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| The Trifid Nebula in infrared as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, “Journey To Peace”
Chuck Wild, Liquid Mind, “Journey To Peace”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V00p6JU-HMU&feature=context-vrec
Cleveland Bus Driver Suspended After Decking Unruly Female Rider With Brutal Bolo Punch
*Yes, yes, people destroying each other as per usual.
However, what we're also witnessing is "gender equality". The vocally and
physically abusive young woman didn't suddenly expect the rules to revert
back to the year 1850 after she gave him a slap, did she?*
*This portion of one report strikes me the most: "The driver then throws
the woman off the stopped bus, though she climbs back aboard and tussles
with him. 'She want to be a man, I'm gonna treat you like a man,' the
driver announces at one point."
Stand yo' ground.*
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/viral-video/cleveland-bus-p... more »
Sunday Classics preview: The post-operatic Rossini
*Tenor Dalmacio Gonzalez sings the "*Cuius animam*" from Rossini's Stabat
Mater -- in an August 1981 Proms performance with the Philharmona Orchestra
conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. (DG made a recording with the same forces
as the Proms performance.)*
*by Ken*
It's impossible to talk about the career of Gioachhino Rossini (1792-1868)
without taking note of the fact that, though he lived almost another 40
years, he completed his last opera, *William Tell*, in 1829, at the age of
37. With his retirement from the stage he didn't stop composing, though --
though now, freed from the ... more »
"School And Life..."
“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson
and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a
lesson.”
- Tom Bodett
Anonymous withdraws support for WikiLeaks: "Ruined by egos"
*...and perhaps the fact Assange hasn't had a bath in months.*
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/17e6d936-1486-11e2-aa93-00144feabdc0.html#axzz298zVy2RZ
Turkey steps up presence on Syria border with 250 tanks, fighter patrols: Ready to rumble?
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/64f145f8-145a-11e2-8cf2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz298zVy2RZ
Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, “Ride My See-Saw”
Moody Blues, “Ride My See-Saw”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCtQwXVipqo
"A Look to the Heavens"
“A single field from the world's most powerful survey instrument captures
this spectacular skyview. Looking toward Sagittarius, the scene spans
nearly 3 degrees or six times the width of the Full Moon. At bottom, upper
right, and lower left it covers the Lagoon Nebula (M8), the Trifid Nebula
(M20), and NGC 6559, in the crowded, dusty starfields of the central Milky
Way.
*Click image for larger size. *
The adopted color scheme shows dust reddened starlight in red hues and
normally red emission from hydrogen atoms in green. Built and operated by
the Pan-STARRS project, the instrum... more »
Here we are again
Here
we are again with yet another failing of our stupid bloody simpleton's
understanding of justice and the system we built around it. With all the
research we have the shows the complex biological and social roots of
deviant behaviour, the best we can still do for those who stray is lock
them in boxes somewhere out of sight. Even without what appears to be an
appalling display of neglect and
The presumption of innocence is crucial to us. It just seems like rich folks get more of it
*by Ken*
And it doesn't hurt if you're on the favored side of an ethnic divide
either.
Let me say that I'm nervous about jumping into blogprint about this story,
with so much unknown. There isn't, after all, anything at all in evidence,
because you only get evidence in a trial, and it appears that Mr. Jennings
isn't going to face one of those.
I assume that from the prosecutor's standpoint the case involves too much
"he said"-"he said," and then when there's talk of contradictory and false
statements, it's understandable that prosecutors are reluctant to prosecute
a case they do... more »
Fred Short receives AIM-WEST Life Time Achievement Award
[image: photo.JPG]By Tony Gonzales
AIM West
http://www.aimwest.info
Spiritual Advisor Fred Short, with wife Connie, is awarded AIM-WEST's Life
Time Achievement Award, at the Brava Theater Center on October 12th during
the Third Annual American Indian Movement International Film Festival, held
in San Francisco.
Mr. Bill Means and Dr. Jose Cuellar were on hand to award Mr, Short with a
beautiful blanket provided generously by Pennie Plant and Michael Horse.
Fred has impacted our lives in many ways whether in ceremonies, street
demonstrations, work with youth and prisoners, or protecti... more »
Chet Raymo, "Nebula"
* "Nebula"*
by Chet Raymo
"The APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) on Columbus Day was the planetary
nebula known as Abell 39, an almost perfectly spherical shell of gas blown
off by a Sun-like star in the final throes of its life. The name, planetary
nebula, has nothing to do with planets per se. The name derives from a
time- late 18th century- when these frequently disk-shaped objects, seen
with less resolution than today, appeared planet-like in a telescope.
*Click image for larger size.*
You can find dozens of images of planetary nebulae on the APOD or Hubble
web sites... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Prosperity Paradigms Sufficiently in Place…
*Prosperity Paradigms Sufficiently in Place…*
October 12, 2012
Widening of all local portals results from the 10-10. Expansion in regional
size and intensity of permitted Light flow via these portals. This occurs
in agreement with Gaia intention to expand attraction of Higher Dimensions
to maximum number of un-wakened humans.
Number and width of Gaia portals have increased 444 fold via the 10-10.
Allowing increased passage of Galactic contacts, both 3D-4D visible, and
Higher thought forms. The 10-10 additionally lowered resistance in general
humanity to Disclosure concepts, b... more »
MNN: 'Protho. Aalto Turning Soprano'
MNN: Protho. Aalto Turning Soprano
**
*MNN: PROTHO. AALTO MAY BE TURNING SOPRANO SOON. ***
*Kanekota & the Queen [FC T-1396-12]*
Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknationnews.com
*MNN. On October 11, 2012, Thahoketoteh of Kanekota filed an appeal motion
at the Federal Court to quash Prothonotary Kevin Alto’s illegal decision of
October 5. No reason was given forbidding us to appeal. He erred in
fundamental jurisdictional law. The Federal Court has to answer us by
October 25th 2012. *
*On October 1, 2012, supporters filled the court room to witness
Thahoketoeh presenting oral ar... more »
Mohawk Nation News: Aalto Turning Soprano
MNN: Protho. Aalto Turning Soprano
**
*MNN: PROTHO. AALTO MAY BE TURNING SOPRANO SOON. *
*Mohawk Nation News*
*http://www.mohawknationnews.com*
*Kanekota & the Queen [FC T-1396-12]*
*MNN. On October 11, 2012, Thahoketoteh of Kanekota filed an appeal motion
at the Federal Court to quash Prothonotary Kevin Alto’s illegal decision of
October 5. No reason was given forbidding us to appeal. He erred in
fundamental jurisdictional law. The Federal Court has to answer us by
October 25th 2012. *
*On October 1, 2012, supporters filled the court room to witness
Thahoketoeh presenting oral ... more »
Hezbollah drone may have been sent to monitor Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona (and may have succeeded)
*Such activity shouldn't alarm one who says others can't have a bomb,
right?
No hypocrisy here, surely.*
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/10/12/171390/hezbollah-drone-may-have-been.html
Q. How many Cowans does it take to change a light bulb?
A. None. They are in eternal darkness.
(If you don't get it well, sorry the joke is a secret)
Quick thoughts on the US Veep debate
I
caught a bit of Biden vs. Ryan snake oil festival last night. In terms
of substance, Biden ran circles around Ryan. However, Ryan pulled a
Harper. You know, that calm, very carefully trained and rehearsed
daddy-knows-best voice and canned phrases that lulls the crazies into a
voting trance and that disoriented bunch of undecideds into whatever
state they need to get themselves to vote. And has
Tempered Happiness
St. Catherine's Hospital--Cite Soleil
Rehydration Room
October 12, 2012
(Photo by John Carroll)
The Haitian Public Health nurses (MSPP) working in this cramped tiny room
tucked away on the second floor of St. Catherine's Hospital in Soleil save
many little lives EACH day. With salt and sugar mixed in a bag of sterile
water. And knowing where tiny collapsed veins course under the skin without
being able to see or feel them they start tiny IVs.
This one year old was lying fairly lifeless with her eyes sunk and half
closed two hours before this photo. She was one of a jillion babies an... more »
Ultimate Food Fight 3 - Schedule
NEOCONS GET BITTER AND TWISTED OVER BIDEN-RYAN DEBATE
Fred Barnes at *The Weekly Standard* was clearly fuming over the pasting
Biden gave Ryan in the one and only vice-presidential debate. In a piece
titled *Biden Bombs*, Barnes writes almost screaming at his readers:
*“You don’t win a nationally televised debate by being rude and obnoxious.
You don’t win by interrupting your opponent time after time after time or
by being a blowhard. You don’t win with facial expressions, especially
smirks or fake laughs, or by pretending to be utterly exasperated with what
your opponent is saying.”*
Well, apparently Biden did, at least according to... more »
Hungry for attention
The tortilla masters: Carina and SofiaYesterday I climbed up to the smoky
little half-kitchen that's tucked into an attic-size space at the Copan *
guardaria* to help a couple of the girls make tortillas.
I'd had visions of everyone being fed and ready for a fast visit to the
playground when I first arrived, seeing as I needed to get back to work.
But it was soon obvious that wasn't going to happen.
I don't much like the tortilla room, as there's always smoke hanging heavy
in the air from the little "eco-friendly" wood stove that I'm sure would be
great if it only had a chimney. But it... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Psychology: “The Learned Optimism Test”
*“The Learned Optimism Test”*
by Stanford University
“*The Instructions:* Adapted from Dr. Martin Seligman's book, "Learned
Optimism", there are forty-eight (48) questions in this evaluation test.
Take as much time as you need to answer each of the questions. On average,
this test takes about fifteen minutes. There are no right or wrong answers.
Do NOT read the analysis in "Learned Optimism" until after you have
completed this test. Read the description of each situation and vividly
imagine it happening to you. You have probably not experienced some of the
situations, but that s... more »
Psychology: "Learned Helplessness and Voter Apathy"
*"Learned Helplessness and Voter Apathy"*
by Bill Benzon
"There are things that are important to us, and things that are not. There
are things that we can control, and things that we cannot. Our ability, or
not, to control unimportant things is of little consequence. It is
otherwise with our ability to control important things. We cannot control
the weather, for example, not very much. Nor can we control the fact that
we, and everyone we know, is going to die. Yes, we may have some limited
control over the timing and circumstances but the fact of death itself is
beyond our contr... more »
Threat of a Complete Financial Meltdown: IMF Report Points to Growing Instability
World Socialist Website
Nick Beams
*[image: imf]**Four years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the latest
Global Financial Stability Report published by the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) makes clear that the threat of a complete meltdown of the
international financial system remains. And the dangers of such an event
are increasing.*
The report, issued earlier this week, began by noting that risks to
financial instability had increased since the previous report last April
and that “confidence in the global financial system has become very
fragile.”
The main risk to financi... more »
Alternatives to Austerity
I've lost count of the underpopulated trade union-organised meetings I've
attended over the last 10 years. But thankfully, Tuesday evening's event
organised under the banner of 'For a Fairer North Staffordshire?' by North
Staffs TUC, the local PCS and Pensioners' Convention turned out to be a
public meeting the public wanted to be at. Around a 150 people attended to
hear what a panel of speakers on the government's ideologically-blinkered
austerity drive, and what we - the labour movement - should do about it.
The first speaker was inveterate activist Dot Gibson... more »
"People Who Shut Their Eyes..."
"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own
destruction,
and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after
that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster."
- James Baldwin
Heavy snow has fallen across parts of Australia despite it being more than a month into spring
**Ukelele* *
*Tip toe, through the tulips, by the window, that's where I'll be...*
*In Australia, Spring's for suckers, you'll see... *
http://news.sky.com/story/996852/heavy-snowfall-across-parts-of-australia
When Irish eyes are smiling
The VP debate last night was being billed as the "Thrill in the Ville." It
lived up to its billing for me. I didn't want it to end. I got the feeling
neither did Joe Biden. He was clearly enjoying his freedom to Hulk smash
Paul Ryan's pathetic lies as they popped up. Felt like watching the kids
play whack-a-mole at the arcade. And Joe Biden won all the prize tickets.
This of course, dismayed fully half of the on-air punditry. Much pearl
clutching and gasping for air on the fainting couches about the heinous
incivility of derisive laughter. It totally ruined their pre-written script... more »
Elsewhere: Unraveling, Old Ideas, Electoral College
Three things today. My column at Salon for the weekend is already up. I
looked at Paul Ryan's assertion that Barack Obama's foreign policy is
"unraveling" and noted that it's substance-free, concluding that it's yet
another consequence of the closed information loop.
At PP, I said that I'm ignoring the electoral college. Which, really, I am.
To the extent I pay attention to state polls, it's as signals to what's
happening nationally, mostly as helpfully translated by the better
aggregator sites.
And over at Greg's place, I riffed off of Joe Biden's line that "Their
ideas are old, a... more »
‘Parent 1’ and ‘parent 2’ could legally replace mom and dad in France
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/11/parent-1-and-parent-2-could-legally-replace-mom-an/
Max Keiser: Check To See If You're A Terrorist
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Aaron Schock (R-IL) May Have Been Beating Off Watching Ryan Debate But He Didn't Make Any National Coming Out Day Announcement
*Which is more real to you?*
There was a time when strangers would stop me in the street and say they
had seen me in a movie or video, especially the Wilco film. I met someone
who became a lifelong friend because he asked me for my autograph at a
party after having seen me in a Ramones video. A couple months ago Brendan
Toller came over and shot me for his upcoming film Danny Says. But the
first time I ever saw my name in lights-- or on the screen in any case--
was for a second when the credits rolled on PBS after a showing of the 1984
film The Times of Harvey Milk, which won an Osca... more »
Tariq Ali: European Union Awarded Nobel Peace Prize Despite Ties to NATO, Crippling Austerity Cuts
Democracy Now!
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Migraines
This has been a terrible, terrible week for me for migraines.
I had the worst migraine of my life Tuesday and spent a miserable evening
in a crowded ER. The migraine was so bad that I had neurological symptoms.
Someone else I work with had a bad migraine Tue and could not come in to
teach.
Last night it rained. This morning I went for a 1 hour hike and immediately
(at the end of the hike) ended up with another migraine.
Ugghh...
Could it be linked to the rising radiation levels? Tue was off the chart in
a city in my region...
going to lay down now....
Thousands of Pakistanis rally against US drone strikes
Nine-mile convoy led by Imran Khan heads towards South Waziristan as local
officials say it will not be allowed to proceed
Thousands of Pakistanis, joined by US anti-war activists, have headed
toward Pakistan's volatile tribal region to protest against American drone
strikes despite threats from the Taliban.
The demonstrators, headed by former cricketer turned politician Imran Khan,
say the strikes violate Pakistani sovereignty and kill civilians.
The rally is heading into a part of the country where the Pakistani
military has been battling a violent Taliban uprising. The motorca... more »
Is there some way to deport Katty Kay?
*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012*
*Simpering ninnies, go home:* Midway through last evening's hour, Katty Kay
showed up to expound on the Charlie Rose show.
Katty was in a serious twit about the evening's debate. This is what Katty
Kay saw when Biden and Ryan debated:
ROSE (10/11/12) Katty Kay, you are coming to us now from Washington. Your
impressions?
KAY: Yes, I agree, I think that Paul Ryan you know performed well and
Republicans will be quite happy with him. He was clear, he was concise, he
too was energetic. And look, we’ve never seen him perform on such a huge
national platform as... more »
“When the Fukushima Meltdown Hits Groundwater”; A Comment
*A Comment:* This is a re-post from April 6, 2011, especially relevant
now since it appears radiation levels are spiking throughout the western
and southwestern parts of the US. I'm sorry for repeating what you no doubt
have already learned from the beloved and most trustworthy mainstream
media, whose diligence, honesty and relentless pursuit of truth have kept
you continually and fully informed. They have kept you fully informed,
right? What? Oh... apologies! Silly me, I forgot, this is America... - CP
*“When the Fukushima Meltdown Hits Groundwater”*
By Dr. Tom Burnett
"F... more »
5.0 Magnitude Earthquake COSTA RICA - 12th October 2012
Magnitude 5.0
Date-Time
Friday, October 12, 2012 at 19:24:15 UTC
Friday, October 12, 2012 at 01:24:15 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
9.578°N, 84.297°W
Depth
45.3 km (28.1 miles)
Region
COSTA RICA
Distances
7 km (4 miles) NNE of Parrita, Costa Rica
4.9 Magnitude Earthquake LUZON, PHILIPPINES - 12th October 2012
Magnitude mb 5.0
Region LUZON, PHILIPPINES
Date time 2012-10-12 18:53:08.7 UTC
Location 14.54 N ; 120.51 E
Depth 180 km
Distances 50 km W Manila (pop 10,444,527 ; local time 02:53:08.7 2012-10-13)
38 km SW Hagonoy (pop 123,531 ; local time 02:53:08.7 2012-10-13)
10 km W Limay (pop 52,824 ; local time 02:53:08.7 2012-10-13)
"Fukushima Radiation Continues Spreading and Spiking Across USA"
* "Fukushima Radiation Continues Spreading and Spiking Across USA"*
by Nuke Pro
"We noted in a prior post that "Something Happened around September 17"
and radiation spiked high in a number of US cities, but especially the
Pacific Northwest. These are the areas that were the hardest hit by
Fukushima the first time around, as the jet stream usually makes a beeline
for them.
I was hoping that would be a week or so spike, and then back to normal, but
that is not the case, and the radiation continues to spread east and south.
Disturbingly, over half of the Radnet data has gone black... more »
No. Fetus Fetishists Cannot Lie & Mislead on Our Tellies
Back in June, DJ! was alerted to the appearance of USian anti-abortion ads
on Canadian telly.
The 'Milk Carton' ad was sleuthed out and it *is* USian, 'leased' by
Ontario Alliance for Life.
The National Abortion Federation issued a call to action, specifically for
complaints to the Advertising Standards Council.
Looky here.
In what one pro-life leader is calling a case of blatant bias, the
Advertising Standards Council of Canada (ASC) has censured a pro-life TV
commercial for allegedly being “misleading” and “demean[ing] and
denigrat[ing to] women”. The ASC Council will penalize t... more »
Candidate Ryan restores specificity!
*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012*
*Mathematical impossibility too:* An interesting number returned to the
discourse last night.
That number is twenty percent. Does Candidate Romney still intend to lower
all federal income tax rates by twenty percent? While keeping the whole
shebang revenue neutral by eliminating loopholes/deductions?
In August, the Tax Policy Center said it’s “mathematically impossible” to
do such a thing without raising taxes on the middle class. Not long ago, at
least one Romney surrogate seemed to be walking back the size of that cut
in tax rates. Romney himself hasn’... more »
Flight Of The QuadroCopters
Through the generosity of The Dean we have three new toys: Parrot AR.Drone
quadrocopters, which will be used for recruitment. The Dean issued a
challenge: a hundred bucks to the first to fly. So while Southern Man was
teaching his Friday morning lab the Finance Department rose to the
challenge...
RS and JM fly their copter.
Southern Man was not far behind: after lab he broke his out and got it up
in the air as well.
A little video from the 'copter of a few of Southern Man's programming lab
students.
Southern Man gets in a little flying time. Photo by Trudy.
Sadly Southern M... more »
The "Domestic Terrorist" Threat In The United States Is A Big Hoax
I
*Washington's Blog: Take the Test to See If You Might Be Considered a
“Potential Terrorist” By Government Officials.*
As the U.S. economy worsens and public dissatisfaction with the status quo
political parties grows to revolutionary levels, the bankster-hijacked U.S.
military will be called upon to play a larger role on American soil.
Building political legitimacy for military action in the defense of the
status quo is a project that has gone on for well over two decades, but it
has intensified in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis.
The counter-terrorism language that ... more »
Missing something?
The BBC's report on the latest US jobs figures is still reporting that:
'The US unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest rate since January
2009, figures from the Department of Labor have shown, surprising analysts
who had been expecting a small rise.
Last month's rate came in at 7.8%, down from 8.1% in August.
The latest numbers also showed that the US economy added a further 114,000
jobs in September, beating expectations.'
What is odd is that whilst Breitbart can manage to report that:
'...it turns out that number wasn't right. They forgot to include CALIFORNIA,
the most ... more »
The Politics of the Hunger Games
Daniel Nexon at - 9 hours ago
As I’ve mentioned before, one of the projects that I’m working on now is a
book provisionally entitled “The Politics of the Hunger Games.” PM and I
are overdue in submitting a full proposal to the press. In an earlier … Continue
reading →
EU and the Peace Prize (Round 2)
Jon Western at - 9 hours ago
The initial reaction from Facebook and from my Realist friends reveals a
certain amount of scorn for the Nobel Peace Prize announcement this
morning. The EU today is an easy parody and I guess the response is to be
… Continue reading →
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: What Are Efforts To Contain Fukushima? NONE!
It has been extremely puzzling and disturbing to me that the world's people
have put so much focus on the situation in both the Middle East, and in
Europe, considering that a life ending scenario situation is still ongoing
in Japan right now! The spent fuel rod pool sitting above the failed
reactor #4 at the Daichii Fukushima Nuclear power plant is still in danger
of collapsing, and there are absolutely no emergency plans to have the rods
removed from that warped and leaking containment any time soon! If that
pool was to collapse, we would see a horrendous amount of radiation pour... more »
Well....What else would you Expect from an App Created by US military experts at Naval Surface Warfare Center?
New, an app that can hack your smartphone camera and spy on you
Meningitis outbreak expands to 12 states, 184 cases: CDC
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/12/us-meningitis-cases-idUSBRE89B15220121012
Elizabeth Escalona Jailed for 99 for gluing her Daughter's hands to a wall
Article *- Finally a judge with some sense to protect a child. UK courts
should take note.*
Amanada Todd, may you find your bluebirds
Fear and loathing, love and despair, silent voices screaming for peace, a
daughter, a sister, a future mother taken by the mistaken, hijacked lives
and tormented souls propelled into the afterworld in search of nothing but
pain free silence, relief for one but at a cost of the many who remain in
this cold dark arena.
I never knew you Amanda, now I`ll never forget.
The Straight Goods
Cheers Eyes Full of Tears
Catch of the Day
Goes to a definitive Josh Barro post ripping apart the Mitt Romney claim
that there are six studies which support Romney's math on the tax plan.
Remember: the TPC study finds that you can't (1) cut tax rates by 20% and
include the other tax treatments that Romney is proposing; (2) avoid
increasing taxes on middle-income filers; and (3) keep the same revenues by
closing the remaining available tax preferences for the rich. It's simply a
question of math; the rich don't have enough tax preferences remaining
after the ones that Romney specifies to make up what they would get in the
rat... more »
Savile: Police Speak To 40 Potential Victims
*When will the police start looking at who helped him cover up these Evil
Crimes for over 50 years?*
*
* *Article*
SAVILE, HEATH, MI5
*UK Prime Minister Edward Heath. Illustration by John Kent in “Private Eye”
11 September 1970. Website for this image*
Over several decades, Sir Jimmy Savile mixed with the British royal family
and with UK prime ministers.
Savile must have been vetted by the UK intelligence agencies.
During the 1970s, Brigadier Ronnie Stonham was the MI5 man responsible for
vetting all BBC staff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI5
This month, the main stream media has been reporting that Savile, since at
least the 1960s, was known, by many of his contacts, to be a child sex
abuser.
John Gibbin ... more »
journey to the edge of the universe
China: Sanya Beach Covered with Garbage, Much like China's Governing Class
http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/pictures/sanya-beach-covered-with-garbage-embarrasses-chinese-netizens.html
*When those at the top don't care about their country, why should those at
the bottom?*
"Economic Treason"
Argh! I'd do something, ... but, ...
Osgoode law professor Gus Van Harten, an expert on such international
doings, quickly found out why. After reading the brief document, he
declared it a travesty and a formidable assault on Canada's democratic
traditions. For starters the deal gives Chinese investors more rights and
protections than Canadian entrepreneurs could ever win in China's
incredibly corrupt markets.
Moreover the deal "allows Chinese companies to sue Canada outside of
Canadian courts. Remarkably, the lawsuits can proceed behind closed doors.
This shift to secrecy reverses ... more »
Argo's Asinine Auteur and his American Audience:Are We Hostages to Hollywood History?
Student
demonstration, Washington, D.C., November 9, 1979
(Marion S. Trikosko)
Ben Affleck's new film, Argo, hit theaters today. It tells the tale of
six American diplomats who, having escaped the besieged Embassy in
Tehran in late 1979 and taken shelter at the home of the Canadian
ambassador Ken Taylor, were successfully smuggled out of Iran in a
daring Hollywood-produced CIA operation
Spain says ECB plan ready to be used, no blocking
*(Reuters) - Spain on Friday said a European bond-buying plan was fully
ready for use and that there was absolutely no political resistance from
within the euro zone to a Spanish bailout request.
*
The situation in Spain, which is considering seeking an aid program to ease
financing pressure, dominated talks between finance ministers at the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank semi-annual meetings in Tokyo.
The country is the latest epicenter of the euro zone debt crisis, which
started nearly three years ago, and investors believe it won't be able to
deflate a big budget gap, ... more »
If you intend to claim delay is prejudicial you MUST object to trial delay
*R. v. Findlater*, 2012 ONCA 685 notes that accepting a trial date without
comment may be taken as accepting the date is not problematic or at least
not significantly problematic:
"It was not that the trial judge found no prejudice, only that he had not
established the degree of prejudice claimed. As he said:
Where an accused does not suggest that a proposed trial date is going to
cause unacceptable prejudice and accepts that date without comment, it’s
reasonable to infer that *significant* prejudice will not occur. I draw
that inference in all the circumstances here. [Emphasis ad... more »
SaLuSa, October 12, 2012
Mike Quinsey - SaLuSa, October 12, 2012
SaLuSa, October 12, 2012
We like you have had to experience delays, but as long as we can still
complete our tasks as planned it does not cause us much concern. We can
easily adjust to the different situations we confront, but for you it means
more frustration because we cannot necessarily give you anything other than
the bare details of what is happening. Viewing your activities we see so
many groups grasping the mantle of freedom, and doing good work that is
speeding up the inevitable end of the last cabal. We shall be there to give
... more »
Forty-one hurt as Egypt's liberals and Islamists clash
*(Reuters) - Opponents and supporters of Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi
clashed in Cairo on Friday in the first street violence between rival
factions since the Islamist leader took office.
*
Islamists and their opponents threw stones, bottles and petrol bombs, and
some fought hand-to-hand, showing how feelings still run high between the
rival groups trying to shape the new Egypt after decades of autocracy, even
though the streets have generally been calmer since Mursi's election in
June.
The state news agency cited a doctor at a hospital near Tahrir saying 41
people had been inju... more »
Professor Jacob Hacker Gives Wall Street Shill Ed Royce A Little Lesson In Economics
Not many DC pundits are following the campaign in California's suburban
39th congressional district (Hacienda Heights, Buena Park, La Habra,
Rowland Heights, Diamond Bar, Chino, Yorba Linda, Fullerton. Brea and
Placentia). It's a swing district where McCain edged Obama 49-47% under the
new boundaries. Ed Royce didn't represent much of it, although he's being
called the incumbent. And the challenger is Jay Chen, a local school board
president and committed smart progressive. This summer he was endorsed by
Blue America.
Royce is basically known for two things: his devotion to his Wa... more »
The tyranny of the split-screen presentation strikes the U.S. once again!
*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012*
*Biden's grins fuel the search for distraction:* Last night, the Biden-Ryan
debate ended shortly after 10:30.
By 10:40, the discussion on MSNBC had descended to what follows. This isn’t
Rachel Maddow’s fault—and what Steve Schmidt says here isn’t wrong:
MADDOW (10/11/12): Let’s go now to Steve Schmidt, who’s a senior adviser to
the McCain/Palin campaign in 2008.
Watching this as a Republican, Steve—I will just say in the room here, us
all watching together, we were all much more riveted than we were last week
during the presidential debate. But, what’s yo... more »
More Deaths Amounting from Meningitis Contaminated Shots
Lisa Garber
We reported on October 9th that contaminated steroids have sickened 105
people with a noncontagious but deadly form of fungal meningitis, with 8
people dying. Steroids contaminated with fungus have claimed two more
victims since Wednesday. In total, 14 have died and 170 have been sickened
from a rare fungal meningitis in 11 states since the outbreak.
*13,000 may Have Been Exposed*
Though the condition is not transmitted from person-to-person, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that about 13,000 patients
may have been injected with the contamin... more »
James McEnteer : I Drank the Booze Today, Oh Boy
Cover art by Lynn Hatzius from Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses.
Losing the plot:
I drank the booze today, oh boy
Barney considers himself devoted to the Rodney King school of public thought: why can’t we all just get along?
By James McEnteer / The Rag Blog / October 12, 2012
Down at the neighborhood tavern, I was listening for the umpteenth time to my friend Barney lament how food stamps are
Student RFID Chipping Conditions American Youth to Accept Government Surveillance
Susanne Posel, *Contributor*
A school in Maryland has installed PalmSecure, a biometric scanning system
that requires elementary students to place their hand on infrared scanners
in order to pay for their school lunch. The unique nuances of each child’s
individual hand will be catalogued and the image encrypted with a numerical
algorithm that is combined with the cost of school lunches.
PalmSource, a Japanese corporation specializing in biometric technology offers
this “authentication system” which is a marketed as a necessity in
healthcare, security, government, banking, retail... more »
New Jersey nonsensically claims DHS-funded “Text Against Terror” program is a success
Madison Ruppert, *Contributor*
Despite the fact that there isn't a single act of terrorism prevented or
hindered by the Department of Homeland Security-funded “Text Against
Terror” program in New Jersey, the state is hilariously claiming that the
program is a success.
This $5.775 million federally funded endeavor is quite similar to the
myriad of programs operating under the banner of homeland security that
prove to be a complete failure like the fusion centers which put out“a
bunch of crap” according to a recent Senate panel.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a pro... more »
Huw Beynon and Steve Davies : Bruce Springsteen Brings on the Wrecking Ball
Bruce
Springsteen performs earlier this year with the E Street Band at the
Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Photo by Mike Coppola /
Getty Images.
Bring on your wrecking ball:
The politics of Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen's patriotism is a central part of his being. He describes it
as an 'angry sort of patriotism,' something that he doesn’t want to
cede to 'the Right side of the
Expressing a Patriotic Core
The intention of this post is to examine the brief "persuasive," personal
narrative (fiction) and promotional piece in *The Atlantic Monthly* titled
"How Self-Expression Damaged My Students" by Robert Pondiscio. Of course,
it's hardly worth doing as it carries nothing but assertion and anecdote,
exactly the sort of thing one ought to be opposed to when discussing how to
analyse writing as an informational conveyance with very rigid rules for
construction.
And as Pondiscio seems only able to compose marketing copy we can dismiss
his "content" as serving an economic and ideological ... more »
Alert
Radiation levels rising in areas around US.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/12/realtime-epa-radnet-japan-nuclear-radiation-monitoring-every-us-city-single-page-16511/
also
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/10/radiation-continues-spreading-and.html
WSJ: Corn, Soybean Futures Jump
October 12, 2012 p. C7 by O. Fletcher and B. Tomson
[Excerpted] "Corn and soybean prices rallied after the U.S. government
forecast tighter supplies of the two crops next year than analysts
expected. Corn futures jumped 5% to a one-month high, while soybeans rose
1.7%"
Majia here: Rising food prices and declining availability promise social
unrest in poor countries as hunger, perhaps even starvation, looms.
Majia's Blog: US *Drought* Worsens
Aug 05, 2012
[Excerpted] The historic drought of 2012 is intensifying in the most
parched areas of the American heartland, roasting much of th... more »
New US-Canada Border Regime: Deep Integration and the North-American Homeland
*Global Research*
*Dana Gabriel*
*
*
*The Beyond the Border deal announced in December 2011 represents the most
significant step forward in U.S.-Canada cooperation since NAFTA. Dual
action plans are further transforming trade, regulatory and security
relations between both countries. Over the next few years, various
cross-border initiatives will be rolled out, with some beginning as pilot
programs. The U.S. and Canada have laid the framework for a new border
regime which is taking their partnership to the next level and pushing the
continent closer to a fully integrated North Americ... more »
WSJ: Money Funds Take Hit
October 12, 2012 by N. Tadena
[Excerpt] "Assets in money-market funds fell by $1.38 billion in the week
ended Wednesday as withdrawals from retail funds more than offset gains to
institutional funds" p. C3
Previous Posts
Majia's Blog: SEC Refuses to Vote for New Rules Aimed at Securing *...*
Aug 24, 2012
[paraphrasing] SEC Chairman Schapiro gave legislators a report on the risks
of money market funds without approval of other commissioners so the
commissioners decided they would not back her vote designed to protect *...*
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/
Majia's Blog: No Net for Mo... more »
An al Qaeda-linked group reportedly fought alongside rebels who seized a Syrian missile base on Friday.
*10:59AM EDT October 12. 2012 -*
BEIRUT (AP) — A shadowy jihadi group believed to be linked to al-Qaeda
fought alongside rebels who seized a government missile defense base in
Syria on Friday, activists said, heightening fears that extremists are
taking advantage of the chaos to acquire advanced weapons.
Videos posted online Friday said to have been shot inside the base said the
extremist group, Jabhat al-Nusra, participated in the overnight battle for
the air defense base near the village of al-Taaneh, east of Aleppo in
northern Syria. The videos show dozens of fighters inside the... more »
Cyberattacks Could Become as Destructive as 9/11: Panetta
*U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the Pentagon and American
intelligence agencies are seeing an increase in cyber threats that could
become as devastating as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks if they aren’t stopped.
*
“A cyber attack perpetrated by nation states or violent extremist groups
could be as destructive as the terrorist attack of 9/11,” Panetta said last
night. “Such a destructive cyber terrorist attack could paralyze the
nation.”
The Defense Department is drafting new rules that will allow the military
to defend U.S. “national interests” in addition to its own computer... more »
Europe's Nobel peace prize: bad timing all round
*Is it right of the Nobel committee to award this year's peace prize to the
European Union at a time when the EU is facing the gravest existential
crisis of its 55-year history, and when the continent's elected leaders
have repeatedly failed to resolve an economic conundrum which is largely of
its own devising? No, I don't think it is.*
It smacks of bad timing, just as the committee's award of the same prize to
Barack Obama in 2009 – when he'd barely sat down in the Oval Office – was
toe-curlingly premature. It damaged the new president's standing at home
(where plenty of US voters... more »
EU summit countdown stokes tension
*Oct. 12 - Market tensions ease as Spain says Europe's bond-buying fund is
ready for action, but the countdown to next week's EU summit could see
tensions rise again.*
go back to sleep
No,
there's nothing on the moon,
go back to sleep.
Turkey scrambles fighter plans to Syrian border
*Oct. 12 - Turkey scrambles two fighter planes along the border with Syria
after a Syrian military helicopter bombed a border town. Deborah Lutterbeck
reports.*
Jihadists join rebels to seize Syrian air defence near Aleppo
If Al-Jazeera says it is a jihadist group then it probably is:
Story
BEIRUT—A shadowy jihadi group believed to be linked to Al Qaeda fought
alongside rebels who seized a government missile defence base in Syria on
Friday, activists said, heightening fears that extremists are taking
advantage of the chaos to acquire advanced weapons. … A report by a
correspondent with the Arabic satellite network Al-Jazeera who visited the
base Friday said Jabhat al-Nusra had seized the base. The report showed a
number of missiles and charred buildings, as fighters covered their faces
with black cl... more »
Out Damned Spot
Oil in new Gulf slick matches that of 2010 spill. By Steven Mufson and
Joel
Achenbach. The Washington Post October 10, 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/oil-in-new-gulf-slick-matches-that-of-2010-spill/2012/10/10/1f2b937c-1336-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story.html[Excerpted]
The oil in a slick detected in the Gulf of Mexico last month matched oil
from the Deepwater Horizon spill two years ago, the Coast Guard said
Wednesday night, ending one mystery and creating another.
“The exact source of the oil is unclear at this time but could be
residual
oil associated with the ... more »
IF YOU'VE HAD ANY DOUBTS THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS ABOVE THE LAWS THAT PERTAIN TO YOU AND ME, AFTER WATCHING THIS THEY'LL BE GONE WITH THE WIND.
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*Leading US Officials Support Terrorist Listed Group with Impunity*
Michael Ratner Report: Supreme Court finds Telecoms won’t be prosecuted for
illegal wiretapping
*Watch full multipart The Ratner Report*
More at The Real News
*Bio*
Michael Ratner is President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional
Rights (CCR) in New York and Chair of the European Center for
Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin. He is currently a legal ... more »
Commenting on the failure of an accused to testify
*R. v Prokofiew* 2012 SCC 49 , released today, deals with, among other
things, a judge commenting on the failure of an accused to testify.
Section 4 (6) of the Canada Evidence Act provides:
The failure of the person charged, or of the wife or husband of that
person, to testify shall not be made the subject of comment by the judge or
by counsel for the prosecution
The Court points out that the words “subject to comment” really means
subject to adverse comment – the Court may point out, where appropriate,
that the failure to testify is not to be taken against the accused:
[3] ... more »
It’s time for Jeff Zeleny to go!
*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012*
*Fox friend steals from Goofus and Gallant:* Whatever you think of last
night’s debate, it’s time for Jeff Zeleny to go.
Zeleny is the timid fellow who represents the New York Times in panel
discussions on Special Report. That's on the Fox News Channel.
He’s also the fellow who wrote the Times’ front-page report about last
night’s debate. In our view, it’s time for this hackster to go:
ZELENY (10/12/12): *Biden and Ryan Quarrel Aggressively in Debate, Offering
Contrasts*
It was the debate that President Obama and Mitt Romney did not have a week
ago.
Vic... more »
Reality Show
By Capt. Fogg
Oh *who cares* whether Ryan or Biden "won" this TV spectacle? Vice
presidents don't count, unless you think about Cheney, and although Romney
is a sock puppet with the strong arm of the radical authoritarians making
his lips move, I don't see him being led around by Ryan as another Darth
Cheney. Who cares anyway? It's not as though the public has become smarter
or has learned from experience. These things are only a game and never,
ever does a President resemble in office what he tried to resemble on
camera and the platform they sell at the convention is rarely more... more »
ADHD Drugs Prescribed to ‘All Academically Struggling’ Children
Dees Illustration Lisa Garber
There is a frightening new trend in the medical community: prescribing
psychoactive stimulant medication to children from low-income families to
boost their academic performance. To be more clear, doctors are actually
prescribing ADHD drugs to students who are academically struggling. Here’s
the kicker: the kids don’t have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD).
*Evening the Scales*
One proponent of the trend, Dr. Michael Anderson, says that ADHD is a “made
up…excuse” for the real illness, which is a social and educational
environment unwi... more »
Untitled
*The Many Lies of BountyGate~Saints Win*
*ESPN report: Vilma appeal calls for Goodell recusal based on bias*
*The Jefferson Parish Politico Mafioso: A reign of uninterrupted criminal
malfeasance and ‘quid pro quo’ corruption. A Whitmergate guest post Part 4
~Slabbed*
*Food trucks: ‘Let the public decide’ ~Danny Monteverde, Advocate*
*Crecent City Blues and BBQ Festival
*
The Cheshire Cat's Sodomization of Goober and Other Tales of Republican Woe
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)
The late, great Hunter S. Thompson once described Vice President Joe Biden
as "a rabid weasel on speed." At several times during last night's debate
in Mitch McConnell land (henceforth referred to as the place where "No!"
went to thrive), the good gonzo journalist arose literally from his own
ashes and reminded us why his wisdom and spot-on caricatures are still so
relevant and necessary.
Hosted by *ABC*'s Martha Raddatz, the woman to whom Dick Cheney once said,
"So?" when she'd told him 2/3's of the American people thought in... more »
Man held in mental health detention to finally get a trial — or will he?
image source Janet Phelan
Charlie Castle, who has been battling to get his day in court since he was
grabbed off the street by two workers from the San Bernardino mental health
court over a year ago, may finally get to see a judge today.
Charlie’s plight has raised disturbing questions as to the reasons for the
zealousness with which he was systematically robbed of all of his rights,
including his right to have a jury trial on his alleged mental health
issues. Speculations have run the gamut—from rumors of enormous wealth
inherited by Castle, who has been homeless for over a de... more »
IDF on guard for Iranian-Hizballah drones from Palestinian Gaza
The Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s threat Thursday night of more UAV’s
over Israel aroused concern in the Israeli high command that Iranian drones
had been smuggled into the hands of the Palestinian Hamas extremists ruling
the Gaza Strip. He implied that Tehran or Hizballah might ask Hamas to
release them over Israel, possibly in coordination with UAV intrusions from
Lebanon.
After rolling out Hizballah statistics claiming Israel had violated
Lebanese airspace 20, 864 times (!), Nasrallah said in his televised
speech: “This is our natural right and we will send them whenever w... more »
Austerians at the Gate
You could tell the fix was in just by the way Martha Raddatz phrased her
question at the creepy veepy debate last night:
MS. RADDATZ: Let’s talk about Medicare and entitlements.
Both Medicare and Social Security are going broke and taking a larger share
of the budget in the process. Will benefits for Americans under these
programs have to change for the programs to survive, Mr. Ryan?
Social Security is not an entitlement and it's not going broke. It has not
contributed one penny to the almighty deficit. It's not part of the United
States budget. But Beltway insider Martha Raddatz... more »
The EU Peace Prize
Daniel Nexon at - 13 hours ago
Erik Voeten is pleased: The Realist argument about the importance of the
U.S. security umbrella is probably correct. Yet, the dire predictions
regarding the future of European integration have yet to materialize.
Indeed, the EU sped up its integration considerably … Continue reading →World’s largest reinsurance firm: Climate change causing rise in weather disasters
[image: Two tornadoes struck New York City on 8 September 2012. One swept
out of the sea and hit a beachfront neighborhood and the second, stronger
twister hit moments later. Jake Dobkin / AP]
By Doyle S. Rice
10 October 2012
The number of natural disasters per year has been rising dramatically on
all continents since 1980, but the trend is steepest for North America
where countries have been battered by hurricanes, tornadoes, floods,
searing heat and drought, a new report says.
The study being released today by Munich Re, the world's largest
reinsurance firm, sees climate chang... more »
LEHRER’S RERUN: Jim Lehrer, before and after!
*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012*
*Epilogue—By law, the gods can’t be wrong:* Did Jim Lehrer do something
wrong at last week’s debate?
He may have been following orders! After Lehrer was criticized for his
performance, the guild did what it always will do:
It rose in defense of its gods.
In Politico, Dylan Byers quoted Lehrer defending his own performance. “I’ve
always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it,” Lehrer
said. “The moderator should be seen little and heard even less.”
That was Lehrer on Lehrer. In a separate report, Byers quoted Janet Brown,
boss of the debat... more »
Kashmiri farmers face drought losses without government support – Spring and autumn have disappeared due to climate change – ‘We are helpless before nature’
[image: Muhammad Saddique looks at his drought-stunted maize crop in
Chakohti, in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, after the summer 2012 rains
failed. ALERTNET/Roshan Din Shad]
By Roshan Din Shad
10 October 2012
CHAKOTHI, Pakistan (AlertNet) – The failure of Muhammad Saddique’s maize
crop following a three-month drought has left him threatened with lack of
food and economic ruin.
But the government of Pakistani-administered Kashmir, where Saddique lives,
seems unprepared and unable to help farmers like him adapt to changing
weather patterns that are linked to climate change, he ... more »
"The Largest Economy In The World Is Imploding Right In Front Of Our Eyes"
*"The Largest Economy In The World Is Imploding Right In Front Of Our Eyes"
*
by The Economic Collapse
"A devastating economic depression is rapidly spreading across the largest
economy in the world. Unemployment is skyrocketing, money is being pulled
out of the banks at an astounding rate, bad debts are everywhere and
economic activity is slowing down month after month. So who am I talking
about? Not the United States - the economy that I am talking about has a
GDP that is more than two trillion dollars larger. It is not China either -
the economy that I am talking about is more t... more »
China’s epic traffic nightmares
[image: Drivers check for a better view during 'Car Free Day' in Beijing.
Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty Images]
By Charles Riley
7 October 2012
(CNN Money) – More people live in China than any other country, and in 2010
it surpassed the United States as the largest car market on Earth. As the
popularity of automobiles grows, China's infrastructure has struggled to
keep pace.
The result is – like anywhere else in the world – traffic jams.
Yet traffic jams in China are not always brief hiccups during the evening
commute. In fact, the worst jams in China, while rare, can last f... more »
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs Taiwan Issue
*Pre-game warmups.*
Some great stuff here. The Sullivan/Sapir article is really good and you
should track down Sullivan's articles on Chen Shui-bian's discourse, which
I keep forgetting to blog on. Sullivan loves Taiwan and is a very
insightful writer and thinker. The Schubert "analysis" of the election is
basically a Grand Narrative Establishment rehash (you're probably better
off with mine). The European integration piece is quite balanced all things
considered; I haven't had a chance to read the others.
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
OPEN ACCESS
Content alert: Issue 3/20... more »
Seven states, seven warning signs of global warming
[image: A firefighter walks in front of burning trees during the 2011
Wallow fire in Arizona, which burned more than 538,000 acres and was the
biggest in state history, 10 June 2011. According to NOAA's National
Climatic Data Center, the damages from U.S. wildfires in 2011 exceeded $1
billion. Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press]
By Dan Turner
18 September 2012
As the signs that the world is warming grow ever more unmistakable, one of
the ironies of the American political debate on the topic is that leaders
in the states being most heavily affected are often those least incline... more »
European Union Nobel Peace Price Award - What the public are saying
*NOTE: In the past 2 years Democracy has gone in reverse in Europe with
several European Countries losing their full democracy status when they
were downgraded to Flawed Democracy Status*
Mark Dobrzanski
1:48 PM on 12/10/2012
Did I read that right? "EU" and "democracy" in the same sentence?? Awarding
this prestigious award to the new (E)USSR cheapens and demeans previous
DESERVED award winners.
Raymond Vermont
1:16 PM on 12/10/2012
The expansion of the EU is very likely to create future military conflict
not prevent it.
Wilfred Lavagna
1:06 PM on 12/10/2012
The committee should ta... more »
“America's New Great Depression?"
*“America's New Great Depression?*"
Sluggish Economic Growth, Staggering National Debt
by Dr. Rossen Vassilev
“The American economy is caught between the Scylla of sluggish economic
growth and the Charybdis of a staggering national debt aggravated by
Washington’s unyielding partisan deadlock over taxes and spending cuts.
After the Great Recession of 2008, the approaching “fiscal cliff” at the
end of this year threatens to cause even more economic havoc and bring
about another recession which some “doom-and-gloom” economists darkly
predict may turn into a new Great Depression.
Th... more »
Rob Ford is making Mel Lastman look like a genius
According to Mel Lastman, Mayor Rob Ford is making former Mayor Lastman
“look like a genius.”
Mel Lastman, who was Toronto’s outspoken mayor from 1998 to 2003, said
Wednesday at a Brampton Bad Boy store opening that Rob Ford’s stubbornness
is putting the city in jeopardy.
“All I know is since I’ve left (politics), I look like a genius,” said
Lastman, age 79.
“I’m not a genius, obviously, but he makes me look like one. I know him,
he’s stubborn and stubborn sometimes is good, but not constantly. You can’t
be that stubborn and run a city.”
Since taking the mayoral office ... more »
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Live Tweets From Last Night's VP Debate
Live blogging or tweeting a debate surely isn't on a par with running into
burning buildings, facing armed criminals or defusing bombs in a war zone.
It's not a heroic endeavor yet there's a demand for it and requires special
skills such as thinking on one's feet while multitasking in a rapid-fire
social networking environment such as Twitter. What follows below are some
of the better dispatches launched from my laptop last night as I listened
to the debate on C-Span last night. (The @ShitWillardSez parody account is
mine, too.)
C-Span: HBO for nerds. #VPDebate #p2 #p21
— Robert Cr... more »
4.9 Magnitude Earthquake GULF OF PARIA, VENEZUELA - 12th October 2012
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the GULF OF PARIA, VENEZUELA at a
depth of 12.3 km (7.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:16:19 UTC Friday 12th
October 2012
The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) SSE of Yaguaraparo, Venezuela
No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time
The most deluded comment of the year?
"Europe got through two civil wars in the 20th century and we have
established peace thanks to the European Union. So the European Union is
the biggest peacemaker in history"
Herman Van Rompuy after EU was awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
Someone explain that at the time of both world wars there was no
supranational body in Europe so these were not 'civil wars'. Also that the
EU is not a country yet and whilst I have breath left in me,I will fight to
ensure that the UK will not be a member of an EU superstar.
31 Days of Photo Props: Mom and Dad
While mom and dad my be frazzled trying to get their child ready for the
perfect picture, they usually get over looked, when they might actually be
the most important person in the photograph. When I worked in a portrait
studio, one of our goals was to always get mom or dad in at least three of
the photos. It didn't need to be their face, it could be their hands or
legs, but getting them into the photos was extremely important, even if
they didn't originally want to be in the pictures. Why? Because even if you
don't think you want to be in the picture, most parents end up loving
p... more »
Lawsuits Highlight the High Environmental Cost of Fossil Fuel Energy
Rachel Rindfleisch at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 15 hours ago
By: Duane Craig
Property owners in Arkansas’ Independence and Faulkner counties are up in
arms over hydraulic fracturing activities they say are pumping drilling
waste beneath their properties.
The property owners have filed a lawsuit against Southwestern Energy
Company, Chesapeake Energy Corp. and XTO Energy Inc. The plaintiffs claim
the drilling companies reduce royalties paid to landowners by the amount it
costs them to dispose of drilling fluids. In this case, the plaintiffs say
the companies are pumping the waste below ground and that waste is
migrating below neighboring prope... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Bob Mould, 52. As good as there is.
And some good stuff after all:
1. John Sides, pre-debate.
2. Joseph Cera on the Veep debate and public opinion.
3 Really good Adam Serwer item on Libya, Team Obama, and "politicization."
4. And Ann Friedman continues GIFing the debates.
Op-Ed on Climate Change and Disasters in The Denver Post
After Munich Re announced earlier this week for the eleventy-third time
that it had found the elusive "footprint" of climate change is disaster
loss data (it had apparently been hiding in the tail section of Amelia
Earhart's long-lost plane, who knew?), I was invited by The Denver Post to
write an op-ed.
Here is how it starts:
Over the years, the political debate over climate change has been waged on
many fronts. At various times at the center of the debate, we've seen green
jobs, SUVs, Al Gore and climate "deniers." The latest front in this battle
is extreme weather.
Earlier ... more »
EU: a Nobel Peace Prize?
I am left speechless by the information that the EU has won the Nobel peace
prize (Reuters; Nobel prize website). After Arafat, Gore+IPCC, and Obama,
among a few others, it's yet another incredible choice. The 2012 Nobel
prize in literature was just fine – a Chinese writer may be official but
he's still successful in the world and the success isn't due to his OK
links with the Chinese communist leadership. But a Nobel prize for the EU?
*Picture from Market Watch, "EU’s Peace Prize and the mockery of timing"
(click at it)*
It's not even clear what it means for the EU to win the ... more »
Comprehensive Survival Food List & Storage Guide
Rady Ananda
Survival food storage practice doesn’t require Mormon membership, but the
tradition, wrought from their first Utah winter, is worth emulating should disaster
strike ortechnology fail, two survival books by Mat Stein. This guide, Part
2 of my survival series, relies on Stein’s books, and websites dedicated to
survival preparedness.
At its most basic, food storage wisdom demands that you buy what you eat,
and organize and label the boxes or bins with contents and date. Stocks
should be rotated based on shelf-life longevity. Using Stein’s general
guide, when properly... more »
US Dollars and Soldiers Don't Have to Participate in Every War
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Why Did the Lawyer Put This in My Severance Agreement?: The Cooperation Clause
This continues my series of posts deconstructing the legal gobbeldy-goop in
employment agreements. Today I'll talk about a clause I often see in
severance agreements: the cooperation clause. It may look something like
this:
*Employee agrees to cooperate with Employer in connection with any legal
matters, if so requested by the Company, including agreeing to make himself
available at the Employer's request to assist with matters requiring the
provision of information and/or testimony.*
Yikes! My clients never like this and neither do I. And really, what good
do most employers think... more »
Turkey: 2 jets to border? Austere Challenge War Games Oct/Nov 2012
* UPDATED BELOW-SCROLL ON DOWN!*
It appears, *if this witness account is accurate*, Turkey may be acting to
shore up the positions their NATO backed terrorists have taken up in Syria.
If this report is correct, we know that Syria did not agree to that "buffer
zone" as Turkey was claiming earlier this week.
* Globe and Mail: Turkey sends two fighter planes to border after
opposition town bombed in Syria*
*Turkey scrambled two fighter planes to the border with Syria on Friday
after a Syrian military helicopter bombed the Syrian border town of
Azmarin, a Reuters witness said.*
Thi... more »
Turkey Scrambles Jets To Syrian Border
*Turkey has sent fighter planes to its border with Syria after a military
helicopter bombed the Syrian town of Azmarin.*
There has been intense fighting between rebels and Syrian government forces
this week in Azmarin and neighbouring towns,
an area strongly opposed to President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
Fighting along Turkey's 560-mile border with Syria has repeatedly spilled
over into Turkish territory in the past week, with the Turkish army
responding in kind to gunfire and mortar shells fired from Syria.
Turkey's chief of staff General Necdet Ozel said on Wednesday that his
troop... more »
CBS 60 Minutes: "The Threat From Huawei" - Oct 8, 2012
*The recent report by The US House Intelligence Committee concerning Huawei
is causing concern in Saskatchewan in view of the $70 Million dollar
contract recently signed between the Saskatchewan Party government and the
Chinese company.*
*60 Minutes did this feature based on the House Report. *
*Someone in Premier Wall's administration should watch this. *
Elites-- A Bunch Of Stuff... And Malarkey
When I woke up Thursday I hoped I might have slept through the VP debate.
But not even close. When I got downstairs the first thing I saw was a tweet
from Bernie Sanders about how the Waltons own so much of the country.
That's because no one has adopted the *DWT* Billionaire Extermination
Project-- new tax rates, back to the Eisenhower years. How about anything
over, say $5 million-- I'd compromise at $10 if I had to-- gets taxed at
91%. No loopholes of any kind for anyone with over $5 million net worth.
And then *actual* extermination for millionaire tax cheats-- *after* a fair
t... more »
Celebrities Lend Their Sarcasm For Your Right to Know About GMO Food
*YouTube - GoodFoodnH20*
Click here to help us get this ad on the air: http://fwwat.ch/Right2KnowTVAD
To learn more about Prop 37 and Food & Water Watch's campaign to make GE
Labeling the Law, visit www.foodandwaterwatch.org/yeson37.
"What makes you think you have the right to know?" asks Danny DeVito in a
witty, ironic public service announcement by the political action committee
sponsored by consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch in support of
Proposition 37. California's ballot initiative to label genetically
engineered foods. A diverse, all-star cast joins DeVito in the "Ri... more »
Hundreds flock to public meeting to debate restart of potentially dangerous San Onofre reactor
Image credit: Google Maps/Cryptome Madison Ruppert, *Contributor*
Over 850 people turned out at the recent public meeting debating the plan
to restart the highly contentious and potentially dangerous San Onofre
Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in Southern California which has
remained offline for almost nine months.
A report published earlier this year revealed that there is a distinct
possibility of even disasters occurring in the future which are
significantly larger than the radioactive leaks discovered earlier this
year which were later reviewed by a Nuclear Regulatory Commi... more »
3 Portland activists indefinitely detained for refusing to speak at grand jury hearing
Leah-Lynn Plante J.G. Vibes
Since late July, three activists have had their lives torn apart by the
police and the legal system, simply because they refused to answer any
questions in a grand jury case, regarding crimes that they have absolutely
no connection to. As of right now, all three are behind bars, with no clue
when they will be able to get out.
The most recent to be sent away was Leah-Lynn Plante, this week she
repeated the same process that she just watched her room mates go through.
After being summoned to speak twice and refusing to speak both times, the
prosecutors ... more »
A Lost Generation
While the Harper government touts its record for job creation, it never
mentions youth unemployment. That's because it focuses on its core
constituency -- baby boomers, like me, who have retired. For the
Harperites, the young don't matter. Indeed, they are a lost generation.
Carol Goar, in the *Toronto Star, *invites her readers to consider the
facts:
• The International Labour Organization (ILO) projects no change in the job
outlook for youth until 2016 at the earliest.
• Statistics Canada shows temporary and contract work is increasing at a
faster pace among young workers tha... more »
Bo Xilai Officially Taken Into Custody
On October 11, Epoch Times exclusively reported that
former party secretary of Chongqing Bo Xilai was officially taken into
custody in Qincheng Prison.
The report said that around 3:00 pm on October 7,
General Hospital of Beijing University of Aeronautics located in Beijing
Beiyuan was heavily guarded.
Taken into custody by a group of Qincheng prison's police,
Bo Xilai took a comprehensive physical examination.
It indicated that Bo has been formally taken into custody.
Its understood that General Hospital of Beijing University
of Aeronautics is the cooperation hospital of Qincheng pris... more »
Chile riot police use water cannon and tear gas to disperse student protesters
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