Saturday, May 25, 2013

25 May - Blogs I'm Following II

English: Azadi tower in Tehran, Islamic republ...English: Azadi tower in Tehran, Islamic republic of Iran فارسی: برج آزادی تهران، در جمهوری اسلامی ایران (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Conversations with History - Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 minutes ago
*Title: Conversations with History - Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: UCtelevision. Published on May 24, 2013]:* (Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett for a discussion of their new book, Going to Tehran. In the conversation, the Leveretts analyze the Islamic Republic of Iran's strategic goals and domestic politics. After analyzing the biases embedded in U.S. perceptions of Iran, they conclude with a proposal for changing U.S. relations with Iran by emulating Nixon's breakthr... more »

May continued.........

Lori Anne Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 22 minutes ago
Kurt and I went to two more games in May. Both of them, the Tigers lost and we are beginning to think we are cursed. LOL. Both were fun days w/gorgeous weather though, and we had a really nice time regardless of the losses. Both times we had great seats. During the first game against Houston, we were in Row 2, and I got some amazing shots of the players. Today we were in row 26 and behind the net, so I did not even try to attempt pics. We had an adorable visitor to our home. A mama raccoon chose my chimney to have babies in, and the other day, one of the babies fell into th... more »

Important Health News: This Is Alarming - Researchers Say Western IQs Dropped 14 POINTS Over Last Century!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 22 minutes ago
Is it just me, or have others noticed that people today tend to be less intelligent than in previous generations? This is not to be insulting to anyone with intelligence, but honestly it does seem to me that more and more people are less smart today than even those from my "older" generation... It does indeed trouble me immensely and I have wondered if there are any researchers investigating this fall in human intelligence... Well, lo and behold, there does appear that someone else has indeed noticed this slide in human intelligence... For according to the following article that c... more »

TV Watch: A weary nation wonders, "Is 'Mr. Selfridge' really over?" Well, yes and no

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 29 minutes ago
*by Ken* It was a little nerve-wracking approaching last week's double installment of *Masterpiece Classic*'s *Mr. Selfridge*. For weeks I had been assuming that the week's episode would be the last, but this time, what with the scheduling of that double episode -- Episode 47 (or 47-48, if you count it as double) by my unofficial count -- the prospects seemed hopeful. The thing was, to have hope of being home free, you had to wade through the whole thing (which I was able to do without pausing the thing more than 16 or 20 times) to find out whether, at the end, the announcer would... more »

May 2013

Lori Anne Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 37 minutes ago
Almost the end of May and I have not posted once! Whoops! May has been pretty busy, but good. I turned 36, which was kinda odd for me. I think 36 sounds so much more close to 40 than 35 did! But, I am OK with it, it is just kinda odd. I think I will simply stick with 25. I got carded in Canada at the casino (you only have to be 19), so I am going to go with I am not looking even close to my actual age. Thanks Mom and dad for fabulous genetics! My bday weekend we traveled to St Pete Beach, FL, for my friend Katie's wedding. It was at the Postcard Inn right on the beach, so... more »

Tom Cheetham - Reading the Wilderness

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
*"Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World"* By Tom Cheetham (2004). Related: *Tom Cheetham - "On the edge of chaos"* * * *"The World And Society In 1913."* *Source: Within This Darkness: Incarnation, Theophany and the Primordial Revelationby Tom Cheetham. Section: Reading the Wilderness. Website: Esoterica*. Note: The parts highlighted in bold are what I find most interesting. But I recommend you read the whole thing at the link above. *Reading the Wilderness* *By Tom Cheetham* We have lived too long within a world of o... more »

Uncanny resemblance

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours ago
My friend Simels asks: "Did you ever notice that Rand Paul looks just like Donald Duck's n'eer do well cousin Gladstone Gander?" Actually I hadn't, but now that he mentioned it -- well -- judge for yourself. [photo via]

BEAR Report 1956

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours ago
I've been looking once again at the text of a 49 page report issued by the National Academy of Sciences in (1956): The Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation: A Report to the Public from a Study by The National Academies of Science. Washington: National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. Available at the Babel Haith Trust, http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049805065;view=1up;seq=3. Majia here: The report is a summary of findings by six committees: genetics, pathology, fisheries, agriculture and food supplies, meteorology, oceanography and fisheries and dis... more »

Dear Paul

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 3 hours ago
My Harvard colleagues Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff have written an open letter to Paul Krugman. (pdf version)

Sean Patrick Maloney: Pond Scum Of The Week

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
A GOP ad that was inadvertently correct about Sean Patrick Maloney Every now and then David Feldman, originally a San Francisco standup comedian, more recently a TV script writer, interviews me for his radio show on one of the public stations here in L.A. I've never heard it but everyone now and then I'll get an e-mail from someone who heard it, usually as a podcast they listened to in Sweden or Germany or Australia. We did another one on Thursday and David asked me if there was a political villain of the week. There were so many but the one I was focused on at the moment was rotten ... more »

cantabria, day two

laura k at wmtc - 4 hours ago
We've had another outstanding day of seeing cave paintings, an entirely different experience that complemented the other two cave tours. We left Santillana del Mar early and drove on back-country roads to the town of Puente Viesgo, to see the caves known as El Castillo and Las Monedas. The countryside here is beautiful - lush green hills dotted with red-roofed stone houses, groups of cows and sheep and horses grazing here and there. The rural routes wind through little town centres with the usual shops. I know Spain is suffering under severe unemployment, but we see no evidence of i... more »

Syria sends report to WHO accusing Israel of torture and more

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 4 hours ago
Israel. Torturing and human experimentation. I am not surprised. Human trafficking. Organ trafficking. Israel seems to be involved in the most depraved acts against humankind.. They are not alone in this brutality, of course. But no other country claims to be filled with those *chosen by God, *as is claimed by Israel.* * Certainly, not Kosovo... Israel's sometime partner in crime When I have time I will relink some oldies but goodies In the United Nations, Syria has slammed Israel over what they described as the deterioration of health conditions in the Golan Heights. Syria, which is... more »

King of Haiti

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 4 hours ago
Dr. Carroll as king of Haiti bit.ly/137kIxU — John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) May 25, 2013

Moby Dick, Existentialism, Heroic Nihilism, Polytheism - Herman Melville (Hubert Dreyfus lecture)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours ago
The Guardian - Gregory Peck in John Huston's Moby Dick (1956). Photo: Kobal. Stephen Kinzer - *"Call me Bush: Moby Dick is an eerily prophetic allegory of 21st-century America. It should be named as the nation's epic novel"*(December 8, 2008, The Guardian). *Wikipedia - Hubert Dreyfus:* Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (born October 15, 1929) is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests include phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of both psychology and literature, as well as the philosophical imp... more »

Memorial Day

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
Have a safe, peaceful and thoughtful Memorial Day, folks. Posting sporadic until Tuesday. - CP

Scandals of Steve Harper - An Album

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours ago
One of the first things Stephen Harper did upon becoming prime minister was to redecorate the foyer of the House of Commons, replacing portraits of former Canadian prime ministers with photos of himself. Maybe it's time to refresh that gallery. Here are a few shots to update Steve's portfolio: Harper with Tom Flanagan Harper with fugitive Nathan Jacobsen Harper with fugitive Arthur Porter Harper with Bev Oda Harper with Jaffer Harper with Duffy Harper with Nigel WrightHarper BrazeauBruce Carson with Harper Stand-In, Ian BrodieHarper with Maxime Bernier (absent Julie Couillard... more »

As the Empire Crumbles

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 6 hours ago
May 25, 2013 The last couple of days, I’ve been out in the backyard trying to bring order out of the chaos of weeds and tall grasses from which I wrestled my garden, this year. Because what we’ve had of spring has been quite rainy, I’d sneaked out to turn over the patches of soil […]

Someone Needs To Tell Obama There's A Great Democratic Candidate Running For Governor Of New Jersey

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Last year Obama beat Romney in New Jersey 2,117,175 (58%) to 1,472,709 (41%). In 2008 he had beaten McCain with 57%. Yesterday Obama supporters in the Beltway media were touting how the Republican plans to sabotage the Affordable Care Act could well backfire on GOP governors and legislators who are obstructing it. Jonathan Cohn was all over the success in California, where the ACA is driving the cost of health care down. "Based on the premiums that insurers have submitted for final regulatory approval," he wrote, "the majority of Californians buying coverage on the state's new ins... more »

Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
*Wikipedia:* Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 1970) is an Indian-born American physician, scientist and author. He wrote the 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Guardian Prize, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was described by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential books of the last 100 years, and by The New York Times Magazine as among the 100 best works of non-fiction. Title: Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. YouTube ... more »

Breaking news...

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
And on the story goes... The Daily Telegraph (online) is now leading with a story it first reported an hour ago: *French soldier stabbed in neck while patrolling Paris business district* Man of North African origin flees scene after soldier patrolling area of Paris stabbed, raising fears of a Woolwich copycat attack. The Daily Mail has the same story: *French anti-terror soldier has throat slashed in Paris by 'jihab-wearing man of North African origin in Woolwich copy-cat attack'* The Sky News website has it as one of its top stories: *French Soldier Stabbed In Neck In Paris* The ... more »

A preliminary taste: #optout #refusal map based on survey data

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 8 hours ago
Click below to view the map. This includes only the first 250 respondents because the tool requires payment for more data points. Good job Long Island, good job. View UOO DATA MAP in a full screen map Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: map, optout, test refusal, uoo

The Cost of Wind Part III

Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 8 hours ago
To understand more of why wind generated electricity is so costly, I would like to explain a little about wind and electrical demand. Some electrical demand is constant. That means that electricity is expected in the middle of the night as well as in the middle of the day. Take, for example, a refrigerator, some cooling is required in the middle of the night as well as during the daytime. Some businesses operate both day and night and use electricity all around the clock. For example, my neighborhood grocery may stay open all night. As evening progresses, people who have been awake ... more »

Why I don't defend Rosen or the government

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 8 hours ago
It seems my friend Dan at Pruning Shears and I are having a disagreement. I don't think we're actually as far apart on the government surveillance of the media as he does. I think I made rather clear in my earlier post on James Rosen and also on the AP records grab that I don't condone secret government surveillance on the media -- or anyone. Unfortunately it doesn't appear that the government conducted these investigations illegally. The laws that make it possible have been creeping into our judicial system long before the Obama administration arrived. And let's not lose sight of th... more »

(Does Anyone (Smart) Listen to TV News Anymore?) Oh No They Didn't! Dead Guy Went Crazy - Had To Be Killed - In Police Dept. (Best Responses To Nonsense News - EVER!)

Watch this (if you dare). Or continue to be unpleasantly surprised (if you're not already a member of the thug gang and are thusly "pleasantly" surprised - as I'm sure none of my readers are). We are well beyond the Keystone Cops here. This is like if the Trailer Park Boys were in charge of our Justice Department. It’s a farce. That’s all I can say about it. I've heard about time warps (

LIVING IN THE MATRIX?

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
*Our other yacht.* Why are we here and not in heaven? *London Soldier Killing Hoax Plus Sandy Hoax News * The Matrix - How to Know that You're Living in the Matrix. *RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS (video)*

After the brutal murder of the soldier in London , another soldier attacked in France ? Are we seeing a trend develop ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 9 hours ago
http://rt.com/news/france-soldier-stabbed-paris-798/ French soldier on duty stabbed by man 'of North African origin' in Paris, manhunt ongoing Get short URL Published time: May 25, 2013 17:38 Edited time: May 25, 2013 19:03 [image: A French soldier stands guard on May 23, 2013, as part of France's national security alert system "Plan Vigipirate". (AFP Photo / Remy Gabalda)] A French soldier stands guard on May 23, 2013, as part of France's national security alert system "Plan Vigipirate". (AFP Photo / Remy Gabalda) Share on tumblr A French soldier patrolling a business area of western... more »

WOOLWICH - WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE THE OFFICIAL STORY

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
Why do so many people believe the official story on the Woolwich plot? It's because such plots are *designed* by the government to appeal to our fears, hates and prejudices. *Dr Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury* Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has explained* **why so many people believe the government lies*. It's all about hating Moslems... Let us remember that ABU QATADA is an MI5 ASSET And that the IRA WAS RUN BY THE SPOOKS And that THE MILITARY IS IN ALLIANCE WITH THE DRUGS GANGS *Dr Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury... more »

Angles

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
It's in the nature of blogs to be both personal and topical. My posts tend to be neither, but this one will be both... The savage murder of Drummer Lee Rigby by two British-born, second generation immigrant Muslim converts, one of whom spouted religious (Islamic) and political (Islamist) justifications for their sick killing of a young British soldier, has shocked, disgusted, depressed and confused me. From discussions with friends, family and work colleagues I know that I'm far from being alone in feeling this way. Acts of sectarian murder aren't exactly new to the British Isles... more »

@rweingarten fantastic at one key thing: triangulation #AFT

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 9 hours ago
It’s something I could never do: talk out of multiple sides of my mouth. I try not to have it many ways, but one, the way I know and feel is right. Granted, we all do things that run counter or contrary to that of our employers. We seek a balance. Many of us do […]

Excellent Report: Late Lessons from Chernobyl, Early Warnings from Fukushima

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours ago
I highly recommend this excellent review and analysis available here.

Very glad to see @chrislhayes inviting Karen Lewis onto his show #inners

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 9 hours ago
Here’s a link to the video. Now, catch her again on At the Chalk Face, this Sunday, at 6PM EST, for the rest of the story. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: at the chalk face, chicago, chris hayes, ctu, inners, rahm emanuel, school closings

feminist failure

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 10 hours ago

Activist arrested prior to press conference regarding Whiteclay abuses

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
TR McKenzie of DGR Great Plains Arrested    Activist Arrested Prior to Press Conference Regarding Whiteclay Abuses DGR News Service Posted at Censored News LINCOLN, Nebraska (May 24, 2013) – Activist T.R. McKenzie was arrested this morning prior to his scheduled appearance at a press conference at the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission. McKenzie was planning to speak about the most

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours ago
There's a new judge on the DC Circuit, the first one nominated by Barack Obama. That's going to matter. I'll add that the developments over nominations and Senate reform matter more generally, although it's still too early to know how they will turn out. I'm inclined to think that the McCain/Cruz feud won't turn out to matter much. I certainly don't think it matters whether or not Congress goes to a formal conference committee on the budget. That's what I have. What about you? What do you think mattered this week?

Mohawk Nation News 'TEWARATON'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
TEWARATON May 25, 2013 MNN. May 25, 2013. Lacrosse [TEWARATON] was created before the people arrived on Mother Earth. The first game was played between the winged ones and the four-legged ones. In the end the winged ones won because they understood that every mind is important to the whole, no matter how small. When a final decision in the consensus process is at a

Comandante Huertas Revisited

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 10 hours ago
Since few here seem to understand research on their own and seem incapable of finding things on their own, and since they seem annoyed by the posting about the Peruvian pilot, Comandante Oscar Santa Maria Huertas (Ret), let me add additional information. For those interested, I spoke to the man in front of the National Press Club in Washington, D. C. on the afternoon of May 1, 2013. He showed me a copy of the Department of Defense document that recounted, very briefly, the events of his chase of a UFO. That document has been scanned and added here for those who seem to have no Inte... more »

Hissing Sid and what we’re told to think

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 10 hours ago
Why do we have to have our news filtered through the weirdest prism, day in day out. Is it because of this? I mean, this morning we were treated to the news of an increase in Islamophobic incidents. A spike, no less. No-one was beheaded in the course of announcing those incidents, nor in the incidents themselves. Mind you, I do understand the urge to point out such spikes, as I appreciate that antisemitic incidents are occasionally pointed out too, usually after some particularly egregious anti-Israel reportage. You can always tell when the announcer is taking care not to sound I... more »

Room 335 & Night of Change - finest guitar weekend

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 10 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/aRTD12fl6Mo Link: http://youtu.be/NSxTlpxaTpU Ignazio Di Salvo represents the "Italian super-fingered style", whereas Jess Lewis and Alex Hutchings come out with a jazzy style from Britain. Feel free to play along. Enjoy! John

SAC loses Blackstone's investment ! A sign that SAC will be closing down to outside investors sooner rather than later ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 10 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-25/unwind-approaching-here-are-186-billion-sac-capitals-largest-stock-positions With The Unwind Approaching, Here Are $18.6 Billion SAC Capital's Largest Stock Positions [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2013 16:46 -0400 - Cohen - DE Shaw - Expert Networks - Fund of Funds - Insider Trading - Institutional Investors - Pershing Square - Private Equity - Reuters - SAC - Steve Cohen Nearly three years ago, following the publishing of "Is The SEC's Insider Trading Case... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours ago
Gate to the Summerland. [via Old Moss Woman artist unknown]

Global warming is here to stay

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago
Kevin Trenberth wrote the following text: Global warming is here to stay, whichever way you look at it So it must be a spherical global warming! Before I will mention every sentence of Trenberth's musings, let me offer you a quiz. *Click the image above to zoom in.* You see a graph that seems to be a graph of some temperatures. You see that the maximum that the temperature has reached on this graph is slightly above 0.7 °C. On the horizontal axis, you see 8 cells. Your task is to guess the value of the temperature now, pretty much in the middle of the next, 9th cell (the first on... more »

The Future is Staring Us in the Face. We Must Stop Looking Away.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
As a civilization we're having enormous difficulty coming to grips with climate change in its full dimension and all of its aspects. Part of that is because, while it truly is a global problem, its impacts are not globally uniform and the impetus to deal with it even less so. The scope of the problem poses its own problems. Science tells us that even best efforts solutions won't really fix the problem for centuries. At three to four generations per century times three to four centuries, you get the idea. What reality is there in the notion of your family sixteen generations he... more »

Flying the flag on Memorial Day...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 11 hours ago
*On Memorial Day, the flag should be hung at half-staff until noon, when it should be raised to the top of the staff.* *More Flag Etiquette:* * **When and How to Display the U.S. Flag*

Charles Taylor on Explaining Society

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 11 hours ago
Whether you like to think sociology is a science or not, it does provide competing theories and tools for understanding societies and explaining human action. As I'm feeling a bit lazy, here's the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor expounding at length on reductionist approaches to human behaviour and the possibility of social explanation.

Can The Democrats Retake The House Next Year?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Steve Israel's talking point is "problem solvers." He repeats it like a mantra. But there's something else interesting that he said in his interview with USA Today, in response to a question about what it means that the DCCC spent so lavishly in South Carolina a few weeks ago, only to lose-- and by a wide margin-- to one of the most flawed Republican candidates ever, Mark Sanford. Israel pointed out the SC-01 "is one of the 100 most Republican districts in the country (which isn't exactly true. The PVI is R+11 and it's ranked the 118th most Republican): "I made a decision that we'... more »

This is maiz story on the Acapulco tortillas in ELA.

Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 12 hours ago
Es quienes somos. Es de donde vinimos y de lo que estamos hechos. Es nuestro sustento sagrado. Forma parte de nuestra memoria antigua de más de 7,000 años a las Américas. Es lo que nos conecta con nuestra madre tierra. Centli: Nin tujuan. Ninkampa tihualehua uan ekatechijke. Nintechyoltilitika. Tuan kanin toueuenemiliz. Ojkachi nin 7000 xijme ipan América. Ijua nintech nelua kanin tonantzin tlalli. (traduccion: Paula Domingo Olivares, Cuentepec, Morelos) Maíz: it is who we are. It is where we come from and what we are made of. It is our sacred sustenance. It forms part of our an... more »

Prologue of Tatterdemalion

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours ago
While I understand it, it troubles me that, historically, my so-called readers have been at best apathetic on the relatively rare occasions I post my fiction to this blog. I understand it because this is primarily a political blog and perhaps I'm overestimating the size of my dwindling readership who may actually care about other things I'm doing. In what's necessarily my spare time, in between job hunting, bill-paying, shopping, laundry, trips to the garage and all the quotidian minutia comprising a human life, I've been piecing together 1000-2000 words ... more »

Saskatchewan Premier Wall No Longer Believes Senate Can Be Reformed

leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours ago
*On this site, I give credit where credit is due.** * *"I think it is time to abolish the Senate. I think it is reflective of what Canadians are saying," "I don't think reform is possible. I think abolition is also difficult, but it is ... more doable than reform. I guess we all had hoped in Western Canada that it might be reformed — that would be the first preference. I just don't think it can be."* *Brad Wall* *Premier of Saskatchewan* *-Saskatchewan premier Wall no longer believes Senate can be reformed * *-Sask Premier Brad Wall ahead of PM on abolishing Senate* [image: Prog... more »

Lee Rigby. Father, Husband, Human Being. Murdered by Scum

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 13 hours ago
The above picture is of murdered soldier, Lee Rigby, from Halifax, Yorkshire. He was crushed by a car of hate-filled immigrants and then set about in the street. It is highly likely that those who murdered him were state assets. Contra to the lies of the Islamophiles, his death has been greeted with joy by Muslims. Living in the same county as Lee was from, I can tell you first hand that the 'British' Muslims have not condemned his murder. Regardless of whether he was really beheaded, it remains a fact that he was murdered. Muslims in the colonised area I live in have been se... more »

We failed to capture the depth of the problem!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013* *Rachel Maddow’s bungled reports about Jonathan Karl*: We’ll admit it! In yesterday’s main report, we failed to capture the depth of the problem with Rachel Maddow’s gruesome reports concerning Jonathan Karl. On May 15 and May 17, Maddow devoted lengthy segments to Karl’s now-famous May 10 report about the Benghazi talking points. In our view, her reports were appallingly inaccurate—so much so that we couldn’t convey the sweep of the offense in just one post. In those segments, Maddow misstated what Karl had said in his report. In the process, she committe... more »

Niger claims attackers came from Libya - Libya updates as blowback from Libya upheaval continues to widen....

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
http://www.france24.com/en/20130525-niger-attackers-libya-president-Agadez Niger attackers came from Libya, president says [image: Niger attackers came from Libya, president says] © FRANCE 24 screen grab Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou told FRANCE 24 on Saturday that the suicide bombers responsible for deadly twin attacks on a military base and a French uranium mine in Niger came from Libya. By FRANCE 24 (text) Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou told FRANCE 24 on Saturday that the suicide bombers behind twin attacks on a military base and a French-operated uranium mine in the... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago
*A year after Times-Picayune announced cutbacks, news habits changing in New Orleans ~Eve Troeh and Bevil Knapp, The Lens* *Readership, alliances up at other New Orleans news outlets in last year ~Andrew Beaujon, Pointer.* *NOCVB must respond to public records requests regarding public funds expenditures ~lunanola* *Sweet Ass New Orleans Saints defense getting back to aggressive mentality under Ryan* *Storm Fest 2013!* *Local groups collecting supplies for tornado victims ~Bob Capo, WWLTV* *New online course scaled back to fund Jindal's pre-evolution SkyGod School Vouchers* *Rev... more »

BOYCOTT COKE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago

A-P PIVOT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago
Obama's "pivot" of 60% of military forces into Asia-Pacific is well underway. We are talking big *$$$$* here. New aggressive war fighting technologies are being rolled out almost daily. Here is a video about one of the latest.

Strange troop movements , foreign troops and armored vehicles on the move ? Something to try to keep an eye on , if credible , might this be a harbinger for some type of " other event " looming ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
http://intellihub.com/2013/05/24/foreign-troops-and-armored-vehicles-spotted-in-nh-fl-wv/ Foreign Troops and Armored Vehicles Spotted in NH, FL, WV 72 [image: Print Friendly] As Nashua, NH, residents witness armored vehicles patrolling the streets of their usually peaceful town, blogger Pamela Rae Schuffert reports getting numerous phone calls from West Virginia, Florida, and Georgia regarding military transport jets landing in numerous cities across the country. Is America preparing for a military operation within its borders? [image: Photo: New Hampshire Tea Party Coalition] Photo: ... more »

WE ARE WHAT WE EAT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago

Oregon Woman Told by 911 ‘There are no cops available…Just ask him to go away’ Right Before Sexual Assault

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
Kimberly Paxton The saying goes, “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.” If you live in Josephine County, Oregon, apparently they’re only minutes away on weekdays. Budget cuts have reduced department coverage to only 5 days per week. An unidentified woman was physically and sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend, Michael Bellah, after calling 911, only to be told that it was “unfortunate” that there were no officers to help her that day. “Uh, I don’t have anybody to send out there,” the 911 dispatcher told the woman. “You know, obviously, if he comes inside the re... more »

Rep. Adam Schiff preparing legislation that could end AUMF, remove authority for war on terror

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
Rep. Adam Schiff Madison Ruppert According to a report, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is preparing legislation that would end the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) and in doing so would remove much of the authority for the war on terror and all that comes with it. The AUMF has been used to justify everything from indefinite detention of Americans to assassinations carried out by drones so legislation that would “sunset” the AUMF would bring about many changes. “The current AUMF is outdated and straining at the edges to justify the use of force outside the war thea... more »

The Fords Hit The Fan

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
The day after Rob Ford publicly denied using crack cocaine, *The Globe and Mail *runs a story claiming that his brother Doug used to traffic in hash: Ten people who grew up with Doug Ford – a group that includes two former hashish suppliers, three street-level drug dealers and a number of casual users of hash – have described in a series of interviews how for several years Mr. Ford was a go-to dealer of hash. These sources had varying degrees of knowledge of his activities: Some said they purchased hash directly from him, some said they supplied him, while others said they observ... more »

The Colorado River, The High Plains Aquifer And The Entire Western Half Of The U.S. Are Rapidly Drying Up

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
Michael Snyder What is life going to look like as our precious water resources become increasingly strained and the western half of the United States becomes bone dry? Scientists tell us that the 20th century was the wettest century in the western half of the country in 1000 years, and now things appear to be reverting to their normal historical patterns. But we have built teeming cities in the desert such as Phoenix and Las Vegas that support millions of people. Cities all over the Southwest continue to grow even as the Colorado River, Lake Mead and the High Plains Aquifer sys... more »

Stockholm police ticket white victims as Muslim immigrants burn the city down

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours ago
' The Stockholm police say it is to dangerous to fight the rioting Muslim immigrants. However, they are issuing revenue generating parking tickets to victims of destroyed automobiles.' More here http://topconservativenews.com/2013/05/stockholm-police-ticket-white-victims-as-somaliansmuslims-burn-the-city/ Police are the same all over, ticket the law abiding and let the evil get away with everything.

Kicking Rich Freeloaders Off Agricultural Welfare

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Stephen Lee Fincher (R-TN), one of the most dishonest crooks in Congress Thursday, Dick Durbin's amendment to the Farm Bill passed, rather miraculously, 59-33. The amendment is meant "to limit the amount of premium subsidy provided by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation on behalf of any person or legal entity with an average adjusted gross income in excess of $750,000, with a delayed application of the limitation until completion of a study on the effects of the limitation." I was kind of hoping he would have named it the Congressman Stephen Lee Fincher Amendment. More about why, ... more »

Question of the day and for the weekend - Did Eric Holder commit perjury in his testimony before Congress regarding potential prosecution of the press pursuant to the Espionage Act of 1917 ? In light of current uproar , will Holder still be Attorney General or will he resign before July 12 , 2013 due date for Holder to report back to President Obama regarding reviews of DOJ guidelines governing investigations involving reporters ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/24/did-eric-holder-lie-in-congressional-testimony-last-week/ Did Eric Holder lie in Congressional testimony last week? POSTED AT 10:01 AM ON MAY 24, 2013 BY ED MORRISSEY That’s the question asked by Katie Pavlich and Jim Hoft after the revelation that Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved the application for a warrant on Fox News’ James Rosen as a potential co-conspirator in espionage. Last week, under relatively friendly questioning from Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) about the Department of Justice seizure of Associated Press phone recor... more »

It's Airborne: Human Transmission of Deadly H7N9 Virus Now Confirmed

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
Mac Slavo In April of this year researchers studying the H7N9 bird flu virus in China advised global governments to get prepared for the worst-case scenario. According to the World Health Organization, H7N9 is one the most lethal influenza strains ever identified because it mutates eight times faster than a normal flu virus, and, according to official records, has a death-to-infection ratio of about 25%. It was initially believed that the virus could only be transmitted to humans who have had direct contact with poultry. After 36 H7N9 deaths and 131 of infections officially repor... more »

The individual vs. the collective in the Matrix

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
Dees Illustration Jon Rappoport In the 1950s, before television had numbed minds and turned them into jelly, there was a growing sense of: the Individual versus the Corporate State. Something needed to be done. People were fitting into slots. They were surrendering their lives in increasing numbers. They were carving away their own idiosyncrasies and their independent ideas. Collectivism wasn’t merely a Soviet paradigm. It was spreading like a fungus at every level of American life. It might fly a political banner here and there, but on the whole it was a social phenomenon and ni... more »

Anarchy Explained in Under 10 Minutes

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
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Hershberger Trial: List of Things You Can't Say and Wear Gets Bigger

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
Heather Callaghan Hopefully, you already know what's going down in Baraboo, Wisconsin. It's one of the biggest, precedent-setting food freedom cases in history that's got even conventional dairy industries watching. Raw milk is the smallest part of this trial - Vernon is fighting for you and he didn't have to. A large, mostly eclectic group has been gathering since Monday and a verdict is expected Friday. The judge, Guy Reynolds, is essentially directing the jury how to vote and what they are allowed to hear....*The whole case hinges on these words that are banned.* Vernon Hersh... more »

The Digital Crossover: How is Technology Changing our Society?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
Daniel Taylor In a recent article, Old-Thinker News reported on the Google-Bilderberg partnership and the likely strategy this group will pursue into the future. To summarize; The global elite are pushing the globe toward a dystopic future in which all aspects of life are in some way managed by their interests. Future urban development of computerized “U-cities” will reflect this goal. Mega corporations will provide advanced technology to their constituents and thus gain loyalty. *How will this technology impact our society? How has it already impacted our lives?* The wider tren... more »

New Joe Rogan Experience with Graham Hancock

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
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The People's Movement Against Monsanto

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours ago
*Youtube* Monsanto is a company feared and reviled by the public in equal measure. But whatever cases Monsanto has lost in the court of public opinion it has made up for in the courts of justice thanks to its revolving door with the upper reaches of Washington. Now, a new movement is seeking to galvanize grassroots resistance to the corporation, and derail its agenda. Subscribe to GRTV Subscribe to Corbett Report Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below.

Simple Vision Test Predicts IQ

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
This establishes that the tool itself is capable of high level training. From that starting point, we have observed a vast distribution of mental development and results. We really do a poor job on the rest of it. It is enough to say that I have met many who could have developed a high level of functional intelligence because of their intrinsic intelligence. IQ tests actually measure functional intelligence rather well enough. This test looks to show up intrinsic intelligence. This means that it will become possible to measure one against the other and use that informat... more »

Grey Whale Enters Walvis Bay

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
It appears that as the whale populations recover, that they are reaching out to expand their range. This is great news and sort of expected but not so quickly. Hunting pressure has disappeared and the natural pressure to find greener pastures will have also intensified. It still makes good sense to speed it all up with the movement of a pod into the Irish Sea. We are otherwise talking decades here. The complete restoration of the oceanic ecology is still some ways off but it is pretty clear that the wild catch has cleanly plateaued. Now the increasingly valid farmed fis... more »

Expanding Agriculture in Amazon is ‘No-win’ scenario

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
One of the things that industrial agriculture does well is clear cut a forest to take out all the seed trees and leave a barren landscape behind to weather away. It just happens to be bone stupid. The only good thing that I can say about it is that it is a temporary phase in the life of the forest. All forests need to be managed. To start with that means packing a hand saw to knock down obstructing branches in the ground story as one makes passage about the forest. That leads pretty quickly to taking ownership of the life and vitality of the forest. A managed forest will ... more »

The Penny Scam

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
There are a lot of things horribly wrong about the US Securities system. It barely works at all and is continuously preyed upon by independents and dealers alike. Tools that could work if applied are in fact blocked to the advantage of the lowest common denominator. Worse, it is effectively unregulated by the SEC from top to bottom. They show up only to close the barn door and put out an obituary. Anything other than that is complaint driven and a small fraction of real traffic which means that perps operate with almost impunity as long as he settles his own complaints. ... more »

Turmeric's Cardiovascular Benefits Found To Be As Powerful As Exercise

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours ago
Sayer Ji Nothing can replace exercise, but turmeric extract does a pretty good job of producing some of the same cardiovascular health benefits, most notably in women undergoing age-associated adverse changes in arterial health. Despite the general lack of interest by conventional medical practitioners in turmeric's role in preventing heart disease, there is a robust body of published research on its remarkable cardioprotective properties, with three dozen study abstracts on the topic available to view on our database alone: turmeric's cardioprective properties. Last year, we rep... more »

No More KINGS!

antiqueteacher60 at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 17 hours ago
Over the last few weeks, my first graders have watched this Schoolhouse Rock video at least a dozen times. They would excitedly request a viewing nearly every day. Why did they like it so much? Honestly, they LOVED the part where the colonist sticks his tongue out at the King! Of course they did-they are […]

Renault cars now with added Va Va Boom button

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago
Renault's new Clio has a Va va Boom button. And for the ladies...

800 Scientists Demand Global GMO “Experiment” End by Elizabeth Renter

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago
Source: http://www.setyoufreenews.com/category/news/800 Scientists Demand Global GMO “Experiment” End by Elizabeth Renter Natural Society, 24 May 2014 Did you hear about the 800 esteemed scientists who came together and *demanded the production of genetically modified crops and products be stopped*? Scientists* *who called on world powers to re-evaluate the future of agriculture and seek *sustainability rather than corporate profits*? Don’t be surprised if you haven’t, as the mainstream media won’t touch this one. Eight-hundred scientists did make such a demand. They *made it* ... more »

London "beheading" - Responding to critics

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 20 hours ago
I have received some criticism after publishing a brief blog post the other day contending that the London "beheading" may have been yet another hoax or fake event, similar to Sandy Hook and the recent Boston "bombing." Let me say for the record that at this point, I am 100% convinced the London "beheading" was indeed another hoax, a fake event portrayed in the mass media as real which is being used to perpetuate the fraudulent "Global War on Terror" meme and the idea of *"lone-wolf Islamic terrorists," *in addition *to justifying the crackdown on the internet and expanding governme... more »

'WOOLWICH TERRORISTS BRAINWASHED BY MI5'

Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago
*Michael Adebolajo, from a well-off Christian family.* The alleged 'Woolwich terrorist', Michael Adebolajo, was under the influence of MI5. It would *appear* that MI5 used torture to try to force Michael to become one of their agents. Speaking on the BBC Newsnight programme, a friend of Michael Adebolajo "said that Michael was tortured and harassed by MI5 - who asked him to spy for them." *Woolwich suspect's friend arrested after appearing on Newsnight / Woolwich attack: MI5 'offered job to suspect'* * * (OSAMA BIN LADEN, while living in Wembley, was reportedly a guest of MI6 in ... more »

Are There No more Honourable Men, Hari Kari Is In Order

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 22 hours ago
*Written by Grant G* Many have awaited my analysis of BC`s 2013 election, the mainstream media have weighed in, bloggers and pundits too.. No one is happy with the result, pollsters led us astray, or did they, I am of the belief that pollsters posted results with deliberate guile, had anyone known that in fact at the beginning of the writ period the two big parties were actually tied in support levels the campaign would have taken a drastically different direction, the BC Liberal record would have been front and center, the scandals and lies would have been highlighted.. The ma... more »

CHILD ABUSE, AMERICARES, NUMBERS, AMBASADOR STEVENS , FASCISM

Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago
London Mayor Boris Johnson (whose father was a spook) and Jaden Smith *ArmeriCares*, George Bush’s Favorite Charity, Dispenses Bitter Medicine. *RussBaker.com - A Thousand Points of Blight (January 8, 1991)* * * *Boris and some worried looking boys.* * **Kal Dani's Oracle: Prince William's Occulted Numbers* * * *Refuse collector* * Whistleblowers Reveal Stevens Was In Libya To Buy Back Missiles From Al-Qaeda* *18 Year Old Looking at 20 Years for Anti-Government Lyrics On Facebook*

May 22, 1973

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours ago
(Sorry, behind again, that kind of week...) Nixon issues a statement: --- RECENT news accounts growing out of testimony in the Watergate investigations have given grossly misleading impressions of many of the facts, as they relate both to my own role and to certain unrelated activities involving national security. Already, on the basis of second- and third-hand hearsay testimony by persons either convicted or themselves under investigation in the case, I have found myself accused of involvement in activities I never heard of until I read about them in news accounts. These impress... more »

Eric Weinstein's invisible theory of nothing

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours ago
On Friday, I received an irritated message from Mel B. who had read articles in the Guardian claiming that Eric Weinstein found a theory of everything or something close: Roll over Einstein: meet Weinstein (by Alok Jha) ------------------------------ Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems (by Marcus du Sautoy) ------------------------------ Geometric Unity (a lecture at Oxford that no physicist attended) First, the puns involving names emulating Einstein are extremely far from being new to me because as the most successful Czechoslovak debunker of these... more »

Musical Interlude: Era, “Divano”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
Era, “Divano” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnaL2_oCr9s

And The Emmy For The Worst Acting In A False Flag Goes To: The Woolwich England Machete Guy

Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 day ago
*None of you are safe.....except the camera guy interviewing me, the onlookers that aren't running away that are talking to us, the woman who almost whacked me with a cart, the guy who put fake blood on my hand, and.......* *.......oh! And David Cameron and all the politicians are safe!!!!!* Let me recap: a "Muslim terrorist" waving around a bloody machete with which he just decapitated a nearby body still laying there and running around yelling "NONE OF YOU ARE SAFE"..........and not one person runs away (they even are *talking to *the "machete beheaders"), a woman even almost wh... more »

Sunday Classics preview: Memorable Mozart from the no-nonsense younger Colin Davis

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*The Seraphim LP issue of the c1961 Colin Davis disc of Mozart overtures I keep going on about, as in this July 2012 preview* *by Ken* I've spent a lot of time and effort trying to find a path into Mozart's two mature efforts to resurrect the *opera seria*, *Ideomeneo* and *La Clemenza di Tito*. Though the operas themselves remain for me massive expenditures of genius effort which came to not a whole lot, I love both overtures with an abiding passion. What's more, in the case of the *Clemenza* Overture in particular, when I finally saw the opera in the flesh for the first time, I ... more »

Shake your hair out and come and dance with me

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
Grim reaper ripped my heart out today. I lost my best friend. Oh, but the times we had and William Topley played the soundtrack of our wild nights that lingered til dawn and beyond. RIP Jamie.

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*A year after Times-Picayune announced cutbacks, news habits changing in New Orleans ~Eve Troeh and Bevil Knapp, The Lens* *NOCVB must respond to public records requests regarding public funds expenditures ~lunanola* *Storm Fest 2013!*

5/25 - March Against Monsanto

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
https://www.facebook.com/GenerationCrazyHorseIdleNoMore *March Against Monsanto*

Codifying Experiences, Knowledge, Reflections

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
I started this blog in 2009 to express my concerns about the condition of humanity at that point in time. I have chronicled my reactions and research on the pressing issues: financial crisis; endless war; declining health; and environmental catastrophes. I have described my fears about growing fascism and dispossession and the dangers these pose for our collective survival given the scope of the problems we face, having now destroyed our eco-system. I wrote this blog to express these concerns and I found so many people across the world who share them also and who are motivated by t... more »

Satire: “Scalia Resigns Post as Scoutmaster”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* “Scalia Resigns Post as Scoutmaster”* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who for the past forty-seven years has served as a weekend scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America, angrily resigned from that position yesterday, effective immediately. Justice Scalia quit his post in a terse resignation letter that read, in part: “Some of the happiest memories of my adult life have been as a scoutmaster. Huddling under blankets around the campfire, and so forth. But now, all of that has been ruined. Ruined.” Shortly after sending ... more »

Re. the Boy Scouts' "compromise": Compromise with crackpots isn't compromise, it's capitulation

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Lord Baden-Powell*, *inventor of the Boy Scouts: Would you entrust your burgeoning lad to this man? Would you want your burgeoning lad anywhere nearthis man? * *"President Obama praised the Boy Scouts of America's decision to lift its ban on openly gay youth, but added he hopes the organization will take further action to allow openly gay Scout leaders, according to the White House."* *-- the lead of* Chris Johnson's Washington Blade report *"Allowing gay scouts but not adult scout leaders . . . was a step backward, because it reinforced the most vile stereotypes and misconception... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
IQ 95? The artist is too kind, lol... -CP

Kijiji Follow Up - A note sent to me as worth posting

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
Kijiji has confirmed to the police that the ad posted by Mr. Bosma on Kijiji did not feature personal contact information, nor did it receive any replies, which determines* the incident did not occur as result of his ad posting on Kijiji.* You can read more of Kijiji's statement at the following link: * http://kijijiblog.ca/online-safety/*

What is this?

Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
Tepco timestamp is May 22 22:49. The phenomenon I'm focusing on is not visible on the Tepco cam. It is only visible on the TBS cam. Look to the right of the third red-and-white crane on the corner of building 3 closest to building 4: <img alt="" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAgUAAAEkCAIAAAAw5tVUAAAgAElEQVR4nKy82XMcSZLmmbU920d1yfQxM9JdVUkCiBMAySQJICLc3W4zVbvNrzgAgsyjanaf5mX//6d9cJAJZlZPrbSsyE8gLiEU0N3DTD/VT9Xwzd/87d98e/5ieXW5vLxarK8uluvz+ep8vjpfrGbLy9nycrZaz9dX89XV6ur15avvLl99t7p6PV9dnc9Xs9Xl+vrN8vJ6tlzPlpeL1Xfz5bvzi9fns9fL9bv19fvl5XfLy9erq9fr61erq6vZcvlydn42n8/X6+X... more »

Crumbling infrastructure is our national shame

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
Miraculously no one was killed when that bridge went down in Washington state this week. It's unlikely we'll be so lucky the next time and there will be a next time because we can't get the funding out of DC. The chart shows our national neglect of our critical infrastructure. You might have thought the horrifying bridge collapse on I-35W in Minneapolis in 2007 would have been a wake up call, but no. At a time when one in nine of our bridges are deficient in some way, Republicans continue to block all infrastructure spending simply because they see it as win for Obama and they're... more »

Pledge Your Support to the Common Core!

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
New York Education Commissioner, John King, has partnered with Education Reform Now! to start getting private businesses on board with the Common Core State Standards. Nobody in education really buys any of this garbage, so King has decided to start getting businesses to sign on and wrap a huge media campaign around it. Hey, Exxon-Mobil […]

“So Where Are We?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *“So Where Are We?”* by Zen Gardner "We’re in the thick of it. My biggest concern? So many have been warned and so few have heeded. You can’t even count how many seriously weird things are going down, practically all of them carefully designed, and an intoxicated world dutifully falls into line robotically. That’s the weirdest thing of all. The engineers we’re up against are in a very powerful position and are not afraid to use it. Besides the other idiocies transpiring in full frontal view, the MSM now joins the asteroid meme saying, “Get canned food, the asteroid is approa... more »

"You Can't Buy Prosperity"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *"You Can't Buy Prosperity"* by Bill Bonner "Gold rose $24 per ounce yesterday. The Dow fell 12 points. The smart money is using this dip to buy gold. Why? Because the world's major stock markets... currencies... and economies all depend on reckless measures by central banks. In the short run, the central banks can make things appear safe and stable. How? By making lending money at ultra-low rates the norm. It's hard for major players to go broke; they can just refinance. But in the long run, those same policies can lead to instability, bubbles... and disaster. Too bad, but... more »

Weekend Fun 41: Nancy Binay, Grace Poe, Other Politicians

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day ago
Newly elected Sen. Nancy Binay ranked 5th out of 12 Senators recently proclaimed by the Comelec. Being a never-heard political personality nationwide until November 2012, she suddenly shot up in the top 15 candidates when she was drafted by UNA in December 2012. The rest is history. Below is her political pedigree. Some political cartoons during the campaign period, below. Well, the joke is now on the voters, you and me included. On the part of #1, Sen. Grace Poe who got 20.15 million votes, almost two million higher than the 2nd placer Loren Legarda who got 18.48 million, there ... more »

cantabria and asturias, day one

laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago
Today we fulfilled a travel wish we've harboured for many, many years. We saw two sets of paleolithic cave paintings. * * * * The day started out a bit interesting, with an early-morning phone call that appeared to be from our dogsitter, scaring me (although it turned out to be a mistake), and a non-working shower. While we ate breakfast, the desk clerk wanted to tell us the shower was fixed, so she wrote this on a scrap of paper: "The bath this one are repaired. Forgives the inconvenience." I have no doubt my Spanish sounds equally amusing. We had to wait for the tourist informati... more »

madrid to segovia to cantabria

laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago
Getting out of Madrid was a whole lot easier than getting in. We found our way to the highway easily, and had a short drive to the town of Segovia, to see its famous Roman aqueduct. It's pretty amazing to see a gigantic, completely intact stone aqueduct right in the middle of a town: see here. It's about 32 kilometres (20 miles) long, 28.5 metres (93.5 feet) tall at its highest point, and made of more than 20,000 stones, and not a drop of mortar. Years ago, we saw the Pont du Gard, a famous three-tiered Roman aqueduct in France. We went way out of our way to see it, and were well r... more »

Harper's Parade of Perps with Perks - Part 4

Alison at Creekside - 1 day ago
Please welcome Senators David Tkachuk, Marjory LeBreton and Carolyn Stewart Olsen to the growing family scandal of Steve's Parade of Perps with Perks. Click to enjoy. While Steve is still going with the lone topgun chief of staff on the Duffy knoll with the chequebook story from his temporary hideout in South America, his perps at home are busy fucking that up for him. We were most relieved to hear from Senator Tkachuk that even though he was soliciting advice from the Prime Minister's Office on how to do his audit of Duffy, and Nigel Wright was calling him up wanting to know "W... more »

How Many More Teachers Have to Quit Before Things Change?

freetoteach at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
Another teacher leaving the profession she loves because she says it no longer exists under the current high stakes testing regime. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary, JUDY RABIN: Schools Matter Tagged: education reform, high stakes testing, insanity, Teachers Quit

Activist arrested delivering complaint on White Clay liquor stores

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Deep Green Resistance activist T.R. McKenzie arrested, while delivering this complaint on White Clay liquor stores bordering Pine Ridge, South Dakota: http://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/activist-arrested-while-trying-to-file-complaint-against-whiteclay-store/article_898d93f3-18ca-5038-95a0-254c9dcca005.html Jefferson, South Dakota May 24, 2013 Nebraska Liquor

All the world is a stage

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 day ago
One of the (relatively) recent innovations in the horror/thriller genres has been found footage[1]. The appeal of the horror genre is, if it’s effective, it takes you inside a terrifying scenario but leaves you completely safe. The result is not terror but exhilaration. Found footage removes another barrier to the suspension of disbelief. The genre’s weakness is, of course, when it goes beyond the stage any believable character simply drop the camera and run. But what is that stage? The vital element in reports of the Woolwich murder has been citizen-gathered footage. Harvested m... more »

John W. Whitehead, “The Age of Authoritarianism"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *“The Age of Authoritarianism: * *Government of the Politicians, by the Military, for the Corporations”* By John W. Whitehead “Force alone cannot make us safe. We cannot use force everywhere that a radical ideology takes root; and in the absence of a strategy that reduces the well-spring of extremism, a perpetual war– through drones or Special Forces or troop deployments– will prove self-defeating, and alter our country in troubling ways.” - Barack Obama, May 23, 2013 “President Obama’s declaration that “America is at a crossroads” in the fight against terror, a fight that i... more »

Rebranding? No. But Get Ready to Govern

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Paul Waldman has a nice post today about GOP "rebranding." He's quite right: ideological shifts, real or perceived, do far less to explain electoral results than basic economic performance and other "retrospective voting" things. In particular: I think it's very likely that a Democrat would have won in 1992 even if there had been no DLC. And I think that at best Democrats have a very narrow national advantage based on perceived Republican extremism, almost certainly smaller than the presidential vote margin in 2008 and 2012. However, as I've said before: that doesn't mean that party... more »

Tesla-- I wonder What Libertarians Think Of The Authoritarians Who Run The North Carolina GOP

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
I'm in the middle of buying a Tesla. My neighbor swears by his and, to me, it seems like the car least likely to pollute the planet. I have solar energy in my house so it won't even cost me anything to charge up the battery a few times a week. But, I couldn't just walk into a dealership and buy one. I had to do the whole process online. Works for me... but I don't live in North Carolina. I'll come back to that in a second. The big news about Tesla this week was two-fold; first, many auto magazines are calling it the best care ever. The new all-electric Tesla S sedan is not just ... more »

Obamacare, it's lowering costs

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
There was some article going around a week or so ago where one of the big health insurers was claiming rates would rise by something like 384% because of Obamacare. Which unsurprisingly turns out to be pure bullcrap. The news out of California, our biggest state with some 7.1 million uninsured residents, is rates are going to be significantly lower than even neutral observers had predicted. I couldn't access the original New Republic piece. Apparently you need to be a subscriber now to read it, but Ed Kilgore has a good summary: Based on the premiums that insurers have submitted f... more »

Face first into the culture

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 1 day ago
We spent a lot of time talking about culture in the Cuso International training we took in Canada before moving to Honduras last year. The course facilitators cautioned us repeatedly that real cultural differences go much deeper than the clothing styles, language, food and general habits of a country that a foreigner first notices. They were right. It’s the “soft culture” stuff you have to watch out for – the things you tend not to see until they trip you up. For instance, I now recognize that I’m much too direct in my interactions with people here. I give people a quick hello and t... more »

RT: 'Environmental genocide' Native Americans quit talks over Keystone XL pipeline

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
‘Environmental genocide’: Native Americans quit talks over Keystone XL pipeline By RT http://rt.com/usa/native-americans-keystone-pipeline-475/ People opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline gather in prayer in Fullerton, Nebraska (AFP Photo / Guillaume Mayer) Leaders from 11 Native American tribes stormed out of a

ANNOUNCEMENT: Launching i2

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
ANNOUNCEMENT Launching i2: Innovative Innovators FAQs What is i2? i2 is a venture designed to recruit and train educators without any experience or expertise in innovation, entrepreneurship, or cagebusting to serve as consultants for innovators, entrepreneurs, and cagebusters. Who will i2 serve? Innovators stuck in an innovation rut. Entrepreneurs (and Edupreneurs) trapped inside the entrepreneurial […]

Hermann Hesse - Seasons of the Soul

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
*"The Seasons of the Soul: The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Hermann Hesse."* Translated by Ludwig Max Fischer. Foreword by Andrew Harvey. Video Title: Hermann Hesse - Seasons of the Soul. Source: YouTube Channel HesseSeasons. Uploaded on February 13, 2012.· Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: Part 7: Part 8:

Sally Bercow at the High Court

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
Was I alone not surprised by today's verdict at the high court? No. Britain's libel laws are notoriously wide and all-encompassing. You could be forgiven for thinking that elasticity is not entirely accidental, seeing as our courts are places where tremendous sums can be won or lost. Then there's the small matter of libel law firms making a killing from the wealthy people who engage their services too. But of course, it wouldn't be the done thing to suggest that there may be a link between the two *innocent face*. Anyway, there's a couple of quick points I want to make about this. ... more »

The new gym class in PA, 112 questions? Really?

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
A bubble test for gym. Stay classy. But I have to mention the following. I am actually a former ACE-certified personal trainer. I know this stuff. And these are pretty terrible questions about weight training. Leg press is a compound exercise that also works out the hamstrings. Weight training rarely uses the push-pull concept anymore. […]

Toddler Testing

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
Ed. Dept. Launches Competition for Kindergarten Entry Assessments “Kindergarten-entry assessments are designed to measure a child’s “essential domains of school readiness,” which include language and literacy development, cognition and general early knowledge, readiness to learn, physical well-being, and social and emotional development.” @the chalkface is developing the “NON essential domains of school readiness” kindergarten entry […]
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