Sunday, February 09, 2014

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English: Abandoned coal cart in the middle of ...English: Abandoned coal cart in the middle of Sakhalin island Русский: Брошенный (?) прицеп с углем посреди острова Сахалин (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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English: strait between Sakhalin Island and ma...English: strait between Sakhalin Island and mainland of Asia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
«The Island of Sakhalin», a work of social sci...«The Island of Sakhalin», a work of social science by Anton Chekhov (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Japanese D51 locomotive outside Yuzhn...English: Japanese D51 locomotive outside Yuzhno-Sakhalin Railway Station, Sakhalin Island, Russia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Wagner rides to rescue

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 11 minutes ago
[image: Neil Wagner is pumped after dismissing Zaheer Khan, New Zealand v India, 1st Test, Auckland, 4th day, February 9, 2014] How cool was that win! And how cool is it being the only test team having a Wagner as a top strike bowler. NZ’s test cricketers made it hard for themselves, but Wagner rode to the rescue yesterday with an aggressive 10-over spell with an old ball that broke the partnership of Kohli and Dhawan, and then came back to take the crucial wicket of anchor-batsman MS Donhi with the newish ball. CricInfo’s summary: [image: image] Here’s Richard: Content i... more »

Gunman opens fire in Orthodox Cathedral on Sakhalin Island, Russia

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 20 minutes ago
*Why am I mentioning this shooting at all?* *One main reason- Location**1- Obviously because of the Olympics* *2- An Orthodox church* *3- Sakhalin Island. Very interesting* *4- The age of the shooter* *5- The manner in which the crime was conducted- the victims* The Olympics in Sochi have been attacked viciously via msm talking heads over the alleged human rights concerns for the humans, branded lgbt- self branded or media campaign Divide to conquer, is all I can say. *Moving on-* [image: Cathedral of the Resurrection in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Image from pravosakh.ru)]Cathedral of the R... more »

MI5 SPY; PEDOPHILE SPY

Anon at aangirfan - 56 minutes ago
*Morocco - recruiting ground for the CIA and MI5.* MI5 had a Moroccan-born agent who 'investigated' the 7/7 London bombers and the Madrid bombers. The Moroccan is now suing the UK Government after being told that he must return to Morocco, where he faces 'arrest and torture'. The 33-year-old Moroocan worked for MI5 from 2000 to 2006. *www.dailymail*. *Morocco* The Moroccan came to Britain at the age of 18 and married a British citizen. In Britain the Moroccan met the preacher Abu Hamza, who is believed to work for MI5. Hamza's followers sent the Moroccan to Georgia and then to ... more »

What makes Paddy panic

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 hour ago
Just another bite-sized post about Paddy O'Connell's apparent propensity to panic when someone picks on the Labour Party... This morning's *Broadcasting House* saw our Paddy egging on one Conservative MP, Richard Benyon, to attack another Conservative MP Ian Liddell-Grainger (for attacking the Environment Agency's Lord Chris Smith). Paddy let Mr Benyon absolutely slate Mr Liddell-Grainger without demur or interruption, but the second Mr Benyon began criticising the actions of the last Labour government in came that firm yet nervous 'OK' from Paddy that always arrives the instant La... more »

Book review: The Almond Tree

Left I on the News at Left I on the News - 1 hour ago
Two years ago I wrote a review of a novel called "Mornings in Jenin" by Palestinian Susan Abulhawa. This past week I had the opportunity to read another novel, "The Almond Tree," by Jewish-American Michelle Cohen Corasanti. Remarkably, although the plots of the two novels are completely different, and of course the authors come from very different backgrounds, the review I wrote for "Mornings in Jenin" (reproduced below) is almost word-for-word applicable to "The Almond Tree." The time period covered by the two novels is slightly different ("The Almond Tree" starts in 1955 and conti... more »

50 Years Ago Today: The Beatles

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
*Noah wrote this piece for the 50th anniversary, on December 26, of Capitol Records' release of their first Beatles record. But of course the date most people remember is the Fab Foursome's tumultuous U.S. TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964 -- by coincidence also a Sunday. It would seem a shame not to take advantage of that 50th anniversary to revisit this special reminiscence.* *On December 26, 1963, hastily pushed up in response to public demand,* *Capitol Records released their first Beatles record, a single of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" backed with "I Saw Her ... more »

Where do butterflies go in winter?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 2 hours ago
The second pre-*Sunday *Radio 4 programme I want to light sacred fires in praise of was *The Living World - *a programme which answered several questions that I've had fluttering around my head for many, many years now, all grouped around a central question: Where do British butterflies go in winter? All credit to presenter Chris Sperring and Oxford University butterfly expert Richard Fox for settling the matter. It was slightly too late for me though. I found a red admiral in our bathroom a week or so ago. It was awake and flying around. Central heating and the relatively warm... more »

UHC 22: Shortage of Doctors in the Philippines

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 2 hours ago
A friend, Dr. Tony Leachon of UP College of Medicine, also practicing at Manila Doctors Hospital, posted this article in his fb wall last week, and it attracted lots of healthy and useful comments from his fellow physicians. I believe more people should be able to read this useful exchange. This is long, 4,200+ words, 10 pages, enjoy. --------- *Tony Leachon* PMA warns of worsening shortage of doctors. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/01/30/14/pma-warns-worsening-shortage-doctors *Emmanuel* 3D- Dispersal, Diffusion, Dedication *Daniel* Most patients in the provinces can't affor... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago

"Never..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
”Never explain. Never apologize. Have it done and let them howl.” - Winston Churchill

Deconstructing the Employment picture here in the US , why the unemployment rate has fallen so far and what a full analysis of the data actually reveals .......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-08/what-happened-last-time-unemployment-rate-dropped-much What Happened The Last Time The Unemployment Rate Dropped This Much [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/08/2014 16:08 -0500 - BLS - Bureau of Labor Statistics - Congressional Budget Office - Demographics - Federal Reserve - New Normal - None - Obamacare - Real Unemployment Rate - Recession - recovery - Unemployment inShare9 One of the biggest accomplishments of the president, in his own words, is managin... more »

Lowongan Kerja ASISTEN APOTEKER di Medan Februari 2014 Terbaru

irfan ganteng at Yaya Blog's - 3 hours ago
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Olympics 2014: Where Everyone Is a Corporate Trademark

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 3 hours ago
I tuned in to the Olympics this weekend and got pretty much what I deserved: a relentless onslaught of commercial odes to global capitalism interspersed with a few carefully edited moments of actual athletic competition. The actual athletes highlighted were invariably Americans. (Or better yet,refugees from lesser countries who don't enjoy our Freedoms). And NBC and its corporate sponsors are making sure that the competitors are spending as much air-time being shills for consumer products as they are skiing and skating. So, what's more off-putting? Malfunctioning toilets and brown ... more »

Ultraterrestrials or Pilots of the Spaceways?

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 4 hours ago
*Ultraterrestrials or Pilots of the Spaceways?* *By Scott CorralesInstitute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU)©2014* “We are well aware that the word humanoid is not in the dictionary;” wrote Charles Bowen, editor of the United Kingdom’s world-renowned *Flying Saucer Review*, “that it was coined somewhere along the line by a writer or researcher. Nevertheless it seems to suit our purpose far more than those other words of anthropology like hominid, which means kin of man (Neanderthal man was one of these) and hominoid, which means man-like ape.” These were the words that formed part of hi... more »

Sochi Olympic Games anti - terror campaign news February 9 , 2014 .......Russian anti-terror drive around Sochi leaves 10 dead. Female suicide suspects detained in W. Europe

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.debka.com/article/23664/Russian-anti-terror-drive-around-Sochi-leaves-10-dead-Female-suicide-suspects-detained-in-W-Europe- Russian special forces are engaged in a relentless offensive to pin down known Islamist terrorists on their home ground or hideouts in Dagestan, Chechnya, Kirgizstan and Kabardino Balkaria, casting a wide safety net around the Winter Olympic Games which opened in Sochi Friday, Feb. 7. DEBKA file’s counter-terror sources report this safety net has been spread across three European countries. In the last few days, seven armed jihadis were killed in Rus... more »

Syrian situation.

LeDaro at LeDaro - 4 hours ago
The civil war in Syria is an ongoing tragedy which the world needs to pay attention to. The killing and brutality continues, there are more Syrian refugees in Jordan than the entire population of Jordan. *An aid convoy has come under attack in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, threatening a UN-led operation to bring food and medicine to 2,500 people and evacuate civilians trapped by fighting between rebels and government forces.Saturday's violence threatens to unravel a humanitarian deal for Homs which was the first concrete result of talks launched two weeks ago in the Swiss ci... more »

West Virginia: Water safety

LeDaro at LeDaro - 4 hours ago
This can happen anywhere. Very scary with all the fossil fuels being transported by rail, trucks and pipes.

Struck Dumb Or Plain Dumb?

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 4 hours ago
As the Harperites have abandoned veterans, cut postal service to seniors and insisted that everyone must bow in awe of the deficit, the silence of the Tory backbench has been remarkable. Michael Harris writes: Why don’t these ordinary Conservative MPs speak out against the injustice of the so-called “universality of service” rule that declares injured soldiers unfit for duty and therefore unfit to serve? Retired general Romeo Dallaire has. And why don’t they say something about the built-in disincentives for injured soldiers who are afraid to come forward for help — especially tho... more »

Cowboy Stephen Harper and Comrade Joseph Stalin

LeDaro at LeDaro - 5 hours ago
Do they have something in common? Any similarities?

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, February 9th, 2014

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 5 hours ago
Sunday.... The week after the great American diversion away from all the troubles that ail them called the Super Bowl, and time again for my usual rant... It is remarkable even here in Canada that everyone ignores all the troubles and real crisis facing the world, and all I heard all last week was..."So what do you think about the Super Bowl"? Honestly, for the longest time I have always seen professional sports as a terrible past time for our society, considering that most if not all of the professional teams are owned or the majority of the shares in the team are controlled by J... more »

Fire!

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 5 hours ago
The hour in between that repeat of *Four Thought *and Ed Stourton's *Sunday* was taken up by two programmes that I actually enjoyed listening to, and as it's written into this blog's Editorial Guidelines that we must offer the occasional bouquets (amid all the brickbats we lob at the BBC), I'd like to write about them too, starting with *Something Understood*. This dealt with the burning subject of fire, both its creative and destructive aspects. Samira Ahmed likes burning things, and watching things burn. (Don't worry, she didn't come across as a dangerous pyromaniac, merely as ... more »

Iran Sends Warships to US Maritime Borders

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Fars News Agency TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior Iranian Navy commanders announced on Saturday that the country has sent several fleets of warships to the US maritime borders. “The Iranian Army’s naval fleets have already started their voyage towards the Atlantic Ocean via the waters near South Africa,” Commander of Iran’s Northern Navy Fleet Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad announced on Saturday. The admiral, who is also the commander of the Iranian Army’s 4th Naval Zone said, “Iran’s military fleet is approaching the United States’ ... more »

Perhaps tech sector, or whatever, should read up on #edpolicy in the States @igniteflow @JonathanHaynes @SLSingh #edtech

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 5 hours ago
I’ve attempted some very minimal coding. Some people are really geeking out over it, thinking that teaching young persons to code is going to heal the world, or something. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an interesting idea. The practical realities of these initiatives, however, seem to elude many advocates. Nevertheless, the Year of Code overseas […]

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours ago
*State Democrats back levee board suits ~Mark Ballard, Advocate* *Social media helping Comic Con to grow ~Meg Gatto, WVUE * *King Cake Festival!!!* *Acadiana Mardi Gras means money spent and money earned ~Jessica Goff, Daily Advertiser* *Celebrating 'Uncle Lionel' Batiste's Birthday ~Big Red Cotton, Gambit*

Went to a protest rally last night

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 5 hours ago
It was a small, spur of the moment thing. The gutless coward stephen harper doesn't let people know his itinerary until the last minute, but CUPW keeps track and organizes protests wherever he is, just as a point of principle. You know what? We should do to the corporations what the harpercons do to the unions. Especially those greedy, selfish assholes smashing their freight trains all across the country. And the meat packers too cheap to worry about basic hygiene. And the banks stiffing us all and then forcing their own employees to train their overseas replacements. And the Bay St... more »

Time for Mike Rogers to Put Up or Shut Up

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 5 hours ago
The preeminent defender of the gross illegality of the intrusions on privacy by the NSA Stasi, Michigan Congressman Mike Rogers who lords it over the House Intelligence Committee needs to put up or shut up. His ongoing accusations that former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is a Russian spy and that journalist Glenn Greenwald is a “thief” are thanks to the dismal dregs of what was once a free press continue to go unchallenged despite Rogers having no evidence to back up either claim. Being a former FBI agent (which is rarely if ever noted) he displays ... more »

Japan hit by heaviest snowstorm in 78 years ! More than 10 inches blanket Tokyo , almost 14 inches hit Sendai and more than 17 inches hit Fukushima ! 11 deaths and 1,253 injured by this hghly unusual storm - so much for the " end of snow " tripe spouted by the global warming crowd ! Ask the folks here in the US or the folks in Japan whether we have seen the end of snow ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
[image: A woman walks past bicycles covered with snow at Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in Tokyo February 8, 2014. REUTERS/Toru Hanai] A woman walks past bicycles covered with snow at Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in Tokyo February 8, 2014. REUTERS/Toru Hanai [image: A woman holds onto a damaged umbrella due to strong winds during a heavy snowfall in Tokyo February 8, 2014. REUTERS/Toru Hanai] A woman holds onto a damaged umbrella due to strong winds during a heavy snowfall in Tokyo February 8, 2014. REUTERS/ToruHana [image: People walk in a park during a heavy snowfall in Tok... more »

Winning Back IL-13-- Meet George Gollin, Particle Physicist

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago
Last year Republican career hack Rodney Davis edged Democrat Dave Gill 137,034 (47%) to 136,032 (36%) in one of the country's penaltimate swing districts, IL-13 which stretches from Bloomington and Champaign in central Illinois to Decatur and Litchfield and down to the northern suburbs of St Louis. The PVI is exactly even and President Obama won the district in 2008 55-44% and was edged by a few hundred votes (49-49%) by Romney in 2012. Davis hasn't made much of an impression on anyone and recent polling shows that a good Democratic candidate would beat him-- *if* he can even surv... more »

DCPS and the WTU: A Negotiation Showdown or an Opportunity to Repair?

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 6 hours ago
During the coming negotiation rounds between DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson and the Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU) President, Elizabeth “Liz” Davis, the following issues need further elaboration: How has IMPACT 2.0 faired in the 40 lowest performing schools? What is the teacher turnover rate within these schools, especially for Group 1 teachers? Is the current classroom observations’ […]

New Hampshire house unanimously bans NDAA's indefinite detention

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 6 hours ago
Saturday, February 8, 2014 *Activist Post* Yesterday, the New Hampshire house approved a bill which deems federal indefinite detention powers unconstitutional, and bans “any activity that aids” the federal government in carrying out such powers. The approval was by a unanimous voice vote. The bill will now move on to the state senate for further consideration. Introduced by Rep. Tim O’Flaherty (D- Hillsborough), the bill quickly garnered co-sponsorship from two republicans and two democrats. Tenth Amendment Center communications director Mike Maharrey praised the bipartisan action... more »

Daily Mail fail

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours ago
Reese Witherspoon or Austin Healey? Certainly looks more like ex-England rugby player Austin Healey than actress Reeses Witherspoon but who am I to gainsay The Mail?

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 7 hours ago

It's 'that old question' time again

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
Quite a few posts at *Is the BBC biased? *have found themselves splashing around (like the boss of the Environment Agency in a Somerset field) over the vexed question of why BBC One *Question Time* audiences so often seem to be heavily loaded towards the Left, almost to the point of seeming to be artificially stuffed with left-wing activists - even though right-wing BBC critics like James Delingpole and Nigel Farage accept that the BBC are being honest when they say they rigorously attempt to ensure a fair balance of opinions in their audiences. Now another right-wing BBC critic,... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 7 hours ago
*Can Migrating Corals Outpace Ocean Warming and Acidification?* *Discussing:* Couce, E., Ridgwell, A. and Hendy, E.J. 2013. "Future habitat suitability for coral reef ecosystems under global warming and ocean acidification". Global Change Biology 19: 3592-3606. According to Couce et al. (2013), "there is concern that the growing frequency and severity of mass bleaching episodes may lead to species composition shifts and functional collapse in coral reefs in the near future." On the other hand, they also note global warming "has the potential to improve currently marginal environm... more »

Worst Op-Ed of 2014, Already?

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 7 hours ago
I waited until December of 2013 to raise this question: Worst Education Op-Ed of 2013? So I don’t rush into this claim casually: Jonathan Chait’s Public Education’s Weird Ideological Divide is already the worst Op-Ed of 2014, and likely will not be surpassed (but may be tied often, I regret to say). Chait’s piece isn’t long (thankfully) but […]

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 7 hours ago
*After the little blue pill for men... a pink one for women: Herbal supplement dubbed 'female Viagra' goes on sale on High Street* *Unlikely to help. No controlled trials against a placebo, apparently* Women can boost their sex lives with an over-the-counter herbal pill, scientists claim. They say Lady Prelox has been found to significantly raise a woman’s sexual pleasure. Dubbed the ‘female Viagra’ after the little blue pills that treat erectile dysfunction in men, Lady Prelox is on sale at high-street chain Holland & Barrett. But at £37.95 for a pack of 60 little pink tablets... more »

"How Do We Grieve...?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
How do we grieve the loss of our beautiful, precious world, and us, *all*of us, with it? I don't know if there are words for that... I don't know them, anyway... “My heart broke on its shame and sorrow. I suddenly knew how much crying there was in me, and how little love. I knew, at last, how lonely I was. But I couldn’t respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no color or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when ... more »

Heavenly Thoughts

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
I was up before the lark this morning, and listened to the Radio 4 programmes before *Sunday *too. They began, at 5.45am with *Bells on Sunday*. The last time I wrote about that programme it turned out the BBC had broadcast the wrong bells. The ensuing scandal shook Radio 4 to its very foundations, and an apology from network manager Denis Nowlan followed (on *Feedback.*) So hopefully this morning's bells really were those of St Andrew's Church in Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire - and very lovely they were too. Then came the repeat of Wednesday night's *Four Thought. *As I've said... more »

Make The Best Life Possible

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours ago
[image: Make the Best Life Possible] *Source:* *Pam Bickell's Notes Along The Path Blog*

TV SEX SCANDALS

Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
*In 'Scandal'*, a sort of American TV soap, a junior staffer has sex with the president. The junior staffer is then murdered by the president's chief of staff. The president's chief of staff is a happily married gay man. The chief of staff, the first lady, a Supreme Court Justice and an oil baron are involved with voter-fraud software and the murder of six people. *“Scandal”: oddball soap opera*. TV and cinema are sometimes linked to sexual abuse. Child stars such as Michael Jackson, Scotty Beckett, Bobby Driscoll, Judy Garland, River Phoenix and Brad Renfro may all have been ... more »

The team of Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler expose and analyze the latest market manipulations wherein the prices of gold and stock market futures were simultaneously manipulated. The following links explain and analyze several recent prequels:

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 10 hours ago
*Is the Fed’s ability to manipulate the price of gold running out?* http://impactglassman.blogspot.mx/2014/01/former-assistant-secretary-of-treasury.html *Why is the Fed tapering?* http://impactglassman.blogspot.mx/2014/01/why-is-fed-tapering-what-will-unravel.html ------------------------------ *Market Manipulations Become More Extreme, More Desperate* ------------------------------ February 7, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler In two recent articles w... more »

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 11 hours ago
As inevitable things inevitably happen... This morning's *Sunday *did indeed begin with the news of protests over *Putin's new law on homosexuality* in the light of the Sochi Olympics. Edward Stourton talked to the BBC's Anastasia Uspenskaya. If you get the sense that the BBC isn't at all keen on Vladimir Putin, then this interview won't have dispelled that impression. Ed wanted to know to what extent the Russian Orthodox Church has been responsible for that law. Anastasia said it was mainly the Russian government's doing, though the Church has supported it. She stressed how clos... more »

Are you a master-baiter?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
Verry clever...

SNOWDEN REVEALS DIRTY TRICKS

Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago
*Edward Snowden* has revealed some of the dirty tricks used by the spies to control top people. *'Royal Concierge': GCHQ Monitors Diplomats' Hotel Bookings / Snowden Docs: British Spies Used Sex and 'Dirty Tricks'* Leaked documents from the USA's National Security Agency reveal the methods used by the UK's *Joint Threat Research and Intelligence Group (JTRIG)* to 'destroy, deny, degrade and disrupt' enemies. *These methods include honey traps and the spread of disinformation.* *Supplying boys and girls to top people?* In 'false flag' operations, *JTRIG* have used *Twitter, Flickr... more »

BBC News - Prince William goes hunting a day before wildlife plea

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago
The BBC's Republican sympathies are on display with the lead in to this article... ' Prince on hunt before wildlife plea Prince William has gone hunting deer and wild boar in Spain - only a day before he was due to make a public plea to end the illegal wildlife trade.' The article is here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26105706 That lead in suggests to the casual reader that Prince William might have done something illegal by going hunting when he hadn't. The BBC do state this in the actual article but the seed has been planted. Hunting is not illegal, however much the BBC might wi... more »

Veterans are outraged. Now they need to do what they once did best. Lead. Part 3.

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 13 hours ago
Unification, led by Paul Helleyer in 1968 and permitted by Lester Pearson, was a wound most veterans still bear. Initially intended as a modernization to bring three separate services under one joint operational roof, it steam-rolled well beyond the original plan to create a single service which was purportecly able to share resources and personnel across the the three combat elements. It was

Teachers Often the One Thing Between Kids and the World #evaluatethat

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
Every once in a while, a teacher is the one thing standing between kids and their world. Teachers stand up and are always ready to help in any way needed. Read this account from an elementary teacher in New Mexico, which took place during a relatively rare winter storm: This morning, I got to school […]

Update on Common Core Status in the States: Part Three

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
This post is the last in a series of three on the state of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) across the nation. Now that states have hastily Raced to the US Department of Education in chasing US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s dangled (albeit insufficient) millions, many have entered the phase I call Move to the Sidelines […]

Saturday Night w/ the Wise Old Man

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 14 hours ago
Welcome to the premier broadcast of Saturday Night w/ the Wise Old Man! Zan Overall, also known as the *Wise Old Man*, is an activist, musician, comedian, and actor. Tonight, we will hear two of the Wise Old Man's excellent songs, including I Want to Believe You, Mr. President and An Anthem for the Truth Movement. Between the songs, we will listen to the Wise Old Man's comedy skit entitled, God is a Goy? Oy! You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 14 hours ago
*Cartoon corner* *Denying the cold* *The future according to Greenies* *Hawaii is getting cooler* *Discussing:* Safeeq, M., Mair, A. and Fares, A. 2013. Temporal and spatial trends in air temperature on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. International Journal of Climatology 33: 2816-2835. According to Safeeq et al. (2013), daily temperature (T) measurements of Tmin and Tmax that were collected during 1969-2007 from twelve different stations scattered across the island of Oahu were downloaded from a repository at the U.S. National Climate Data Center, after which they computed... more »

“Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow; There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
*“Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow;* *There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad” * by Bob Nichols, “Veterans Today” “My opinion only, as requested by Alfred Webre, Dec 28, 2013, 1,024 Days from Mar 11, 2011. *First thing, grasp the difficult concept that this is an ELE or Extinction Level Event. There is no escaping our fate, there are no solutions. * We can extend our lives somewhat, though. These steps are personal. People can do them or not. You will die quicker, or later, your choice. 1. Take off your shoes and outer ware (coats) when you enter your ... more »

What's More Important To You-- Being A Progressive Or Being A Democratic Party Person?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
NOT a Democrat I don't know much about Bill de Blasio, New York's new mayor, but most everyone tells me he's a progressive. In her excellent piece in yesterday's *Atlantic*, Molly Ball compared him to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, an ambitious, centrist corporate Democrat. Both are good on iconic social issues that define the parameters of what's a Democrat in New York, of course, but Ball reminds us that Cuomo thinks his career will be best served by cutting taxes and de Blasio understands why the rich have to pay their fair share. "You could hardly get a better illustration of th... more »

Oregon School District Hires 50 Security Guards at $35k a Day

freetoteach at Schools Matter - 16 hours ago
Reports from Portland, Oregon: Portland is gearing up for a teacher strike. Susan Neilson, *The Oregonian.* Sam Wheeler of the *Mail Tribune*]Medford Oregon: *Long said the school district has hired about 50 security guards through Action Security Inc. of Medford and San Diego-based Off Duty Officers Inc. of San Diego — costing the district about $35,000 per day.* *"We have 24-hour security, because we want to make sure we protect our property and mischief doesn't happen," Long said.*

Deep Tweets

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 16 hours ago
I just want your extra time and... your kiss AFRAID TO LOOK & be blinded by the awesome RT @pourmecoffee: Every Prince hairstyle since 1978, drawn by @gary_card pic.twitter.com/M04sic9HB2 — Liza Sabater (@blogdiva) February 9, 2014

Gail Collins probes into "Sunny John" Boehner's "thinking" on immigration -- and she has a quiz!

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago
*"Well, we got a lot of things on our plate."* *-- "Sunny John" Boehner, quoted by Gail Collinsin her NYT column* "Boehner on Fantasy Island" *by Ken* We like to pop in occasional pop quizzes, and so, it seems, does NYT columnist Gail Collins. Her subject today is a gentleman who scarcely needs any introduction, a gentleman who, at least by the standards of the scurvy gang known as the House Republican caucus, which he nominally leads, isn't as hopeless in the matter of immigration reform and the American melting pot as one might assume. Or *wasn't *entirely hopeless, up until Thu... more »

Dave and Scottish Independence

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 18 hours ago
Back in the noughties, there was a Stoke-on-Trent councillor who faced a very strong challenge from the BNP for his seat. The fascists threw the kitchen sink at it, and Labour countered by ensuring they went door-to-door. It was touch-and-go but in the end the BNP did not win and the incumbent clung on. The thing is, despite staring down the barrel, with the fash snapping at his heels our councillor* refused to go out and canvass for support*. I bring this up because Dave's approach to the Scottish referendum is almost exactly the same. Sure the No Campaign - Better Together - have... more »

Online Education Giant, Coursera, Blocks Access from Sanctioned Countries

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 19 hours ago
A screenshot of an error message that appears when attempting to access the Coursera website from Iran, Syria, Cuba or Sudan. (Nina Curley / Wamda) “Since its inception, Coursera, the education company that offers massive open online courses (MOOCs) to 6.3 million users in 190 different countries, has committed publicly — and repeatedly — to delivering free education to all,” Forbes reporter

(Duke Befuddled (Or Just Money-Crazed?) Doesn't Report Spill for 24 Hours But They Own NC Now So It's OKAY!) Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill Pollutes River and Threatens Drinking Water

Not a real surprise in incredibly deregulated North Carolina. Thank you, Republicans! And Dimocrats. (Not to mention those eco-empaths at Duke Energy.) After all, why did you think it so important for the Koch/Pope-funded 'thugs to take over both houses by hook or crook(s) last election day? They will not be giving it back readily. (Take a look at the radically gerrymandered districts!) Duke

“Hawaii Now Uninhabitable Due To Fukushima Radiation”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
*“Hawaii Now Uninhabitable Due To Fukushima Radiation”* By Zen Gardner “This is a “must listen” interview with Alfred Webre and Leuren Moret discussing how dangerous it is now to live in the Hawaiian Islands. Please listen to the whole interview.” - http://beforeitsnews.com/

Resolution prepared to suspend Tex Hall due to alleged oil field corruption

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago
Resolution prepared to suspend Tex Hall due to alleged oil field corruption James Henrikson and his wife Sarah Creveling with Tex Hall. The identity of fourth person in the photo has been concealed since the fourth person is not under investigation. By Brenda Norrell Censored News NEW TOWN, North Dakota -- A resolution has been prepared for the suspension of Chairman Tex Hall of the Mandan,

Love Quest : Day 1 - Living in Agape

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 20 hours ago
In April of 2013, the “final” Love Quest was completed. Agape was found and that was the whole point. Almost a year later, we are in much the same place. On some levels there is massive change, yet inside, maybe not so much. Yes, the world is taking on a different hue and what is clear now is that regardless of what it looks like to anyone else; it is only about you. As you look around, you see all your feelings reflected. These things are not mistakes; they are attributes of your inner beliefs reflected back for your consideration. You have reached a point in your awareness... more »

Ukraine updates February 8 , 2014 -- focus in financial issues.... Fitch downgrades Ukraine credit to CCC ..... Russia presses Ukraine on debt amid protests Russian finance minister pledges to give second tranche of $15bn bailout package, but wants gas debt paid first ...... US will give money to Ukraine if Kiev makes necessary reforms - Nuland

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/ukraine-currency-controls-political-crisis Fitch downgrades Ukraine's credit rating as currency controls are imposed Ratings agency fears steep and uncontrolled depreciation of the currency as central bank limits private transfers abroad of around $5,700 a month - Share41 - - - - inShare3 - Email - Reuters - - theguardian.com, Friday 7 February 2014 11.13 EST [image: Exchange rates in a subway in central Kiev, Ukraine] Exchange rates in a subway in central Kiev, Ukraine. Photograph: David Mdzinarishvili/REUT... more »

The World Is Waking Up To The Murderous Butchering Communist Jewish Species!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 20 hours ago
Yes, there is a revolution going on right now in the Ukraine. The Ukrainian people are waking up and are wanting to take their country back from Jewish oppression... I, like others, have been watching all the conflicting reports coming over the Jew spew media, noting that of course this fraud media is promoting the idea that the Ukrainian people want to overthrow their "oppressive" government, without telling anyone the truth that the criminals in the fraud European Union and the United States want to see Ukraine forced into the clutches of the Rothschild led EU, and therefore see ... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours ago
Keukenhof, The Netherlands. [photo via Earth Pictures]

Arizona Snowbowl protest photos: Today at DEW event

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
News as it happens from Censored News: Protest of Arizona Snowbowl, sewage water snow on sacred San Francisco Peaks, at today's DEW event in Flagstaff, Arizona. Thank you to Dawn Dyer for sharing photos with Censored News! Read more: Flagstaff police harass activists before Dew event: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/

Remembering friends: Dine' iconoclasts who ignited struggle

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
In the Chuskas/Photo Brenda Norrell Remembering friends: Dine' iconoclasts who ignited struggle By Brenda Norrell Censored News Today I'm remembering my friends on Navajoland, some of the forerunners of the modernday struggle to save the forests, land, water and air, from coal mining, uranium mining, clear-cut logging and corrupt politicians within and without. Some are still with us,

The Truth About The Criminal Bloodbath in Iraq Can't Be 'Countered' Indefinitely

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 21 hours ago
[image: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37577.htm] The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for those paid to keep the record straight *By John Pilger * [image: babt pilger] * A baby in a Baghdad hospital in July 2003. '**Half a million Iraqi infants died* * as a result of sanctions, according to Unicef.' Photograph: Joseph Barrak/AFP/Getty Images* The BBC's Today programme is enjoying high ratings, and the Mail and Telegraph are, as usual, attacking the corporation as leftwing. Las... more »

Should The Post Office Offer Banking Services?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago
You're probably aware that crooked multimillionaire Darrell Issa (R-CA)-- a car thief, street thug and arsonist-for-profit-- has been working on a plan to abolish the post office on behalf of his allies at for-profit delivery systems at FedEx and UPS. We are potentially just one election away where Republicans get the power to irreversibly shutter the American postal service. Senator Elizabeth Warren has come up with a proposal that would save the post office and provide basic, crucial banking services for millions of underserved families who have no checking or savings accounts.... more »

Locust

What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 22 hours ago
Early white settlers on the high plains of the western U.S. were always bummed out when colossal swarms of locusts dropped by for lunch. The sky would darken, and the land would be filled with the roaring buzz of millions of fluttering wings. Within an hour or so, everything was covered with them, including the settlers, who frantically tried to brush off the hundreds of hungry insects that were chewing apart their clothing. They were Rocky Mountain locusts, a North American species that lived west of the Mississippi — and the stars of Jeffrey Lockwood’s book, *Locust*. When swa... more »

Keeping Warm This Winter (II)

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 22 hours ago
February 8, 2014 Last week, I told you about some things I’d done to bring my heating bill down this winter (and avoid a heart attack from opening future heating bills). Several readers noted things they had tried in the … Continue reading →

Constructive critique and what is actually harmful to children

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 22 hours ago
I saw this circulate today through my circles on doling our better criticism. I like it. It applies to my discipline because I feel as if I am constantly scrutinized by individuals who do not know how to give critique without immediately establishing a dishonest, hostile, and overall unsatisfactory professional relationship. This part is most […]

The Emptying of Northern California Reservoirs

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
pyramid_lake.jpeg The Emptying of Northern California Reservoirs  State and feds shipped massive amounts of water south during drought  by Dan Bacher  Photo of Pyramid Lake, now 96 percent of capacity and 102 percent of average, in Southern California. Photo by Gene Beley Censored News The dry bed of Folsom Lake has become an unlikely tourist attraction for

In One Month, Everyone In Iceland Will Own Cryptocurrency

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
*Our data indicates Bitcoin is already in the control of the US Treasury and The Bank of England. What's key to remember about cryptocurrency is that while they discourage inflation of the currency (through difficulty of mining new digital coins - and who audits that anyway?) they do not address the paradigm that the people are the value. The use of cryptocurrency does not address the issue of the hypothecation of the value of human beings and their assets without their knowledge that they are the value - the basis of the current slavery systems. These issues will remain even if t... more »

Inevitable things

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
What's the most inevitable thing in the world? Death? Taxes? Entropy? Marcus Brigstocke making a joke about* The Daily Mail*? Me using Marcus Brigstocke in a joke about crap Radio 4 comedians? No, there's something even more inevitable than any of these things...and it's something that was inevitable even before I knew it was inevitable. It begins with the likelihood, in light of the opening of the Winter Olympics in Vlad's Russia, that Radio 4's *Sunday* would do a feature related to the games tomorrow. (And the programme's website indeed confirms this will happen.) But that'... more »

Fukushima Updates February 6 , 2014 - Japan and US impacts discussed , Tepco slow motion destruction of Japan through its incompetence , constant lying and withholding data documented .....

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Ex - SKF.... FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2014 #Fukushima I NPP: TEPCO Admits Error 7 Months Later, Says All-Beta from Observation Hole Along Embankment Was 10 Million Bq/L, Not 900K Bq/L *(UPDATE)* It may not just be about groundwater samples along the embankment.*All the high-density all-beta/strontium analyses done at Fukushima I NPP, including the analyses of all-beta/strontium in the RO (reverse osmosis) waste water, may be wrong*. Or TEPCO says they "cannot deny the possibility that the analyses were wrong." (from a tweet by @jaikoman who tweets just about every single TEPCO and NRA... more »

"All students are not equal; some are more profitable than others" --Parthenon Group

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
If you want to find some savvy teachers who are not afraid to speak out against their Broadie superintendent and corporate foundations that have bought Tennessee schools and the nation's schools at bargain basement prices, go to Knoxville. Here is special ed teacher, Robert Taylor, taking his five minutes at the Feb. 5 board meeting, and making it count. This is what free speech looks like--use it! And here is the link the powerpoint presentation by Parthenon Group's Robert Lytle in 2009. The quote in the title of this post is on page 13, which is below. Parthenon is a chie... more »

The Ugly, Cretinous Head of "Conservatism"

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
Pierre Poopleevair, ... if you've got nothing to hide you should have nothing to fear. But of course, your "Fucking With Elections Act," crafted in secret and rammed through with minimal oversight, is a disgusting effort at vote suppression, fraud promotion and corruption enabling. Chris Alexander, your immigration reform proposals are cynical, racist, totalitarian garbage. Call someone a "terrorist" and strip them of their citizenship? Even if they were born here? Then you call civil disobedience "terrorism" and Bob's your molesting uncle. What else could one have expected from a ... more »

No child left unconnected?

skrashen at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
No child left without basic resources Published in the Washington Post, Feb. 7. 2014 Before we worry about no child left unconnected to the Internet [“Broadband in schools gets FCC push,” news, Feb. 3], how about no child left unfed, no child without adequate health care and no child without easy access to a good library? The rate of child poverty in the United States is 23 percent, the second-highest of all economically advanced countries. Stephen Krashen, Los Angeles Major hat-tip: Susan Ohanian: "When congress passes No Child Left Unfed, No Child Without Health Care and No Child ... more »

GAY BRAZIL; DIVIDE AND RULE

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*Homophobes are often sadistic gay Nazis.* *Sargento Isidório* is an evangelical pastor and a politician. In February 2014, Sargento Isidório filed a lawsuit against the Brazilian TV company Globo for showing two men kissing each other in a TV soap. *Sargento Isidório admits to having a homosexual past.* Is he yet another gay homophobe evangelical? *Gay kiss in soap opera Amor à Vida is landmark moment for Brazil* / *A Kiss Is Just A Kiss? Not If It's A Gay Kiss (On Brazilian TV) - Forbes* / Back in 2005, *The Observer *reported that a Brazilian soap was going to show a gay kiss... more »

MI6

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
Subject: <¸_,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸_ > <¸_,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸_> MI6 Drops their pants??? - THIS IS UNREAL <¸_,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸_> <¸_,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸_ > <¸_,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸_> Date: 1999/05/11 Author: Raymond Amundson This article appeared in the May 14, 1999 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. In case you have not heard, this is INCREDIBLE http://www.larouchepub.com/diana_mi6_2620.html [Now dead] The `*MI6* factor' in the murder of Princess Diana by Our Special Correspondent Recently, EIR was one of several news organizations that received an unsolicited e-mail transmission, identifying senio... more »

Through the fraying bandage of impartiality

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
As ever, there's some brilliant (and funny) writing about the BBC from former *Today *editor Rod Liddle over at the *Spectator* - and I couldn't agree more with his sentiments. On the tragic fall of Baroness Sally Morgan: Can someone please explain to me why the BBC newsreaders were not wearing black armbands last weekend when reporting the tragic story of Sally Morgan being given the boot from Ofsted? In all other manners the coverage was adequately respectful and the reporters, rightly, allowed their anguish to bleed through the fraying bandage of impartiality. Not enough, mind ... more »

Life Transactions, keep them lite

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
Life transpires so swimmingly so riven with current its a place e where to 'be an island is great but not nearly good enough some one always wants to invade and what's with that live me alone you fucking brutes but that's not the nature of humans we are like a wolf pack of opposable thumbs with a crow brain pumped through a lizard mother board with a failed memory Knowing what exists is not panacea nothing is certain and experts piss dust and ruin if you can find one that has not hitched his post to an intellectual flatulent. Over and over again the same stories are printed in the Newspa... more »

Why do we #optout?: Just fighting the good fight.

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
It is definitely getting close to testing season. My email and voice mail are flooded. Parents and concerned community members have questions about the opt out process. Opt out Facebook pages are buzzing with questions and of course continued stories of bullying from education professionals engaged in deception by telling interested opt outers that there […]

Yet another Jew caught red-handed manufacturing "anti-Semitism"

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
Most of you reading here are probably familiar with the many examples in which *Jews themselves* are caught red-handed spray painting "anti-Semitic" and anti-Israel graffiti, slogans, and symbols in public places in order to manufacture "anti-Semitism", perpetuating the Jews' "victimhood" and "persecuted people" status - a central aspect of Jewish identity. Once again, a Jewish student in New York was found guilty of spray painting "anti-Semitic" graffiti in public, as the *Jewish Telegraph Agency*recently reported: A Long Island yeshiva student was charged with repeatedly scrawling... more »

"Fukushima Update, 2/8/14"; A Comment

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*"Fukushima Update, 2/8/14"* by Various Sources Kyodo, Feb. 7, 2014: "TEPCO to review “massive” radiation data due to improper measurement – [TEPCO] said Friday that it will review a “massive” amount of radiation data it has collected at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant because readings may be lower than actual figures due to improper measurement. “We are very sorry, but we found cases in which beta radiation readings turned out to be wrong when the radioactivity concentration of a sample was high,” TEPCO spokesman Masayuki Ono told a press conference. • Kyodo/J... more »

mahavidya goddess

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
mahavidya goddess

With Waxman Retiring, What Happens With One Of America's Foremost Liberal Congressional Districts?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
This is how EMILY's List lost Wendy Greuel her last race. What garbage will they throw at Ted Lieu? In 2008, Obama scored 64% against McCain in what is now CA-33. Last cycle he did pretty well too-- 61-37% against Romney. The PVI of the Los Angeles district is a solid D+11 and not even a DCCC led by Steve Israel could lose a district that blue, right? Well, that's what we're here to discuss today. Israel's bumbling won CA-31, southeast of here, for a radical right Republican from Arkansas who runs around dressed as a Confederate Civil War general, Gary Miller. But that's "just" a D+5... more »

Something closeto a love poem

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
we do not have some kind of facebook love or any kind of electronic hook up to which those with weak chemistry subscribe I knew the second i saw your face you were the one for me lets just take that in context I was not in a southern state bordello I was not lookng at some fishbool of attractive brides on a site that as a prospective Republian canditate you needed to proscripe I was not like half of them gay I was just me and you were you and there was no external force working upon us to proscribe We fell in love in an instant and it was real we are now both 55 and that is a certified war... more »

Putin, Tchaikovsky, snowboarding and the BBC

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Did you watch the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics? The BBC broadcast it live yesterday on BBC Two. Not BBC One, obviously, as all right-thinking types disapprove of these games being held in Putin's homophobic Russia, and the BBC is about as right-thinking an organisation as it's possible to get. BBC One wouldn't do for the Sochi Olympics. So, yes, the BBC gets the glory of broadcasting it - and to bask in any gold medals we might win - but they shove it all on BBC Two because it's a 'bad Olympics' (according to Stephen Fry, *The Guardian*, etc). Well, that's thei... more »

Bitcoin Plunges As Major Exchange Mt. Gox Halts All Withdrawals ( Is the amount of customer money frozen 38 million dollars , seems like that is the amount of unfilled withdrawals as of 2/4/14 ? ) - volume on the top three exchanges appears much higher than normal today ! BTC-e Pulls Support for Ruble As Russia Bans Bitcoin ....... LocalBitcoins.com Users Face Criminal Charges in Florida ...... Coinbase Moves to Calm Security Concerns Amid Theft Reports ......Following Mt. Gox Sell-Off, Cyprus Warns of Bitcoin’s Volatility ...... Bad news day for bitcoin !

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
With the ongoing mess with MT Gox , trust is going to be an issue moving forward - Say hello to regulation folks ! SecondMarket Takes First Step to Becoming a US Bitcoin Exchange Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) | Published on February 7, 2014 at 17:52 GMT | *Companies, Exchanges,Investors, News* inShare3 Share 80 [image: shutterstock_133956638] SecondMarket has taken its first step to becoming a US-based bitcoin exchange, the company’s founder and CEO Barry Silbert has suggested. Silbert took to Twitter today to announce that his alternative investment company is now buying bitcoins from i... more »

Stephen Harper unmasked

LeDaro at LeDaro - 1 day ago
Second coming of Joseph Stalin.

i'm bored

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago

Cross examination

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
Cross examination is recognized as "being protected by ss. 7 and 11(d)" of the Charter. The right however is limited by the requirements of relevancy and materiality, with relevancy being the main criteria. Suggestions can be put to the witness as long as there is a "good faith" basis for the question. R v Lyttle 2004 SCC 4 1.

Are you aware of the 1982 Consent Decree?...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
I admit to having only vaguely heard about this until Nox and Friendsbrought it to my attention. I suggest you start with this very easy to understand and well written article by Garnet92, who contributes to Nox and Friends. I know that posting something that requires a bit more focus on a Saturday is not the best idea. However, in my continuing efforts to declutter my house and my life, I've been trying to focus on one or two things at a time. Aimlessly clicking on article after article is turning my brain to mush and I suspect this is happening to others. Perhaps you could devo... more »

Why did they shut down the access lanes?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2014* *Goofus and Gallant debate:* Ideally, people should try to avoid premature judgments when scandal culture breaks out. With that in mind, let’s examine an ongoing question: why were those access lanes in Fort Lee shut down last September? At present, that question hasn’t been answered. We’ll have to hope that ongoing investigations will be able to nail that point down. Some journalists don’t want to wait; they want their conclusions right now. Let’s compare two journalistic treatments from the past few days. On Thursday night’s All In, Chris Hayes and a ... more »

Winter scene

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

Judge shopping offensive

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
R. *v*. Regan, [2002] 1 S.C.R. 297, 2002 SCC 12: 60 This Court has adverted to the impropriety of trying to influence the outcome of a proceeding by trying to "select" the judge. Where it appeared that the Crown had abandoned a case before one judge to avoid an unfavourable ruling, and then reinstated charges at a new trial before a new judge, McLachlin J. was quick to point out the affront to the integrity of the system (*Scott*, *supra*, at pp. 1008-9): The concern with "judge-shopping" arises from the use of the stay to avoid the consequences ... more »

JIM WILLIE ON BANKSTER SUICIDES: BANKERS WERE TAKEN OUT TO PREVENT FOREX FRAUD WHISTLE-BLOWING!

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
*JIM WILLIE ON BANKSTER SUICIDES: BANKERS WERE TAKEN OUT TO PREVENT FOREX FRAUD WHISTLE-BLOWING!* FEBRUARY 7, 2014 BY THE DOC http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-on-bankster-suicides-bankers-were-taken-out-to-prevent-forex-fraud-whistle-blowing/ Fed whistle blowerYesterday we reported that Steve Quayle’s banker source “V” has informed him that the recent rash of banker “suicides” are part of a hit list that includes dozens of bankers including a supposed high level Citi executive. Today, none other than Jim Willie himself has provided SD readers with an exclusive report on ... more »

NOW WE ARE ALL GOING ON THE RESERVATIONS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, concerning areas of extreme poverty that he refers to as 'sacrifice zones', as well as the reasons behind the collapse of complex societies. Part two here

Doug and Rob Ford, the morality police and patriotism.

noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day ago
Yes, you read that correctly. For three days in a row, the political horror show known as Doug and Rob Ford has been exploiting homophobia in all its multiple hate-mongering facets to further ingratiate themselves with their bigoted fans and followers. On Wednesday at the first mayoral candidates' forum of the 2014 Toronto municipal election, Mayor Mascot made a point of disclosing that his non-attendance at Toronto Pride is a personal and political boycott. “I’m not going to go to Pride Parade. I’ve never gone to a Pride Parade so I’m not going to change the way I am,” Ford said. ... more »

US tests B61 Atomic Bomb - fire later that night at Los Alamos labs

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
*US tests B61 Atomic Bomb - fire later that night at Los Alamos labs* Posted by D. at Removing the Shackles 2/8/2014 About two hours after I published the Transpicuous News for Feb 6, I received an email from a reader in Los Alamos, Stating that on Feb 5th "there was a fire Wednesday night at the site where they bury the lab's radio-active wastes (alarming enough in itself-but they own the town--which is full of cancer patients). " I sent that information through a few channels that I have to check things and sure enough I last night I received verification of these events. I ... more »

UKRAINE: THIS IS HOW THE US DOES IT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Washington Post reports today: On Thursday, a video was posted on YouTube in which Victoria Nuland, the top U.S. diplomat for Europe, disparagingly dismissed European Union efforts to mediate the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine by bluntly saying, “Fuck the E.U.” On Friday, Merkel, through press attache Christiane Wirtz, described the gaffe as “absolutely unacceptable,” and defended the efforts of Catherine Ashton, the E.U.’s foreign policy chief..... Nuland quickly apologized for the comments, with the United States pointing the finger Thursday at the Russians for recording and post... more »

Juan Maldacena's NYU colloquium on QM, GR

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
*Some hot promising yet divisive conjectures mentioned* Readers with 66 spare minutes are recommended to watch a colloquium that Juan Maldacena, an inaugural Milner Prize winner and the father of not only the AdS/CFT correspondence, gave at the New York University a week ago: He's introduced and the sound quality improves immediately afterwards. In fact, it seems like the participants at NYU didn't enjoy the same quality as the YouTube viewers like you. After some introduction to general relativity and quantum mechanics, Juan offered some jokes about the same criticism applied ... more »

Hanging On The Telephone was not a Blondie original...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
The Nerves recorded it first, in 1976 Here's the somewhat better known Blondie version

How Vulnerable Is Steve Israel To Defeat In November?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
You probably missed it, but a few days ago the *Washington Post* ran some hopeful polling numbers that show the corrupt dirt bag Steve Israel could be beaten. Although they neglected to update the new PVI-- even instead of D+2-- this is what they came up with: *Steve Israel, NY-03 (PVI, D+2)* *Generic Ballot* GOP: 43% Democrat: 42% *Steve Israel Job Approval* Approve: 37% Disapprove: 27% *Israel Reelect* Deserves re-election: 33% Someone else: 36% Israel's counterpart at the NRCC, Greg Walden (R-OR), was making threatening noises about targeting Israel the way they target eve... more »

Perpetually insolvent US Postal Service has a stroke of genius idea - become a payday loan shark , get in check cashing , run cyber currency Exchanges - in other words , become part of the shadow banking system and in short order become TBTF ! Considering the incompetence the US Postal Service has displayed delivering mail , who with trust them as a shadow banker ? And does anyone want their mail delivered by their payday loan provider ? And the idea of the US Postal Service being a US bitcoin Exchange surely would signal the impending doom of bitcoin !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/06/bankers-balk-as-postal-service-floats-plan-for-payday-loans-digital-currency/ The perpetually-struggling U.S. Postal Service has bankers in a tizzy after floating a plan to branch into what it called "non-bank financial services" that somehow sound a lot like what lenders do. In a white paper distributed late last month, the Postal Service's inspector general discussed getting into an array of financial services as a means of keeping the money-losing mail operation afloat. Payday loans, check cashing and digital currency exchanges were among the p... more »

THE WORD

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

JAIL TIME COMING FOR DRONE PROTEST

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
*Hancock 17 Drone War Crimes Resisters' Verdict Is In* *All found guilty of disorderly conduct but acquitted of trespassing; Order of Protection **extended 2 years; Judge decides to send a message* On Friday, February 7, Town of DeWitt Court Judge David Gideon found twelve of the Hancock Drone War Crimes Resisters guilty of disorderly conduct, but acquitted them of trespassing. They had gone to Hancock Air National Guard Base near Syracuse, NY, on Oct. 25, 2012, to bring a Citizens War Crimes Indictment to the base and symbolically block the gates. Their nonviolent action had call... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Levee-board reformers worry that Bobbly Jindal is bringing politics back into process ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*~Last month, Jay Lapeyre, the leader of the nominating committee for the local flood authority, received a letterfrom Garret Graves, head of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s coastal office. It said two previous nominees from the committee were ineligible, and it asked that Lapeyre reconvene the panel and send more names up. One of those rejected is the authority’s president and supporter of its controversial lawsuit against oil and gas companies the governor opposes. The letter concluded:... more »

Engineered Drought Catastrophe, Target California

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 1 day ago
[image: GeoengineeringWatch.org] January 29, 2014 Most of the “the golden state” is now parched, baked and dried far beyond any historical precedent. Reservoirs are nearly empty, streams are drying up, and forests are dying by the day. Catastrophic fires will also continue to decimate California due to the engineered drought. Dane Wigington geoengineeringwatch.org Much of the state went through all of 2013 with no significant rain. Why? What will it take to wake people up to the “weather warfare” being waged on them? Geoengineering reduces overall global rainfall totals (though it... more »

Bitcoin: Problem, Reaction, Solution?

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Julie Beal A schism has been created in the activist world, with the appearance of the algorithm called Bitcoin. Its apparent genius means that we haven’t a chance of knowing how good Bitcoin is, because it’s clear that the person or people who created it had *expertise *in cryptography *AND*economics, along with a good working knowledge of network science, computer technology, maths, law, and commerce. In Davis's New Yorker article he describes the impenetrable nature of Nakamoto's code. Every time his computer security res... more »

La Quenelle- Dieudonne talks to the BBC

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
Thanks Gallier gallier2February 8, 2014 at 1:34 AM Hi Penny, BBC interviewed Dieudonné https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkrVNYfYwk you might be interested. I don't know the reporter but I'm certain that he's a kippa wearer, so loaded are his questions. Yup, gallier, loaded would be an understatement! Dieudonne handles the loaded questions very well and all common propaganda themes are at play Just when you think the BBC can't get any lower-They hit a new low

Hold Clapper Accountable for any Terrorist Attack on U.S.

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
Under pressure for the illegal surveillance activities of the NSA, now fully blossoming to include what are the obvious uses of such programs including sexual blackmail the National Security State has resorted to the Bush strategy – fear mongering. The state media has dutifully been ratcheting up the full frontal assault on Americans over DNI James Clapper’s ominous testimony before a Senate committee that a Syrian group *“does have aspirations for attacks on the homeland”*. Never mind that this is the same James Clapper who lied to Congress over the extent of domestic spying on... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 1 day ago
*Yoghurt slashes diabetes risk: Daily pot can reduce chance of developing Type 2 by a quarter, claims researchers* *This is another correlational study but it seems better controlled than most so there may be something in it. Yoghurt is easy to digest so may ease strain on the pancreas* Eating a pot of yoghurt a day may help keep diabetes at bay, claim researchers. Regular consumption of yoghurt cut the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by more than a quarter, according to a new study. Similar health benefits come from other low-fat fermented dairy foods, such as fromage frais... more »

War Watch February 8 , 2014 - Syria morphs ( US and Western meddling creating blowback or just the lie of the day ) ! Syria has become 'matter of homeland security,' DHS Secretary Johnson says -DHS and FBI continue to work to ID Al Qaeda linked groups in Syria - isn't Syria beyond the homeland ? Chechen commander for Al Nusrah Front reported killed in Aleppo ....... Suqour al Sham, ISIS agree to ceasefire .......... Regarding Afghanistan , US Senators demand say in Afghanistan Deal for US troops to remain ( Dems Markley and Manchin join GOP Senators Paul and Lee ) ....... Iraq death dealing continues , along with Maliki double dealing with the Kurds.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Syria...... http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/197768-syria-has-become-matter-of-homeland-security?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Syria has become 'matter of homeland security,' DHS Secretary Johnson says By Rebecca Shabad Share on facebook16Share on twitter12Share on google_plusone_shareMore Sharing Services2Share on email 3 Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Friday that Syria has become an issue of homeland security for the United States. The new head of the Department of Homeland Security returned Thursday night after a two-day trip ... more »
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