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Deciding not to Decide on Detainees
As Charlie Savage and Adam Serwer point out, the Senate yesterday decided to punt on the question of whether the executive can arbitrarily and indefinitely detain American citizens simply by declaring them terrorists. While dismaying, this is part of an ongoing pattern many political scientists (including yours truly) have identified: legislators deliberately putting contested issues into the co
Egypt's “New” Cabinet Will Retain Old Faces
Egypt moved a step closer to forming a new government on December 1, as Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri submitted his cabinet nominations to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). Ganzouri is expected to announce the members of his new cabinet on December 3, pending the SCAF’s approval, but all signs suggest that the "new" government will actually be a disappointing reenactment of
LAPD Officer Captured on Video Pointing Gun at Citizen Journalist '@OakFoShow' at OccupyLA Raid
Yesterday, during my KPFK/Pacifica interview on Wednesday with citizen journalist and fearless video live-streamer Spencer Mills (better known to the world as "OakFoSho") about his remarkable coverage of the Tuesday Night/Wednesday morning LAPD raid of OccupyLA at Los Angeles City Hall, we discussed a moment when an LAPD officer had, inappropriately, pointed a gun at him, and Mills' fearless attem
WARNING: International Scam Artists Making Phone Calls Seeking Access To Your Computer
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning Monday morning I received a telephone call from an individual with a heavy accent who claimed to be with Microsoft Technical Support. He advised me that they had received numerous reports of technical failures from my computer and asked that I shut down all applications running on my computer, but not my computer itself. Suspicions aroused, I asked that he call
The Travesty of the Missing Heat — deep ocean or outer space?
(See the Hammer link below, for more information on this graphic). If there is one topic that trumps all others in climate science, it’s ocean heat. If there is a planetary imbalance in energy, and Earth is acquiring more heat than it’s losing, we ought to be able to find that heat. Energy can not be created nor destroyed. It has to be somewhere. On this Water-Planet, virtually every scientist ag
ClimateGate II: Handy Guide to spot whitewash journalism – The top 10 excuses for scientists behaving badly
Sorting real journalists from sock puppets is not too tricky: real investigators tell you what the story is about; PR writers tell you what to think. Do they “discuss” ClimateGate emails … without quoting the emails? Who digs for details, and who hides the evidence? The PR writers for Big-Government were quick to come up with excuses for ClimateGate II. Which is all very well, but it’s blindi
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Funny pants, breaking par and having a little fun: A cautionary tale for tortured writers
You know what we need? Writing pants. I golf a bit. Not as much as a few years back, but it’s still a good time when I get out. Golf courses are pretty places – flora, fauna, quiet usually. And you walk around or ride around and tell dirty jokes, drink a little beer, hit the occasional good shot. Four hours or so of camaraderie in funny pants. It’s relaxing. Or it is for me. But I know some g
A plagiarism parable
I read all this plagiarism stuff lately, and I think of this kid I used to know. In fourth grade, the nuns assigned our class our first real paper. Sister Margaret Mary wrote the names of a mess of countries on slips of scrap and dropped them in a box. You owed her five hundred words on whatever country you pulled. I got the Congo. This paper, it was a big deal, maybe half of our Social Studie
In which I trash my tough guy cred
I told a certain someone that I might write a bedtime story for her daughter, who is one of my favorite little girls that I haven’t met yet. As I am a man of my word, here is my first – and likely last - foray into kiddie lit. That’ll teach me to shoot my mouth off. The Girl, the Magic and the Forest The trunks of the trees rose straight and tall, and the sunlight glowed in the dust in the air b
Splatter evidence – sometimes I’ve just got bits and pieces
Is Twitter an editorial learning opportunity? I’ll start by admitting I’m often careless with my tweets, especially when it comes to spelling. But a couple times in the past few days I’ve had tweets that were a few characters too long. In cutting the thoughts down to the 140-character limit, I didn’t just make them shorter, I also made them better, tighter, more cogent. It occurred to me that tho
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Grayson on the Fed bailout: “If you’re not a Wall Street bank, you’re screwed”
Bloomberg: Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion By Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz – Nov 27, 2011 4:01 PM PT Bloomberg Markets Magazine Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. No one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advant
Close call for NY City as Muslim Sympathasizer is arrested
by G: Nov. 21, 2011 Here’s the latest news on terrorism in NY. It’s sharing the headlines with the recent demonstrations in Egypt, where, according to the NY Times at least 23 people had been killed and more than 1,500 people had been wounded. It concerns a Muslim sympathizer that the NYPD has had under surveillance for 2 1/2 years. They followed him and an informant to the dollar store and a
Republican Party Platform in 2012
Republican Party Platform in 2012: Tax-cuts for the rich Tax hikes for the middle class Deregulate wall street … Unlimited corporate money in elections War with Iran War with Pakistan Trade war with China Stay in Iraq Patriot Act End Social Security End Medicare Increase military spending Defund Planned Parenthood End abortion End birth-control Outlaw gay marriages End EPA End Public School Defun
Occupy Wall Street, with Graham Nash and David Crosby – Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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New Zealand Poised to Be the Next Frontier for Fracking
Some Kiwis Worry that the Process Could Exacerbate Earthquake Threat
A View of the UN Climate Talks in Durban, South Africa
Of Elephants and Blind Men and Noah’s Ark and Elephants Again
As You Sit in Thanksgiving Gridlock, Remember that More Roads is No Solution
New Roads Just Means More Congestion
Interview 422 – Sibel Edmonds
Today we talk to Sibel Edmonds of BoilingFrogsPost.com about her recent article, “US-NATO-Chechen Militia Joint Operations Base.” We discuss the American financing, funding and protection of Islamic terrorists in Central Asia, the history of Turkish links with the CIA, the heart of Edmonds’ gagged whistleblower story, and the real endgame for the competing world powers in the Caucasus.
Corbett Report Radio 023 – The OKC Bombing with James Lane and Holland Van den Nieuwenhof
Tonight we talk to documentary filmmakers James Lane and Holland Van den Niewenhof about their brand new expose of the Oklahoma City bombing, “A Noble Lie.” Their documentary is the culmination of years of research and documentation conducted by independent journalists, scholars, and ordinary citizens. We talk to them about the truth behind the OKC bombing and take your calls on the case.
Interview 421 – Dr. Tim Ball
Today we are joined once again by Dr. Tim Ball for a discussion about climategate 2.0. We discuss the latest leak of emails from the academics behind the global warming scare, the implications of the leak, and the “Peak Water” scare that is likely to take the place of the debunked climate alarmist hoax.
New World Next Week – 2011/12/01
Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news and open source intelligence. This week: Story #1: US Stocks Surge; DJIA Notches Biggest Gain Since March 2009 http://ur1.ca/69dq5 Related: 3 Asset Managers Win $254 Million Powerball Lottery http://ur1.ca/69dqa Story #2: Cybe
Interview 420 – James Evan Pilato
Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news and open source intelligence. This week: Story #1: US Stocks Surge; DJIA Notches Biggest Gain Since March 2009 http://ur1.ca/69dq5 Related: 3 Asset Managers Win $254 Million Powerball Lottery http://ur1.ca/69dqa Story #2: Cybe
Corbett Report Radio 022 – The Next False Flag: A Scenario
For years now, the politicians have been hyping the cyberterror threat. Now the USAF is claiming that insurgents have hacked into their predator drone communications, and even installed keyloggers on the control equipment. Are these threats real, or are we being prepped for a pre-planned event? Join us tonight on Corbett Report Radio as we ponder the preparatory phases of the next false flag. Work
Change in Pakistan: Coping with the so-called jihad
“What do you see in your dreams, chacha?” my four-year-old niece asked, with her face resting on her hands and her eyes lit with joy in anticipation of hearing a delightful story, knowing that I take pleasure in satisfying her curiosity. She recently inquired about a souvenir of Tutankhamen’s casket with a wooden mummy wrapped in Egyptian linen inside it that led to I explaining the process of mum
Thanksgiving 2011: How Muslims have come celebrate this day
Every November 24th, the Thanksgiving turkey dinner is the experimental guinea pig that reminds me that America is the multicultural cooking pot of the world. It’s only fitting this annual holiday primarily takes place in America’s cathedral: the kitchen. This is the universal, sacred, holy place honored by all communities around the world regardless of ethnicity, race, creed or religion. This Th
TV show "All-American Muslim": An all-American reality show
A new unscripted show about a handful of Muslim families from Dearborn premiered on TLC this weekend. Like many other American Muslims, I waited anxiously for the show “All American Muslim,” hoping it would put a more human face on our community through a mainstream media outlet. I watched patiently as one Arab family after another introduced themselves and tried to highlight how their multiple id
Conflict in Somalia: A message to Al Shabaab
An alarming call recently arrived from Somalia. The intended audience was Somali youth — like me — living in Canada. According to CBC News, the Al Qaeda-linked Somali militant group Al Shabaab has released an audiotape calling for terrorist attacks in a host of countries — including Canada. A suicide bomber, believed to be an American citizen, urges young people to rise up and murder non-Muslims.
sat’day riddymz
“Os tambores de Minas, by Milton Nascimento. This song roughly means, the drums of Minas Gerais, Milton Nascimento’s home state, will never be quiet.” Sis Ana. Saludos…
Eduardo Galeano Chronicles the History of Human Adventure
“I believe this reading by Eduardo Galeano is very interesting. Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan intellectual, writer and novelist, describes himself as being obsessed with remembering and committed to humanity and just causes. I agree with him.” Sis. Ana. Saludos… Click here.
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From Sis. Ana Panamanian national, Basilio Fergus went to Spain to study medicine and realized his true calling was composing songs and singing. With his rich angelic voice, he became an international star troughout the Spanish speaking world. Cisne Cuello Negro-Black Necked Swan, a song that talks about how the word” black” has been debased, became one of his most popular songs. Basilio succumbe
Priorities. They Can Has.
by matttbastard Noted w/o comment: Time Magazine covers – December 5, 2011 h/t
The Troubling Truth About Naomi Wolf’s DHS/OWS Hype UPDATE: Original Source Walks Back teh BS
by matttbastard It’s total bullshit (not to mention batshit). AlterNet’s Josh Holland for teh Fisk: Wolf …offers a classic example of trying to shoe-horn reality into a theory with no factual basis. She set out to write a column indicting Congress for a nationwide crack-down that hasn’t actually been unearthed and, in order to do so, she needs to hopelessly muddle the chain of command… For the te
What Happens When Class Warriors Ignore Race?
One of the things I think progressives who ignore history don’t understand is that just like racism is taught, so is distrust. Especially in Af-Am households where our parents & grandparents who have lived through Jim Crow, Cointelpro, Reaganomics, & the War on Drugs (better titled the War on Inner City Communities) talk to us early & often about how to stay out of trouble. My
On Police Brutality, Living While Of Color, & Why Brutality At OWS isn’t Shocking
I’ve seen a lot of posts talking about OWS, police brutality, race, gender, & intersectionality. Many of those posts include links to the famous stories of police brutality. And those stories are important & should be told. But, by only talking about those stories I worry that we’re giving the impression that police brutality is relatively rare in communities of color. I’ve posted in the
Help Increase Nuanced Racial Representation in The Media
If you can spare a few bucks (every dollar helps) please consider kickstarting this great film project! Synopsis Cedric and Tiffany, two college friends, realize their feelings for each other and after an illicit night together, decide to make a pact. They vow to end their respective relationships in order to build one together. When one of them cannot follow through on their promise, the oth
TiE announces all Asia business plan competition
TiE has announced the launch of All-Asia Business Plan Competition (AABPC). For people participating from Pakistan you have to go through the TiE Islamabad Chapter. Important dates to remember are Registration Deadline : 05-Dec-2011 at Midnight PKT Local Results Judged : 09-Dec-2011 Midnight PKT. If you clear the first level (i.e Selected by the local chapter which would be Islamabad Chapter for
Online shopping in Pakistan : Still a long way to go.
Recently I had a chance or urge to check out how effective the online shopping is. With a surge of online retailers sprouting every where I set out with high expectation for finding, buying and getting items I desired. However I was taken for a bumpy ride at the end of which I backed out from buying the item and then got it from market. I tried to shop online twice in last few months, both the tim
PriceSpy-Prices from All Pakistan
Online shopping sites has been increasing recently. We now have a lot of sites almost offering competitive prices, so the next natural thing would be sites which compare offering of these site. PriceSpy is one such site, it aggregates from other etailers and allows you to do a quick comparison of who is selling it the cheapest. PriceSpy is one stop solution for those who are looking for reliable
Qurtaba released “Urdu Writer App”
Qurtaba has launched a mobile app named “Urdu Writer”, the app allows you to write in Urdu language using your iPhone keyboard and you can send it as a SMS, email, share it on social media (Facebook, Twitter and on other social media sites). This app allows people to use urdu language for communication, it will specially be attractive to people who live abroad but want to some times feel the sw
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Citizens hate copyright, admits EU Commissioner
The EU’s Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, recently gave a speech admitting copyright doesn’t work and citizens hate it: legal enforceability is becoming increasingly difficult; the millions of dollars invested trying to enforce copyright have not stemmed piracy. Meanwhile citizens increasingly hear the word copyright and hate what is behind it. Sadly, many see the current system
Why I’m not a Labour supporter
I recently said why I’m not a Tory. In the interests of balance, I’ll say why I’m not a Labour supporter. On Liberal Conspiracy I recently posted that: Public spending went up from 36% of GDP in 2000 to 48% of GDP in 2010. If the UK economy grew at an average rate of 2% over those years, that’s an increase of 63%. This is a vast sum of money, and if public services did improve by 63%, I certainly
Libyan militias fight each other
CNN: The Libyan war may be over, but rivalries rage on among some regional militias, leading to a mutual distrust that poses a challenge to the new leadership. Earlier this week, the rivalry was evident when dozens of fighters clashed at a Tripoli hospital in what residents said was the biggest armed confrontation in the capital in weeks. The National Transitional Council needs to put a lid on thi
Occupiers, Pirates, and the Labour Party
Jon Worth sees similarities between the Occupy movement and the Pirate Party: The Occupy movements are about the values of the left [...] They have Mac laptops and use the free wifi at Starbucks, to the consternation of the right wing blogosphere. These are the very sorts of people who, from the late 1960s onwards, formed themselves into punk and green movements, creating the Green Party in German
EDL leader continues to reveal his disturbing attitudes
English Defence League leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka “Tommy Robinson”) gave an interview to Adrian Goldberg at BBC Radio West Midlands on 22 October 2011. It’s available via Youtube here. Yaxley-Lennon made some particularly self-incriminating statements towards the end: “The black community and the white community in Birmingham are treated with iron fists. The Islamic community are treated wi
We’re planning to disrupt Anjem Choudhary’s Remembrance day demo
Extremist Muslim group Muslims Against Crusades are planning their annual Remembrance Day stunt again, on 11th November. The Daily Mail, which always reports on their actions in advance, says the demo, which will mock the charity for injured soldiers Help for Heroes, is due to take place outside the Royal Albert Hall, the same location where a poppy was burned last year. The Muslims Against Crusad
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How to read the US Republican offering
Just read Beasly.But don't go away laughing. That's just plain arrogance. We elected our own version of those embarrassing imbeciles. We ended up with Steve Harper. (And our own Airshow MacKay).
Bugs . . .
LARGE CRITTER. According to the UK SUN, "She's called a Weta Bug and has a huge wing span of SEVEN inches and weighs as much as three mice".Neat! I'm surprised they aren't trying to raise them so that they don't go extinct. Could replace the Hissing Cockroach for entomology buffs.
Catholic High School Taliban meets Lululemon
I went to a Catholic high school that had a uniform policy. It wasn't all jacket, ties, and plaid skirts, but more of a dress casual with monogrammed Docker type trousers and an assortment of shirts and sweaters. All in all not a terrible uniform policy although one did get tired of it because the subdued white, navy, maroon, mustard yellow colour selections matched the paint on the lockers. Yeah,
MacKay and your tax dollars
He can't seem to control himself. And he has a difficult time with the truth. MacKay on 22 September this year:"I was in fact in Gander in July of 2010 on a personal visit with friends that I paid for. Three days into the visit I participated in a search and rescue demonstration with 103 squadron 9 Wing Gander. I shortened my stay by a day to take part in that demonstration," he said.Nice try,
Why does Turkey count?
Well... to a hillbilly government led by a donkey... it doesn't.Campbell Clark lays it all out. Harper is way too shallow to work in the background. That takes finesse and the willingness to know how to wield the power from a second chair. And an awareness that extends beyond the horizon of pumping asphalt to Houston.Turkey’s growing economy hasn’t featured in Mr. Harper’s push for trade with em
Houston
Here is a picture I took a couple of weeks ago that sums up at least one aspect of Houston very well. These two smaller colorful houses in the middle are dwarfed by newer and somewhat more drab buildings. There is always something new going up in Houston. All you can hope for is that some of what was here before will remain. (Photo copyright 2011 Neil Aquino.) Share this:ShareTwitterFacebookEmail
Occupy DC Protests Democratic Congressional Fundraiser—Good!!!
Occupy DC will be holding a protest outside a high dollar Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser in Washington. From Talking Points Memo— ” It’s going to be harder for critics of the Occupy protests to say it’s a pro-Democratic Party movement after tomorrow. TPM has learned a group of DC Occupiers plan to hold a demonstration outside a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee hi
Leading Republican Pollster Frank Luntz Says Occupy Wall Street Is Having An Impact
Leading Republican pollster and strategist Frank Luntz says he is concerned about the impact that Occupy Wall Street is having on public opinion. From Think Progress— “ The Republican Governor’s Association met in Florida this week and featured pollster Frank Luntz…Luntz told attendees that he’s “scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death.” The pollster warned that the movemen
How The Liberal Elite Enjoy The Holidays—Enjoy The Season Any Way You Wish
With a fiber optic Christmas tree, some Little Debbie Cookie Wreaths and a few holiday lottery tickets, I am ready for the holidays. Lottery tickets are a rip-off. (Only time I’ll ever link to Dave Ramsey.) I can afford a few every so often. Don’t buy lottery tickets if you can’t afford them. Or don’t buy them at all if you have any sense. Here is the Little Debbie website. I wanted to give you
Classic Shopping Cart In Water Photo
Here is your classic shopping cart in the water photo. I’m a traditional person. I’ll look for a mattress or couch by the side of road photo to also post on the blog. That shopping cart is in Brays Bayou in Houston. I took this picture in the very nice Mason Park in Houston. Here is a history of shopping carts. Photo copyright 2011 Neil Aquino
Who Are The Democrats In Houston City Council Runoff Elections?—Andrew Burks Is On All Sides Of The Aisle
It is time for Houston City Council runoff elctions. Early voting begins on November 30 and runs through December 6. General Election Day is Saturday, December 10. There are 2 citywide races and 2 district races. Who are the Democrats in these races? For Houston Council At-Large #2, Kristi Thibaut is the Democrat. For Houston Council At-Large #5, Jolanda Jones is the Democrat. In Houston Council D
Personally, I think everyone who complains should be shot.
Jeremy Clarkson must be thoroughly pissed off tonight. While there's probably no change there then, he really has been hung out to dry by the BBC over his appearance yesterday on the One Show. Shorn completely context, as even the BBC were originally providing it as, his apparent statement that all those on strike should not just be shot, but in front of their families does seem outrageous. If
No dog in this fight.
I'm a great admirer of Tim Garton Ash, but this analogy at the end of his otherwise measured article on Libya and intervention simply doesn't work:Change the metaphor and think of it like this. You see your neighbour's two-year-old daughter being savaged by his rottweiler. What do you do? If you are able to, you jump over the fence and beat the dog off with a stout stick, or shoot it with your
More Clouseau than Smiley.
You can't exactly fault MI5 for having suspicions about Ekaterina Zatuliveter. Having seen the Americans flush out a whole batch of Russian "deep cover" agents (including Anna Chapman), so deep it seems that they barely did any spying at all, Zatuliveter must have seemed a no-brainer. She went to a university which according to MI5, the FSB has a "substantial" presence at. Beginning during this
The true definition of a cunt.
Take a bow, Paul McMullan. You really are quite a piece of work. At least you had the decency to admit you went too far, if only once:McMullan says he regrets the stories he did on Jennifer Elliott, the daughter of actor Denholm Elliott.She became a drug user and started begging following the death of her father and the News of the World exposed this.I really regret it because I'd got to know he
The metamorphosis.
Slowly but ever so surely George Osborne is morphing into Gordon Brown. The man who wanted to turn the autumn statement into just that, a statement to the Commons on the public finances rather than use it as an effective second budget as Brown did was today reduced to following the man whose mess he professes to be clearing up. Just as it required supreme chutzpah to claim there would be no retu
How Much Do Nuclear Weapons Cost?
When I was a student, I worked in a laboratory that separated plant pigments, like chlorophyll, from algae that had been grown in heavy water, so the hydrogens in those pigments had been substituted by deuterium. The amounts of pigment were small and carefully handled. One slow afternoon, some of us tried to calculate what they were worth, sitting green and yellow in their shiny glass vacuum ampou
Good News, But Not For the Police
There were no car burglaries in Santa Fe over the weekend. You would think that would be good news, and Geoff Grammer reports in The New Mexican that the police accede to this judgement. But they're still disappointed.It seems that they set up a big SUV full of electronics and left it in the Walmart parking lot. Watched, of course, in the expectation that somebody would take advantage and could ea
Bits and Pieces - November 28, 2011
Big headline story today is that the Fed gave the banks even more money than you thought. Here's Kevin Drum's reaction, which is pretty close to mine. And maybe the Fed could teach the European Central Bank a thing or two.More economics: "1) do lower marginal tax rates on the rich result in higher income inequality, and 2) do higher taxes on the rich result in lower economic growth? Answers: yes a
An Update on Nature's Sexism
Apparently Nature intends to stand by its editor and his buddy who wrote that sexist fiction piece. They haven't come out with any official public statement. And the fiction author continues to tell the rest of the world they're wrong - he's a nice guy and everything he said is entirely legitimate and the rest of us should just shut up.No, I'm not going to link to any of the depressing swill. One
A Further Thought on Black Friday
And I see others are having it too.Kevin Drum traces this use of the term back to 1985, as that decline of the middle class was becoming obvious. It's probably also got to do with the rise of WalMart, which always seems to be the scene of Black Friday tramplings and now pepper spraying. Many societies have found pleasure in watching the lower classes fighting each other. Slaves in the Roman colise
Bits and Pieces - Black Friday Edition
I keep wondering if others see the term "Black Friday" in any positive light. The "Black Day" phrase has been connected to bad events far too uniformly for me to feel good about it. And I hate shopping crowds, so there is nothing about today's shopping events that seems good to me. Helmut has already linked the pepper spray incident in California. All's fair in shopping!Kevin Drum, who seems as pu
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Major Nativist Extremist Group May Be at End of its Rope
William Gheen, head of the nativist extremist Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), is blaming the “authoritarian and dictatorial actions of Obama” for a budget shortfall that may force his group to shut down in January. Gheen cited four “major causes” for the financial squeeze, including: (1) “The horrific political and economic environment we find ourselves [...]
Major Nativist Extremist Group May Be at End of its Rope
William Gheen, head of the nativist extremist Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), is blaming the “authoritarian and dictatorial actions of Obama” for a budget shortfall that may force his group to shut down in January. Gheen cited four “major causes” for the financial squeeze, including: (1) “The horrific political and economic environment we find ourselves [...]
White Supremacist David Duke to be Booted from Yet Another Country
Ex-Klan leader David Duke is to be deported from Germany, where he was arrested last Friday while on his way to address a group of right-wing extremists. In a statement obtained by the Huffington Post, German authorities say that the globetrotting white supremacist is “obliged to leave German territory without delay,” explaining that Duke is “not [...]
Kentucky Church: No Interracial Couples Welcome
The Bible commands us to love our neighbors, but members of a Kentucky evangelical church have set strict limits on that love: The Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church voted Sunday to bar interracial couples from becoming members or participating in worship services. Not everyone at the church agrees, and it may not be the last word. [...]
Confessed MLK Day Bomber Finds Pen Pal in Notorious Racist
Confessed domestic terrorist Kevin William Harpham, facing the likelihood of at least 27 years in prison, became pen pals with notorious racist Glenn Miller after his arrest last March. Harpham’s sentencing, which had been set for today in U.S. District Court in Spokane, Wash., was continued until Dec. 20 after Public Defender Roger Peven [...]
Ammo Company Fudges Facts and Taste to Sell Its Wares
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! When it comes to finding bargains for its subscribers, the team at WorldNetDaily, Joseph Farah’s conspiracy-mongering online publication, is never at a loss. Yesterday, in an E-mail titled “Gun Control Imminent – Stock Up Now!” they offered up a real sweetheart: “Burnin Hot Deals” from USA Ammo (motto: [...]
Sovereign Citizen Targets Supreme Court Chief Justice and FBI Director
Anti-government sovereign citizens will file frivolous paperwork against anyone – even mailing their bogus legal documents to the home of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the director of the FBI. Those allegations are contained in a 17-page criminal complaint just filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle accusing Kenneth Wayne Leaming of [...]
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welcome to the occupation
by russell I'd been wanting to head down to the Occupy Boston site, just to see what was what as much as anything else. Last Friday, I took the day-after-Thanksgiving holiday as my opportunity. I checked the website to see what they were asking for that day. Shopping list in hand, I headed over to my local Dollar Store and loaded up on stuff like snacks, juice, Band-Aids, and baby wipes, hop
Your Leveson inquiry friday open thread
by liberal japonicus Just recently, one of the keys to my morning net surfing has been to go to the Guardian's Leveson inquiry page and catch the live blog for the previous day's session. Because of the time difference, I'm getting it after it has finished, so I can read thru the whole thing. Just in case you don't know, the Leveson inquiry is the one that is exploring phone hackin
First. Second.
by von (retired) First, read Dr. Science's post about SOPA/PIPA, and act! I ain't saying that piracy's good, but these bills take a sledgehammer to a porcelain doll. And the doll's worth saving. Called your Rep and Senator? Good. This second one is even more important. They've made a Star Blazers live action film. Behold the trailer: I realize that I'm speaking to a
Save the Internet, Kick a Senator. Figuratively only, of course.
by Doctor Science I first heard about SOPA (the Stop Internet Privacy Piracy Act, H.R.3261) and PIPA (the Protect Intellectual Property Act, S968) several weeks ago from Sprog the Younger, who said was up in arms about it. I figured the kids were getting overexcited -- no-one *really* could want to throttle the Internet like that. But she was right. They really are that bad, and they real
Question for someone who knows Russian history
by Doctor Science -- especially economic history of the 19th century and earlier. As I mentioned before, I'm currently reading Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom by Peter Kolchin. On pp334-35, he's talking about market-oriented activities: of pomeshchiki (nobles, serf-owners), unfree serfs, and comparatively free "state peasants":By the late eighteenth century serfs and state pea
Investment versus speculation
by Doctor Science William Holbrook Beard, The Bulls and Bears in the Market. I can't figure out if the bears in this close-up: are looking for more money inside the bull they've eviscerated, or are angry because it turned out to be a hollow, bubble-y sort of bull. In July Bill Domhoff, sociologist at UC Santa Cruz, posted An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%, written by a long-time acqua
Slimming
One of these cats is fat. He has long hair, so he was able to conceal it for a while. But now it’s undeniable. He is definitely rotund. His name is Smelf. For about five minutes, it was Elf, because he had little tufty pointed elf ears. But as soon as I saw him, I realized he is truly a Smelf. And so, for years, that has been his name. I have since learned that this word, “smelf,” in some circles
Slimming
One of these cats is fat. He has long hair, so he was able to conceal it for a while. But now it’s undeniable. He is definitely rotund. His name is Smelf. For about five minutes, it was Elf, because he had little tufty pointed elf ears. But as soon as I saw him, I realized he is truly a Smelf. And so, for years, that has been his name. I have since learned that this word, “smelf,” in some circles
Hitch
Tuesday evening I discovered that, for no reason that I could figure out, all of the pictures that I had painstakingly sized and embedded in these posts over the past several years, had, except in the very most recent posts, blown up to a godawful size. As a result, all of these posts are indescribably ugly, and I cannot bear to look at them. I learned that I could go back in and resize these big,
The Morning Of The Day They Did It
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Centauri Dreams Interstellar Flight: Equations and Art
Les Johnson (MSFC) always says that the coolest job title he ever had in his long career at NASA was Manager of Interstellar Propulsion Research. Think about it — if going to the stars is your passion and you have a title like that, you must feel that you have really arrived. These days he goes by the more prosaic title of Deputy Manager for the Advanced Concepts Office at Marshall Space Flight Ce
Les Johnson (MSFC) always says that the coolest job title he ever had in his long career at NASA was Manager of Interstellar Propulsion Research. Think about it — if going to the stars is your passion and you have a title like that, you must feel that you have really arrived. These days he goes by the more prosaic title of Deputy Manager for the Advanced Concepts Office at Marshall Space Flight Ce
Interstellar Workshop in Tennessee
I’m just back from the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop in Oak Ridge, having made it through the Smokies on a rainy, chilly night that saw fog along the ridges and often down in the valleys. It was a haunting drive in ways, the low ceilings making for slow driving and the sense of being surrounded by unseen peaks and deep gorges that were always just out of view. I had hoped to meet with Les
Technological Leaps in Perspective
Wednesday is a travel day for me, and one with little chance to do any posting here. I’ll leave you, then, with a quotation, and get back to normal posting tomorrow. Interstellar travel is incredibly difficult, perhaps as difficult to us today as a flight to Mars would have appeared to Christopher Columbus or other would-be transoceanic navigators 500 years ago. Indeed, the ratio of the distance f
Cygnus X-1: A Black Hole Confirmed
Cygnus X-1 is one of the strongest X-ray sources we can detect from Earth and the first widely thought to be a black hole. In fact, when Stephen Hawking bet against X-1 being a black hole back in 1975, he was more or less setting up a hedge, for black holes have been a crucial part of Hawking’s work. Hawking writes about his wager with Kip Thorne entertainingly in the first edition of his A Brief
Star Maker: The Philosophy of Olaf Stapledon
Kelvin Long and Richard Osborne have seen to it that the British Interplanetary Society’s conference on the highly influential science fiction writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon has gone off without a hitch. Here is their report from the event, a conference evidently as rife with speculation and far-future musings as anything the author himself ever penned. by K.F. Long & R. Osborne, Sympos
Reflections on a Mythic Voyager
Voyager 2 received commands in early November to switch to the backup set of thrusters that control the roll of the spacecraft. I keep close tabs on the Voyagers because, still operational, they constitute our first interstellar mission, headed beyond the heliosphere and still returning data. Launched in 1977, they’re an obvious example of long-term survival in space, an issue that will become inc
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