. Louis, MO ~Hannibal, MO ~Grafton IL*
*MS company pleads for illegally filling wetlands in Bay St. Louis, to pay
$10... more »
Overnight news - Europe ( Brussels does or doesn't put Spain under surveillance ) and Asia ( God's must be crazy Edition or decoding Japan's GDP results ) Here in the US , big data splash this morning ( Jobless claims / Philly Fed / CPI / Housing Starts and Building Permits - watch for God's must be crazy data from the US starting at 8:30... ) ...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/tragic-trifecta-initial-claims-soar-housing-starts-plunge-cpi-below-expectations
Tragic Trifecta: Initial Claims Soar, Housing Starts Plunge, CPI Below
Expectations
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/16/2013 08:45 -0400
- Ben Bernanke
- CPI
- Housing Starts
- New Normal
- recovery
We didn't really need a confirmation that the economy was deteriorating and
completely disconnected from the "market", but we got it nonetheless.
First, Initial Claims coming at 360K, on expectations of 330K, the w... more »
JP Morgan and Jamie Dimon getting nervous over the big Shareholder vote - JP Morgan denies shareholders access to results !
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100741662
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Jamie Dimon
When it comes to shareholder votes, the running tallies are a closely
guarded secret. Only a handful of parties get a peek into how these
corporate battles are shaping up.
Now, in the midst of one of the most closely watched investor votes in
years — overwhether to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive at... more »
Western Materialistic Propaganda exposed by Eastern Materialists
The film, 'Propaganda' from the website,
http://propagandafilm.net/Propaganda/ is a film which everyone should take
the time to watch.
It is perhaps one of the greatest ironies of our time that a film exposing
materialism should come from a nation which adheres to the materialistic
doctrine of Marxism! North Korea - the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea - is ideologically a blend of Leninism, Maoism, and Stalinism, with
the addition of the elevation of the Leader of the country to the position
of a living god. However, before people in the UK laugh too hard at this
absurdity... more »
Clooney - Bullock - Gravity
need I say any more?
oh, and a classy trailer that uses Arvo Part's *Spiegel im Spiegel* to
great effect. Trauma-porn has never looked this spectacular.
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report - May 16 , 2013 - Data from Wednesday , news and views
Morning cut.....
The Tulip Harvest Is In!
May
*16*
- Yesterday in Gold and Silver
- Critical Reads
- The Funnies
- The Wrap
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"It's amazing...and discouraging...to look at the precious metal share
prices."
¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER
The gold price didn't much of anything in Far East trading for most of
their Wednesday. However, about 2:30 p.m. Hong Kong time, which is thirty
minutes before the 8:00 a.m. BST London open, gold got sold down about
fifteen bucks by 9:00 a.m. BST...and that certainly could have been
currency related.
After that, the gold price... more »
JEW TAKES OVER NEWS PROGRAMME
Samuel Katz (above) was a leader of the Jewish terrorist gang that bombed
Jerusalem's King David Hotel in 1946
* *
*Ian Katz*
A Jew, Ian Katz, is to be the new chief of the BBC Newsnight programme.
Ian Katz's son Jake, with Patrick Moore
"I heard other rumours too, about all sorts of people, about the Queen
Mother and Michael Portillo ... and Patrick Moore..." cultural snow
*Rita Katz*
In 2007, Rita Katz gave the Bush administration a copy of an Osama bin Ladenvideo which had yet to be released by al-Qaeda.
*Ian Katz*
Wikileaks is a tool of Mossad and its friends.
In Lond... more »
Patriotism and the English 'intellectual'
"England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed
of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there
is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a
duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet
puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost
any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention
during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box. All through
the critical years many left-wingers were chipping away at English moral... more »
BBC institutionally pro Labour?
Following the appointment of Labour's James Purnell, BBC are now to appoint
Ian Katz deputy editor of The Guardian as editor of Newsnight.
Don't the BBC bosses care about looking biased? Or is it that they know
they can't be stopped?
It seems that the Newsnight line on Israel and the Palestinians won't be
changing either; read this from 2001 if you can stomach it.
Dambusters: Flypast To Mark Raid Anniversary
Real heroes commemorated today.
http://news.sky.com/story/1091537/dambusters-flypast-to-mark-raid-anniversary
I'm working on it with my adviser - Jacob Barnett just understands the math.
Jacob Barnett is autistic, and he's a mathematical genius. He's not the
first, and he'll not be the last. Maybe autism is our Next Evolutionary
Step - who knows?
here's his wonderful TED˟teen speech, from an earlier time in his Genius
Career.
...oh, and he's right. You need to STOP *LEARNING* to START *THINKING*.
‘The Lark Ascending,’ by Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Performed here by soloist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, it’s been voted the most
popular classical piece ever:
Inspired by a poem by George Meredith:
*He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chains of sound,
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake.*
Hear it live with the NZSO this Friday (in Wellington) or next (in
Auckland), and points in-between in between.
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Tweet from Harriet Sherwood (@harrietsherwood)
Harriet Sherwood (@harrietsherwood) tweeted at 6:24 AM on Thu, May 16, 2013:
Brilliant story + pic - how not-so-fast food (KFC!) reaches Gaza from Egypt
via tunnels in four-hour delivery service http://t.co/xHi1U58Drh
(https://twitter.com/harrietsherwood/status/334902129586237440)
I wonder if it has struck Ms Sherwood that Egypt is blockading Gaza? I
wonder if Ms Sherwood thinks that Egypt's blockade is illegal? Maybe Ms
Sherwood blames Israel for this as well.
Maybe Harriet Sherwood prefers not to think about Middle East matters, it's
easier for her that way.
Prof. Ian Hutchinson - Monopolising Knowledge: A Refutation of Scientism
*"Monopolizing Knowledge"* by Ian Hutchinson.
Title: Monopolising Knowledge: A Refutation of Scientism. YouTube Video
Description - [Channel: FaradayInstitute. Published on August 2, 2011]:
Prof Ian Hutchinson of MIT, a speaker at the Faraday Institute Summer
Course 2011, discusses the meaning of scientism and the limits and
strengths of scientific knowledge.
dream - Black Bear pursuit to 37 Elizabeth Road - Strictly Come Dancing
I had this dream about having these two dreams. I was even shown how to lay
out the two dreams. I'll use this third-dream format to show what happened
in the aforementioned/titular dreams.
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*I just wanted a chat!*The Black Bear @ 37 Elizabeth Road, Haydock:
I was tempting this black bear (yeah, my second encounter with such in a
dream context) to move from where it was in the house by putting my life at
risk and getting it to chase me. I'd then vanish through a window, with an
acrobatic series of jumps ... more »
Strongly Recommended Video of Fukushima Daiichi
Video from Fuku1live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKFZVMKEw3o
Wotcha posted it at Enenews
This is a scary looking video.
Dr. Jacob Needleman On Gurdjieff - "A Man With Authority"
*"Introduction to the Gurdjieff Work"* by Jacob Needleman.
Related:
*Time and the Soul - Interview with Dr. Jacob Needleman*.
*Dr. Jacob Needleman - "The Difference Between A Cult And A Genuine
Spiritual Path."*
*Dr. Jacob Needleman - Awakened Human Beings*.
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: BarakaBee. Published on August 13,
2012]:
Jacob Needleman on Gurdjieff and the search for truth, the inner yearning,
the unknown hunger
http://www.podcast.de/episode/134500051/Robert%2BMcDermott
Thursday Morning Linkage
With the semester coming to an end, time to hit the Internets and start
blogging more regularly. I’ve been meaning to write one for months about
the poaching crisis. It’s coming. In the meantime, here is yet another
story on the corrosive effects on governance by Sudanese elephant poachers
in the Central African Republic. Elsewhere,
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Yo! ... The Duffer ....
[image: Progressive Bloggers]
*After reading the following article .. much of what's happening with
Senator Duffy suddenly became very clear. *
*1) Some of the 'Senate business' expense claims filed by Mr. Duffy may
well have been for travel to and from Conservative Party fundraising events
around the country. (We don't know and can't find out because Senator Duffy
will not co-operate with the auditors .. saying that he has repaid the $90
grand ... 'so get off my back' .... ).*
*2) Duffy is not prepared to be hung out to dry or left 'out of pocket' by
the Harper cabal. After all, ... more »
Mommy, How Did The Tea Party Start?
If we were alive back in the 1770s, today's Tea Party activists would
probably have been active back then too-- but active on behalf of the
British. Conservatives fought against the revolutionaries who wanted to
throw off the British imperial yoke and many conservatives would up
fighting on the side of the British troops, killing patriots. Today's Tea
Partiers would have been those traitors to America.
How do I know? If you think teabaggers only live in backward, theocratic
parts of South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Texas, you've
never been to California's Inland E... more »
A Global Survey of IR Students – Might be Worth Pitching in your Classes
Daryl Morini, an IR PhD candidate at the University of Queensland whom I
know, has put together an interesting global survey for undergraduate and
graduate students of international relations. It looks pretty thorough and
might make a pretty interesting student couter-point to TRIP. Eventually
the goal is an article on our students’ attitudes toward the
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Sentence appeals
R. v. Lu, 2013 ONCA 324 holds:
[37] Before dealing with these submissions, it is important to recall
the role of an appellate court when reviewing a sentencing decision.
Appellate courts are to grant sentencing judges considerable deference when
reviewing the fitness of a sentence. They are to interfere only where the
sentence is demonstrably unfit, or where it reflects an error in principle,
the failure to consider a relevant factor or the over-emphasis of a
relevant factor. An appellate court cannot interfere with the sentence
simply because it would have weighed the re... more »
Mighty Hunters
Not much has changed since Tex Avery cartooned the lifestyle of the outdoor
sportsmen in 1955.
Trust a Teacher. By John Stoffel
An assumption exists that teachers are against high-stakes testing because
they don’t want to risk evaluation. It continues that if teachers are not
evaluated by testing data, they will have no incentive to do their job
well. If teachers fail to do their job, then a generation of young children
faces a bleak future. What […]
U.S. PREPARED FOR WAR WITH IRAN AS ISRAEL BOMBED SYRIA
Israel bombed Syria on 2 and 5 May 2013 and the next day, as the world
waited for a reaction from Syria, Hezbollah and Iran, the US began a
massive war exercise in the Persian Gulf close to Iran. Since President
Obama has said that the US was in ‘very close contact with Israel’, it is
clear that both the Israeli raids on Syria and the US military exercise in
the Gulf were planned to coincide.
Unfortunately for the warmongers in the West, neither Syria, Hezbollah nor
Iran took the bait. Despite this, Israel has said that it will try again to
provoke its enemies warning that Israel ma... more »
NY: Calling on You to Stop Field Testing
In three weeks, students at over 3,600 schools in New York State will
receive a nasty surprise. They mistakenly believe that, for this school
year at least, they are done taking tests. When they least expect it, the
number 2 pencils and bubble sheets will reappear. When I was in elementary
school, June brought Field […]
State Department Brief May 15, Taiwan section on Phils/Taiwan clash
*A walkway along a section of the old Hengchun city wall.*
State Department Daily Press Briefing, May 15, 2013. Main questioner, I
heard, was John Zhang of CTITV
*+++++++++++++++++*
MR VENTRELL: It looks like we have some questions maybe on the Philippines
and Taiwan. (Laughter.) I’m just guessing.
QUESTION: Yeah. Patrick, do you have anything new to say on the fatal
shooting of the Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippines? Jen said a couple
of days ago that the United States was in contact with both Taiwan and the
Philippines. How is your communication with both sides? How effecti... more »
THE TOTALITARIAN & SECURITY SURVEILLANCE STATE
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins Democracy Now to
discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on
freedom of the press in decades. The Justice Department has acknowledged
seizing the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters
and editors at the Associated Press. The phones targeted included the
general AP office numbers in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hartford,
Connecticut, and the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives
press gallery. The action likely came as part of a probe into the leaks
beh... more »
“President Obama Heard About IRS, DoJ Scandals From The News?”
*The Daily Show with Jon Stewart*
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*“President Obama Heard About IRS, DoJ Scandals From The News?”*
"Between news of the IRS targeting the Tea Party, the on-going hearings on
Benghazi and the Department of Justice spying on AP reporters, President
Barack Obama is knee-deep in scandals. How did the nation’s leader learn
about these alleged abuses of government power? From the news. Says an
incredulous Jon Stewart:”I wouldn’t be surprised if President Obama learned
Osama bin Laden had been kil... more »
Israel willing to wipe out Syria if Assad attacks ( or defends Syria from another Israel attack ? ) How would that help the Rebels , just wondering ? And just how far would the US and Israel to protect the Middle East from the alleged Iranian nuclear threat - would they destroy the Middle East in order to save it ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/us-amphibious-assault-ship-kearsarge-and-26th-marine-unit-visit-israel
( Imminent Israel / US attack on Assad Regime ? )
US Amphibious Assault Ship "Kearsarge" And 26th Marine Unit "Visit" Israel
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/16/2013 08:12 -0400
- China
- Israel
Two weeks ago, when we reported on the news of yet another aerial assault
by Israel on Syria, we said that "while speculation a US-led escalation is
ripe, the lack of any US naval support (as shown by Stratfor's naval update
map from May ... more »
“The IRS Wants YOU — To Share Everything”
*“The IRS Wants YOU — To Share Everything”*
By David Nathe, Tarini Parti and Byron Tau
"The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor
rolls. It asked for printouts of Facebook posts. And it asked what books
people were reading. A POLITICO review of documents from 11 tea party and
conservative groups that the IRS scrutinized in 2012 shows the agency
wanted to know everything — in some cases, it even seemed curious what
members were thinking. The review included interviews with groups or their
representatives from Hawaii, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere... more »
Pennsylvania launches full frontal assault on Education at all levels.
From the Notebook: Ronald Tomalis will step down as Pennysylvania’s
education secretary at the end of the month, Gov. Corbett announced today
in a statement. He is to be replaced by Cumberland Valley schools chief
William Harner. Tomalis, who served as the state’s top education official
for two years, will become a special adviser to […]
If you think your medical insurance is more than you can afford now, read this to find out what the greedy corporations have in store for you next. Only in America!
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Naked Capitalism / *By* *Yves Smith*
Welcome to the Brave New World of Corporatized Medicine: Just Hope You
Don't Get Sick!
*"Business freedom" in America increasingly means the God-given right to
exploit the vulnerability of the public.*
*May 13, 2013 *| One of the most effective scare techniques employed to
preserve our grotesquely inefficient, overpriced health care system has
been to invoke the red peril of “socialized medicine”. Never mind that
foreigners in advanced economies fail to recognize the caricatures
scaremongers supply, or that... more »
Boston Fire Department rebels against their Fire Chief Steve Abraira's incompetence and lack of leadership during the Boston Marathon event !
Boston Fire Chief accused of incompetence in wake of marathon bombing
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Boston Fire Chief Steve Abraira has been condemned by 13 out of 14 of his
deputies, who are calling for his immediate termination for his
“indefensible” leadership during the Boston Marathon bombings.
In a letter of “no confidence” sent to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, the 13
deputies accus... more »
Fired, shmired -- isn't it time we started having "the appropriate person" KILLED?
*New State Dept. spokesperson Jen Psaki -- joking on the job?*
*by Ken*
On the theory that at times like this the White House will embrace good, or
good-ish, news wherever it can find it, Al Kamen titles today's WaPo "In
the Loop" column "What's going right for Obama," and what's going right
turns out to be that so far among his second-term cabinet appointments, not
a one has had to withdraw. By contrast, going into the first term we saw
withdrawals by commerce nominees Bill Richardson and Judd Gregg and HHS
nominee Tom Daschle. Al notes:
Even though Obama's most recent nominees -... more »
REPORT / Mariann G. Wizard : 'La Vida Coca' in Bolivia and Peru / 2
Coca
leaves, a standard small bag sold for personal use in Bolivia. From
10-40 hojas are used at once while working, walking, or otherwise
exerting oneself at high altitudes. Habitual users enjoy coca three or
four times a day. All photos by Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog, unless
otherwise credited.
La Vida Coca /2:
Currents in traditional coca
use in Bolivia and Peru
The overall effect
Give 'em heck Harry
Well here we go again. Harry Reid is kinda, sorta, thinking hard about cracking
down on GOP obstruction.
“I’m not going to do anything now, precipitously,” he said. “But I’m
looking at this very closely…. We’re going to fill that job. Cordray is
there now. He’s going to get a vote.”
Corday you'll recall is the long being held in limbo nominee to head the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. You'll also remember the GOPers are
refusing to allow a vote unless the Dems agree to render the agency
completely toothless, unable to enforce any actual consumer protection
against predatory... more »
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