Tuesday, February 25, 2014

25 Feb - Blogs I'm Following II

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Blogged in Opera browser - which is why the hotlinks aren't like the first one, which I did separately. Zemanta was run in Google Chrome.  It seemed as if Spam had made its way into recommendations.

The Crisis In Ukraine

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 16 minutes ago
Like everyone else, I am truly alarmed by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.... I know for a fact that the criminal Jewish Rothschild empire, also known as the "European Union" has been eying Ukraine for several decades now as another slave nation to be permanently enslaved by criminal Jewish banking usury... There is also the fact that Ukraine sits right on the border of Russia, and the criminal Jews have also been wanting to control both Ukraine's mineral wealth and the fact that the majority of oil and natural gas pipelines between Russia and European customers run right through Ukra... more »

Lowongan Kerja Rumah Sakit di Jakarta Maret 2014 Maintenance Medis

irfan ganteng at Yaya Blog's - 19 minutes ago
Lowongan Kerja Rumah Sakit di Jakarta Maret 2014 Maintenance Medis - Hari ini hari yang menyenangkan dan saatnya bagi anda bergerak untuk mendapatkan hal yang lebih baik contohnya sekarang mungkin anda masih menganggur padahal anda itu telah menempuh pendidikan min D3 / D4 Teknik Elektromedik dan telah berpengalaman di bidang kesehatan pada Maintenance Medis. Ada peluang baru untuk anda jika

The Blue Dogs Are Mining The Republican Wing Of The Democratic Party For The Worst Candidates They Can Find-- They Just Found 3 Today

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 45 minutes ago
Here we go again-- because losing once is never enough for a discredited strategy The demise of the furthest right faction of Republican wing of the Democrat Party, the anti-Choice, gay-hating, gun-loving, Austerity champions know as the Blue Dogs, has been widely exaggerated. And as long as so-called "ex" Blue Dog, Steve Israel is allowed to run the DCCC, the Blue Dogs will always be a factor in position inside the Democratic Caucus to undermine progressive values and wreck progressive legislation with GOP ideas, as they did to the Affordable Care Act and Wall Street financial refor... more »

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Aerators

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 46 minutes 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 »

The Round Table Group - The Anglo American Establishment (Est.1891)

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 hour ago
*Watson*: It's a lovely morning, Holmes. *Holmes*: There's an east wind coming, Watson. *Watson*: I don't think so. Looks like another warm day. *Holmes*: Good old Watson. The one fixed point in a changing age. But there's an east wind coming all the same. Such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less. And a greener, better, stronger land will be in the sunshine when the wind is cleared.

Breaking News, Christy Clark and the BC Liberals Presented faked-out LNG Data, LNG Job Numbers Were A Lie, Production Numbers A Lie

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 1 hour ago
*The evidence is clear, Christy Clark lied to BC voters, Christy Clark presented data from a faked phony LNG report with not one stitch of verifying data..* The data used for pre-election campaigning, data that Christy Clark used to state LNG job numbers would exceed 100.000 jobs, that data doesn't exist, data used for LNG production(as in tonnage) on $94 billion dollar in LNG investment doesn`t add up, doesn`t exist.... In a stunning release of information compiled by Focus magazine, in an outstanding article written by David Broadband the evidence is clear, public servants ... more »

NEOCONS SEE ISRAEL AS THE MIDDLE EAST’S NEW POLICEMEN

Tom Wilson, a neoconservative contributing writer to *Commentary*, explains how it is becoming increasingly apparent that Israel is taking over the role policing the Middle East from the US in the light of Obama’s growing isolationist stance. Wilson writes: *Amid the Obama administration’s increasingly apparent dereliction of duty to America’s role on the world stage, it seems that, in the Middle East at least, Israel is taking on an increased level of responsibility in the effort to halt the proliferation of both weapons of mass destruction and terror groups.* According to Wilson,... more »

Haig in '81

Paul Coker at News Spike - 2 hours ago
*"When two of his companies were engaged by a large hostile force, Colonel Haig landed amid a hail of fire, personally took charge of the units, called for artillery and air fire support and succeeded in soundly defeating the insurgent force ... the next day a barrage of 400 rounds was fired by the Viet Cong, but it was ineffective because of the warning and preparations by Colonel Haig. * *As the barrage subsided, a force three times larger than his began a series of human wave assaults on the camp. * *Heedless of the danger himself, Colonel Haig repeatedly braved intense ... more »

Down To The Doctor's: On Returning to Christmas Island

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours ago
*As a whistleblower on Australian refugee detention facility Manus Island argues, "It's not designed as a processing facility [for asylum seekers], it's designed as an experiment in the active creation of horror to deter people from trying in the first place," * Dr Richard McGrath heads back to help handle medical care at the sister facility at Christmas Island. But not before penning this guest post…* Last evening the building which houses the general practice where I work part-time was damaged by fire, not as extensively as some early reports claimed, but bad enough to close us ... more »

Caspian Report: Legitimacy of Ukraine's new government

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago
Video Title: Legitimacy of Ukraine's new government. Source: Caspian Report. Date Published: February 25, 2014. Description: It has been a very busy few days for Ukraine's parliament. They just reinstated the 2004 constitution, which basicly turns Ukraine back to a parliamentary system rather than a presidential one. The parliament also appointed a new interior minister and speaker of the parliament (both which are part of the Fatherland Party, led by the recently freed Yulia Tymoshenko), and now the parliament is moving to impeach measures against former President, Viktor Yanukov... more »

Musical Interlude: 2002, “Challenge from Heaven”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
2002, “Challenge from Heaven” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SSN3wVQV6M

Musical Interlude: 2002, “An Ocean Apart”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
2002, “An Ocean Apart” - http://www.youtube.com/

The Poet: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "What If?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
*"What If?"* *"What if you slept?And what if,In your sleepYou dreamed?And what if,In your dream,You went to heavenAnd there pluckedA strange andBeautiful flower?And what if,When you awoke,You had the flowerIn your hand?... Ah, what then?"* - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834

Brazil: Native youths defending Klamath and Xingu rivers

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
. "Rivers like the Klamath and the Xingu are the bloodlines of every human on the planet." Indigenous youth unite for rivers February 23, 2014 | Team Klamazon By Amazon Watch Reposted at Censored News More photos Brasilia, Brazil – After an amazing journey deep into the Amazon we arrived safely in Brasilia with a hopeful feeling of urgency in the struggle to preserve the Amazon and

From Arizona to K Street: Profiles in courage, 2014 right-wing-loon-style

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"Like rats on a sinking ship"* @brahmresnik *by Ken* *TO BE SERIOUS FOR A MOMENT,* because we're about to descend into the pit of American Cuckoo, maybe the most significant aspect of such recent developments as Arizona's passage of a "Right to Hate the Homos" bill and the coming of openly gay athletes to the NBA and the NFL is the response. In the case of Arizona, the spontaneous outpouring of outrage, not just from across the country but from within the state almost makes a person proud to be an American. And in the case of the latest "integration" of American professional spor... more »

"The Sole Purpose..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - C. G. Jung

"The Philosophy Of Being"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
*"The Philosophy Of Being"* By E D Detetcheverrie "Outrageous to some, clarifying for others, a strange conversation meant to provoke further thought. Now I know why they explain it in metaphors. The truth seems surreal. We are inadequate to describe it concisely. Ask not if you have strayed from the path; there is only one path, one way, and you are always on it... *Do they call it enlightenment because there is a light?* It is not mere photons, and light is only one part of it. *Who is in charge of it all?* Yes, we are. *Do the wicked receive their just reward?* We shall all, ... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
“The well known Pleiades star cluster is slowly destroying part of a passing cloud of gas and dust. The Pleiades is the brightest open cluster of stars on Earth's sky and can be seen from almost any northerly location with the unaided eye. *Click image for larger size.* The passing young dust cloud is thought to be part of Gould's belt, an unusual ring of young star formation surrounding the Sun in the local Milky Way Galaxy. Over the past 100,000 years, part of Gould's belt is by chance moving right through the older Pleiades and is causing a strong reaction between stars and dust. ... more »

Chet Raymo, “The Radiance Of What Is”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
*“The Radiance Of What Is”* by Chet Raymo “In the summer of 1936, as I nestled snug in my mother's womb, Fortune magazine sent the young writer James Agee and the photographer Walker Evans to rural Alabama to report on how the Great Depression was affecting the poorest of the poor. For eight weeks they lived with three impoverished sharecropper families. (Pictured below is the family of Bud Fields. Click to enlarge.) Their combined work never appeared in Fortune, but it was published as a book- “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”- in 1941. The book was not an immediate success, but dec... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
Los Alamitos, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

“Your Most Vital Commitment: Finding Time for You”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
*“Your Most Vital Commitment: Finding Time for You”* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM “We can excel easier in our lives when our own spiritual, physical, and intellectual needs are fulfilled. Within each of there is a well of energy that must be regularly replenished. When we act as if this well is bottomless, scheduling a long list of activities that fit like puzzle pieces into every minute of every day, it becomes depleted and we feel exhausted, disconnected, and weak. Refilling this well is a matter of finding time to focus on, nurture, and care for ourselves, or "you time." Most ... more »

Deep tweets

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours ago
Posted for our cherished Capt. Fogg and the pedant in all of us. @CarrieRickey @LanceMannion pic.twitter.com/50sJQkq5mw — Rob Patterson (@BfloHealthAtty) February 26, 2014

Methodological Questions in Childhood Gender Identity ‘Desistence’ Research

Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 4 hours ago
* Methodological Questions in Childhood Gender Identity ‘Desistence’ Research * from *Kelley Winters*

Polio-like Illness in Five VACCINATED California Children

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 4 hours ago
image sourceCatherine J. Frompovich *Activist Post* According to a press release from the American Academy of Neurology dated February 23, 2014, an Abstract titled “A Polio-like Syndrome in California: Clinical, Radiologic, and Serologic Evaluation of Five Children Identified by a Statewide Laboratory over a Twelve-month Period” reveals that “All children presented with acute flaccid paralysis of one or more limbs that reached peak severity within 48 hours of onset. [1] Furthermore, “All had been previously vaccinated against polio-virus.” [2] That is a key concern – vaccinated ag... more »

Unconventional

noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 4 hours ago
Yesterday I set the alarm for 6:30 so I would make my way to the Lib14 convention, and arrive in time for the delegates' plenary session where a number of priority resolutions would be presented, possibly debated and then voted upon. At the scheduled time, I was in the main hall, poised to follow the proceedings. Resolutions 110: A Resolution for Action for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women WHEREAS the effects of colonization, discrimination, stigmatization and remaining silent and inactive on the missing and murdered Indigenous women issue has contributed to the issue itsel... more »

Mr. Netanyahu: Don't Make Projection Become Reality

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago
*Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that boycott activists are, "classical anti-Semites in modern garb." This man is living in the past, and not in the forward-thinking 21st century. For the most part, racism and anti-Semitism are declining. * An excerpt from, *"Netanyahu calls the whole world anti-Semites"* by Jim W. Dean, Veterans Today, February 18, 2014: But bad boy Bibi has decided it is now time to deploy Israel’s 2014 Samson option. It’s time to take the whole world down. *He is calling us all anti-Semites, as virtually the whole moral world supports boycottin... more »

The Realist Report - Kyle Hunt: White Man March

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 5 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Kyle Hunt of *Renegade Broadcasting*. Kyle and I will be discussing the upcoming White Man March and related issues. 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: - *What is the White Man March?* - The Blitzkrieg Broadcast w/ Kyle Hunt - *Archives* - Renegade Broadcasting - *YouTube* - *Hypocritical Jews fret 'demographic catastrophe' while promoting White genocide* - ... more »

Eric Cantor's Perpetual War Doctrine and those Neo-Nazis in Ukraine

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 5 hours ago
When House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the pride of Virginia's 7th Congressional District delivers his annual speech at the 2014 AIPAC Policy Conference next week it will be interesting to see whether he offers up credit where due as the Ukrainian coup d'etat was accomplished with the help of Neo-Nazis , a group that should be anathema to the audience. When Cantor picked up the PNAC/Clean Break Neocon torch on President's Day after he gave a red meat filled speech to the Virginia Military Institute that made George W. Bush look like Ghandi he also signed on to the longtime doctr... more »

Never Too Late For Cold & Snow? - Another Cold & Snowy Spring To Develop? + Why

rss2009 at Global Cooling & New Ice Age UK - 5 hours ago
*Never Too Late For Cold & Snow? - Another Cold & Snowy Spring To Develop? + Why* Many of us have so far experienced a relatively snow-free winter throughout 2013/14, in exception for the excellent snow conditions at the Scotland ski resorts, who have experienced snow depths exceeding those of the winter Olympics. They have also recorded more snow throughout this winter, than in the record-breaking winter of 2009/10 to date. *http://www.inthesnow.com/snow-report/remarkable-snow-cover-scotland/* There has also been suggestions of resorts staying open until the summer, as the likes o... more »

Tall Poppies, Cyber Bullies, Culture Wars & Antidotes

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
[image: image]It sounds like a joke, but in fact it’s deadly serious. What do a tennis player, two actors and a model-turned TV presenter have in common? The answer is: being cut down from below by the culture. The difference between them is how they responded. The death of Charlotte Dawson is the immediate reason for asking the question – a death she seems to have chosen in response not just to depression, but to a vicious online hate campaign she could never allow herself to ignore. Deborah Hill Cone wrote a column about the death of Charlotte Dawson, suggesting the path to th... more »

Harold Ramis Will Never Die

“Harold was clearly the most successful comedy writer-director of all time,” said Tim Kazurinsky, who followed Ramis at Second City and later became his friend. “The number of films that he has made that were successful, that were blockbusters, nobody comes close. Even in light in of that, he was more successful as a human being.”. . . Ramis leaves behind a formidable list of achievements,

YOUR $$$$ AT WORK

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 6 hours ago
Put the green frog skins into doing good for the people of our mothership Earth....we can stop killing one another on behalf of Mr. Big.

TAKE THE TOUR

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 6 hours ago

"Still And All..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
"Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.” - Kurt Vonnegut

To see another Spring

risa bear at A Way to Live - 7 hours ago
Here's a sample of the downage from the big ice storm. Millions of trees have been damaged or destroyed, and the "chips" fell where they would. Of our own trees, the fruit trees, cottonwoods, willows, ash, maples and conifers came through rather unscathed, but the big oak threw down five quite large and heavy branches, two more than a foot in diameter at the big end. We are pleased they did not hit the house, but some of our friends are now having their houses rebuilt. Folks will be digging out from under for weeks. The air is heavy with the snarl of hungry chainsaws and the whine... more »

Analysis About The Crisis In Ukraine

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
Historian and author Webster G. Tarpley spoke about the crisis in Ukraine last week. Here is the video: Title: Webster Tarpley on Ukraine rioters. Source: YouTube channel karimberdi. Video Title: Popular Uprising, Foreign Manipulation and Rising Fascism in Ukraine. Source: The Real News. Date Published: February 25. Description: Political economist Aleksandr Buzgalin and international law professor John Quigley discuss the internal rivalries for power taking place within Ukraine, and the history of its relations with Russia. "Now it's troops, I can say, troops and groups of nationa... more »

Steve Israel Crony Gary Melius Shot In The Head By A Masked Gunman In Probable Mob Hit

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
I'm not saying Long Island Congressman Steve Israel is involved in the Mafia, the way Staten Island Congressman Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm is. Israel, not exactly a brain surgeon, is far more subtle than Grimm will ever be-- which doesn't take much. Remember, in his very first meeting with Speaker John Boehner after being elected, Grimm, a violent criminal, insisted Members be allowed to pack heat on the House floor. That's not Israel's style. Oheka Castle is, literally, a castle. If you're not from the North Shore of Long Island-- the Gold Coast-- take a look at the video above... more »

Satire: “Arizona Confronting Awkward Realization That Gay People Have Money, Buy Stuff”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“Arizona Confronting Awkward Realization * *That Gay People Have Money, Buy Stuff”* by Andy Borowitz PHOENIX (The Borowitz Report)— “The state of Arizona found itself in the middle of a conundrum today as it awoke to the awkward realization that gay people have money and buy stuff. Just days after the Arizona legislature passed a law that would enable businesses to discriminate against gays, it emerged that gays spend billions of dollars in Arizona each year—an unexpected development that seemed to take many legislators by surprise. Carol Foyler, a Tea Party Republican who supporte... more »

Canadian Justice Stands True

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 8 hours ago
We live in a world with jurisprudence gone mad. Lawyers are the modern Samurai and the arena of combat is every aspect of your life. All parties engaged in a battle so brutal and all encompassing you cant escape it through death. Its universally and totally mistakenly agreed that modern western justice is a creation of natural law. So the bias of fairness is built into the system. God did not appoint or select our judges, humans did. Justice is as good or bad as the humans that created it and the precedents that allow the institution to evolve as the final arbiter of good and evil... more »

Playing God

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 8 hours ago
By Capt. Fogg Everyone worries about unemployment, particularly the party occupying the White House, because whether or not the executive branch does or can do anything to change the employment rate, they get blamed for it. Some people worry more about God's job description which, you must admit, is much skimpier than it used to be. What will we do when he retires entirely, perhaps moving to South Florida to one of those '55 and older' communities like the one across the tracks from me? Are we going to have a problem with the old crank pestering the neighbors about leaving garba... more »

Peter Power and the Kings Cross Fire

Paul Coker at News Spike - 9 hours ago
In 1987 a fire hit King's Cross underground station in London. "Inspector Peter Power was sent to the scene of the King's Cross fire to co-ordinate the efforts of the emergency services. "He ran the Metropolitan Police's forward command post for much of the evening and most of the night on 18 November 1987." Allegedly, certain juvenile members of a pedophile ring were in a cafe, underground, when the fire broke out. "Just two months before the King’s Cross Fire, pop duo, The Pet Shop Boys released their second record entitled Actually. "The final track on the album is a melanchol... more »

Dunn trial: First the journalist, then the professor!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2014* *Kristof agonistes:* Nicholas Kristof stirred a bit of a mini-debate with his recent column about the absent professors, who ought to help out a bit more. For our previous post, click here. In the debate which Kristof stirred, Josh Marshall described his decision to leave the academy. We remembered what the old, extremely smart Marshall was like before he was kidnapped and replaced. That said, we began having visions of Kristof in Hell when we read the latest piece at Salon by Professor Brittney Cooper. Cooper’s piece concerns the Michael Dunn murder... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
Oh, the inhumanity! "Forced to read"?! God forbid it! The horror, the horror... - CP

Karl Denninger,“In Closing...”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*“In Closing...”* by Karl Denninger "In March of 2007 I began writing The Market Ticker. Some of you have heard the saga of how and why, but it bears repeating here in 2014, now 7 years later. I was blessed in the 1990s with being in the right place at the right time. Oh sure, it didn't start that way; there was a lot of hard work dragging myself out of a sewer that I was headed into at high velocity, beginning with a speculative trip to Chicago undertaken with what was literally my last $100 and an offer to crash on a guy's couch I had never met in person; I only knew him as som... more »

“Vigilantes with a Badge: The War Against the American People”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*“Vigilantes with a Badge: * *The War Against the American People”* By John W. Whitehead “We live in a small rural town. Moved here in 1961. I don’t remember what year the State Troopers moved a headquarters into our town. Our young people were plagued with tickets for even the smallest offense. Troopers had to get their limits for the month. People make jokes about that but it has been true. Every kid I knew was getting ticketed for something. But now it is so much worse. I raised my kids to respect police. If they did something wrong and got caught they deserved it and should take... more »

Quote of the Day: On Quotes

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 9 hours ago
"The thing about quotes you find on the internet is you never know for sure if they are true." - Abe Lincoln Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

VENEZUELA - RICH VERSUS POOR

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
*Venezuelan security forces* Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro blames 'fascists' and 'US spies' for the violent protests against his government. *Most of the protests have been in Venezuela's 'rich' neighbourhoods.* *Oil at the heart of Venezuela's turmoil* *Financial Times, February 21, 2014* *Maduro meets Putin * Venezuela has the world's largest energy reserves. The USA would like to get its hands on Venezuela's oil. *Did Opposition Presidential Candidate Henrique Capriles have a falling out with the CIA?.* The trouble with Venezuela's government is partly 'extreme' soci... more »

Getting Organized for the Restoration of Sanity in Schools

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 10 hours ago
*COMMUNITY FORUM ON STANDARDIZED TESTING: * *“TESTED TO DEATH”* Tennesseans Reclaiming EducationalExcellence (TREE) is excited to announce “*Tested to Death*,” a community forum featuring the authors of *The Mismeasure of Education*, Dr. Jim Horn and Dr. Denise Wilburn. The event will be held at the New Song Church auditorium (formerly Turner School) at 2949 Nolensville Pike in Nashville on Saturday, March 1 at 2:00 p.m. Dr. Horn and Dr. Wilburn will discuss education policies related to high-stakes testing and the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS) used to evaluate t... more »

Harriet Harman: the unanswered question

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
In the BBC coverage of this story and Harriet Harman's online statement I can see no mention of this point: In a letter to the Home Office in April 1978, the NCCL argued that child pornography should not be banned as “indecent” unless it could be shown that the child depicted had been harmed. The NCCL official who wrote this letter was its legal officer, Harriet Harman. Am I correct, did she sign that letter? Why?

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours ago
*Lt. Gen. Russell Honore blasts state lawmakers for environmental damage, but downplays chance of run for governor ~Robert Morris, Uptown Messenger* *“What our ancestors fought for was the human right that everybody would have access to clean water, clean air and safe food,” Honore said. “That is under assault every day.”*

Who ya gonna call?

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 10 hours ago
Super Nanny! On Twitter just now: Hey, d'you think SuperNanny would help us out with our mayor? Anyone have her contact details? — Laura (@LauraCEStewart) February 25, 2014 I've actually seen Super Nanny. I don't have children, but the show is fascinating in a train-wreck kinda way. Have a look at this audition, aka plea, from this family, called "When your child's the school bully." Too bad Super Nanny wasn't around when the Fords were children. Not that Diane (The Enabler In Chief) Ford would have called.

What's up with this?

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 10 hours ago
This is odd. The doctors who treat pregnant women are warning mothers-to-be against using “entertainment” ultrasounds solely to determine the sex of their fetuses. The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, along with the Canadian Association of Radiologists, put out a new joint policy statement this week calling for an end to ultrasounds offered by non-medical clinics. Here's the joint statement. An excerpt: Fetal ultrasound is a valuable tool in modern obstetrical care. This imaging technique is useful in assessing a fetus for anomalies, ensuring fetal health, ... more »

Send a Bike or Leave a Bike in Cuba

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 11 hours ago
I love the idea of tourists taking a bike on holidays and leaving it there when they go home.

The US War on Peacemakers in Indian Country

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Buffy Sainte Marie "The U.S. military first murders your people and destroys your way of life while stealing your culture, then forces you to learn their evil ways of lying and cheating.” Louise Benally, Dine' of Big Mountain. By Brenda Norrell  Censored News  The US war on peacemakers is revealed in the details of spying on peace activists today by Democracy Now! The current details are

被遗弃的美国士兵活在越南

Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 11 hours ago
五角大楼只是希望这个家伙会消失 他的名字是约翰·哈特利罗伯逊。 他的妹妹谁最近看见他脸对脸是确定就是他。所以有一些人谁担任他。但五角大楼会告诉你,这是并非如此。 罗伯逊出生和成长在阿拉巴马州,他是一个很好的士兵和陆军中士。 (谁真的打的战争的家伙。 ) 他是如此的好,他获得了一个球门,一个特别行动小组的部分成员亲切地称其为一个点“盖世太保的儿子。 ” 它们被用于“机密任务。 ” 对于肮脏的工作很奇特的名字,通常是违法的,有时涉及战争罪行。 期间在老挝于1968年任务罗伯逊被“丢失” ,但显然,五角大楼已经知道了他好几年了。 我敢肯定,他们最诚挚的希望是,他会慢慢消失。 SOG校友的非常定义“不方便的真相。 ”一大堆人死亡或当他们不再需要以其他方式瓦解。 最喜欢的方法: 1 )发送他们在不可能的任务,他们是最有可能死亡和2 )把他们都上了直升机,并有一个“意外”。一些最终在监狱里的生活捏造罪名回到状态下密切注视。 在爱情和战争是公平的,对不对?

NEW WAR BUDGET AND STRATEGY ANNOUNCED BY OBAMA TEAM

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago
*There is disagreement about the Latin phrase in the logo. Does it mean liberator or oppressor? I guess that's why they keep it darkly hidden. Notice the arrows through the head above - a throwback to the killing of the Native Americans. These are the killers for Mr. Big.* Secretary of War Chuck Hagel yesterday announced the Obama administration's Pentagon budget proposal for the coming year. Despite mandates for cuts in military spending after agreements with Congress under sequestration, Hagel actually calls for an increase of more than $115 billion for war making. The Hagel b... more »

A Case For Electing An Expert-- Instead Of An Airbag… Meet Lee Rogers

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
The DCCC claims they're recruiting "problem solvers" as candidates this cycle. That's a nice phrase with a focus group-tested appeal but, alas, it isn't true. Unlike Steve Israel, however, Alan Grayson *has* been helping candidates who actually *know something*. "One of the dirty little secrets of Congress is that many of us legislate in areas in which we are utterly bereft of knowledge. If ignorance is bliss, then some of our Members must be deliriously happy… Seriously," he wrote recently, "we have Members on the Agriculture Committee who couldn’t tell a plow from a harvester. We... more »

The Myth of Money

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 11 hours ago
*The Myth of Accumulation* *Cultivating Power* *Sea of Chains*

Leah Song of Rising Appalachia Sings, "Thank You Very Much"

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours ago
*Published on Sepember 13, 2013* Leah Song of Rising Appalachia. Rooftop sessions on the Mediterranean sea... singing out new work "Thankyou Very Much". at the amazing community event Festa Del Fuoco...packed with beautiful family and the spirit of the ocean. Stromboli, an Aeolian Island deep in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Naples, Italy where all things return to fire!!! Perfect place for practice! Viva! *To learn more visit:* *Rising Appalachia*

Video: Keystone PipeLies Exposed: Spills

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
Keystone PipeLIES Exposed - Spills from Center for Media and Democracy on Vimeo Keystone PipeLIES Exposed: New Film Refutes Jobs, Security, Gas Price, Tax, Safety, and Climate Claims By Center for Media and Democracy Censored News MADISON -- Today, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) released a new short film and launched a series of major investigative reports debunking key

David Crosby HD

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 12 hours ago
It sounds excellent.

Just this once, we’ll almost praise Matthews!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2014* *Hardball goes all Downton Abbey:* Just this once, we’re going to let you ask us to praise Chris Matthews. We’re also going to ask you to see where bad narratives come from. Last night, in his opening segment, Matthews continued to speak in defense of Susan Rice. Two reliable colleagues, Wagner and Corn, echoed whatever he said. This defense is happening much too late, which helps explain where this political problem came from. Beyond that, Matthews still doesn’t know what Rice said on the Sunday programs two years ago that got her in so much trouble.... more »

Gauging Mobility

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 12 hours ago
I agree with the main point of Paul Krugman's latest blog post: When thinking about the welfare of a typical person in society, income inequality is more important than mobility. But this sentence struck me as more wrong than right: "the most important factor in whether you can become rich is whether you chose the right parents: Most people are going to end up with socioeconomic status close to where they started." According to a recent study of mobility (see Figure 1), the correlation between parent's income rank and children's income rank is about 0.3. That means that if you are ... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Ukraine and Venezuela'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
UKRAINE and VENEZUELA Posted on February 25, 2014 Mohawk Nation News MNN. Feb. 25, 2014. The US is the Black Serpent Dekanawida warned us about. It took over the White and Red Serpents, EU and NATO. They are busy fomenting war everywhere in the world, as they always have. See link:“From Wounded Knee to Libya”. US/EU/NATO: Only Black Serpent profited from war.   Their current hit

Yaki Kadafi

Paul Coker at News Spike - 12 hours ago
Shakur shooting witness found dead in N.J. Cathy Scott Wed, Nov 13, 1996 (11:59 a.m.) A key witness Metro Police has been trying to interview since the fatal shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur has been murdered in New Jersey, homicide Sgt. Kevin Manning said today. Yafeu Fula, 19, a member of Shakur's backup group, the Outlaws Immortalz, was shot to death Sunday, Manning said. Police in Orange, N.J., notified Manning late Tuesday about the killing, he said. Fula, who lived in Montclair, N.J., was shot once in the head and was found slumped in the third-floor hallway of an apartme... more »

Finger in pie.

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 13 hours ago
There was plenty of mileage for Biased-BBC in the BBC’s reluctance to get to grips with this story, but when they belatedly did so, I think they messed up. I happened to turn on Newsnight last night just in time to see Laura Kuenssberg interrogating Harriet Harman in aggressive, more-Paxo-than-Paxo style. Repetitively trying to force Harriet Harman to say “It Was A Mistake.” This tactic has become so annoying that this viewer was alienated straight away. I actually began to feel sorry for Harriet Harman; it was that bad. Has the new editor of Newsnight instigated *interrogation* l... more »

A Liberal and a Conservative Reach Remarkable Agreement on Edu-Philanthropy

John Thompson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
Richard Kahlenberg moderated a discussion between Joanne Barkan and Rick Hess at the Shanker Institute. As it turned out, no moderator was needed. By the end of the conversation, there was a remarkable consensus about the overreach of foundations. Barkan kicked the discussion off with a historical analysis regarding the use and abuse of […]

Judges should be slow to exceed the sentence sought by the Crown and do so only after giving an opportunity for submissions

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago
*R. v. Beardy,* 2014 MBCA 23: [6] For a guilty plea to be valid, an accused must understand the nature and consequences of the plea prior to entering it (see s. 606(1.1)(b)(ii) of the Criminal Code). This includes an understanding of the Crown’s position on sentence. Typically, the Crown’s position will represent the upper limit of any sentence an accused can expect to receive from the sentencing judge. While the Crown’s position cannot bind the discretion of the sentencing judge, judges should be slow to go over the recommended upper limit of the sentenc... more »

Sadr’s Ahrar Bloc Still In The 2014 Iraq Elections

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 13 hours ago
After Moqtada al-Sadr announced that he was retiring in February 2014 there was much speculation about what that meant for Iraqi politics. Several of his followers in parliament and provincial councils resigned making some believe that his party would be dissolved. However, the rhetoric from the movement quickly changed after Sadr gave a speech calling for everyone to participate in this year’s balloting. Afterward the withdrawals were reversed and his Ahrar (Liberal) bloc announced that it would re-organize and compete in the vote. This all proves that Sadr’s move was a tactical ... more »

Porn, I'm sorry but there's no other word for these videos - PORN

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago
The Disco Volante, it's not an Alfa Romeo, it's built by Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera but is based on the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione. It is however 100% car porn.

What Shall We Do About Reading Today? (1942)

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
What Shall We Do About Reading Today? (1942). via What Shall We Do About Reading Today? (1942).Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Cornel West and Carl Dix say: Hoodies Up! on February 26

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
Cornel West and Carl Dix say: Hoodies Up! on February 26. via Cornel West and Carl Dix say: Hoodies Up! on February 26.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

WHO IS RACHEL MADDOW: A sudden change!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2014* *Part 2—Christie disappears:* At least to judge from the magazine profiles, Rachel Maddow isn’t like you and me. Blinding sunsets seem to frame her life story’s major moments. She flings tomahawks on first dates. Working with the AR-15, she is either an astonishing shot or someone who fires off into the air. For details, see yesterday's post. Whatever you think of Maddow’s journalistic work—we think it has been increasingly shameful, which is why we’re doing this series—her skill at self-promotion seems to be endless. A skillful cocktail of humble-bragg... more »

Cutting arms and tying hands?

PM at Duck of Minerva - 14 hours ago
Post by Steven Ward and Paul Musgrave The Obama administration’s plans to shrink the U.S. military attracted intense media attention yesterday. The plan is being described as a maneuver to shift the United States’s defense posture away from protracted occupations, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, and toward a more conventional deterrence role. It’s Continue reading

You Think You Have a Facebook Problem? The IDF and Social Media

Brandon Valeriano at Duck of Minerva - 14 hours ago
Dan Levine sent on this great write up of the Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF) problems with social media. A few highlights: “In 2010, a soldier in the artillery corps posted this status: “Cleaning up Katana and home on Thursday.” Katana is a village in the West Bank. The status revealed the time of the planned Continue reading

Off to collect my cut of $49 million

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago
Date: 2/25/2014 Subject: FW: Business Proposal On 02/24/14 4:04 PM, Tyler Klaus wrote: -------------------- Dear Prospective Partner, I am contacting you regarding transaction linked with Mr. Chen Shui-bian the former President of Taiwan. I am Mr.Sean,Personal Assistant to Mr. Chen Shui-bian on Private Matters.My friend Mr. Chen Shui-bian has presented a subtle offer which will need the help of a partner like you to complete successfully. Mr. Chen Shui-bian is in a difficult situation and he must immediately relocate certain sums of money out of United Kingdom. More so, this must... more »

Tuesday Morning Links

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 15 hours ago
Will this morning’s links betray my grumpiness? I hope not but today’s meme that the US and the West are in danger of losing Ukraine drives me a bit crazy. It wasn’t in my pocket… was it in yours? Anyhow, the big news out of Washington, DC is about the big defense cuts proposed by Continue reading

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*Louisiana Water Festival, Baton Rouge, La. March 8, 2014* [image: http://lasierraclub.org/node/96] ~Green Army Event, Louisiana Water Festival, State Capital Grounds, Baton Rouge March 8, 2014, 1 to 3 pm Speakers: Russell L. Honore (Ret), LA Green Army; John Barry, Restore Louisiana Now; Marylee Orr, LEAN; Sandy Rosenthal, Levees.org; Jonathan Henderson, GRN; Darryl Malek-Wiley, Sierra Club; Louisiana League of Women Voters; Louisiana Progress; Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and others. Everybody is invited. *What is the GreenARMY?* Five days after the floodwalls in New O... more »

Breitbart turns back time...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours ago
Apparently Now I agree with Gary Kasparov's comments but somehow I don't think he thinks that the Russian President is 'Vladimir Lenin', Vladimir Putin seems more likely.

Fracking... And Our Cynical Elites

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
The most compelling television I came across last night was the above opener to Chris Hayes' show. It's a jaw-dropping look at the "not in my backyard" ethos of our political elites. They are more than happy to frack up Oklahoma to the point of causing hundreds of earthquakes in a matter of days, pollute the drinking water in West Virginia so that hundreds of people are made sick before hundreds of thousands of people have no water to use at all, and make the water in Pennsylvania flammable. They have the power to do these things because of unfair policies the politicians they ow... more »

Where Are The Big Ideas?

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Murray Dobbins writes that none of our political parties are adopting big ideas. It's not that they're not out there. He points to the Alternative Budget which the Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives has released in response to Jim Flaherty's do nothing document: The CCPA's alternative budget replaces most of the revenue lost through tax cuts by measures that are actually quite modest, including: - Reversing just half the recent corporate tax cuts to raise $11.6 billion. - Setting a new high income tax bracket of 35 per cent for earnings over $250,000 in order to ... more »

Ed Steer's Weekend Gold and Silver report - all of the usual and customary Data for the week , news and views ( as well as PM related news items and data ) for February 22 , 2014 -- various data sets , pertinent news items , great articles or links to articles ( Koos Jansen , Doug Noland Friday missive , Jesse's Americain Cafe , et al )

Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/koos-jansen-more-reliable-on-china-than-world-gold-council-sprott-says ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER Once again the gold price got sold down during the morning trading session in the Far East on their Friday morning. The low of the day was in by shortly after 1 p.m. Hong Kong time---and from there, the price rallied a bit until shortly after the Comex open in New York. The gold price gave up five bucks between then and 12 o'clock noon, but from there it rallied rather strongly through the Comex close, hitting its high of the day at exactly ... more »

Global protest watch - As Ukraine has deposed of its prior leader , the focus swings to ongoing violence tinged protests in Venezuela and Thailand !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Venezuela protest death toll rises to 13 February 24, 2014 7:40PM ET Continuing and widespread unrest represents major challenge to President Nicolas Maduro's 10-month-old government Topics: Venezuela Venezuela Protests International 1 of 5 Demonstrators wear Guy Fawkes masks as they protest against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on Feb. 24, 2014. RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images Anti-government demonstrators put up barricades and blocked streets in Caracas Monday despitecalls from within the opposition to rein in protests that have led to 13 deaths in... more »

Boo!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours ago

The Solar Cabaret Show: High kicking Fun for all!

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 16 hours ago
The Cabaret Show began last night at 00:43am UST (interesting timing I might add ;>) ) when our old friend, sunspot 1944/67 now renumbered 1990, blasted off an X Class 4.9 Solar Flare just as it began to rotate over the eastern limb into Earth Facing view- Kinda like the class clown lobbing a mega flash bang into the science lab on the first day back at school, just to say "HI! Remember me?!?" The XClass 4.9 flare shook up lots of stuff, but so far it would seem that most of the energy will only hit Earth a slightly glancing blow. Having said that, there was definite radio black... more »

Karl Denninger calls it a day ! His Closing Statement for Market Ticker and Ticker Forum !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
In Closing..... In March of 2007 I began writing *The Market Ticker. *Some of you have heard the saga of how and why, but it bears repeating here in 2014, now 7 years later. I was blessed in the 1990s with being in the right place at the right time. Oh sure, it didn't start that way; there was a lot of hard work dragging myself out of a sewer that I was headed into at high velocity, beginning with a speculative trip to Chicago undertaken with what was literally my last $100 and an offer to crash on a guy's couch I had never met in person; I only knew him as someone who ran softw... more »

HARMAN AND THE COVER-UP OF CHILD ABUSE

Anon at aangirfan - 17 hours ago
In 2012, Harriet Harman (above), the deputy leader of the UK's Labour Party, called for a big inquiry into pedophile rings. She said that the child abuse rings spread far beyond the BBC. She told the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that "if ever there was something that needs an independent inquiry, (it is) serious sexual offences against many, many children across a range of institutions." *This is Queen Elizabeth with MI5's Anthony Blunt who reportedly ran a paedophile ring which included a lot of top people *(1. Sexpionage 2.THE QUEEN AND MISSING KIDS) The Daily Mail is now atta... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 17 hours ago
*Cutting back on fry-ups 'reduces risk of dementia': Study finds * *If you are a mouse. More information about the study here * A ‘compelling’ study has linked compounds found in fried meat and eggs with one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. Bacon is particularly problematic and the suspect chemicals are also found in many cakes, biscuits and pastries. The researchers said that reducing intake could help prevent the crippling condition – and may even help restore memory that has been lost. The research, from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, focused on compounds ... more »

Memories

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
Blimey. They’re reporting the arrest of Moazzam Begg. That brings back memories. Remember Gita Sahgal? “I have no doubt that history will vindicate Gita Sahgal in her decision to challenge Amnesty International over its relationship with former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg and his organisation Cage Prisoners. She has now left her job, as The Times reports today. This will be a great loss to Amnesty, which has lost a deeply respected figure in international human rights, especially in the field of women’s rights and the threat of authoritarian Islam. I can’t really better Oliver... more »

All Aboard The Next Amtrak!

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 17 hours ago
Remember WH Auden’s ‘This is the Night Mail’ written in 1936 about that expectant train journey set to the rhyme of the train,(the video is well worth a listen if you are unfamiliar). Or those wonderful and informative 1960s broadcasts of the long lost British railways told by the poet John Betjeman, in the way he only could and of which some can still be enjoyed today on YouTube? Writers have long been drawn to the railways and today we read that US operator Amtrak has started to offer "writers’ residencies" to authors on its long round-trip rides. It all started when New York ... more »

Chickens, eggs and the BBC

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
*“The unofficial camp was set up as a home for refugees who left or were forced from their original homes because of the 1948 war that followed the creation of Israel.”* This was the subject of a BBCWatch piece pointing out that the original wording in a BBC web article by Yousef Shomali and Yolande Knell had been corrected as a result of a listener’s complaint. Before the correction the wording incorrectly stated: “the 1948 war that *led to* the creation of Israel”. I think that egg laid a chicken. However, there is, at least, some background in that piece, which does say that ... more »

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 18 hours ago
oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear, that mischieous corporate-war absconder Edwardo del Snowdonia refuses to go down quietly. Despite (and probably because of) the shillingsworth hit campaign against him, here's YET ANOTHER revelation about 'what our covert-ops tax-payer money is being spent on': *One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with th... more »

System Failure in the Slavery Systems...

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago
One minor revision to the theme expressed below... no one gets left behind in I AM... for ALL is I AM... ...however the slavery control systems are coming down... I know you are out there… I can feel you now… I know that you are afraid… …you’re afraid of us …you’re afraid of change I don’t know the future... I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end… I came here to tell you how its going to begin… I AM going to hang up this phone… …and then I AM going to show these people ...what don't want them to see see I AM going to show them a world without you… A world ... more »

Giant Meteor hit the Moon..... 6 months ago?

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 18 hours ago
Sooooooooo....... apparently the "biggest meteor EVER" hit the moon....... last September. September 11th, 2013 to be precise. So they say. Below is the "News" story on BBC about the meteor strike that happened 6 MONTHS ago. Please note the large amount of babble of nothing being said. But also note that within the babble there are two pointed pieces of information: "They say the collision would have generated a flash of light so bright that it would have been visible from Earth." and ""Usually lunar impacts have a very short duration - just a fraction of a second. But the ... more »

Thailand: BBC Attempts to Justify Terrorism

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 20 hours ago
*Image: The BBC's Jonathan Head has been consist-ently and intentionally dishonest with his coverageof Thailand.* BBC plums new depths with dishonest coverage of Thai crisis and attempted justification of expanding pro-regime terror campaign. *February 25, 2014* (ATN) - The BBC has once again attempted to manipulate public perception regarding world events, this time in Thailand where the Western-backed regime of Thaksin Shinawatra had announced, and is now in the process of carrying out, a deadly campaign of terrorism aimed at growing dissent sweeping the country. The BBC's ar... more »

Dara says BBC ban on all-male TV panel shows is laughable

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
Apparently BBC director of television Danny Cohen has pledged that "we're not going to have any more panel shows with no women on them". I'm not too bothered by the new pledge, so long as it's not just endless Jo Brand and that short unfunny lesbian (not Sandi Toksvig, one of the other ones that the BBC adores). No I'm not prejudiced against lesbians, my lesbian friends would back me up on this I'm sure, but the BBC does seem to have a seam of lesbians that they have been mining for a while now; unfortunately they've gone from the decently funny Sandi Toksvig, through the occasiona... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 20 hours ago
*Climate Consensus Con Game * By S. Fred Singer At the outset, let's be quite clear: There is no consensus about dangerous anthropogenic global warming (DAGW)-and there never was. There is not even a consensus on whether human activities, such as burning fossil fuels to produce useful energy, affect global climate significantly. So what's all this fuss about? Let's also be quite clear that science does not work by way of consensus. Science does not progress by appeal to authority; in fact, major scientific advances usually come from outside the consensus; one can cite many classic... more »

Sunspot AR1967 unleashed a powerful X4.9-class solar flare

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 20 hours ago
http://spaceweather.com/ Sunspot AR1967 unleashed a powerful X4.9-class solar flare X-FLARE! Returning sunspot AR1967 unleashed a powerful X4.9-class solar flare on* Feb. 25th at 00:49 UTC*. This is the most intense flare of 2014 so far, and one of the most intense of the current solar cycle. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash: Although this flare is impressive, its effects are mitigated by the location of the blast site--near the sun's southeastern limb, and not facing Earth. Indeed, a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) which raced away from ... more »

Christy Clark`s LNG Balloon Starts to Deflate(Inside the numbers)

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 22 hours ago
Slowly but surely the BC Liberal Government is climbing down the revenue ladder when it comes to LNG.... Christy Clark pre-election talked about B.C. having 10 LNG plants, specifically Clark mentioned having a couple of LNG plants up and running by 2016...That isn`t going to happen, there are still no final investment decisions, the earliest any final investment decision would be made is 2015, meaning no LNG plant would be producing export product before 2020.. As for having 10 LNG plants, that number is being whittled down everyday, best estimates now are but for 3 LNG plants.. ... more »

Gardasil Vaccine, Katie Couric & Cyber Lynching Video

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 22 hours ago
*Published on January 29, 2014* NVIC's Barbara Loe Fisher reveals facts on HPV and the public criticism of Katie Couric for allowing vaccine injury stories to be aired on "Katie". Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eujj3s5DEhU http://www.nvic.org/ 

Australian detector center promises gravitational waves by 2016-2017

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago
*Another topic, recommended IAS talks:* Maldacena on emergent geometry and gravitational-QFT duality, Seiberg on emergent gauge symmetry and Seiberg duality, Witten on knots and Jones polynomials *The Conversation* published an essay by Dr David Blair, a LIGO member and especially the director of the *Australian International Gravitational Research Centre* [sic] at University of Western Australia, An end in sight in the long search for gravity waves ------------------------------ Copies: Live Science, Science World Report, Phys.ORG Yes, you see that professionals such as Blair or S... more »

My Gardasil Experience by Mia Hahn Zeerow

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 22 hours ago
[image: Gardasil changed my life.]MiaMy Gardasil Experience By Mia Hahn Zeerow Nustrup, Denmark Sane Vax, Inc., 20 February 2014 I am a 17-year-old (turning 18 in February) girl from Denmark, who unfortunately has been harmed by the HPV vaccine like thousands of other girls worldwide. I had no idea that this vaccine could take that much energy from me. I have now spent almost two years trying to get a better everyday life. Before being vaccinated with Gardasil, I was always a very energetic and positive girl, who loved doing gymnastics in my spare time and also worked as an assi... more »

The reality behind food banks and the Labour/BBC's line on them

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours ago
*Media Personage:* "Mr Average, you use a food bank. Correct?" *Mr Average:* "That's right. I mean, why pay for food when you can get it for free?" *MP:* "But why have you started to use one now? Is it because the evil Coalition have been deliberately starving you on ideological grounds?" *MrA:* "Not really. It's just that I didn't realise that there were people giving away free food until I read about them in the paper on my way to work." *MP:* "And there you have it: more and more people are using food banks because the evil Coalition—cruelly limiting a household's benefits to ... more »

"The government doesn't exist," Medvedev on Ukraine

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago
If Al-Qaeda were to take Damascus tomorrow, Washington would recognize it as the legitimate government of Syria. That's not hyperbole. That is regime change policy taken to its most extreme and lunatic end. The same dynamic is at work in Ukraine. The most violent, hateful, racist, xenophobic, and bloodthirsty elements in Ukrainian society are being implicitly backed by the Obama administration because presently their interests align. That may be good strategy, but it's not good politics. Promoting chaos and violence in other countries, as the Obama administration is doing, is not a ... more »

Dingleberries of Credibility Clinging? (Freedom Paranoia) 5 Billionaires (Using Their Fortunes To Make Life Miserable for the Little Guy) Global Capitalism Means Writing Off Humans? (Thank You, Petersonians!)

BREAKING! You Are Being Stagnated: The Social Engineers Are Managing Your Standard-of-Living Expectations Downwardly. Who Really Determines What You Will Or Will Not See On TV Or Read In The Newspaper? Fox News. Faux Snooze. That, its owner, Rupert Murdoch, and its Panting Boy Wonder Boss, Roger Ailes, makes it one of my least favorite subjects (due to massive personal ennui and fear of

Alan Waldman : ‘Lovejoy’ is clever, witty, British mystery series about antiques, frauds, and crimes

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Ian McShane is simply splendiferous as roguish, slightly shady antiques dealer Lovejoy in this fun series that teaches viewers a lot about old stuff. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | February 24, 2014 [In his weekly column, Alan … finish reading Alan Waldman : ‘Lovejoy’ is clever, witty, British mystery series about antiques, frauds, and crimes

Obama Criticizes Putin Over Ukraine, Syria

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
Video Title: Obama Criticizes Putin Over Ukraine, Syria. Source: The Daily Conversation. Date Published: February 24. Description: President Obama: "I do think it is worth noting that you have - in this situation - one country that has clearly been a client state of Russia, another whose government is currently been supported by Russia, where the people obviously have a very different view and vision for their country. And we've now seen a great deal of turmoil there that arose *organically*from those countries." Those in glass houses should not throw stones. *Stick to throwing bric... more »

What's The Dumbest Thing Any Democrat Can Ever Do-- Other Than Illegal Stuff?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Sad when cowardly Democrats bend over backwards to play the dipshit bipartisan game with always ill-intentioned Republicans. And it never pays off… at least not for Democrats. In the video above, Alan Grayson explains the "misconception that the best way to elect more Democrats is to have them run as Republicans." It's Steve Israel's basic philosophy as DCCC chairman. And Grayson, wisely, warns, "that's just wrong… Voters deserve a choice. They deserve an honest answer to their questions and they deserve an actual choice on the ballot. If you have two Republicans running against ... more »

Sen. Trey Gowdy responds to Susan Rice saying she acted on "best evidence at the time"...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
Susan Rice is "Fabulously wrong and stunningly arrogant" *I guess you could say he calls her liar.*

Democracy Debased

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
I will argue that when mass democracy was still a fairly young thing, it produced results because elites didn't know how to handle it. All adult males got the vote roughly around 1900. Women got the vote around 1920. By the 1930s we got pro-union legislation in the USA and welfare states all around Europe by the late-1940's into the 1960s. (Admittedly, the shocks of the Great Depression and World War II had something to do with that.) The point is, democracy seemed to get results. And people's human rights (the working classes, non-whites, women, children, and nowadays, LGBT) began... more »

Pie in the sky

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
There are few things I love more in this world than a sexy airplane, but the F-35 is a dog that's never going to hunt. Yet, it survives every budget cut because, politics. And, it's not the job creator Lockheed claims it is. Charlie has the story so read him.

Tennessee Taliban Challenges Rights of UT Students to Discuss Sex

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
From Huffington Post: Tennessee lawmakers advanced legislation this week officially condemning a group of students for holding a "Sex Week" event on campus. A resolutionwith 29 co-sponsorscurrently moving through the Tennessee House of Representatives will do nothing to stop "Sex Week" from taking place at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Instead, it declares the event "an outrageous misuse of student fees and grant monies," and says that it "fits nowhere within the mission" of the university, "nor should it ever." The bill originally condemned the school's administration, which... more »

Weingarten’s AFL-CIO Power

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
As I was researching and writing my post, The Gates Grant Addiction, a post in which I use the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) as an illustration of an addiction to Gates money garnered via installments, two pieces of information stood out to me like the final clicking of tumblers in unlocking a revelation. The first […]

"How It Really Is"

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

The Collapse Of America: Wall Street's Plans For The Great Starvation

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
I have long said, and warned, that America was rapidly approaching an economic collapse that they will never ever recover from... It is so sad to see that the Jewish controlled media in the once great United States of America is right now filling American minds with absolute drivel and useless garbage.. The result of this Jewish propaganda is having most Americans falsely believing that their nation is still the "greatest nation" on Earth, when in reality it is absolutely not, and has not been for decades... The day will come when most people in the United States will wake up in des... more »

Now I Feel Vilified That I Immediately Said Sandy Hook Was A False Flag

Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 day ago
First of all, I don't particularly like writing a post pointing out an obvious bullshit false flag story told by the mainstream media and the government (same thing btw). I think it's the mainstream media's job to do what I'm doing. Since they are totally corrupted and laughable, I must write this on my blog. When they told us the "official story" of Sandy Hook, I immediately knew it was bullshit and wrote this post on December 15, 2014, which got thousands of hits: *Questions About The Newtown, Connecticut School Shooting, Gun Control, Operation Gladio, MK-ULTRA, & The Shock Do... more »

Mohawk Nation News "I am Dekanawida"

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
I AM DEKANAWIDA Posted on February 23, 2014 MNN. Feb. 23, 2014. Our messenger, Dekanawida, told us this story about the White, Red and Black Serpents just before he left us.  Dekanawida referred to them as serpents because they slither underneath society like a serpent in the grass. “I am Dekanawida. With the statesmen of the League of 5 Nations, I plant the Tree of Great Peace”

Interesting thoughts from Alexandra Petri about Alec Baldwin and the new-media culture -- and not just about AB

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Tina Fey and Elaine Stritch were on hand to cheer on 30 Rock cohort Alec Baldwin when he was one of the Tisch School for the Arts's 2009 honorees for achievements and philanthropy in the arts.* *by Ken* "Attention, everyone! Alec Baldwin is leaving the public eye!" So Alexandra Petri began her washingtonpost.com blogpost this morning, "The most important paragraph from Alec Baldwin’s farewell to public life." There is, of course, an enormously rich vein of humor to be mined from AB's harrumphing declarations of intent to turn his back on: (a) New York and (b) the public eye, and ... more »

The Butt of Fair Elections Act fraud

Alison at Creekside - 1 day ago
Con MP Brad Butt, who sits on the PROC Committee reviewing the Cons new Fair Elections Act, alleged in the HoC on Feb 6 that he had personally witnessed evidence of vouching voter fraud in his riding. Today as the G&M informs us : *Conservative MP backtracks on claims he personally witnessed voter fraud* Or as Butt put it himself on Twitter this morning: "I misspoke during debate and corrected the record." But he made that allegation in the House not once that day, as the G&M reports, but twice. He had an hour to think over his first misspeak before he stood up and repeated it agai... more »

"What Happened When Strangers Saw A Little Boy Shivering Outside Without A Coat"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*"What Happened When Strangers Saw A* * Little Boy Shivering Outside Without A Coat"* by Sarah Barness "When an 11-year-old boy sat at a bus stop without a jacket in Oslo, Norway, hidden cameras captured a series of very special moments. The experiment was filmed by the Norwegian branch of the SOS Children's Villages International charity as part of a campaign to provide warm clothing for displaced children in Syria, according to The Nordic Page. In the video above, the majority of bystanders offer their coats or gloves to the boy. "People should care as much about children in Syria... more »

Turkey corruption scandals updates February 25 , 2014 - top news item --- Turkish Lira Sinks After New Alleged Recording Reveals More Erdogan Corruption ( the release of a new recording which is allegedly a leaked telephone conversation in which the premier discusses plans how to hide at least $1 billion in cash ) ; Opposition Calls For Resignation ... Reports of widespread wiretapping make waves in Ankara ( Erdogan redirection attempt ? ) ..... Parliament commission passes bill granting excessive power to Turkey's intel body ..... Violence picking up ahead of local elections March 30 , 2014 ...... is the lull in Turkey over ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-24/turkish-lira-sinks-after-new-alleged-recording-reveals-more-erdogan-corruption-oppos Turkish Lira Sinks After New Alleged Recording Reveals More Erdogan Corruption; Opposition Calls For Resignation [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/24/2014 17:14 -0500 - Corruption - Turkey inShare *Update: *a tweet by Abdüllatif Sener, Former Finance Minister and Deputy PM of Erdogan, confirm the authenticity of the recording: Abdüllatif Şener @*senerabdullatif* Follow Dinlediğim Başbakanın sesidir, gırtlağına kadar ... more »

After Instigating Coup U.S. Needs to Stay the Hell Out of Ukraine

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
The U.S. warmongers are still drunk off of the magic elixir of their joyous weekend coup d'etat of the democratically elected government of Ukraine and the accompanying delight of sticking it to the hated Vladimir Putin during his international Olympic showcase at Sochi. The bloodlust of vampires like the deranged Senator John McCain and his ilk albeit temporarily slaked by a week of mayhem in the streets of Kiev will be back soon as there will be the imminent demands that the Obama administration engage in backing a rogue occupying force that is ready to engage in some serious pog... more »

CBO’s Minimum-Wage Report

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*Since the unemployment machine that is the legal minimum wage is being revved up again, for a start on April 1, here’s a guest post by Jeffrey Miron with an update on the latest report by the US Congressional Budget Office (far from a bunch of partisan small-government hacks) on the effects of raising the federal minimum wage…* In a new report, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that raising the federal minimum wage from its current level of $7.25 an hour would raise the incomes of low-wage workers who remain employed while lowering the incomes of low-wage workers who lose... more »

Ousted Ukraine president on the run (Source: CNN)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
Ousted Ukraine president on the run. K-OS (ft. Saukrates) - On The Run [Official Music Video]. Source: NettwerkMusic. Assad didn't flee Syria under Western/US pressure because real leaders don't. The ex-president of Ukraine obviously wasn't a real leader. And fuck CNN. What a trashy propaganda report. Focusing on the wealth of Ukraine's leader? Really? Find a better way to demonize someone. Still, it's important to see the bullshit on television from time to time to see where the mainstream news culture is at. With one quick look it's clear that standards have fallen. It's nause... more »

Updated 2/25/2014: Latest documents from Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf The Will and The Word Declaration of I Declaration of Original Depository Declaration of Receipt Declaration of Conversion

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
Update: 2/25/2014 Italian language versions of docs are available here: http://www.opptitalia.org/index.php/io-sono/item/164-io-sono *Update: 2/25/2014 Responses to incoming questions as posted at http://heatheranntuccijarraf.info* *Paragraph under The Will and the Word Declaration of I* "The response of I AM to requests to accept a title, join hierarchies, to have inbodyments of I AM manage other inbodyments of I AM, and the Value of I AM within those inbodyments: See Article VI and its subsections!... ;)98" *Paragraph under Declaration of Original Depository* "The response of... more »

One Dingell Out-- Another One In?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Not Debbie Dingell-- this is the good potential replacement It's wonderful when people feel it's time to retire and then just do it. Congratulations to John Dingell, who made the announcement this morning. At age 87 he's the second-oldest Member of the House, after 90 year old Ralph Hall (who smelled food and inadvertently wandered into an LGBT eventrecently and was swaying to "I Will Survive" before realizing everyone in the room was a… Democrat, and fleeing in horror). Henry Waxman (74) and George Miller (68) set very classy examples of bowing out at the right time. A centrist Democ... more »

The Will and The Word of I AM by Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 1 day ago
*Edited Note:* 02/25/2014 from Heather: UPDATED 2/25 Comments from Heather: *<<< small problem- the docs on scribd are set to private!!! you need to reeset them to public so that people can download the last two![9:06:29 AM] HeatherAnnTucciJarraf .: The last two, Declarations of Receipt by I AM and Conversion by I AM....only done once....those are done. The conversion was done by I AM and it is only required to be done once....like ordering from a catalog (chuckle)[9:17:35 AM] Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf: (y)[9:17:45 AM] Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf: thanks Brian! Great work to e... more »

“Noam Chomsky: Why Americans Are Paranoid About Everything (Including Zombies)”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Noam Chomsky: * *Why Americans Are Paranoid About Everything (Including Zombies)”* by AlterNet “The following is a transcript of a part of an interview Noam Chomsky recently did with a group of students via Skype. Towards the end, a student asks the linguist and critic the quirky question why zombies figure so prominently in American popular culture. He replied with a brilliant analysis of the history of fear in America. *Question:* This might sound kind of random, but I would really like to ask your opinion of why you think there's this preoccupation with the apocolypse and wit... more »

The Desperation of the Right

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
We always knew the election was going to be messy. But already, some 15 months before the big day swings around, the Tories and their allies are desperately flinging anything and everything that comes to hand. Crosby and co. have long excavated and chucked the mud from their wallow. They're now down to loose soils and gravel. Sling that it makes a mess, but it's easily brushed off again. By way of illustration, here are three recent attacks. Exhibit One. You have the calling out of Ed Miliband as a millionaire posh boy who's never had a proper job. Yes, that is a proper Tory attack ... more »

Plutonium from Carlsbad New Mexico

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
I just read the warnings by Optimal Prediction and Potrblog about the plutonium release in New Mexico: http://optimalprediction.com/wp/plutonium-release-from-the-wipp-radioactive-waste-facility/ http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/02/deadly-warning-initial-plutonium-cloud.html The story about the plutonium leak at Carlsbad nuclear waste site explains those high radiation levels so consistently detected by the EPA there. I always thought the jet stream must dip down there and deposit Fukushima fallout, which probably happens, but now I realize that the waste site there must ... more »

Key the Expedient

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
[image: image] The New ACT Party, in the form of Jamie Whyte, says in announcing yet another rise to the minimum wage the Nats have bowed to the old minimum wage myth that “minimum wages protect the poor.” But that’s not quite true, is it, not when you read Key’s announcement yesterday, where he said that “advice considered by Cabinet when it made its decision … was that the increase would result in a ‘relatively negligible’ loss of jobs.” That advice said a rise to $14.50 an hour would result in the loss of about 2,300 jobs. So what Key hasn’t done is bow to the minimum wage my... more »

In 2014 China, Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia became members of the United Nations Human Rights Council - Does that seem right to you?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
The United Nations has forfeited the right to make moral judgements.

Classroom Activity: Coordination and Collaboration Problems

Phil Arena at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
This fifth activity comes after students are to have listened to lectures about coordination (slides) and collaboration (slides) problems. I led off with a coordination problem that might not have been too difficult to overcome even if I didn’t allow them to confer, but was trivially solved given that I did. (If you’re wondering, I allowed that precisely because Continue reading

Washington calls for 'technocratic' govt in Ukraine

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
*Post # 2 for the day.* *Please be sure to read the first post from earlier today you will not b disappointed.* Regime change success in Kiev. Is the battle for Crimea about to begin? *For this 2nd post, I want to take you back to some news reported on here February 5/2014* *US & EU wade deeper into Ukraine 'stand-off ' with an aid package * From that post *U.S. officials said the goal was to convince Mr. Yanukovych to make a series of political reforms, including appointing a "true" technocratic government that would then start to make the tough economic changes sought by the IM... more »

Renegade Thoughts

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
http://renegadethoughts.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/time-to-rise-and-shine/ *Renegade Thoughts* Time to Rise and Shine! Posted: 23 Feb 2014 09:46 AM PST inner star shine Give in to the thought that you are not taking a chance on losing your sanity by thinking that there is life elsewhere in the universe, and you might have to entertain another thought: Is there life from elsewhere that is here with us now? Many of you have explored such thoughts and come to the conclusion that it is neither sane nor reasonable to think otherwise than that there is such an abundance of life in the un... more »
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