Thursday, October 31, 2013

31 Oct - Blogs I'm Following

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Bacchus parade, New Orleans, the Sunday evenin...Bacchus parade, New Orleans, the Sunday evening before Mardi Gras Day. New Orleans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees honored on float. "Really, that's Drew Brees as King Bacchus" (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 minutes ago
Pumpkin fairy house via Old Moss Woman.

McHammered

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 27 minutes ago
Here's a suggestion to Adam Ozimek of *Forbes*: When trying to make your case, never quote a much better article by a much better columnist. Case in point: Ozzie's article entitled, "The Liberal War on Food Stamps." Obviously, this is a title that is designed to be provocative by going for the most ironic sentence and one wrenched 180 degrees from its polar opposite (that would be the truth). This pro-corporate fuckstick immediately goes for the jugular by writing, I can’t remember a more misguided attempt at attacking corporations than the move to frame food stamps as co... more »

Scary Stuff

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 53 minutes ago
If you're afraid of snakes, Science has found a visceral cause. There exists in our primate brains something called a pulvinar -- clusters of neurons specifically designed to make us fear the slithering legless reptiles. So I ask myself: do our brains also contain special neuronal pockets making us fear spiders, bears and sabre-tooth tigers? And before Homo sapiens goes entirely extinct, will evolution go into speed-dial emergency survival mode and gift us with a special place in our cerebral cortices which enable us to spot a slimy politician from a mile away? While you're ponder... more »

Oy, Fournier

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 59 minutes ago
This is what happens when the two parties ruling Washington lose touch with America and pander to their crazy-extreme bases: President Obama's competency and personality ratings are nose-diving, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll; barely a sliver of the public thinks highly of the Republican Party; and two-thirds of Americans want to replace their own member of Congress. This is what happens when a reporter is obsessed with insisting that the two parties are mirror images of each other: he manages to miss what may be a real story because he's so intent on serving up... more »

Mayor Rob Ford

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 59 minutes ago
What has Ford ever accomplished? He sat on council a job that one could allege he inherited. Think what you will of John Tory, I like what he offers in general. So how do you digest that John Tory had to seek permission from Rob Fords mother to run for Mayor? Just think about that in Game of Thrones perspective. GWB became president of the united states under much the same circumstance. Rob Ford was the worst candidate possible to do the dirty work of pushing back against the left and making the city accountable. So why was he run? Do you not feel like fools that the powers that be ... more »

Chile: Vicuña Object "Just a Solar Panel"? Debate is Ongoing

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 hour ago
*Source: El Observatodo Date: 10.30.2013* *Chile: Debate Over Fallen Object is Ongoing* *By The El Observatodo Team* Many in Vicuña claim to have seen it, but El Observatodo reached the site of the alleged crash shown in eyewitness photos. This is what we found. In Vicuña, out of 10 persons interviewed, 8 had heard about the alleged UFO and 5 claimed to have seen it. The photos circulating in the social networks are proliferating all over the web, so the only way to find out for sure was to organize an outing to the crash site itself. So we headed to the hill located in the Los Pimie... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 hour ago
*Rex Ryan praises brother Rob, Drew Brees ~Mike Triplett* *Who is Kenny Stills? ~Bradley Warshauer, Gambit* *IG: NOPD downgraded French Quarter thefts ~New Orleans Advocate* *Charges mount against high school coaching staff ~WDSU* *2013 Anba Dlo Symposium Initiates Public Dialogue ~Thomas Walsh, WWNO* *New ammo maker, Atlantic Marksmen, to open in Gulfport in early 2014 ~Lisa Monti, MBJ* *Voodoo Preview: The Breton Sound Balance the Equation ~My Spilt Milk*

TFA's PR Machine Lights It Up in Memphis with Front Page Stories of "Enchantment" and "Allure"

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 hour ago
CorpEd bought Memphis City Schools with a 90 million dollar Gates Foundation grant in late 2009, and early in 2010 the TN Department of Education was gobbled up by a $501 million bribe from the Gates controlled US Dept. of Education's RTTT. Thus began the slashing and burning of Memphis public schools in favor of corporate charters and the "surplussing," "excessing," and firing of teachers in favor of Teach for America's post-adolescent-and-white-privileged corporate missionaries. On Monday CorpEd's dependable lackey reporter at the Commercial Appeal, Michael Kelley, did a glowing... more »

In Spite Of Ongoing Interviews And Investigation Of Duffy / Wright, RCMP Had NO Knowlege of $13,560 Cheque From Conservative Party Until Duffy's Senate Speech ..

leftdog at Buckdog - 1 hour ago
** *None of them .. Harper, Wright, Novak, Hamilton, LeBreton, Tkachuk, etc etc etc, are being forthright or honest about the facts and sequence of events in the Senate Scandal:* *PARLIAMENT HILL—An RCMP account of a lengthy police interview last June with two lawyers answering for Nigel Wright over the controversial $90,000 cheque he gave to embattled Senator Mike Duffy contains no reference to a separate $13,560 cheque that Mr. Wright also arranged to pay Sen. Duffy’s legal costs with Conservative Party money.* *** Despite the storm that erupted in Parliament this week over Sen.... more »

Do You Think Multimillionaire Congressmen Care If You And Your Family Drown?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
Chris Hayes did something remarkable Tuesday evening. He talked about how climate change relates to income inequality in America. Take a look at the short clip above. "Here's what I've learned," he reported. "The people at the bottom of the social pyramid, the poor, those without assets, or no assets other than their home, with debts piled up and low-wage jobs; those people who are struggling to just hang on by their fingernails to something that looks like a middle class existence… Those people, when the waters come in from the storms, those people are the first ones dragged out ... more »

MALALA, MATTHEWS AND MADDOW: Hopelessly devoted to being against!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago
*THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013* *Part 3—Phrenology’s return:* Who will Malala Yousafzai turn out to be? We can’t tell you that. We were so pleased when we watched the tape of her U.N. address that we seem to have misheard one part of what she said. We were thrilled to hear this very unusual person make this declaration, emphasis hers: “Dear brothers and sisters! I am not *against* anyone.” We were thrilled by that declaration. We were so thrilled that, a bit later one, we thought we heard her say this: MALALA, AS HEARD: We call upon all the communities to be tolerant—*to reject preju... more »

"I'll Bet..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago

"The Point..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
"What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!" - Douglas Adams, “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide”

Satire “G.O.P. Unveils Own Health-Care Web Site, EmergencyRoom.gov”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
* “G.O.P. Unveils Own Health-Care Web Site,* * EmergencyRoom.gov”* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “Saying that “the American people are fed up with a disastrous Web site that doesn’t work and never will,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) and a phalanx of congressional Republicans today unveiled their own health-care Web site, EmergencyRoom.gov. “At EmergencyRoom.gov, every American can access the one tried-and-true health-care system that has worked in this country for decades,” he said. While Healthcare.gov has frustrated many users with its ... more »

lifetime

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 2 hours ago

Let's hold off on Rob Ford just now

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago
Yes the documents seem to show a relationship with Lisi and some exchange of something. And that could be drugs. But it also could be a paperback novel. Being caught on police surveillance is not pleasant but it does not always mean wrongdoing.

Happy Hallowe'en

Paul Coker at News Spike - 2 hours ago

Smallest Bikini pics

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 2 hours ago
Seed Newsvine

The correct way to deal with trick or treaters on Halloween

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours ago
The correct way to deal with trick or treaters - Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie style. Useful advice today, I'm sure you'll agree!

It Will Be All About Integrity

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 2 hours ago
Stephen Harper came to power howling about the lack of Liberal integrity. And the irony is that integrity will be Harper's undoing. Michael Harris writes: Integrity is the great leveller — and that is bad news for Stephen Harper. It is the fatal deficit of all powermongers. The Harper government’s clothesline is sagging under the weight of dirty laundry. The man who posed as a scourge against corruption has come to personify it. Consider the record: Outcast former MP Bill Casey tells me that the PM changed the wording of the Atlantic Accord, cheating Maritimers out of the agreed... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia. Thanks for stopping by.

"Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
* * *"Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race"* by Paul Craig Roberts "To inform people is hard slugging. Everything is lined up against the public being informed, or the policymakers for that matter. News is contaminated by its service to special interests and hidden agendas. Many scientists or their employers are dependent on federal money. Even psychologists and anthropologists were roped into the government’s torture and occupation programs. Economists tell lies for corporations and Wall Street. Plant and soil scientists tell lies for agribusiness and Monsanto. Tr... more »

"The Plague..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works sec... more »

“Bottom Line: The NSA Lied (Again) To Congress”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
* * *“Bottom Line: The NSA Lied (Again) To Congress”* by Karl Denninger “That's the bottom line folks- they lied, repeatedly and intentionally. “The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not ke... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Mike Napoli, 32. Better than Vernon Wells! Better than Frank Francisco! And congrats to the Red Sox...I'll miss having the Giants as World Series Champions, though. But it was fun while it lasted (again). Before the good stuff, one other note: Thank you, everyone -- record traffic month at Plain Blog! 1. Norm Ornstein on the right to vote. 2. Meanwhile, Arizona will be voting on voting, as Reid Wilson reports. 3. John Sides passes along some new research on the effect of the Fox News original rollout. I'd be very careful about extrapolating too far from this...but... more »

7 Health Benefits To Eating Fermented Food by Tricia Drevets

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours ago
7 Health Benefits To Eating Fermented Food by Tricia Drevets Off The Grid News, 29 October 2013 Most of us eat fermented foods without even knowing it. Condiments you use such as ketchup and soy sauce, the sauerkraut or pickles you might add to a sandwich, the yogurt you eat for breakfast, and the beets you toss in your salad are all examples of fermented foods. Fermentation is nothing new. In fact, people all over the world have been preserving their foods by fermentation for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found evidence of fermented foods and drinks in Babylon (5000 ... more »

WHAT I WANT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 3 hours ago
Bring Our War *$$$$ *Home now......

In Spite Of Ongoing Interviews And Investigation Of Duffy / Wright, RCMP Had NO Knowlege of $13,560 Cheque From Conservative Party Until Duffy's Senate Speech ..

leftdog at Buckdog - 4 hours ago
** *None of them .. Harper, Wright, Hamilton, LeBreton, Tkachuk, etc etc etc, are being forthright or honest about the facts and sequence of events in the Senate Scandal:* *PARLIAMENT HILL—An RCMP account of a lengthy police interview last June with two lawyers answering for Nigel Wright over the controversial $90,000 cheque he gave to embattled Senator Mike Duffy contains no reference to a separate $13,560 cheque that Mr. Wright also arranged to pay Sen. Duffy’s legal costs with Conservative Party money.* *** Despite the storm that erupted in Parliament this week over Sen. Duffy... more »

Syrian Army Base rocked again - Israel implicated .... Israel and Saudis ( both mad at the US non decision to bomb Syria and US preparing to reach accord with Iran ) still haven't let Syria and Iran off the hook .....Meanwhile the US is seen as moving toward its pax middle east in spite of the demands of US Congressmen , Israel and Saudi led GCC voices for War !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-31/syrian-army-missle-base-rocked-again-overnight-explosions-israel-implicated Syrian Army Base Rocked Again By Overnight Explosions, Israel Implicated [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/31/2013 08:03 -0400 - Iran - Israel - Newspaper inShare The last time major explosions were reported near Damascus, it was in May when Israel and its air force did everything in their power to provoke the Assad regime to escalate military operations both domestically and abroad. It almost succeeded when three month... more »

Ward Chapel and Haitian Hearts/Peoria

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 4 hours ago
Ward Chapel and Haitian Hearts/Peoria http://t.co/fL4sLYoiWY — John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) October 31, 2013

Mathew LeTissier a genius with a football and also with numbers

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours ago
On a football pitch... Against Peter Schmeichel... And beating Rachel Reilly on the Countdown numbers game

This could be interesting...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours ago
The BBC report that: 'A list of "shell" companies where firms keep money offshore will be published to discourage tax evasion, David Cameron will announce later. Ministers had already announced the register, intended to lift the "cloak of secrecy" around company ownership. But the prime minister will say making the register public will make it easier for firms and developing countries to know who they are doing business with. Labour, anti-corruption campaigners and charities welcomed the move. Speaking at the Open Government Partnership summit in London later, Mr Cameron will say ... more »

How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds and Happy Halloween

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 4 hours ago
I am so excited that Halloween is finally here. It is my daughter's favorite holiday and I look forward to all of our yearly traditions. Halloween means chili, bread bowls, trick-or-treating, lots of candy, watching scary movies and most of all pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin seeds are a random weakness of mine. Every year my mom would the seeds for our whole line of pumpkins and I would eat them all. I love them and I especially love when they are home roasted. We would carve pumpkins before Trick-Or-Treating and I would go out, knowing my favorite Halloween treat was going be waiting f... more »

Benghazi: Arnold Lewis Raphel - The US Ambassador Killed in an ElectionYear by George H.W. Bush

Paul Coker at News Spike - 4 hours ago
*Failure of Basic Fact-Checking:* * * ** ** * * *I quote The Enemy:* * * *"Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA operations ever undertaken;funding began with $20–30 million per year in 1980 and rose to $630 million per year in 1987.* * * *Funding continued after 1989 as the Mujahideen battled the forces of Mohammad Najibullah's PDPA during the Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–1992).* * * *The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups that were favored by neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological Afghan resistance... more »

Stock markets and random walks

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 hours ago
I was surprised how widespread the misunderstanding of Eugene Fama's observations about the economy was. Fama explained that the QE program is just about buying one type of bonds for others so its effect is similar to removing $100 bills from the circulation and replacing them with a 10 times greater number of $10 bills: the effect is pretty much non-existent. See also my polemics with the Pig. Critics of these insights seem to be grouped into two not quite disjoint sets – those who believe that the Feds' permutation games are extremely helpful for reviving the economy and those w... more »

So this is how it ends(?)

Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago
With the Edmonton Sun calling for Harper's resignation because his lies are too much - even for them. As Harper said of Paul Martin over the sponsorship scandal, either he knew and was guilty or did not and was incompetent. But Harper also lies constantly, including telling the House on Tuesday it was “regular practice” to cover legal expenses, like Duffy’s, while calling Duffy’s actions “

Global warming Wine

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 6 hours ago
Demand is up, capacity is diminishing. Canada may be one of the few places in the world that can support a wine industry.

MADELEINE McCANN - A PATSY EMERGES

Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago
A man, who had been sacked by the owners of the holiday complex where Madeleine McCann was staying, 'has been identified as the main suspect' in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The man died in a tractor accident in 2009. http://www.dailymail. "Sounds to me as though he is being made a 'patsy' and as he's dead no one can corroborate his side of the story." http://www.dailymail. A portuguese newspaper, Correio da Manha, reports that the 40-year-old, who had once worked at the Ocean Club resort, might have snatched Maddie in revenge after being sacked. 'Police identified th... more »

William H. Sullivan - Last US Ambassador (NarcoBaron) to Iran Dies

Paul Coker at News Spike - 7 hours ago
*NOTE: There was NO US Ambassador to Iran when the US Embassy was seized in November 1979.* * * *President Carter FIRED William Sullivan in March 1979 for "Serial Insubordination".* * * *His Immediate Predecessor in-post was Former Director of Central Intelligence Mr. Richard Helms; who puppet-mastered The Year of Watergate from Tehran.* * * *Both were in the Heroin Trade in Laos and Iran up to their necks.* William H. Sullivan, a career diplomat who spent much of the 1960s and 1970s in volatile parts of the world — notably Laos, where he oversaw a secret bombing campaign, and Ir... more »

Why a democratic UK is doomed along with the rest of Western civilisation

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours ago
'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.' The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history ... more »

Gordon Brown 'an ex-politician' - apart from taking an MP's salary of course

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
My distaste for Gordon 'broken moral compass' Brown is on record, so this recent admission of his does not surprise me in the slightest.

the last video Ted L Gunderson made before he was murdered with ARSENIC

Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 8 hours ago
hey, don't look at me, that's what the Conspiracy Nut Grid (a part of which is intimately linked/driven by the Covert Intelligence Agency in cellularised form, via shill agents and patsies of corporate war fog) is saying about the death of infamous ex-FBI whistleblower Ted L Gunderson, already featured on Free Planet. *Ted L Gunderson, former head of FBI in Los Angeles, Memphis, and Dallas, was poisoned with arsenic says Dr Ed Lucidi who saw Ted’s body before and after passed away. Dr. Ed treated Mr Gunderson, who suffered bladder cancer and died as a result of its spread. Reportedl... more »

Happy Halloween 2013

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago
http://www.creativegreenliving.com/2013/10/10-gmo-free-trick-or-treat-options.html

The Winter of Our Dys-CONS Tent

noreply@blogger.com (Niles) at DAMMIT JANET! - 9 hours ago
Ah, the five dimensional chess game of our uber-logistician Prime Minister. It's all clear to me now. His geeeeenius plan to destroy the Senate of Canada was cunning as a weasel tied to the underbelly of the diving chickenhawk taunting the eagle as it startled the bear out of the tree. Sabotage the sober second thought lounge by handpicking loyalists to populate its greenery, convince them they could do no wrong, (pay no attention to the little man behind the heavy velvet curtains muttering darkly about legality) and lead them down the Hill Garden Path where His PMinence would leave... more »

Mi'kmaq Warriors denied all rights in jail, one beaten

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours ago
Article by Brenda Norrell Censored News Nineteen-year-old David Mazerolle of the Mi'kmaq Warrior Society describes how Mi'kmaqs were denied all their rights in jail and placed in solitary confinement after police brutally attacked the anti-oil and gas drilling camp in Elsipogtog, New Brunswick. "I was one of the six that got left in there," David said of the Moncton jail. "They left us in

GHOSTS

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
*Portrait of Prince Arthur, 1854, by Roger Fenton. The Royal Photographic Society Collection, National Media Museum.* * *Above is a portrait of one of Queen Victoria's children, Prince Arthur, taken by Roger Fenton in 1854. At the side of the young prince can be seen the ghost-like figure of his nurse. She moved into the frame part way through the exposure. G is for ghosts *The Ram Inn and owner Caroline Humphries.* The* Ram Inn* is said to have 20 ghosts. This bed-and-breakfast cottage was built in 1145, on a site where child sacrifice and devil worship are reported to have tak... more »

Life in Pakistan

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
'... teenage girl dug herself out of shallow grave after she was raped by two men and buried alive.The 13-year-old was snatched while walking to Koran lessons from her local village in Punjab and raped by the men in an isolated area.Her attackers then buried her alive when they thought that she had died during the assault. ' More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478945/Girl-13-digs-shallow-grave-raped-buried-alive-men-Pakistan.htmlbut not on the pro Pakistan BBC

BRENDAN HUNT ON SANDY HOOK, CHILD ABUSE, INDIA, LES VISIBLE

Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
*Children's rapes: The end of silence ? Paedophilia and Child Sacrifice - United Nations of Film* * * *Models display Muslim themed outfits at Jakarta Fashion Week.*. nydailynews.com/ *It Is Time We Discussed Les Visible* * **Mass Poverty and Social Inequality in India: The Devastating Impacts of the Neoliberal Economic Development Model - *Center for Research on Globalization *In Indonesia, which has a huge AIDS epidemic, 15-year-old caught after escorting three other teens to meet clients at hotel*

Fiat LUX

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours ago
*Guest blog by Dr Adam Falkowski, Orsay, France* A new episode of the dark matter detection saga was just broadcast live from Sanford Lab. LUX is a new direct detection experiment located in a South Dakota mine, not far from Mt Rushmore. Today they presented their results based on the first 3 months of data taking. LUX is very similar to its direct competitor Xenon100. They both use a dual-phase xenon target, and a combination of scintillation and ionization photons to detect the collision of dark matter particles on nuclei, estimate the recoil energy, and separate dark-matter-li... more »

Hopi and Dine' to Peabody Coal 'Halt theft of burial places'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Hopi and Dine' tell Peabody Coal that the era of misery and exploitation ends now By Brenda Norrell Censored News Photo by Indigenous Action Media FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- When Peabody Coal seized the land at Black Mesa for the dirty coal industry -- with the aid of corrupt attorneys, Arizona Congressmen, tribal politicians and the media -- Peabody Coal robbed the burial places and looted the

Thursday Morning Linkage

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 12 hours ago
Aside from major sporting events, there have been a few items of import in the news. Health A new polio outbreak in Syria is endangering the drive for global eradication Climate Change A 2012 story that I missed, a drive to replace dirty cook stoves in India using experimental methods failed India not keen on Continue reading

Simply the Best

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours ago

Guest Post From Paul Clements, The Progressive Democrat Opposing Fred Upton In Western Michigan

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
Fred Upton's "monkey court" Today Congressman Fred Upton grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sabelius over the error-plagued launch of HealthCare.gov, the federal government’s enrollment website for mandatory health insurance. Would that he were so assiduous in his support for Americans’ access to high quality, affordable health care! This is the same Upton who voted 40 times to defund the Affordable Care Act. The same one who required healthcare navigators to fill out arduously voluminous paperwork before they could help people figure out how to get new health insu... more »

Storm Update + Turning Colder & More Violent Storms/Hurricane Strength To Come + November Snow

rss2009 at Global Cooling & New Ice Age UK - 12 hours ago
Another period of very stormy weather and potentially damaging winds is now likely to develop throughout Friday and the weekend across many parts of the country, as areas of intense low pressure push in from the Atlantic (As suggested in the Sunday update @ *http://youtu.be/BZHSAQC5K_4*). The stormy conditions are also likely to become and feel more widespread in scale and distribution, than the more recent St. Jude storm that we have just experienced. Further gusts and severe gales in excess of 60-80 mph are also a possibility, especially in some exposed coastal areas. This perio... more »

Gold and Silver news and views - October 30 , 2013 - Gata items including Andrew McQuire's response to the Jeff Christian attack on his credentials ....CitiGroup and JP Morgan put senior currency dealers on leave , no silver or gold dealers put on leave......Did Jeff Christian inadvertently disclose manipulation of silver ( would also apply to gold ) - Bix Weir says " YES " and writes to the useless CFTC to wake up and address HFT and computer algo programs manipulations .... and just look at the deathly silence at CME for gold - is there any physical gold left and not just paper there ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
Gata...... Citigroup, JPMorgan said to put senior currency dealers on leave Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-10-30 23:20. Section: Daily Dispatches By Gavin Finch, Liam Vaughan, and Ambereen Choudhury Bloomberg News Thursday, October 31, 2013 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-30/citigroup-jpmorgan-said-to-put-... Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are putting their top London currency dealers on leave after regulators probing the manipulation of foreign-exchange rates started investigating the traders’ use of an instant-message group, three people with knowledge of the moves... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago
*Rob Ryan helps Saints find inner animal ~Mike Triplett, ESPN.com*

First Up-Close Glimpses of Neptune and Triton

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 13 hours ago
This video is now about a moment in history:

How to Naturally Remove Radioactive Particles from Your Body in 5-7 Hours

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 14 hours ago
*Wake Up World* Information From A Different Perspective [image: nuclear-power-plant]28th October 2013 By Gavin Bragg Guest Writer for Wake Up World Fukushima may soon become the greatest environmental disaster site the world has ever seen. If the more than 1300 fuel rods from the badly damaged reactor 4 fuel pool, that is perched 100 feet in the air, are not brought to the ground with absolute precision it could spew out the radiation equivalent of more than 15,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs. The pool rests on a badly damaged building that could easily come down in the next earthquake, ... more »

The Depravity of the SWP

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 14 hours ago
Depravity is a strong word, but what else can describe the the latest batch of revelations regarding the SWP/Delta alleged rape case? Going through the document one is confronted with the complete indifference, the arrogance, and the bullying the alleged victim, 'Comrade W', and her supporters faced. There are many unpleasantries, but for me the below set of incidences struck me as especially appalling: In her district she was simply ignored as if she ceased to exist. When she did see members and tried to talk to them, her experience was one of abuse and bullying. Geoff D informed ... more »

Different Planets

Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 14 hours ago
There's this one : "Jane Doe" and her G/Fs Then there's the one the Religious Right lives on: Do you ever feel like you’ve just landed on a different planet? I do when I learn about situations like the following. Several girls at a school in Colorado are finding out just exactly what is involved in transgender rights. An older boy has been entering the girls’ restroom at Florence High School in Florence, Colorado, claiming he’s a female and then he’s apparently been harassing some of the actual, biological girls. But when the girls’ families contacted the school, did this legitimat... more »

On #edreform celebrity.

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
I can name more persons affiliated with education and the reform movement than I care to. Authors are our rock stars it seems. I found myself on whatever path I am on because of some unique circumstances, but above all that I’m an educator. I speak out because I’m oftentimes a stubborn person with a […]

"Ted Cruz resembles the Bill Murray of a quarter-century ago, when he played fishy, mock-sincere fakers" (David Denby)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
*Plus: Worst spam of the day* *"When Ted Cruz lies, he appears to be praying. His lips narrow, almost disappearing into his face, and his eyebrows shift abruptly, rising like a drawbridge on his forehead into matching acute angles. He attains an appearance of supplication, an earnest desire that men and women need to listen, as God surely listens."* *-- the opening of David Denby's newyorker.com blogpost today,* "Ted Cruz: The Mask of Sincerity" *by Ken* I keep wanting to get to "Big Dick" Cheney's apparently unexplodable heart, but stuff keeps coming up. Yesterday it was breaking... more »

One dares to call them liars

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 15 hours ago
News you won't see from the Clickbait Corps. BigMedia fears to tread where Brian Beutler dares to go with “Rate shock”: The GOP’s shameful new Obamacare lie. This in particular. Some people who receive these notices will be pleasantly surprised to find that the most similar new plan offered by their current provider is actually cheaper than their old one. Others will be told that a similar plan will cost more. What they won’t be told, because insurers don’t want to downsell or advertise for their competitors, is that they’re likely to find a different plan available through their s... more »

Former Prime Minister Joe Clark Says Stephen Harper Needs To Tell The Truth!!!

leftdog at Buckdog - 16 hours ago
*Former prime minister Joe Clark says current PM Stephen Harper needs to "bring people into the facts" and tell the real story about what went on with Senator Mike Duffy and Nigel Wright, the PM's former chief of staff.* * **Clark has written a new book — titled How We Lead — about Canada's foreign policy, and our country's global standing. The book is quite critical about Harper's approach to international affairs. CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge interviewed Clark on Wednesday about leadership, not only on foreign affairs, but also on management, including how he sees th... more »

#optout in Wisconsin

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE - 16 hours ago
It’s official. We are now Wisconsin opt outers! Dear Principal: Michelle and I are requesting that Lacey not participate in state standardized testing during the current school year. Furthermore, we ask that no record of this testing be part of Lacey’s permanent file, as we do not wish for Lacey to participate in standardized achievement […]

in which i survive three days without internet, or how rogers (maybe) punishes former customers

laura k at wmtc - 16 hours ago
Sometime late on Thursday night into Friday morning, our internet went down. This is the worst possible time for such an event, as internet is our lifeline to baseball, and the Boston Red Sox are on their way (I hope) (I believe) to winning the World Series. From the sound of things, there were problems at some major internet hubs in the area, with massive outages affecting parts of Mississauga, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Hamilton, and so on. What was the problem? When could we expect service to resume? TekSavvy wasn't able to tell me... because Rogers wouldn't tell them. I have... more »

"Obama, NSA Spying and the Dangers of Secretive, Authoritarian Government"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
*"Obama, NSA Spying and the Dangers of * *Secretive, Authoritarian Government"* By John W. Whitehead “The perception here is of a United States where security has trumped liberty, intelligence agencies run amok (vacuuming up data of friend and foe alike), and the once-admired “checks and balances” built into American governance and studied by European schoolchildren have become, at best, secret reviews of secret activities where opposing arguments get no hearing.” – New York Times columnist Roger Cohen Recent reports indicating that President Obama was aware of and personally ... more »

Videos and photos: Peabody Coal's theft from Black Mesa burial sites

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
Hopi Vernon Masayesva speaking at Cultural Review. TODAY! (Above) VIDEO Bahe of Big Mountain speaks about the attempt of Peabody Coal and the Bureau of Reclamation to have a secret meeting. Bahe speaks of the need for the traditional way of living and sustainable living. ........................... Today (above) Norman Benally speaking. Peabody Coal representatives

Icke/Brand

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
Icke/Brand from Spike1138 on Vimeo. *"George Bush [Sr.] is a notorious paedophile."* This is true: Conspiracy Of Silence: The Franklin Cover-Up from Spike1138 on Vimeo. In late 2003, Troy Boner walked into a hospital in New Mexico screaming, *"they're after me, they're after me because of this book."* The book Troy was waving was this book, The Franklin Cover-Up. Boner was "... mildly sedated and calmed down ... and put in a private room for 'observation.'" When nurses came to check on him early next morning, Boner was sitting in a chair, bleeding from the mouth and quite ... more »

War Watch October 27 , 2013 - NSA spying on the world updates ..... Iraq death dealing update ..... Syria war and chemical weapon destruction watch ..... Afghanistan watch !

Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Obama caught lying regarding US spying on German Prime Minister Merkel and every other leader, promises it will play nice.... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-28/white-house-stop-spying-allies-dianne-feinstein-promises White House To Stop Spying on Allies, Dianne Feinstein Promises [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/28/2013 18:43 -0400 - Germany - national security - New Normal - None - President Obama - SPY - White House inShare Continuing to play Obama like a fiddle, the Snowden revelations have done more to c... more »

Even more space filling

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 17 hours ago
Until the political urge takes me again... and this time about actual space! Kepler-78b is just like like Earth, only 2,000 degrees hotter. The ongoing crisis in American government finances is putting future missions at risk. All missions are difficult to maintain, not least planet hunting ones. The first 1,000 extra solar planets have been discovered. It's not guaranteed that figure will reach 2,000. Dark matter, which has been inferred throughout the known universe has yet to be captured, and there are very well designed experiments run by very clever people that have been going... more »

Helen Thomas: LBJ and Obama Both Took Insults From Israel in Election Years

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
The venerable White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who died in July, was Mark Mondalek’s grandmother’s cousin. He says his interviews in 2011-2012 with Thomas, an Arab-American who resigned under pressure in 2010 because of comments she made about Israeli Jews, were the last she ever gave. At Middle East Monitor. Some excerpts, focusing on the Israeli influence in American politics, LBJ’s ignoring the USS Liberty attack in an election year, Obama’s taking insults from Netanyahu, Israel trying to get us into an Iran war, etc. Re my headline, I’d note that no foreign country can s... more »

Mohawk John Kane 'Two Row Time'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours ago
Two Row Time By John Kane, Mohawk Censored News Much has been made of the Two Row Wampum lately. The “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” and the launch of the “Two Row Times” are just two examples of the recent attention being given to it. Yet there seems to be something fundamentally missing from a meaningful conversation on the subject even as attention has spread. Let’s be clear. The

Eike Batista's OGX files for bankruptcy in Brazil today - and with the filing , the overall status of the EBX Group is reduced to assets far below in value of the amount of debt on the books !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-30/batistas-ogx-files-bankruptcy-largest-ever-latin-american-history Batista's OGX Files Bankruptcy: Largest Ever In Latin American History [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/30/2013 15:02 -0400 - default inShare2 In line with what we discussed last night, once cajillionaire Eike Batista's net wealth has now collapsed to less than -$746.5 Million according to Bloomberg as Veja notes, his "take over the world" company OGX has declared bankruptcy following the breakdown of restructuring talks with bondholders... more »

Pub culture is over?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours ago
This morning, I ask you to address one of the most important issues facing the world. To whit: “Pub culture is over. Five blokes talking rubbish over a pint died with the smoking ban.” Discuss. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

The first time the Cardinals invaded Fenway!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 18 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013* *We take our revenge on Harry The Cat/A visit from Bud and Lou:* This year marks the fourth time the St. Louis Cardinals have traveled to Fenway for the World Series. The first time was 1946, when the Cardinals went to Boston for games 3-5. Years later, David Kruh wrote a book about Boston’s entertainment district, the old Scollay Square, which is of course long gone. What happened when the Cardinals hit town that year? In his fascinating book, Kruh reprinted someone's reminiscence about an event which transpired at the Old Howard, our father’s theate... more »

NAFTA: Two Decades Later

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago
Of course Buck McKeon voted for NAFTA and every other disastrous "free" trade agreement On November 17, 1993-- quite late at night-- the House voted on NAFTA, the George H.W. Bush "free trade" bill that he couldn't pass but that Clinton assured Wall Street he would get done. At it got done, Rahm Emanuel twisting arms for the White House. Although most progressives warned of the consequences in advance, we now have 20/20 hindsight to rely on in confirming their worst fears: NAFTA opponents-- including labor, environmental, consumer and religious groups-- argued that NAFTA would laun... more »

Louisiana sinkhole updates - October 28 , 2013 - H/T Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle

Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
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lightning, hurricanes - how can we NOT be using this FREE ENERGY in the year 2013?

Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 19 hours ago
we are getting fucked in the ass (excuse my French but my dander's up) every fucking day by IDIOT ENERGY CONGLOMERATES burning fossil fuels to make electricity, or worse NUKEing water to make electricity and charging us extortionate rates for it. What about ALL THAT WEATHER ENERGY ALL AROUND US most days, and THEN look at sucking energy from the solar bombardment of our planet. Do that first, for free. And allow the Free Planet to bloom, patent free. METER FREE'd.

# STOP WATCHING US RALLY - October 26 , 2013 !

Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-rally-mass-surveillance-786/ #StopWatchingUs rally against mass surveillance: Live Updates Published time: October 26, 2013 15:45 Edited time: October 26, 2013 18:49 Get short URL [image: Demonstarators carry signs at "Stop Watching Us: A Rally Against Mass Surveillance" march near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, October 26, 2013. (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst)] Demonstarators carry signs at "Stop Watching Us: A Rally Against Mass Surveillance" march near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, October 26, 2013. (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst) Share on tumblr Trends NSA leaks Tag... more »

DEVELOPING STRATEGIES FOR THE PIVOT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 20 hours ago
I head to Washington DC in the morning for three days of meetings about the Obama "pivot" into the Asia-Pacific. The meetings will assemble a couple dozen key activists from around the country to create an on-going strategy to bring greater peace movement activity around this important issue. At this point there is not yet enough understanding and organizing going on around the surge of 60% of US military forces into the region in order to control China and Russia. Congress and the military industrial complex are certainly far ahead of us. Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA), Chairman of ... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago

"The Duty..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago

“America’s Cult of Ignorance, Part 2”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
* * *“America’s Cult of Ignorance, Part 2”* by James Quinn “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” – Isaac Asimov “While every group has certain economic interests identical with those of all groups, every group has also, as we shall see, interests antagonistic to those of all other groups. While certain public policies w... more »

Maintenance Work In Southern Iraq Causes Planned Disruption In Oil Exports For Sep 2013

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 20 hours ago
September and October 2013 saw major maintenance work on Iraq’s ports in Basra which account for the vast majority of the country’s oil exports. That caused a decline in sales for September, but prices remained high, and the flow through the southern pipeline was actually higher than scheduled. At the same time two oil fields came on line, and there are continued plans for a large expansion in production and exports by the end of the year into 2014. Iraq’s petroleum industry is steadily moving forward, but not at the tremendous rates originally predicted. Repairs to Iraq’s two s... more »

Tom Poor Bear urges NCAI advocacy for Leonard Peltier

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
Leonard Peltier with Oglala Vice President Tom Poor Bear during a recent visit. Photo courtesy Oglala Commemoration, published with permission at Censored News. Poor Bear urges NCAI to help bring Peltier home By Brenda Norrell Censored News Oglala Sioux Vice President Thomas Poor Bear urged the National Congress of American Indians to strengthen its advocacy for imprisoned Native

Immigration: Dead or Undead?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours ago
Greg Sargent has been doing great reporting and analysis on immigration, and today he reports on a third Republican Member who has signed on to the House Democrats' bill. There are important differences between immigration and the clean CR needed to re-open the government earlier this month, but in many respects the way to look at it is similar. A handful of Republicans willing to go public with their support for comprehensive immigration reform isn't likely to get a bill to the House floor. Even twenty of them, which would be enough for a House majority (if Democrats are unanimous,... more »

The Economy: “Apocalypse Later!”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
*“Apocalypse Later!”* by Bill Bonner “It’s all decided. Play now. Pay later. Let’s see, stocks moved up again yesterday. The Dow rose 111 points. Gold fell $6 an ounce. As usual, Bloomberg had a reporter in the playground: "It still seems that the Fed has created this good news is bad news, bad news is good news scenario,”Randy Bateman, who oversees $15 billion as chief investment officer of Huntington Asset Advisors in Columbus, Ohio, said by telephone. “The anticipation is that the Fed will retain its purchasing of $85 billion in monthly Treasury and mortgage securities, whi... more »

The Facts, Not the Spin, about Washington D.C.'s IMPACT Evaluation System

John Thompson at Schools Matter - 20 hours ago
As U.C.L.A. School of Management Professor Samuel Culbert explained, a performance evaluation is as much of, "an expression of the evaluator's self-interests as it is a subordinate's attributes." Culbert argued that the institution of professional performance reviews is, "as destructive and fraudulent as it is ubiquitous." It is not just in educational evaluations where "almost every person and every person reviewing it knows it is bogus." Throughout the business world, there are plenty of people who believe that improved performance evaluations can improve productivity, but it is a... more »

FUKUSHIMA IS HERE TO STAY

Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 20 hours ago
* * *Hundreds of volunteers spell out the obvious to an apathetic world.* *Like a relentless invisible creeping fog**,** Fukushima's poisonous presence is already here on the West Coast and it won't go away. This ongoing ominous radiation threat will be impossible to ignore **by** 2014 and **its effect **could double within five years when its life threatening **symptoms **will begin to surface: Allen L Roland* The map below comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center and it shows that Fukushima radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the United States ar... more »

Pastors Enriching Themselves from the Pulpit Proceeds

Scott Ryan Anderson at Table Of Wisdom.com - 20 hours ago
Here we go again. I've seen this movie and lived it like Groundhog Day. Apostle Paul helped finance his ministry through a second job making tents. We've come a long way baby.

How many students are living in poverty?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 21 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013* *The way journalism works:* Roughly 315 million people live in the U.S. Given that fact, you’d think a recent report in Education Week simply couldn’t exist. The piece, which was written by Sarah Sparks, concerns the rising number of American children who are living in poverty. It starts like this, headlines included: SPARKS (10/23/13): *Poor Children Are Now a Majority in 17 States' Public Schools* *Study finds poverty rising in every state since 2000* *Nearly half of all American public school students now live in poverty,*and in broad swaths of th... more »

7 Ways To Protect Yourself If Your Boss Is a Bully

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 21 hours ago
Last week, I answered a question from a "used and abused" reader who was facing a workplace bully. I talked about five ways that your workplace bully might be breaking the law. Today, I talk about some things you can do, starting today, to protect yourself if your boss is a bully. Read my article in AOL Jobs for *seven things you can do, starting today, to protect yourself if your boss is a bully.*

Geneva II: Peace talk delay as big powers split

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 21 hours ago
I think just about anyone could see this *delay *coming. Painfully obvious since the US/Israel/GCC have an agenda of regime change for Syria, Iran and then at some point in time, Russia. *Exclusive: Syria peace talks face delay as big powers split* * * AMMAN (Reuters) -* International powers are unlikely to meet their goal of convening peace talks on Syria in Geneva next month as differences emerge between Washington and Moscow over opposition representation, Arab and Western officials said.* Failure of the main Syrian National Coalition to take a clear stance over the talks, whic... more »

TERROR IN TUNISIA AS US SEEKS BASE

Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago
*Tunisia's Defence Minister, Blel Hatem, in bed with NATO.* In March 2013, US General Carter F Ham visited Tunisia. "Some media and social networks said that the visit ... falls in line with discussions regarding the setting up of a US military base in Tunisia." US Military Base in Tunisia *NATO terrorists in Tunisia* In the second half of October 2013, NATO warships were paying a visit to Tunisia * Monastir* On 30 October 2013, bombers attacked holiday resorts in Tunisia. On 30 October 2013, a man blew himself up outside the Riadh Palm hotel in Sousse. Attack on Hotel in So... more »

IN THE WATER AT BIW

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 21 hours ago
The new Zumwalt class "stealth" destroyer being built by General Dynamics at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Maine was moved to dry dock and then into the Kennebec River over the weekend. Coming out of dry dock at BIW does not mean the ship is ready to put to sea. BIW will keep finishing their work on the ship before installing a considerable arsenal of weapons, including two Advanced Gun Systems (AGS), which can fire rocket powered, computer-guided shells that can destroy targets 63 miles away. That's three times farther than ordinary destroyer guns can fire. In addition cruise missiles... more »

Retrospective

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 22 hours ago
I keep noticing a fifties revival, what with all that retro furniture with splayed out, spindly legs, and nostalgia on the radio like that enjoyable stroll through the childhoods of Christopher Matthew and Martin Jarvis, ‘Grey shorts and sandals’ radio 4. Apart from finding the content entertaining I thought it also echoed what radio used to be like. (before every other programme included something related to Islam or Sharia compliant everything-but-the-kitchen-sink) There’s been a marked hankering back to the days when there was an air of certainty about ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. Ch... more »

Assclowns of the Week #96: Treat or Treat, Kiss My Ass edition

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 22 hours ago
(Thanks to Tengrain linking to this during his turn on Mike's Blog Roll at *Crooks and Liars*, this posting will get some decent exposure. After making the rent on November 1st, Mrs. JP and I will be seriously wiped out. If 1000 people read this post and every one chips in even a dollar or two each, it would make all the difference in the world. With $800 in back taxes and the steady barrage of bills bearing down on us, we need all the help we can get as we stagger into the holiday season. So please kick in whatever you can to help keep this feature a regular one like it was b... more »

Bad Bear's Photos Long Walk 4 Beautiful Grand Junction Colorado

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
Michael Lane on News 5 Grand Junction Wednesday. Photos by Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone long walker, thanks for sharing with Censored News! Long walkers Emilio and Bad Bear take a hike around Serpents Trail near Grand Junction, Colorado. By Censored News (Oct. 31, 2013) GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Walkers on the Longest Walk 4 are in need of sleeping bags. "As

Want a Trustworthy Word on Teach for America (TFA)? Listen to Former TFAer Gary Rubinstein

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 23 hours ago
Below I have posted two youtube videos by Gary Rubinstein, who joined Teach for America (TFA) in 1991 and who later made the decision to become a career teacher. Gary now writes extensively about the problems associated with the temporary teaching TFA promotes as the “solution” to the complex issues faced in contemporary America public education. […]

Chief for Change, Janet Barresi, Doubles Down on Meaningless School Grading System

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 23 hours ago
Chief Barresi What if the scientific community reveals that a state school policy produces meaningless and misleading results that conceal deep inequalities and mask others? If you are one of Jeb Bush's Chiefs, you smile, ignore the facts, and proceed as if nothing happened: News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |

Dark matter wars are over: LUX safely excludes all the hints

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours ago
*The dark matter wars are over.* Many TRF readers were watching the sequence of talks in Lead, South Dakota. A gold mine was rebuilt as a top laboratory, thanks to many folks including the philantropist Danny Sanford. Today, we learned that LUX has instantly become the clear leader of the direct dark matter search experiments. I was immensely impressed by the methods, sensitivity, clever calibration, and so on. Some of the magic of this experiment is the accurate localization of the nuclear events inside the tank. The results – as presented in the talks and the paper that shou... more »

Maine Has Saved The Union Before-- Can Shenna Bellows Save Us From NSA Spying?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
Both of Maine's congressmembers are Democrats-- and one, Chellie Pingree, is a strong progressive leader. Last year Obama beat Romney 401,306 (56%) to 292,276 (41%) in the state. And the Democrats regained control over both Houses of the state legislature. Still, the DSCC is reluctant to take on Senator Susan Collins. She has an undeserved reputation as a "moderate," probably because people think if a Republican isn't a teabagger, they must be a "moderate." In reality, Susan Collins is a mainstream, garden variety conservative, profoundly out of step with Maine's progressive tradit... more »

The government lies. The mainstream media repeats these lies. If We The People can't find the truth, then we -- and the entire earth -- are in deep trouble. Paul Craig Roberts: "The only advice I can give is that when you hear the presstitute media smear a concern or explanation as 'conspiracy theory,' have a closer look."

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours ago
------------------------------ *OpEdNews Op Eds 10/29/2013 at 11:14:32* *Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out the Human Race* *By Paul Craig Roberts (about the author)* *Permalink* *Headlined to H2 10/29/13* * **opednews.com* To inform people is hard slugging. Everything is lined up against the public being informed, or the policymakers for that matter. News is contaminated by its service to special interests and hidden agendas. Many scientists or their employers are dependent on federal money. Even psychologists and anthropologists were roped into the government's torture and oc... more »

Sebelius speaks...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 23 hours ago
*and flaps her hands around at a rate fast enough to change the climactic atmosphere of the room.* Women who flap their hands around, make claws of their fingers, and slash at the air are not to be trusted. When asked early on if she had tried using the exchange website her answer was that she had, but had only gone so far because "she *had* affordable health care." The arrogance of this statement when the Washington elites were essentially granted a carve out and we, you and me, are paying for their health insurance is galling. While listening to Sebelius speak at this dog and p... more »

The Realist Report with John Friend

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 23 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by "One Born Free", an indepedent investigator of the events of September 11, 2001. "One Born Free" and I will be discussing his views on 9/11, particularly as they relate to media fakery, deception, and psychological warfare. 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: - *Onebornfree's 9/11 Research Review* - *PSYOP aspects of 9/11* by John Friend - *September Clues - The C... more »

Limning Minnesota: Rocking the TIMSS!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013* *Ripley’s first round of embellishments:* Did public school students in Minnesota “rock a major international test” in 2007? That’s what Amanda Ripley says in her widely praised book, The Smartest Kids in the World. Just to refresh you, here’s the passage in which she makes that assessment: RIPLEY (*page 72*): Of the three American students I followed, Eric was the only one who did not loathe math. Coincidence or not, Eric’s home state of Minnesota was one of only two states that came close to achieving world-class math performance. Roughly speaking, M... more »

Compare and Contrast

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours ago
When ex-Conservative Prime Minister John Major intervened in the energy price debate, the BBC made it headline news. When Tony Blair expresses regret that Labour had not cut spending before the recession struck, the BBC just don't report the story. Why other than wanting to cause the Conservative government embarrassment but protect the Labour opposition from similar embarrassment could the explanation for this be? The true story here is that the Fundamental Spending Review, which Tony Blair says “didn’t really go anywhere”, offered an opportunity to make savings. Instead, it was ... more »

Crises, Real and Imagined

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 23 hours ago
This week's edition of inside-the-Beltway angst centers around the pressing question: Is Temp Emp (temporary emperor) Obama ignorant, detached, or just plain mendacious? Look at the following four crises, and examine how they are affecting you personally in your own daily slog. What did you know about them, and when did the corporate media let you know it? (hint: #4 has not yet been deemed officially pressing) Look into your souls, Proles, and decide whether, in the grand scheme of things, the resolution of any of these crises would make your lives even one smidgen better. 1) Bar... more »

Holds

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
News broke yesterday from the Senate: "Rand Paul is officially holding Janet Yellin's nomination until Harry Reid agrees to hold a vote on auditing the Fed." This strikes me as a more or less proper use of a hold, and demonstrates the merits of retaining holds on executive branch nominations. I like that Paul is specifically attempting to influence the institution involved in this particular nomination. I like that he's not making an unreasonable demand; he's asking, apparently, for a vote, not an outright policy concession (I don't know whether he's asking for a protected, majorit... more »

This Is the Problem

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
This Is the Problem. via This Is the Problem.

Feldstein on Obamacare

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
Marty worries about a great unraveling.

The Corrupt Haitian Adoption Process

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day ago
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Terry Grier Makes Houston Schools Awful Enough to Win the Broad Prize

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
The picture above is of Arne Duncan and Eli Broad having a swell time at Barack Obama's inauguration party in 2008. The picture below is Arne and Eli in 2013, this time accompanied by the poster boy for CorpEd's model of segregated urban reform schools, Terry Grier. With his systemwide No Excuses model in place in Houston, Grier has made life so miserable for teachers and students alike that it has earned him this year's Broad Prize for Urban Education. Last year 700 teachers had quit by January, which, of course, brings in more white corporate missionaries from TFA to replace r... more »

WotW: Waste Away Your Adult Life with Full-Screen Mario

Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
Perhaps the greatest day of my childhood was the Christmas Santa brought me and my sisters a Nintendo – the original NES. The hours I wasted playing Mario, and blowing into those cartridges – convinced it was actually doing some good – were innumerable. To this day, nothing quite compares with the original Nintendo. And there's something special about Super Mario Brothers. Sadly, it's difficult to find functioning Nintendo systems, and off-brand remakes are sketchy. Fortunately, some genius figured out a way for us all to enjoy Super Mario Brothers from the comfort of our own compute... more »

Tongue in cheek or serious?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
One comment caught my eye on the BBC's story that 'A petition demanding the government reverse a ban on schoolchildren in England taking holidays during term-time will be delivered later.' Is this serious or tongue in cheek? '8. Heisenberg 3 Hours ago Quite right, I myself have 6 children and it's a nightmare with plane fares when we go to Florida at peak times. The government need to help struggling families like mine cope with this.' Hmmmm

MALALA, MATTHEWS AND MADDOW: Not being against!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013* *Part 2—Being against Ted Cruz:* We’ll admit it: We were thrilled by William Dalrymple’s column in Saturday’s New York Times, which we repeatedly read. See our previous post in this series. We were thrilled when we went upstairs to watch the tape of Malala Yousafzai’s address at the United Nations in July, on her sixteenth birthday. We were thrilled to see this very unusual person declare her lineage from the greatest souls in world history, starting with “the Lord Buddha” and moving through Dr. King and Mandela. We’ll recommend watching that speech, ... more »

Linux Mint 15 KDE, too good to be true?

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago
*It took me some time to put this on your display*. Working with a desktop computer amidst the hype about mobile devices, using Ubuntu-based Kubuntu and Linux Mint versions for fast evolving journalistic researchwork, wasn't too inspiring for an article or opinion. Time to reflect as well on trends in digital communication. The NSA disaster and its fall-out, as well as crossroads we currently face regarding operating systems and their visual presentation (desktops), made me review earlier held opinions. The gradual self-inflicted demise of Ubuntu, earlier the Linux desktop that had ... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Happy Birthday to Charles Martin Smith, 60. The Toad. Also directed "Welcome to the Hellmouth," for which, as long-time readers might remember, he earned an appearance in my epic Reagan thing (which I do try to link back to every once in a while. I like it). Well, whether you're in the mood for Reagan or not, surely you want some good stuff: 1. The Wall Street Journal really, really, really, shouldn't run op-eds by "expert" Suzanne Somers. Alex Seitz-Wald explains. 2. I think Andrew Sullivan basically gets it right on surveillance, including Obama's role to date -- although my view... more »

Arvol Looking Horse statement 'White Buffalo Day' Nov 2, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe, statement for National Bison Day aka White Buffalo Day event for November 2, 2013

URBAN FARM TO PROTECT ALL LIFE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
From Miami, Florida.....trying to go to organic farming conference in Cuba but US government won't let them sail their boat to Havana. We, in the US, are the "freedom" folks except when it applies to things like having access to the people of Cuba.

Recipe To Dissolve Kidney Stones

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Living-with-Common-Sense/154468647938561

Google mystery barges ( what is their purpose and for whom are they building the barges for ) deepens as Google requires even government officials to sign confidentiality agreements ? Is Google or their client more important or able to dictate to the government what they can or cannot do or say ? What is going on here folks ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Recall the prior post on Google's secret barges? http://fredw-catharsisours.blogspot.com/2013/10/mystery-barges-in-both-san-francisco.html Saturday, October 26, 2013 Mystery barges in both San Francisco and Portland linked to Google - are these floating data centers and why do we see Google building these four story structures on barges , on both the east and west coasts ? Google linked by a website that covers the technology sector - but acting super secret about what it's up to ( is this a military or NSA project ? ) And if Portland Barge is identified as BAL 0011 and San Fran bar... more »

War watch October 30 , 2013 - NSA Spying updates for the day.... Iraq's PM sees role as major regional player as he seeks more weapons from the US - pesky civil war in his country doen't seem to be an impediment to the dreams of Mr Maliki ..... Syria updates of the day ..... Iran updates regarding the possibilities of productive nuclear talks in light of US push for more sanctions..... Building barracks for the Taliban in Afghanistan - at the end of the day , who else is going to take possession of these barracks if they even want them ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
NSA updates.... Proof Leaked, But NSA Insists Spying on Spain, France ‘False’Clapper: All Spying Was for 'Valid' Purposes by Jason Ditz, October 29, 2013 Print This | Share This Reports in Le Monde and El Mundo alleging broad NSA surveillance of French and Spanish citizens didn’t come out of thin air, but rather were a product of Edward Snowden’s leaks. The documents associated with those stories were also published alongside the reports. So once again the cat is out of the bag, and once again the NSA is scrambling to issue blanket denials, insisting that the documents were “misinte... more »

Musical Interlude: Deuter, "Illumination"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Deuter, "Illumination" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxlMqABNx8M

Alex Sink Is Running For Congress

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
The big news in Florida this morning wasn't exactly a surprise. After Florida's former chief financial officer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Alex Sink, expressed interest in running for the open congressional seat in Pinellas County (FL-13), she became the focus of all Democratic attention. And when former candidate Charlie Justice and potential candidates Janet Long and Ken Welch said a few days ago they weren't running, it was widely assumed Sink had let them know she was in. This morning Adam Smith at the *Tampa Bay Times* let everyone else know. Sink, who lives in ne... more »

His Luck Is Running Out

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
There's a scene in *It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World* where Jonathan Winters destroys a gas station and two of its attendants. As the Senate debacle unravels, the prime minister -- consumed with rage -- looks more and more like Jonathan Winters on a rampage. At the end of the scene, having obliterated the building and its inhabitants, Winters hops in a tow truck and drives away, unscathed. Lawrence Martin suggests that things will not work out that way for Stephen Harper: But the list is long and Harper’s odds are not good. There is a common thread running through his governance, a p... more »

Federal Reserve Decision Day - proving once again that fundamentals matter not a bit , the sole focus today for US markets will be what the Fed does or doesn't do and how it "explains " it all - taper focus ! Red lights flashing once again in the Chinese repo market as repo rates blowing wide once again !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
This happens only if the Fed et all want to have a market crash..... NOctaper Or Shocktaper: Deutsche Bank's Five Reasons Why The Fed May Stun Everyone Once Again [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/30/2013 08:02 -0400 - Ben Bernanke - Blackrock - China - Deutsche Bank - Hong Kong - Jim Reid - PIMCO - recovery inShare Remember when minutes before the September FOMC announcement *every*one was absolutely certain the Fed would announce tapering, only to leave a lot of very angry traders fuming? Fast forward one mont... more »

Wow! Conservative Party Of Canada National Council Officials Move To Issue Gag Order On Party Members / Convention Delegates

leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago
** [image: Progressive Bloggers] * **Subject: Fw: CBC Requests for Interviews* * * * * *Gord Elliott wrote:* * * *Fellow Conservatives* *I and other members of the party have received emails from the CBC fishing for people to interview about Mike Duffy’s allegations. I have ignored all of the requests and strongly urge you to do the same. Should you happen to talk to one of their reporters, please refer the reporter to our party’s Director of Communications, Cory Hann, at 613-755-2000.* * * * * *Gord Elliott* * Alberta Member Representative National Council Conservative Party of... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Honore delivers startlingly radical call to action against forces destroying coast ~Mark Moseley, The Lens* *Texas Brine official says their giant sinkhole at Bayou Corne, La. could double in size ~Cheryll Mercedes, KSLA* *Homeowners' Flood Insurance Affordability Act has broad support ~Jordan Bloom* *Louisiana grapples with assessing alternative charter schools ~Andrewe Vanacore* *Officials promise to minimize pain to businesses during Freret streetwork do-over ~Robert Morris, Uptown Messenger* *Convention & Visitors Bureau seeks local support for more tourists ~Leigh Isaacson,... more »

Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report October 26 , 2013 - News , Data and Views touching on the precious metals ( additional items from silver Doctors and Harvey Organ snippet . )

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/gold-producers-accused-over-misleading-data ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER The gold price was under quiet selling pressure during the Far East trading session on their Friday, and that continued right up until 1:10 p.m. BST in London, which proved to the be the low price tick of the day. From that point, the gold price rallied quietly for almost the entire Comex session when it opened 10 minutes later. The rally ended/got capped shortly after 1 p.m. EDT, and about 20 minutes before the Comex close. After that, gold didn't do much. According... more »

Academic decisions subject to judicial review but not appeals

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
*Mortazavi v. University of Toronto, *2013 ONCA 655: [4] We see no basis for interfering with the motion judge's exercise of discretion in this case. The original Statement of Claim was long, convoluted, repetitive and confusing. Crucially, once the 187 pages is pruned to its essential core – not an easy task – what is left is an attack on a series of academic decisions relating to admission, enrolment, leave of absence, grades, and appeals. In these circumstances, the motion judge had ample justification to conclude, as he did, that "the lawsuit for the tort or the br... more »

Causation in homicide

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
*R. v. Manasseri*, 2013 ONCA 647: [44] The causation requirement in cases of unlawful homicide emerges from the combined operation of sections 222(1) and 222(5) of the *Criminal Code*. A person commits homicide when that person, directly or indirectly, by any means, causes the death of a human being: *Criminal Code*, s. 222(1). A person commits culpable homicide, an unlawful killing, when that person causes the death of another by means of an unlawful act: *Criminal Code*, s. 222(5)(a). [45] It is well settled that to satisfy the causation requirement in cases of u... more »

Dancing on the ceiling

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago

The Structure of Jury Charges

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
*R. v. Huard,* 2013 ONCA 650: [51] In jury charges, substance controls. Form, not so much. No particular approach or standard formula is compulsory. Provided the charge fulfills its purpose and satisfies its requirements, the manner in which it does so is of no great moment: MacKinnon, at p. 386. That said, an orderly or systematic approach to final instructions seems more likely to enhance a jury’s understanding of the precise nature of its task and how to discharge it by following a series of logical steps corresponding to the essential elements of the offence charged. [52... more »
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