Friday, January 24, 2014

24 Jan - Blogs I'm Following

Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich (Photo credit: catherinecronin)
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A sample of the comic Jesus and MoA sample of the comic Jesus and Mo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
12:56pm MST

Now that we don't have to worry about Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson, we can shift our focus to Justin Bieber instead of paying attention to what's really going on in the world...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 hour ago
*seriously.* While there are plenty of people in this country who are working two or more jobs, have families to raise, money worries, and maybe some health issues, it isn't going to exempt them from the fire storm that is getting ready to ignite. *Here are some things to read and ponder.* The Sleuth Journal: * The Psychology Of Being A “Non-Conspiracy Theorist”* Liberty's Torch: *Writing On The Wall Dept.* The Blaze: *This obscure French pamphlet from 1850 predicted today’s America* ** * * * The BBC documentary "The Century of the Self", is becoming almos... more »

THE NEW SAM-AND-COKIES: What in the world is a traffic study?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014* *Part 4—The Times on the head of a pin:* Is it even possible? Is it possible that David Wildstein was trying to conduct a traffic study when he closed two access lanes from the town of Fort Lee? That wouldn’t be our first guess. That said, guesswork is massively overrated—and everything is possible! In this case, that possibility hasn’t yet been disproven. That wouldn’t be our first guess! But whatever Wildstein was trying to do, he went to a lot of trouble to do it—and he burned the time and energy of quite a few state employees in the process. You’d n... more »

Market Driven Economy VS Performance Driven Society

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 2 hours ago
Can you imagine how varied our streets would be today, if at the cessation of hostilities in 1946 the US goverment had mandated all brands selling cars in the USA must have one model line made of Aluminum. To kickstart this they could have offered a hundred year supply of aluminum in the form of surplus aircraft etc. Aluminum is the most common alloy on our scarcely resourced planet. It is also one of the easiest to recycle. Mined once used forever. If this goverment intervention had been planned today Aluminum would be incredibly cheap. Likely used instead of plastic in most app... more »

Maajid Nawaz on Jesus and Mo

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 3 hours ago
I'm a bit late to the Maajid Nawaz Jesus and Mo controversy, but there are a couple of points I think have lost amid the hubbub. First things first, I don't think religion-baiting is particularly smart politics. As Nawaz is a liberal I cannot speak for him, but as a socialist politics is, or should be, about getting as many people into the labour movement as possible. The sharing of common endeavours, of being part of a collective condensation of broadly similar interests as working people, our movement has and remains the most fertile grounds for socialist ideas. This is not an e... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago
*Rejoice, rejoice! We have no choice… (Part 1) ~moosedenied**~Welp. Welcome to another offseason, bitches. Might wanna grab yourself a drink and settle in for a while, because we're about to go all TL;DR on your asses. Even moreso than usual, that is. * WARNING: There will be math. Lots and lots of math. Lies, damn lies, advanced lies and statistics (both advanced and remedial.) We will also be pulling some things straight out of our asses and asking you to accept it as credible analysis. So while we eagerly await what are sure to be incredibly entertaining 2013 post-mortem pieces fr... more »

Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours ago
Freedom House has just published its 2014 report and here's the freedom figures for the Middle East and North Africa from that report, first for 2010 - 2014 and then just for 2014 In case you are wondering, the Palestinians are not forgotten, the Gaza Strip and 'West Bank' appear under a list of territories, here's their 2014 ranking for comparison... In the above tables, "PR" stands for "Political Rights," "CL" stands for "Civil Liberties," and "Status" is the Freedom Status. Political Rights and Civil Liberties are measured on a one-to-seven scale, with one representing the ... more »

If they are that ignorant then they shouldn't be allowed a vote

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours ago
From the BBC report on the Lords blocking the possibility of a EU Referendum following the next general Election comes this passage: 'As it stands, the bill states that voters should be asked: "Do you think that the UK should be a member of the EU?" ... The Electoral Commission has already said the existing question needs further thought, suggesting that some people are not aware that the UK is already a member and might not understand the premise as a result.' If people aren't aware that the UK is already a member of the EU then they shouldn't have a vote on anything.

“The Persian Deck” – An Interview with Diba Salimi

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 3 hours ago
Aces in “The Persian Deck,” original playing cards with hand-drawn designs and artwork by Iranian artist Diba Salimi “I am hoping to make my art accessible by designing products that play parts in your lives,” writes Iranian designer and artist Diba Salimi about her latest project, “Surena: The Persian Deck,” a set of beautifully hand-drawn playing cards inspired by Persian art and history.

An acknowledgement of debt recommences the limitation period

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago
Limitations Act: *Acknowledgments* *13.* (1) If a person acknowledges liability in respect of a claim for payment of a liquidated sum, the recovery of personal property, the enforcement of a charge on personal property or relief from enforcement of a charge on personal property, the act or omission on which the claim is based shall be deemed to have taken place on the day on which the acknowledgment was made. 2002, c. 24, Sched. B, s. 13 (1). *Interest* (2) An acknowledgment of liability in respect of a claim for interest is an acknowledgment of liability in respect of a claim ... more »

My Article in the Washington Post on January 23, 2014

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 4 hours ago
Below is the text of my article entitled, A Challenge: Teach Eighth Grade Common Core Before Endorsing It, published in the Washington Post on January 23, 2014. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ On January 21, 2014, Valerie Strauss’ Washington Post education blog, The Answer Sheet, ran a supposed “reaction to” education historian Diane Ravitch’s January 11, 2014, speech at the Modern Language Association […]

Friday Morning Trance

Southern Man at Southern Man - 4 hours ago
So Southern Man arrives at the high school for his early-morning concurrent-enrollment Astronomy course only to find that the public schools were cancelled because of - cold. They sure didn't do that back when *he*was a lad. So instead of teaching this morning Southern Man is scouring the web for the morning's entertainment and came up with some trance music by French composer VJ Aurel set to a mash-up of footage from dozens of science fiction films from the past several decades. Hat tip to Optimal Human Modulation.

Questions from Congress, Part 2: Responses to Rep. Suzanne Bonamici

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 4 hours ago
*U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES* *COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY* *Subcommittee on Environment* *RESPONSES OF ROGER PIELKE, JR. TO* *Hearing Questions for the Record* *The Honorable Suzanne Bonamici* *A Factual Look at the Relationship between Climate and Weather* Dr. Pielke 1. In your testimony you acknowledge that anthropogenic climate change is a real phenomenon with real consequences for the climate. You also condemn “activists, politicians, journalists, corporate and government agency representatives and even scientists” for making claims about climate change bei... more »

Questions from Congress, Part 1: Responses to Representative Lamar Smith

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 4 hours ago
*U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES* *COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY* *Subcommittee on Environment * *RESPONSES OF ROGER PIELKE, JR. TO* *Hearing Questions for the Record* *The Honorable Lamar Smith* *A Factual Look at the Relationship between Climate and Weather * Dr. Pielke 1. Everyone from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the President to the journal Nature have admitted it is very difficult to attribute specific weather events to climate change. However, Dr. Titley and Dr. James Hansen have argued that man-made climate has resulted in the deck being s... more »

Dream Destroyer still in REM mode

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 4 hours ago
The Boeing Dreamliner was supposed to be the apogee of subsonic passenger aircraft. It firmly remains a work in progress. Its like a luxury sedan, fantastic when it works but so disappointing due to continual nagging deficiencies that place it on hold. IMHO the key reason the Dreamliner has had such a troubled takeoff is Boeing's spiteful biting its nose off to punish Seattle Unions. First the move of HQ to Chicago. Next outsourcing almost everything. The Dream liner is to big to fail so Boeing will find a way to make it work. But instead of being a triumph it will be a bitter hub... more »

March 28-30, Denver, CO: Be There

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 4 hours ago
*"Parents in this year’s opt-out movement are standing up for something larger than their own child’s test-day happiness: the conviction that all children have better things to do with their days than fill in bubbles on a multiple-choice sheet, and that all children have better things to do with their heads than bang them against a table in despair." --The New Yorker, 01.23.14* Be a part of the Action in Denver March 28-30. Registration details HERE.

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours ago
*A quip on Twitter lands me a public audience with Louisiana’s coastal chief, but it could have been worse ~Mark Moseley, The Lens* *Rob Ryan: Uniquely New Orleans ~Ryne Hancock* *Gusman’s son works at law firm with lucrative contract with sheriff’s office ~WWLTV* *Excitement Builds Over Refresh Project* *A Hurricane Katrina tale of love and loss ~Sheila Stroup* *Creole Families of New Orleans ~ Denise Olson, Moultrie Creek Books* *Sunday Second Line: Ladies and Men of Unity Parade, January 26 ~WWOZ*

U.S. Investigating Dennis Rodman for Busting Sanctions - did Dennis Rodman simply become too much of an annoyance to further ignore ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
Photo by Kim Kyung Hoon/Reuters [image: Josh Rogin] Josh Rogin - facebook - tweet - post U.S. NEWS 01.24.14 U.S. Investigating Dennis Rodman for Busting Sanctions Dennis Rodman reportedly brought thousands of dollars in luxury gifts to Kim Jong Un for his birthday. Now, Washington's looking into whether those gifts violated U.S. sanctions. Dennis Rodman was already having a rotten month, between the trip to rehab and the global condemnation for cozying up to a dictator. Now things may be about to get much worse. The U.S. Treasury Department is investigating whether he viol... more »

Turkey updates January 22 , 2014 -- Here Are 350 Billion Reasons Why Banks Want You To Ignore Turkey's Turbulence ..... Turkish Lira Crumbles To New Record Low As Erdogan Blames Fed Not Politics .... Political instability continues as corruption scandals percolate !

Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
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Hot Air

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 6 hours ago
Stephen Harper likes to crow about his government's management of the economy. But the facts are out of synch with the hype. Two days ago, Alex Roberts tallied up the record after eight years of Conservative stewardship. The report should be read in full. But consider just a few excerpts: National unemployment rate in January, 2006: 6.6 National unemployment rate in December, 2013: 7.2 Increase in the number of unemployed in Canada since January 2006: 236,200 Youth unemployment rate, January 2006: 12.2 Youth unemployment rate, December 2013: 14.0 Rank of Canada’s unemployment rate ... more »

Did China Dump US Bonds? ...and does it really matter?

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 6 hours ago
Well considering my article yesterday about China's financial troubles, this piece is very interesting!! **side note: 6 hours later.... this is another long one my friends- go get a coffee!* First off, this is the screen shot I took: This is a screen shot of a CNN page from yesterday, January 23rd, 2014. It can only be found in a search of their web cache. It is literally gone gone gone. Now, Daily Kos is calling this a hoax, saying that CNN was hacked: CNN Hacked: Fake story about China dumping bonds and S. China Sea Hacked CNN Reports "China Dumps All US Bonds" CNN 1 min... more »

Gold news and views January 21 , 2014 -- Grant Williams missive covering 2013 ( for the seismic events concerning gold ) ..... Fixing the London gold Fix a topic of the day.... Chinese Gold Leasing : A Hidden Danger -- Koos Jansen ..... Additioanl items to ponder including a further look at Germany missing gold and their attempts to regain same ...... .

Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/things-make-you-go-hmmm-gold-bullion-gordon-brown-growling-bundesbank Things That Make You Go Hmmm... Like Gold Bullion, Gordon Brown, & A Growling Bundesbank [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/21/2014 20:34 -0500 - AIG - American International Group - Central Banks - Goldman Sachs - goldman sachs - LIBOR - None - United Kingdom inShare *2013 was an absolutely seismic year for gold*, but, as Grant Williams details in his latest letter, the way in which the tectonic plates sh... more »

Everything you ask Google sounds a lot more stupid when you actually ask Google.

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours ago
What if Google was a guy? Quite amusing...

Compliance with regulatory order not mitigating factor on sentence

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours ago
*Ontario (Labour) v. Flex-N-Gate Canada Company*, 2014 ONCA 53 deals with an employer which breaches a provision of the *Occupational Health and Safety Act* (*OHSA*), R.S.O. 1990, c. O.1, resulting in a workplace accident. A government inspector investigates the accident and orders the employer to comply with the provision. The employer does so. In sentencing the employer for breach of the *Act*, should the court treat the employer’s “corrective action” as a mitigating factor? The Court says no: [20] This court discussed the objectives of the *OHSA* in *R. v. Ellis-Don Ltd.* ... more »

Digital Warming

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 9 hours ago
Global warming is effecting our weather and being blamed for the extreme weather we are witnessing around the world. This year alone we have had exception gales and flooding across the UK, a heat wave down under and polar freezing weather in the US and Canada. We understand some of the causes, but we still appear powerless to predict the future weather past the short term. Publishing has been effected by its own digital warming which has seen the extreme performance of some, demise of others and a general unpredictability of most. Is there a critical digital point which tips the ... more »

CONTEMPT FOR THE AUTHORITIES?

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
Gregory M. Pyle (above) was a northern Illinois sheriff's deputy in charge of investigating child pornography. Pyle has admitted in court documents that he took a 9-year-old boy from suburban Chicago to Milwaukee in 2008, sexually abused him and posted the photos online. McHenry County Ex-Deputy Pleads Guilty in Federal Child Sex Case -3 Jan 2014 How much contempt do we have for law enforcement? *Kimberly Epperson* An Army sergeant who recorded herself sexually assaulting her 3-year-old sonhas been sentenced. Kimberly Epperson, 25, stationed at Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio,... more »

Greg Hunter, “Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.24.14”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.24.14”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “Syria is the top story. Before the second round of Geneva peace talks even started, Iran was uninvited to the talks by the U.N. It was because Iran would not agree that the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, should be removed as part of any peace plan. The Syrian peace talks have turned into a name calling event with both sides posturing. This is why the headlines say things like peace talks get off to “Belligerent Start.” The Syrian Foreign Minister says, “The West claims to fight terrorism publically while they f... more »

TGIF

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours ago

Cinesite FX - Beanz - comedy short

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 11 hours ago
Free Planet is usually down on advertising as it's (generally) selling you 'all the crap your life doesn't need'. And sometimes an advert isn't an advert AT ALL, it's just a bit of fun at the expense of the Industry. *DAMP AND MISERABLE JOGGING NEWS:* jogged out in the drizzle today, I looked out of my window and it kinda inspired me. I thought, "I'm going to jog farther than I've ever jogged today," and I did. Botley to Oxford to Headington... which I've done before in 100 mins. But this time I extended the jog from Headington shops all the way to the ring road at the end ... more »

Suspicious Observers - Galactic star flux - Real weather reportage

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 12 hours ago
instead of just listing the *atmospheric symptoms*, like most terrestrial weather reports, Suspicious Observers has been putting together unique weather reports that reflect the Earth's connectivity to the Sun, the galaxy and the galactic superstructure (which he claims might act like *one massive electromagnetic neural network*). Very interesting pseudo-science topic, and (for me, personally) this is how inclusive ALL EVERYDAY TERRESTRIAL REAL WEATHER REPORTAGE should sound:

The Common Core and Voluntary Reading

skrashen at Schools Matter - 12 hours ago
Sent to the New York Times, January 23, 2014Charles Blow's inspirational testimonial ("Reading is fundamental," January 22) in support of reading is supported by mountains of research showing that voluntary reading results in tremendous growth in all areas of literacy. Is this the same Charles Blow who enthusiastically endorsed the Common Core Standards in the Times a few months ago ("The Common Core and the Common Good," August 21)? Because of its rigid curriculum and constant testing, the Common Core allows very little room for self-selected reading, and insists that children onl... more »

thursday linkage

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago
As sleet and ice descend upon Austin, Texas this Thursday evening, here are some stories in keeping with this wackadoo weather. Rick Perry and weed at Davos with Kofi Annan, Downton Abbey goes on safari, Putin warns gays to stay away from kids, GDELT goes dark, and scientific findings that may be flashes in the Continue reading

Bitcoin news January 21 - 23 , 2014 -- Cryptocurrency Exchange CoinMKT Announces US Banking Partner ... Las Vegas Casinos Accept Bitcoin, But Not for Gambling ..... University of Cumbria - first university in UK to accept bitcoin , while Bylls allows Canadians to pay bills in bitcoin ....... Finland classifies bitcoin as a commodity.....

Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/jp-morgans-jamie-dimon-on-bitcoin-2014-1 Jamie Dimon Goes On The Attack On Bitcoin SAM RO 35 MINUTES AGO 0 - - inShare - - - EMAIL MORE [image: jamie dimon bitcoin] CNBC The fact that we're still talking about Bitcoin seems to suggest that it has some staying power. However, Jamie Dimon believes its standing as a currency will eventually end. Dimon, who is the CEO of JP Morgan, spoke with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin about the so-called digital cryptocurrency. And he went on the attack. "It's a terrible store of value," said... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 14 hours ago
A wish for our planet. [AFSC image]

Holistic Living - A Definition

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 14 hours ago
Since receiving your comments asking for posts on holistic living, I've given the topic a lot of thought. While the way I live my life is holistic in many ways, I've never really thought about it or considered it's relationship to living green. To get us started, I'd like to share my thoughts on what holistic living means to me. It is, by no means, the absolute definition ... it is simply my definition and what I'll use as the basis for future posts. Ready to explore the subject with me? [image: Holistic Living - A headache can cause irritability.] Have you ever noticed how a very sm... more »

Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts, and former Wall Street bond trader, Dave Kranzler, deduce how and why the Fed has been manipulating the price of gold, and they come to the stunning conclusion that the Fed has been stealing gold bullion loaned to them by foreign banks and selling it cheap to China. They further believe that the Fed has very little physical gold left, the selling of which has been the source of their cash to continue Quantitative Easing. When they finally run out of gold the "too big to fail" banks will fail anyway, and the currency markets will depreciate the dollar, making Chinese products much more costly for American consumers. Take heed America ...because you will not hear this from the "mainstream" media until it is too late.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 16 hours ago
------------------------------ *Is the Fed’s ability to manipulate the price of gold running out?* ------------------------------ January 21, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter Is the Fed’s ability to manipulate the price of gold running out? Paul Craig Roberts interviewed on USAWatchdog by Greg Hunter http://usawatchdog.com/fed-they-do-not-have-any-more-gold-paul-craig-roberts/ ------------------------------ *Blogger's Note:* The following video is what you would find, together with sel... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
"This lovely starfield spans some seven full moons (about 3.5 degrees) across the heroic northern constellation of Perseus. Just right of center it holds the famous pair of open or galactic star clusters, h and Chi Persei. Also cataloged as NGC 869 (right) and NGC 884, both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much younger and hotter than the Sun. Separated by only a few hundred light-years, the clusters are both 13 million years young based on the ages of their individual stars, evidence that they were likely a product of the same star-forming region. *Click ... more »

PUTTING THE PEACE ISSUE ON THE TABLE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 17 hours ago
- This art work above was made by Suzanna Lasker here in Maine. She's become one of the most prolific political artists in the state. Maine has a wonderful organization called the Union of Maine Visual Artists. They support one another across the state and have been a great resource to our progressive movements. - The printer delivered our Global Network *Space Alert* newsletter today and I began filling the many bulk orders that have come in from all over the US and around the world. We didn't used to get many bulk orders for our newsletter but o... more »

The Badasses Saddle Up

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 17 hours ago

Children's Authors Beg Obama for Relief from Testing Insanity

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 17 hours ago
Wish in one hand, and spit in the other; see which one fill up first. From MSNBC, of all places: Famed author and poet Maya Angelou and 120 other children’s book authors are challenging President Obama’s national education policy over what they call an “overuse and abuse” of standardized testing. They say the focus on testing hurts children’s imaginations and has a negative impact on children’s love of reading. Obama’s signature education program, “Race to the Top,” has been criticized for heightening the value placed on students’ performance on standardized tests as an indicato... more »

An Opt Out must read.

Chris Cerrone at @ THE CHALK FACE - 18 hours ago
I have been involved in the Opt Out movement for two years and have read many articles and opinion pieces about boycotting high-stakes standardized testing. This essay from the The New Yorker hits home on many levels, including the history of testing, is the best piece I have read to date. A must read: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/01/the-defiant-parents-testings-discontents.html?mobify=0 […]

Thailand protests force Government to declare sixty day Emergency period for Bangkok ! Note the military is keeping a close watch on violence by the Government and a military coup has not been ruled out !

Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
Thailand Government Declares State of Emergency for BangkokMeasure Takes Effect Wednesday and Will Continue for 60 Days Email Print Save↓ More Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn - smaller - Larger By WARANGKANA CHOMCHUEN CONNECT Updated Jan. 21, 2014 7:16 a.m. ET Thai antigovernment protesters waved national flags as they marched through downtown Bangkok on Tuesday. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images BANGKOK—The Thai government declared a state of emergency for 60 days in Bangkok and nearby provinces to deal with the continuing antigovernment protesters who h... more »

Two step test for Summary Judgment

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 20 hours ago
*Hryniak v. Mauldin*, 2014 SCC 7: Summary judgment motions must be granted whenever there is no genuine issue requiring a trial. There will be no genuine issue requiring a trial when the judge is able to reach a fair and just determination on the merits on a motion for summary judgment. This will be the case when the process (1) allows the judge to make the necessary findings of fact, (2) allows the judge to apply the law to the facts, and (3) is a proportionate, more expeditious and less expensive means to achieve a just result. The new fact‑finding powers granted to motion judge... more »

China’s Coming Default?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 20 hours ago
*NZ’s rock star economy is relying heavily on China this year for our economic progress. In this guest post, David Howden wonders how long China’s own progress can last un-busted– and is pessimistic.* Last June I pointed to four unfortunate facts in the Chinese economy. 1. Overall credit had increased to $23 trillion dollars, up from $9 trillion as recently as 2008. 2. This amount of credit was over 200 percent of GDP, an increase of 75 percentage points in just five years. (By comparison over the same period the United States’ ratio of debt-to-GDP increased by 40 p... more »

Mariaromocasino Moves to the Edge:  The Wagons Circle And Declare Wall Street Healed (Eyes, Ears and Noses Tightly Closed), PR Firms Solidly Engaged? (A Major Bust!)

I'm sure you've heard that the money honey, bond babe, Maria Bartiromo of CNBC, has joined with the forces of evil, Fox News, and will now be hawking her wares to the real rubes. I guess when the fake rubes won't buy anymore, she's got to move on. My guess is she'll just be the first to leave CNBC for Fox. As economic times worsen, the floodgates will open and all Hell will descend on those

Raging libido

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours ago
Well you can't spell Huckster without the Huck and here comes Mike Huckabee peddling his own special brand of social populism. Huck is here to tell us the GOP is not waging a war *on* wimmin, it's waging a war *for* the little ladies. The real enemy is those evil oppressive Democrats. Huckabee said Democrats rely on women believing they are weaker than men and in need of government handouts, including the contraception mandate in Obamacare. "If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providin... more »

Smoke On the Water and Fire in the Sky

noreply@blogger.com (Niles) at DAMMIT JANET! - 20 hours ago
Facts are inconvenient truths. The above statement is a trope. It's a truism. It's many variations on the sardonic commentary that you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Nobody likes it when they discover that you're just making shit up as you go along, *lying* to get your own way. Facts push non-factual accounts further and further and further out onto a ledge where more and more witnesses can examine the merits and find them so wanting that it's a 'meh' reaction when the non-factual account finally leaps off into oblivion. One of the defenses of non-factual... more »

9/11: Some Numbers

Paul Coker at News Spike - 21 hours ago
*"The Earth looked very beautiful from space, but I did not see our Great Wall," * *Yang Liwei,* *First Chinese Man in Space* *"As an interstate agency, the Port Authority was not subject to local laws and regulations of the City of New York including building codes."* *Some numbers: * Number of properly issued death certificates in Lower Manhattan on the day of 9/11: *3* Claimed loss of life on 9/11* - * *2996* Number of Fatalities claimed by live reportage by CBS News from St. Vincent's Hospital, Lower Manhattan, around 6pm on the Day of 9/11: *6* Public funds (initially... more »

Monopoly Money, "IOUs" and Where's the gold anyway?

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 21 hours ago
Time for another episode of "*As the world Turns*... its stomach!" In our last episode, we saw the Federal Reserve making up new magic tricks to try to save their asses by inventing $200 Billion for their bankrupt cousins, the Tobigtofail Family. ..... This week, just so that our viewers don't think that this is just an Americancentric show, we introduce you to the Chinese kingpins that also seem to of lost their checkbook!!!! .... ok enough with the cheesy 80's TV!!! ............ although seriously? It kinda is like watching a really terrible 80's Soap Opera!!! Bill posted thi... more »

More bears

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 21 hours ago

Thaksin's Mad Dash to Sham Elections (Op-Ed)

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 22 hours ago
Terrorism, boycotted elections, and now a draconian emergency decree are the ingredients of dictatorship, not democracy. *Image: Not entirely unlike North Korea, Thaksin Shinawatrais presiding over what are essentially one-party elections,under a state of emergency that allows him to censor, arrest,and otherwise silence all opposition. This state of emergencywas enacted after a terror campaign admittedly carried out byhis own supporters. It is not difficult to understand whyprotesters are desperate to dislodge Thaksin from power.**January 22, 2014 *(ATN) - Torn from the pag... more »

The Secret War in Libya

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 22 hours ago
*January 23, 2014* (Eric Draitser - Stop Imperialism) - The battles currently raging in the South of Libya are no mere tribal clashes. Instead, they represent a possible burgeoning alliance between black Libyan ethnic groups and pro-Gaddafi forces intent upon liberating their country of a neocolonial NATO-installed government. On Saturday January 18th, a group of heavily armed fighters stormed an air force base outside the city of Sabha in southern Libya, expelling forces loyal to the “government” of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, and occupying the base. At the same time, reports from ... more »

Playful bears

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 22 hours ago

Why We Fight

Paul Coker at News Spike - 22 hours ago

You know what they say about men with big feet!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 22 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014* *Can Salon repeat:* Early this morning, we clicked to Salon. This was the excitable site’s featured news report: *BIGFOOT EROTICA EXPERT SPEAKS* Salon talks with Virginia Wade, author of highly popular sasquatch smut, about the appeal of "monster porn" TRACY CLARK-FLORY At the start of the month, we made the announcement: Salon’s deliberate, spectacular dumbnification had been the media event of 2013. Somewhere in the great northwest, big ol' Sasquatch is strutting his stuff. In Las Vegas, smart money says the gang at Salon may repeat.

Occupy Bangkok’s Quest to de-Thaksinize Thailand

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 22 hours ago
[image: Occupy Bangkok 01-23-14] January 23, 2014 (Eric Draitser - Stop Imperialism) - As hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the streets of Bangkok demanding the ouster of the Shinawatra government, the Western media continue their one-sided portrayal of events in Thailand, misrepresenting the protests as anti-democratic. On January 13, 2014, the largest Thai protests in decades officially came together under the banner*‘Occupy Bangkok’*. Demanding an end to the regime of Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra, the protesters, who come from all social classes and all walks of life, h... more »

AMERICA'S NUCLEAR RADIATION COVER UP 1946 - 1958 / BARBARIC RACISM

Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 22 hours ago
*Bravo nuclear explosion / Project 4.1 / March 1st, 1954* *The Public Broadcasting Industry paid for and is now suppressing a documentary film "Nuclear Savage" that explored nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands 1946-1958 ~ that exposed Pacific Islanders to deadly overdoses of radiation just to send a message and get more data on killing and maiming people: Allen L Roland* *The Republic of the Marshall Islands covers nearly a million square miles of picturesque islands, thriving coral atolls, and crystal clear blue waters …. undoubtedly one of the most interest... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago

"Treating Extreme Wealth As a Disease"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
*"Treating Extreme Wealth As a Disease"* By Rob Kall “Psychiatry has been shifting to a model that is designed to identify psychiatric pathologies in most of the population. If there are no biological markers or indicators then the psychiatric diagnostic manual puts together patterns of behavior. Once it's characterized there's, very conveniently, a drug for that. Using this Big-Pharma driven model of diagnosis creation, I'm partially playfully and partially seriously offering some potential diagnostic categories for the very wealthy. Remember, this is half satire, I am not a m... more »

Ben Ginsberg surrenders some billable hours!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 22 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014* *Gets praised by the nation’s top liberal:* We really felt sorry for poor Jackie Calmes this morning. Calmes strikes us as the sanest person at the New York Times. Through absolutely no fault of her own, she had to report the recommendations from Obama’s blue-ribbon panel about the best ways to reduce voting delays. In the real world, this is what you call pap. Remember, these are just recommendations—*nonbinding* recommendations: CALMES (1/23/14): *Among the commission’s recommendations:* *All citizens should be allowed to register to vote or update t... more »

Employment Stats UK

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 22 hours ago
In preparing this week's forthcoming *Newsnight *reports I found myself having a read of the latest Office for National Statistics report on UK employment. It's not something I usually do (no, honestly!) but I might well be doing so again as they are very interesting - as I hope you'll agree. So here are the nation's latest stats:. • The number of people in employment in the UK is 30.07 million, • The number of UK born people in employment in the UK is 25.68 million. • The number of non-UK born people in employment in the UK is 4.38 million. • The number of men working full-time is... more »

Guess what today is...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 22 hours ago
*besides Thursday.* It’s National Handwriting Day As a product of the 1950’s, I was taught Palmer Method handwriting. Today most schools are abandoning the teaching of cursive all together. It’s just another way of dumbing down the populace. It’s been years since I taught religious ed at my church, but I still remember the shock at the inability of the 7th through 12th graders to write cursive and forget about even being able to write a complete sentence. Punctuation? Forget it. These modern day geniuses couldn’t even print very well. Sadly, since I type so much, my han... more »

No basis for US spinning Geneva communiqué to demand Assad’s resignation

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 23 hours ago
Preconditions placed on attending the Geneva 2 conference insisted on by the United States are detrimental to building a conducive environment for ending the fighting in Syria. Despite months of effort by diplomats and the international community, the long-awaited Geneva 2 peace conference is in disarray. The opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) – an exiled umbrella organization supported by Western and Gulf states that represents a negligible segment of rebel groups on the ground – has agreed to attend the talks under heavy pressure from their backers. Division runs deep for... more »

Evidence

Paul Coker at News Spike - 23 hours ago

'When writing the SPM, the authors are facing a dilemma: either they speak as scientists and…recognize that there are too many unknowns to make reliable predictions…or they try to convey what they “consensually” think…at the price of giving up scientific rigour. They deliberately chose the latter…they have distorted the scientific message into an alarmist message…'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours ago
'When writing the SPM, the authors are facing a dilemma: *either they speak as scientists* and…recognize that there are too many unknowns to make reliable predictions…*or they try to convey what they “consensually” think*…*at the price of giving up scientific rigour*. *They deliberately chose the latter*…they have *distorted* the scientific message into an alarmist message… [bold added; click here for the full, unedited version]' These are the words of one of the world's most distinguished physicists, Pierre Darriulat. For nearly 50 years, his professional life has been devoted to... more »

Newton's Third Law of Cartoon Physics

Paul Coker at News Spike - 23 hours ago
*Newton's Third Law of Cartoon Motion: * *"Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter."* Also called the *"silhouette of passage"*, this phenomenon is the speciality of victims of directed-pressure explosions and of reckless cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through the wall of a house, leaving a cookie-cutout-perfect hole. The threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction. If you found the above image either physically repulsive or actually offensive, and the one immediately above it no... more »

RoboCon Pop Quiz : Spot the Difference!

Alison at Creekside - 23 hours ago
Thwap asks a very good question : What exactly is the difference between 1. Elections Canada and federal prosecutors granting immunity to Con deputy campaign manager Andrew Prescott this month in the 2011 Guelph robocall election fraud case, and 2. Elections Canada refusing to grant immunity to a group of donors willing to testify about giving $1,000 each to Dean Del Mastro’s campaign, allegedly in return for receiving $1050 back from Del Mastro's cousin. *July 2012 : Elections Canada refuses immunity request for donors to Dean Del Mastro* "Elections Canada has rebuffed an offe... more »

'FALSE FLAG ATTACK COMING IN INDIA'

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*David Headley's name is not on record in any US prison database.* *"For all you know he may be back in Mumbai or Delhi laughing his head off while plotting another attack!"* David Headley's Last Laugh *Ken Haywood 'of the CIA'. KEN HAYWOOD AND 'CIA TERRORISM' IN INDIA. The Tehelka newspaper revealed that, in India,over 100 US Christian evangelical groups were fronts for the CIA. (Tehelka)* *A big false-flag terror attack is expected in India within the next few months.* *According to Satya Sagar: * "A strategic terrorist attack" or "an abrupt and devastating economic crisis en... more »

The latest stooshie

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
That report, which I mentioned a few posts ago, from the University of the West of Scotland which claims to have found empirical, statistical evidence that the BBC is biased against Scottish independence is now available to read online, and is pleasingly compact. Whatever your views on Scottish independence, the ensuing stooshie [noun (Scotland): the disruption caused by a disagreement or misunderstanding] has been interesting. The BBC is not happy. According to (pro-independence) former BBC Scotland host Derek Bateman, the BBC is doing what it always does when presented with e... more »

“Almost Everything in 'Dr. Strangelove' Was True”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Almost Everything in 'Dr. Strangelove' Was True”* by Eric Schlosser “This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy about nuclear weapons, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Released on January 29, 1964, the film caused a good deal of controversy. Its plot suggested that a mentally deranged American general could order a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, without consulting the President. One reviewer described the film as “dangerous… an evil thing about an evil thing.” Another compared it to Soviet propaganda. Al... more »

Do YOU know what Chlorpropham is?

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 1 day ago
Chlorpropham... ever heard of it? I certainly hadn't until I watched this awesome video put together by a 5th grader. Elise tells the story of her project about sweet potatoes, and her effort to get one to sprout..... and what she learned about the chemical Chlorpropham that is sprayed on a lot of vegetables and fruit to stop them from sprouting... Now, we all know about the evil of GMOs and pesticides, but have you ever heard of this chemical Chlorpropham? I certainly had never heard of it before! So I decided to do just a little bit of research - and I mean a very little ... more »

Scriptwatch: Now they’ve even got Merrow!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014* *With respect to the public schools, it’s novels all the way down:*According to the leading authority on his life, John Merrow “is a broadcast journalist who has reported on education issues for more than three decades. He serves as the education correspondent for the PBS NewsHour program.” We’ve seen Merrow do sober work on the NewsHour. That’s why we were disappointed by this recent post on his blog. *Deeply* disappointed. Gack! Merrow critiques a recent piece in which John Buntin compared and contrasted Michelle Rhee and Diane Ravitch. We were amazed... more »

Important Health Report: 10 Things You Need To Know About Soy!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
It has been a while since I put up any important health reports at my blog... The last while I have been covering important world news, and the ridiculous fighting that has been going on in this "truth movement"... I figured it was time to take a slight detour and cover health issues that I do find important enough to share with readers... Recently, I have taken an interest in Soy and Soy protein, mostly at the request of my better half who has had her own concerns about Soy in our diet... And what I have discovered has been alarming... It seems that Soy and Soy protein is EVERYWHER... more »

THE NEW SAM-AND-COKIES: In search of a possible traffic study!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014* *Part 3—Real conduct which did occur:* Last night, at the start of his cable program, one of the era’s biggest con men offered an overview of the Fort Lee fiasco: MATTHEWS (1/22/14): Good evening. I’m Chris Matthews in San Francisco. Let me start tonight with this: Like barnacles on a boat, suspicious matters now cling to the New Jersey governor’s office in Trenton. It began with an e-mail from Governor Christie`s office setting the clock for “traffic problems in Fort Lee.” Who struck up that conspiracy which led a deputy chief of staff to simply aler... more »

Stephen Harper Receives Honorary Doctorate from Tel-Aviv University

LeDaro at LeDaro - 1 day ago
I feel sorry for students and graduates of Tel-Aviv University, this must be an embarrassment for them. I hope this doesn't damage the university's long-term reputation. Harper's Netanyahu love-fest continues, many in Israel are critical of Netanyahu's hardline politics, but Harper is blindly obedient to the Israeli prime minister. To top the day off, Harper visited a bird sanctuary named after him.

Canada and Nunavut

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
This week Canada's National Newspaper has had a special focus on the North - and that is a good thing. The main story clearly tried to understand Nunavut and put it in context - but it is striking that in so doing the very distance between (the rest of) Canada and Nunavut became obvious. And I don't mean physical distance only. The story was of an adventurer in a strange land far from home -- and it is very true that most Canadians haven't the faintest idea about the North. The writer was clearly a visitor who would go home and stay there. The sense of Nunavut being Canada, the ... more »

Connecticut Teacher Does Not Want Common Core; Weingarten Refuses to Validate the Sentiment

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
On January 17, 2014, veteran Connecticut teacher Elizabeth Natale wrote in the Courant about her disillusion with the pressures of corporate reform upon her West Hartford, middle-school classroom. In her article, Natale makes it clear that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are part of that disillusion– not only the CCSS assessments– but CCSS itself: When […]

Drinking with Bob: It's not because you're black. It's because you suck...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*why am I not surprised that Obama is still playing the worn out ridiculous race card? * I've also noted that people in Minnesota (my place of origination), are mighty quiet about their "history making black POS president." Hot Air notes today that MNSure, their highly touted insurance exchange, is a complete and utter disaster. Any comments Obambots? Thought not...

You Are Out Of This World Valentine with Free Printable

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
[image: Housewife Eclectic: You Are Out Of This World with Glow In The Dark Stars and Free Printable] My third Valentine is perfect for just about any kid. Who doesn't love those little Glow in the Dark stars that you stick to your ceiling and stare at instead of going to sleep? This Valentine's are super affordable to make because so many of those little stars come in one package, but they have the wow factor of being something the kids actually like. Bonus points for the favor not being candy. This Valentine comes together super fast and most kids could probably make them all ... more »

It's a Small World, Uber Alles

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
The crypto-fascist transformation is complete. The corruption is right there, out in the open for all to see. Living, breathing human beings have now been formally declared mere appendages to the piles upon piles upon piles of cold hard cash dictating policy in America, and elsewhere. The blaring headline in today's *New York Times* makes it official: *Biggest Liberal SuperPac to Fund Possible Clinton Bid.* If you think they got it back-asswards, then you got it right. It appears that candidates don't even have to formally announce their own candidacies any more. The Big Money is do... more »

BIG ISSUE IN MAINE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

Ukraine: Cargill acquires stake in UkrLand Farming/food control = people control

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
*It's obvious the protests in Ukraine are cover for an overthrow. A coup attempt. * So, let's look at this as one of the myriad of reasons for that overthrow. I have mentioned some of the other reasons in previous posts- Nuclear industry. Banks. EU. NATO. * Ukraine and the West's monopolization of the nuclear industry *Ukraine Eurevolution? Who benefits? The EU and NATO Control the people by controlling the food...................... Cargill, the US-based agriculture trading group, has doled out $200 million for a stake in UkrLandFarming, Ukraine’s largest agribusiness holding, in a... more »

Has economic mobility declined?

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
No, says a new paper by Raj Chetty et al.: "We present new evidence on trends in intergenerational mobility in the U.S. using administrative earnings records. We find that percentile rank-based measures of intergenerational mobility have remained extremely stable for the 1971-1993 birth cohorts....[C]hildren entering the labor market today have the same chances of moving up in the income distribution (relative to their parents) as children born in the 1970s."

Anbar Before And After The Awakening Pt. IX: Sheikh Sabah Aziz Of The Albu Mahal

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
Sheikh Sabah al-Sattam Fahran al-Shurji Aziz is the primary sheikh of the Albu Mahal tribe located in western Anbar that stretches into neighboring Syria. After the 2003 invasion the tribe joined the insurgency to fight the Americans and was actually allied with Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). In 2005 it decided to turn on the Islamists for a number of reasons making it the second tribe in the province to do so. Its revolt was short lived, however. Sheikh Aziz’s story not only highlights the change in Anbar from rebellion against the U.S., to fighting AQI, but also the beginning of a new S... more »

Vegan Recipe - Quinoa Mushroom Pilaf (Gluten-Free)

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
*I love the holidays and all the associated culinary indulgences. By January, though, I'm ready to get back to healthy, clean food. While on hiatus, I cruised the vegan boards on Pinterest and found a ton of recipe inspiration. I also discovered some great blogs like the Gluten-Free Goddess. Karina, head chef and blog owner, creates amazing dishes. All of her recipes are gluten-free and quite a few are also vegan (check out her Vegan Recipes Page).Karina graciously agreed to let me republish one of her recipes here. It is a beautiful, healthy and delicious dish.* Quinoa Mushroo... more »

Downsized

Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 day ago
What used to be a 19 oz can is now a 14 oz can. Same price. Same spot on the shelf. No warning that we now get a third less chili for our money. Tragically, this is "lunch" most days at the office.

“Class War Victors Get Higher on the Hog”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Class War Victors Get Higher on the Hog”* by Chris Floyd “On Monday, the New York Times featured, on the front page of its website, a long piece of giddy gush about the latest trend in luxury hoteling: super-suites for the super-rich, costing up to $28,000 a night. For more than 1,100 words, the Times gives us an uncritical (indeed, adoring) panorama of the new high-swankery expected by our owners as they perambulate around the global plantation. There’s the $25,000-per-night room in the New York Palace, a three-story “penthouse Versailles,” the Times, all atremble with excitemen... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*krewedelusion Crowns DJ Soul Sister for 2014! ~NOLA DEFENDER ~via our pals at MardiGrasParadeSchedule.com* *French Quarter musician Steamboat Willie speaks out after attack on friend, band mate ~Scott Satchfield, WVUE* [image: http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/police-identify-two-in-french-quarter-musician-beating/-/9853400/24071916/-/j0s25n/-/index.html] *One arrested, one sought in beating of French Quarter musician ~WWLTV * ~According to a news release from the New Orleans Police Department, *Reeshawn Arnold and Terrell Belvin* are sought in connection with the crime... more »

Chris Christie " Bridgegate and Bullygate " scandals updates -- January 23 , 2014 - SCANDALS AND INVESTIGATIONS OVERSHADOW CHRISTIE INAUGURAL ...... Fallout: New poll shows steep drop in Christie’s numbers in New Jersey after Bridgegate

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/01/22/scandals-and-investigations-overshadow-christie-inaugural/?p=all SCANDALS AND INVESTIGATIONS OVERSHADOW CHRISTIE INAUGURAL MARK J. MAGYAR | JANUARY 22, 2014 It was an Inauguration Day like no other, as Democratic leaders upstaged Gov. Chris Christie by announcing agreement on a joint committee to investigate Bridgegate and other alleged abuses of power by his administration just minutes before his inauguration, then trekked over to the War Memorial to listen to Christie deliver a speech that made no mention of the crises that threaten to c... more »

The Liberal Paradox

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
Tom Walkom writes this morning that the public celebration of Jean Chretien's 80th birthday underscores the paradox which is the Liberal Party: The Liberals are a paradox. They build institutions and then demolish them. They insist they walk the middle line even when they don’t. They pride themselves on their crafty pragmatism. But they can be fooled time and time again by their own PR. Consider what happened during Chretien's fifty years in politics: He was lauded for being part of the Liberal government that, 50 years ago, worked to build and expand the great social programs of... more »

Detroit bankruptcy updates January 23 , 2014.....Pension and Detroit DIA bailout in the works ? Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced a plan Wednesday to commit $350 million in state funds to help shore up Detroit's pension funds and prevent valuable city-owned art from being sold to pay the bankrupt city’s debts.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Governor backs $350M plan for Detroit financial woes January 22, 2014 4:54PM ET The plan endorsed by Gov. Rick Snyder would help to sustain pensions, historic art threatened by the city's bankruptcy Topics: U.S. Economy Detroit [image: Rick Snyder] Gov. Snyder, pictured, said the plan was not a bailout, but a way to help Detroit settle its bankruptcy and recover. Rebecca Cook / Reuters Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced a plan Wednesday to commit $350 million in state funds to help shore up Detroit's pension funds and prevent valuable city-owned art from being sold to pay the bankrupt... more »

On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff’s Critique of Ravitch

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff\’s Critique of Ravitch. via On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff’s Critique of Ravitch.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

John Cowperthwaite, Statistics and Central Planning

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day ago
Interesting article here shared by a friend, Andrew Work, co-founder of Lion Rock Institute (LRI), a free market think tank in Hong Kong. He is also the CEO and Publisher of New Work Media, which publishes Harbour Times, among others. When Andrew was Executive Director of LRI, he would often mention to us Mr. John Cowperthwaite, the main architect of Hong Kong's free trade, free market philosophy and public policy. Today, Andrew posted this article in his facebook page, No Statistics, No Mischief by Andrew Ferguson, about the man. Reposting portions of it here, original article is ... more »

Adobe Accept ACS4 Broken?

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 1 day ago
Adobe have long been associated with publishing and the development tools associated with the development of content and although they have successfully seen off the likes of Quark and established InDesign as the tool of choice to many, they have long floundered in the area of DRM. Today we read of their latest step change to introduce ACS5, which is aimed at tightening the security and replacing the easily broken and much maligned ACS4. There is a question as to whether it will be widely adopted and also of whether how quickly it will be broken by those who wish to break it. There... more »

A Google Maps Easter Egg - Doctor Who related

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
View Larger Map Go to Earls Court Station in Google maps and locate the police telephone box outside the station or just put the search location in as "Police Telephone Box" and enter Street View. As you get close to the police telephone box you'll see a set of double >> pointing at it. Click on them and enjoy a Doctor Who treat...

Muslim outrage in perspective

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
Thanks to Harry's Place for the cartoon spot.

All Wars are Bankers' War - youtube link not allowed

Jason Leewig at Our Manmade Disasters - 1 day ago
please watch and share. Youtube do not allow posting of links. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4 *Published on Feb 4, 2013* Written and spoken by Michael Rivero. The written version is here: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTI... Video by Zane Henry. This video is in the public domain. The producers have waived their copyright to this video. Listen to a post production conversation between the producers by clicking on this mp3: https://soundcloud.com/eonitao-state/... You are welcome to make copies and to distribute this video freely. A free downloader is available here... more »

Buh-bye Shelly, don't cry...

noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day ago
Juxtapose. Harper government Cabinet Minister Shelly Glover is rightfully under scrutiny with regard to $1200 *donated* at a fundraising organized for the CPC, held at a private residence in her riding. *Groups from the Manitoba arts and culture community, who lobby Ottawa for money, were invited to a fundraiser last week on MP Shelly Glover’s behalf.Federal rules say cabinet ministers can’t solicit money from anyone who may have lobbied or may lobby them in the future.Glover and event organizers said the gathering was strictly to raise money for the party’s local riding a... more »

1938 Doniphan 7th and 8th Grade Students

Chet at JUSTICE AND PEACE - 1 day ago
A newspaper clipping that has my Aunt Gloria Hildebrand with her classmates. Mrs. Hageman was also my 8th Grade teacher.
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