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Mike Philbin - Published Novels - new blogs added

Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 9 minutes ago
I (had omitted to but finally) created a couple of new blogs for the 2001 releases YOROPPA and VIEW FROM A STOLEN WINDOW. I also unified the design style of all the Published Novels blogs, TANDEM, CUSTODIAN, BUKKAKEWORLD and PLANET OF THE OWLS all showing links to the latest available version.

What Goes Around....

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 35 minutes ago
Uh-oh. You knew this was gonna happen sooner rather than later. Drones are going rogue. One of America's own just attacked the same great ship of state that launched it: The Navy says an aerial target drone malfunctioned and struck a guided missile cruiser during training off Southern California, causing two minor injuries. Lt. Lenaya Rotklein of the U.S. Third Fleet said the accident on the USS Chancellorsville happened Saturday afternoon while the ship was testing its combat weapons system off Point Mugu. The AP reports that two crew members suffered minor burns from the drone s... more »

“Discredited” Benghazi Whistleblower Disappears

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 39 minutes ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Kimberly Paxton Last week, CBS’s “news” magazine program *60 Minutes *issued a contrite apology and retraction for a chilling eyewitness report on the Benghazi massacre, and the publishing company Simon & Schuster pulled the book *The Embassy House* from retailers. Dylan Davies, the author of the book and source for the report, was painted as a dishonest guy looking to make a buck off of a tragedy. Davies has now been “discredited” by none other than our own government. That would be the same government that allowed Hillary ... more »

Student Exposes Common Core, Teacher Evaluations, and Educational Data

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 43 minutes ago
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Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 43 minutes ago
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TPP: High Treason! Obama's Secret Meeting to Give Corporations Ultimate Power

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 43 minutes ago
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The November Seventeenth Gang

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 53 minutes ago
It's our birthday here at DJ!! Co-blogger deBeauxOs yesterday introduced me to this nifty shared birthday site. DJ! shares this auspicious day with a cool gang. August Ferdinand Mobius Field Marshall Montgomery Rock Hudson Canadian icon Gordon Lightfoot Martin Scorsese Danny Devito And the fabulous RuPaul. Happy Birthday to all of us.

Drone news updates November 17 , 2013 - malfunctioning drone strikes Navy ship..... German Coalition ( still being formed ) rejects illegal killings and suspends drone purchases ... The drone that can fly , swim , drive and hop !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
This Drone Can Fly, Swim, Drive, and Hop Its Way Through a Mission - BY ALLEN MCDUFFEE - 11.11.13 - 6:30 AM - The Sandia Multi-Modal Vehicle Concept. *Image: Sandia National Laboratories* The future of military drones isn’t surveillance and dropping bombs. It’s transformation: a single unmanned vehicle that can fly, swim, drive, and even hop like a frog across a variety of terrains and obstacles. Conceived by the Intelligent Systems, Robotics and Cybernetics unit at Sandia National Laboratories, the “Multi-Modal Vehicle Concept” would travel land, sea, and air by tran... more »

Cops Kill 8 Times More Americans Than Terrorists Do

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 hour ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Dave Hodges Many people have noticed that several of the local police officers, particularly the younger ones are more gruff, rude and even abusive as compared to the past. Many veteran officers attribute the shift towards DHS’ training of local police which focuses on teaching the police that the public is their enemy as opposed to the traditional view that teaches that the local population and the police are partners in keeping the community safe. Whatever happened to the friendly neighborhood cop who walked a beat, was w... more »

What happens when looting becomes public policy ? Venezuela shows the world what happens next ? Of course , the reaction from looted businesses is predictable.....

Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/venezuela-president-vows-no-letup-price-gouging-crackdown-010034869--sector.html CARACAS, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist government has arrested more than 100 "bourgeois" businessmen in a crackdown on alleged price-gouging at hundreds of shops and companies since the weekend, President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday. "They are barbaric, these capitalist parasites!" Maduro thundered in the latest of his lengthy daily speeches. "We have more than 100 of the bourgeoisie behind bars at the moment." The successor to the late Hugo Chavez also said his go... more »

IMF Research Conference

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 hour ago
I recently had the pleasure of attending the IMF Annual Research conference (where I was a discussant of a paper by Reifschneider, Wascher, and Wilcox in Session 3). You can watch the conference online here.

Reading the papers at 'Breakfast'

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 hour ago
Here's an update to an earlier pair of much-loved posts about the people invited to review the weekend papers on *BBC Breakfast*. As they used to say in exam papers, compare and contrast the following two lists - one from this year, one from two years ago. [As this blog isn't an exam board, I'll add a 'please' to that request.] *2013* 7/9 Simon Fanshawe, writer 8/9 Ian MacMillan, poet 14/9 David Davies, former FA boss 15/9 Paul Horrocks. former president of the UK Society of Editors 21/9 Cary Cooper, academic 22/9 Kate Williams, historian 28/9 Olly Mann, writer and broadcaster 29/9 E... more »

How's that RttT Working for You, Massachusetts?

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 hour ago
Massachusetts has been on the corporate education bandwagon since 1993 with the coming of MCAS, and in recent years the corporate PR machines have made the world aware of how much further ahead MA is in the international testing derbies and on NAEP. Last week's appearance of new NAEP scores gave us a chance to have a fresh look at where MA stands in relation to the other states. Even though the CorpEd pols in MA do not acknowledge the fact, we should point out that MA started far ahead of the national average in reading and math (both 4th and 8th grade) in 1992, when the last gen... more »

Greece updates November 17 , 2013 - Chronicles of a European Winter ......... Greece news items of note.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/11/chronicles-of-a-european-winter-there-is-a-difference-between-saying-greeks-should-live-with-less-and-saying-greeks-should-live-with-nothing.html SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2013 Chronicles of a European Winter: “There is a Difference Between Saying Greeks Should Live With Less and Saying Greeks Should Live With Nothing” This is the first segment of an ongoing project, Eurowinter, to record the human toll of austerity policies in Europe. It focuses on the suffering Greece, as told by Greeks themselves. The pace might strike some as languid, but if you s... more »

A Tale Of Two Economies

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 2 hours ago
Last week, Jim Flaherty announced that Canada would run a surplus -- just in time for the 2015 election. Scott Clark and Peter Devries suspect that Mr. Flaherty is playing with magic numbers. But, while Flaherty was trumpeting his projected surplus, Statscan released numbers that were far from magical. *The Huffington Post* reported that: StatsCan’s latest numbers on Canada’s trade balance, released Thursday, look positive on the face of it: Exports and imports both grew, and Canada’s trade deficit with the world shrank by more than half, to $435 million. But dig a little deeper... more »

Blast from the Past: The wreck of President Hoover: Life 10 Jan 1938

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 2 hours ago
"The President Hoover, crack Dollar liner christened by Mrs. Herbert Hoover of Newport News in 1930, was then the biggest ship ever built in an American yard. A vessel of 615 ft. and 21,536 tons, it cost $88,000,000..." It had been accidentally bombed by Chinese bombs on Aug 30 (killed one crewman) and did some damage. On Dec 10 it ran aground on Hoishoto (Green) Island on a Kobe to Manila run with over 800 passengers and crew, all of whom got off safely. Wiki notes: After the Battle of Shanghai had broken out in August 1937, President Hoover was diverted from Hong Kong to evacuat... more »

Sunday Morning, Praise the Dawning...

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 3 hours ago
Groundhog Day at *Sunday Morning Live*. Ask the good folk who watch *Sunday Morning Live *a question and, with all the inevitability of someone citing the film 'Groundhog Day' when they want to make a point about some something happening over and over and over again, those BBC viewers will always, *en masse, *give a proud, one-fingered salute to whichever liberal position is being advocated. As soon as they asked "Should there be leniency for solders who commit crimes in conflict?" [discussed in the wake of the Royal Marine convicted of murdering a Taliban prisoner], I just knew... more »

Secretary Duncan and the Politics of White Outrage

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 3 hours ago
Secretary Duncan and the Politics of White Outrage. via Secretary Duncan and the Politics of White Outrage.

Why Is Steve Israel Lying To His Own Colleagues About What Jennifer Garrison Is?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Malcolm and Jennifer My grandfather was a Socialist. He told me to always be wary of anyone from the Democratic Party. Funny because Malcolm X and he had similar views of the Democrats back them. Mal: "We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party… What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise." There were many professional Democrats, care... more »

Bowdlerising 'A Banker's Tale'

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 3 hours ago
There was a curious moment on this morning's *Andrew Marr Show *when Andrew Marr, reviewing the newspaper front pages, raised the front page of the *Mail on Sunday*, mentioned its leader story about a former Co-op Bank chairman whose been caught in what Andrew called "a terrible sting operation", and then said "We *won't *be talking about that, I suspect". And, indeed, they didn't. [The 'they' on his paper review panel, incidentally, consisted of Labour MP Tessa Jowell, Gordon Brown's former spin doctor Justin Forsyth (now head of Save The Children) and Conservative.Home's Tim Mon... more »

Dishonesty - Moral Compass Broken

Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 3 hours ago
Ratings from the public rely on good faith. Professional liars like this guy break the model, making it useless for everyone. You also have to ask - what limits would such people observe? If they can be dishonest here, why not criminal elsewhere? I've panned a few books - but never without reading them.

African Take on Gambia bolt

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 3 hours ago
*Definitely NSFW, if you're a beetle.* An analysis from Swaziland: Prior to the country severing ties with Taiwan, it has been gathered that some multimillion dollar Mainland Chinese companies were issued with licenses to explore Gambia's potentials of drilling oil. Some couple of millions of dollars has already been deposited into a foreign bank account, in which Jammeh and his Secretary General and Presidential Affairs Minister Momodou Sabally are the co signatories to the offshore drilling bank account. In fact, they have started messing with that money. This one made it into t... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago
*Saints vs 40neers 2013: Game Time, TV Schedule, Online Streaming, Odds and More ~John Oliver, Canal Street Chronicles* *James Gill: Tide turning on oil industry * *Some New Orleanians not waiting for new bywater park's opening ~Jaquetta White, New Orleans Advocate*

Andrew Huszar ( who ran the Federal Reserve's Mortgage book during chapter one of the Great Recession / Depression beginning in 2008ish ) apologizes to America for the Fed blowing things with QE .....Central Banking a disease - is there a cure ? More truthiness , this time from the NY Fed - current reach for yield similar to South Sea Bubble of 1720 ? And how was it that the Confirmation Hearing Remarks from Janet Yellen got released early today ? Meanwhile , with apologies / comparisons set to the side , what has the Fed been doing , what will the ECB soon do , how have Central Bankers in G-5 Nations helped their economies ?

Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Why the truth now ? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-13/qe-whistleblower-warns-we-are-eerily-similar-2008 QE Whistleblower Warns "We Are Eerily Similar To 2008" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/13/2013 21:36 -0500 - Ben Bernanke inShare Following his inconvenient truthiness yesterday, Andrew Huszar appeared on Bloomberg TV today (having dismissed the comic-book-written discussion he faced in CNBC's Fast Money yesterday). As usual Bloomberg gave him more time to speak, listened, and challenged some of what he said, but we were struck by ... more »

When stephen harper rocks out ...

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 4 hours ago
So, apparently the gutless coward (who prefers to skip the country when the pressure's on, or at least hide from accountability to Parliament) was turning on the "charm" again, exploiting his apparently okay voice (I've never heard it) at some club somewhere. Between his fall from power and his imprisonment for war crimes, SUN News could feature him in concert, out of gratitude for all the government advertising that kept them afloat for so long. Then, harper could learn how few Canadians actually give a shit about his singing. But when harper is rocking out, ... do you suppose th... more »

'Guardian Sunday' at the BBC

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 5 hours ago
It's been quite a day for *Guardian *journalists on BBC One today so far. *BBC Breakfast *had Helen Pidd, northern editor of the *Guardian*, as its sole paper reviewer and *The Sunday Politics *featured not one but two *Guardian *journalists on its pundits panel - Nick Watt, the *Guardian*'s chief political correspondent and Zoe Williams, one of the *Guardian*'s best-known columnists. That's very nice for the *Guardian*.

A Slow Few Days

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 5 hours ago
It's one of them (thankfully) rare moments. Up until Wednesday I am absolutely rammed with work so don't be surprised if blogging is very light. But there is stuff bubbling under, such as pieces on the Baddeley, Milton and Norton by-election here in Stoke, a 'new stage' of capitalism, and the collapse of generational difference - among other things. I bet you can hardly contain yourselves. In lieu of blogging, here's a ditty from 2009.

REMEMBERING JFK

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 5 hours ago
I have previously written about a book I highly suggest reading entitled JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters. Long-time peace activist James Douglass wrote the book and worked on it for 12 years. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. You should read it, you will be shocked and moved by this story, and you will want to tell others about it. In a few words, this book tells the story about why and how the military industrial complex (MIC) had JFK killed. This book is part history, part mystery story, and part moral lesson. James Douglass does a phenomenal jo... more »

19.19 for the 200m is almost more incredible than 9.58 for the 100m, Michael Johnson's reaction is worth watching again

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago
Again at the World Athletics in Berlin in 2009. Here are the fastest 200m times in history, all those quicker than 19.70, notice how many are held by Bolt, Yohan Blake and Michael Johnson: 1 19.19 -0.3 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1 Berlin 20.08.2009 2 19.26 +0.7 Yohan Blake JAM 26.12.89 1 Bruxelles 16.09.2011 3 19.30 -0.9 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1 Beijing 20.08... more »

The Francis Effect

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 5 hours ago
An article in* The Sunday Times* talks about the "electrifying" effect Pope Francis is having on British Catholics. There's even been a 20% increase in church attendance in Britain since he became pope just eight months ago. Having listened to every edition of Radio 4's *Sunday* for the last three years, I can certainly confirm the existence of the 'Francis Effect'. In the days of Pope Benedict, programme after programme, would dwell on negative stories about the Catholic Church [extensive proof of which can be found here], and whenever Benedict's name came up there was bound to b... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 5 hours ago

Catholic Aid getting Its Priorities Straight: Typhoones, Rosaries and the Message of Love

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 6 hours ago
Connecting to my former post re. certain gaps in human moral psychology made visible by the global aid response to the typhoon Hayian (also known as Yolanda), it is not exactly uplifting to be forced to share this evidence of morally adequate compassion being most seriously lacking where one would perhaps expect it the most: from aid organisations working from a christian ethical basis, with the message of love at the core of its mission – or not? Have a look at this admirable crock of /%&€ of an initiative of a Catholic aid organization at providing the homeless, starving and plag... more »

POPULAR CHILD MODELS

Anon at aangirfan - 6 hours ago
*Yalta in the Crimea* Yalta in the Crimea is where Hillary and Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, David Petraeus, Mario Monti, Shimon Peres and others met in September 2013. Coincidentally, this was just before the Azov-Film child porn bust took place in Toronto. Blair, Strauss-Kahn and Clinton / A global elite gathering in the Crimea *Yalta and Simferopol, the latter linked to Azov-Films.* *The men charged in the Azov-Films Toronto child porn bust include:* *1. A man who had helped build an orphanage in Mexico and sponsored children through World Vision. He even... more »

What Lonely Planet is the BBC on?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 6 hours ago
Being Sunday, there's just got to be a juicy BBC-related piece in the *Sunday Telegraph*. And so there proves to be. The paper features an Andrew Gilligan piece called *What Lonely Planet is the BBC on?. * This outlines the findings of the BBC's own investigation into its extravagantly costly purchase of the travel guide Lonely Planet - a "scandal" that resulted in a £100 million loss to the corporation (and, thus, to licence fee payers). Intriguingly, Andrew Gilligan observes that this BBC report, published last week, went "almost unnoticed by the media". His piece was, indeed, ... more »

The Epic Journey of Truth and Tooth

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 6 hours ago
Well everyone.... I'm BAAACCCCKKKKK! .... you didn't think you'd get rid of me that easily, did you? Buhahahhahaha! For the past week and a bit, I have been on an adventure- a truly epic adventure that shone a brilliant spotlight on the entire current system of corruption and ridiculousness. While the adventure itself was exhausting and enough to make me pull all my hair out, when I was able to stand back after the fact and analyze the scope of all that had taken place- both internally and externally- I realized that I had been put in a situation of immense value: to absolutel... more »

This morning's news agenda

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
Sky News are leading this morning with: PM Orders Review Into 'Union Intimidation' David Cameron orders an inquiry into alleged bullying tactics by unions in the wake of the Grangemouth industrial dispute. ITV News makes that its second story (after the typhoon in the Philippines): Union 'bullying tactics' probed Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered a wide-ranging inquiry into industrial disputes, including alleged intimidation tactics of trade unions, following the bitter row that almost led to the closure of the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland. It's obviously a big s... more »

Naturalness and JFK conspiracy theories

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours ago
Among the 89 episodes of the classic show Penn & Teller: Bullshit, the 29th one was dedicated to conspiracy theories, namely to 9/11 truthism, moonlanding, and JFK conspiracy theories. I recommend you to find all the episodes and watch them – it will be 45 hours of intelligent fun! Just to be sure, JFK was assassinated in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963; it will have been 50 years next Friday. The apparent sniper was Lee Harvey Oswald, an American commie (believed to be a "lone gunman") who loved Cuba and who emigrated to the Soviet Union. Yesterday, CNN listed a dozen of the consp... more »

ROBERT LANZA ON GOD

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
*Robert Lanza from North Carolina* Professor Robert Lanza believes that Death is an illusion. He believes that it is our minds that create space and time. He believes that Life creates the Universe. Robert Lanza and Deepak Chopra, in an article entitled *Evolution Reigns, but Darwin Outmoded *write: *"Darwin's theory of evolution is an enormous over-simplification. * It's helpful if you want to connect the dots and understand the interrelatedness of life on the planet - and it’s simple enough to teach to children between recess and lunch. "But it fails to capture the driving fo... more »

Repost: Five Lingering Unsolved Mysteries From the JFK Assassination

Marc McDonald at BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com - 9 hours ago
. . *By MARC McDONALD* *Note: this is an encore presentation of a piece I wrote last year.* It has now been 50 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Since then, thousands of books have been written about what is probably the single biggest unsolved mystery of the 20th century. After nearly half a century, it's becoming increasingly clear that we may never fully understand what happened that day. I myself have long harbored doubts about the government's own seriously flawed version of what happened in Dealey Plaza. The 1964 Warren Commission Report has rightfully ... more »

Open Letter To Christy Clark And Stephen Harper---Enbridge Is Dead

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 10 hours ago
Today, Saturday November 16th/2013 thousands rallied against bitumen Pipelines in British Columbia, tens of thousands more rallied across Canada, but by far the largest protest was in Vancouver, there were thousands in attendance, people representing all age groups and all political stripes, there was NDPers, Liberals and Conservatives at these rallies, the issue of Alberta tar/bitumen pipelines threatening British Columbia`s rivers and streams and oil laden supertankers risking destroying British Columbia`s pristine temperate northern coastline crosses all political boundaries ... more »

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, November 17th, 2013

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 11 hours ago
It is indeed Sunday again, and time for my weekly rant…. First, I really wonder myself why I am always apologizing for not putting up articles daily at this blog. I absolutely have no reason for any apology as far as I am concerned… I do have a life and I do have requirements in my daily life that have shown to be increasingly hectic over the last while. Family and personal issues have always come first for me, and it does take me away from doing this blog. Most readers that have followed my work here for a while understand where I stand…. In recent weeks the attacks by the JIDF... more »

My Japanese Hate-Mail Tells I am a ‘S— Kimchi Propagandist’ (Hah!) …Where’s Thunderdome When You Need it?

Robert Kelly at Duck of Minerva - 11 hours ago
Hollywood’s solution to intractable interstate conflicts This is what happens when you write in the area of Japanese-Korean relations. Pretty much everybody hates you, because you don’t tell them what they want to hear, and then maximalists come out of the woodwork to, as Robert Farley aptly put it, “explore Japanese-Korean animosity one angry e-mail Continue reading

Harold Meyerson on "The 40-Year Slump" -- did it (does it?) have to be this way?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
*by Ken* The American Prospect, as part of a special feature called "The State of Work in the Age of Anxiety," has an important piece by Harold Meyerson called "The 40-Year Slump," of which I can only hit some of the highlights here. The economic landscape of the quarter-century following World War II has become not just unfamiliar but almost unimaginable today. It constitutes what historian Vaclav Smil has termed “a remarkable singularity”: The United States came out of World War II dominating the world’s production and markets, and its unprecedented wealth was shared broadly am... more »

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago
Got behind on the day, so What Mattered is a bit late, but better late than never, I hope. So: the press frenzy about the ACA isn't going to matter much, and I suspect Barack Obama's ACA fix won't matter either. What does matter? Fixing the web site. That's what I have. What do you think mattered this week?

FIRE OF WINTER - WHISKY TRENCH RIDERS

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours ago
Video Title: FIRE OF WINTER - WHISKY TRENCH RIDERS. Source: WhiskyTrenchRiders. Date Published: October 30, 2013. Description: This is our entry for the CBC Music, Hockey Night in Canada Song Quest! Please 'like' us and vote for us in the link below: http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Whisky-Trench-Riders An excerpt from "Biographical Info" (*Source: CBC.ca*): 'Fire of Winter' is an ode to Canada, encompassing in one rocking song all that links Canadians and makes us stand apart: hockey, a great sense of humour, good hearts and fantastic music. Fire of Winter, By Ryan Bevan So we dr... more »

Did Obama write the regulation to cancel your insurance after Obamacare was passed?...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 14 hours ago
*Rand Paul says he did.* And the democrats (you know - the ones who claim they didn't know anything about this) voted to keep the regulation that if your insurance changed in any way it would be cancelled. *Why are we just hearing about this now?? * Rand Paul, speaking at the Charleston Meeting on November 11, 2013: “*I’m still learning about it. It’s 20,000 pages of regulations. The Bill was 2,000 pages and I didn’t realize this until this week, the whole idea of you losing or getting your insurance cancelled wasn’t in the original Obamacare. It was a regulation WRITTEN BY PRESID... more »

Long Past Due

Lori Anne Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 14 hours ago
Wow! No posts since September 29! Life has been kinda insane. Work, stuff after work, working out, starting to get things ready to move........Selling my stuff online is like a second fulltime job. Exhausting. So, let's see, what has happened since September? Let's do bullet points! - Vito passed away on October 1. It was horribly sad, and I almost hyperventilated I was so upset. He was the sweetest, most giving and happy dog I have ever known. It was pretty devastating for us. He died in Kurt's arms, and we had him cremated so we could bury his ashes. I am... more »

The Real Problem Right-Wingers Have With 'Obamacare:' It Requires Insurers To Insure

Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 14 hours ago
By Manifesto Joe It's obvious that President Obama made a big political -- I repeat, *political* -- mistake in selling his health care plan. And he should never have put any trust in computer geeks -- such people nowadays hold the Earth hostage to their "expertise," while in reality they are often among the most titanic fools on the planet. (Not only do their initial programs sometimes not work, they are forever changing programs that worked fine as they were. It seems that they never heard the old wisdom that if it works, DON'T FIX IT!) But the Mainstream Media are failing to tell... more »

Only Hostile Republicans Call Social Security "Entitlements"

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Jason Thigpen is running for Congress in eastern North Carolina (the Outer Banks, most of the coastal plain, from the outskirts of New Bern, down the 17 to Jacksonville and on past Camp Lejeune into Wilmington. The district has been trending Republican in recent years but Democrats have a 12% voter registration edge and Jason is just the kind of guy who can appeal across the partisan divide without abandoning his progressive values. He penned this guest post. Please give it a read and see if you'd like to contribute to his grassroots campaign here. *Carpetbaggers Want Entitlement... more »

Updates On Syria: Albania Refuses To Participate In The Destruction of Syria's CW, Assad's Army Is Winning, Al-Qaeda Finds Camping Ground On NATO's Border

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago
An excerpt from, *"No Surprise That No One Wants Syria's Chemical Weapon Stuff"* by 'b' of Moon of Alabama, November 16: The United States and Russia have both the specialized incineration capabilities to destroy chemical weapons, their precursors and the hazardous waste their neutralization creates. But Albania was left with the mess after it was pressed to destroy the weaponized stuff where a repackaging of the original weaponized chemicals would likely have been a much safer and longer term solution. Albania would have been crazy to accept more dangerous stuff as it is already le... more »

Cervical Cancer in Haiti

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 16 hours ago
Louisville doctor battles Haiti's deadly cervical cancer http://t.co/nZEBycoHn3 via @courierjournal — John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) November 17, 2013

Agendas Agendas Everywhere But What's the Real Agenda of the American Police State?

Is this really news? Geithner to join private equity firm Agendas. Agendas. Where have I heard that word before? Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes have estimated that the current out-of-pocket and already incurred future costs of the Afghan and Iraq wars is at least $6 trillion. In other words, it is the cost of these two wars that explain the explosion of the US public debt and the

Why Write About Gender if You are Going to Get Blasted for it: diplomacy lessons from Miss Universe?

Megan MacKenzie at Duck of Minerva - 17 hours ago
This week Dan Drezner hosted a guest post on the politics of Miss Universe and I responded by pointing out the lack of/and the need for a gender analysis in his post. In his response, Drezner asks an important question: “Why on God’s green earth would I want to venture out from my professional comfort Continue reading

Heather Tucci-Jarraf: Absolute Transparency of What Is, The Structure of a Value Bond with Routing Numbers for the USA

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 18 hours ago
http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2013/11/heather-tucci-jarraf-absolute.html Heather Tucci-Jarraf: Absolute Transparency of What Is, The Structure of a Value Bond with Routing Numbers for the USA *AK Note: The D_CALL bond is a damages bond, the E_CALL bond is an equity bond. These are templates those wishing to play with the banking system can use for their own purposes. The ABA routing number is for the USA only, you will need to locate the routing number for your country if you live outside the USA. Heather suggests you contact World Bank "whistle blower" Karen Hudes for the ... more »

Surface 2 Tablet Giveaway!

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 18 hours ago
*Welcome to the Surface 2 Giveaway!* Some of us awesome bloggers have teamed up to offer one lucky reader a chance to win his or her choice of the two tablets! This giveaway is organized by Bay Area Mommy and cohosted by The WiC Project, Freebie Depot, Coupon & Freebies Mom and Mom To Bed By 8. Giveaway ends December 14, 2013 at 11:59pm EST. Open worldwide. Void where prohibited. Must be at least 18 years old to enter. If the winner resides outside the US, he/she will receive $500 cash instead. Entries will be verified. Winner will be randomly picked by Rafflecopter, will re... more »

Heather Tucci-Jarraf: Absolute Transparency of What Is, The Structure of a Value Bond with Routing Numbers for the USA

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago
*AK Note: The D_CALL bond is a damages bond, the E_CALL bond is an equity bond. These are templates those wishing to play with the banking system can use for their own purposes. The ABA routing number is for the USA only, you will need to locate the routing number for your country if you live outside the USA. Heather suggests you contact World Bank "whistle blower" Karen Hudes for the correct routing codes, since she is a General Counsel for the World Bank she will know which routing numbers to use for each individual country. - Bill* From: Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf To: D, Bill... more »

Did You Hear The One About The Deranged Lesbian Who Voted Against Marriage Equality?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago
Sad, pathetic person *"Truth is on the side of the oppressed… If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”* -Malcolm X A couple of years ago, when uber corrupt, very conservative and somewhat homophobic state Senator Colleen Hanabusa decided to try once again to get into the U.S. House of Representatives-- having been defeated several times previously-- she resigned from her state Senate seat. Governor Neil Abercrombie appointed state Rep. Maile Shimabukuro to her old seat and t... more »

Israel Blocks Key Witness Testimony In US Anti-Terror Case - China forcing Israel government including Prime Minister Netanyahu to bow down if they want to increase trade ties with China ? Key takeaway ....."(Netanyahu) is sending a message to the terrorists and the whole world, that Jewish blood is cheap," said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an Israeli lawyer who represents the families of 22 people killed in various Palestinian militant attacks.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
Israel Blocks Key Witness Testimony In US Anti-Terror Case CRISPIAN BALMER, REUTERS 38 MINUTES AGO 0 - - inShare - - - EMAIL - MORE [image: binyamin netanyahu] Getty Images/Uriel Senal JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli government has decided to prevent a key witness from testifying in an anti-terrorism case in the United States, drawing accusations that it is caving in to pressure from China. The lawsuit revolves around allegations that Bank of China knowingly allowed Palestinian militants to use its accounts to finance their operations, including a suicide at... more »

DRONE ART

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 18 hours ago
This artist is at the drone conference in Washington DC and his sign is sitting on the stage, leaned up against a mock up of a weaponized drone.....

An Update on my Indoor Garden

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 20 hours ago
November 16, 2013 With the Philippine Islands and their people devastated by typhoon Haiyan – most certainly made more powerful by rising sea levels and warming ocean around those islands from global warming – and the countries of the world … Continue reading →

Canada's Conservative Party Is So Fixed On Right Wing Ideology That They Will Tolerate A Crack Smoking, Drunk Driving, Profane, Gang Connected, Bombastic Bully To Stay On As Mayor Of Toronto ...

leftdog at Buckdog - 20 hours ago
[image: Progressive Bloggers] *Rob Ford gives us the very best example available of the moral bankruptcy that infects the Conservative Party of Canada. * *Stephen Harper's complete silence ... and total lack of public criticism of Ford's scandal .... proves the point. *

Ravitch’s Realistic Assessment of 2013 NAEP Results and Reform “Success”

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 23 hours ago
In his smug review of education historian Diane Ravitch’s November 8, 2013, questioning of the inconsistencies in 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results as an indicator that the corporate reform agenda is “working”– I use the term ”working” loosely since corporate reform has narrowed academic “success” to the almighty test score– StudentsFirst (don’t let the […]

The Ford Brothers and SUN News

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 23 hours ago
The fact that the ridiculous Ford brothers, Rob and Doug, ... the slobbering imbecile and arrogant doofus, have gone to SUN News is perfect. Rob's ignorance and incompetence were initially trumpeted by the SUN newspapers and his public humiliation is the epitome of what their level of right-wing populism always leads to and what it always means. These are all stupid people. And SUN News shows its desperation and failure by giving these two toxic blowhards a forum in a doomed attempt to stave off their inevitable bankruptcy and demise. These vermin were all made for each other. Th... more »

How Cheney's Illegal Domestic Spying Programs Almost Sunk The Bush White House

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
Not even waiting for the Supreme Court to halt the vote count in Florida and award the White House to Bush, Cheney moved with incredible speed to fill every position in the national security apparatus with his own people and claim that part of the government as his own turf. If there is one person who can be blamed for dereliction of duty in the events that led up to 9/11, it is Dick Cheney. And if there is one person who can be blamed for the overreaction to that unmitigated disaster-- think about the gutting of the Constitution and warrantless domestic spying, etc-- it is also Di... more »

A Government of Wolves

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
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Boston Bombing Criminal case - Can Dzhokhar Tsarnaev receive a fair trial in the Boston ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Boston Bombing Iron Curtain By James Henry and David J. Krajicek on Nov 14, 2013 [image: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev] Dzhokhar Tsarnaev A federal judge has rejected the American Civil Liberties Union’s request to file written arguments in support of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who stands accused in the Boston Marathon bombing. Such arguments are known as amicus briefs, or “friend of the court” briefs, and are filed by third parties who wish to offer legal arguments that may be relevant in a case. Federal trial judges rarely accept such briefs, which are typically filed not at the trial but at the appel... more »

Possessed by the devils

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Wow, for an absolute clash of cultures, it's fascinating to read Melvyn Bragg's *Telegraph *piece about his friend Francis Bacon and then to read the comments 'below the line' (as we say in the blogosphere). I love Radio 4's *In Our Time*, and can forgive Melvyn Bragg almost everything for the sake of it. Plus (as you may have noticed), I've something of a fondness for 'purple prose' myself. So, I rather enjoyed His (Labour) Lordship's ultra-ripe, poetic prose style in this *Telegraph* article. It strikes me as being pleasingly self-conscious in its intelligence, as well as being ... more »

Tim Geithner joins Warburg Pincus as President and Managing Director ..... Slight surprise he didn't get a job at a TBTF Bank !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Entry Event: Tim Geithner To Join Private Equity Giant Warburg Pincus [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/16/2013 10:04 -0500 - Bank of America - Bank of America - Ben Bernanke - Carlyle - Henry Kissinger - Ken Lewis - KKR - Main Street - New York Fed - Private Equity - Tim Geithner - Timothy Geithner inShare When Tim Geithner announced his departure from the US Treasury in January, the only question was how long would it take the former NY Fed head to get a job with the only industry that he care... more »

True facts

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 day ago
Legal definitions: a riot in England and Wales must involve at least twelve people, in the US state of Nevada there only needs to be two. The 1900 Olympics included the events Live Pigeon Shooting and Long Jump for Horses. The band Aerosmith have made more money from Guitar Hero than any of their albums. Skiing was introduced to Switzerland by Arthur Conan Doyle. Thirteen per cent of Belarus is swamp. Melbourne used to be called Batmainia. Beyonce Knowles is the 8th cousin, four times removed of Gustav Mahler. George Bush and Saddam Hussein have had shoes made by the same cobbler.... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
Eiffel Tower, Paris, France. [photo via Google Earth Pics]

At the Chalk Face brings it home again…

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Another great set of studio shows in the can after a couple of days in Madison, WI, interviewing Karen Lewis, Ruth Conniff, a parent opt-out activist, Pasi Sahlberg, and a great hourlong chat with Nancy Carlsson-Paige. This WILL be syndicated. Soon. Tagged: at the chalk face, edreform radio, johnson, slekar

Lakotas throw out TransCanada reps selling tarsands snake oil

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Lakota Winyan on Cheyenne River Territory  Throw Out the Transcanadians Selling TarSands Snake Oil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz6qkOphrI0&feature=share By Kent Lebsock Owe Aku International Justice Project Censored News On November 13, 2013, tribal members of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, acting as agents for Transcanada in order to sell-out the homeland to the

Avoiding the Joint Security Trap (and Countering Conventional Wisdom)

Jeffrey Stacey at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
The diplomatic dustup over Syria brought Russia in from the cold but simultaneously froze any notion that western allies were getting their strategic act together. Nonetheless, although the mistakes in the U.S. and UK’s approach to building support at home and abroad for an intervention in Syria confused leaders and citizens alike, these mistakes should not be Continue reading

WORDS FROM DRONE SUMMIT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
The Drone Summit: Proliferation & Resistance conference in Washington DC began this morning with more than 400 people packed into a hall at Georgetown University Law School. After opening words from CodePink co-founder Media Benjamin we heard from keynote speaker Dr. Cornel West from Princeton University. Here are a few of his words: - The use of drones to kill people are imperial crimes - We are creating a love movement, we love our brothers and sisters in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and around the world - We are being pushed into an authoritarian soft fascist regime ... more »

The Smell of Desperate Emails in the Morning

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
I guess the MoveOn folks didn't get very far with their email appeal the other day. When even Gail Collins and Ana Marie Cox abandon their usual playful wingnut-bashing and compare The One to an abusive boyfriend with the lame apologies, the prez finds himself forced back in wooing mode in order to salvage what little credibility he still has left. This missive in my spam folder is so pathetic that I feel guilty parsing it. Oh, screw it: Karen -- I want to cut through the media doing its job for a change and afflicting my comfort noise and talk with you directly about where I'm we'... more »

This is Not Sparta

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago

Did you know that the cost of keeping US soldiers in Afghanistan is $1.3 to $2.1 million per soldier? Or that it cost US taxpayers $50 million to kill one Taliban soldier? Or that the cost of the Afghan and Iraq wars is at least $6 trillion (twice the entire Social Security trust fund), thus explaining the explosion of the US public debt?

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ *What Is The Real Agenda Of The American Police State? — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ November 13, 2013 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter What Is The Real Agenda Of The American Police State? Paul Craig Roberts In my last column I emphasized that it was important for American citizens to demand to know what the real agendas are behind the wars of choice by the Bush and Obama regimes. These are major long term wars each lasting two to three tim... more »

Hollow At The Core

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
The Rob Ford Circus has laid bare the void at the centre of modern Canadian Conservatism. Michael Harris writes that the party -- and what it stands for -- has degenerated into what he calls ROFO Madness: ROFO madness is when you smoke crack cocaine and show up in videos making death threats. Your mother blames it on your weight problem. Then you sell bobblehead dolls of yourself to people lining up to have their picture taken with you. As with business and government, and news and entertainment, notoriety and celebrity have merged. And there are always cheerleaders in the media ... more »

Bear

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