Sunday, April 06, 2014

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Roger Penrose continues his weird anti-ïnflation jihad

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 minutes ago
*...as well as anti-quantum, anti-string...* For more than 30 years, Roger Penrose would be offering many irrational and wrong criticisms of the cosmic inflation. He didn't stop after the publication of the discovery of primordial gravitational waves by BICEP2. On Friday, instead of hiding somewhere in a closet, he went to Ira Flatow's show, Science Friday, and displayed more self confidence than ever: Sir Roger Penrose: Cosmic Inflation Is ‘Fantasy’ (click this and click the "LISTEN" button) In the 27-minute interview, he reminds us about the book "Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy" abo... more »

Something For Future Parents To Ponder: My healthy 100% Unvaccinated Child

*Sky is a 100% unvaccinated and EBF 19 month old. She has never had an ear infection, eczema, or weird rashes. She has had her share of colds, coughs, fevers, even norovirus but recovers faster than anyone else in the house, and does so with...**out any kind of medication or antibiotics. * *So far, she has no allergies. We've fed her nuts, cheese, products with gluten, eggs, strawberries and anything else you can think of (all organic). She never cries for hours on end. She has traveled as a very young infant (starting at 8 months) on airplanes, several times. When she was just a... more »

Giant Bank in Massive Fraud Shocker (Self Regulation Works (For Them!)) CEO Punished By Now Only Being Paid A Paltry 9.5 Million

Join the band! Who'da thunk that Citigroup would continue to get into lending trouble (or any other type of money-grubbing trouble)? Or is it merely arithmetic trouble? Remember that Robert Rubin of the constant gleeful smirk or sourpuss countenance on serious TV shows (guru to Goldman Sachs and later Citigroup) was Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton during all the banking

Western-style “Democracy” Unravels in Southeast Asia’s Thailand

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 hour ago
[image: 4505316855_dafcdf3c18_m]*April 6, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The roof of a house is composed of many shingles providing protection to those beneath it. For the global corporatocracy, these shingles are composed of several types – their media monopoly and the narratives they spin, monopolies over economics, infrastructure, and the use of force, and Western-style “democracy” where in the people are granted the illusion of self-determination in place of true freedom and control over one’s destiny. If upon one’s roof, even a single shingle is lifted up, it poses the danger... more »

Walking Shapes

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
It's probably too late to see New York-based Walking Shapes at Acerogami tonight in Pomona. I caught them a couple nights ago at the Satellite in Silverlake, practically walking distance from my house. And they'll be back in L.A. (at Bardot) on Monday-- after a gig at the Brick & Mortar in San Franscico Sunday night. If exquisitely-played, cutting edge, indie-rock is your cup of tea, this band is worth seeing. On their way back across America over the next couple of weeks, they have shows in Phoenix (celebrating the release of their unbelievable new album, *Taka Come On* at the C... more »

Unbelievable Denial

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours ago
Ian Fairlee, a well-respected epidemiologist, recently posted about UNSCEAR's new report on the health effects of Fukushima: http://www.ianfairlie.org/news/new-unscear-report-on-fukushima-collective-doses/ UNSCEAR REPORT: http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2013/13-85418_Report_2013_Annex_A.pdf Ian focuses on UNSCEAR's (United Nation's Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation) estimation of the collective dose to the people of Japan from Fukushima and its comparison with UNSCEAR's estimation of the collective dose from Fukushma. He notes that UNSCEAR retrospectively... more »

whither wmtc

laura k at wmtc - 4 hours ago
I feel so disconnected from this blog, and from writing in general. I hate it. I love *having* this blog. I love that when I do want to write, and have the energy to do so, and have something to say, I have a place to do it. But writing occupies such a small space in my life now. I'm finding tremendous satisfaction from my job. Meaningful work from which I can actually earn a living! What a concept. I've also gotten very active in my union. The need to protect good jobs and the public sector has never been greater, so the timing is perfect, and I feel I have a lot to contribute. ... more »

The Mystery Of Malaysian Flight MH370 Continues: The Top 5 Theories Surrounding Why Malaysian Flight 370 Went Missing!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 4 hours ago
The mystery behind Malaysian flight MH370's disappearance continues… The last few days there have been many more erroneous reports of "debris" being found in the Indian Ocean, but when these reports have been investigated, the debris has been proven again and again to be false or no debris at all… Now almost one month since this flight went "missing" there still is nothing coming from the Jewish run criminal media liars other than false leads… They still continue to avoid the obvious answer that the plane was commandeered by criminal elements within our own governments and purposely ... more »

Accountability in Public Service Provision: Lessons from a Film Festival

Johannes Urpelainen at Duck of Minerva - 4 hours ago
This Saturday’s highlight was the screening of the film Powerless at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale, where I was honored with the opportunity to participate in a panel on the film. Begin with the trailer, and then go see the entire film. It’s excellent. The film depicts the desperate situation of the Kanpur Electricity Continue reading

Wouldn't you know that "Cuckoo Ken" Cuccinelli was a pioneer of the Art of the Election Night No-Concession-Call?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago
*Oh no, Cuckoo Ken's feelings were hurt?* *by Ken* Am I the only one not to have noticed that the political concession speech is going the way of Judge Crater? At least I have an excuse. Although there was a time in my life, a really long time, when I was an Election Night junkie, just couldn't get enough, in recent years -- no doubt in response to too many nights of emotional devastation -- I adopted a new strategy for Election Night: something close to a boycott. In a good year I manage to get through the entire night without peeking. (Hey, it's not as if the results are going t... more »

Leisurely time out of Meinong

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 6 hours ago
[image: IMG_3669] *Drew of Taiwan in Cycles rocks down the enjoyable 27.* Saturday Drew of Taiwan in Cycles and I headed out to Meinong in Kaohsiung county city Municipality for a small exploration of the roads and hills north of the city. There's a lot out there, and we're already planning a return. Click READ MORE.... *ROUTE NOTES*: This route was done as a loop heading north out of Meinung. A leisurely ride since both of us were tired. We parked in Zhongtan just a km south of Meinong town proper. We took the 181 out of town towards Jiaxian, picking up the 21. Pleasant riding in ... more »

Hitler’s wife had ‘Jewish Ancestry”, as did Hitler. Genetically speaking

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours ago
Reality is so much more interesting then tell-a-vision and entertainment. [image: http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/372300/article_img.jpg]Hitler and EvaSome news here or here I find this whole 'genetic' testing.... highly questionable, but, that's just me Scientists commissioned by the show's producers found a DNA sequence passed down through her maternal line - haplogroup N1b1 - which they said was "strongly associated" with Ashkenazi Jews. “Many Ashkenazi Jews in Germany converted to Catholicism in the 19th century. Presenter Mark Evans sourced the hair samples, which were ... more »

50 Al Nusra Rebels killed by local Syrians

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours ago
DAMASCUS, April 5 (Xinhua) -*- Locals of a Syrian central town confronted radical militant groups, killing and wounding over 50 rebels on Saturday, *according to the official SANA news agency. *The locals of the town of Taibet al-Emam in the countryside of the central province of Hama confronted rebels from the al-Qaida- linked Nusra Front, who were committing acts of kidnapping and burglary, killing and wounding 50 of them*, said SANA, spelling no further details. Meanwhile, SANA said that rebels fired mortar shells at the town of Muhardeh also in Hama, injuring many people and c... more »

Teachers. Remember #optout is for you.

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE - 6 hours ago
Now that the opt out season is in full swing and the Testing Resistance has spread across the country, we should take a minute to reflect and remember the purpose of opt out. Despite what the “chancellor” Rhee has to say, opt out is the only movement that can save the idea of public education […]

Another Financial Executive dies under unusual circumstances and one would question why he would be suicidal as he was about to travel to India with his family - And different from other odd deaths of late , he was found dead with his wife and daughter today , April 5 , 2014 ...... Former ABN Amro Group NV Netherlands Chief Executive Officer Jan Peter Schmittmann, his wife and a daughter were found dead at their home today after a possible “family tragedy,” Dutch police said ........ And the unusual financial industry death toll grows to 12 !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
Home ABN Amro Ex-CEO Found Dead [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/05/2014 18:17 -0400 - Bloomberg News - default - Deutsche Bank - HFT - Hong Kong - India - Netherlands - Newspaper - Private Equity - RBS - Risk Management - Royal Bank of Scotland - Tata inShare1 A mere two weeks since former JPMorgan banker, Kenneth Bellando jumped to his death, Bloomberg reports that* the former CEO of Dutch Bank ABN Amro (and his wife and daughter) were found dead at their home after a possible "family tra... more »

“10 Reasons Why 76% of Americans Ignore Climate Disasters”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
*“10 Reasons Why 76% of Americans Ignore Climate Disasters”* By Paul B. Farrell “C’mon, admit it, we humans really are causing our own climate suicide. But so what? We’ve got freedom of choice. And we love our cars. They need gas. And we’re a bundle of mental contradictions. Is climate a “big issue?” Gallup polls say no. Only 24% of Americans think “climate change” is a big problem, near the bottom of 15 “national problems” polled. We’ll worry about that later. But aren’t environmentalists warning it may already be “too late.” So what? Blame Big Oil? No way, we love our wheels, big ... more »

Why Spitting Image Won't Be Coming Back

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 8 hours ago
Ah, *Spitting Image*. It was a reet larf. Norman Tebbit. *The Chicken Song*. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turds. For large numbers of young(ish) people of a certain vintage, *Spitting Image* was our first exposure to satire *and*alternative comedy. And for older folk of whatever political stripe it lampooned our ridiculous ruling clique of politicians and royals. It was irreverent, biting and (occasionally) funny. They certainly don't make them like that any more, nor are they likely to ever again. Yes, as the 30th anniversary of the first transmission has been and gone there are very good ... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago

Susan Collins Wakes Up And Realizes She's Facing The Toughest Reelection Campaign Of Her Career

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago
Blue America donors noticed before anyone else outside of Maine. Judging by the relative number of contributions-- both in aggregate amount and individual donors-- they started coalescing around Shenna Bellows early on and have kept the momentum going. The usual Beltway pundits, prognosticators and naysayers were as negative as they always are when an extraordinary candidate raises her hand-- especially "her" hand-- and says she wants to run for office for all the right reasons. Here at *DWT* we started covering her uphill but inspiring race for the Maine Senate seat last November... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Quebec and Dekanawida'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
QUEBEC and DEKANAWIDA Posted on April 5, 2014  Mohawk Nation News Please post and distribute. Nia:wen.  MNN. Mar. 5, 2014. After forming the original Five Nations Confederacy, Dekanawida left for the Sky World. He told us this story about forthcoming events before he got into his stone canoe for the trip. Jigohnsaseh, of the Women’s Council, helped Dekanawida: “Make all decisions about

Fordham’s Mike Petrilli: Selling Common Core in States with Better Standards

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago
This post is about the for-profit “reform”-promoting think tank, the Fordham Institute. The Fordham Institute likes to grade. Mind you, Fordham doesn’t bother to grade itself. But it does promote the grading of teacher training programs via an entity it birthed in 2001, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), and it also promotes the grading of teachers […]

Dancing in a Dark Room

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 11 hours ago
April 5, 2014 On Monday, the veterinarian will come to the house, put the dog to sleep and make arrangements for disposal of her body. The choice, made more difficult by the fact that I didn’t expect to have to … Continue reading →

Trouble Brewing.

Paul Coker at News Spike - 12 hours ago

You do that when it's raining

risa bear at A Way to Live - 12 hours ago
It's raining off and on, but I hear a record high may be heading our way, which would be a shock to my worn-out body if I tried to do the heavy stuff in it, so I get out in the grey mist and have a go at the remains of the big ash tree. It had loomed over the end of the driveway and the power lines and the main trunk had suffered from heart rot -- always very common in Oregon ash, though a friend tells me that all trees are suffering now from pollution. It was throwing branches in windstorms and in the recent ice storm, so the electric utility came to have it down and we asked for t... more »

MH370 ‘Identical’ Cockpit Pulse Detected, Diego Garcia Region

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 12 hours ago
Saturday, April 05, 2014 1:58 [image: Google] [image: Microsoft] [image: Profile image] Saturday, April 5, 2014 (Before It's News) Chinese newspapers are reporting Saturday morning that one of its shisp found a ‘pulse signal’ in southern Indian Ocean, consistent with the same frequency of flight MH370’s cockpit black box. According to China’s Xinhua News Agency, the Chinese ship, Haixum 01 detected a signal with a frequency of 37.5 kilohertz per second. The signal reported — 37.5 kHz — “is the standard beacon frequency” for the plane’s cockpit voice recorder and the flight dat... more »

Flight 370 - Israeli Double-Cross

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 12 hours ago
[image: Jeff Rense] Jeff Rense *Apr 3, 2014* Clip from March 31, 2014 - guest Yoichi Shimatsu on the Jeff Rense Program. Full audio BELOW

BLOCKBUSTER: HIJACKED IBM ENGINEER PHILIP WOOD SUCCESSFULLY DIALED OUT OF DIEGO GARCIA

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 12 hours ago
*(this is a very interesting story . . the writer may well be another exaggerating water-muddier who is there to just distract, etc . . on the other hand, it is up to you to decide what kind of information that you find credible . . I do not rule this out . . ask yourself, "what happened to the passengers of the supposed planes from 911??" . . . )* www.jimstonefreelance.comUPDATE: The original image has been destroyed by hackers, including what is posted here. The GPS format is now different. I am attempting to retrieve the original. To the people who did this, you should be drag... more »

“’Muslims Behind the 9/11 Attacks.’ The Official Story on the Murder of Osama Bin Laden”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
*“’Muslims Behind the 9/11 Attacks.’ * *The Official Story on the Murder of Osama Bin Laden”* By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts “Disinformation succeeds because so many people and interest groups across the political spectrum find that it serves their agendas as well as the agenda of the government. Consider for example the explanation of 9/11 that blamed Muslim terrorists for the attack. This served the interests of the neoconservatives, the private armaments companies, the US military, the private security companies, government security agencies such as the CIA, the left-wing, the right-w... more »

WORLD WITHOUT FACTS, AMEN: Maddow should have been pulled off the air!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2014* *Epilogue—Our very own Salem witch trial:* Did you think that was *all* she did on last Thursday night’s program? Yesterday, we listed some of Rachel Maddow’s errors on last Thursday night’s show, the program of March 27. To read that report, click here. The Mastro report appeared on Thursday morning, March 27. That evening, Maddow did this: ***At length, she ranted about the way Team Mastro had failed to release any supporting documents. (“They released none of the documentation they said they looked at,” she complained. “They released none of these text ... more »

Rand Paul: Who's paying for all that "free" healthcare...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago
*think about that when you write out a check to pay your taxes.* Repeat after me: There is no such thing as "free." H/T Nice Deb *More:* The Blaze: *The ‘Little-Noticed’ Consequence of Obamacare That Will Leave Many Americans Out of Luck*

“Socrates Rebukes the NSA”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
*“Socrates Rebukes the NSA”* by Gary Corseri *“1. A Spy Speaks: *I was there. I saw with my own eyes, heard with my own ears. He was ranting, as usual, squawking in the agora—for all to see, for all to hear. Any passer-by—male or female; yes, some girls and women paused to hear him, too! Such blasphemy! And, his usual gaggle of unbearded youth—his students, disciples—Plato and the rest of them… all in my notes. I pretended to be one of them, got close. Just one of the stragglers who comes to hear his carrying-on—all that questioning he does, misleading minds too young to make dis... more »

US threatens China with Russian style sanction ? And China very calmly deflects US bluster .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_05/US-threatens-China-with-Russia-like-sanctions-over-territorial-disputes-7913/ 5 April 2014, 15:23 US threatens China with Russia-like sanctions over territorial disputes [image: US threatens China with Russia-like sanctions over territorial disputes] © Collage "Voice of Russia" The US has issued a strong warning to China not to escalate territorial tensions in the Asia-Pacific region, or otherwise it would face sanctions similar to those the US had imposed on Russia over Crimea. While speaking to a meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Commi... more »

Ukraine news of note - April 5 , 2014 -- Hagel: US May Add Brigade in Europe to ‘Counter Russia’ ..... Ukraine Livid as Russia Raises Gas Prices Courts 'Emergency' Imports From European Union ( Ukraine will soon see how much help Europe actually will provide ) ..... Britain Pushes Russia Sanctions as McDonald’s Abandons Crimea ...... Russia warns Turkey, US on American ships in Black Sea ..... Moody’s downgrades Ukraine to ‘default imminent’ ........ Kiev ignored independent assessment of snipers at Maidan - Lavrov

Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
Russian Politician Demands Banning McDonalds, After Fast Food Chain Halts Crimea Operations [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/05/2014 12:26 -0400 - Japan - Liberal Democratic Party - McDonalds - Pepsi - Ukraine inShare A few weeks ago, when the US announced the first set of sanctions against Russia, we jokingly commented that among the possible retaliations would be a Russian expulsion of that global US permastaple, McDonalds. As it turns out, yet another "joke" may be on its way to becoming the truth. The reason: overnight, ne... more »

April 5: General Indifference

Graeme Decarie at The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad - 13 hours ago
There's a category for news stories that are not news at all. For some reason, they are called "general interest stories" - which, confusingly, means they are of no interest whatever. Most newspapers will have a story or two of this this nature. The TandT is the only paper I know that devotes almost all of its A section to "general interest stories". "Wild winter tough on seasonal business". "Moncton snow dumps just keep on growing" "NB Power line crews feel 'relief' after tackling outages". "Moncton eateries join forces to launch beer." That's why it's rare to find something to tal... more »

Rachel Maddow On Immigration Reform: "There Is A Reason Why This New Pope Has Been Able To Get So Many People To Take A Second Look At The Catholic Church"

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago
Last night, in her brilliant essay on the political dilemma facing the Republican Party over immigration reform (above), Rachel Maddow never mentioned California GOP congressman Jeff Denham, who represents the 10th congressional district, part for the Central Valley, including Modesto, Manteca and Tracy. The backward-looking *Cook Report* still claims the district has a PVI of R+1, even though President Obama's 50-48% win over McCain in 2008 grew to a 51-47% win over Romney in 2012. Denham faces a growing Hispanic voting base (34.9%, with61% of newly eligible voters being Asian a... more »

good men

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 13 hours ago
nothing is required for the triumph of evil but that good men do nothing edmund burke

George W. Bush - The Painter

LeDaro at LeDaro - 15 hours ago
Some interesting portraits. Stephen Harper Something is missing. Oh yes! The crown or the cowboy hat. Vladimir Putin

drive

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 15 hours ago

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*After pillaging state coffers Bobbly Jindal orders spending freeze to avoid shortfall* *Jindal’s sneak attack on public ~C.C. Forgotston* *As Louisiana’s coast disappears, so does landowners’ money ~Peter Moskowitz, Aljazeera* *New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward: The Pitt Houses Revisited – Can Brad Really Make it Right ~Brian Beinvenu, NotesOnNewOrleans.net* *Shrimp prices jump, but supply OK for Lent ~WWLTV * *Crawfish Increasing After Cold Weather Slump ~Kailyn Davillier, NOLA DEFENDER* *This Simple Trailer Has Everything You Need to Deal With Disaster~Alexander George, Wired* ~H... more »

“The Globe(alization) and Mail”.

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 15 hours ago
[image: the man and the dog are definitely working together] The Crumbling Mainstream Press and Media In Canada. Part II. written By Robin Mathews April 2014 “*The Globe(alization) and Mail”.* Newspapers and conventional media are losing readers, listeners, and viewers simply because people use personal electronic devices of many kinds. For convenience. *Untrue.* Newspapers and conventional media must, it is true, face and deal with the new “social media, etc.” - which add an exciting dimension to communication and publication. But the established communica... more »

Police State Updates April 4 , 2014 -- Above the law mentality reflected by psychopathic killer cops , a paranoid State looking to control by any means necessary - the cauldron is boiling at some points folks are going to black out against the Authorities ......

Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Autopsy Shows Capitol Police Shot Unarmed Mother in Back of Head - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] *Garth Kant* WND April 4, 2014 First they called her a terrorist threat. When she turned out to be an unarmed suburban mother, they said she was on drugs. Now, WND has exclusively learned, without a trace of doubt, that was wrong, too. WND can also now report Miriam Carey was shot in the back of the head by U.S. Capitol Police officers and ... more »

MOVING TOWARD CONVERSION

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 16 hours ago
A group of a dozen or more will vigil for an hour today during shift change at the gates of Bath Iron Works (BIW) here in Maine. There are two more Saturdays to go during this series of Lenten vigils led by the Smilin' Trees Disarmament Farm from Hope, Maine. They are a Catholic Worker related community that has maintained faithful vigils at BIW for many years. Next Saturday there will be a larger group of us at BIW due to the fact that a ceremony will be held to 'christen' the first Zumwalt stealth destroyer - costing more than $4 billion to build. Its mission? To sneak up up... more »

Might a False Flag Op being in the operational stages at this time ? Don't you get the sense that something big and nasty is coming our way very soon folks ? If not , maybe you should ......... Let's start with missing Malaysian Flight 370 - does anyone think there is a new Bermuda triangle ? And keep in mind timing coincidental to other major events . Flight 370's ongoing situation covers the time period of March 8 , 2014 through the present time ) So , let's take a closer look at the ongoing Malaysia mystery ..... Malaysia MH370: Who has means & motive to take a plane full of people ? Then consider the events in Ukraine - in particular Crimea ( focusing on the pre-referendum period and through the end of March ) .... during this same time period while the plane is missing and Crimea is playing itself out , note the efforts by both Russia and China to break the dollar ...... US and EU threats ignored , sanctions rebutted Russian sanctions and their own threats to make life tough for the US , EU - there isn't a sanction regime that can curtail Russia + the BRICS in tandem ......Conventional War is a non starter - might the desperate West risk a nuclear gambit to put the fear of God in the BRICS and Putin ?

Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Whatever you may believe , at least consider the possibility that Malaysia is lying through their teeth about what they know about the plane's disappearance ....... here is one compelling argument from former Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim on the subject of whether Malaysian Authorities are telling the whole unvarnished truth about what they know ..... Friday, 04 April 2014 16:35IT'S A COVER UP: M'sian govt deliberately CONCEALING INFO on MH370 - Anwar Ibrahim<span class="itemAuthor" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; ... more »

The Impeachment of President Yeltsin

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
The charges Parliamentary Communists, who mounted the impeachment drive, accuse Yeltsin of treason, first-degree murder and plotting to sell Russia out to the West. The five specific counts say he: Instigated the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union Improperly used force against rebellious lawmakers in 1993 Launched the botched 1994-96 war in Chechnya Waged genocide against Russians with market reforms that impoverished the country Ruined Russia's military The Chechnya charge is the one most likely to attract enough votes for impeachment.

Grenada, The New Jewel Movement and the Assassination of Bob Marley

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
Since he was elected Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1972, Michael Manley pursued a socialist agenda intended to redistribute wealth by nationalizing the country's major export industries. His agenda proved to be financially unsustainable, as his policies deterred foreign investment in Jamaica. Manley was also aggressively opposed by the CIA and American business interests, as had happened to similar reformist governments in Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and multiple other countries throughout the Americas. Beginning in 1974, he was also opposed by the more conservative Edward S... more »

THE WAR ECONOMY

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 17 hours ago
The economy and security in Afghanistan are on shaky ground in the lead up to the Saturday presidential elections in Afghanistan. Female Associated Press photo-journalist Anja Niedringhaus was killed in eastern Afghanistan Friday by gunmen dressed in police uniforms, while her companion, reporter Kathy Gannon, survived the attack. With attacks like this ramping up in the past few weeks, the security situation is threatening to deteriorate, while the already shaky economy is slowing further. RT's Lucy Kafanov reports from the streets of Kabul on the worsening economic situation and... more »

Dr. Ben Carson: " When you put someone else in charge of your healthcare, you start a cascade of control...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 17 hours ago
*that is the very thing Saul Alinsky talked about."*

Remember the musicians who changed their tune

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago
As organizations jumble and revise their official positions, remember those who tried to stifle you in the past. Forgive, cooperate, but never forget those who told you that, for instance, opting out was a great and radical evil. Remember those who called you crazy, passionate with no sense, and tried to tease you into submission, […]

Colombia: UFOs Over Colombia? Enormous Flying Object Videotaped Over Medellín

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours ago
*Source: Planeta UFO and AmericaTV.comDate: 04.04.2014* *Colombia: UFOs Over Colombia? Enormous Flying Object Videotaped Over Medellín* ****Object is star-shaped and with several lights**** A family in the city of Medellín, Colombia was startled when it recorded an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). The video posted to YouTube shows how this star-shaped UFO, with several lights, rises and falls in the sky. Even the people who recorded this event joked about it, telling each other "they've come to get us" amid peals of laughter. VIDEO: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G-w5H9rnZI* ... more »

Argentina: A UFO Photographed Over Entre Rios

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours ago
*Planeta UFO* and *Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía* have shared with us the following photo and the accompanying text by Javier Lopez Posse: We would like to thank Emilio Ravina for allowing us to publish this wonderful photo [in Planeta UFO] in which two "unidentified flying objects" are clearly visible. This was a chance photo, as he did not see them when he pressed the shutter on his 14 megapixel digital camera. The photograph was taken in Entre Rios, Ibicuy, in southern area of the city. Emilio Ravina is a disciplined skywatcher and this is not the first time he has photograph... more »

For crying out loud!

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
The closing item on today's *Today* probably wouldn't have appealed to Vladimir Putin, or to all those people at *Biased BBC *who accuse the BBC of deliberately undermining masculinity. It was a friendly plug for a new anthology of poems by Anthony and Ben Holden called *Poems That Make Grown Men Cry. * Anthony Holden (or "Tony", as John Humphrys calls him) said that, unlike in the Elizabethan and Victorian eras (when men had hankies at the ready all the time), we men of today aren't supposed to cry. Crying is "out of fashion", he said, and he doesn't think it should be. He wants ... more »

Use caution with those attempting to write books on the backs of your labors @testingtalk @Skrashen

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 18 hours ago
I viewed a passing mention of some new phenomenon called “Testing Talk,” which is a website devoted to soliciting feedback on the slate of Common Core tests being implemented nationwide. I have one very simple question: who is sponsoring this? Another simple question: why the lack of overall diversity on the “committee.” And, what does […]

Ryan's Paymasters Will Never Let Him Give Up Trying To Enslave Ordinary Americans-- Really

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago
Wednesday the House Budget Committee approved Paul Ryan's latest Ayn Rand Budget, which cuts *trillions* in healthcare spending and repeals the Affordable Care Act. "His budget," reports *Hospital CFO*, "would make significant changes to Medicare, reducing program spending by $129 billion over the next 10 years. Starting in 2012, it would convert Medicare to a premium support program, under which beneficiaries would receive funds from the government with which they could purchase either traditional Medicare coverage or private health plans." A report from the Center on Budget and ... more »

What an anti-test activist can do in a school during testing

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 18 hours ago
For me, nothing, just stand aside. That’s all I can do, unless I’m prepared to jeopardize my employment and, selfishly, the employment of others in my school. I’m a Kindergarten teacher, so thankfully we are insulated from most of testing’s ill effects. But I can report on how the administration of testing during the specific […]

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 18 hours ago
*Sabbath* I am taking Sunday off as my Sabbath this week. I have been battling a pesky cold this week but hope that I am well enough recovered by now to get out and about later today

Elections Canada Playing Us For Chumps

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 19 hours ago
A few fine bloggers have already pointed this out but I'll link to Alison at Creekside (who, obviously is quoting other sources): A national investigation into allegations of dirty political calls has been under way for more than a year. Elections Canada had planned to wrap up that investigation by March 31. On Thursday, spokeswoman Diane Benson declined to say whether it is ongoing. The agency was expected to include information about that investigation in a “compliance and enforcement mechanisms” report to Parliament this spring. Benson said the agency has decided not to report ... more »

"You really call that a dog?"

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 19 hours ago
I caught the closing minutes of this morning's *Today *programme, arriving just in time to hear Evan Davis giggling his way through an interview about the paintings of George W. Bush. Nancy Durrant of the *Times*'s various digs at Dubya - his record and his "boring" paintings - really seemed to tickle Evan's funny bone [or were his body piercings chafing him this morning?] We learned that the former president is a Sunday painter, and not a very good one - which came as a great surprise to me as I thought, after two years, that he'd be at least as great as Francis Bacon, Lucian Fre... more »

The consequences for opposing "gay marriage"

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 19 hours ago
*Brendan Eich*, one of the most innovative and productive computer programmers in America, is suffering the consequences of being a traditional, normal person in the Marxist, degenerate, tyrannical and totally backwards society we live in today. Eich, the former CEO of Mozilla, recently resigned after it was discovered he opposed "gay marriage" in the state of California. *Time* reports: *Brendan Eich, who became the company's chief executive less than two weeks ago, faced a firestorm over his support in 2008 of California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in the state* Th... more »

Super Size This Putin: McDonalds Pulls Out of Crimea

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 19 hours ago
Only in Obama's America could something like this bit of 'news' be sold to the masses of asses by a corrupt cadre of state-corporate media that long ago chucked their first amendment responsibilities into the crapper to become careerist pressititutes riding on the rogue government gravy train. Those economic sanctions that have hurled at Russia with as much real effect as Zell Miller's legendary "spitballs" now are getting some *real* clout as the punishment towards the reincarnated red menace grows a set of teeth. McDonalds, the tip of the spear of the corporate American imperial... more »

War Watch April 4 , 2014 - Afghanistan Presidential Election( First Round ) in focus ( Security is the watch word ) - One foreign journalist has been killed and another critically wounded in a shooting in eastern Afghanistan, a day before the country's presidential elections -- Assaults targeting international observers and the election commission itself have left open questions regarding the legitimacy and the security of Saturday's vote -- Taliban gunmen have abducted an Afghan candidate running for a seat in the provincial council of Sar-i-Puland and seven members of his entourage, an Afghan official has said. . ....... Ahead of their own Election in April , Iraq death counts mount ....... Syrian refugees hit the one million mark just for Lebanon , Syria Opposition makes accusation of Assad use of chemical weapons once again , battles near Damascus delay chemical shipments .....

Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
Afghanistan...... AL Jazeera...... Foreign journalist killed in east Afghanistan One reporter shot dead and another critically injured in border area, a day before presidential polls. Last updated: 04 Apr 2014 08:18 <iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-share-button twitter-tweet-button twitter-count-horizontal" data-twttr-rendered="true" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.1395870373.html#_=1396602271165&count=horizontal&counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2Fasia%2F2014%2F04%2Fforeign-journal... more »

CIA Official Dies in Apparent Suicide ?? WTF ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cia-official-dies-in-apparent-suicide/ CIA Official Dies in Apparent Suicide Death did not take place at CIA headquarters [image: (Wikimedia)] (Wikimedia) BY: Bill Gertz April 4, 2014 11:46 pm A senior CIA official has died in an apparent suicide this week from injuries sustained after jumping off a building in northern Virginia, according to sources close to the CIA. CIA spokesman Christopher White confirmed the death and said the incident did not take place at CIA headquarters in McLean, Va. “We can confirm that there was an individua... more »

The biggest, baddest corporation on earth? (No, not the BBC)

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 22 hours ago
The short but interesting British East India Company discussion on last night's *Newsnight *was prompted by the commissioning of a major new BBC drama. Here's how Emily Maitlis introduced the discussion last night: "It was the equivalent of the CIA, the NSA and the biggest, baddest multinational corporation on earth, all rolled into one self-righteous, religiously-motivated monolith." That's the writer Steven Knight's take on the East India Company and the subject of his major new drama the BBC has commissioned to be produced by Sir Ridley Scott. Ridley Scott himself has said, ... more »

Enjoy The Journey - A Quote by M.N. Hopkins

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 22 hours ago
*Enjoy the journey, miss not the beauty around and the joy of discovery. Keep joy close at hand and all dangers will disappear as you approach them along the way.* M.N. Hopkins

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 22 hours ago
*The IPCC's Latest Report Deliberately Excludes And Misrepresents Important Climate Science* This week, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is releasing its latest report, the “Working Group II Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report.” Like its past reports, this one predicts apocalyptic consequences if mankind fails to give the UN the power to tax and regulate fossil fuels and subsidize and mandate the use of alternative fuels. But happily, an international group of scientists I have been privileged to work with has conducted an independent rev... more »

Top 10 Energy Drink Dangers

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 22 hours ago
Top 10 Energy Drink Dangers by Caffeine Informer The dangers of energy drinks are getting a lot of press because of the sheer volume of energy stimulating products in the marketplace and the ease of access to these by minors. While most energy drinks don’t have as much caffeine as a Starbucks’ coffee, they are heavily sweetened and easy to drink, which appeals more to the younger demographic. Therefore, we are seeing increased incidents of those 18 and younger having dangerous side effects from consuming too many energy drinks at one time. Top Ten Dangers of Drinking too Many... more »

'Newsnight': 31 March-4 April

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 23 hours ago
Time again for this week's list of stories covered by *Newsnight *(plus details of those interviewed). What does it tell you about BBC bias? *Monday 31/3* 1. *Government pledges full employment*. What is full employment? Interview with Nicky Morgan MP (Con) 2. *Tuition fees*: is the present scheme working? Interview with David Willetts (Con) and John Denham (Lab) 3. *Climate change adaptation.* Roger Harrabin reports. 4.* Social network addiction*: "They were sold as way to freedom, but are screens enslaving us?". Report by Professor Tanya Byron. 5. *Should Germans make jokes about... more »

Hooperon dark matter may be boosted by dwarf galaxies and even LUX

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
Exactly one month ago, I wrote about two dark matter stories: the proposal by Randall and Reece to link extinctions to dark matter; and some unusually strong (formally 40-sigma) signals supporting the existence of the hooperon, a WIMP dark matter particle candidate with mass between \(30\) and \(40\GeV\). (See Jester's classification of the tantalizing dark matter particle clues.) *Some sources of the gamma rays seem to clearly shine near the Galactic center (but almost 5,000 light years from the center) even if the known sources are removed.* Lisa Grossman of Nude Socialist (and... more »

Alam of Troy

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Going back to the post before last, it looks as if the BBC is continuing to pursue the claims of an Islamic Trojan Horse plot in certain Birmingham schools. The BBC News website's *Education *page is leading with: 'Islam plot' started '20 years ago' An ex-teacher at a Birmingham school alleged to be the target of a 'Islamist takeover' claims it began 20 years ago. Michael White, who was dismissed in 2003 from Park View School, in Alum Rock, said its board of governors was "taken over by a Muslim sect" in 1993. He said he told the local education authority (LEA) but his claims were... more »

How Trudeau Was Upstaged

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 day ago
So Justin Trudeau arrived in our region yesterday to beat the political war drum. I had planned to write a bit on it and was actually in the process of doing up a post when his majesty was upstaged as a result of a Facebook conversation I had, not with le bebe but with a former student of mine from Nunavut. I won't mention names or communities here but can say that her kind words were heart-warming and inspiring and provided a welcome end to a long work day. As a bit of background, I taught in a couple different Nunavut communities from 2003 to 2009, spending 2 years in Qikiqtarju... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*After pillaging state coffers Bobbly Jindal orders spending freeze to avoid shortfall* *Shrimp prices jump, but supply OK for Lent ~WWLTV * *Crawfish Increasing After Cold Weather Slump ~Kailyn Davillier, NOLA DEFENDER* *This Simple Trailer Has Everything You Need to Deal With Disaster~Alexander George, Wired* ~Hat Tweet @Noladishu

Maybe Rush's listeners don't care about picking up their poochy-poop anyways?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Daily Kos's ProgLegs notes*: *"Dog Doody Duty's rates depend on frequency of service and number of dogs. They do offer a flat fee of $50 for a one time visit, but indicate that certain jobs may result in additional charges. So how much would it cost to remove El Rushbo?"* *by Ken* "You can't make this stuff up," Daily Kos's ProgLegs began a diary yesterday called "Rush Limbaugh Can't Even Keep Dog Turd Removal Ads on his Right Wing Clown Show." What you can't make up here is the news that the giant gasbag has been dumped by an advertiser promoting doggie-poop pickup services: ... more »

“5 Things Conservatives Lie Shamelessly About”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“5 Things Conservatives Lie Shamelessly About”* By Amanda Marcotte “Mark Twain once famously said, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Twain wasn’t praising lies with this comment, of course, but modern-day conservatives seem to think he was dishing out advice instead of damning the practice of dishonesty. Conservatives have figured out a neat little rhetorical trick: One lie is easy for your opponents to debunk. Tell one lie after another, however, and your opponent’s debunkings will never catch up. By the time the liberal opposit... more »

Moving on to Benghazi, is there any possibility that in THIS case GOP demagogues will own up to their crusade of lies?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Any chance the lying right-wing liars will stop lying about Benghazi?* *"Is there any accountability in American politics for being completely wrong? Is there any cost to those who say things that turn out not to be true and then, when their fabrications or false predictions are exposed, calmly move on to concocting new claims as if they had never made the old ones?"* *-- E. J. Dionne Jr., in his *Washington Post *column yesterday,* "The GOP must admit it was wrong on Obamacare" *by Ken* Last night I wrote ("E. J. Dionne Jr. asks if there's accountability for the Rs' wrong-wrong-w... more »

Traditional Inuit Clothing

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
Traditional Inuit clothing consisted of a parka, pants and mittens made from caribou or sealskin (worn in one or two layers according to the season), and up to four layers of footwear. Each garment was tailored to fit the individual. The seamstress, relying on years of experience to determine the shapes and sizes of pattern pieces, used hand, string and eye to measure, or used already existing garments as models. You can see this type of clothing worn daily in Nunavut.

Today the CEOs of banks that engage in monstrous fraud are not even indicted, much less jailed. The last time such a criminal CEO was actually sent to prison was back in 1987 when there were laws on the book against accounting control fraud and the government actually fielded a few regulators of financial institutions. Even so, these regulators were threatened by the perps and hassled by five Senators (the "Keating Five") bought by the perps. On this video, the valiant regulator who put Keating away despite all of this pressure tells this story with good humor in less than 12 minutes.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ Original Here *Charles Keating, the Financier Behind the Savings and Loan Scandal, Dies at 90* Bill Black: While Wall Street executives responsible for the subprime mortgage crisis were never indicted, Charles Keating was criminally prosecuted for the 1980s S&L scandal - *April 3, 14* *Bio* William K. Black, author of THE BEST WAY TO ROB A BANK IS TO OWN ONE, teaches economics and law at the University of Missour... more »

BrasscheckTV is a free provider of videos of current relevance, particularly things that you don't know but you really ought to.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ *The CEO who said "No" to the NSA* *"It's illegal, it's unconstitutional"* *The government jailed him in retaliation* In February of 2001, six months before 9/11, the NSA illegally sought (and received) the private data of the customers of phone companies all over the country in a warrantless search program. One CEO, Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, said "No!" The NSA cancelled its contracts with the company and then in retaliation for his refusal to give in to intimidation filed an entirely bogus insider trading case against him. Here's the timeline: 1.... more »

Walter Benjamin's Theses on Writing

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
Lazy night again. So this is borrowed from here. *THE WRITER’S TECHNIQUE IN THIRTEEN THESES* 1. Anyone intending to embark on a major work should be lenient with himself and, having completed a stint, deny himself nothing that will not prejudice the next. 2. Talk about what you have written, by all means, but do not read from it while the work is in progress. Every gratification procured in this way will slacken your tempo. If this regime is followed, the growing desire to communicate will become in the end a motor for completion. 3. In your working conditions avoid everyday medio... more »

Arguing a lawyers bill is reasonable when seeking costs does not bar a later assessment of that account as unreasonable

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
Ghaeinizadeh v. Bennett Jones LLP, 2014 ONCA 267 is yet another case showing lawyers ought not to argue an assessment is unavailable - generally speaking the client can always assess: [23] The issue in this case is whether that holding applies where the client has submitted in the previous court for the purpose of obtaining costs from the defendants that the accounts of their previous solicitor were reasonable. In my view, it does. While abuse of process is a broad doctrine, it is important that it not be stretched beyond the core interests of protecting the integrity of the a... more »

NAFTA At 20: A $1.2 Trillion Dollar Mistake That Only Enriched Corporations/Connected Individuals (Middle Class Has Been Scheduled for Devastation for Decades)

I'm a little behind in publishing this essay. Forgive me, but it's all good. (And, yes, it's long, but worth your while - and the selected readers' comments show quite a bit of pizzazz!) March 28, 2014 Campaign for America's Future Blog NAFTA At 20: “A Vehicle To Increase Profits At The Expense Of Democracy” by Dave Johnson Thursday the AFL-CIO released a new report, NAFTA at 20. The

Nutrition-- Educating Doctors

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
I spent almost two years wandering around the Indian subcontinent between 1969 and 1971-- Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Nepal and, of course, every region of India. I lived in my van and was broke most of the time and had no choice but to eat whatever the locals were eating. When I got back to Europe I came down with a debilitating illness. No need to go into the gruesome details but I wound up under the care of an elderly physician in Innsbruck who decided he would have to operate on me and that I would have to stay in Innsbruck for six months. Innsbruck is lovel... more »

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 1 day ago
*Zero Tolerance Hurts Kids and Ruins Schools* *We need common sense in our schools, not mindless bureaucratic compliance* Virginia Beach sixth-grader Adrionna Harris took a razor away from a troubled student who was cutting himself and threw it in the trash. When school administrators found out, they gave her a certificate of merit for helping a classmate. Ha, ha! Of course they didn’t. They gave her a 10-day suspension, with a recommendation that she be expelled. For three or four seconds there, she was in possession of a dangerous object in violation of the school’s zero-tolera... more »

Happy Birthday NATO- "Peace" bombing for 65 years now!

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
65 years of overt and covert warfare. Boy that is something to celebrate...... or not. Of course NATO delivers 'democracy' in so many ways *Overtly- via massive bombing raids- Ground invasions- Drone strikes* [image: http://crossedcrocodiles.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/natobombs-2.jpg] NATO-Libya [image: natobomb2]NATO- Yugoslavia [image: A US-led trooper check details of a poppy field in an area of Afghanistan]NATO assisting in the opium/heroin trade *And covertly through numerous destabilization campaigns* Syria, of course, comes to my mind But who can forget Operatio... more »

We’re not in Finland any more, Vinny!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2014* *Notes on our broken discourse:* Kevin Drum actually talks about our public schools! We’re very glad he does. Among liberal pundits within the guild, very few others do. That said, the American discourse is deeply broken in virtually every area. In virtually every subject area, the discourse is ruled by bogus claims which track to various tribes. Our public discourse is tribal narrative, pretty much all the way down. Through no particular fault of his own, Drum’s post in praise of New Jersey’s schools helps illustrate that point. Drum linked to this post... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Champ Bailey agrees to 2-year deal with Saints, source says ~Ramon Antonio Vargas, New Orleans Advocate* *Champ Bailey: 'I’m going to try to be a part of something special' ~Saints*

THE 12 TRUTHS OF ROLAND'S UNIFIED FIELD / NOW ON KINDLE

Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 1 day ago
*The basic underlying, uniting and healing force of the universe is a psychic energy field of love and soul consciousness (The **Unified Field** ) which lies not only beyond time and space but also beneath our deepest fears ~ and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite. It’s now on Kindle: Allen L Roland* In physics, a unified field theory, occasionally referred to as a uniform field theory, is a type of field theory that allows all that is usually thought of as fundamental forces and elementary particles to be written in terms of a single field.* Wikipedia* ... more »

WAR IN THE GULF - Gorbachev Fears War's Expansion Beyond U.N. Aims

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
MOSCOW -- President Mikhail S. Gorbachev warned yesterday that the Persian Gulf war is threatening to grow beyond the United Nations' mandate into a catastrophic regional conflict involving chemical and nuclear weapons. He said he was dispatching a personal envoy to Baghdad to meet Saddam Hussein and appealed again to the Iraqi leader to "display realism" and open the way to a settlement. The statement, released by the Tass news agency and read on television last night, said "developments in the gulf zone are taking an ever more alarming and dramatic turn." "The logic of mil... more »

WHY ARE YOU JOINING THE VOICES OF DISSENT DR. KING?

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Martin Luther King's April 4, 1967 speech on America & the Vietnam war.

April 4: I tried, I really did....

Graeme Decarie at The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad - 1 day ago
....to find something worth commenting on in Section A. At last, on page 8, I found something. It's the best I can do. "Senior dog left abandoned....." It wasn't the story itself that got me. (I can think of no other daily that would have run a story of an abandoned dog as being a big, news story.) What got me was the "Senior dog" part. I have never seen that term used before - old dog,yes; but not senior dog. Usually "senior" is a polite way of referring to old people, not dogs or white mice or blue jays. I think this is a pioneer step in our treatment of animals. But we should do ... more »

"How It Really Is"

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

Electric Company was here today trying to put a Smart Meter on my home. I said Refused to allow him to do so.

Sherrie Questioning All at Sherrie Questioning All - 1 day ago
I just got a knock on my door. It appears Smart Meters have come to my area. I have already called the company in the past, telling them I will never accept a smart meter. That was a couple of years ago. Here is a letter I had published last year to send for people to your electrical company, refusing a smart meter. A man rang my doorbell and when I opened the door, I saw him standing

Post-ISA Blogging: Does “Star Wars” Count as Science Fiction?

Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Many Ducks are posting about their highlights from #ISA2014. Mine – aside from the Bloggers’ Reception and the many smart junior scholars I met in the lobby – was a meta-theoretical twitter conversation with former Duck Patrick Thaddeus Jackson occurring as I was headed to the airport. First the context. Just before departing, I live-tweeted Chris Continue reading

raw oyster

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago

I love this song and video... "Sparks - "Lighten Up Morrissey" (official video)" on YouTube

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
Sparks - "Lighten Up Morrissey" (official video): http://youtu.be/LwIrFTo495E

The CIA Gets To Redact The Report That Exposes Them As Liars And Torturers?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Yesterday, while House conservatives were voting for the 52nd time to deny health insurance to American working families, the Senate was up to something seemly more interesting-- and potentially more productive. After voting 61-35 for a cloture bill to shut down the Republican filibuster of legislation to extend unemployment benefits, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted, 11-3, to declassify parts-- the 400-page executive summary along with the conclusions and recommendations-- of its controversial report on the Bush-Cheney torture regime. I'm pretty confident that the main po... more »

Celebrating the courage of those who exposed US torture as it happened

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Political prisoners rally Denver 2008 Democratic National Convention Celebrating the courage of those who exposed US torture as it happened, from Tucson and Denver to the Hague By Brenda Norrell Censored News Dutch translation by NAIS TUCSON -- In Tucson in 2007, there was a movement to expose US torture, while the mainstream media trembled and turned away. Human rights attorney Bill

Go You FuCHing Habs Go!

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
When my Habs have a remarkable chance to do some damage in the playoffs.It tickles Pavlovan joy in my sport gene stimulating streams of consciousness cascading excitement. Indisputably interesting times. Filled with hope, for a cup and a ring for that dang team. Refueling memories that keep the faith burning like a flower that rarely produces seed in Spring At the last possible moment moved Vanek into the Stanley Cup sweeps. Literally and figuratively fated to carry the team along with him. MB busted a legendary move acquiring a Frank Mahovlich instead of a Peter. Its Vanek that ha... more »

WORLD WITHOUT FACTS, AMEN: Rachel Maddow jumps the snark!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2014* *Part 4—World of bad faith, amen:* In many ways, the Mastro report is low-grade, low-IQ work. It does seem to present some new information concerning Team Christie’s pursuit of an endorsement from Fort Lee’s Mayor Sokolich. But concerning that topic and others, it reaches conclusions which can’t be reached. It marshals its evidence foolishly at times. In short, the Mastro report strongly resembles much of our modern “journalism.” Consider what happened when Rachel Maddow angrily proved that the Mastro report was built on an act of “slut shaming.” The repor... more »

The "Petty Game" of Denying a U.S. Visa to Iran's New UN Ambassador

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day ago
Hamid Abutalebi It has become increasingly clear that the United States government has deliberately delayed issuing a visa to Hamid Abutalebi, Iran's new Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York City. Abutalebi, a career diplomat who has previously served as Iran's ambassador to the European Union, Australia, Belgium, and Italy, was appointed to succeed outgoing ambassador

Armenian-Canadians Protest@Turkish Consulate- Turkey strikes Syria

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
Extremely limited NATO news coverage. I could only find CTV giving much more then a passing mention. Same as when the anti-fascists Ukrainians protested. Virtual news black-out. Anti-fascist/anti-Bandera protests in Canada- Russian entry bans? What a difference from when the pro-fascist 'protests' were happening in Canada. Those staged, perception managed, shows for the camera got lots of NATO media coverage. Even on the *Tell-a-vision.* Here's the scoop- Kudos to these Canadians! And remember the Armenians had been safe in Syria. They were living alongside their Syrian neighbours. ... more »

Common Core Corporate Standards Floating Around in an Evidence Free Zone

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
* A compacted version of this op-ed was published by the Memphis Commercial Appeal.* *Arguments for Common Core Offer No Evidence that Learning Will Improve* *Jim Horn* The implementation of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) represents the most grand curriculum experiment in educational history with the least amount of evidence to back it up. Even so, Common Core enthusiasts often ridicule detractors of cram-down curriculum reform and supporters of local educational autonomy by pointing out that the Standards are not federal in origin and that they are not driven by a national con... more »

Use Firefox? No more Truth Revolt for you...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*change browsers, or else.* This is ridiculous. The message at Truth Revolt: Hello there, Mozilla Firefox user.​Pardon this interruption of your TruthRevolt experience. Mozilla recently forced its CEO, Brendan Eich, to resign over his personal support for traditional marriage. The firing followed a vicious smear campaign against Eich by dating website OKCupid, in which OKCupid blocked Mozilla users from visiting their website. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access TruthRevolt, given Mozilla’s crackdown on political and religious positions held ... more »

Paper: It's valuable to lie and cheat in the name of AGW

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
Climate Depot has informed us about a new remarkable paper in *American Journal of Agricultural Economics* Information Manipulation and Climate Agreements by Hong (Nanyang) and Zhao (Hong Kong). The paper discusses a simple mathematical model in "game theory" of a sort and concludes that if you want many countries to join the climatic hysterical treaties, it's a great idea to lie and manipulate/varnish the information. They explicitly state that "Al Gore, the IPCC, and the mainstream media varnish their reports to accentuate the damages of climate change" and they ask why it is so.... more »

Big Mountain Spring Training Camp 2014

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
BIG MOUNTAIN SPRING TRAINING CAMP MAY 16th-23rd, 2014 BIG MOUNTAIN, DINEH NATION “What we are trying to save—the Female Mountain—is alive. She is alive, she has blood flowing through her veins, which is the Navajo Aquifer, and the coal they are digging is Her liver. They are destroying Her.”–Marie Gladue, Big Mountain Relocation Resister “We need to exercise our right to be human. To

Satire: “Boehner: ‘I Don’t Want to Live in a World Where Seven Million People Get Affordable Health Care’”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Boehner: ‘I Don’t Want to Live in a World Where * *Seven Million People Get Affordable Health Care’”* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “A riveting scene unfolded in Congress today as a tearful Speaker John Boehner took to the floor of the House to tell his colleagues, “I don’t want to live in a world where seven million people get affordable health care.” Tears streaming down his cheeks, Rep. Boehner appeared unable to maintain his composure as he delivered a speech interrupted by blubbering and sharp intakes of breath. “What kind of a world is it where anyone ca... more »

Uranium is Chemically and Radiologically Toxic

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
Loomis, B. & Ye Hee Lee, M. (2014, April 4) Navajos Will Get $1 Billion to Clean up Uranium. The Arizona Republic A1, A9. Majia here: The Navajos will receive 1 Billion to help clean up 85 years of uranium pollution from Anadarko Petroleum, which acquired KerrMcGee in 2006, the polluter. Here is what the article has to say about the consequences of the pollution: In Arizona, uranium contamination – both to one-time Navajo miners and to people who live and draw water near the mines – has wrought untold health consequences. Victims frequently report kidney maladies or cancers, and th... more »

Anyone need to hire a person who is good with Research, Sales and other things. Truthful and Honesty. I need employment and putting the information out.

Sherrie Questioning All at Sherrie Questioning All - 1 day ago
Well, I am posting this because I need employment and income. This blog is a hobby. People may believe I make money from it, but I don't. I make around $100 per month from the Google ads, that is it. I have never asked for 'donations' and I never will. I believe in doing what I can for others and I believe the universe 'God' will provide. But at this point, I need to get income

How many were at the 3/30 protest? Thank god we have the establishment media to tell us +UPDATED+

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
[image: around_95] Great Sunflower links at the bottom, don't miss 'em. On to WSJ's bizarre estimate of the crowd last weekend.... How many were at the 3/30 protest? Thank god we have the establishment media to tell us, otherwise we might believe the horrible crowd organizers and civic groups. WSJ China Realtime blog decided to tell us how many people attended the 3/30 protest with predictably political results.... Like Mr. Jacobs, student organizers in Taipei also used overhead photos, though they were somewhat less precise in analyzing them. According to Chen Rui-Guang, a represe... more »

SPECIAL REPORT: Palestinians in Flagrant Violation of At Least 11 of 15 Treaties Abbas Just Signed - The Tower - The Tower

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
' Palestinians in Flagrant Violation of At Least 11 of 15 Treaties Abbas Just Signed' The details are here http://www.thetower.org/0096-special-report-palestinians-in-flagrant-violation-of-11-of-15-conventions-signed-this-week/but never on the BBC.

White Dog: The rest of the story

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 1 day ago
White Dog in my stepson's Vancouver apartmentI've been posting a lot of White Dog updates on Facebook but realized that not everyone who saw my first blog post on her is my Facebook friend and might be wondering how the story ended. It ended well. White Dog is now settled in her new home in Cumberland, and judging by the little video I saw yesterday of her bouncing around with my daughter and her family on a Comox Valley beach, settling in quite nicely. And just like childbirth, all the hassle has been forgotten just seeing how happy she is to be here and how happy my family i... more »

The Oil Barons Are In Charge

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
The conventional wisdom, Linda McQuaig writes, is that ordinary people don't understand the science of climate change: It’s we ordinary people, with our self-absorption or resistance to change, who are the prime culprits in the world’s failure to act against climate disaster. But that's backwards: By focusing on the alleged failure of ordinary people to tackle climate change, we take our eyes off the real culprits behind the drapes — the fossil fuel industry and lickspittle governments, the best example being the one in Ottawa. Big Fossil is the wealthiest and most powerful lob... more »

NATO: MILITARY TOOL OF CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
It's exactly 65 years since the world's largest military alliance was formed. For decades, NATO was the Western world's joint defense against a Cold War enemy. But with those days long gone, are its mission and huge budget still justified?

Arbeit Macht Frei, Save American Workers Act of 2014-- GOP And Blue Dogs Go For 52nd Vote To Kill The Affordable Care Act

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Ever hear the German phrase *Arbeit macht frei*? The literal translation is fairly neutral: "work makes you free." But the reason the phrase resonates for people around the world is because when Jews, gypsies, union leaders, gays and other victims of the right-wing apocalypse of the 1940s arrived at the Auschwitz, Theresienstadt and Dachau death camps this phrase, in metal letters, was the first thing they saw above the gates. Work did not make them free. Today far right Indiana Congressman Todd Young had bis bill, H.R. 2575, the Save American Workers Act of 2014, voted on. I'm not... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 1 day ago
*Vegetarians are slimmer but sicker* *Which is interesting, though not really surprising. More interesting is that the various permutations of meat-eating did not seem to affect anything* Nutrition and Health – The Association between Eating Behavior and Various Health Parameters: A Matched Sample Study By Nathalie T. Burkert et al. Abstract Population-based studies have consistently shown that our diet has an influence on health. Therefore, the aim of our study was to analyze differences between different dietary habit groups in terms of health-related variables. The sample us... more »

March Payrolls Miss 192K, Below 200K Expected, Unemployment Rate 6.7% Above 6.6% Expected ...... not too hot , not to cold ! Risk on .....

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Stocks, Bonds, And Gold Surge On Dismal Jobs Data Miss [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/04/2014 08:48 -0400 - Bond - HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT - Unemployment inShare Bad news is the best news this morning. *A higher unemployment rate and worse than expected job creation is the new mother's milk for stocks* which kneejerked instantly to new record highs. Bond yields are tumbling and gold is surging (back over $1300) as 'investors' believe this will signal an un-taper (because QE did so much good for so long) or lower-for-longer chatter (so ... more »

Guest Post: Why Employers Want To Check Your Background

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 1 day ago
*Donna's note*: I sometimes write here about how employers break the law conducting background checks and why hiring practices that exclude arrests/criminal records may be discriminatory. I thought it would be interesting to hear the perspective on why employers want background checks and what they're looking for. Here's what a background check expert has to say on the topic. *By Rebecca Gray* Due to a highly competitive market, finding a great job posting or even landing an interview doesn't necessarily mean you've got it made. Another applicant with matching skills could win that... more »

Skepticism or Cynicism for Obama Education Agenda?

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Skepticism or Cynicism for Obama Education Agenda?. via Skepticism or Cynicism for Obama Education Agenda?.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Brussels: Police disperse protesters with water cannon April 4 , 2014 ........ waiting for CNBC to cover this any minute now ......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
WATER CANNONS AS POLICE DISPERSE PROTESTERS IN BRUSSELS - Home / - News / Brussels: Police disperse protesters with water cannon Published time: April 04, 2014 12:08 Get short URL Share on tumblr Police have deployed water cannon to disperse a trade union protest in Brussels which has seen hundreds gather in the city center. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Labor protest sparks clashes in Brussels*Posted: Apr 04, 2014 8:21 AM EDT**Updated: Apr 04, 2014 8:21 AM EDT* BRUSSELS (AP) - Belgian police used water cannon and pepper spray on protesters who had showered them with oranges and cobblest... more »
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