Wednesday, November 06, 2013

6 Nov - Blogs I'm Following III

10:21pm MST

Learning standards and real life.

skrashen at Schools Matter - 6 minutes ago
Sent to the Baltimore Sun, Nov 6 Arnold Packer is right: "The Common Core won't help the common man," (Nov. 5). As Packer points out, the math standards are skewed to the college path. So are the English Language Arts standards: Susan Ohanian has remarked that they seem to be made for English majors. John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, spoke to this problem in 1961:"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philo... more »

The Official Story of 911 was written in the NY Times on 9 12 2001

Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 13 minutes ago
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Steve Israel Leads The DCCC Into Another War Against Women-- This Time In Indiana

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 minutes ago
Steve Israel and his latest anti-Choice recruit-- looking for a knock out Indiana's 2nd district-- the north-central part of the state from South Bend, Elkhart, Goshen, and LaPorte down to Wabash and Peru-- used to be a swing district with a PVI of R+4. In recent times it was represented by far right extremist Chris Chocola, current head of Club for Growth, and Blue Dog Joe Donnelly who used it for a springboard to an unlikely Senate win last year. Donnelly decided too run for the Senate because he knew he'd have no chance to win in the newly redistricted second. The Republican state... more »

Enbridge Oil Spill, Breaking News

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 35 minutes ago
NTSB Press ReleaseNational Transportation Safety Board *July 10, 2012** **WASHINGTON - Pervasive organizational failures by a pipeline operator along with weak federal regulations led to a pipeline rupture and subsequent oil spill in 2010, the National Transportation Safety Board said today.* * **On Sunday, July 25, 2010, at about 5:58 p.m., a 30 inch-diameter pipeline (Line 6B) owned and operated by Enbridge Incorporated ruptured and spilled crude oil into an ecologically sensitive area near the Kalamazoo River in Marshall, Mich., for 17 hours until a local utility worker d... more »

Going Commando

Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
Lionel Beehner and Joseph Young write in The National Interest that while targeted killing by drone strike is increasingly denounced (and decreasingly used by states), cross-border incursions by counter-terror ground troops are an increasingly accepted practice – despite the fact that both violate state sovereignty. Citing the capture of Abu Anas Al-Libi by US special ops Continue reading

Musical Interlide: Deuter, “Earth Shadow”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
Deuter, “Earth Shadow” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COAvH95xojY

Where’s the tar and feathers?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours ago
*“The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.” - Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America,” *The Arena,* January 1900* It’s fair to say that NZers like their issues small and provincial. Rarely do NZers *en masse* display their emotions or grapple with big issues. But give them a flawed person on whom they can unleash those pent-up feelings and invite their moral outrage—a politician calling his colleagues “front bums”; an employers’ representative talking about wome... more »

Consumerism and culture: immersive TV...

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 2 hours ago
Here is another interesting article discussing the rise of immersive television and novels. Put simply, TV and books are getting longer and longer. Particularly notable is the rise of the story-arc. Narrative is becoming more and more intricate. Audiences/readerships are committing to long, drawn out stories, though whether this is delayed gratification is another matter. A story arc can be arranged so there to leave cliff-hangers at important points. Does this defy the digital trend to reduced attention span? In one sense it does. But what’s actually going on? Is this just an int... more »

Newly retired Denver Broncos' guard John Moffitt looks forward to not having to carry that 319-pound bulk around

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"Everybody, they just don't get it and they think it's crazy. But I think what I was doing is crazy."* -- *now-former NFL offensive lineman John Moffitt, in* a phone interview with the Associated Press *by Ken* Two observations about the sudden retirement of Denver Broncos third-year guard John Moffitt: • It may be that the writings of the Dalai Lama and Noam Chomsky are not conducive to an NFL player's gung-ho attitude. • The head that the *Sporting News* at least put on the AP report, "John Moffitt walks away from NFL, $1 million," is problematic. As if the Denver Broncos didn'... more »

Kahlil Gibran, "The Seven Selves"; "How I Became A Madman"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
* * *"The Seven Selves"* by Kahlil Gibran "In the silent hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven selves sat together and thus conversed in whispers: *First Self:* Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years, with naught to do but renew his pain by day and recreate his sorrow by night. I can bear my fate no longer, and now I must rebel. *Second Self:* Yours is a better lot than mine, brother, for it is given me to be this madman's joyous self. I laugh his laughter and sing his happy hours, and with thrice winged feet I dance his brighter thoughts. It is I that ... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Slavery'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
SLAVERY Mohawk Nation News MNN. NOV. 6, 2013. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and Prime Minister Stephen Harper grew up In West Toronto, lived and shopped at the same plaza!! Canadians and world elites are supporting these degenerates! Ford is on a video smoking crack. Harper bribed a senator. They both think, “We can do anything we want.” The masses are slaves to tyrants? The elites protect each

Greece updates November 6 , 2013 - Another 24 Hour General Strike as the Troikans visit their Greek serfs once again demanding more blood , sweat and tears.....Golden Dawn Shootings - the murders of two Golden Dawn members caught on CCTV.......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://rt.com/business/greece-troika-creditors-austerity-298/ Cash-strapped Greece protests against further austerity Published time: November 06, 2013 12:28 Get short URL Protesters shout slogans outside the Greek Finance Ministry during the meeting of the Greek Finance Minister with the EU and IMF officials in Athens, 2013. (AFP Photo/Aris Messinis) Download video (34.03 MB) Share on tumblr Tags Crisis, Global economy, Greece Public and private services have shut down across Greece as unions hold a 24-hour general strike against additional austerity cuts in the recession-plagued cou... more »

How Do I Get Out Of My Noncompete Agreement?

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 4 hours ago
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has recently announced that he supports efforts to make noncompete agreements unenforceable in Massachusetts. Patrick's Secretary of Housing and Economic Development, Gregory Bialecki, said this about noncompete agreements: Non-competes stifle movement and inhibit competition and we do not want that. The evidence is clear-we are not seeing the kind of spin-offs and start-ups at the same rate that previously made Massachusetts an enviable model. Individual career growth is good for the Commonwealth: We encourage our talent to be creative, to be innov... more »

Uranium mine threatening Supai sacred land Grand Canyon temporarily halted

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago
Energy Fuels Resources decided to place the Canyon Mine in non-operational status. The halt is expected to last until a December 2014 court decision. The Canyon Mine poses a critical threat to Red Butte, sacred place of Havasupai Nation -- Indigenous Action Media By Roger Clark, Grand Canyon TrustRobin Silver, Center for Biological DiversitySandy Bahr, Sierra Club Censored News“Zombie”

Žižek on Ideology

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 4 hours ago
I have finally got round to reading Žižek's *The Sublime Object of Ideology*and it is absolutely fascinating. I'd like to share this very short extract because a) I'm too lazy to blog properly tonight and, b) I'll never look at ideology the same way again. Some context is necessary. The traditional Marxist understanding of ideology - and by traditional I mean dominant - positions it as a sort of naive consciousness. That is people under the spell of ideology misrecognise the true state of affairs. They cannot identify their real position in the order of things, nor apprehend society... more »

The Diplomat: Constructing China's Claims to the Senkaku

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 4 hours ago
*Tongluo train station*. The Diplomat has a piece from me this week: Constructing China's Claims to the Senkaku. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!

Living in a Chinese bubble

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
No, you can’t see bubbles when you’re in them, said Bubble Master Alan Greenspan. No, there’s no way to tell if you’re a in bubble, said his apprentice Ben Bernanke. No, no one can see a bubble at the time, says Ben’s successor Janet Yellen, echoed by every central banker in the world busy inflating their bubbles. Which means there’s nothing at all to see in China. [Hat tip Hugh Pavletich] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Long Live Russia, an example to us all

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 4 hours ago
George Orwell wrote in his work, 1984, that in the future there would be a perpetual state of war, with the official enemies and allies changing place with barely anyone noticing the manipulation of what we perceive as reality. Well, that future is now, and the media manipulation of what we refer to as news, has certainly created the bizarre reality of our old allies becoming enemies, and vice versa. Russia was always a staunch ally of the UK, fighting on the same side in the Napoleonic Wars, and both World Wars. Then, through the media lie that State Communism and Finance Capital... more »

Hermosa colección de 17 imágenes diferentes

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 5 hours ago

Wall St. Recovery floats only big boats

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours ago
The Wall Street Recovery has been very good for the casino capitalists and the mega-corporations they call people. The investor class is swimming in cash and it keeps pouring in. Dow closed at an all time high just this very afternoon. Meanwhile, the majority of America is trying to stay afloat from month to month. So how did this titanic economic disaster happen? How are companies managing to earn so much money in a sluggish economy? And why aren't their profits goosing the economy? For starters, weak job growth has held down pay. And since the recession struck six years ago, bus... more »

Musical Interlude: The Moody Blues, “Days of Future Passed”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
Full Album: The Moody Blues, “Days of Future Passed” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y_9hwW1eV0

Turkey Serves As A Gateway For Traveling Jihadist Terrorists; US And KSA Continue To Support Al-Qaeda In Syria

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours ago
*Photo Source: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. * Turkey is half-European and half-Eastern. So it is no surprise that it is the perfect gateway for traveling Jihadist terrorists from the European continent and Middle Eastern countries. Turkey is serving as a three star hotel for rootless, alienated, head-chopping, flesh-eating religious fanatics from all around the world. The call to Jihad is heard loud and clear in Turkey. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad recently *said* that, "Turkey has adopted a destructive approach regarding Syria. They have let terrorists from 83 co... more »

Those annoying third-party libertarians

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
Republicans in Virginian are spitting tacks that their candidate for governor, Ken Cuccinelli, was narrowly beaten by Democrat Terry McAuliffe—beaten by a margin less than the votes received by the Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis. “Thanks, Libertarians, for giving us Terry McAuliffe as governor.” That was a fairly standard response from Virginia Republicans—assuming without question that Libertarian votes somehow “belong” to Republicans. Libertarian-voting Scott Shackford at *Reason* tells them to get a life: In the spirit of reconciliation, here are some tips from a typical ... more »

Reading the tea leaves

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours ago
Well we had a bunch of elections yesterday. In the little corners of the world that I follow, outside of NJ's folly, it was a pretty good day for Democrats. Whole lot of progressives in small towns were elected. The tea party guy in Alamaba was trounced by the establishment GOPer in a primary. Minimum wage was raised to $8.25 in New Jersey and to $15 in a suburb of Seattle which apparently is good news for workers at Sea Tac. Portland, Maine legalized marijuana. Of course, there's always something weird. Six counties in Colorada voted to secede from something. Not clear on what the ... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
“The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, they appear in opposite corners of the above stunning mosaic. *Click image for larger size.* The familiar Horsehead nebula appears as a dark cloud, a small silhouette notched against the long red glow at the lower left. Alnitak is the easternmost star in Orion's belt and is seen as the brightest star to the left of the Horsehead. Below Alnitak is the Flame Nebula, with clouds of bright emission and dra... more »

Chet Raymo, “The Ultimate Citadel of Humanism”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
* “The Ultimate Citadel of Humanism”* by Chet Raymo “Here I go again. It seems lately that these posts drift more and more toward memoir, toward summing up, toward drawing together the raveled treads of a life. What started almost ten years ago as a continuation of my 20 years of science essays in the Boston Globe -- essays that aspired toward a spritely objectivity -- has become willy-nilly an exercise in self-indulgence. That so many of you have stayed for the ride suggests, I hope, that we share certain life-experiences, and that together we articulate a Tao, a way, a common a... more »

"A Little Parenthesis In Eternity...”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of Infinity. Life is Eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in Eternity." - Paulo Coelho

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
Walnut Creek, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

The Poet: Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
* "The Summer Day"* by Mary Oliver "Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel dow... more »

"What Will Your Verse Be?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless- of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the po... more »

3 D Printers: Houses, Cars and even human tissue!

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 6 hours ago
My buddy JJ sent this to me and it immediately said "POST ME" .... who am I to argue with a 3 D printer? This is only just the beginning. The tip of the iceberg. Barely scratching the surface of all that will be seen very soon. A quick search on the topic of 3D printers brings you literally days worth of reading material, with new articles, even in the main stream, coming out almost daily. This is the beginning of change. Being able to produce a 2500 square foot house in 20 hours? There have been companies out there for years that have been creating this type of quickly assem... more »

Rachel unloads on “the Beltway press!”

bob somerby at the daily howler - 7 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013* *We think of Jack Coen’s old joke:* We haven’t seen Jack Coen in years. He’s one of our all-time favorites. Today, he’s Leno’s head writer (or some such thing). Thirty years ago, he was a young, very strong comedian we worked with in various places, from Atlantic City and Baltimore all the way down to Fort Myers, where we jointly chickened on getting towed behind a boat, high up in the air. We’re sure there’s a name for that. For two main reasons, plus several more, he’s one of our all-time favorites, a guy we admire. Moving right along: Way back th... more »

Ten Basic Points: Israel’s Rights to Judea and Samaria - Op-Eds - Israel National News

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours ago
A must read for the anti-Semites who seem to have very little grasp of history or law. 'The territories of Judea and Samaria remain in dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, subject only to the outcome of permanent status negotiations between them.' More here http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14068#.Unq3wTpFAuq

300 Spartan Hoplites Saved Greek Democracy But Will 400 American Billionaires Destroy Ours?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Whether Huntsman was the one who revealed that multimillionaire GOP tax cheat Mitt Romney paid no taxes at all for years, what we do know for sure is that for the years he did pay something his rate was 13.9%, considerably less than the 35% the very rich are supposed to pay. And that doesn't count his non-taxable income-- nor the money he had stashed away in foreign accounts of dubious legality-- which probably accounted for more than half his wealth. When Eisenhower, the last mainstream Republican president, was in office, the marginal tax rate on incomes over $400,000 was 92% a... more »

Fischer Explains How To Exorcise Your New Home To Rid It Of Demonic Spirits

Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 7 hours ago
on the subject of superstitious irrationality... some people who are terrified of shadows. The cause of their terror. "Jane Doe" and her G/Fs

Len’s “living wage” has a ripple the size of a tsunami

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
*Alan:* Hey, great news. *Bruce:* What’s that? *Alan:* Larry’s getting a raise—up from $600 to $730 a week! *Bruce:* Larry? You mean *Larry *Larry? For what *he *does? *Alan:* Yeah. Living wage mate. *Bruce:* But … but … that means he’s pulling down more than *I am*! And I’m supposed to be above his pay grade. *Alan:* Yeah, shitty news, eh. *Bruce:* I’m off to see HR. If Len Brown is successful in his proposal to pay low-paid council workers a “living wage” of $18.40 per hour, that conversation above will he happening around every water cooler in all the many council buildings ... more »

PostElection: The Polling Place Bake Sale Zone

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours ago
Yes, I'm still fascinated by this. And thanks to commenters here and on twitter, I have some preliminary results. Obviously not something that would hold up to rigorous scrutiny, but enough that I figured I should make a record of it before moving on. It appears that there is a polling place bake sale zone and a zone in which there are no bake sales, with the former including the northeast, the middle west, and spreading south as some of the border states. And then there's a zone without bake sales on election day which is made up of the deep south including Texas, the southwest and... more »

"A Writer, And A Story..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
“The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating his material, laboring to express himself fitly, he lays a firmer grasp on his thought; he finds himself. So the human race is writing its story, finding itself, discovering its own underlying purpose, revising, recasting a tale pathetic often, yet none the less sublime.” - Felix Adler

Thinking Big ...

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 8 hours ago
I was recently told that my hopes n' dreams failed because my plans were too grandiose. I should think about smaller-scale things and do what's within my own personal capacity. 1. I see "smaller-scale things" as either being useless protests about some sort of recent elite atrocities, or as an attempt to mitigate the symptoms of a disease for which I have the cure. 2. I never, ever thought that I could accomplish anything on my own. My delusion was that many people (especially the left-wing big-wigs who are, evidently, bereft of ideas) would hear what I had to say, and either show ... more »

Derelection of duty

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
The BBC's latest report on Obamacare introduces us to Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Much later in the report we learn that 'Ms Tavenner said she could not take a position on the bill because she had not read it' So Barack Obama's head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hasn't read The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Am I alone in thinking that she should have read it and not to do so is a dereliction of duty?

You mean Barack Obama was lying? I am shocked...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
President Barack Obama publicly promised at least 36 times since 2008 that his health care reform plan, Obamacare, would not cause anyone who liked their present health insurance to lose it. Sometimes he emphasised his remarks with an emphatic “Period.”, no room for any doubt there. Barack Obama made this pledge in some of his weekly video addresses, many of his campaign rallies and in town hall meetings However, news broke last week that his administration knew in 2010 that millions of Americans would lose their coverage. Not that you'd know from the BBC's coverage of the story... more »

Opt Out of Testing Is Now a National Movement

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 8 hours ago
A clip from The Nation: ". . . .As standardized testing has grown, so too has its shadow. In 2011, the United Opt Outmovement was established to counter the pro-testing mania sweeping the country. Its website provides opt-out guides for forty-nine states and the District of Columbia, and connects a burgeoning community of grumbling and disaffected parents. “I didn’t ask for high-stakes testing,” says Tim Slekar, United Opt Out’s founder. Slekar sees participating in a large-scale opt-out movement as a way for him and his children to “reclaim public education.” United Opt Out curre... more »

“It’s time for this farcical nonsense to stop.”

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 9 hours ago
*It was bad enough that the mayor inaugurated last week in the Auckland Town Hall had the names Len and Brown. Worse still, says guest poster Fiona Mackenzie, that the whole palaver was slathered with irrelevant and demeaning Maori protocol.* [image: Auckland Mayor Len Brown is sworn in as Auckand Mayor at Town Hall on October 29, 2013, Auckland New Zealand. Len Brown was today sworn in for his second term as Mayor of Auckland just two weeks after news broke of a two-year affair with a member of the council advisory board.]Powhiris and strict Maori protocol were imposed last Tues... more »

GAY OBAMA

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
Mia Marie Pope has outed Obama on The Manning Report. Recorded 31 October 2013 *OBAMA OUTED BY TEENAGE ACQUAINTANCE MIA MARIE POPE*

TERROR USED TO CUT WAGES; USA AND NORWAY

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
www.washingtonpost.com The elite use terrorism to keep workers under control. A country's profits go partly to the 'workers' and partly to the 'owners'. In America, worker's wages used to make up almost 70% of GDP. Now the figure is 58%. Labor share of GDP: It's on the decline. "Some of the biggest declines have been egalitarian societies such as Norway, where labour's share has fallen from 64% in 1980 to 55% now." Pay and economic growth: A shrinking slice | The Economist *Anders Breivik* You might expect workers in Norway to vote for 'Left Wing' parties which would prote... more »

Artritis Reumatica; Posible cura

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 9 hours ago
Original Mice that are reared in sterile conditions produce very few of these cells, and his group had previously found that mice bought from one supplier had far more Th17 cells than those that came from a different supplier.  *Conoce a alguien con manos y coyunturas asi?* *Si ustedes leen y entienden que 3 typos de colonias amigables en el estomago de la humanidad, (1) Bacteriode Enterotypo,* * (2) Ruminococus, (3) Prevotella... Cada grupo de estas bacterias nos ayuda con la alimentacion, Pero a cada grupo le gusta alimentos particulares...Y algunas personas no... more »

PostElection: Winners

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours ago
Even putting aside the bizarre idea that Republicans "won" Virginia because they didn't lose by as much as the polls predicted...it was about as mixed an election day as possible, wasn't it? * Democrats win! After all the two biggest pickups on the day were VA-Gov and NYC Mayor, both to the Democrats. * Republicans win! Context matters. Yes, Republicans lost VA-Gov, but winning a landslide in New Jersey Governor is a big deal in a solidly Democratic state, more so than losing by a bit in a swing state. * Mainstream conservatives win! Chris Christie massively outperforms GOP par in ... more »

Senate Shocker

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 9 hours ago
Well, all I can say is that it's about time. A few Senate Democrats appear to be struggling to break loose from the gilded gridlock of Washington groupthink, boldly suggesting (in so many words) that the talented Mr. Obama's plan to cut Social Security benefits is a plan hatched in sociopathic hell. It seems it was only a month ago that the debate was not over *whether* to inflict more misery on the old, the disabled, widows, orphans and veterans, but over *how much* pain to dish out. A Senate bill turning the whole fraudulent deficit scold argument inside out had been moldering in ... more »

The Realist Report with John Friend

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 9 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Simon Shack, producer of the must-watch 9/11 documentary *September Clues*. Simon and I will be discussing his research into 9/11, media fakery, 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: - *PSYOP aspects of 9/11* by John Friend - *Book Review: The 911 Fear-Based Mind Control Program* by John Friend - *9/11 Propaganda, Sandy Hook propaganda* by... more »

Turkey Hand Print canvas

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 9 hours ago
Every year, my daughter and I love to make Hand Print Turkeys to display around our house. This year I decided I wanted to make one that was a little more permanent. The little ones grow up so fast, I want to be able to look back on her precious little hand prints, so this year we made ours on canvas. You will need: An 8x10 canvas (this size was barely big enough for my 4-year-old) Red Acrylic Paint Yellow Acrylic Paint Orange Acrylic Paint Brown Acrylic Paint a Foam Brush Google Eyes Orange Foam Red Foam Hot Glue Use the brush to paint the red paint onto your little one's hand. I ... more »

DOOR-TO-DOOR IN BATH

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 10 hours ago
Each day this week I've been taking flyers door-to-door in Bath about a public forum a group of us are organizing on November 13. Bath Iron Works (BIW), which is owned by the $31 billion aerospace and military conglomerate General Dynamics Corporation, is requesting a $250,000 a year tax break for the next 25 years from the City of Bath. I've been trying to do four hours each day dropping flyers and I know of at least eight others (Bath Citizens for Responsible TIF Action) who have been helping do so as well. Two volunteers went to the voting polls in Bath yesterday for a couple... more »

Leave to appeal from summary conviction appeal

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago
R. v. Wylie, 2013 ONCA 673: [2] In *R. v. R.R.*, 2008 ONCA 497, 238 O.A.C. 242, this court stated that leave to appeal in these circumstances depends on two factors: the merits of the proposed grounds of appeal, and the significance of the legal issues to the general administration of justice. In our view, both factors indicate that leave to appeal ought to be granted in this case. [3] A preliminary review of the Crown's arguments on the proposed grounds of appeal satisfies us that these arguments have considerable merit. [4] Moreover, when, as in this c... more »

Playtime?

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago

BOOKS / Nina Herencia : Are We Hearing You Well, Mariann?

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 10 hours ago
Are we hearing you well, Mariann? New poetry and drawings from the Wizard By Nina Herencia / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2013 Mariann Wizard has published two books this month; the second one, Hempseed Food: The REAL Secret Ingredient for Health & Happiness, will be reviewed soon in The Rag Blog. Mariann will launch Hempseed officially on Saturday, November 9, 7-9 p.m., at Austin's Brave

A Near Death Experience

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 10 hours ago
* * * * * * *Lisa's NDE* * * *[not Lisa Harrison's experience btw... in case you wonder... my friend Wendell forwarded this to me in an email... keep in mind there is no "correct" way to have an NDE, they do vary from person to person. In the one I had in 2009 I had no life review. For a time I thought maybe something was wrong with me because I didn't. I also did not see relatives, or many of the things Dannion Brinkley reports in his 3 NDE experiences. One thing that is common though is how deeply they affect your physical life afterwards. Dolores Cannon says many people in th... more »

Updates On Syria: Date of Peace Conference Pushed Back, Turkey Ramps Up Border Control, Assad's Advisor Is Hopeful About A Political Settlement

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago
An excerpt from, *"Damascus blasts kill 8 as Syria peace talks languish"*CBS News, November 6: Meanwhile, the international effort to get both sides of the conflict to the negotiating table to find a political solution to the crisis hit yet another stumbling block Tuesday, as diplomats failed to agree on a date for a long-anticipated peace summit in Geneva. The world powers strongly disagreed over what diplomatic steps to take to resolve the fighting and what any future Syrian leadership beyond President Assad's government should look like. An excerpt from, *"Turkey mostly mum on c... more »

San Fermin - Sonsick - Audiotree Live

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago
San Fermin - Sonsick - Audiotree Live. Source: Audiotreetv. Date Published: October 10.

Piers Morgan, the BBC and phone-hacking

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
As news breaks that the four civil cases against The Mirror Group have been given leave to proceed, I note two things: 1. the news has yet to make the BBC news website where a search for 'Piers Morgan' returns just this: which is odd because every twist and turn in the cases against News International were headline news on the BBC 2. that a court will now be able to test the veracity of Piers Morgan's statement that: "I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, or published any stories based on the hacking of a phone." The BBC's obsession with destroying News Internat... more »

“Fukushima Equals 3 TRILLION Lethal Doses”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
* * *“Fukushima Equals 3 TRILLION Lethal Doses”* by Bob Nichols "The world’s second big nuclear disaster occurred at Chernobyl Reactor No. 4 in the Ukraine on Apr 26, 1986. Simply tagged as “Chernobyl,” it is what the next big and well known nuke disaster, after the American Three Mile Island, on March 28, 1979 came to be called. “Chernobyl” ejected 30% of one 192-ton, three-month old reactor core. That’s 57.6 radioactive tons thrown into the air by fire and explosions. The tiny radioactive and burning smoke particles have traveled around the world many times since 1979, killing ... more »

We Are All Slaves To The Multinationals-- No Less Under Obama Than Under The Bushs And Clinton

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
The U.S. Export-Import Bank, a government entity charged with helping boost exports from domestic businesses, met last week to discuss giving hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to a foreign airline so that it can buy Boeing airplanes. The airline-- Biman Bangladesh-- is known for its poor safety record and unreliable service. While this proposed deal is disconcerting, it points to a broader problem: The Ex-Im Bank’s priorities are backwards. Instead of helping domestic small businesses that actually need assistance when it comes to exporting their goods abroad, the Ex-Im B... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 11 hours ago
*To the Corps of Engineers, Bermuda grass is a cheap way to resist erosion — but it may not be enough ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*

Fallout. The result of Tony Clement's nuking of the federal public service.

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours ago
I've watched in awe at the decade-long performance of Tony Clement. He's lied, he's laughed at the fatal results of a tainted food supply, he's misappropriated millions of taxpayer dollars to feather his own electoral riding with pagodas and pools, he's created the most inept "red-tape' elimination formula known in the developed world and then he was let loose to destroy the federal public

Jason Erb- Exposing Faux Capitalism

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 11 hours ago
I did find this interview extremely enlightening. So much so I listened thrice! ;-) And thanks to Henrik at Red Ice Creations for providing this interview for us all to enjoy Jason Erb joins us from Ontario, Canada where he started the website*Exposing Faux Capitalism *during the global financial collapse in 2008. We'll hear about a number of topics such as the history of the monetary system, credit default swaps, debt based currency and compound interest. Jason explains how the currency system is run by belief, confidence and control of information but nothing is there to back it u... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago

D. has an urgent need...

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 12 hours ago
*Update: 11/06/2013 4:13 PM PDT Raised about US$200 on my Paypal account so far. I don't know how much has gone straight to Muxi's Paypal account.... Thank you so much for helping D. out... -Bill* Our friend D. from the Removing the Shackles blog has a very urgent need. She has a tooth that is infected in the jaw and needs to get it removed. These kind of infections can get serious and painful. D. has a family of great kids and really doesn't have the funds to get this done so I thought we all could help her out. She's done such great research over the past months... more »

Assclowns of the Week #97: SNAPping Your Fingers at the Poor edition

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours ago
As the caption in the lead picture attests, we'd rather murder poor people overseas than feed our own. As the World Champion Boston Red Sox were taking a boat ride through the Charles, we were treated to the sight of carefully guarded and isolated multibillionaires and multimillionaires slapping each other on the backs for getting even richer the very day after Congress and the White House quietly let the 2009 Recovery Act lapse, resulting in $5,000,000,000 in SNAP spending cuts. The juxtaposition and timing couldn't've been more awful. Because of that "oversight" that conveni... more »

A pattern is forming...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 12 hours ago
*based on what I've read this morning.* Is it the right direction to take? You tell me. The Market Ticker: It Is Time To Stand Up, Or Stand Down American Thinker: I Am Now a Dissident (and You Should Be, Too!) Sultan Knish: The American Iron Curtain: In the meantime, I have five more trees to plant and 120 tulip bulbs to plunk in the ground before the rain starts up again.

PostElection: Virginia Governor

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago
I'm a bit late to this, and despite that I haven't come close to reading everything that people have written so I'm not sure whether people have covered this or not, but that disclaimer aside: The interpretation of the Virginia governor's race, with Terry McAuliffe defeating Ken Cuccinelli by (based on results so far) 2.5 percentage points, appears to be dominated by questions about why it's so close -- rather than questions about why McAuliffe won. That's because of two things. One is because polls had McAuliffe with a bigger lead; it was estimated at 7.2% by HuffPollster, which is... more »

“Repeat After Me: Economics Is NOT a Science”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
* * * “Repeat After Me: Economics Is NOT a Science”* by Bill Bonner “Dow off 20 points yesterday. Gold down $6 an ounce. No biggie. On Monday and Tuesday, we visited our youngest son, Edward, a sophomore at the University of Vermont. His roommate joined us for dinner. “Okay, let me explain it to you,” we said. The roommate was wondering if he should switch his major to economics. “Economics is a phony science. The more you study it, the more you think you know… and the less you really know about how an economy actually functions. I’ll explain why in just a few sentences. If yo... more »

An Overarching Accountability System Requires an Overarching Accountability System-Maker

John Thompson at Schools Matter - 12 hours ago
Like his *The Allure of Order*, Jal Mehta’s“From Bureaucracy to Profession: Remaking the Educational Sector for the Twenty-First Century” provides an awesome and eclectic explanation of how to break out of the blame game and create a 21st century educational sector. “The political science concept of “path dependence” explains why the well-meaning efforts of accountability-driven reformers have failed. The educational history that they do not know has doomed top-down reform. But, history is not destiny, Mehta proclaims. He argues that, “by creating a professional rather than bureaucr... more »

Pipeline Around The Bend-A Spoof by Stars and Climate Change

The War Room from True Climate Stories on Vimeo.

Exploiting Fear to Steer Education Policy: It's Not Just for K-12 Anymore

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 13 hours ago
*Posted at Alternet October 31, 2013 as "*Public Threat, Private Gain: How Scare Tactics Steer Education Policy to Benefit Corporate Interests." * * *For more than 100 years, K-12 education policy has been driven by fears of foreign domination. Now that ideology is taking over higher ed, and lining corporate coffers in the process.* In the fall of 2006, a special commission appointed by the U. S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings issued its report on proposed changes for colleges and universities in the United States. In language clearly intended to portray the university in... more »

pet goat

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 13 hours ago

Brother Kessler’s historic quote!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013* *Truly, a world-class keeper:* We’ve changed one part of yesterday’s headline. But truly, Brother Kessler’s recent quotation is a wonderfully comical keeper: “We’re not trying to pick on Jindal, but Gore did not actually say this.” Kessler’s statement belongs to the ages! For the pitiful details, click here. For today, let’s review: *Fourteen years later,* Bobby Jindal is *still* repeating an embellished statement, something Al Gore “did not actually say.” In fact, the situation is even worse: In his recent appearance on Fox, Jindal put the statement... more »

THE PROGRESS, THE GAPS AND THE SCANDAL: Amanda Ripley, Lost in America!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013* *Part 3— The shape and the size of our gaps:* Unless he’s an education reporter, a reader of Amanda Ripley’s new book may be struck, at various junctures, by her apparent cluelessness about our large, sprawling nation. Her cluelessness *and* her apparent disinterest! Reading Ripley’s attempt to describe the challenges facing our children and schools, we often think of the famous scene from Annie Hall. Standing in line at a movie theater, Alvy Singer tears his hair as a pompous fellow discusses Marshall McLuhan. He then asks a special guest to rebuke t... more »

Rob Ford is an "International Celebrity" now

LeDaro at LeDaro - 13 hours ago
He made a major headline on NBC Evening News for his crack-cocaine smoking and his admission for doing so. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Mohawk Nation News 'Death of Anti-Indian'ism!'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
DEATH OF ANTI-INDIAN’ISM! Posted on November 6, 2013 MNN. NOV. 3, 2013. We true Indigenous are the caretakers of Onowaregeh, Great Turtle Island. The great natural power inspires us to stand up for our inherent values, mainly to protect the environment. Our land was stolen by the self-serving bankers to establish one of the most vicious capitalistic war machines in the history of

Vallas and CorpEd Lose in Bridgeport Election

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours ago
The school board election in Bridgeport represents a clear referendum on the antiquarian loser reforms that have increasingly crippled public education over the past 30 years. Will state governments and the Feds take note? How sweet it is! From CTPost.com: BRIDGEPORT -- The city Board of Education slipped out of the hands of Mayor Bill Finch and Schools Superintendent Paul Vallason Tuesday, despite the surprise win of a Republican school board candidate. In the election, the majority of the nine-member school board tipped in favor of the Connecticut Working Families Party. The wi... more »

The Diminished Mental Capacity Associated With Serious Drug And Alcohol Abuse Should Require Him To Step Down As Mayor ...

leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago
*The decision by a prominent Canadian mayor to stay on the job in spite of an admission of cocaine use and "drunken stupors", is likely a good demonstration of his diminished capacity to make sound judgements. For his own physical well-being, and the interests of the City of Toronto, he should step down. He continues to hurt himself and the Office in which he serves. There is no other option. He must resign his office and attend to his serious health concerns.* *"Alcohol combines the elements of both mental illness and physical disease. Alcoholism is classified as a substance abuse ... more »

When crackheads Rule

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 14 hours ago
When crackheads rule the idea of democracy is touted like blue meth but underneath the veneer the powers that be the powers that have superhuman powers and connected networks that see will always make fools out of you and me I am an elitist yes I am that's due to the fact I appreciate decisions that move forward this planet ruled by man Look there is a history some kind of record even though it was written by repressible wretches We now defy our bible and do not keep slaves beat our children or eat food according to the dictates of pre refrigerated ways. If I were a pol I would pull o... more »

"The Truth Is..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
“The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of f... more »

"It Is Time To Stand Up, Or Stand Down"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
* * * "It Is Time To Stand Up, Or Stand Down"* by Karl Denninger "Delusion is a funny thing. It's very easy and "satisfying" to engage in it, when the object is yourself and your beliefs or expectations. You can always find an excuse as to why you should be optimistic about this or that, why movement in the wrong direction is seen as a "temporary" setback and "all will be overcome in good time" and similar platitudes. But such rationalization is not how you actually make progress, nor become fulfilled. See, we all have only one life to spend. We can choose to spend that life in... more »

The anti-regulation crowd should visit Ciudad de Angel

paul at Paying attention - 15 hours ago
Governments of a certain stripe are always complaining about red tape, those darn regulations that stop people and businesses from getting on with things. Their supporters should come down to Honduras. I pass Ciudad de Ang, a big new housing development, on my way out of Teguicgalpa. It looks pretty nice, although perched precariously on a hillside. Too precariously, as it turns out. The new 200-home development is falling down around the devastated homeowners, who had hoped to stake their claim to middle-class status. (Prices ranged from $60,000 to $120,000, upmarket for these kin... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Greg Graffin, 49. Everyone wants a little good stuff: 1. Jaime Fuller on voting for Mickey Mouse. 2. Dave Weigel on *Double Down* vs. *The Gamble*. 3. Caitlin Dewey: it's not just Northern Colorado; everyone wants to secede! 4. Lynda Powell on campaign finance and state legislators. 5. And Seth Masket looks at a new paper by Ray LaRaja on campaign finance and parties. I haven't read Ray's paper yet (I will!); what Seth says sounds right to me. I'm pretty much for making it easier to use formal party organizations for electioneering, but I don't think it will solve... more »

What Kind Of Republican Candidates Is Steve Israel Recruiting To Run As Democrats Now? Not The Ones Who Have Seen The LIght

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Sunday we looked at North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Jason Thigpen's switch from the GOP to the Democratic Party. Monday evening Jason went on air with Lawrence O'Donnell to talk about his oddessey (above). When I spoke with him over the weekend, Jason seemed to me to be a very independent-minded, thoughtful, progressive-oriented citizen with a keen understanding of a Constitution he takes very seriously. What he did not come across as is a careerist or someone likely to take walking orders from any two-bit political hack like DCCC chairman Steve Israel. Israel is... more »

The Great War of…1990

Patrick Porter at Duck of Minerva - 15 hours ago
The year 2014 is nearly on us, and reflections on World War One are already weighing down bookshop shelves. In my own research, I’ve stumbled across an odd tendency: that whereas in Britain the cause of World War One, if not its conduct, attracts strong supporters as well as critics, the first Gulf War is Continue reading

BBC News - Concentrations of warming gases breaks record

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours ago
The BBC report with all seriousness that: 'According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), atmospheric CO2 grew more rapidly last year than its average rise over the past decade.' They seem less keen to report that despite this rise in 'global warming gases' temperatures have not risen for 15 years. BBC article here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24833148

Nov 19 Tlakatl: What it means to be human symposium

Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 15 hours ago
Due to overwhelming response, looks like we will have a full house for our Nov 19 Tlakatl: What it means to be human symposium Most of the costs have been met, but there are a lot of additional costs involved. The event will include presentations from K-12 students who we are busing to the event. So we need a little bit more, particularly to cover costs for additional speakers. If you can donate, please do so. Donation will go to the University of Arizona Foundation and it is tax-deductible. For those that can, thanks in advance. (This link should take you to a site (UA Foundation... more »

Fukushima debris field the size of Texas and approximately a million tons in mass nears US West Coast ( California hopefully getting ready ) ! While the US media for the most part looks the other way , studies on the food chain impacts need to be urgently commenced ....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-06/fukushima-debris-island-size-texas-near-us-west-coast Fukushima Debris "Island" The Size Of Texas Near US West Coast [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/06/2013 07:59 -0500 - Archipelago - Fox News - Guam - Japan - Meltdown - NOAA - Nuclear Power inShare1 While it took Japan over two years to admit the Fukushima situation on the ground is "out of control", a development many had predicted for years, a just as important topic is what are the implications of this uncontrolled radio... more »

remember remember the 5th of november

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 16 hours ago
"People shouldn't be afraid of their government governments should be afraid of their people." (the revolutionary speech) (obey)

False Populists

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Stephen Harper posed as a populist last weekend, claiming that he and Laureen didn't go to Ottawa to join an elite. That line, Lawrence Martin writes, doesn't ring true: The populist schtick isn’t an easy sell when your government has given far more tax cuts to the corporations than to the little guy; when it’s been manifestly on the side of big oil; when it takes on unions at every turn; when its penchant for muzzling and censorship is legend; when it favours judges ill-disposed to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; when the Prime Minister’s version of grassroots democracy has ... more »

The Dark Side Of Gardasil - Five Years Later: Ashley's Story

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzEgeCw-EAw * * *Five Years After Gardasil* by Ashey Adair Hormones Matter, 14 October 2013 My name is Ashley Adair and I am suffering the side effects of something I thought would help me. I received the Gardasil vaccine because the people and doctors all around me kept telling me “OH! This vaccine is the best thing to happen to the medical industry!” Of course my mom and I fell for it like many girls have. I want to let people know about the dark side of the Gardasil vaccine. My Life Before Gardasil Before the HPV Vaccine, I was th... more »

The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2012 - 2013 From Project Censored

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago
*To read further, please click on the link provided below:* *The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2012 - 2013*

Toxic Detergents vs Soap Nuts A Laundry Soap You Can Eat by Ken McGowen

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago
Toxic Detergents vs Soap Nuts A Laundry Soap You Can Eat by Ken McGowen Green Med Info, 29 October 2013 How we do our laundry, clean our homes and bathe ourselves has changed more in the last 70 years than it has in the previous 7,000 years. None of these changes have been kind to your skin, or good for your health. The name brand chemical based laundry detergents, household cleaners, soaps, and shampoos that you use in your day to day life contain carcinogens, neurotoxins and envirotoxins. Everyday, all day long, you are surrounded by and in close contact with chemicals that ... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 17 hours ago
*Insurer claims Texas Brine ignored warnings ~David J. Mitchell, The Advocate* *River Parishes residents anxiously await Corps of Engineers' levee decision ~Lattice Bacon-Blood* *Judge Julian Parker orders financial bonds for all defendants in his court ~Charles Maldonado, The Lens* *Lee Zurik Investigation: Meet the gatekeepers of state politics** ~How we found Louisiana's top 400 political contributors * *Disgraced former Federal Prosecutor Sal Perricone appeals to Internet for help writing New Orleans crime novel ~WDSU* *Tax assessment for building bought for $0 slashed dramati... more »

The Two Sides of Education Reform in Washington, D.C.

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago
Education reform is failing traditional D.C. public middle schools located east of the Anacostia River. Although certain popular education debates, i.e. discussions centered on the merits of school choice, common core, teacher evaluations, etc., may dominate the education policy world; The failures, or shortcomings, of education reform throughout D.C.’s high poverty neighborhood public middle schools, […]

Now Posted Online: Doug Martin on Douglas Storm's WFHB Radio Show: Muckraking Education Politics

Doug Martin at Schools Matter - 18 hours ago
In case you missed it last night, here is the link to listen to Doug Martin and Douglas Storm discussing the corporate takeover of public schools last night on WFHB radio in Bloomington, Indiana: http://wfhb.org/news/interchange/interchange-doug-martin-muckraking-education-politcs/ This is from Storm's write-up on last night's show: *Martin is a native Hoosier who has been investigating Indiana’s “for profit” Education Politics for several years and will soon publish a book detailing these investigations called “Hoosier School Heist.”* ** *Martin’s articles at Schools Matter get o... more »

the harper government's vision of canada, in our passports and in our wallets

laura k at wmtc - 19 hours ago
Some years ago, I analyzed the "Discover Canada", the most recent guide for immigrants studying for the Canadian citizenship exam. I compared the booklet to the previous citizenship guide, "A Look At Canada", and found within its pages the Harper Government's vision of Canada. Later, we learned that the citizenship exam itself uses a significantly higher reading level than past exams, and functions as a barrier for many newcomers who wish to become citizens: "jason kenney gets his wish: the anglicising of canadian citizenship". More recently, columnist Heather Mallick analyzed the ... more »

THE SUPER-RICH ARE THE ENEMY

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
* * *Dickens' London brought to life* The super-rich are often people who grab control of national resources, use high levels of government influence, pay extremely low wages, and squash competition. The USA's wealth increased from *$47 trillion*, in 2008, to* $72 trillion*, in mid-2013. This is according to the 2013 Global Wealth Databook. Between 2008 and 2013, the top 5 percent of Americans have each gained, on average, nearly a million dollars. *How the Super-Rich Are Abandoning America* via retank * Dickens' London brought to life* But according to U.S. Government Revenue... more »

The Court of Free Planet ... woah, where is this law-shit going, Mike?

Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 21 hours ago
*CRIMES AGAINST FREE PLANET* and you can commit them. You can: i) attempt to crashland a floating home for personal gain. ii) attempt to take control of an automated peanut taxi for shits 'n' giggles. iii) attempt to cage/display/own re-wilded animals for personal entertainment. iv) attempt to rob, rape, pillage, massacre the species of the Earth for your own amusement. v) attempt to EARN PROFIT from any activity. "Wait a minute, Mike, who the fuck gets to 'judge' what's legal and illegal on a Free Planet?" BIG SMILE here... Well, do you not agree that IFF all your personal needs a... more »

Two short papers on the black hole interior

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago
This blog post is here just to promote two new hep-th papers on the black hole interior. Both papers have 4.0-4.5 pages in total and use the same two-column revtex macro of \(\rm\TeX\). The Verlinde brothers wrote Behind the Horizon in AdS/CFT which calls the recent Papadodimas-Raju (PR) construction "elegant" and debunks a potential paradox that could follow from the state dependence of the internal operators by generalizing the PR construction to mixed states with a low enough von Neumann entropy. They seem to say that the detailed mathematical ideas were already contained in thei... more »

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Green With A Friend

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 22 hours ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet. Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 22 hours ago
Magic Lantern slide, 1860. View from the Moon. [Graphic from Georges Melies exhibition at the Caixa Forum in Madrid, via Matthew Sweet]

New Mexico Man Stopped by Police for Traffic Violation Subjected to Forced Anal Exams, Enemas, Colonoscopy and Other Medical Procedures

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 23 hours ago
Downtown Deming New Mexico * * Posted at: http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=37853 * * *New Mexico Man Stopped by Police for Traffic Violation Subjected to Forced Anal Exams, Enemas, Colonoscopy and Other Medical Procedures* November 5th, 2013 Via: KOB4: This 4 On Your Side investigation looks into the actions of police officers and doctors in Southern New Mexico. A review of medical records, police reports and a federal lawsuit show deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office, police officers with the City of Deming and medical professionals at the Gila Regional Medical Center mad... more »

Harper's fishing partner. As grand as his senate appointees.

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours ago
Always remember ... Now head on over to Creekside. Once you've had a bit of Alison's humour you might not want to swallow that litre of bleach.

A3 Newsletter: Winning in the Court of Public Opinion (w/ info on Nov. 8, SF Robert King event, Albert Woodfox's Nov 13 hearing and more)

angola3news at Angola 3 News - 23 hours ago
(Outside the Supreme Court in New Orleans) As the week of Herman's release, reindictment and death clearly illustrated, the most important battle IS in the court of public opinion. We resonated with the words of Michelle Alexander, author of the New Jim Crow in response to the Federal Courts reversal of a positive ruling on Stop and Frisk. As with Stop and Frisk, public consensus is key in the struggle to abolish solitary confinement and like Stop and Frisk, public consensus on solitary confinement is shifting in a major way. The movement is growing and we can't let minor setbacks ... more »

Russell Brand: we deserve more from our democratic system

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 23 hours ago
Jeremy Paxman interviews Russell Brand on Newsnight. Photograph: BBC * * http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/05/russell-brand-democratic-system-newsnight * * *Russell Brand: we deserve more from our democratic system* *Following his appearance on Newsnight, the comedian explains why he believes there are alternatives to our current regime* The Guardian, Tuesday 5 November 2013 12.57 EST I've had an incredible week since I spoke from the heart, some would say via my arse, on Paxman. I've had slaps on the back, fist bumps, cheers and hugs while out and about, cock-eyed o... more »

Cucinelli Concession Speech ...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
Virginia? - you deserve everything you get... Good luck.

The LAX Shooting: Is This Another Fraud?

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
I am finally feeling much better and over my recent horrendous bout of Sinusitis.... It is time to get back to doing articles at this blog, and to do some catching up on what has been happening around the world... Just the other day, I took the time to look over all of the facts and evidence concerning the recent "shooting" of a TSA agent by a "lone gunman" at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and what I saw just did not make any sense at all... In fact, as usual I had my suspicions from the very beginning that this was another set up and a false flag attack.... But for once,... more »

Tonight's Election Results

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
The race most people were most interested in today was the lesser-of-two evils gubernatorial election in Virginia. As expected, the lesser of two evils, Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe, won. The exit polls looked bad for conservatives in Virginia even before voting was finished. Democrats were voting in greater numbers than expected and Republicans were voting in smaller numbers. Pro-Choice voters vastly outnumbered anti-Choice voters, a sure death knell for Cuccinelli and his crackpot War on Women team. The good news: far right extremist Ken Cuccinelli has been thoroughly rejected... more »

Give the people what they want

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
The maths are not my strong suit but this not hard arithmetic. Our national economy is 70% dependent on consumer spending. You know who spends all their money in Murika? Poor people. They don't go anywhere. They don't have offshore accounts to hide their obscene corporate and casino capitalist profits. They spend their money in the local stores. You know -- small businesses. So my dear befuddled Democrats. Listen to Sherrod Brown. When GOPers say cut Social Security, you say screw that. Increase Social Security payments. Brown argues that if Republicans push for Social Security ben... more »

“Carpe Diem”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Carpe Diem”* by poets.rog "We are food for worms, lads," announces John Keating, the unorthodox English teacher played by Robin Williams in the 1989 film "Dead Poets Society." "Believe it or not," he tells his students, "each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die." The rallying cry of their classroom is "carpe diem," popularized as "seize the day," although more literally translated as "pluck the day," referring to the gathering of moments like flowers, suggesting the ephemeral quality of life, as in Robert Herrick's "To the V... more »

"Time..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, that reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we live it. After all, Number One, we're only mortal." - "Jean-Luc Picard" "Time is the fire in which we burn..." - "Dr. Soren"

STONE ON JEJU NAVY BASE PROTEST

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Democracy Now interview with three-time Academy Award-winning director, producer and screenwriter Oliver Stone. He discusses recent NSA protests, his visit to Jeju Island in South Korea to join protests against a planned naval base to house a U.S. missile defense system close to China, the militarization of space and more about the assassination of JFK and his series, *The Untold History of the United States*.

A new author in our midst, @angelclintonjr

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
I’ve come to know this rather insightful fellow via social media since coming back to DC Public Schools. Mr. Angel Clinton, Jr. is a colleague, a middle school teacher, in the great Ward 8 in our nation’s capital. Here’s a link to his author page and bio. As you might be able to tell, his […]

My pick for Election Night is Brahms, but I guess we ought to at least try to focus a little

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Vice President Biden appears to be arguing forcefully that the pathetic homeless guy next to him shouldn't lose his food stamps. Oh wait, on closer examination the guy turns out to be Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. Well, if he's entitled to food stamps, he shouldn't lose them either, should he?* *by Ken* I usually try to keep myself occupied on Election Night, since the likelihood is usually pretty strong that most of what happens is going to be upsetting. Tonight I've got the first couple of hours covered with a concert of the Brahms Second and Thir... more »

Duncan's Expensive Haiti Trip to Prop Up Paul Vallas's National Corporate Welfare Scheme

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
Some are wondering why Arne Duncan is taking eight members of his staff, along with translators and a security detachment to Haiti. Simple: Since 2010, long-time mentor and education reform loser, Paul Vallas, has been providing "expertise" in creating a national system of publicly funded schools in Haiti that will be privately run. And yes, to stay certified, schools must lock in to the new national curriculum and annual testing. This is the way that the Inter-American Development Bank described the new Vallas approach in 2010: Along with financial support from the IDB and other... more »

Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Message”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Vangelis, “Message” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZpTTokiCrE

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“Even though Kepler-78b is only slightly larger than the Earth, it should not exist. Its size is extraordinary only in the sense that it is the most similar in size to the Earth of any exoplanet yet directly discovered. Its orbit, however, is extraordinary in the sense that it circles a Sun-like star 40 times closer than planet Mercury. At such a scathing distance, even rock is liquid. * Click image for larger size.* Models of planet formation predict that no planet can form in such a close orbit, and models of planet evolution predict that Kepler-78b's orbit should decay- do... more »

"The Dream..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach." "This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.” - Carl Jung

Chet Raymo, "Tenderness and Silence"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *"Tenderness and Silence"* by Chet Raymo “It's been a long, long time since I read “Justine”, the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's “Alexandrian Quartet”, but one phrase sticks in my mind. As I recall, Justine, the woman with whom the narrator is having an affair, is questioning him as to why he doesn't take seriously their friends' philosophical conversations. You always sit there smiling, she chides, or something to that effect. He tells her that anyone who takes really seriously the inextricable tangle of human thought can only respond with "ironic tenderness and silen... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Brawley, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

"Less Tima And Inclination..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.” - Rachel Carson

Climate Change: “Eyes on the Ice”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *“Eyes on the Ice”* by Miyase Christensen, Annika Nilsson and Nina Wormbs “There is no longer any doubt that the Earth is warming and that human activities are responsible. The “Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (IPCC), released on 27 September in Stockholm, confirmed that scientific message. The IPCC stressed that only with drastic cuts in emissions can we avert the worst climate change impacts. Yet, from the media coverage, there seems little hope that the IPCC report will build a new political will actually to address this dire situa... more »

Bogus traffic stops amounts to arbitrary detention

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
R. v. Becker, 2013 BCPC 287: I am satisfied that this explanation was indeed a ruse generated in an effort to provide a reason for a traffic stop, knowing that there were no reasonable grounds to enter into any other sort of investigation. Simply put, I accept the argument of counsel for Mr. Becker that the stop was not a traffic stop and was not authorized in law. As such, it was an arbitrary detention clearly in violation of Mr. Becker's Section 9 rights.

Music Video: Innu chant by Annie Hervieux with Klee Benally

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Annie Hervieux, chant Innu, accompagnée par Klee Benally et Pascal Grégis Watch music video: http://vimeo.com/78620940 Thank you Christine Prat for sharing, from Klee Benally's European Tour.

Federal Reserve meddlings by way of the various QEs with markets have distorted credit markets and now the Fed heroin drip has the Fed in the position of being the Hunter captured by the Game !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-05/because-fed-mortgage-market-liquidity-bad-when-bear-stearns-failed Because Of The Fed "Mortgage Market Liquidity Is As Bad As When Bear Stearns Failed" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/05/2013 18:22 -0500 - Bear Stearns - Bond - Moral Hazard - REITs - Russell 2000 inShare Remember the main reason why the Fed *should *have tapered, namely the illiquidity in the bond market it is creating with its feverish pace of collateral extraction, and conversion of quality collateral into 500x fwd... more »

“The End of Doom”

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
Paul Erlich and the rest of the apocalyptic doom-mongers were and are wrong. Asking the question implicit in the doom-mongers predictions, "Are human beings smart enough to overcome scarcities through their intellectual powers?" In his forthcoming book, *The End of Doom*, and in this twenty-minute video (perfect for watching over lunchtime) Ronald Bailey unequivocally answers “Yes!” His answer is confirmed by the Cato Institute’s new website HumanProgress.Org, which aims to quantify the good news. The project, directed by Marian Tupy, pulls together in one location data sets orga... more »

The Realist Report with John Friend

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by *Andrew Carrington Hitchcock*. Andrew and I will be discussing a number of subjects, including his book *The Synagogue of Satan *and *In The Name of Yahweh*. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.

Don't blame Obamacare

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
I never expected to find myself in agreement with Juan Williams today but he's absolutely right. Quit yer bitching about Obamacare and blame the damn insurance corporations. It baffles me that people are directing their anger at the ACA which rights these terrible wrongs. [...] The Hartford Courant newspaper reports that the CEO of Aetna insurance made $36 million last year plus several millions more in stock options. They also report that the CEO of Cigna cleared a cool $12.5 Million plus stock options. The American health insurance industry is one of the most profitable in th... more »

Reverse Engineering The Illuminati Mind Set (pt.2)

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *'Remember, you came here with a purpose'* Julian Rose In the first essay under this title, we took a voyage into the heart of a microcosmic 'black hole' in order to explore the inner workings of the Illuminati mind set. Once there, we entered into a process of observation – while ensuring that our own state of being remained charged by photon energy from the divine source. We saw that at the heart of this black hole was a darkly festering void made up of imploded and subsequently reversed energies – behind which 'light' was... more »

It's Time for Plan "B"

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
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Snowden's "Vow Was To The Constitution! NOT The Government!" Ray McGovern Schools CNN

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Obama: "What We Said Was You Can Keep It If It Hasn't Changed Since The Law Passed"

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
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New Pre-Crime Computer Model Deployed in California

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image source Kevin Samson The pace of technological advancement is quickening to the point where the gap between science fiction and reality is being greatly reduced. Philip K. Dick explored the concept of pre-crime in his short story "The Minority Report" in 1956, but it wasn't until Steven Spielberg offered it on the big screen as *Minority Report* in 2002 that the audience got a true look at a potential day-to-day existence under corporate and government data management and control. Our Orwellian world is beginning to lo... more »

Campaign for a Permanent Labour Majority

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
Social engineering. A phrase that is to politicians what garlic is to vampires. The conjunction of these two words reminds one of totalitarianism, of the gulag and the death camp. It speaks of the perils of good intentions, of grand schemes getting broken on the rock of social complexity. Hence it's a term confined to politics' rusty armoury, only to be dusted off for a readymade insult to fling across the chamber. But for all that, every single one of our parties of government are social engineers. By this I don't mean that they blindly implement policies with social consequences,... more »

We Got Lucky

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 1 day ago
*Hope*~ George Frederic Watts, 1886* *I have always admired Dave Cohen’s blog, Decline of the Empire. His writing is unremittingly bitter, but given his completely unsentimental view of the antics of our miserable species, it’s only to be expected. His scorching wrath can be particularly hilarious when he mercilessly juxtaposes human aspirations and delusions with our feckless behavior. His scathing fury is as immense as the compassion and grief that lies beneath it. Now, he has written a tour de force. It’s rare and refreshing to find someone who resoundingly rejects any form o... more »

Talkin' Bad Journalism and Propaganda with Scott Horton

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day ago
This weekend, I again had the pleasure of speaking with Scott Horton of AntiWar Radio and the aptly-named Scott Horton Show about disinformation often found in mainstream journalism on the Iranian nuclear program. Focusing mainly on my recent article, "Propaganda & Ignorance in Reporting on Iran," published originally by Muftah.org (where I am actually co-editor of the Iran, Iraq, and Turkey

What if Obamacare was repealed

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
For all the carping about the flaws in Obamacare, and granted there are some big ones, the bigger question is would we better off without it? The answer is no. For the naysayers, Ericka does the maths at the link and this is a conservative estimate. : The GOP has gleefully jumped on media reports about Americans having their health insurance plans nixed because of Obamacare. "Obama lied. My health plan died," conservative blogger Michelle Malkin wrote in September, referring to President Barack Obama's promise that people who liked their health insurance plans could keep them. But ... more »

Right-Wing Mayor Rob Ford Isn't Just A Hopeless And Delusional Drug Addict Of The Steve Stockman Variety

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*The Daily Show* Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook It's a shame that most media covers Toronto Mayor as a clownish crackhead instead of what he actually is-- Canada's most prominent right-wing politician… and a clownish crackhead. Chris Christie is basically one crackpipe incident from being America's Rob Ford. The rest of Canada's right-wing politicians are afraid of being tarnishedby Ford's outrageous behavior, though not by his vehemently anti-family agenda. Today, when he finally admitted he had used crack-- after denying it for months and months--... more »

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