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Atomic Energy and the Masculine Will to Power
An interesting headline: Osaki, T. (2014, May 9). Women’s group launches bid to deny sex to men who are pro-war. Japan Times, Available, http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/09/national/womens-group-launches-bid-deny-sex-men-pro-war/#.U25tNPldWSo [paraphrase]A Japanese women’s group has launched a campaign for peace that makes sex contingent on resistance to Japan’s growing militarization. Women who participate the campaign must make sure that their sexual partners are: “not supportive of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to enable Japan to exercise the right to collective self-d... more »
Hey, Boko Haram Is Just Acting on "Conscience Issues" Too
Justin Trudeau's decree that all future (not, note, sitting shoo-in MPs) Liberal candidates must be prochoice has twisted up some Conservative knickers. Specifically over the matter of sacrosanct "conscience issues." Here's the At Issue Panel. The abortion discussion starts around the 7:30 mark. Coyne does his thing. Then Chantal rips him a new one, starting around 8:40. Coyne is left blubbering "but not all anti-choicers" bububububub. Mansbridge does his patented mincy mouth. Watch. Coyne followed this up in the National Post, as did Jen Gerson and today the august NatPo edito... more »
March4Lies Part 1: Tits 'n Tots
As fern hill reported, this year's March For Lies had a theme: RU4LIFE. When I arrived on Parliament Hill, where antiChoice and proChoice converge momentarily before we separate into our camps - their parade, our protest - a young woman was urging the crowd to call a number on their cell phones to enter a contest. Technology assists fundraising! I missed the ruckus that occurred when two Femen interrupted the usual blathering by priests at the microphone. QMI photographer Tony Caldwell took a series of photos, here's the gallery. In this one, appalled antiChoice parents cover th... more »
Rogoff on Piketty
Here, via Project Syndicate. A tidbit: Would Piketty’s followers be nearly as enthusiastic about his proposed progressive global wealth tax if it were aimed at correcting the huge disparities between the richest countries and the poorest, instead of between those who are well off by global standards and the ultra-wealthy? let us not forget that when it comes to reducing global inequality, the capitalist system has had an impressive three decades. Read more at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/kenneth-rogoff-says-that-thomas-piketty-is-right-about-rich-countries--but-wrong-... more »
Forced out for playing 'The Sun Has Got His Hat On'
This is like something out of a Franz Kafka novel (and comes via *Biased BBC*). I would take a few blood pressure tablets if I were you before reading it... *(WARNING: Please don't watch the videos in this post if you are very easily offended.)* Imagine you're a veteran BBC local radio broadcaster who specialises in playing popular music of the mid 20th Century. You've had your own programme for over two decades, and played all the greats - Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Jerome Kern, Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Nat 'King' Cole (i.e. my dad's kind o... more »
The Coming Death of the New Misogyny
Thursday's *Blurred Lines* is well worth a watch. Kirsty Wark explores the thesis that popular culture is gripped by a new wave of sexism, and looks at 90s Laddism, porn and internet cultures as possible drivers. Well known "moments" of the new misogyny - sexism as a term is too twee to describe it - such as attacks on and persistent digital harassment of folk like Mary Beard and Caroline Criado-Perez; the abuse heaped on Anita Sarkeesian for producing short films, like this one on the representation of women in video games; the Steubenville rape case, and much else besides. If yo... more »
Why The L.A. Times Endorsed Lee Rogers Instead Of One Of The Two Right-Wing Republicans
The *L.A. Times* is a Republican-owned newspaper and-- in a heavily Democratic city-- they tend to bend editorially towards as conservative a direction as they can get away with. In CA-33, for instance, they backed the more plausible of the two conservative Democrats-- Matt Miller over the discredited, sleazy and thoroughly disliked Wendy Greuel-- while ignoring the progressives in the race, Ted Lieu and Marianne Williamson. So far, the only other congressional race they endorsed in is for the CA-25 seat being abandoned by arch-reactionary bigot Buck McKeon. The jungle primary bo... more »
“More or less plain English,” she said! (For weekend wonksters only)
*SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2014* *A masterwork of sustained bad explanation:* On Sunday, April 20, Professor Gottlieb reviewed Professor Goldstein’s book, Plato at the Googleplex. His 1200-word piece appeared in the New York Times Book Review section. On balance, we’d say his review was positive. This was his early nugget: PROFESSOR GOTTLIEB (4/20/14): *It's diverting to speculate on which aspects of the Internet would be embraced by time-traveling ancient thinkers.* The epigrammatic Heraclitus would surely have appreciated the enforced brevity of Twitter. Diogenes the Cynic, who made a spe... more »
Sing Yourself To Good Health
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SATURDAY HISTORY LESSON
Important episode of Oliver Stone's *Untold History of the US*. Covers end of WW II and the corporate takeover of the US government. Worth watching... So much of what is happening today is connected to this period covered by Stone. Unresolved issues you might say. The revelations about internal US right-wing forces taking power is fascinating. "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana (Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist)
SATURDAY HISTORY LESSON
Important episode of Oliver Stone's Untold History of the US. Covers the end of WW II and the turning of US democracy toward corporate control. Fascinating stuff and so connected to our present moment. "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana (Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist)
MEET MR. BIG
- When you mix corporate power with the government, and the military, you get the toxic mix of fascism. Mussolini in Italy identified their WW II era fascist state that way - the wedding of corporations and the government. As the global economic and environmental crisis worsens we will be constantly given the notion that a massive military intervention and occupation are absolutely necessary in some tragic place and circumstances. The average person might wonder for a moment, but then they move on and accept what they hear from their government. We humans are a b... more »
China Blames U.S. for Maritime Tensions
[image: A Chinese ship (L) uses water cannon on a Vietnamese Sea Guard ship on the South China Sea near the Paracels islands, in this handout photo taken on May 3, 2014 and released by the Vietnamese Marine Guard on May 8, 2014]China's foreign ministry blamed the United States on Friday for stoking tensions in the disputed South China Sea by encouraging countries to engage in dangerous behavior, following an uptick in tensions between China and both the Philippines and Vietnam. China this week accused Vietnam of intentionally colliding with its ships in the South China Sea after Vie... more »
More scenes of apartheid on the streets of Israel
Following yesterday's post, I thought I'd share some more photos from Real Jerusalem Streets, these are from Pesach 2014 Apartheid in action?
Free Trade Is Not Fair Trade
Stephen Harper has been travelling around the world, signing "free" trade deals like a hockey player signing autographs. But those deals have been particularly detrimental to Ontario's economy -- and The Great Recession has put the province's manufacturers on the ropes. Tom Walkom writes: The North American economy is being put through a wringer, in a wrenching process that began with free trade. Before free trade, multinationals that wanted to sell in Canada had to produce here. Trade barriers may have been inefficient. But they kept people employed. Indeed, it is only thanks... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Presentation of Gaia Energetics requires Hu-manity vision upgrades
*Presentation of Gaia Energetics requires Hu-manity vision upgrades* by ÉirePort Presentation of Gaia Energetics requires Hu-manity vision upgrades, which are currently in progress. Succeeding steps in Gaia ascension process follow higher aligned energetics of Nova Gaia, utilizing upgraded Hu-manity vision. Current Gaia energetics request precision in intention by Hu-manity. Blue Star lines supplant previous Gaia grid structures. ÉirePort | May 9, 2014 at 06:04 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-ro
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*"I'm going to be at the parade, in the parade, all around the parade, all over the parade. I am the parade,"*
Poor Children Need More High Stakes Standardized Testing
How much longer will this nation and its political and corporate leaders continue to hide behind standardized testing and accountability for teachers while more children and families slip into poverty because of greedy sociopaths? Answer: as long as parents and teachers allow it. Do you think the Acosta children will cause their teachers to lose their jobs because they didn't reach 100 percent proficiency Arne Duncan and Margaret Spellings? How many value added points will the children in Arkansas get because their houses were destroyed by a tornado? The wizard is standing there wit... more »
Because Darrell Issa Is Too Lame To Have Succeeded At His Witch Hunt… Here's Feebleminded Trey Gowdy!
Several Beltway trade magazines referred to the 7 reactionary Democrats who voted with the Republicans Thursday for their deranged Benghazi witch hunt as "moderates." I assume they are using the term "moderate," as they always do, to connote "not progressive" and as a substitute for "conservative." "Moderate" actually is the opposite of "extremist," not the opposite of "liberal." In fact, the 7 pro-witch hunters all among the most conservative Democrats in Congress. These are the 7 wretched traitors with their ProgressivePunch crucial vote scores, 2013-2014: *•* Ron Barber (Blue ... more »
Women in the army, I forsee a problem...
Women serving on the army frontline, I foresee a problem...
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*UCLA Professor Blows Whistle on Illegal Admissions Practices at University* In 1996 California voters passed Proposition 209, which prohibited discrimination or preferential treatment based on race, ethnicity or sex in admissions to public college and universities. But the moment 209 passed, UCLA, according to a new book, set about figuring ways around it. "Cheating: An Insider's Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA," by Professor Tim Groseclose, describes what the author insists are illegal admissions practices that he witnessed at UCLA. Groseclose's story begins in 20... more »
Ukraine Updates May 8 , 2014 -- Russia and Putin's call for the Referendums in Donetsk and Lugansk to be postponed ( rejected by The People's Republic of Dontesk ) , as well as Putin's call for the military Operation ongoing in South Eastern Ukrainian Regions ( rejected by the West and Kiev ) have fallen on deaf ears . So , how can further sanctions creditably be imposed on Rusia moving forward ? Kiev's last minute offer of dialogue probably has come too late in the game and after too much blood has been spilled - so we are set for a tension filled weekend for sure . After the votes - what will Russia do ? Naturally between now and the voting anything can happen and probably will ( note the destruction of ballot and voting equipment in Donetsk today ! )
Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-08/new-russia-what-east-ukraine-will-soon-look "New Russia" - Is This What East Ukraine Will Soon Look Like? [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/08/2014 13:44 -0400 - Romania - Testimony - Ukraine - Unification inShare3 As "The Russian Spring" spreads across various sub-regions of current non-Russian sovereign nations, Russian historian Sergey Lebedev warns that*Transdniestria is “the first liberated part of Novorossiya,”* Putin’s term for what he sees as a new state spreading across Ukraine int... more »
Life after death: a debate
Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll along with Yale neurologist Steve Novella won this Intelligence Square debate on the proposition "death is not final". An IQ2 debate about global warming was discussed on this blog 7 years ago. While the "for" motion (defended by the Harvard-affiliated neurosurgeon with his own near-death experience Eben Alexander along with medical doctor and writer Raymond Moody) was favored 37-31 before the debate, many people have changed their mind and the skeptics (believing that the death is final, after all) have won the final vote 46-31. I am pretty amazed... more »
Officials: Marine Harrier jet crashes in Arizona; pilot escapes serious injury
The FAA has confirmed a military aircraft has crashed in Arizona. The Marine aircraft reportedly went down near Sacaton in the Gila River Indian Community. According to officials at the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, the pilot was able to eject safely before the Harrier jet crashed. Read more
AWACS dispersed to FOBs & FOL: Operations continue as runway restoration begins
With the departure of E-3A tail-number 455 on May 8, 2014, the E-3A Component’s NATO Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft fleet has been fully dispersed to its forward operating bases and location as runway restoration begins at NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, Germany. “With 455 taking off to FOB Konya, restoration work on our 3,048 meter (10,000 feet) runway can now begin,” explained Maj. Gen. Andrew M. Mueller, Component commander. “This restoration project will resurface the top portion of our 30 year-old runway with 30 centimetres of asphalt.” This effort will eliminate th... more »
Air Force wants to buy deadly Reaper drones
[image: MQ-9 Reaper]The Chief of the Air Force says he would like Australia to buy armed Reaper drones – the kind used by the US to kill insurgents in Afghanistan and its neighbourhood – as soon as five years from now. Air Marshal Geoff Brown has told Fairfax Media he is an enthusiast for unmanned planes, including the notorious Reaper – and its forerunner the Predator – that have been used to kill thousands of militants in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The drones, which would likely cost at least $12 million each, are effective for surveillance but can also carry weapon... more »
Here's Why the U.S. Missile Defense System Is Utterly Broken
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[image: Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system]Last month, the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a scathing report: the system to defend the U.S. from ballistic missiles doesn't work, and probably never will. But it gets worse. Congress then voted to expand the broken system, allocating money for a new, sub-par missile defense site. How did this happen? It's the latest iteration of federally-funded cognitive dissonance that has been going on for years. In theory, the U.S. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system—which is overseen by the Missile Defense Agency —sho... more »
Iran’s New Destroyer Equipped with UAVs, Cruise Missiles
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[image: Damavand (Jamaran-2)]Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said the country’s second home-made destroyer, dubbed “Damavand”, has been equipped with naval drones and cruise missiles. “We have been using sea-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology in the Navy and now have managed to equip Damavand Destroyer, which is undergoing final tests, with reconnaissance and combat UAVs,” Sayyari told the Tasnim News Agency. He said more details about the drones will be released once the destroyer is unveiled. Read more
This Is What Crimea Looks Like from Inside a Fighter Jet in Flight
Breath-taking footage from Russian fighter jets shows the disputed territory as seen from above. On Friday, Russian warships and military aircraft took part in a show of the Federation’s military might in Sevastopol, Crimea, home to a key Russian naval base. Footage was recorded and broadcast live from the cabin of one of the fighter jets flying in close formation, according to RT. Read more
How US, British forces plan to invade Boko Haram stronghold
[image: RAF - Sentinel R1/ASTOR]Both the United States and British anti-terror specialists who arrived Nigeria on Friday have started deploying high-grade surveillance technologies to track down the voice, location and the fire power of Boko Haram terrorists who kidnapped over 200 girls of a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State. According to reports on Friday by Daily Mail of the United Kingdom and other news channels monitored by the Saturday Tribune, the deployment and further operation of the exercise is being overseen by the Special Forces, even as there are indications that ... more »
Navy pays a penny to get rid of carrier
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[image: USS Saratoga (CV60)]For the second time in two years, the U.S. Navy is parting with one of its aircraft carriers for a penny. The Navy announced Thursday it's paying ESCO Marine of Brownsville, Texas, one cent to take the former USS Saratoga off its hands for dismantling and recycling. The warship was decommissioned in 1994. It is now at Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island and is expected to be towed to Texas in the summer, the Navy said. Read more
Turkey increases military spending
[image: A400M Koca Yusuf]The second of four AWACS [Airborne Warning and Control System] early warning airplanes that we ordered 10 years ago have arrived. The third will be delivered later this year. Foreigners call these planes early warning craft, but we named it "Peace Eagle." These planes, for which we are paying $1.5 billion, will be in the air 24 hours and be refueled in flight. They will report to Ankara if even a bird flies over our borders. We heard from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the long-stalled general utility helicopter project was finally signed. We wil... more »
How To Maintain Good Health - A Guest Post by Michael Brine
How to maintain good health: 1 – Buy Organic foods. It nourishes your cells. 2 – Avoid vaccinations at all costs! It damages your immune system for one thing. 3 – Reduce all meats, chicken et al and if possible eliminate totally and join the Vegetarian family. To-day’s meat is especially not healthy. 4 - Maintain a positive mindset. Do not give your power to anger or negative feelings. 5 - Drinking water. Try and obtain water from healthy flowing creeks and avoid tampering with it – ie:- adding chlorine et al. Natural water contains valuable elements needed by ... more »
Russia trumpets victory in new ‘super modern’ nuclear icebreaker project
[image: Project 22220 nuclear icebreaker]St. Petersburg’s Baltic Shipyard has won an uncontested tender to build the first three of Russia’s new generation of “super modern” universal-use nuclear icebreakers in a $2.3 billion windfall for the Unified Shipbuilding Corporation owned conglomerate. As evidenced by the trumpet call of official Russian media, the finalization who will build the ships is one more important flagstone in Russia’s path to dominance in the Arctic, and was cast in terms of a victorious battle against foreign influence and Russia’s indomitable declaration that ... more »
Petty Little Things
Working on a post for the economics blog. My technique is to read and revise from start to finish. At the moment, I'm stuck in the title. My working title for the post was *The Myth in 'The Myth of the Great Moderation'* But the first word in that title tells the reader there are no other myths in the thing, just the one I'm writing about. I don't want to say that. So I changed the title to *A Myth in 'The Myth of the Great Moderation'* But now it tells the reader that the writer is a wuss. In this form the title is weak. So hey, take the word out: *Myth in 'The Myth of the Great Mo... more »
Another Indian naval mishap as fire breaks out on ship
[image: INS Ganga]India’s Navy on Friday said two of its sailors and two civilian dockyard workers were taken to hospital following an explosion on the Indian Naval Ship (INS) Ganga in the Mumbai Dry Docks where it was undergoing repairs and a refit. Authorities said a loud noise was heard at about 11.15am on Friday in the boiler room of INS Ganga and added that “the cause of the loud noise was possibly due to gas accumulation.” Although several news reports said there was a fire and some naval personnel were injured, a release from the Ministry of Defence stressed that “there has ... more »
Alstom takeover poses national security risk to France
[image: FS Charles de Gaulle]A new report argues that the impending sale of French energy firm Alstom – which builds turbines for France’s Navy – threatens the country’s national security and independence. US engineering giant General Electric and German rival Siemens are currently engaged in a bidding war for Alstom’s energy division. No matter the outcome, France’s security will be jeopardised, says Eric Denécé, director of the French Center for Research and Intelligence. Read more
Love Is The Best Prescription
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Calling All Canadian Kids To Toronto on May 24, 2014
[image: Foto: TORONTO GMO-FREE FESTIVAL & FARMERS' MARKET http://www.TorontoNonGMOCoalition.org/ We need your help to make the May 24 events a success....Check out the amazing lineup of speakers and give what you can. Thank you! In Solidarity ! with the rest of the world, the same day , one big Global March to protect our Earth, we only have one! Can't miss this event! we owe it to our Planet Wear Black and Join the Requiem for Bees,, and join the march to the festival ! No Bees, no life it's that simple ! TORONTO GMO-FREE FESTIVAL & FARMERS' MARKET http://www.TorontoNonGMOCoalitio... more »
Songs for ADD sufferers
Tim Hawkins with a great shortened version of Kenny Rogers' The Gambler included.
'Newsnight' - 6-9 May
Good morning. Here are the stories chosen for broadcast on this week's editions of *Newsnight*: *Tuesday 6/5* 1. *Pfizer v AstraZeneca*: *"Sticking their noses in? The Business Secretary threatens to change the law. So he could stop a mega-merger. But why shouldn't American drug giant Pfizer gobble up AstraZeneca if that's what the market wants?"* Interview with Chuka Umunna MP (Labour) & Margot James MP (Conservative) 2.* Race in Britain*: *"What does the country see in the mirror? Staring back right now is a population where 8 million of us are not white. That's 14% of the popul... more »
The World According to TIME Magazine
*May 10, 2014 *(Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - TIME Magazine echos Wall Street and Washington - so when it speaks, readers must listen in that context. Nothing shows the link between TIME's biased, intentionally misleading propaganda and the agenda of the corporate-financier elite that rule America better than the fact that its last managing editor left in 2013 to join the US State Department. Politico would report in its article, "Richard Stengel leaving Time for State Department," that: *Richard Stengel, the top editor of Time magazine for the past seven years, is planning to step down ... more »
Pink Floyd to the Rolling Stones: Don’t Be Another Brick in Israel’s Apartheid Wall
In response to the recent confirmation that the Rolling Stones will play a concert in June at Israel’s Ramat Gan Stadium, Roger Waters and Nick Mason – founding members of the legendary British band Pink Floyd, have written an open letter to their fellow rockers asking them to cancel the gig. Published Thursday May 1 in Salon, Waters and Mason call upon the Rolling Stones to respect the
NEOCONS CONTINUE PUSH FOR WAR AGAINST IRAN
Top neocon propagandist Jonathan Tobin, writing online in *Commentary* today argues that America’s ‘gift’ of the Iron Dome defence system designed to counter rocket attacks from Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, does not mean that Israel should abstain from attacking Iran if Israel believes Iran is close to a ‘nuclear breakout’. Tobin writes: *It’s not clear what, if anything, Netanyahu will believe Israel is capable of doing in response to a “bad deal” with Iran up to and including a strike on the Islamist regime’s nuclear facilities before it is too late to s... more »
The Beautiful Game and Bad Ass Jerseys:Iran’s Team Melli Prepares for the 2014 World Cup
As four days of “fruitful” and “useful” expert-level talks between Iran and the six world powers known collectively as the P5+1 (Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany) wrap up in New York City, and the next round of ministerial negotiations continue in Vienna next week, all Iranian eyes are trained intently on this summer’s international battle of grit, determination,
It's National Train Day!
*by Ken* For some reason National Train Day wasn't marked on my desk calendar. So I'm a little late in making my holiday preparations. I assume everyone else has already figured out which celebrations and which parties to attend. It's going to be locomotive madness. According to Wikipedia: *National Train Day* is a holiday started by Amtrak in 2008 as a method to spread information to the general public about the advantages of rail travel and the history of trains in the United States. It is held each year on the Saturday closest to May 10, the anniversary of the pounding of the ... more »
While Protesting School Closures and Conversions in Philadelphia, Weingarten Begs Congress for Expanded Support for Charter Schools
"It is critical that you adopt proposed amendments providing important safeguards to ensure that all students have equitable access to charter schools, and that charters are held to similar standards of accountability and transparency as traditional public schools." See the letter here.
OLIGARCHS RUN THE SHOW
Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. He also instructs a senior seminar in the Honors Department at the George Washington University entitled "National Security Decision Making."
TIRED OF WAR
New poll by Zogby Analytics (893 likely voters, May 2-3) provides the latest war temperature test. "Do you agree or disagree that the United States should use whatever means it can to prevent Russia from establishing control over eastern Ukraine?" Agree - 29% Disagree - 36% Not Sure - 35% The American people might not be able to find Ukraine on a map but they are smart enough to know that we don't need another war. I would venture to guess that many of the "Not Sure" have been frozen by the mainstream media's very effective campaign of the demonization of Russia.
Reading for points vs. reading for pleasure
Sent to the Christian Science Monitor, May 9, 2014 The book popularity data from "What are kids reading? Books like 'Hunger Games,' but classics, too," (May 8) comes from reading done in preparation for tests, not reading for pleasure. The data comes from reading done as part of the Accelerated Reader (AR) program. AR sells tests that students take after reading a book. Students are awarded points depending on how many questions they get right, and can exchange the points for prizes. Thus, AR readers are reading in order to score points on AR tests, and try to remember details that...more »
Updates On The Hellstorm: Saudi Arabia Sends Jihadist Terrorists To Ukraine, Turkey Locks Up Promising Young Feminist Mayor, General Sisi Promises To End The Muslim Brotherhood
From a prison cell to the Mayor's office to another prison cell: read more about the strange journey of 25-year old political activist Rezan Zugurli in the two articles linked below. 1. The armies of the darkness are descending on Ukraine to fight pro-Russian activists, protesters, and militants and to secure power for the usurping coup government in Kiev. The latest group of terrorist mercenaries are leaving war-torn Syria, after getting their asses kicked, to head off to eastern Ukraine under the orders of the terrorist ring leaders in Saudi Arabia. *Stephen Lendman wrote on May ... more »
"The five stages of GOP scandal-mongering," according to Paul Waldman
*And the Borowitz Report has shocking news* *Earlier this week Dana Milbank devoted a *Washington Post* column, "Meet the chief prosecutor in the GOP's Benghazi show trial," to Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the lying jackass scum-weasel who actually referred to the Benghazi "select committee" hearings House Speaker "Sunny John" Boehner chose him to preside over as a "trial."* *"This contempt vote was like the end of a toddler's tantrum, the final hoarse scream before the child collapses in an exhausted heap on the floor."* *-- Paul Waldman, in his "Plum Line" post* "The five stages of G... more »
“7 Best Shakespeare Insults”
*“7 Best Shakespeare Insults”* by The Huffington Post "You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so." Shakespeare employs this biting insult in "Macbeth" to establish the complete and utter repulsiveness of the three witches. Their "withered and wild" features cause Macbeth and Banquo to question if the sisters are even human beings. "Methinks thou art a general offence, and every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon you." In "All's Well That Ends Well," Lafeu hits infamous liar and coward Porolles wit... more »
Satire: “Poll: Millions of Americans Who Need Jobs Want Congress to Get to Bottom of This Benghazi Thing First”
*“Poll: Millions of Americans Who Need Jobs Want Congress * *to Get to Bottom of This Benghazi Thing First”* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— ”Millions of unemployed Americans who have fruitlessly been looking for work for months are determined that Congress get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi, a new poll indicates. According to the survey, job-seeking Americans hope that Congress will eventually do something about job creation, but they are adamant that it hold new hearings about Benghazi first. By a wide majority, respondents to the poll “strongly agre... more »
Imposing condition not to consume alcohol on an alcoholic
In Coombs (2004), 189 C.C.C. (3d) 397 the court held at para 8: "...Imposing an absolute prohibition on some addicts, including alcoholics, *may only set them up for failure and ensure that they will be jailed*...."; However, note at para 55: "...Complete abstinence from drugs and alcohol *may be appropriate in certain circumstances*. Indeed, Parliament recognized that there could be situations in which such terms would be reasonable..." Also see para 39: "...while Parliament insisted that a probation term be "reasonable" as well as being directed to protection and reintegratio... more »
'The Now Show' defends Clarkson
Tonight's *The Now Show *contained a big surprise - an unexpected defence of Jeremy Clarkson, complete with a sharp attack on both Labour's Harriet Harman and the *Daily Mirror* (yes, *Daily Mirror*, not the *Daily Mail*!) from Radio 4 comedian Jon Holmes. Yes, of course, he also included a dig at Michael Gove and, yes, this could be taken as a BBC comedian giving the BBC a helping hand by backing one of its most profitable cash cows and, yes, there are a fair few holes in his 'logic' here, but I think it's worth transcribing in full for your entertainment and edification. Enjoy... more »
The First Official Review of My Book
The first posted review of my newly-released book, A Chronicle of Echoes, comes from retired Chicago teacher and fellow blogger Ken Previti. My book became available on Amazon.com on Sunday, April 27, 2014. I believe Ken bought it immediately. I know that he read it voraciously. Below is part of Ken’s review of A Chronicle of Echoes, including this […]
The Salon Tal Fortgang reading list!
*FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014* *Most demonic college freshman in history:* Tal Fortgang is the most demonic college freshman in world history. So far. Still, that makes him a college freshman. In turn, that makes Salon’s meltdown this week a bit of a milestone in the history in Salonist breakdowns concerning first-year students. Background: Fortgang wrote a murky essay for a campus publication at Princeton. This could have been extremely important, except Fortgang is a freshman in college and no one cares what he writes or expects him to have much to say. No one except the Salonistas! Co... more »
Karl Denninger, “All Children Left Behind”
*“All Children Left Behind”* by Karl Denninger “We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.” - Carl Bernstein “What would you expect to happen when government proposes a program, throws billions of dollars and untold mandates at it, and fails to change the outcome? U.S. high school seniors, wh... more »
Radical chic at 'Newsnight'
For those of you who love a good foreign news story (all five of you)... Ken Livingstone, Owen Jones & Co. used to love Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and his socialist 'revolution'. Chavez died a year or so ago, and things haven't gone too well since. Until this week *Newsnight *had failed to report the large-scale anti-government demonstrations against Hugo Chavez's increasingly authoritarian successor, President Nicolás Maduro. As you probably know, left-wing Maduro won the last election by a whisker (and, very possibly, with a little help from electoral fraud) but since then his p... more »
UFOs and Science Fiction Theater
So, I’m watching the old *Science Fiction Theater* on YouTube… (*Science Fiction Theater* was a 1950s half-hour drama that alleged that there was some science in their stories). I remembered seeing reruns in the 1960s as a kid and all this would be irrelevant to us here, except that I remembered one particular episode in which there was a flying saucer. The title, I learned, was “Are We Invaded?” I remembered that the scientist in the tale explained the UFO sighting as a temperature inversion by using chemicals that didn’t mix. The thing that struck me was that it seemed to be the s... more »
Untitled
*The Fourth Battle of New Orleans ~Mark Folse, Oddwords*~The issue is: where do we draw a line in the sand? New Orleans is undergoing an ugly, greed-fueled transformation I predicted almost ten years ago on my blog Wet Bank Guide. Many things have been proposed since the storm in the name of redevelopment. Sean Cummings’ Elisio Lofts, another high-rise abomination at the foot of Elysian Fields, was stopped. The redevelopment of the old Holy Cross School site with another inappropriately sited high-rise proposed by Perez APC, has just won approval from the New Orleans City Council. E... more »
White House Fumes as Putin Visits Crimea
The big bad Russian bogeyman Vladimir Putin just doesn't know when to stop, today he is shoving that burr up of the ass of our vainglorious leader Obama with a broomstick. Visiting Crimea, that now annexed chunk of Ukrainian corporate booty that was promised to the high finance parasites by Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland and friends to celebrate Victory Day. The celebration is one of the commemoration of the crushing of the Nazis and Mr. Putin's visit has a certain building at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue filled with the sound of puckering assholes. The botched and historically stupid ... more »
American Gangster
*He got a sweet gift of gab, he got a harmonious tongue...**He knows every song of love that ever has been sung..**Good intentions can be evil..**Both hands can be full of grease...**You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace* *Bob Dylan -- Man of Peace* Barack Obama was sworn as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America on a bite ass cold day in Washington on January 20, 2009 and was riding high upon a cresting wave of hope and change. The nation was humiliated and weary of war after the eight year gauntlet of greed, brutality, torture and flouting of... more »
Eliminating the province's government: The Tim Hudak Plan
The Canadian Press might want to revise their piece. It's all part of Hudak's larger goal of eliminating the province's projected $12.5-billion deficit by 2016 — a year before the Liberals say they can balance the books. No. Cutting the 100 000 public sector jobs effectively elimates the Public Service in Ontario, and with it the ability of the government to do, well, just about anything.
paris, day two
Connie and I were both dead to the world by 9:00 p.m., and when I next opened my eyes, it was 8:30 a.m. *Yes! *That's an unheard of amount of sleep for me, and I needed it. We had breakfast in the hotel and were soon back on the Metro. Since we didn't get the earliest of starts, by the time we got to the Musee D'Orsay, the queue/line/lineup (UK/US/Cda) was very long, snaking around a good eight or ten times. But no bother, we were patient and made our way in. The D'Orsay was Connie's number one site - as it had been mine on my last two trips to Paris - so we planned to spend the day... more »
People Power Colonialism : Hands Off Nigeria!
*This is ridiculous.* There are *211* of them. He is selling them in the local market for *£7 *each. The Nigerian government is offering a reward of *£300,00.* *Buy them back.* *Get off your arses, go up country and buy your children back...!* What are the so-called parents doing? Making signs and demanding that the US invade their country. *Buy them back.* *Gold + Oil + The most institutionally corrupt government on Earth.* This has nothing to do with missing girls. Remember *KONY 2012...?* This is a CIA People Power Revolution. This is an entirely synthetic creation... more »
Love City Groove and Eurovision 1995
As Eurovision is almost upon us, I've been fishing in the archives and reeled in this. And no, it doesn't smell fishy. Back in 1995 the faceless BBC committee that decides such things hit upon the idea of jazzing the contest up, and so ran a public poll for the UK entry. A peculiar mix put themselves up for consideration, and for once some weren't complete unknowns. You had the proto-Steps group Deuce, London Beat, and Samantha Fox (then trading as 'Sox', bizarrely). The Great British public were captivated, nay, obsessed. Fancying something a bit different to send across the Irish ... more »
Where Does The Anti-Democracy Koch Smear Machine Get Its Money?
Most of their wealth comes from oil and gas This morning, you may have read that just one of the arms of Koch brothers' political Dark Money assault against democracy, a shady proto-fascist outfit called Americans for Prosperity, plans to spend a minimum of $125 million on the midterm elections. "The projected budget for Americans for Prosperity would be unprecedented for a private political group in a midterm, and would likely rival even the spending of the Republican and Democratic parties’ congressional campaign arms," writes Ken Vogel for *Politico*. Americans for Prosperity has ... more »
The Coming Famine
Consumers live like toddlers, in a comfortable crib surrounded by colorful toys, with others providing our needs. We can turn on our computer without blowing apart mountains to fetch coal. We don’t have to murder indigenous people to put gas in our Prius. We don’t have to destroy rainforests to plant soy for our veggie burgers. Someone else does it for us. The grocery store always has food, so we can spend seven hours a day staring at screens. Electricity and petroleum were experiments that have far higher costs than benefits. Luckily, they are finite, and humankind’s devasta... more »
Agent Hamza
"Abu Hamza claims he secretly ‘kept the streets of London safe’ as a go-between for MI5 and Scotland Yard, a US court heard. The extraordinary image of the hook-handed Muslim firebrand as a force for religious peace in Britain was laid out in a Manhattan courtroom by his defence lawyer. Some 50 pages of documents passed on by Britain would prove the police and security services turned to Hamza to help combat Islamic extremism between May 1997 and August 2000, defence lawyer Joshua Dratel said. ‘They take in every conflict we are talking about in this case. Algeria, Bosnia, Yemen,... more »
The Sphere
Hollywood Accredits the Memes: Boaz, Jachin and the Sphere from Spike EP on Vimeo. The *Kaa'ba sphere *is intentionally representative of the base or *root chakra*, the seat of all generative and *nuptive energies* in the *human perineum*, also appearing in such a form in the *Qabalah*, balancing against the two great pillars guarding the entrance to the *Temple of Solomon* - so, then, these two pillars, or two towers, also appear in *Mecca*, aligned one on either side of the *Kaa'ba*, along a precise North-South meridian bisecting the magnetic North and South poles of the Earth... more »
VETERANS FOR PEACE
Veterans for Peace members have been arrested a number of times in New York at a Vietnam War Memorial. They've they've been charged and been on trial. But they continue to stand their ground. Why continuously arrest veterans?
6 Ways Same-Sex Marriage Will Affect Florida Employees
There are multiple lawsuits pending in Florida challenging the state's ban on same-sex marriage. There's one in Key West, one in Miami, one in federal court in Tallahassee, and there are probably some more out there. It's almost inevitable that the ban on gay marriage will be overturned here soon. So why does an employment lawyer care about gay marriage? Here are just some of the laws that will affect Florida employees and employers once gay couples can marry: 1. *Florida Civil Rights Act*: The Florida statute against discrimination covers marital status. And I'm betting plen... more »
Leadhorse Choctaw sharing stickball game in El Salvador
By Leadhorse Choctaw Censored News Leadhorse Choctaw continues his journey to the south, overland through Central and South America, sharing the traditional stickball game with Indigenous Peoples. Now in El Salvador, he encourages new friends and relatives in the south to come to the world series of stickball in mid-July hosted by the Choctaw in Mississippi. Leadhorse Choctaw said of
I agree with Marcus Brigstocke!?!
Oh my god I find myself agreeing with Marcus Brigstocke's piece on the Jeremy Clarkson N-word furore on tonight's Now Show. Marcus Brigstocke likes Jeremy Clarkson and defends him. He also attacks Harriet Harman's overreaction. Listen for yourself here. I need to go for a shower now.
Mohawk Nation News 'New! Free Great Law Video'
NEW! FREE GREAT LAW VIDEO Posted on May 9, 2014 Please post and circulate. MNN. May 9, 2014. While imperialists push for war, let us learn about peace. MNN posts a 7-hour video and accompanying book on peace, in Mohawk and English, free for everyone! In 1993 Karonhiaktajeh, Kahentinetha and Ganyetahawi filmed all 117 wampums of the Great Peace, Kaianerekowa. You can watch or read or
CELEBRATING ANYWAY
Update from Mariupol: On Friday residents marched to remember the anniversary of the defeat of Hitler near the end of WW II as he tried to invade the former Soviet Union. The current "leadership" of Ukraine, put into power by the US-EU, declared that Ukraine would not have ceremonies on this historic Victory Day holiday. But the people around the country, especially in eastern Ukraine, turned out anyway. Those in Kiev, owing their power to the US coup d'etat, are finding their grip on things to be slipping daily. As I have said many times these folks know what fascism look... more »
I’d like some lemonade with my advice, please
As a junior faculty member, I am not in a position to turn down advice. Fortunately, I receive good advice from mentors, colleagues, and friends. I am very thankful. Lately, I have also been getting advice from a few organizations for faculty development. They provide free tips on writing and productivity, navigating the job market, Continue reading
Enhanced credit for pre-sentence custody
R. v. Houlder, 2014 ONCA 372: [2] The sentencing judge had this court's decision in *R. v. Summers*, 2013 ONCA 147 and concluded that there was an insufficient basis in the record for enhanced credit. Since that time, the Supreme Court rendered its decision in *R. v. Summers*, 2014 SCC 26. The court stated at paragraph 79 that the onus is on the offender to demonstrate that he should be awarded enhanced credit as a result of his pre-sentence detention. Furthermore, generally speaking, the fact of pre-sentence detention is sufficient to give rise to an inference that ... more »
Rick Weiland And The Battle Against Allowing The "Big Money Big Foot" To Swallow Up Our Democracy
John Tsitirian, a blogger South Dakota's Constant Commoner, missed the boat, in his own words, on the ideas inherent in regard to the dangers of oligarchy in America. His claim that oligarchy doesn't exist in America is just plain wrong. "For every Sheldon Adelson there's a Warren Buffet, for every Koch Brother there's a George Soros. I could go on. This is why I find Weiland's campaign falling short." He couldn't go on and that is far from correct. There are some progressive big dollar donors but the number isn't equal, isn't half, isn't a third, of conservative big dollar donors.... more »
Daftar Harga Smartphone Android Murah Harga Dibawah 1 juta
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Don Lemon again, on the OJ trial!
*FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014* *Recalling the way they are:* Don Lemon was at it again on CNN last night. Once again, he was producing his network’s version of “easy listenin’ news.” Last night, his panel discussion of Donald Sterling ended at 32 minutes after the hour. He burned the rest of the hour with a discussion—get this—of the OJ Simpson trial! Lemon’s programming is a classic form of easy listenin’! You can tune in at any time and lazily follow along. You’ll hear about sex and you’ll hear about race! You’ll see a group of familiar faces making familiar statements. You won’t be cha... more »
Thai Regime Collapses – Preparing for the Fallout
*May 7, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Thailand's prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra was dismissed from her position along with several ministers from her cabinet by a Constitutional Court ruling regarding her transferring of key officials to pave way for her brother-in-law's promotion to National Police Chief. Thai PBS reported in their article, "Constitutional Court rules Yingluck and her cabinet guilty," that: *The Constitutional Court today unanimously ruled that caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was guilty in interfering in the reshuffling of senior government offi... more »
"Anti-Semitism" madness
The never ending Jewish-promoted meme of "anti-Semitism" - rising levels of "anti-Semitic" sentiments, perspectives, and stereotypes, alleged "anti-Semitic" violence, efforts to "delegitimize" or even criticize Israel, Jewish scapegoating, "Holocaust" denial, etc. - has reached fever pitch over the course of the past week or so. In typical fashion, President Obama debased himself and America by attending the USC Shoah Foundation’s 20th anniversary Ambassadors for Humanity gala in Los Angeles the other day, giving a speech in which he "offered a staunch defense of Israel and a harsh ... more »
TUSCALOOSA LIBERALS: Attempts to explain!
*FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014* *Part 5—The superintendent’s tale:* Nikole Hannah-Jones tells a fascinating, sprawling story in her flamboyantly headlined report, “Segregation Now...” Rather, she tells a fascinating *set* of stories—a set of stories about race and the public schools of Tuscaloosa, Alabama: She discusses three generations of a family whose current member, D’Leisha Dent, is president of the senior class at all-black Central High School. She reviews sixty years of racial policy in Tuscaloosa’s schools. This dates to the years before (and even after) the Brown decision, when t... more »
Steve in Springtime
Steve in springtime. Every mammal wishes they where snakes that could just shed their skin, and be their magnificent self. Thinking aboot all the things we have done is the worse part of being a human drone. Spring is a renewal for everyone who has the opportunity to experience the Gods dishwasher effect. If you look at human history its pretty clear that those who were forced to renew prevailed. So should we sell some time in the Artic to the Chinese? You can go on living in a paradise without a care or join the rapidly changing world where everyone must renew all the time, fast ... more »
Always Something New Under the Sun
It's an established fact that a tiny cadre of humans, nearly all of them men, own most of the world's wealth and resources. About 85 people have more money than half the population of the entire planet combined. So, what's not to tax? (besides your patience, that is.) Perhaps even more odious than the wealth dynasties accounting for much of the record income inequality is the rise of the hyper-rich hedge fund manager. Paul Krugman takes on this new breed of predatory billionaire in his latest column, pre-empting the standard jaded response of "So, what else is new?" and refuting the... more »
Mike's Story Part 17: Fallout
*By **Jenna** Orkin* Back at FTW, another fire erupted: Readers were placing product orders which could never, under the current administration, be fulfilled. When Mike learned of the situation, he emailed those in charge that it could constitute fraud; they were to return whatever money had come in and freeze the sales portion of the site immediately. (If I remember correctly, the same problem later arose with respect to subscription renewals.) A trusted friend and colleague offered to buy the site. Mike thought this might prove to be a way out of what was devolving into an... more »
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