Stephen Hawking introduction slide of lecture at Hebrew University of Jerusalem 14-12-2006 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Examine the March 6 , 2014 President Obama Executive Order -- Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine - And then ask this question Is the US declaring economic warfare on China and Russia ( think Treasury bonds , FNM and FRE debt , Mortgage backed securities - owned by China's government directly , by state investment vehicles / sovereign wealth funds , by wealthy individuals in Russia and China ) ? A fair reading of this Executive Order seems to indicate yes.......
For Immediate Release
March 06, 2014
Executive Order -- Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the
Situation in Ukraine
EXECUTIVE ORDER
- - - - - - -
BLOCKING PROPERTY OF CERTAIN PERSONS CONTRIBUTING TO THE SITUATION IN
UKRAINE
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States of America, including the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 *et seq*.) (IEEPA), the National
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 *et seq*.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182... more »
Brinkmanship. Think they are aware of The China Plan ?
Ukraine Updates ( Late Friday as well as Friday morning March 7 , 2014 ) .....While Kiev , US and EU shriek loudly about the looming Crimea Referendum - with limp sanction - lite wrist slaps being imposed by the EU and US , both Crimea firmly stand their ground and intend to see the Referendum go forward....
Catharsis Ours - 2 minutes ago
Late March 7 , 2014......
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-07/russian-troops-storming-ukraine-air-force-base-crimea-time-reports-citing-crimea-tv
Russian Troops Storm Ukraine Air Force Base In Crimea, Reuters Confirms
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/07/2014 14:10 -0500
- Reuters
- Ukraine
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Update 2: *ARMED ATTACKERS LEAVE UKRAINE MILITARY BASE IN SEVASTOPOL: TV5*
* * *
Update, and this time from Reuters:
- *ARMED MEN ENTER UKRAINIAN MILITARY POST IN CRIMEA AND TAKE CONTROL,
NO SHOTS FIRED - REUTERS REPORTER ON THE S... more »
Start the Week, shipmates!
Time for a belated bouquet (especially after all these brickbats)...
This Monday's *Start the Week* was exceptional. Its theme was 'The Vikings
and Seafaring'.
For starters, there was Historian *Michael Wood* (yes him) talking about
the Vikings. He's always great value. Here's a sample of his contribution
to the programme:
There's a sort of swaggering self-confidence to them. Arab and Persian
writers refer to their tattoos, their long hair and their personal bathing
habit, and their swagger. They are almost like Johnny Depp.
I remember there was an exhibition in London in 1980, t... more »
MALAYSIAN AIRLINES MH370 - STOLEN PASSPORTS
In the case of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the Malaysian authorities
are probing possible foul play after a missing passports claim.
*Authorities probing possible foul play after 'missing' passport claim *- *MARCH
09, 2014 *
Reports have emerged that two passengers - one Italian and one Austrian -
listed on the flight manifest never boarded the plane.
*Italian Luigi Maraldi and Austrian Christian Kozel had their passports
stolen some time ago.*
Malaysia's Deputy Transport Minister, Datuk Aziz Kaprawi, said the
authorities are probing the matter for possible foul play.
Accord... more »
Train traveler says he didn’t “get” Hawking!
*SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2014*
*How often does that happen:* How often does *that* happen?
This morning, in a local coffee joint, we guarded a younger fellow’s
luggage as he used the men’s salon. In the long run, he seemed to be on his
way to nearby Penn Station.
Upon returning from the men’s room, he caught us perusing Stephen Hawking’s
1988 best-seller, A Brief History of Time.
We’ve been reading our Hawking every morning in recent weeks. It’s an
antidote to the infantilization involved in watching you-know-who tell her
stories about scandal topics.
This morning, a rare event occurr... more »
Teach For America and The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
As the controversy around Teach For America grows, it is incredibly
important to understand the role of vulture philanthropy in education
reform. This video provides powerful context in regards to how many
nonprofits are used to maintain and exacerbate the injustices and
inequalities in our world. Perhaps one of the most ad vanced mechanisms
[…]
Nova Scotia Newspaper in Hot Water Over Cartoon Comparing Harper to Nazis
Harper is a horrible prime minister, he does not care about democracy or
science. He has tarnished Canada's image on the world stage by promoting
the tarsands and by supporting George W. Bush style militarism. Canada was
denied a seat on the UN Security Council because of how Harper has damaged
the country's international reputation. No longer peacekeepers.
I have no use for Harper, he is a bully with authoritarian tendencies
promoting destructive policies, but calling is Nazi is a little too much.
The cartoon (pictured above) appeared in the Pictou Advocate - a weekly
Nova Scot... more »
Multiple Aliases for the Adult 'Victims' of Sandy Hook. No birth records for child victims. Who are those children who sang at the Super Bowl? Look familiar?
I am so thankful for those on the internet who search for the Truth.
Together we all uncover the LIES and Deception of Sandy Hook. We all do
are different things regarding it. I have watched the information about the
Aliases of Nancy Lanza and have done multiple searches regarding that too.
The web of lies and many names she had is outrageous. It comes down to
the fact that it appears Nancy
Pakistan’s Democratic Progression and the Impending Changes in Afghanistan
This is guest post by Professor T.V. Paul* On March 5, 2014, the Nawaz
Sharif government completed nine months in office, despite Pakistan’s
continued economic crisis, chronic power shortages, and escalating
sectarian violence. The military and the ISI are yet to show any
inclination to wrest control of power from the civilians. In November, 2013
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Breakthrough in human cloning raises hopes for treatment of Parkinson's and heart disease
*THE INDEPENDENT*
News could lead to tissue-transplant operations for range of debilitating
disorders, also including MS and spinal cord injuries
Steve Connor
Thursday 16 May 2013
Scientists have finally made the long-awaited breakthrough in human cloning
by turning skin cells into early-stage embryos that were then used to
create specialised tissue cells for transplant operations, it has been
revealed today.
For the first time, researchers have unequivocally created human embryonic
stem cells using the cloning technique that led to the birth of Dolly the
sheep. However, unlike... more »
ARRIVED IN VEGAS
I am in Las Vegas after a long flight yesterday from
Portland-Newark-Vegas. You are hit with high-tech slot machines as soon as
you come off the plane at the airport. The terminal is quite grand, but
also quite unimaginative. In one massive rotunda they have four tall
plastic palm trees standing there. Kind of a true symbol of the unreality
of this place.
I am staying in a $35 a night motel (who knew you could get a room in the
US at that price anymore) sharing with Catholic Worker (CW) activist Dennis
Apel who got me invited to speak to this west coast gathering of CW
activi... more »
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*Lawsuit filed against oil and gas companies to face fierce opposition
~WWLTV *
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*~Editilla Conswellas~* Won't make it to'da Water Festival today, more for
health reasons than lack of wanting to be there. I'll admit it,
Ladderellos, Mardi Gras Kicked My Ass! It took a couple'a days to rise up
but up it came like a viscous hurricane crup yesterday. But I hope all
involved with this fine event know my anonymocity does not speak of
ambivalence. I'm work in the undergrowth, beneath even the underground,
beneath the grassroots. Some of you who've followed... more »
AUTHOR/ARTIST MIKE PHILBIN SELFIE Q&A:
Q: So, you're working on two books at once, Mike?
A: I am, one's called WATCHER, the other's called REAPER. I'm about 15,000
words into the WATCHER novel. I'm about 8,000 words into the REAPER novel.
And they're both 'healthily' up in the air, even though I have 'last
chapter' candidates for both novels.
Q: What's it like writing two books at once, any bleedthrough?
A: No, have you ever tried doing this?
Q: Isn't it a lot like juggling a chainsaw and a shark at the same time?
A: Not really, WATCHER is based in the TANDEM (g3 whistleblower) WAR WORLD
of cities and espionage and ev... more »
Speaker Hensarling?
It isn't easy getting credible and dependable Republican staffers on
Capitol Hill to speak with me, even off the record. They're almost as bad
as Blue Dogs and New Dems. I lucked out the other day-- with a slightly
drunk-- and very horny-- one, who took a shine to my companion and was
eager to show how well-connected he is. He seemed a lot more certain than
anyone else I've spoken to that Boehner won't be running for Speaker again.
Everyone else tells me he's wrong, although no one is certain. He says he
is certain. And he says the lines are already being drawn for who will be
the... more »
Crimea: Media Propaganda Machine set to "HIGH"
This article is written especially for all those people that you know, that
believe the main stream media and ONLY the main stream media's "NEWS".
This article is for your family and friends and colleagues that believe
that what the media is reporting on is the news as it really IS. For those
who do not understand the political and financial controllers who tell the
media what to report and more importantly, what NOT to report on.
As I have been writing for the past few months, transparency IS coming out
in the Main Stream Media (MSM). Usually the trick is being able to
see/read b... more »
Alarm Bells Should Be Going Off
The Harperites didn't consult Marc Mayrand when they drew up their election
"reforms." And there was a reason they did everything they could to prevent
him from testifying before the parliamentary committee looking into those
reforms.
But testify he did. And, Andrew Coyne writes, he shredded the bill:
The chief electoral officer, in his quiet, workmanlike way, simply shredded
it, almost line for line, proposing more than two dozen amendments that
would effectively rewrite the bill.
The provision banning “vouching” came in for particularly heavy fire: while
the government insis... more »
Paper Tigers
Following last week's post about the BBC's three paper tiger 'feedback'
programmes (*Points of View, Feedback *and *Newswatch*), this week's
*Newswatch *proved to be fairly typical of the species (though still the
best).
A very short bit on the question of BBC bias over Ukraine (a couple of
bite-sized e-mails) was followed by much longer feature on that hardy
perennial *Newswatch *topic: 'Why oh why, has Huw Edwards been sent to the
Ukraine, wasting money, for no apparent reason?' [a good question, but as
no one at the BBC *ever* takes the blindest bit of notice of it, it remains... more »
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*Progressive Mission Creep In Your Diet*
Ever heard of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee before? Neither had
I before it came up in a discussion with a friend last week. This group
meets every five years, under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture
and the Department of Health and Human Services, to update and set dietary
guidelines for all Americans.
Seems harmless enough, right? Well, much like every government entity that
starts out with seemingly good intentions, progressives eventually discover
a way for its influence and power to advance their agenda in ways n... more »
James Hunt - Thames Television interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnNn-TXXcw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
What a marvellous interview and how well spoken James and the interviewer
are, a different era and I would suggest a better one in some ways.
Mohawk Nation News 'War Club'
WAR
CLUB
Posted on March 8, 2014
MMN. Mar. 7, 2014. Refusing to give us the results of his ongoing
investigation of the 825 missing and murdered Aboriginal girls and young
women is a travesty of justice. Peter McKay, the Minister of Justice,
threw the reports onto the floor of the House of Commons. The Members of
Parliament made jokes, laughed and clapped. The guilt and cover up go
Grassroots Lower Brule: Fighting the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline
A
Message from Owe Aku at Lower Brule - the Kul Wicasa Oyate
By Kent Lebsock
Owe Aku International Justice Project
Censored News
Dutch translation NAIS
Lower Brule Kul Wicasa Oyate, Sovereign Lakota Territory, March 5, 2014
- When the people of the Kul Wicasa Oyate discovered that their IRA
Tribal Council had allegedly signed a secret agreement with TransCanada,
without the free,
'Newsnight': 3-7 March
So what were the stories *Newsnight *chose to cover last week?
Here's this week's list:
*Monday 3/3*
1. Ukraine/Russia. Interviews with Senator John McCain (Republican); Pavlo
Sheremeta, interim Ukrainian economics minister; Sir Menzies Campbell (Lib
Dem) & Alexander Nekrassov, former Yeltsin advisor.
2. Michael Gove "tells ushe doesn't care how posh his cabinet colleagues
are, even if the voters do." Interview with Michael Gove (Con).
3. *Benefits Street. *Interview with 'White Dee'.
4. Cameron aide arrested over child pornography allegations.
*Tuesday 4/3*
1. Downing Street's 's... more »
Be Not Afraid - A Quote by M.N. Hopkins
*We will say to be not afraid and be as who you are. That will be your
greatest strength.*
*A quote by M.N. Hopkins*
Soviet Ukraine
*"Since 1654, when the tsars began steadily to extend their control over
Ukraine, Ukrainians had lived in two distinct worlds: one ruled by the
Russians and the other by Poles or Austrians. As a result of the Second
World War, the East/West Ukrainian dichotomy finally ceased to exist, at
least on the political level. The process of amalgamation—of unification of
two long-separated branches of the Ukrainian people—was not only a major
aspect of the post-war period, but an event of epochal significance in the
history of Ukraine."*
*—Orest Subtelny, a Canadian historian of Ukrainian ... more »
The Jewish Gas Chamber Hoax
*GasChamberHoax.com*
*What is the "Holocaust" story really all about?*
German Nation Building
The Young Poland of Lelewel and Worcell demands the re-creation of the
Polish state and rollback of the 1772-95 partitions of Poland. But they go
much further, laying claim to Poland in its old Jagiellonian borders,
stretching from the shores of the Baltic to the shores of the Black Sea.
This includes an explicit denial that any Ukrainian nation exists.
In the orbit of Young Poland is the poet Adam Mickiewicz, a close friend of
Mazzini’s who was with him last year during the Roman Republic. Mickiewicz
argues that Poland is special because it has suffered more than any other
nat... more »
Russian Nation Building
"I'll say that the Ukrainian people treated me well. I recall warmly the
years I spent there. This was a period full of responsibilities, but
pleasant because it brought satisfaction ... But far be it from me to
inflate my significance. The entire Ukrainian people was exerting great
efforts ... I attribute Ukraine's successes to the Ukrainian people as a
whole. I won't elaborate further on this theme, but in principle it's very
easy to demonstrate. I'm Russian myself, and I don't want to offend the
Russians."
Nikita Khrushchev,
Former Premier of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Repu... more »
Purim
Purim (Hebrew: פּוּרִים (help·info) Pûrîm "lots", from the word pur
פור,[3] related to Akkadian pūru) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the
deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire where a plot
had been formed to destroy them. The story is recorded in the Biblical Book
of Esther (Megillat Ester מגילת אסתר in Hebrew).
According to the Book of Esther, Haman, royal vizier to King Ahasuerus
(presumed to be Xerxes I of Persia), planned to kill all the Jews in the
empire, but his plans were foiled by Mordecai and his adopted daughter
Esther who had risen to... more »
ROY JENKINS - CIA ASSET?
Roy Jenkins (above) had lots of mistresses and he mixed with the likes of
Jackie Kennedy and Lord Victor Rothschild.
Roy Jenkins was a friend of Noel Annan, Lord Annan, a British military
intelligence officer.
Lord Annan was married to Gabriele Ullstein.
*Lord Annan*
In 1966, Lord Annan, as 'provost' of King's College, Cambridge, held a
dinner party at his home.
This was attended by Lord Victor Rothschild, 'Home Secretary' Roy Jenkins
(responsible for MI5) and Anthony Blunt (reportedly a key member of Lord
Victor Rothschild's spy ring).
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
... more »
Decriminalise the BBC licence fee!
There's a good deal of talk today about a cross-party initiative in
parliament, now backed by some cabinet minister (including the Culture
Secretary), which intends to change the law to stop classifying those who
refuse to pay the BBC's TV licence fee as criminals.
They want to turn it from a criminal offence into a civil matter.
At the moment anyone convicted of the offence automatically gets a criminal
record - and given the high number of convictions for this offence, that's
resulting in *huge* numbers of people receiving a criminal record.
Those behind the parliamentary moti... more »
A Lesser Spotted Oddie is sighted. Twitchers go mad.
Spring is definitely on the horizon. Daffodils ahoy!
I woke this morning to hear what sounded like four-and-twenty blackbirds
singing their hearts out, Neil Diamond-style, at various distances from our
window, creating echo effects as one song paused and another one got going.
It's a sound that always makes me feel just a little bit happier about
things (except BBC bias, of course.)
Having listened very attentively one year to a particular blackbird (the
one who perched on the tree nearest to our back room), I now know that
blackbirds have very individual songs.
This bird, wh... more »
Videos: Ukraine's 'Iron Brigade' readies for combat; Putin: Russia could not ignore calls for help; Prayer for Ukraine
Ukraine's 'Iron Brigade' readies for combat. Source: Reuters. Date
Published: March 7.
Putin: Russia could not ignore calls for help. Source: Reuters. Date
Published: March 7.
Prayer for Ukraine. Source: TheCossackmate. Date Published: October 13,
2010. Description:
Spiritual anthem of Ukraine, lyrics: Oleksandr Konysky, music: Mykola
Lysenko.
BC Liberal`s LNG Bafflegab Bullshit(Inside the numbers)
*Written by Grant G*
Below is a release by the BC Liberal ministry of LNG propaganda, I`m about
to shred their numbers one by one, but before I get there, this was
released on the same day as Stats Canada revealed BC lost 10,400 jobs in
the month of February, methinks this web was spun to deflect from the
ongoing bad economic news emanating from British Columbia...Oh, and there
was more, on this same day Christy Clark donned her same photo-op hardhat
out in Port Moody at the Evergreen skytrain site, Global BC was ready with
cameras in hand to blow Christy Clark`s Jobs Plan trump... more »
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Crimea - Rumour Control
This is Rumour Control - So here they are, the facts:
1) A Russian naval presence in Crimea dates to 1783 when the port city of
Sevastopol was founded by Russian Prince Grigory Potemkin. Crimea was part
of Russia until Nikita Khruschev gave it to Ukraine in 1954.
2) In 1997, amid the wreckage of the USSR, Russia & Ukraine signed a
Partition Treaty determining the fate of the military bases and vessels in
Crimea. The deal sparked widespread officer ‘defections’ to Russia and was
ratified by the Russian & Ukrainian parliaments in 1999. Russia received
81.7 percent of the fleet’s... more »
Spesifikasi dan Harga Baru Huawei Ascend P6 Lengkap
Spesifikasi
dan Harga Baru Huawei Ascend P6 Lengkap | Huawei Ascend P6 adalah salah
satu produk yang dikasih oleh brand Huawei , smartphone ini memiliki
beberapa fitur yang menarik dan bisa dibandingkan dengan brand lain pada
kelasnya, handphone itu memiliki sistem operasi android V4.2.2 atau
biasa aja dikenal di masyarakat dengan identitas android jelly bean,
dan juga memiliki prosesor
Energy Econ 15: Electricity Angsts, Presentation at UP Diliman
The other day, I was one of three speakers in a forum on the Electric Power
Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA) at UP Diliman. The two other speakers
were Maria Teresa "Maitet" Diokno of the Center for Power Issues and
Initiatives (CPII) and Atty. Debora Anastacia Layugan of the Energy
Regulatory Commission (ERC).
I knew that Maitet, a fellow UPSE alumni, would be talking critically and
negatively about the EPIRA as I have read one of her articles on the
subject. And it's good that she spoke ahead of me. She said that the law
promised many things but has not delivered. Like bringin... more »
OK, geography whizzes, it's time once again to strut your geographical stuff. Plus: "How do you show the unshowable?"
*This cover was trickier than we civilians probably would have thought,
since how, after all, do you illustrate black holes, which can't be seen?
Tom O'Neill tells the story in "Behind the Cover: March 2014 -- How do you
show the unshowable?"*
*by Ken*
In January I passed along the monthly geography quiz that *National
Geographic* cleverly prints on the sheet that -- stuck inside the sealed
plastic that carries your subscription copy -- serves as your address label
("Who's up for a jography quiz? Plus Garrison Keillor's 'personal
geography' of 'home'"). I guess I was feeling kind ... more »
Predatory Reform Strikes Again: Kahn Academy and College Board
Kahn Academy and College Board have joined forced to “revise” college SAT
testing! And they’ve brought their buddies ALEC, Gates, and McKinsey along
for the ride. Predatory reform strikes again. Kahn Academy is the darling
of education “reformers” and entrepreneurs, spearheading the movement to
provide online instruction in lieu of bodied and interactive learning, to
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*Bobby and Big Oil squash Mr. Bill ~Gambit *
CPAC 2014: Rand Paul electrifies the audience...
*"Imagine when the White House is occupied by a friend of liberty."*
"I'm talking about electing lovers of liberty."
"Our rights are inherent. They are inseparable from our person. Our rights
are innate. They come from our Creator and no government can take them
from us."
"Let's take a stand."
"It's a time for boldness and action."
"Let us stand together for liberty."
John (Fire) Lame Deer, "The Green Frog Skin"
"The Green Frog Skin"
by John (Fire) Lame Deer
"The Green Frog Skin – that’s what I call the dollar bill. In our attitude
towards it lies the biggest difference between the Indians and the whites.
My grandparents grew up in an Indian world without money. Just before the
Custer battle the white soldiers had received their pay. Their pockets were
full of green paper and they had no place to spend it. What were their last
thoughts as an Indian bullet or arrow hit them? I guess they were thinking
of all that money going to waste, of not having had a chance to enjoy it,
of a bunch of du... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Brilliant Venus and the central Milky Way rise in the early morning hours
of March 1 in this sea and skyscape. The scene looks out from a beach at
Sea Isle City, New Jersey, USA, planet Earth.
*Click image for larger size.*
Of course, Earth orbits well within the solar system's habitable zone, that
Goldilocks region not too close and not too far from the Sun where surface
temperatures can support liquid water. Similar in size to Earth, Venus lies
just beyond the inner boundary of the habitable zone. The watery reflection
of light from our inhospitable sister planet is seen along a c... more »
Chet Raymo,“The Spare And The True”
*“The Spare And The True”*
by Chet Raymo
“Twice during the past few years, someone has alerted me to quotes from my
Globe columns in the American Heritage Dictionary (4th ed.), illustrating
the use of words. For spacefaring, the dictionary cites my reference to
"spacefaring nations."
For exotic, 2. Intriguingly unusual or different; excitingly strange, the
dictionary cites my observation "If something can be explained simply, in a
familiar way, then it is best to avoid more exotic explanations."
Now that pleases me. I contributed Ockham's Razor to the American Heritage
Dictionary... more »
Washington State Legislature Considers Tying Test Scores to Teacher and Principal Evaluations
Two bills currently under consideration before the legislature in
Olympia, Senate Bill 5880 and House Bill 2800, would mandate the inclusion
of state test scores in both teacher and principal evaluations. These bills
were introduced after US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Governor
Jay Inslee that he would not consider extending a NCLB waiver currently in
place […]
"Pinocchio Paul" Ryan blames his latest whopper on one of Scott Walker's hired liars
*Rep. "Pinocchio Paul" Ryan (R-WI) says this lie isn't his fault!*
. . . Should [Ryan] get a pass because he heard this from a witness before
Congress? It really depends on the circumstances. In this case, he
referenced the story in a major speech. The burden always falls on the
speaker, and we believe politicians need to check the facts in any prepared
remarks.
In this case, apparently, the story was too good to check. We appreciate he
is regretful now. But a simple inquiry would have determined that the
person telling the story actually is an advocate for the federal programs
... more »
SHADES OF TRUTH
At an EU summit in Brussels, Ukraine's interim Prime Minister has claimed
that there are Russian tanks on the ground in the country. That's despite
Ukraine's own border patrol maintaining that no forces had crossed the
frontier. Well in her regular report - Gayane Chichakyan has put together
the many other claims around events in Ukraine that simply don't add up.
Malaysia Airlines loses contact with plane carrying 239 people --- flight MH370 Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing , arrival time was 22:30 GMT.....
Malaysia Airlines plane missing with more than 200 passengers on board
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[image: Malaysia Airloine.]
A Malaysia Airline plane is missing with 200 passengers. *Photo: Joe Armao*
Search and rescue teams are trying to find a Malaysia Airlines plane that
has gone missing with more than 200 passengers on board.
The airline lost contact with the B777-200 aircraft after it departed Kuala
Lum... more »
Emerging market debt - China faces the threat of another corporate bond default ( which would be the third such threatened default of a credit product so far this year ) as a solar related company has a interest payment due Friday March 7 , 2014 which is allegedly cannot meet - do we see China kick the default can down the road again ? Hidden debts of emerging market nations ( Russia and Ukraine in focus ) , examining offshore debt issuance for those nations with the largest exposures .... Emerging markets face problem with arithmetic - Ordinary households in too many countries have seen their share of total GDP plunge. Until it rebounds, the global imbalances will only remain in place, and without a global New Deal, the only alternative to weak demand will be soaring debt ......
Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
Zero Hedge....
China On The Verge Of First Corporate Bond Default Once More
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2014 22:50 -0500
- Bond
- China
- Creditors
- default
- European Central Bank
- Eurozone
- fixed
- Gross Domestic Product
- Reality
- Reuters
- Risk Management
- Shadow Banking
- Yuan
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While everyone was focusing on the threat of tumbling debt dominoes in
China's shadow banking sector, a new threat has re-emerged: regular, plain
vanilla corporate bankruptcies, in the co
Putin Flouts Obama as Neocons Stew
In the latest episode in the ongoing reality show* ‘Death of a Narcissist’* it
is almost painful to see the incredible shrinking president Barack Obama
continuing to thrash about on his own hook. For the second time in six
months or so he has talked much smack in leading the international law
violation machine that is neocon U.S. foreign policy towards yet another
crisis that despite his bellicose rhetoric and a pocket media onslaught he
has no way of emerging victorious. In the late 1980's dark comedy "The War
of the Roses" the divorce attorney played by Danny DeVito wisely offer... more »
UKRAINE CRISIS: What You Need to Know About the Sniper Leak
[image: AMTV] AMTV
*Mar 7, 2014*
In today's video, Christopher Greene of AMTV reports on the Ukraine sniper
leak.
http://www.amtvmedia.com/re-direct-uk...
Classroom Activity: Institutions as Epiphenomena and Screening Mechanisms
This activity comes after students are to have listened to a lecture
(slides) on how international institutions promote cooperation. In that
lecture, I presented the epiphenomenal critique, which I think establishes
an important baseline, then went on to discuss specific mechanisms by which
institutions might solve coordination problems, collaboration problems, and
problems of trust/fear of exploitation (the
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The thesis of this column is that the U.S. "mainstream media" reports only "news" vetted by the U.S. Government, an entity that lies on virtually every issue for which We The People would be better off learning the truth. The "mainstream media" now reports only the government's version, because several well known and respected U.S. newscasters have been fired for telling the truth. Currently, the government propaganda being passed off as news is blaming Russia for things that happened recently in Ukraine that Russia did not commit. Ironically, a popular American newscaster for Russia Today (RT), Abby Martin fell for some of this propaganda and criticized Russia on the air for doing things it actually didn't do ...and yet she was NOT fired! So who is the "Evil Empire" now?
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*Propaganda Rules The News –Paul Craig Roberts*
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Propaganda Rules The News
Paul Craig Roberts
Gerald Celente calls the Western media “presstitutes,” an ingenuous term
that I often use. Presstitutes sell themselves to Washington for access and
government sources and to keep their jobs. Ever since the corrupt Clinton
regime permitted the concentration of the US media, there has been no
jo... more »
Musical Interlude: Kevin Wood, “In Search Of Kindred Spirits”
Kevin Wood, “In Search Of Kindred Spirits”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyxkT5TQbWg
“A Social Science of Human Rights” – Some New Social Science
This morning, I woke up with a very nice notice about the 50th Anniversary
Issue of Journal of Peace Research in my inbox. The issue is worth
checking out – there’s some good stuff in there. As a human rights scholar,
I was really interested in the “A Social Science of Human Rights” piece by
Emilie
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Fully serve the Shenendehowa 568!
*FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014*
*The Times attends kindergarten:* Are we a literate people? Do we know how
to read and write?
Increasingly, we’d have to say the answer is no. For our latest case in
point, we present an article which appeared on the front page of today’s
New York Times, “New York Edition” only.
The report concerns full-day kindergarten in the state of New York. From
his study carrel on the front page, Al Baker describes the problem:
BAKER (3/7/14): A significant expansion of full-day preschool in the state
is likely in the coming years, though a fight continues between Gov.... more »
Why Settle? Is Bernie Sanders Going To Run For President?
Why Settle is the name of an ActBlue page that suggests that we do
*not*have to always settle for vile careerist corporate shills as
presidential
nominees. Alternatives are offered. One of those alternatives is the
great
independent senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders. And yesterday, John
Nichols offered Sanders*The Nation*'s platform to explain why he's
prepared
to run (against Hillary Clinton and whichever right-wing automaton the
Republicans put up. "Sanders," writes Nichols, "has begun talking with
savvy progressive political strategists, traveling to unexpected
locations
suc... more »
It's Time for Congress to Investigate High Stakes Testing
More than 400 educators, citizens, bloggers, activists and parents met in
Austin, Texas for the first Annual Network for Public Education Conference.
The press release just doesn't seem to be getting much press. Diane
Ravitch was on the Ed Show last night on MSNBC. I suppose that's a start
but the real story, Ed, is the call for investigative Congressional
hearings on how high stake standardized testing has become the WMD in the
takeover of public schools by for profit corporations.
Pick up the phone and call your representatives and let them know that
you've had enough of this ga... more »
Quixotic Left? Well, "Not True Sales" Has Been Regular Bank Business for Decades . . . So . . . (Feeding the Beast) Di(a)mon(d) Still Golden, Er . . . Platinum (Not All Agricultural Systems Are Created Equal)
JPMorgan and other megabanks have now been caught in over a dozen major
frauds, including LIBOR-rigging and bid-rigging; yet no prominent banker
has gone to jail. Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of all mortgages nationally
remain underwater (meaning the balance owed exceeds the current value of
the home), sapping homeowners’ budgets, the housing market and the economy.
Since the banks, the
Going to Morocco- Are you Coming?
We are on our Way to Morocco!!!! I want to send a huge THANK YOU out to
everyone who has donated funds for us to get there- we have received enough
to book our air fare to get Back to Morocco and we will be leaving in the
next couple of weeks. Now comes the packing and sorting and making lists
of what to bring with us, what to ship :blankets, towels, extra clothing,
pots and pans and kitchen wares, books, toys, - for the community in
Morocco.
Nick and I are also considering gathering up supplies- house hold goods,
construction materials etc...- in Canada and shipping a contain... more »
A Schneider Debriefing on Weingarten
On Sunday, March 2, 2014, I participated in a much-publicized Common Core
(CCSS) panel with four other individuals as part of the Network for Public
Education (NPE) first annual conference in Austin, Texas. (A 40-minute
video of the CCSS panel can be found here; a five-minute video excerpt of
my seven-minute opener can be found here.) One […]
Friday Nerd Blogging: Textual Analysis Edition
Everything is awesome! But I do wonder if the song from the Lego movie
(see below) is not just a secret appeal to irredentism: “Everything is cool
when we are part of a team!” So, everything is better when folks are
united, and what is more united than a mother country with its lost
territory?
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INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT INDEPENDENCE
*The Scottish National Party (SNP) wants Scotland to be independent, but
are the SNP being led by the wrong people?*
*According to commentator John Wight: *
"The SNP, and the broader YES campaign they are leading, are *starting to
pay a heavy price for their timidity* *in putting forward a vision for
Scottish independence*, *which can be summed up as 'independence without
independence.'"*
*Campaign for Scottish independence vulnerable*
*In the Financial Times, John Kay wrote: *
"It is possible to imagine a future for an independent Scotland
characterised by *reactionary municipal... more »
The Conservative Party Of Canada Insists That Ending Mail Home Delivery Provides An 'Exercise Opportunity' For Seniors ....
*We've had enough of Stephen Harper ........*
Syrian Archbishop tells USA: Stop Murdering Syrians
Video Title: Syrian Archbishop tells USA: Stop Murdering Syrians. Source:
Mussalaha Reconciliation. Date Published: March 2, 2014. Description:
This is an excerpt from an interview with the Archbishop of Hassakeh-Nisibi
for the Syriac Catholics, Jacques Behnan Hindo, where he expresses his
anger at Western foreign policy that has been actively backing hardline
Wahhabi terrorists to topple the Syrian government while causing all
Syrians to suffer as a result.
Quote:
"I myself am not that much for the government. However, when I compare what
awaits me with these people to what I ha... more »
Rick Perry inspires at CPAC: "Good morning, America"...
*I still like Rick Perry.*
I leave you with this as I dash off to work.
Watch "There Is No European Demos: Why AECR will not propose a candidate for the Commission Presidency" on YouTube
EU democracy? A chimera...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngp1V3M1NVA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Justice Vic Toews
*OTTAWA, March 7, 2014* – The Honourable Peter MacKay, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for
Central Nova, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today
announced the following appointment:
*The Honourable Victor E. Toews* is appointed a judge of the Court of
Queen's Bench of Manitoba to replace Mr. Justice D.P. Bryk, who elected to
become a supernumerary judge as of February 16, 2014.
Mr. Justice Toews received a Bachelor of Laws from Robson Hall, University
of Manitoba, in 1976 and was admitted to the Bar of Manitoba in 1977. He
received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of ... more »
Watch "BDS Bullies at NUI Galway"
The sound of prejudice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoHKOZUEJcE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
And finally...
Oh, those i's and t's!
I just can't leave them be without wanting every last one of them dotted
and crossed, so here's a final post about that flippin' "suppressed"
immigration that *Newsnight *was so pleased with itself for reporting about
the other night, and about which you're probably well and truly sick of
hearing about!...
Last night's *Newsnight* *di*d return to the story (as predicted) but,
rather like Ian Katz's tweet earlier in the day heavily insinuating that
the government chose yesterday to release the report because it was 'a good
day to bury bad news' (because of t... more »
"I Rise Today To Talk About The Persecution Of Christians Around The World!" Congressman Byrne; Hezbollah's Leader to Christians: 'Where are your Churches, Crosses, & Nuns?' - English Subtitles
The main reason why Christians are under threat in Syria and across the
Middle East is because Congressman Byrne's own lunatic government is
backing extremist forces like Al-Qaeda with money and weapons, not because
of the attitudes of the people of these countries towards Christians.
Blaming the governments of Syria, Egypt, and Iraq for the persecution of
Christians is a bit rich when it is the U.S. government that has backed
anti-Christian Al-Qaeda terrorists in these countries.
Along with Al-Qaeda and other intolerant groups, the other force that is
threatening and persecuting C... more »
Will BRAVO Spawn A Monster This November… In Charleston?
No one knows if South Carolina Republican-turned-Libertarian Thomas Ravenel
is floating trial balloons about running for Senate this year-- against his
nemesis Lindsey Graham-- as a publicity stunt for his new BRAVO TV show, Southern
Charm or if his participation in the shocking TV show is a publicity stunt
for his Senate run. But this week the *Post and Courier* broke the story--
for those who didn't watch the first episode of the bizarre
Charleston-based reality-sit-com-- that Ravenel may take on Lindsey Grahamas an independent candidate.
For those who haven't been following the... more »
\(P=NP\) is conceivable; there is no partial evidence in purely discrete mathematics
Scott Aaronson of MIT has finally written his new essay
The Scientific Case for \(P\neq NP\)
where your humble correspondent is appointed as the spokesman of the people
who suggest that
\(P\neq NP\) is just “a fashionable dogma of the so-called experts,”
something that’s no more likely to be true than false.
A fine summary, by the way.
We the doubters can even point to at least one accomplished complexity
theorist, Dick Lipton, who publicly advocates agnosticism about whether
\(P=NP\), Scott says. (Check that my text on \(P=NP\) and the Erdös problemthat was written two weeks earli... more »
“Christie’s Bridge, Netanyahu’s Diet”
*“Christie’s Bridge, Netanyahu’s Diet”*
by Thomas Are
“It’s been a half a year and Chris Christie is still in the news. At least
his administration is in trouble because they shut down two of three access
lanes to the George Washington Bridge. Last August, a deputy chief of
staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, emailed David Wildstein, the governor’s
appointee to the Port Authority, saying, “Time for some traffic problems in
Fort Lee.” Wildstein responded, “Got it.” And, “it” caused a huge traffic
jam for days and the question remains, “Did Christie know about it?”
Americans just won’t put ... more »
CORRUPTION SPREADS: The drinking game!
*FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014*
*Part 4—Sober as a judge:* Incomparably, your Daily Howler keeps
demanding—and getting—results.
Yesterday, MSNBC brought itself up to date with respect to its transcripts.
In fairness, we’d be slow to post transcripts too, if we had transcripts
like theirs.
The background:
On Wednesday morning, the New York Times reported on a four-page statement
it said it had received from Paul Nunziato’s lawyer.
Nunziato is head of the Port Authority police union. (He hasn’t stepped
down or been fired.) On Wednesday evening, Rachel Maddow built two segments
around the ... more »
Let's do some critical thinking
Sent to the Denver Post, March 7.
The Douglas County school superintendent says that students should not just
"compare and contrast" but "create and evaluate" and engage in critical
thinking ("Educators to state: Let's go above common core," March 6).
Agreed.
Let's start by evaluating whether we should have common core standards and
tests at all.
How many policy makers are aware of these facts?
(1) US students do very well on international tests when we control for
poverty: There is no crisis.
(2) 23% of our children live in poverty.
(3) Poverty means lack of good food, lack of h... more »
More Cyber Punk Wear
Read all about the Tsar proof clothing. This joins the bullet proof suit,
drone proof hoodie and the video disruptive cap in the modern wardrobe.
H/T Boing Boing
Meet Ukraine's kosher "ultra-nationalists"
*The Jewish Daily Forward* recently published an interesting - and quite
revealing - article about Ukraine's supposed "ultra-nationalist" movement
Right Sector and its leader, Dmitry Yarosh.
Israel’s ambassador in Kiev, Reuven Din El, opened a hotline with a
Ukrainian ultra-nationalist movement to “prevent provocations.”
The agreement came at the end of a meeting held last week between Din El
and Dmitry Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector paramilitary group, which
participated in the overthrow of the government of President Viktor
Yanukovych.
In the meeting, “Dmitry Yarosh stres... more »
CIA = Caught in Act
So what's more horrendous -- that the CIA was caught spying on United
States Senators, or that the CIA appears to be getting away with it,
gleefully thumbing its nose at all of us because it enjoys the full faith
and protection of elected officials past, present, and future?
Just who was caught, and who has already been captured? (Hint: every
compromised elected official with a past, a cell phone, and a computer)
When even Rachel Maddow, who normally makes me cringe because she is
normally such a shill for the Obama Administration and the Democrats, calls
the spying scandal "the dea... more »
Ukraine: Inflamed? Guerilla war? MSM media silence on the fascism in Ukraine?
*2 updates below: *
I have spent quite a bit of time reading this morning. First some recent
stuff and then some history.
*Tymoshenko warns of guerrilla war*
Leading Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko said there was a danger of
guerrilla war in Crimea should it be incorporated into Russia and appealed
to Germany and others on Friday for immediate economic sanctions against
Moscow.
Should this be taken as a threat by the fascist forces in NATO and in the
Ukraine that she is allied with?
Is this when the Tatar and friend mercenaries will come into play?
Worrisome.
*CNN- Why Wes... more »
Stop Mass Warrant Free Surveillance for the second time!
Link to stop this fascism.
Remember that favorite of babysitters from coast to cost Mr Vic. He said
"either your with us or your with the child molesters" last time they tried
to pass this bill. Well this time Peter McKay is trying to stuff the same
garbage into a On line bully bill. Last time Open Media got 120,000
Canadians to sign up, lets hope they are still aware.
Fraud vitiating sexual consent
R. v. Hutchinson 2014 SCC 19:
[67] As we have seen, "fraud" for the purposes of
consent has two elements: (1) dishonesty, which can include the
non-disclosure of important facts; and (2) deprivation or risk of
deprivation in the form of serious bodily harm which results from the
dishonesty: *Cuerrier*. Did the Crown prove that no consent was obtained by
virtue of fraud?
[68] The dishonesty in this case is evident and
admitted. Mr. Hutchinson obtained the complainant's consent to sexual
intercourse only by failing to disclose the c... more »
Answering The Questions As To Why I, As A Canadian, Am Concerned About The Fraud Sandy Hook Shooting!
Sandy Hook.... After all this time and all the rhetoric, I for one am
SHOCKED that the people just do not get it.... This was indeed an operation
carried out by the US Government and their own "Department Of Homeland
Security" for the goals of striking the psychological effect of fear into
the American public so that they will again surrender their weapons as
granted to them by the second Amendment to the US Constitution, as well as
giving up more of their "freedoms and liberties" in return for a measure
of "security".... But the American people still do not get it... For when
they... more »
China's Official News Site - Commentary; U.S., Delusional,Blamed for Ukraine Crisis, Forced Pro-Russian President out.
China's official state News Website has a scathing commentary on Ukraine
and what is happening there. They call the U.S. 'delusional' and were
behind the ousting of the Pro Russian government to install their own
controlled Pro Western government. Understand China's leaders will not come
right out and say these things. They allow them to be said on their
official site through commentary.
Harper's 'Fair' Elections Act
Has Harper gone crazy? Does he care about democracy? He seems more and
more a dictator. Harper's Conservatives even shortened debate in the House
of Commons over this bill.
The Chief Electoral Officer was not involved in the drafting process, he
only saw it after the media did. Usually, for a bill of this nature, the
Chief Electoral Officer would be involved. This bill limits the ability of
the Chief Electoral Officer to communicate with the public, he stated that
he is barred from talking about democracy.
It was quite something watching Harper's Minister of State for Undemocrati... more »
David Coleman's New SAT: Still Racist, Still Classist
It should come as no surprise that the head of the College Board, David
Coleman, has made the new SAT more in line with the Common Core. One thing
he can't change, even with efforts to provide some online tutorials to
those who can't afford $5000 SAT prep courses, is the fact that students
from poor backgrounds score lower than those with higher incomes.
It has always been the case, ever since Carl Brigham took the work of his
eugenicist pal, Robert Yerkes, to turn the Alpha A test for sorting GIs in
WWI into as a college admissions test for keeping the poor out of the best
coll... more »
Barking
*“Is it time the government listened to the people about the effect
immigration is having in changing our communities?”* asked Pam Dumbleton
from the audience of last night’s Question Time.
*“Just, in what way do you think the government isn’t listening?”* enquired
David Dimbleby.
*“The government haven’t got a clue. David Cameron hasn’t been to Barking,
and if he came they’d be warned in advance and everything would be brushed
up. The government need to come and walk through our town, and just see how
we now live.*
*Go back twelve years, it was totally different. Now, we are the ... more »
David Coleman’s Latest Khan
Originally posted on the becoming radical:
Maybe we need a Khan Academy video series to help the public in the U.S.
understand the term “free.” When you are driving late at night, and you are
in unfamiliar rural America in need of a hotel, you see a relatively
rundown hotel with a sign announcing “FREE…
Big Difference between Sandy Hook and Other School Shootings. Lt. Vance screws up in his first Press Meeting.
News Helicopter coverage of McNair Elementary school in 2013 - Evacuation
of Children What is the Big Difference between Sandy Hook and the other
school shootings that happened last year? The Big Difference of SH shooting
coverage to other schools. No helicopter news coverage. No showing
children evacuating. All other school shootings show this. Also, Lt. Vance
screws up in his
Untitled
*Lee Zurik Investigation: Senator's bill would open the spigot for PAC cash
~WVUE*
*"Thank you New Orleans for an amazing nine years.." Is Lance Moore gone?
~WWLTV *
*Jimbo Mathus takes his time, makes the album he wants ~Alex Rawls, New
Orleans Advocate*
*Honoring Dr. John’s Musical Influence: Concert May 3 at Saenger ~WWOZ*
Sierra Club Endorses Paul Clements (MI-06)
One of the glory days of the progressive movement, led in this instance by
the environmental activists in our midst, was when we took down crooked
pollution icon Dirty Dick Pombo and elected Democrat Jerry McNerney to
replace him. We first had to beat some jackoff Rahm Emanuel and the DCCC
were trying to deliver the nomination to under the trope that only
corporate whores can beat Republican incumbents. After Rahm the DCCC almost
reformed by Chris Van Hollen-- almost-- and then wound up in the hands of a
more venal and less intelligent version of Rahm, Steve Israel. Taking down
t... more »
Male vs Female in sport - weightlifting
Further to this morning's post and the continued claims from
@SexismInSports that 'Women are NOT the weaker sex' I thought I'd compare a
sport where strength is of great importance, although technique does also
play an important part, weightlifting.
The trouble with making direct comparisons is that the weight (of the
competitor) categories are not always directly comparable so I have
compared in all but one case only where the women are in a higher weight
category, thus giving them a slight advantage. The exception to this is in
the highest women's category when women of any weight... more »
Fellowships of Energies engage the planetary surface as stagnants are cleared
*Fellowships of Energies engage the planetary surface as stagnants are
cleared*
by ÉirePort
Fellowships of Energies engage the planetary surface as stagnants are
cleared.
Such Fellowships are cooperative layers of energies that harmonize in a way
beneficial to the upliftment of humanity general.
Significance of such Fellowships reveal at a time suited to all involved,
but assuredly, such are required for the current now moment.
Precedence for this has not been set before this moment.
Rising Energetics on all dimensional levels is enabled by the Fellowships.
ÉirePort | March 7, ... more »
DPP Blue Paper on Defense
[image: EastCoastMar2014170]
*The east coast south of Chenggong.*
The DPP put out its latest Defense Blue Paper, laying out its defense
policy. Defense News notes:
In a marked departure from past efforts, the opposition party’s think tank,
New Frontier Foundation, released a remarkable report on China’s military
ambitions against Taiwan.
...
“China’s Military Threats Against Taiwan in 2025” is the fifth in a series
of “blue papers” produced by the DPP think tank on defense issues, but it
is the first to produce substantive research on the People’s Liberation
Army’s (PLA) modernizat... more »
Is Sexual Harassment Against Contract Employees Legal?
I received this question on my post I Reported Harassment and Now HR Wants
to Meet With Me. What Do I Do?
Thank you for this article, it is very informative. I was wondering what
the difference is when I'm a contract employee for a company. I work
minimal hours weekly at a private company. I experienced verbal sexual
harassment by a coworker. I reported it to the director and was fired via
email a few days later. Then a few hours later I was re-hired. They
realized I could sue them apparently. They are now limiting my freedom to
move around the company without someone with me. They ... more »
What Leaders Read
Earlier this week, Angela Merkel worried that Vladimir Putin was living "in
another world." Leonoid Bershidsky writes that Putin does indeed inhabit
another world -- not because he's crazy, but because he has read different
books than those we have read:
Maria Snegovaya, a graduate student at Columbia University, provides a
useful analysis of the sources of Putin’s ideology, rooted in the writings
of early 20th century messianic, nationalist philosophers Nikolai
Berdyayev, Vladimir Solovyov and Ivan Ilyin. To them, Russia had a mission
to spread and maintain the Orthodox Christia... more »
Getty Lifts Restrictions on 35 Million Images
When Getty Images, the world's largest photo agency, effectively opens its
picture vaults to make them library free to use, you have to stand back and
realise that access to use restricted stuff is radically changing.
Getty combating piracy not by locking up the images with restrictive
watermarks or DRM but making 35 million images, including iconic images of
Marilyn Monroe and famous ones of John F Kennedy and Barack Obama available
without cost to blogs and social media sites. However Getty Images is not
the most user friendly site and searching and establishing what is allowed
is... more »
David Coleman’s Latest Khan
David Coleman’s Latest Khan. via David Coleman’s Latest Khan.Filed under:
PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
“9 Things You Should Know About Your Caffeine Habit”
*“9 Things You Should Know About Your Caffeine Habit”*
By Maddie Oatman
“Even if you're not among the 63 percent of Americans who drink coffee
every day, caffeine is hard to avoid. It's all over your corner store, from
energy drinks to colas and bottles of iced tea to cans of Starbucks "
Refreshers." For a while there, it was looking like even your gum was going
to be caffeinated.
But despite its pervasiveness, we still understand little about the stuff.
It doesn't help that the beverage industry hopes to keep it that way; for
instance, though energy drink sales have skyrocketed in ... more »
Studies Outside the U.S. Show Unvaccinated Children Healthier than Vaccinated Children
[image: unvaccinated Studies Outside the U.S. Show Unvaccinated Children
Healthier than Vaccinated Children]
Health Impact News Editor Comments:
Christina England has done an excellent job of digging up some previous
studies conducted in New Zealand and Germany comparing vaccinated children
with unvaccinated children.
In addition to these two studies, there was also a clinical study conducted
in Hong Kong in in 2012 comparing vaccinated with unvaccinated children in
regards to the flu vaccine.
Researchers conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled trial on children
with the trival... more »
Mapping the Internet
we stumbled across a site Telegeography which hosts visual and interactive
maps of the Global Internet and Network infrastructure.
The maps are not only pretty impressive they also show the areas that are
'connected' and our continued reliance on cables under the sea.
The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun
Paul Craig RobertsInstitute for Political Economy
March 6, 2014
[image: ukrainian woman]
*This supporter of the Ukraine joining the EU has received her reward: a
50% cut in her pension.*
According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of
Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has
prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from
$160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid
at the expense of Ukraine’s poor. http://www.kommersant.ua/doc/2424454 It
is Greece all over again.
Before an... more »
SAT Bad Press = SAT Reboot
Please consider a couple responses to the SAT 2016 reboot announcement, and
then another piece on the cost of the Common Core. Put the pieces together:
SAT Reboot 2016: "Nonsense It All Is" (P. L. Thomas)
Changes To The SAT (*The Onion*, satire)
Common Core Costs Too High, Failure Guaranteed
Male vs Female in sport
The other day I heard some women complaining about sexism in sports
coverage and today I was told, contrary to the demonstrable facts, that
'women are NOT the weaker sex' - so this post is for @SexismInSports.
I thought I'd show the current world records for Olympic athletics events -
with the addition of the mile because it's my favourite event and of
historic importance, and the taking out of the walks and multi-discipline
events. Then I compared the men with the women to show how much faster,
higher or longer the men's records are. You will see a few lines where the
women's reco... more »
Is detachment of Crimea from Kiev a victory for Russia?
The Crimean parliament unanimously (this is a popular style in Kiev,
Simferopol, and Moscow as well: scary in all cases) approved a bill that
removes Crimea from Ukraine and asks for a membership in the Russian
federation. A referendum should "confirm" this decision in a week. Crimea
is/was the most pro-Russian region of Ukraine, artificially donated by
RSFSR to Ukrainian SSR in the 1950s. About 60% are Russian folks, 12% are
Tatar Muslims, the rest is mostly Ukrainian.
Western pundits, including those who have a deeper understanding for the
Russian attitudes, tend to say that "gett... more »
Instructions For A Bad Day Video - A Poem by Shane Koyczan
*Published on February 10, 2013*
*Words of encouragement for your inevitable bad day.*
A compilation of worldwide YouTube content, the crowd-sourced documentary
"Life in a Day" by Kevin Macdonald, and local footage by Jon Goodgion.
Audio is the spoken word poem "Instructions For a Bad Day" by Shane Koyczan.
Rights remain to respective owners.
*Here is the poem in written form:*
"There will be bad days.
Be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm slowly now. Let go.
Be confident. Know that "now" is only a moment, and that if "today" is as
bad as it gets, understand that by tomo... more »
Ukraine – Cyber Speculation Run Rampant
With my most of research right now heavily focused on cyber conflict, it
might be useful to review all the news on the cyber situation between
Ukraine and Russia. There have been many posts on the Duck and elsewhere
covering the conflict (here, here, here, here, here), so I will refrain
from summarizing the basics.
Continue reading
Greg Hunter, “Weekly News Wrap-Up 3.7.14”
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 3.7.14”*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
“President Obama called the Crimean parliament vote “to enter into the
Russian Federation” a “violation of international law.” President Obama
announced sanctions on anyone “violating the sovereignty of Ukraine” or
“stealing the assets of the Ukrainian people.” The Russians said earlier in
the week they would dump dollars and Treasury bonds and also seize Western
assets if sanctions were imposed. Well, it is definitely game on. Last
week, Russia invaded Crimea and took control of the airport and seaport,
the home of th... more »
The Heart Is The Key - A Quote from M.N. Hopkins
*The heart is the key. The heart is the way back to oneSelf as well as the
only true way to connect to the hearts of others*.
M.N. Hopkins
A Message From Vermont Right To Know About GMOs
*VERMONT UPDATE:*
Label GMO's Now! 2014 is the year that Vermont can lead the way by passing
a clean (no strings or trigger clauses attached) labeling bill. You can
help!
1) Get the facts on GMO food and H.112, Vermont's GMO labeling bill. w...
ww.vtrighttoknow.org
2) Spread the word. Get your yard sign at a VT food co-op or by attending
an event.
3) VT Right To Know is on the road in March! Bring a friend to a workshop
or a screening of the film GMO OMG. The next workshop is at Fletcher Allen
Library in Burlington this Thursday. Sponsored by City Market. Details:
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