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Peering into the Future: AI and Robot brains
In Singularity or Transhumanism: What Word Should We Use to
Discuss the Future? on Slate, Zoltan Istvan writes:"The singularity
people (many at Singularity University) don't like the term
transhumanism. Transhumanists don't like posthumanism. Posthumanists
don’t like cyborgism. And cyborgism advocates don't like the life
extension tag. If you arrange the groups in any order, the same enmity o
18 Witty Signs and Costumes From the People's Climate March
When thousands of people worldwide gathering to call for action
against global warming, you're going to get some interesting characters.
From puns and word play to ornate costumes, protesters made their voices
heard at the People's Climate March on Sunday.
See also: Live Updates: More than 300,000 Attended People's Climate
March in NYC, Organizers Say
We've gathered a handful of shining examples,
Seth Rogen and James Franco Strip Down for Jimmy Fallon's Birthday Surprise
It has to be pretty difficult to come up with decent gift for someone
like Jimmy Fallon, who just turned 40 on Friday. For the wildly
successful host of The Tonight Show, you have to think outside the box.
The nearly naked duo of Seth Rogen and James Franco definitely fit the
bill
See also: Happy 40th Birthday, Jimmy Fallon: A GIFtrospective
Clearly shocked by his gift, Fallon cracked up, as a po
New 'second skin' spacesuit developed
A skintight lightweight spacesuit designed at MIT could one day be
used by astronauts going to Mars. Today's spacesuits are large, bulky
pieces of equ...
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SWIFT Alternative, Fed Audit, Good News – New World Next Week
Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report
and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments
in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: Russia, China In Talks to Make SWIFT Alternative
http://ur1.ca/i7lk3
Apple Pay to Invade China With Help From UnionPay
http://ur1.ca/i7lk6
Belgian PM calls out US Gov for SWIFT data mining
http://ur1.c
So What Does the World Bank Do Exactly?
James Corbett
corbettreport.com
This article originally appeared in The Corbett Report Subscriber
newsletter on August 16, 2014. To subscribe to the newsletter and become
a member of The Corbett Report website, please sign up for a monthly or
annual membership here.
As many have heard by now, the leaders of the so-called BRICS nations –
Brazil, India, China, Russia and South Africa – used the occa
Interview 943 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report
and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments
in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: Russia, China In Talks to Make SWIFT Alternative
http://ur1.ca/i7lk3
Apple Pay to Invade China With Help From UnionPay
http://ur1.ca/i7lk6
Belgian PM calls out US Gov for SWIFT data mining
http://ur1.c
Yes to What? – The Scottish Conundrum
by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
September 17, 2014
This article originally appeared in The Corbett Report Subscriber
newsletter on September 13, 2014. To subscribe to the newsletter and
become a member of The Corbett Report website, please sign up for a
monthly or annual membership here.
This week the Scots will go to the polls to answer a deceptively simple
question:
“Should Scotland be an ind
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The EnvironmentaList // actions
All Aboard the People’s Climate Train
Activists tackle big-picture questions while traveling across the country for Sunday’s big march in NYC
“A Weekend to Change the Course of History”?
Beyond appealing to powers-that-be, climate justice movements need
to focus on creating systemic change to address the climate crisis
Governor Brown Sign’s Historic Groundwater Legislation
Trio of bills may put California on the path to groundwater sustainability
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Is the BBC biased? // actions
Profiling Shane Smith
Man who likes red wine Radio 4's Profile doesn't just bring the
personalities of its subjects alive, it also reflects the personalities
of its presenters. A Profile by Edward Stourton, for example, will have a
very different character to one by, say, Mark Coles.This week's profile
of VICE Media co-founder Shane Smith, for example, not only projected
the hipster-businessman character of its subject
All roads lead to Tristram
It's party conference time again.For BBC bias bloggers with an
interest in UK politics and the feeling that the BBC is biased on such
matters there's no better time (except during elections) to test that
out.But how to do so when you've not got a great deal of time on your
hands? Well, by picking one programme and monitoring its coverage
throughout.This year I'll be mostly covering The World This
Instead of me doing my usual Sunday morning thing about Radio 4's Sunday [something I just can't face doing this morning...
Instead of me doing my usual Sunday morning thing about Radio 4's
Sunday [something I just can't face doing this morning], let me present
you with a selection of quotes from this week's edition and allow you to
join the dots for yourselves...*****BBC Rome correspondent David Willey
on the visit by Pope Francis to Albania, in response to William
Crawley's question about why he's going there - his f
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The killing of Kajieme Powell: “a good shoot” is an oxymoron
I received the following note on Facebook:
“Bro. Asa, I’m also distressed about the recent killing of Kajieme
Powell. I understand Police having to protect themselves but this young
man was acting erratically and after viewing the video ; it looked like
“suicide by cop”. Are the cadets trained on how to disarm someone acting
in a bizarre manner who is probably mentally ill without killing him.
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AIR and Fordham Institute Grade Standards; Common Core Wins!
This is the story of two organizations that took diverging roads
to grading state standards: American Institutes for Research (AIR) and
Fordham Institute. Let’s start with AIR. In a report released September
2014, AIR has “internationally benchmarked” state education standards.
Now, this is not to be confused with the famed-yet-elusive
“international benchmarking” of the Common […]
Why Liberals Hate Arne Duncan
WHY LIBERALS HATE ARNE DUNCAN. via WHY LIBERALS HATE ARNE DUNCAN.Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face
Questions And Answers
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. via QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face
Burris Calls Out Common Core; Duncan-friendly EdPost Indignant
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are really good for
American education, but sadly, non-foundation-financed, public school
administrators like New York principal Carol Burris seem to have trouble
coming around to falling in line with those *higher standards*(c). In
fact, Burris had a fantastic opportunity on September 9, 2014,
to Embrace the Common Core. Unfortunately, she decided […]
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The Rules of Exposition // actions
Diagramming sentences
From A Picture Of Language: The Fading Art Of Diagramming
Sentences at NPR:That reminds me... I was taught diagramming sentences
in elementary school -- fifth or sixth grade probably, 1958-1960,
certainly not later. Years later, in the late 1970s, I walked past an
open college classroom door and overheard a student complain that
diagramming sentences was difficult. Stuck in my mind.From the NPR pi
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A Closer Look: Jody Paterson // actions
My secret crush: Vince Ready
Cartoon in the Ubyssey by Indiana Joel Earlier this week,
somebody with a sense of humour and an obvious knowledge of B.C. labour
history swapped a photo of mediator Vince Ready for the saintly image
of God in the Wikipedia entry on God. Vince Ready - our homegrown Holy
One. Once bickering parties in a labour dispute learn that Ready has
been called in to help them reach a settlement, you
So much misinformation in Senate sex-work hearings
Having a Twitter feed during the Senate's meetings on sex
work is both a blessing and a curse. I got so much minute-by-minute info
yesterday on the opening day of the meetings that I practically felt I
was there, but at the same time I spent the day fuming at all the inane,
hurtful and poorly informed comments being made by some of the senators
and that cursed justice minister of ours, Peter
Senate invitation list for feedback on proposed anti-prostitution law is almost totally abolitionist
Looks like the Conservative-controlled Canadian Senate is taking
extreme measures to avoid hearing anything that might shake up their
conviction that all sex workers are exploited victims when the Senate's
legal and constitutional affairs committee considers Bill C-36 next
week. The bill will add even more criminality to sex work if it
becomes law, making the purchasing of sex a crime for th
U.S. income gap by race worse than apartheid era
Still reeling from the news that they're putting Uzis into the
hands of nine-year-olds for fun in the U.S. (well, at least until they
accidentally kill their shooting instructor), I now see that whites in
the United States believe that anti-white racism is a bigger problem
than anti-black racism. Oh, my. But there's loads more in this piece
from the New York Times than that little depressi
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A Different Perspective // actions
SETI and UFOs
Just the other day I was reading a book about SETI and the author
committed the error of appealing to an authority… which means he didn’t
have a good argument other than to say that these prestigious people and
organizations have weighed in and they say UFO phenomenon is all
hogwash.Sure, I know you’re confused so I’ll expand. He was writing
about UFOs, which, if you’re going to discuss SETI you n
Sam Bass, Aztec and Scott Ramsey
Here’s something that I have been thinking about for a while.
Scott Ramsey and I debated the reality of the Aztec UFO. One of the
witnesses to part of the story was a fellow named Bass who was nicknamed
Sam. He reportedly knew something about the case but we couldn’t
interview because he had been killed in a traffic accident in Vietnam. I
mentioned that this name didn’t appear on the Vietnam Veter
More Thoughts on McMinnville
I find that sometimes, if I pose a question here, someone out
there has an answer. I have said for a very long time that there are
only two conclusions to be drawn about the pictures taken in
McMinnville, Oregon. They either show a craft from another world, or
they are a hoax. I do not see a third possibility given the clarity of
the photographs, the features of the object, and the state of our re
The Roswell Rock
So now we have the Roswell Rock. What is it? Just a rock found in
New Mexico with some sort of crop circle design on it that some think is
beyond our capability to make. There seem to be no tool marks found
under microscopic examination, it seems to have some strange magnetic
properties and it was found within twenty-five miles of the site that is
alleged to have contained the alien bodies. It now
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A Very Public Sociologist // actions
Saturday Interview: Anna Chen
Anna Chen is a London-born writer, poet, broadcaster and Orwell
Prize shortlisted blogger. She was the co-ordinating press officer for
the Socialist Alliance (2000-1) and the Stop the War Coalition (2001-3).
Her documentaries for BBC Radio 3 and 4, pioneering explorations of
race and class, include the groundbreaking 10-part series, Chinese in
Britain (2007). She writes and presents an arts series
What Next for Politics?
It's been a huge week, a profound week for British politics. What
does it all mean for the parties and movements jostling for position in
the referendum's aftermath?As far as Westminster is concerned, a bullet
has been dodged. There is a cloying desire for a return to business as
usual, and just as many determined to carry on as if it has. Not least
among them is our old pal Dan Hodges. With the r
The UK's Would-Be Assassins
I take no pleasure in seeing an enthusiastic mass movement
thwarted when it came down to it, but there is a consolation for
disappointed Yes people as they woke up this morning. The Scottish
referendum has changed politics forever. In order to save the union,
they almost had to kill it. The new constitutional settlement for
Scotland has to be followed by more powers for Wales, Northern Ireland
and
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A Way to Live // actions
A forest road
Everyone takes a break sometime; we are fortunate here in having
the hills very near us to run to, and so we did that last week.Our first
stop was the place, thirty-seven years ago, that we honeymooned. I had
been part of a Hoedad crew parked there for five or six weeks by the
Forest Service on a tree planting contract, and had fond, if still
fresh, memories of the place, with its grove of seven-f
Stone Buddhas
Reposted from Buddhism and PermacultureIt looks like the
peppermint oil soap misted onto the kale has saved it, just barely. From
a distance the greens don't look too bad, but from up close the older
leaves are fine green lacework. But the flea beetles are gone, who knows
where.I gather the worst leaves and give them to the residents of the
poultry moat. I'm also delivering to them a fair amount o
The Autumn cycles begin
There is fog along the river in the mornings now, geese are
honking their way over the pass, pumpkins are turning bright orange, and
the cornstalks are falling all over like tiddlywinks.I'm not sure what
that's about with the corn; in the past it has meant the arrival of
raccoons but the ripe ears have not been molested (except by us).I have
been carrying a cloth shoulder bag on walks and doing a
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A.E.Brain // actions
Intersex Surgery in the 18th Century | New Republic
Sex-Change Surgery in the 18th Century | New
Republic">According to Brand's report, published in 1787, he noticed
an “irregularity” in the patient’s “external parts.” After further
examination, he concluded that the child’s “part, which had the
appearance of the labia pudenda, was in fact the scrotum,” and suggested
an “operation to free the penis from its confinement.” He went ahead
and made
Mum forced to leave Australia after discovering gender error on birth certificate - Yahoo!7
Mum forced to leave Australia after discovering gender error on
birth certificate - Yahoo!7 A British woman says she's been forced to
surrender her dream life in Australia, after discovering her birth
certificate lists her as a boy. Mother-of-five Kim Walmsey was
mistakenly recorded as a male at her birth in 1965, meaning her marriage
of 23 years was illegal Upon discovering the mistake, Walmsey f
Evolution IS a Blind Watchmaker
This is a good illustration of the principles involved in my PhD
work.Only I'm attempting to evolve more efficient settings for mutation
rate and population size, so it's about not just genetic algorithms, but
meta-genetic algorithms. Evolving more efficient evolution.
Largest Study to Date: Transgender Hormone Treatment Safe
Largest Study to Date: Transgender Hormone Treatment Safe
Cross-sex hormone treatment of transgender adults leads to very few
long-term side effects, according to the authors of the largest study to
date to examine this issue.More than 2000 patients from 15 US and
European centers participated in the retrospective study, called
Comorbidity and Side Effects of Cross-Sex Hormone Treatment in Transse
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Activist Teacher // actions
Has the Israel Lobby lost ground in its perpetual war against US academia?
By Denis G. Rancourt The US Israel Lobby is dedicated inter alia
to suffocating academic freedom and to intimidating all scholars away
from any educational, research, or political stance against Israeli war
crimes.
The Lobby does win victories, such when it blocked the tenure and all
academic appointments of the outstanding scholar Norman Finkelstein, and
too many others. It wins, also,
Obama's ISIS project is nothing but a pretext to murder and destroy Syrian society
The US military-finance-corporate empire (US-Empire) is characterized by (LINK):
global military projection using over 1000 military bases
control over the global finance instruments (and the money supply)
corporate exploitation of labour and resources on the scale of entire continents
dominant influence on World organizations such as the United Nations a demonstrated willingness to
Major foreign corporation with US-military and IDF ties buys a "security
and policy institute" at "Allan Rock's university" in Canada's capital
By Denis G. Rancourt
BACKGROUND ABOUT ALLAN ROCK'S NAKBA AT uOTTAWA
The University of Ottawa was a reputable institution of higher learning
in Canada's capital city, before it was taken-over in 2008 by former
federal politician and former Canadian Ambassador to the UN Allan Rock.
Following his appointment, Rock immediately proceeded to bring in all
his own people to run the place in
Broad-ranging media interview with Denis Rancourt about Israel's massacre in Gaza
FARS News Agency published this broad-ranging interview, done
while the recent Israeli massacre in Gaza was ungoing:
Prof. Denis Rancourt: The United States Supports Israel for Constant
Bloodletting in the Middle East (LINK)
TEHRAN (FNA)- A Canadian scholar and academic, who was fired from the
university where he was teaching because of his pro-Palestinian
viewpoints, believes the US
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Adventures in Canning: Pears...
and some things I learned.Pears do not ripen well on the tree and
are picked unripened. They will ripen after picking by leaving them on
your kitchen counter. To tell if a pear is ripe, press gently on the
pear right next to the stem. If it is soft, the pear is ripe. Stone
fruits (peaches, nectarines, plums, cherries, etc) will not continue to
ripen after picking. Ripening indicates a build up of
Chairman Gowdy's Opening Statement at First Benghazi Select Committee Hearing...
absolutely excellent!
To flu shot, or not to flu shot?...
that is the question.Nothing I'm about to say should be construed
as medical advice. I'm not a doctor, and although I went to nursing
school, I switched majors my fourth year to business.That being said, I
do not get flu shots.I do not believe in flu shots.andI actually think
flu shots are dangerous and pointless.Here's what the CDC recommends
:CDC recommends a yearly flu vaccine for everyone 6 m
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Cooking in Costa Rica and Sushi Wednesdays!
I have been cooking a lot in Costa Rica and eating a lot at home.
Trying out a lot new recipes. Some good, some not.One of my most
recent favorites is falafel burgers. SO good. The recipe makes exactly
enough for Kurt and I for dinner. I make them and put them over rice,
and add some fresh guac and hot sauce to the top. The first time I
added some black beans to the rice as well, so it was ki
Scooters and Pharmacies
So, I posted before about the scooters we got, which we are
loving. This is a good thing, since we have been without a car since
August 2. While our friend was visiting the States, we borrowed his,
but since he got back, we have been solely using the scooters.
Basically, when you move to Costa Rica and drive a car here, you have 90
days to pay the taxes on it. This is not simple though. You h
Wow, time flies in Paradise! No postings since August 17?We had our first visitors over the last weekend in August. Li...
Wow, time flies in Paradise! No postings since August 17?We had
our first visitors over the last weekend in August. Lisa and Brian, two
of our friends from Michigan, came to Costa Rica. Lisa found some
insanely low price via Delta to fly out and booked it. Lisa is a friend
of mine from high school in Manistee, and Brian is her husband. Lisa
is also an attorney, like I formerly was in my past
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AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE) // actions
Deadly blasts strike China's Xinjiang
At least two people killed, and several others injured in multiple blasts in China's Xinjiang priovince.
Global rallies urge action on climate change
An estimated 500,000 rally around the globe ahead of UN summit to demand urgent action on climate change.
Russians rally against Moscow role in Ukraine
The rally is the first of its kind since the standoff between Kiev and pro-Russian rebels started last year.
Yemen rivals sign peace agreement
Houthi leaders and Yemen president agree UN-brokered deal as rebels take over government buildings in Sanaa.
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Allen L Roland's Weblog // actions
Climate Change Is Here / The People March But Will They Act
A selection of posters from the People's Climate
March. (photo: (L-R) Favianna Rodriguez, Nicolas Lampert, Collin
Matthes)Climate Change is here and now and can no longer be ignored as
public demand for action has reached the tipping point. The largest
climate change action in history takes place today in New York City as
hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, representing over 1,4
Bay Area Baseball Playoff Predictions
In a world of growing deception and turmoil, it's
time now for the innocent purity of baseball in the San Francisco Bay
area and both the Giants and A's are in the hunt for the divisional
playoffs. Where you live in the Bay Area plays a big difference in your
team allegiance but in my case I have a loyalty to both teams and find
myself capable of an objective analysis of their chances
Dancing With The Enemy
Israeli and Palestinian children being taught to dance together in
Jaffa, Israel and in the process learning to co-exist in cooperation,
admiration and mutual respect. Dancing with the Enemy may just be the
long term solution to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict for it is the
children who will eventually get fed up and impatient with their parents
dogmas and prejudices and lead their parents out of
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AMERICAN KABUKI // actions
World Peace Day
Today we embody our power and speak as One. Embrace the globe with
a single word – peace. Let peace birth your every thought and direct
each movement. See our earth transformed. She is not a mess of countries
and conflicts but One star, encircled by light. She is lit from within,
gorgeous and luminous with our brilliance, the light of eternity, the
radiance of One. ~Sophia
Love Quest Day 7
Good morning. How perfect that our conclusion is reached on
World Peace Day. For self love is peace; Agape is that quiet within.
Once found, for however fleeting a moment, you know truth. There is
nothing to worry about. You know where home is. You know how to get
there.This was not supposed to be easy. It was supposed to be
formative. We came here to grow, to evolve, to remember truth in
Jim Willie: The Crash Heard Round the World- Saudis to Reject USD for Oil Payments
From: http://goo.gl/rbD2MTJim Willie: The Crash Heard Round the
World- Saudis to Reject USD for Oil PaymentsPosted on September 21,
2014Putin kicked out the Rothschild bankers from his country.[Ahem... my
Russian friend tells me the Bank of Russia is still Rothschild
controlled central bank and enjoys the same immunity from prosecution
from the Russian government the US Federal Reserve has in the
Transpicuous News Ep 1- Ebola
Transpicuous News Ep 1- Ebola20 September 2014Debut broadcast of
Transpicuous News with Dani Arnold McKenny. In this episode D discusses
the current Ebola ‘situation’ in West Africa.When Ebola isn’t really
ebola, and EV-D68 is really Polio: Digging deep to connect the dots of
medical mythology.Audio OnlyTHE NOT EBOLA PANDEMICLINKS AND SHOW
NOTESD’s “ebola” articlesThe Ebola Outbreak: The “Pandem
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Angola 3 News // actions
Terrorism, COINTELPRO, and the Black Panther Party --An interview with law professor Angela A. Allen-Bell
(PHOTO: Angela A. Allen-Bell speaks in support of the Angola 3
outside of the Louisiana State Capitol on April 17, 2012.)Terrorism,
COINTELPRO, and the Black Panther Party--An interview with Angela A.
Allen-BellBy Angola 3 NewsThis past July, students from Northwestern
University’s Medill Justice Project visited the infamous Louisiana State
Prison known as Angola. While there, students landed an
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ArmsControlWonk // actions
Full Frontal? Verifying a Nuclear Deal with Iran
Aaron took a long weekend in Istanbul, but Jeffrey and Karl were
hard at work!
Jeffrey talks to Christopher Bidwell, a senior fellow at the Federation
of American Scientists and co-author of a new report, Verifying a
Nuclear Agreement with Iran.
The report concludes that any “agreement should require Iran to provide,
prior to the next phase of sanctions relief, a comprehensive
declaration that is
Ships of the Desert
I have long wanted Allen Thomson to take up blogging. Allen is one of
those old guys — you know, the kind who have forgotten more than you’ll
ever know, but aren’t well known from the DC rubber chicken circuit or
hanging out in various cable TV green rooms.
If you’re smart, you run stuff by people like Allen, a former
intelligence analyst who prepares these little dossiers based on open
source i
Putin’s Nuclear Threat
Did Vladimir Putin just threaten the West with nuclear weapons?
Could nuclear weapons be used in Europe? What is Russia’s nuclear
doctrine? Does a nuclear balance make the world safe for conventional
war?
Today, Aaron and Jeffrey talk about Russia’s nuclear weapons and the
recent chatter about them in Moscow.
Jeffrey and Aaron discussed a number of articles during the podcast:
Jeffrey Lewis, “The
Crashing Glider, Hidden Hotspring
Don’t miss our podcast on the failed Chinese and US hypersonic
launches!
Analyzing China’s August 7, 2014 Hypersonic Glider Test
James Acton, Catherine Dill and Jeffrey Lewis
September 3, 2014
By a lake in an Inner Mongolian desert, about 200 km south-east of
Ordos—the oft-described ghost city that hosted the Miss World contest in
2012—lies a Chinese resort called the Bulong Hu Hot Springs Resort
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The Future of Labour: Trapped In A Neo-Liberal Veal Pen
File under: we are all serfs/eventual anarchists:
Consulting firm PwC recently published its outlook for work in 2022,
based on interviews with 500 human resources experts and 10,000 others
in the United States and several other countries. You probably won’t be
surprised to hear that big companies could end up so powerful and
influential they morph into “ministates” that fill the void when governm
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Because I Can // actions
ALEC Member Oped Misleads Montana
Oh – my – I get so, so tired of ALEC members and staff misleading
the public.Think about it – IF ALEC was - - an honorable
organization, the members would not need to mislead others.Today it is
an OpEd written by the state chair in Montana.Sen. Roger WebbALEC
public sector state chair for MontanaBillingsAnd it’s a doozy when it
comes to misleading the public.ALEC is a thoughtful, democratic org
Asset Forfeiture - Connecting the Dots to ALEC
Four things hit my attention today that reminded me of more ALEC
state nastiness that most people wouldn’t be aware of. Like most times
when pulling this together, I will rely on the actual words of ALEC,
rather than summarizing them for the reader. I do this because I want
you to see the actual ALEC’s nastiness and not me just reinterpreting on
what could be ALEC nastiness.This entry really ende
GOP LIES - Deciding Vote On ACA - State by state by state
GOP Lies ONEMcFadden: Franken Was Deciding Vote for Obamacare,
but Does Nothing Today to Fix
Ithttps://www.mikemcfadden.com/mcfadden-franken-was-deciding-vote-for-obamacare-but-does-nothing-today-to-fix-it/TWOScott
Brown Lied About Shaheen's Deciding Vote For
Obamacarehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_rfuH1befkTHREEDid Mary
Landrieu cast the ‘deciding’ vote for
Obamacare?http://www.washingtonpost
When ALECers Retire - There is Still Danger
Two hundred plus (200+) ALEC incumbents are not running for
re-election in 2014This may sound like good news – but – IT IS NOTJust
because they resigned this year – does not mean they have left
politics.Some are running for higher office And HAVE TO BE DEFEATED
Some are running for Supreme Court, District Court or Justice of the
Peace And HAVE TO BE DEFEATEDAND WORSESome are running for cit
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BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com // actions
God's Own Army: A Progressive Poem
By MARC McDONALDInspired by Manifesto Joe, (a stellar poet who has
done a lot of good work) I figured I'd give this poetry thing a
shot.God's Own ArmyThey are God's own army,and they are knocking at the
door.They'll save you from the queers,and they'll save you from the
whores.They'll tell you who God hates,so you too can go to war.
Progressive Music Classics. The Mekons: "This Funeral is for the Wrong Corpse"
..By MARC McDONALDThe narrative of the Rich & Powerful and the
corporate media was simple back in the day. When the Soviet Union died,
we were told, communism died. End of story.In 1991, it was clearly time
to bury Das Kapital in the landfill and embrace capitalism. The End of
History, as Francis Fukuyama put it, was upon us.However, a strange
thing happened along the way to Communism's funera
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Big Dan's Big Blog // actions
Queen of the FAKE Bin Laden videos Rita Katz/SITE is the "source" for the fake ISIS "beheading" videos...as usual
Nobody verifies her claims. Rita Katz/SITE says "Al Qaeda" "ISIS"
did it, it hits the "news":I used to do a post per day, sometimes two or
more per day. Now I do a post it seems every couple of weeks. I guess
that's what getting a job will do to your blogging time.Anyway, this was
an easy post to do. You know these (fake) beheading videos? I
immediately noticed they w
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Blood & Treasure // actions
orange and red
Watching the Orange Order parading round Edinburgh on TV today I
wondered how you would explain this gorgeous sight to a Chinese citizen.
"They're a loyalist, conservative, patriotic organisation."
"Like the Communist Party!"
"Well they're very pro-business"
"Like the Communist Party!"
"They're the sort of group local businessmen join to get on the ins
don't mourn, organise
If Novoscotiya is really going to secede from Ukania what the
better together campaign needs to be doing right now is organising the
post referendum resistance, the 'reunify' movement. Whoever wins, the
vote is going to be close, there are millions of people in Scotland who
don't subscribe to the McKipperist hallucinations, and voting, by its
nature, is provisional, this being an especial feature
day of the owlish
Chatting to dsquared and SF reader on twitter reminds me that i
interviewed Jonathan Meades a couple of months back for Big Issue in the
North, on the occasion of the publication of his memoirs. All done and
dusted now, so below the fold if you're interested.
Some people you follow because they know their subject. If you are
interested in that subject, then you are interested in what they have to
tycoonocracy endorsed
Remember when I said that the Hong Kong suffrage fight pitted
capitalists and Communists against Democrats? Well, you can't get more
explicit than this:
On Thursday while visiting Hong Kong, Tsinghua University School of Law
dean Wang Zhenmin said China needed to protect the interests of the
city’s pro-Beijing tycoons.
“Universal suffrage means the redistribution of economic interests
amongst soc
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BP Slick // actions
Letter to editor "ADEM fails to meet community’s needs"
ADEM fails to meet community’s needs Dear Editor:The Tuscaloosa
News’ Lydia Seabol Avant recently did a fine job in the article “EPA
Investigates Landfill,” (The Tuscaloosa News, Aug. 14, Page 1A) which
described the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s investigation of
the discriminatory impact on Uniontown’s citizens caused by the Alabama
Department of Environmental Management’s decision to pe
BREAKING NEWS! BP found "Grossly Negligent"
Judge: BP Has Been Found Grossly NegligentPosted: Sep 04, 2014
9:53 AM CDT Updated: Sep 04, 2014 10:35 AM CDT By WKRG StaffBP court
rulingBATON ROUGE, La. - A federal judge has ruled that BP's reckless
conduct resulted in the nation's worst offshore oil spill, leaving the
company open to billions of dollars in penalties. U.S. District Judge
Carl Barbier's ruling Thursday could nearly quadruple the
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Brave New World // actions
History, Trends and Digital Changes in Media
Digital Music News have taken RIAA data and produced an
interesting animated graphic of the changes in music purchases over the
last 30 years. We strongly recommend that you view this as it shows how
transient some technologies are and how it’s not just the technology
that changes but how people buy and relate to media.It would be great to
be able to step forward and predict what will happen in th
Is Amazon Poised to Steal Print On Demand?
Many saw Print On Demand (POD) as the ultimate ‘just in time’
production solution to book publishing, which would wipe out all the
inefficiencies of the ‘just in case’ approach that plagues the book
supply chain. So why didn’t it happen, or did it happen for some and not
for others? Is there a new dawn, or just a new set of people who have
been sold a pup and not looked hard at the facts? Today we
Amazon Gets All Twitchy
We have long argued about the logic of joining up the media dots.
Some see this as merging the technology and using one technology
architecture to deliver all services. Others see the services as
remaining separate and simply offering a ‘one stop’ consumer umbrella,
which collectively makes it difficult to compete with. This week Amazon
has acquired games streaming service Twitchfor a cool $1 bill
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Buckdog // actions
Saskatchewan Taxpayers Cough Up Millions To Open Doors For Premier Brad Wall With American Republican Lawmakers
OTTAWA—When it comes to rubbing shoulders with movers and shakers
in the halls of power in the United States, few governments are better
represented than that of a place many Americans have never heard of —
Saskatchewan.Since 2009, Premier Brad Wall’s government and Saskatchewan
agencies have paid more than $3 million to a U.S. law firm to fund an
ambitious lobbying onslaught in Washington, D.C.,
Can We TRUST The RCMP's Warning On Threats To The Oil Industry?
Environmental extremism a rising threat to energy sector, RCMP
warns!September 14, 2014RCMP bombed oil site in 'dirty tricks'
campaignJan 30, 1999
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