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Mohawk John Kane 'We are not alone'
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We are not alone
By John Kane, Mohawk
A few things are clear from the events of the past week. The first is
that we are not alone. The Mi’kmaq who are standing against fracking for
natural gas in Elsipogtog do so not just with the courage of their own
convictions but also with support from places diverse in
geography, culture and ethnicity.
Social media have made it much easier
Weed vs. Marriage
I said over at PP yesterday that I think Democrats have a fight coming over
marijuana, thanks to new polling that shows a majority currently favor
legalization.
I compared the situation to marriage, and I see Joshua Tucker did, too; in
many ways it's a natural comparison.
I do have one caution about it: I'm a lot less confident that it's a
one-direction lasting trend than the marriage trend. This is basically just
speculative, but for whatever it's worth...
I've always been fairly confident that the case against same-sex marriage
would dissolve if and when it was enacted. The argum... more »
The Duck of Minerva is blocked in China
I was just in China for a work thing, when I checked the Duck for
something. Turns out the Duck is screened out by the Great Firewall. Even
if you go to Google Search Hong Kong, it’s still blocked. Wow. Who knew
even nerdy IR theory and pop culture references posed a threat to CCP
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Known Knowns and Unknown Unknowns Strike Again
Whenever public officials want to pass one of the many bucks that keep
fluttering toward their desks, they go to the propaganda cabinet and drag
out their trusty Word Salad Spinners. Perhaps the most famous example of
this defense mechanism was when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gave his
tortured explanation for the debacle in Iraq:
*There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are
known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't
know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know
we don't know.*
And now... more »
SOAS Taiwan Studies News
SOAS Taiwan Studies News
New Deputy Director, Film Screening Programme, New Cooperation Agreement
with Council for Indigenous Affairs, New Taiwan Studies Library Resource
Centre, and Term 1 Seminar Series
Dear All,
We have some exciting new developments at the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies.
Firstly, from this week Dr Chang Bi-yu will be joining us as a Senior
Teaching Fellow in Taiwan Studies and the new Deputy Director of the Centre
of Taiwan Studies. Please see the news item for details:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem88002.html
Secondly, we will start a new film screening... more »
Gaiman, Prisons, Literacy, and the Problems with Satire
Gaiman, Prisons, Literacy, and the Problems with Satire. via Gaiman,
Prisons, Literacy, and the Problems with Satire.
Untitled
*House to take up water bill that excludes authorization for Morganza to
the Gulf levees ~Bruce Alpert *
*FDA continues to warn pet owners of dangerous jerky treats ~WWLTV*
*Extras needed for film, featuring Will Smith, being shot in New Orleans*
*Today in New Orleans ~NOLA DEFENDER*
*~Voices of the Wetlands with Special Guests Anders Osborne, Rich Collins
and the Kangaroo Assassins (Lafayette Square, 5:00 p.m.) This week’s
outdoor hump day happy hour welcomes Tab Benoit’s shifting band to the
stage. The nonprofit invites local singer/songwriter Osborne, plus rocker
Rich Collins wit... more »
Understanding Anbar Before And After The Awakening Part VI, Sheikh Aifan Issawi
Sheikh Aifan Issawi of the Albu Issa tribe was an important leader in the
Anbar Awakening. While most of his tribe joined the insurgency and worked
with Al Qaeda all the way up to 2007, he followed his own path trying to
cooperate with the Americans in his hometown of Fallujah. He went on to
turn his exploits on the battlefield into a seat on the provincial council
in 2009. He was later appointed to parliament as part of the Iraqi National
Movement in 2011. Unfortunately, in 2013 insurgents caught up with him and
assassinated him. Issawi was one of the prominent sheikhs in Anbar t... more »
Lots of words in throne speech, but inequality not one of them
Throne speech wordcloud
Stephen Harper’s throne speech was an amazing 7,240 words long, a modern
record and three times as long as the Conservative’s first throne speech.
But not once was inequality mentioned in all those words. That’s
particularly striking in a speech that tried to touch on every possible
theme that might appeal to a subgroup of voters.
Conservative strategists decided not to mention an issue that 75 per cent
of Canadians identified as a problem in a poll last year.
To the Conservatives, growing inequality is not an issue for government.
But it is.
There’s a myth that... more »
WotW: CloudUp is Your All-in-One Flash Drive Replacement
There are two things in life I regret wasting money on: the expensive photo
packages at high school dances, and flash drives. The first because, let's
be honest, I never look at those pictures and I'm not married to any of
those girls. And the second because I lose flash drives faster than I'm
losing hair (which is pretty impressive).
Don't get me wrong, I liked flash drives. They served a great purpose:
allowing you to easily transfer files. But I found myself forgetting to
bring them with me and when I inevitably lost the drive I lost all my
stored files. This is why cloud storage... more »
ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ VIDEO: Al Qaeda Operations In Anbar
Note that some of these AQI fighters are dressed in Interior Ministry
uniforms. There have been earlier videos with militants wearing similar
dress and driving police vehicles as well.
Raising Minnesota: Going head to head with Finland!
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2013*
*Six states outscore the champ:* Let’s be clear about one thing. As far as
we know, Finland has excellent schools.
By all accounts, Finland boasts a very civilized middle-class society. As
part of the deal, the country tends to score quite well on international
tests.
As far as we know, Finland has always scored well on international tests,
dating to the start of such testing in the 1960s. For unknown reasons,
Ripley seems to say something very different on page 2 of her book.
That said, Finland scores especially well on the international test called ... more »
Sad news, Justice Fedak passes
*FEDAK, The Honourable Eugene Boris *Most unexpectedly in his 79th year.
Loving husband of Grace for 55 glorious years. Cherished Dad of Mark and
Catherine (Bill) Kosyk. Adored Dido of Alexandra, Emily and Matthew. Dear
brother of Jerry (Joan) and Emil (Marilyn). Pre- deceased by his parents
Pearl and Metropolitan Wasyly. Visitation at *BAY GARDENS FUNERAL HOME, *1010
Botanical Drive (across from the Royal Botanical Gardens) BURLINGTON
(905.527.0405) on Thursday from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. and 6:00-8:00 p.m. Panachyda
taking place Thursday at 7:30 p.m. A Funeral service will be held at S... more »
Troika Wants To Strip Greece Of Defense, Auto Industries, Greece Balks: The Troika-Greece Can-Kicking Toxic Loop
*Task Force issues warning*
European Commission expresses concern about the credit crunch and high
unemployment
***The head of the Task Force in Greece, Horst Reichenbach*By Evgenia
Tzortzi
High unemployment and the lack of cash in the market that would have
supported small and medium-sized enterprises are the main problems of the
Greek economy, which, according to European Commission estimates, “will
stabilize in 2014 and revert to a positive growth rate.”
Despite encouraging signs of stabilization, the situation remains difficult
for Greek citizens mainly due to the high jobless ... more »
FEMA REGION III, BROKEN ARROWS, FALSE FLAGS AND A MOVIE
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
http://lightgateblogger.com/2013/09/10/fema-region-iii-broken-arrows-false-flags-and-a-movie/
-by *LIGHTGATE BLOGGER*
It is quite interesting now that the American people have told Congress NO
WAY do we want to get involved with Syria. But then Obama has said he does
not really care what the American people think, he has an agenda laid out
for him by the Bilderberg group, a part of the Illuminati. So let’s PLAY
CONNECT THE DOTS, and see if we could have a MAJOR NUCLEAR INCIDENT on
American soil to change people’s minds about WWIII.
Remember that the Bible tells us ... more »
Do Cyborgs Dream of Electric Femme-Bots?
[Note: This is a guest post by Lauren Wilcox, Lecturer in Gender Studies at
University of Cambridge, and author of "Machines that Matter: The Politics
and Ethics of ‘Unnatural’ Bodies" in Iver Neumann and Nicholas Kiersey
eds, Battlestar Galactica and International Relations, Routledge 2012] In a
recent blog post on the Monkey Cage, Heather Roff-Perkins is concerned
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Saudis openly threaten the US - primarily over lack of US action ( War ) against Syria , coupled with making nice with Iran over the nuclear issues ! And do the threats include dumping US assets , halting US arms deals to the Saudis and negative impacts on oil sales ? Consider this quote - “All options are on the table now, and for sure there will be some impact,” from a Saudi source .....
Saudi Arabia stamps feet at lack of US backing on Syria, Israel
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Members of the Saudi Arabian royal family are threatening to rethink the
strategic partnership with the US following... more »
From Contempt To Contemptible
In 2011, Stephen Harper was found in contempt of Parliament. At the time,
he defined contempt as "being outvoted." And, having won the subsequent
election, he proceeded on the assumption that "contempt" was a meaningless
concept. What mattered was winning.
After Mike Duffy's speech in the Senate yesterday, Mr. Harper will be
forced to re-examine his definition of contempt. For, as Michael den Tandt
writes, his house of cards is falling apart:
Here’s where this leads: If Duffy’s story is true, and he can indeed prove
it, then the entire senior Conservative power structure in Otta... more »
The Mismeasure of Education Documents Tennessee as a Cautionary Tale
Jim Horn’s and Denise Wilburn’s *The Mismeasure of Education *chronicles
the history of test-driven accountability that true believers in
accountability-driven reform have ignored. Sadly, Horn and Wilburn document
the timeless truth that “the past is prologue.” The history that
contemporary school reformers do not know has come back, and I would not be
surprised if Tennessee is their Waterloo. A first post focused on Horn’s
and Wilburn’s history of the roots of accountability-driven reform. This
one will concentrate of their account of Tennessee’s recent history and how
it has becom... more »
FROM BOTH SIDES NOW: Our own hate speech!
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2013*
*Part 3—Grayson removes all doubt:* Conservative voters are often misled by
their political leaders.
(In recent weeks, they were told it wouldn’t matter of the debt limit
didn’t get raised!)
They’re often misled by the people they hear on the radio, by the people
they see on TV. They’re badly served by our biggest news orgs, who tend to
avert their gaze from this conduct, who let the dissembling go.
These voters have been aggressively misled for decades now. Increasingly,
though, we liberals are being badly served by *our* various leaders:
In our view... more »
Econ Round Up
The Ministry of Economic Affairs put out the numbers on FDI. From Digitimes:
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 2,308 foreign direct
investment projects (except from China) totaling *US$3.596 billion* in
January-September 2013, respectively increasing 20.40% and *decreasing
8.59% on year*.
......
In January-September,* MOEA approved 103 investment projects proposed by
China-based firms with total value of US$331.28 million.* T*here were 310
approved projects of direct investment in China proposed by Taiwan-based
companies or individuals with a total amount of US$6... more »
Another Day, Another Poll, Another Planet
*I always flirt with death
I could kill, but I don't care about it
I can face your threats
Stand up tall and scream and shout about it
I think I'm on another world with you
I'm on another planet with you
You always get under my skin
I don't find it irritating
You always play to win
I don't need rehabilitating
Another girl, another planet
Another girl, another planet
Space travels in my blood
And there ain't nothing I can do about it
Long journeys wear me out
Oh God we won't live without it
Another girl is loving you now
Another planet, forever holding you down
Another planet*
Bachm... more »
The USA Maxim Hot 100 for 2013 in 100 seconds - Maybe NSFW
Miley Cyrus at number 1? Really? I do not agree with so many of these
choices but then I'm not American and probably not in the target age range
either.
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Bradley Pierce, 31.
Plenty of good stuff:
1. Timothy Lee on why the the Healthcare.gov problems may take plenty of
time to solve.
2. But I agree with Josh Barro: if it's correct that the "backend" problems
have been solved, that's a very big deal.
3. Jamelle Bouie on "Many Rivers to Cross."
4. A good rundown of post-shutdown polling and recent ACA polling from the
HuffPollster team.
5. Ross Douthat on what (some) conservatives would like to see if ACA fails.
6. Republicans fighting back against Tea Partiers, from Jessica Taylor and
Suzy Khimm.
7. And Marin Coga... more »
On the Road with FTV: Wuling and Hehuanshan cycling
The other reason I haven't been blogging, aside from the massive workload,
is another shoot with FTV, this time atop Wuling and Hehuanshan at the top
of Taiwan. The image above was taken Tuesday morning, the weather was
glorious, cool and clear. That's the ski lodge there atop Hehuanshan. Enjoy
a few pictures by clicking on READ MORE below...
Morning fog over the reservoir below Wushe.
The B&B we stayed at. Too low down the mountain for my tastes. Gotta have
altitude on day 1 so day 2 the adjustment to the height of Wuling is
easier.
Fog blows up over Hehuanshan. This is what yo... more »
Advancing Global Environmental Governance
[Note: This is a guest post by Peter M. Haas of the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst] Transboundary and global environmental threats
require collection action. Concretely, this means developing forms of
governance that apply common rules, norms and decision making procedures.
Ideally, such governance should be resilient in the sense that it is able
to
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No costs ceiling in Court of Appeal
*(Attorney General) v. Rothmans Inc.*,2013 ONCA 642 makes an important
civil practice point – there is no cost ceiling in the Court of Appeal:
[9] We do not think it can be said that there is some sort of
$100,000 ceiling for costs awards in this Court. Each case must be decided
in its own context. What has to be determined is an amount that is fair
and reasonable in the circumstances and is consistent with the reasonable
expectations of the parties: *Boucher v. Public Accountant Council for the
Province of Ontario* (2004), 71 O.R. (3d) 291 (C.A.), at paras. 37-38.
China breaks Central Bank ranks by facing up to rampant inflation in China ( 69 of 70 Cities show year over year price gains , 12 percent price increase in Shanghai new homes in one week ! And what of pork prices ? ) .... China tightening back on - short term repos rates starting to reflect liquidity getting tighter .....More important to note - are China's Banks finally being ordered to deal with bad loans and looming defaults ? Cat has major miss for its third quarter - weak demand from mining customers and uncertainty worldwide for 2014 !
China not playing the frozen state game it would appear....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-23/asian-markets-slide-china-braces-loan-defaults-telegraphs-another-liquidity-tapering
Asia Slides As China Overnight Repo Soars On Fears Of Another Domestic
"Tapering" Episode, Preparations For Bank Loan Defaults
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/23/2013 05:48 -0400
- Bond
- Book Value
- China
- Credit Conditions
- Credit Suisse
- default
- Gross Domestic Product
- Hong Kong
- Housing Bubble
- Housing Market
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Pomegranates Reverse Damage from Junk Food, Boost Heart Health by Elizabeth Renter
Pomegranates Reverse Damage from Junk Food, Boost Heart Health
by Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society, 22 October 2013
With chambers and blood-red insides, the physical appearance of
pomegranates isn’t the only thing that ties them to the human heart. *Research
indicates these in-season delights are a heart-protective food that could
even undo the bodily damage caused by junk food.*
Researchers from Spain tested a new supplement on pigs. The supplement was
made with polyphenols found in pomegranates – antioxidant compounds which
are credited with numerous health benefits including... more »
5 Ways Your Workplace Bully May Be Breaking The Law
I got this question from a reader at AOL Jobs:
Hi Donna,
What action would you suggest staff take when the Executive Director of a
tax funded nonprofit organization, which is overseen by a board, is abusive
to staff? Staff does not have access to HR; they report to the ED who
reports to the board. Some incidents have been "investigated" by one or two
board members and the HR of the employer of a board member. Nothing has
improved. Incidents have been the ED slapping the hand, kicking, and
yelling at an employee to "go do your f****** job," commenting on how an
employee is dressed, y... more »
Newspapers get it wrong sometimes
Just reading a news story reporting a case I argued and am overwhelmed by
the errors. Not that it will make a significant difference to anyone but
the story got the lawyers wrong, the arguments backwards and the result
confused. I guess it's just more proof that "you can't believe everything
you read".
“Set Yourself Free: Letting Go of Perfection”
* *
*“Set Yourself Free: Letting Go of Perfection”*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
“Life becomes much more interesting once we let go of our quest for
perfection and aspire for imperfection instead. It is good to remember that
one of our goals in life is to not be perfect. We often lose track of this
aspiration. When we make mistakes, we think that we are failing or not
measuring up. But if life is about experimenting, experiencing, and
learning, then to be imperfect is a prerequisite. Life becomes much more
interesting once we let go of our quest for perfection and aspire for
i... more »
THE SECRET COVENANT of "the ones who from heaven to earth came"
copied from
~ Illuminati News ~
Introduction by Wes Penre, Illuminati News
* I can't guarantee* the authenticity of this document, although the
context pretty much describes the truth as it is. We don't know when it was
written and exactly by whom, but it looks like it was composed by a British
person if we look at the spelling of words, which is British English.
This information was sent to me by someone who for obvious reasons wants
to be anonymous. This person gave me this reply when I asked if he/she
could verify the authenticity of it:
"The document was passed to me by a gen... more »
For The $keptics: Planned Destruction of America Printed on US Currency
[image: TheJonathankleck] TheJonathankleck
*Oct 20, 2013*
This is for the skeptics & the genuinely curious; the doubters & the
scoffers: An in-depth analysis of all the U.S. Currency that contain hidden
images of past false-flag terror events, and future ones as well...
--
The new $100 bill+ $10 bill = NYC Nuke. The New $100 Bill has finally been
released to the public. This new bill finishes the story that the $10 Bill
started with the missile launch and tidal wave. The two bills together tell
the story of a nuclear event taking place on the East Coast promulgated by
the US G... more »
AIM West Conference November 2013
By
Tony Gonzales
Censored News
Friends and relations of AIM Grand Governing Council, I wish to also
extend an invitation for you to participate at our annual AIM West Coast
Conference, or summit, starting on Monday and Tuesday, November 25 and
26, at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San
Francisco (on Mission between 10 and 11 St). The conference will be
held from 9-6 pm
My Rather Personnel Confession - A Guest Post by Michael Brine
My Rather Personnel Confession.
What is our strongest motivator as we live our lives?
The most fundamental and potent motivator facing us all individually and
collectively as a species is, I feel, Insecurity!
Think about it. Its presence can be subtle which may lead to denial but
really, just think about it for a moment. What truly motivates us as we go
through our day? What is that often driving force that pushes us? Unhuuuh! J
The need to succeed, or perhaps more truthfully, to be recognised as
successful. We see it in ourselves as individuals but also we see it in the
indi... more »
"How It Really Is"
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Some things never change...
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The Economy: “Your Illogic Will Destroy You”
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*“Your Illogic Will Destroy You”*
by Karl Denninger
“I've had a number of "criticisms" of my posts on refusing to continue to
earn and thus pay taxes that fund the various games- including
most-particularly the Treasury market- and more than a few of those who
couldn't contain themselves have wound up banned. If you can make a
well-reasoned point I'll generally listen to it. But let's recap a few
things, shall we, including the back-story which many of those (including
all of them who got banned) have intentionally ignored.
First, yes, I ran a company, sold it, and can live o... more »
The Sol Tango: incoming CMEs and disorientating radio burst.
Our lovely Sol has been dancing a tango again for the past two weeks, and
in the last two days has upped the tempo. I've been watching the Solar
activity for the past couple of weeks quite closely, and it's definitely
been putting on quite the show! I will say that I almost sprained my
shoulder trying to pat myself on the back a little over a week ago when I
was correct in my insistence that sun spot 1865 was going to blow a couple
of M Class flares within the next 24 hours (even though the so called
"experts" at NOAA disagreed) and exactly as I called it, we had three
MClass flar... more »
SCHOOLS AND 9 11
*Peer Pressure*
*Richard Dawkins* writes about the private school that he attended:
"At Oundle, the dominant motivation for doing anything was* peer
pressure*and the ethos of his peers was anti-intellectual, with an
antipathy to hard
work.
"There was too much adulation of the rugby team and too little prestige
attached to intelligence or scholarship."
*Stephen Hawking* found similar attitudes when he went to university.
http://www.ft.com/
Neither Dawkins nor Hawking have said that 9 11 was an inside-job.
*Richard Dawkins*
Imagine a group of 100 people.
5% are the sort of gan... more »
The Economy: “What a Wheeze!”
*“What a Wheeze!”*
by Bill Bonner
“Another dull day on Wall Street yesterday. Nothing much to report. So, let
us return to the exciting place we visited yesterday: the world, red in
tooth and claw, before historical records began. Ten thousand years B.C.
Twenty thousand. One hundred thousand. We continue our look at the
difference between civilization and barbarism. But before we begin, let’s
pause to gasp and wheeze.
That’s what happened to us when we read an op-ed piece in the New York
Times, proclaiming “Economics Is a Science.” The author, Raj Chetty, tells
us he is: "...... more »
This should be interesting
The BBC report that:
'Councils in England should publish annual parking-charge accounts if they
want to prove they are not being used as a "cash cow", MPs have said.
The Transport Committee warned it was "neither acceptable nor legal" to use
fines to increase revenue.
Councils made a surplus of hundreds of millions of pounds each year, it
added.
The MPs urged ministers to freeze charges, currently capped at £130 in
London and £70 outside. Councils said money raised went back into services.
Committee chairman, Labour MP Louise Ellman, said: "There is a deep-rooted
public perception... more »
Plebgate
I think that all you need to know can be encapsulated in these few lines
from this BBC report:
'On Monday, the three officers said they had not planned to mislead the
public.
...
However, in comments made after the meeting, one of the officers, Inspector
MacKaill, claimed the former chief whip would not provide an account of the
incident, and called for his resignation.
But Mr Mitchell had recorded the meeting, and a transcript showed that he
apologised for swearing at the police officers and had denied using the
word "plebs".'
An open and shut case? I'm sure the police officers... more »
Holohoaxsters preparing for "future without survivors"
A rather revealing article recently appeared in *The Times of Israel*,
offering us - once again - a unique insight into the twisted, depraved, and
totally warped worldview and agenda of the organized Jewish community and
their promotion of the fake "Holocaust" narrative of WWII. The fake
"Holocaust" story is a central aspect of Jewish identity and, due to the
Jewish ownership of the mass media, Hollywood, and government, has become a
central aspect of Western identity as well. This false historical narrative
has literally been weaponized and used against not only the German people,
... more »
New Refusal Movement Blossoms in New Mexico
New Mexico has one of the masters of Chiefs for Change, Hanna Skandera, in
the chief’s seat of their education department. They are under her thumb
and trapped under her policies, which she brought with her, straight outta
Florida and straight from Jeb. This week, Albuquerque BOE member Kathy
Korte organized and held a rally […]
The median voter changes his mind
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Danielle Adams Withdrawing From Her North Carolina Congressional Race, But...
Durham County Soil & Water District Supervisor Danielle Adams, a young and
promising YEO from North Carolina has decided to withdraw her candidacy for
Congress. This is bad news for progressives because it leaves the
Democratic nomination open to some hack garden variety Democrat with no
chance of winning the seat. However, it might not be bad news for North
Carolina because the reason Danielle withdrew was so she could contest a
suddenly opened state House seat.
"Nothing about the choice has been easy," she told me yesterday. "The
recent government shutdown illuminated to me that... more »
Updates On War In Syria: Braindead Political Opposition Declines Peace Talks, Kurds Warn Turkey, Prince Bandar Is At A Loss
*An excerpt from, "Syrian opposition resists calls to commit to peace
talks" by Arshad Mohammed and Peter Griffiths, Reuters, October 22:*
Syria's opposition in exile resisted calls from Western and Arab countries
on Tuesday to commit to attending peace talks, saying they would not take
part if there was any chance President Bashar al-Assad could cling to power.
Eleven countries meeting in London pressed the opposition National
Coalition to join talks to end a conflict that has killed over 100,000
people, but the group listed conditions and said it would decide in the
coming weeks ... more »
How About Some Rhee-lated Information from Tax Documents?
I have been reading tax forms. 990s– the form of the nonprofit organization
(no 1040s for them). It might sound boring, but I guess that all depends
upon whose tax forms they are. Two 990s are the subject of this post. The
first is the 2011 (August 2011 to July 2012) 990 for Michelle Rhee’s reform
lobbying […]
"Fukushima: No Words Can Adequately Describe The Scope Of This Global Catastrophe"*
* *
* "Fukushima: No Words Can Adequately Describe*
*The Scope Of This Global Catastrophe"**
By Susan Duclos
"Fukushima news, and it is all horrifyingly bad. Twin typhoons are
inbound, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says they cannot
decontaminate and massive leaks and overflowing radioactive water enters
the Pacific. All of the above are discussed in the videos below the article.
Rains from from a previous typhoon, Wipha, overwhelmed the Fukushima
nuclear plant in Japan, already crippled and struggling after the 2011
earthquake and tsunami that devastated the pl... more »
October 22, 1973
On Sunday, the president and his staff could still pretend that they were
going to win the battle with Cox; after all, even if some were squawking,
if they really had rid themselves of not only Cox and retained the tapes
but also disbanded the entire office of the Special Prosecutor, it would
probably be a win.
That's increasingly difficult by Monday, which happens to be a holiday
(Veterans Day -- it was on the last Monday of October from 1971 through
1977).
Robert Bork says that the Watergate case will move back to the Justice
Department, with Henry Peterson will resume what he h... more »
on the internet, everybody knows you're a dog (the story behind the iconic cartoon)
We all know the iconic cartoon the title of this post refers to. Boing Boinghas republished a story about it, originally run in
*The Magazine*, an ad-free, reader-supported magazine that looks really
interesting.
It's a wonderful little piece: the story behind the story, a glimpse into
the life of people who try to earn a living from their own considerable
talents, and a look back at the early days of the internet, and how things
have changed, before tinfoil-hat predictions were proven to be not
paranoia, but prescience.
Go here to read the story (really, it's fun), and here to see... more »
World Health Organization = Scum of The Earth
**
*The World Health Organization Has Discredited Itself. *
Read: *"How the World Health Organisation covered up Iraq's nuclear
nightmare:** Ex-UN, WHO officials reveal political interference to suppress
scientific evidence of postwar environmental health catastrophe"* (The
Guardian, October 13).
World Health Organization Covers Up Iraq War Crimes | Brainwash Update.
Source: BreakingTheSet. October 21.
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - BPA
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
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Fracking the Mi'kmaq: Guess who owns Southwestern Energy
Fracking the Mi'kmaq
Police assault on Mi'kmaq anti-fracking camp, Elsipogtog, New Brunswick Thursday
Guess whose investments are funding the fracking and responsible for the attack on Mi'kmaq -- tell them to divest!
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News Exclusive
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Dutch translation NAIS
Fracking the Mi'kmaq: Guess who are among the top owners of Southwestern
OBAMA CARE GLITCHES
*The Daily Show*
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The Obama corporate health care program is a mess. This situation appears
to be worsening by the day.
The complexity of trying to sort through zillions of insurance companies,
with confusing and competing policies, is enough to make the average
citizen go crazy.
We need a simple one-stop Medicare for all.
Reefer sanity . . .
A
Uruguayan man smokes cannabis duringa demonstration in Montevideo in
May.A senate vote to legalise the drugis expected in
November.Photograph: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images
Uruguay sets priceof legalised cannabis at $1 a gram
Uruguay sets price of legalised cannabis at $1 a gram, according to The
Guardian's article by Uki Goni, who reports that
Uruguay is set to become the first
If it's printed it's true
As a general rule people accept written text over oral communication.
To some degree this can be explained by the apparent permanence of written
text. The obvious vicissitudes to which the spoken word is subject - the
misheard word, the exaggeration of stories, the fabrication of a new
version of events - appear to be inapplicable to written text.
The veneration of written words is most clearly seen in the concept of a
Holy Book. Something written is seen as unchanging and a reflection of the
eternal. Put in a more mundane way, until recently at least, people
believed in newspaper... more »
Does the real future of the Washington Post lie with its basement full of problem-solving advice columnists?
*Are these some of those "classically tailored denim trousers," or are they
just, you know, jeans? Remember, lives could be changed by the answer. (But
whatever you do, don't talk to Mr. X.)*
*by Ken*
I sometimes do and sometimes don't take the time, while perusing the
washingtonpost.com "round-up"-type e-mails, to glance at the highlighted
items for the Style section's 15 or 20 advice columnists. Maybe I was just
more bored than usual today (or maybe, shall we say, more sensitive to
potential blogpost material), but *two* such items, enough so that I had to
actually read both. An... more »
Irish Austerity Exodus Continues
The Eurozone experiment in austerity continues to fail as the peripheral
countries endure ongoing cuts. Following up on my post of August 15, it's
time to look at the most recent Irish immigration data to update it through
April 2013 (Ireland records population data from May 1 to April 30) and see
how it affects the reported unemployment rate. The picture remains ugly,
with emigration climbing once again, from 87,100 in 2011-2012 to 89,000 in
2012-13. Immigration increased by 3200, so net emigration fell by 1300,
with net out-migration over the year declining by about 3% to 33,100. H... more »
Bank Of Israel elects Dr Karnit Flug as Governor of the Bank of Israel ( seemingly despite not so veiled opposition from Prime Minister Netanyahu ) - but only after Larry Summers said " Non " , Jacob Frenkel's candidacy was stopped out ( Frenkel currently is Chairman of JP Morgan Chase International ) based on an apparent integrity issue from the past and Bank Hapoalim Chief Economist Leo Leiderman said No " as well !
Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-20/israel-central-bank-follows-fed-first-woman-chairman-appointment-after-larry-summers
Israel Central Bank Follows Fed With First Woman Chairman Appointment After
Larry Summers' Rejection
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/20/2013 08:45 -0400
- Ben Bernanke
- Ben Bernanke
- Central Banks
- Federal Reserve
- Goldman Sachs
- goldman sachs
- Hong Kong
- International Monetary Fund
- Israel
- JPMorgan Chase
- Larry Summers
- New Normal
- Nomination
- None
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The Scum at the Top of the Private Prison Empire for the Young
An amazing piece of reporting by Chris Kirkham at HuffPo reveals a seedy
empire of corporate welfare bottom feeders preying on juvenile offenders. Find
Part One here with intro clip below, and at left is James Slattery, Chief
Executive Scumbag of the worst offender, Correctional Services Corporation.
From a glance at his background, one might assume that James F. Slattery
would have a difficult time convincing any state in America to entrust him
with the supervision of its lawbreaking youth.
Over the past quarter century, Slattery’s for-profit prison enterprises
have run afoul of t... more »
Moral Hazard Writ Large ..... Or why Europe first and now the US has reached a " Frozen State " where fundamentals are so yesteryear and all that matters is QE to infinity and the ECB / Fed / BOJ non stop manipulations to infinity to keep the bad things under the bed from going bump in the night.....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-22/picturing-biggest-scam-history-mankind
We know all scams come to an end at some point......
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and.....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-22/tuesday-humor-new-normal-fundamental-analysis
and...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-22/things-make-you-go-hmmm-moral-hazard
Home
Things That Make You Go Hmmm... Like Moral Hazard
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/22/2013 20:00 -0400
- Ben Bernanke
- Central Banks
- China
- Debt Ce... more »
Jake Ducey -- What if You Took the Risk?
*Jake Ducey -- What if You Took the Risk?*October 22, 2013
http://briankellysblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/jake-ducey-what-if-you-took-risk.html
Do you feel it too? That feeling that you know you must follow. But the
mind says not to do it. That it’s too risky. That it’s unsafe. That it’s
too crazy and different and nerve racking.
But what I believe is the most dangerous thing to do is to give up your
desires, your dreams, due to the fear of the unknown. It’s all a risk; to
stay where you are, or to take a leap, to be different or fit in.
Now is the time that we must step into tha... more »
Climate Change and Global Warming
Southern Man notes that the "Global Warming" crowd has dropped that
verbiage and instead adopted "Climate Change" as though the two terms meant
the same thing, to the point that (for example) The LA Times will no longer
print letters from "climate change deniers." This is, rather transparently,
a straw man argument: take someone who has legitimate doubts about the
science of global warming (disclaimer: Southern Man would be one of those,
for good solid scientific reasons) and accuse them of something entirely
different. So today there will be a brief lecture on climate change.
The ... more »
Terrance Nelson 'Wars will be fought over water' Elsipogtog Momentum
"Wars
will be fought over water"
"The Chief of Elsipogtog First Nation has asked for calm and a cooling
off period of 30 days. This is a mistake. In 30 days, Elsipogtog will
have lost the momentum. In 30 days, it will have lost the attention of
the world." -- Terrance Nelson
By Terrance Nelson
Anishinabe Roseau River First Nation
Censored News
Good Morning Brenda:
Twenty-three
EFN Asia 30: Conference 2013, Day 1
The EFN Asia 2013 Conference ended yesterday, another great event by the
biggest network of free market or at least independent think tanks and
academic scholars in Asia. This is my article yesterday at the new EFN
website.
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The two-day Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia conference has tackled many
subjects on its first day, October 21, 2013. The welcome remarks were given
by Dr. Pirom Kamolratanakul, President of Chulalongkorn University in
Thailand, and Mr. Ulrich Niemann, Director of the Division of
International Politics, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (F... more »
Mike Duffy Bombshell
The full Mike Duffy speech is below (audio). According to this speech,
there is a lot more to this story than initially revealed. The Prime
Minister, Nigel Wright, and Duffy met. It was the Prime Minister who said
the money had to be paid because of concerns about perception. This was
said in the presence of Mr. Wright.
Anonymous: Op FrackOff in Elsipogtog
OpFrackOff in Elsipogtog
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The international Hacktivists group Anonymous has
Longest Walk 4: Climb into the Rockies begins
Canon City, Colorado Oct. 22, 2013 Photo by Long Walker Bad Bear Sampson
Thanks to Western Shoshone Long Walker Bad Bear Samson for sharing photos with Censored News each day!
Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz
www.returntoalcatraz.com
Labour and the Uses of Left Populism
A confirmed ex-Trot your writer undoubtedly is, I have kept a soft spot for
jolly old left populism. Which is funny considering Britain's Trots have
only episodically had mass audiences for their wares. That is before
slipping back unremarked and little-remembered into obscurity. But populism
is easy enough to grasp. It's us-vs-themism, the innocent, much burdened
and suffering Great British public against the crooked arch-manipulators of
the political class. Such simplistic appeals have readily found audiences.
UKIP, for example, have been very good at portraying equal marriage and... more »
Stephen Harper .... The MOST CORRUPT Prime Minister In The History Of Canada!
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*Mike Duffy's address to the Senate*
*Via the Canadian Press, a transcript of Mike Duffy’s remarks to the Senate
this evening. Thank you, honourable senators. I want to speak in support of
this motion because I believe, after the excellent speech we heard from the
leader of the Opposition here in the Senate, that there are a lot of
questions that need answers. And while some might argue that having the
proceedings before a judge and under oath might be absolutely preferable,
given the size of the issue we’re dealing with, any move towards allowing
sena... more »
The Government Shutdown
The CEA analyzes its economic impact.
Was the Oct 7 quake off SC the missing nuke planned for Charleston?
BK Lim, FASEI et al (20131014)
This is explosive. There has been persistent rumours that some catastrophic
false flag event like this was going to happen.
Personnel who had sworn to secrecy are putting their lives on the line to
save thousands if not millions of innocent US civilians.
How and why?
Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told.
Blind Obedience is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.
Like tens of ROV operators involved in the BPGOD (BP Gulf Oil Disaster)
recovery efforts, OR thousands of soldiers caught up in the battle fields
of... more »
Lists, glorious lists!
*10 hanging offences in 19th century Britain*
Associating with gypsies
Setting fire to a haystack
Writing on Westminster Bridge
Impersonating a pensioner of Greenwich Hospital
Writing a threatening letter
Appearing on the highway with a sooty face
Damaging a fish pond
Cutting down a tree
Secreting notes in a post office
Stealing a spoon
*Alleged contraceptives *
*
*Crocodile dung pessaries
Tadpoles fried in quicksilver
Mashed pomegranate, rock salt and alum
Raw cabbage
Onion juice
Jumping backwards nine times
[Roobin's note: none of these actually work]
*Former occupations*
*
*Genghis K... more »
Did Alan Grayson Offend Some Racist Teabaggers? Awwwwwwww.... "If The Hood Fits, Wear It."
No racism here, right *Politico*?
No offense to the few other excellent Members of Congress, but Alan Grayson
is, far and away, the best Member. Somebody's got to be #1… it might as
well be the guy who represents DisneyWorld. The Beltway media types, the
Republican Party and some Establishment politicians-- I can only imagine
Steny Hoyer clutching his pearls right now-- are up in arms because Grayson
reminded his supporters that there is a profound comparison between the KKK
and the Tea Party. Grayson is hardly the first person to point this out. My
friend Joe Sudbay turned me on to ... more »
DEBATING US DRONE STRIKES ON THE BBC
US officials responsible for the secret CIA drone campaign against
suspected terrorists in Pakistan may have committed war crimes and should
stand trial, a report by a leading human rights group warns. Amnesty
International has highlighted the case of a grandmother who was killed
while she was picking vegetables and other incidents which could have
broken international laws designed to protect civilians.
See more *here *
Catch of the Day
Great post from Dan Hopkins about how a belief that "messaging" works gets
politicians into trouble.
What I've become interested in are the incentives for politicians to
believe the myth. There are a couple of things going on here, I think.
One is to recognize the distinction between candidates and candidacies and
the analogous distinction between elected officials and their full
operation, their offices (we don't really even have a proper word for that
one). Within those candidacies/offices, there are a number of people -- the
communications operation, probably polling, media, mayb... more »
@ASCD forgets some “facts” about #commoncore
Yesterday this PDF produced by the Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development (ASCD) was printed and I found it in my mailbox. I’m
not sure how it got there but my sense is that since I have been critical
of the Common Core’s mandated high stakes assessments someone was trying to
help me see that Common […]
CELL PHONE DANGERS ARE REAL
Insurers stop covering for cell phone use, called the next 'casualty
catastrophe' after tobacco and asbestos; phone manufacturers hit with a
class action and personal lawsuits; and the warning deep inside your mobile.
I am becoming more and more uncomfortable around cell phones. Sadly when I
travel I am far too reliant on Wifi. Our bodies are being fried.
As heard on Fox: Jill Lawrence fingers Rand Paul for misstatements!
*TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013*
*Also names Candidate Gore:* Where do conservative voters get their bogus
ideas?
The same place we liberals increasingly do—from trusted leaders! Also, from
a journalistic culture which is strongly inclined, at its upper end, to let
misstatements go.
In yesterday’s award-winning post, we noted the way Sean Hannity played
fast and loose with the truth concerning Obamacare. We learned about
Hannity’s conduct in a post at Salon, where it won’t have a giant effect.
When it comes to this sort of thing, the New York Times doesn’t much care.
Today, let’s cons... more »
The First Rule of 2016...
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)
...don't talk about 2013.
The beauty of doing mere commentary instead of actual hard news (and
by that I'm not talking about the Brangelina or Kim Kardashian's
well-hidden stretch marks) is you don't have to do a lot of hard research
and provide, as Frank Rich used to do at the *NY Times*, a surfeit of
corroborating links. And one of the beauties of having a liberal byline is
you can always take it as a rock-solid, absolutely immovable article of
faith that both political parties will do their damnedest to punch
thems... more »
Does Chinese literacy need to be "revived"?
*Sent to the Wall Street Journal, Oct 22
*
*As is the case in the US, China thinks that literacy is declining and that
part of the solution is a TV spelling bee in Chinese ("Chinese TV's Latest
Hit Features a Character-Driven Plot: Show Aimed at Reviving the Country's
Written Language Explodes."October 20).
*
*There is no evidence of a decline of literacy in China and no evidence of
a decline in the US. The fact that only 30% of the adults in the audience
of the TV show could spell spell "toad" correctly in Chinese characters
suggests that there has been no decline: even adult Chin... more »
Here Comes the "Special" Hype
The death last week of long-time Member of the House C.W. Bill Young last
week means we're going to get something that this Congress has managed to
put off so far: outrageous hype over a special election.
All House elections are important, and this Tampa-area one will be in one
of the relatively rare competitive seats. So it will be an important
election.
However, whenever it winds up being scheduled (with March 11 apparently the
best guess so far) it will tell us nothing about the November 2014
elections, other than perhaps indicating what will happen in that district.
It is not a... more »
SEX-MAD SATANIC CIA-SULTANATE
*Shannon Marketic - 'sex slave'*
Brunei means sex, sadism and the CIA.
Brunei to bring in tough new sharia law
In 1997, former Miss USA Shannon Marketic says that she, and other girls,
were held as 'sex slaves' by the royal family of Brunei, who claim to be
good Moslems.
Brunei small cunt..
Brunei serves "as a virtual cash cow for covert and overt U.S.
operations..."
Brunei has been involved in "covertly *supporting the Nicaraguan contras *during
the Reagan administration and *contributing to the CIA-linked Bosnia
Defense Fund i*n the 1990s, to *pumping tons of cash into Bill C... more »
Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Is Seen Complicating the Drive for Peace in Syria
Oh it isn't just 'al Qaeda' complicating the drive for peace. Pay
attention to what John Kerry is saying.
*By challenging moderate Syrian rebels,**(? phony narrative, there are no
moderates) *the group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has forced them
to fight on two fronts and divert resources from their battle with the
government of President Bashar al-Assad, the official said.
And by presenting an extremist face to the world, the official said, the
group is aiding Mr. Assad’s efforts to portray the conflict in Syria as a
tug of war between the government and jihadists.
*“... more »
Another Great Video – Why You Should NEVER Lecture from the Book’s Slides
My first semester teaching as a PhD’d professor was tough – I was
constantly struggling to stay on top of my research responsibilities and my
family responsibilities. Add in teaching 2 new preps – something had to
give! Well, I thought I found a solution – the textbook I was using for
Intro to IR had already-made
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The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Dr. Kevin
MacDonald. Dr. MacDonald and I will be discussing his book *The Culture of
Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in
Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements*, White identity and
the future of White America.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
Below are relevant links for this program:
- *Organized Jewry: destroyers of Western civilization* by John Friend
- *The Occid... more »
Happy Birthday!
To Southern Son, who inherited his mother's good looks and musical talents.
Happy Birthday Son!
Fall Break Day Three
And Day Three was the Drive Back Home. Which for some reason always seems
to take less time than the drive up, even though we were in no hurry and
made several stops to snack and geocache and generally goof around. Teen
Daughter was delivered to her mother at four-ish and Southern Man was back
at The Land by nine, having stopped in town to shop for Southern Son's
upcoming birthday. As in, tomorrow. Southern Man got him all six *Star Wars*movies on Blu-Ray; hope he likes them.
Tomorrow Southern Man will drop by the Ancestral Manor and drop off the
gifts, go to church, do laundry, and... more »
How Far Are Republicans In General-- And Fred Upton In Particular-- Willing To Go To Sabotage The Affordable Care Act?
Unlike Benghazi! and the rest of the nonsense Darrell Issa's Witch-Hunt
Committee "investigates," Boehner is eager to try to get some serious
attention focused on the flaws in the roll out of the Affordable Care Act. (Like
Medicare the rollout has been messy and, like Medicare, the Republicans
want to demagogue it instead of helping to make it better.) So he assigned
the investigation not to the clownish Oversight Committee chaired by Issa
but to Fred Upton's Energy and Commerce Committee. Here's the press release
the Republicans put out last Thursday:
The House Energy and Comme... more »
THINGS LEARNED
Maine is a beautiful state to walk through. Water, mountains, trees,
farms, poverty, and interesting people.
One of my favorite moments on the walk was along the narrow rural Highway 2
from Skowhegan to Farmington. (On this route truckers often blasted their
horns.) We approached a local mom & pop breakfast joint and three guys
were in the parking lot watching us pass by. I crossed the street and
handed them each our flyer. One of them asked how much it would cost to
get a hunting license to shoot down drones. I told them the story about
seeing a bumpersticker that said, "Pr... more »
Apples and Oranges
Nelson W. Polsby used to be very upset at the cliche about apples and
oranges: Of course you can compare them! They're both fruit!
Which is pretty much how I feel about liberal outrage about comparisons
between Healthcare.gov and Bush-era fiascos including Iraq and Katrina that
have been making the rounds this week -- here's Oliver Willis tweeting a graph
showing deaths from the three while saying "why you shouldnt compare
obamacare to katrina or iraq, in one chart. cc: all pundits"
Well, no, not really. And not just because, in fact, this is a
self-refusing argument; posting the gr... more »
Tuesday Linkage
Killer Robots: Wired reports on developments in autonomous weaponry,
quoting military personnel who say the idea is to think of them “not as
tools but as members of the squad.” Video gamers collaboratively solved a
decade-old puzzle about the complex structure of an enzyme relevant to
HIV-AIDS research, suggesting human spatial reasoning is superior to
algorithms: a
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*Vilma returns to practice for Saints ~WDSU*
*Step Back In The Window, Sir ~The Angry Who Dat*
*who dat brat ~hungry termite *
The Mismeasure of Education Recalls the Coleman Report in Explaining Today's Reform Errors
It has been a great year for education scholarship with masterpieces like
David Kirp’s *Improbable Scholars *and Diane Ravitch’s *Reign of Error*.
Jal Mehta’s *The Allure of Order *provides a timely review of a century of
failed top down reforms and, now, Jim Horn and Denise Wilburn offer an
equally timely and profound history of the failure of test-driven reform.
Horn’s and Wilburn’s The Mismeasure of Education is a must-read, a
scholarly tour de force comparable to Daniel Koretz’s *Measuring Up*. The
two aspects of Horn’s and Wilburn’s research that taught me the most were
their a... more »
Medicating ADHD in the Brave New World of High-Stakes Accountability
Medicating ADHD in the Brave New World of High-Stakes Accountability. via
Medicating ADHD in the Brave New World of High-Stakes Accountability.
Treading Water Underwater
That's the excellent metaphor used by Binyamin Applebaum of the *New York
Times* today in describing the most recent jobs report. We're
drowning while continuing to flail.
And as per usual, the experts proclaim themselves mildly surprised and
disappointed that we aren't bursting from the depths and performing a water
ballet. They're still a little bummed that austerity for the
masses and corporate welfare and quantitative easing for the plutocrats has
not caused a sonic boom in hiring. All they can come up with to describe
the destructive effects of the class war is that the situati... more »
The GOP's 10 Lesser Demands During the Government Shutdown
On October 16th, Congress passed an 11th hour bill allowing the
government to reopen and to raise the debt ceiling. During the 16 day
shutdown, the Republicans submitted what Rachel Maddow called a "long,
weird, ever-changing ransom note" to Congressional Democrats and the White
House that was consistently and categorically refused. Among the ransom
demands: Starting construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, delaying and
defunding the ACA and denying President Obama himself ObamaCare. But those
were merely the most visible demands submitted by a GOP desperate to save
face and ... more »
This Is Disturbing: "The (Pacific) Ocean Is Broken"!
Recently, I was asked to look at some articles that claim that the
Fukushima nuclear disaster was a "hoax". I indeed spent some time looking
over the material, and although it did some some very interesting points
and some factual evidence that backs the claim that there was no disaster
at Fukushima, Japan, I was not sold.... I have seen the reports and photos
of all the damage to the west coast of the United States and Canada, and of
course all the reports about marine life dying in the north Pacific due to
radiation exposure.... AND of course I have the reports about high
radiati... more »
Amazing Article By Lasha Darkmoon: Secret Sex Life Of The Jews
I and others in what I call the REAL truth movement have been putting up
articles for years explaining to everyone the dangers of Judaism and its
vile and disgusting practices of pedophilia as written in its revolting
Talmud. There are many passages in the disgusting Talmud that talks about
such things as "Sex with a child under the age of 3 is permissible", and
"Sex with someone under the age of 9 is nothing". It is remarkable that
people have not been aware of these and other writings in this piece of
filth, and that primarily is due to the work of the Jewish media in not
reve... more »
From Consolidation to "Decoupling" in Memphis, and the Costs of Corporate Reform
The Memphis Commercial Appeal has another no-news story today on questions
remaining about how much it will cost to operate nine school systems in
Shelby County, rather than one. Let's see, we have six leafy boutique
municipal systems, a Shelby County non-municipal system, the Achievement
School District downtown, a high-rolling hedge fund backed charter system
with KIPPs and Rocketships, and a local charter system run by black
politicians paid off for their support of the Gates fragmentation plan.
The CM article continues to focus on the millions missing when the munis
pull out en... more »
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*What we have heah, is a fail'ya'ta comoonicate, what Ah like'ta call
Congenital Insult with Extreme Prejudice! ~Editorial: Don’t ban Harper Lee*
*Full-time employees drop sharply even as Landrieu proposes first budget
increase ~Charles Maldonado, The Lens*
*Officials break ground on Iberville redevelopment ~Jaquetta White, N.O.
Advocate*
*New “nano” brewery sets sights on Lower Garden District ~Robert Morris,
Uptown Messenger*
*Robert Penn Warren ~KnowLA*
*Judge orders BP oil spill claims chief to set terms ~WWLTV *
*Corps to host meeting for update on Mississippi River study ~Dr... more »
Raising Minnesota: Ripley’s choice!
*TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013*
*The name that doesn’t bark:* Amanda Ripley’s ballyhooed book, The Smartest
Kids in the World, is simply filled with embellishments.
It also makes several basic proposals. These proposals seem to make pretty
good sense, especially if you only care about our middle-class kids.
For ourselves, we’ve been fascinated by the embellishments. They start on
page 2, where Ripley offers one of the most absurd misstatements in the
history of books.
But so what? Reviewers, including major education writers, know they
mustn’t notice such problems. As you can see in ... more »
MORE WALK PHOTOS
*Bangor area activists sing to us**Prayer time before dinner*
*Brother Kanaeda has an incredible voice and we loved his slavery-era blues
songs**Starr Gilmartin shared why she was walking*
*The ever lovable Br. Gilberto with Jules Orkin*
From our drone peace walk pot luck supper and program in Bangor, Maine on
October 12.
Photos taken by Katie Greenman.
Northern Taiwan Tour: Two Days of Fun-n-Sun!
*Corey Sanderson fortifies himself for the Suao Mackerel Festival*
Saturday and Sunday, courtesy of the fine folks at the China Productivity
Center, I took a great trip across northern Taiwan to Pingxi, Suao, and
Neiwan where a diverse and interesting group visited a variety of tourist
sites, including local museums and old streets, and participated in some of
the local activities, including the lantern in Pingxi, which I had never
done before. Come below the READ MORE divide for some great Taiwan fun with
people who really made it worthwhile.
We boarded a bus at the uncivilized ho... more »
Iraq Government Again Denies Permits To Anti-Pension Protests
In August and October 2013 thousands of Iraqis went to the streets across
the country to protest the pensions that government lawmakers receive. Some
were met by friendly officials and went about their business peacefully. In
other provinces like Baghdad and Dhi Qar the security forces cordoned off
the center of the cities, harassed, beat, arrested, and shot activists and
reporters. One cause of the confrontations was the fact that the
authorities have denied permits to organizers. Another day of marches is
planned for October 26, and again the central government has turned down a... more »
Signs of a changing planet - October Part I
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago
Link: http://youtu.be/Gys0tge5Fto
An (again) interesting compilation of visual facts about world climatic
events (and not from computer model garbage by so-called 'scientists'
swarming around corrupt and incompetent so-called 'professional
politicians' wasting our tax money). I think that modern means of
communication make us faster aware of the handful of dreadful weather (
associated) events that take place on Earth each month. Earlier we didn't
hear about it, weren't aware of it, or learned it weeks afterwards causing
a "who cares"-reaction. There are signs of change! There alway... more »
10 Reasons To Buy Your Food Locally
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Agriculture-Society/217990047058#!/pages/Agriculture-Society/217990047058
New Research on UI
The abstract of a recent NBER working paper (emphasis added):
We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the
effects of unemployment insurance policies on unemployment. Our estimates
imply that *most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the
Great Recession can be accounted for by the unprecedented extensions of
unemployment benefit eligibility*. In contrast to the existing recent
literature that mainly focused on estimating the effects of benefit
duration on job search and acceptance strategies of the unemployed -- the
micro effect -- we focus o... more »
How A Political Wave Builds And Turns Into A Tsunami
Did Ted Cruz's McCarthy-like agenda help build a wave for the Democrats?
The 2014 midterm elections are over a year away and there's plenty that
will happen between now and then. The Democrats need a net gain of 17 seats
to take back the majority. That means if worthless Blue Dogs and New Dems
from the Republican-wing of the Democratic Party-- say, as looks likely,
Jim Matheson (UT), Mike McIntyre (NC) and Ron Barber (AZ)-- can't be saved,
not even in a wave election and lose their seats, then the Democrats would
have to win not 17 but 20 to make up for the 3 losses. The new polling f... more »
The Greeks Had a Word For It
How do you spell heteros*edasticity? Economist Alfredo R. Paloyo surveys
the evidence and shows that the variant “heteroskedasticity” overtook its
rival, “heteroscedasticity”, several years ago. Oddly, “homoscedastic”,
“heteroscedastic”, and “homoscedasticity” continue to trump their
k-variants. (Clearly, I am in the copy-editing phase of revising a paper,
and this blog post must be part of the
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The threat of Islamophilia
Islamophobia is not a problem, Islamophilia is... Bill exposes government officials who lack the courage to speak out or stand against Islamic violence. Oil money buys a lot. *Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.*Related articles
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