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Four prison officers have been injured in an attack by an inmate of
Birmingham prison - run by security firm G4S.
Sky News sources said the staff members were attacked and slashed with a
piece of broken glass.
Two officers suffered serious injuries while the other two were left with
minor cuts.
http://news.sky.com/story/1008770/prison-officers-injured-in-attack-at-g4s-jail
From Fantasy To Fact: Four Ways The Fake Media Creates A False Reality
*The mainstream media has abused its power. The global alternative media
is demanding accountability. *
*1. Hyper-attention On A Particular Event, Issue, and Mantra.*
The mainstream media exclusively focuses on a single storyline about an
event or an issue, which has the effect of marginalizing other points of
view that are equally valid, if not more so. Narratives, not facts and
objective data, have taken center stage in the aspiring journalist's mind.
Journalists and editors who oversee the making of the news play the same
role as screenwriters in the filmmaking process. Their... more »
Let's All Smoke A Fat One
I'm just kidding; I gave up smoking pot on December 1, 1970 in a sweltering
parking lot at the Pakistan-India border. It was a godsend-- but so were
all the years before that when I was using it. I was happy that voters in
Washington and Colorado have decriminalized the use of marijuana for
recreational usage and that Massachusetts legalized medical marijuana. Too
bad about Oregon's proposal to basically stop treating pot like some kind
of dangerous substance. A Fox contributor, Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist,
argues that the implications of legalized marijuana could be massive, mass... more »
RI Has ALEC House-cleaning To Do
Found this last night and almost spit my drink onto my keyboard.(There were
no nasty ALEC member DIAGEO brands in the glass either – I’ve changed my
ways.)
Perhaps the biggest local loss of the night belongs to American Legislative
Exchange Council, the ultra-right wing bill mill that had gained a toe hold
in the General Assembly. Both state chairs – Jon Brien and Frank Maher –
lost. Unless others step up – and they will – one of the most conservative
outside influences on the legislature has been all but eliminated. Good
riddance!!
No - I don't think what happened *to those two* ... more »
First Nations Women Activists of the Year
*First Nation Women named Activists of the Year*
Lois Frank*APTN National News reports*
http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2012/10/30/two-first-nation-women-named-activists-of-year/
The Council of Canadians call themselves Canada's largest citizen
organization known for its social and economic activism.
They took time out of their annual general meeting in Nanaimo, B.C. this
weekend to honour two First Nation women for their environmental bravery.
Chief Marilyn BaptisteThe Council of Canadians recognized both women as
activists of the year.
Lois Frank is from the Blood Reserve in Alberta.
Frank... more »
March Against the Banksters LA Nov. 9, 2012
.
in SOLIDARITY with JUSTICE FOR NIKO BLACK
Pershing Square - Downtown Los Angeles
532 S. Olive, Los Angeles, California 90013
We will be Feeding The People (F.T.P.) @ 1:30
We will then proceed to march on the banks. Yes we said it, Banks.
** BRING CARDBOARD/SIGNS!!
Enough is enough.
"The banks have emptied us out of our homes, and thrown us either to the
street or into jails for defending our right to housing.
Banks not only tie into the housing crisis, they tie into the prison
industrial complex, military industrial complex, the hunger crisis, and
student debt crisis.
... more »
Important Health News: Real History - Vaccines NOT Responsible For Halting Infectious Diseases Of 20th Century!
I am still surprised and shocked when I pass by Pharmacies here in Canada,
and see multitudes of people lining up like sheep to get their "free flu
shots". I have stopped several of these poor suckers over the last few
weeks and tried to warn them that they should not be fooled by the lies by
the government and big Pharmaceutical companies, and that vaccines do not
work. The response has not been positive in most cases.. Some people have
called me a wide assortment of names, and in most cases have said flat out
that "I do not know what the hell I am talking about". It has got to... more »
School of Americas Watch: Protest US Torture Nov. 16-18, 2012
*School of Americas Watch: Speakers and Musicians at Fort Benning, Ga.
Vigil Nov. 16-18, 2012*
*Posted at Censored News*
*http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com*
**
*From November 16-18, 2012, thousands of human rights activists, torture
survivors, anti-war veterans, students, families, union workers, nuns,
artists, and others will converge at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, to
call on the Obama administration to end the U.S. militarization of the
Americas, and to close the School of the Americas (SOA/ WHINSEC)! Fore more
information visit SOAW.org
Here's a list of some of the featur... more »
The Global Warming Fraud: Important Video - The Global Warming Lie
I have for years now been telling people that man made "Global Warming" is
a massive fraud and a hoax perpetrated by some swindlers who want to impose
on people everywhere their scam called "Carbon Taxation".
One huge problem now is that with Barry Soetoro back in office as President
of the United States for the next 4 years, one of his agendas is to bring
in fraudulent Carbon taxation on already overtaxed US citizens very soon!
I came across the following excellent video entitled: "The Global Warming
Lie - John Coleman" that actually came out over a year ago that I want to
share ... more »
I'm a sucker for Disney
Growing up, my parents instilled me a work ethic, a love of reading and
writing and of course a deep love of everything Disney. I think almost
every vacation we took as children involved Mickey Mouse in some aspect. My
first trip to Disneyland ended up with the chicken pox for me, but it was a
great trip anyway because it was at Disneyland.
We went to Disneyland quite a few times throughout my childhood.
And Disney World in my teenage years. How many people can say they were
photo bombed by Pluto?
I love Disney so much that my husband took me to Disneyland on our
Honeymoon. We... more »
MORE TESTS!!!! SKrashen & CBirmingham comment
My comment on “Final College-Readiness Definition Guides Test Consortium,”
Ed Week, Nov 7.
What does it mean to be college-ready? What does it mean to be eager to
inflict yet another battery of tests on our test-weary educational system?
What does it mean to ignore the evidence that high school grades are an
excellent predictor of college success?
I think it means more profit for testing and computer companies (tests must
be administered online), who never seem to be satisfied, who want an ever
larger share of our tax dollars. I think it means more of “take from the
needy and give ... more »
Jason Helvingston: College Park, Orlando man fights to keep vegetable garden in front yard while city declares it "illegal"
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/College-Park-man-fights-to-keep-vegetable-garden-in-front-yard/-/1637132/17319262/-/14pb6cjz/-/index.html
History of Western Injustices Against Iran
The following is an excerpt from a *comment by "Smith," on the website 'The
Race For Iran,'* in the article, "Flynt Leverett on the Illusion of a
Syrian “Opposition”—and the Real Requirements for Conflict Resolution in
Syria."
1- Western countries led by UK started to steal Iran’s hydrocarbon reserves
specially oil from 1901 and this oil was the only oil UK used during world
war I and world war II. All royal navy ships and planes and trucks running
in Europe, Africa or South Asia was being fueled by Iranian oil which
Iranians never got paid for. Infact UK had nationalized Iranian o... more »
Poll: Nearly One Third Of Americans Would Accept ‘TSA Body Cavity Search’ in Order to Fly
http://www.infowars.com/poll-nearly-one-third-of-americans-would-accept-tsa-body-cavity-search-in-order-to-fly/
"Wake up," Rachel Maddow says to right-wingers whose reality bubble has been punctured. "will be a painful process, but it will be good for the whole country"
*APOLOGIES FOR THE LACK OF PARAGRAPHING IN THIS POST*, but the new software
forced on us by our host, Blogger, is the worst software in the history of
the universe. I've been struggling with it for a couple of months now, and
I'm very near the end. I have tried putting the paragraph breaks back in
every way I know how about ten times. Nobody at either Blogspot or its
current owner, Google, seems to give the slightest damn about the
screeching incompetence of their godforsaken pile-of-crap product. I can't
begin to tell how much I hate them, and what horrible things I wish for
them. ... more »
Alex Jones - Absolute "Red Hot" Despotism
Obaaama will not save America, he is helping the bankters and globalists to
destroy America.
The patent bargain
*Teva Canada Ltd. v. Pfizer Canada Inc*. 2012 SCC 60 deals with the patent
on the well known drug Viagra. The Court holds the patent invalid on the
basis proper disclosure was not made when the patent was sought. The Court
writes:
[32] The patent system is based on a "bargain", or
quid pro quo: the inventor is granted exclusive rights in a new and useful
invention for a limited period in exchange for disclosure of the invention
so that society can benefit from this knowledge. This is the basic policy
rationale underlying the Act. The patent bargain encour... more »
#RoadTrip : So, where am I this time?
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Time for Obama to Change Course on Education
From an engineer and a scientist who sees the damage of current corporate
education reform and can't understand why Obama can't just do the
arithmetic.
A call for President Obama to change course on educationBy Arthur H. Camins
, Updated: November 7, 2012
* Arthur H. Camins is director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering
and Science Education at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.*
With the election behind us, it is time for the Obama administration to
step back from its education policy and access whether its foundation is
sound and supported by evidence. It is... more »
I just want to thank you, for letting me, be myself -- again
Another sweet moment for the 2012 archives: President Obama thanks the OFA
staff.
[More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
Obama aims to start nuclear talks with Iran next month
http://www.debka.com/article/22505/Obama-aims-to-start-nuclear-talks-with-Iran-next-month
Imminent Monetary System Collapse - Sheikh Imran Hosein
"I believe that Obama has bought time for the US dollar and the time is now
up. Whether it was Obama or Romney, time for the US dollar is up. And so
the immediate future is one in which we should not only be looking
carefully at signs of a military attack on Iran, on Pakistan, on Syria,
but, in addition to that, that we monitor very carefully the likelihood of
a monetary collapse." - Sheikh Imran Hosein.
Source: 108morris108.
Black mob kidnaps and gang rapes 14 year old girl on her way to school in North Lawndale, Chicago
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/11/07/police-issue-community-alert-after-girl-abducted-raped-on-way-to-school/
ELECTION 2012 / Marilyn Katz : On Women Making a Difference
Women
win big: Clockwise, from top: Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin, and
Claire McCaskill. Image from PopSugar.
Making a difference:
On women and the election
We are not red states and blue states, we are blue cities (and suburbs)
in red states, filled with the young, the diverse, the women -- who are
the rising tide.
By Marilyn Katz / The Rag Blog / November 8, 2012
CHICAGO -- The
Over 600,000 Votes in Az have NOT Yet Been Counted
AZ Central
Dennis Wagner
Voters across the Valley encountered a series of problems when they tried
to cast their ballots on Tuesday at their polling places.
Many complained about long waits for provisional ballots, which are given
to those who don’t show up on the poll roster or fail to produce proper
identification.
Officials with Promise Arizona in Action, an organization that advocates
immigration reform and fights discrimination, said they are concerned that
poll workers were given pre-election instructions that may have forced the
huge number of provisional ballots. They als... more »
ELECTION 2012 / Jonah Raskin : A View from California
"California Dreaming." Art by Tom Horner / Dribble. Inset image below from San Francisco Sentinal.
A view from California:
Which way the wind blows
Obama’s reelection is only the beginning. The hard work of transforming the nation lies ahead
By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / November 8, 2012
SANTA ROSA, California -- Watching national politics from the coast of California, where I live, and
Election night 2012 in pictures
As I said earlier, I don't gloat over winning. I remember too well the
morning after 2004. Walking to work in lovely downtown Northampton. It was
eerily quiet. Streets were full of people wandering around in stunned
silence. Dread settled over that little, very liberal city like a funeral
shroud. This is how conservatives are feeling today. Just because their
beliefs are founded on the longest, most concentrated and effective
disinformation campaign in the history of civilization doesn't make their
emotional response any less real. So no, I'm not inclined to rub it in.
That being s... more »
South Korea's Secret: secret: Runaway teen prostitution
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/11/201211765417647799.html
PROJECT CAMELOT: Shadow Operations: The Mars Project Part 1-5
Thanks to GW Hardin for letting me know this was already online!
NOT PJ: Dunedin Born and Brewed
*This week, Bernard Darnton is drinking locally, and thinking globally*.
*Dunedin Born and Brewed*
Emerson’s Brewery, a Dunedin icon, was sold to Lion on Tuesday and so is
now part of Kirin Holdings, the Japanese brewer. (Kirin, in turn, is part
of the Mitsubishi keiretsu, making it a sort of drinking-and-driving
conglomerate.)
I drove down to Dunedin the day after the announcement to check that the
beer was still OK. It was.
The brewery itself is still in a crappy little industrial building in North
Dunedin. You can still take in your empty plastic Coke bottle and get the
recept... more »
Chemtrails. The Realities of Geoengineering and Weather Modification
Global Research
Professor James
[image: chemtrails]
*Over the past decade evidence has increasingly emerged indicating how
geoengineering and weather modification programs designed to inflict major
impacts on the atmosphere and environment are fully operational.*
*Despite such developments the CO2-specific anthropogenic theory of global
warming touted by foundation-funded environmental groups and public
relations dominates much of popular discourse and the prevailing worldview
of intellectuals.*
By drawing attention away from actually existing efforts of atmospheric
experimentation... more »
IDF ground forces enter Gaza after finding tunnel packed with explosives
http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-ground-forces-enter-gaza-to-find-explosives-planted-along-border/
Europe to get Massive anti-indigenous Terrorist Training Centres
The colonisation of Europe is continuing at an ever faster pace. In every
State of the European Union, the traitors in power are using every tool at
their disposal to destroy indigenous culture, and to infest our shores with
people who despise us and our way of life.
The 'French' President has stated a desire to allow Hundreds of Thousands
of Algerians to become full French citizens; not caring a damn about how
this will destroy social cohesion, increase unemployment and turn France
into a North African Arab slum. The so-called socialist is nothing but a
materialistic tyrant who ... more »
'Assad is completely demonized by the press' – RT’s interviewer
Russia Today
The Syrian conflict is exponentially more complicated than portrayed in the
press – and as for President Bashar Assad, he is a well-educated man who
has fallen victim to media demonization, says RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze.
RT: You were there, just returned. First of all, he is painted as such an
evil, evil man really in the situation, so clean-cut really. What was your
impression, first of all?
Sophie Shevardnadze: Of the man, or the situation?
RT: Both. Of the man – is he really who most of the media says he is? And
then, of the country, the people.
SS: The first th... more »
Elsewhere: Nominations, Biden
Yesterday at PP I wrote about executive nomination reform, and today at
Greg's place I talked about judicial nominations. For regular readers, it's
nothing especially new, but these are major issues, and I'll probably be
hitting on both quite often in the next few months.
And at PP today I urged Joe Biden to at least pretend he's running for
president, even if he really isn't. The more that a presidency can be
grounded in the incentives and the representative process of electoral
politics, the better.
Aerial Buyer's Remorse?
Ever buy something with all the bells and whistles only to realize you
spent a lot of money on fancy extras you'll never need or even use?
Don't blame the sales staff. They're in the business to "up sell" you
whenever possible. There's usually a lot more profit in a $400 widget
than in a $100 widget.
Our military leadership seem to be suckers for the "up sell." They
naturally want the latest and greatest. Theirs is a competitive business
and no one wants to be saddled with second-best or third-best.
The question today is whether our military brass has been "up sold" on the ... more »
LATE ON ELECTION NIGHT ELECTION RIGGER KARL ROVE INSISTED ON TELEVISION THAT ROMNEY WOULD HAVE A COME-FROM-BEHIND WIN IN OHIO. AND IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED BUT FOR HIS MOUTHING OFF...
*READ THIS E-MAIL FROM MARK CRISPIN MILLER TO HIS COLLEAGUES IN THE
ELECTION INTEGRITY MOVEMENT. BUT DO NOT MISS THE FORBES ARTICLE REPOSTED
BELOW, WHICH IN COMBINATION WITH KARL'S LATE-NIGHT BLABBING MUST HAVE LED
COOLER MINDS TO CALL OFF THE PROGRAMMED THEFT OF OBAMA'S LEAD IN OHIO.*
Mark Crispin Miller flanked by Arizona election integrity activists John
Brakey (left) and attorney Bill Risner (right)
(Photo credit, the blogger)
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From: markcrispinmiller@gmail.com
To: group
Sent: 11/7/2012 12:46:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Score o... more »
This week's Phil Space
A fascinating piece on the Runner’s High, how exercise can become literally
addictive:
Eight-and-a-half hours into the 100km (62m) Norfolk Coastal ultramarathon,
he pain in my legs and badly battered feet was almost overwhelming. I
desperately wanted to give in to the urge to curl up in a ball at the side
of the trail and shut my eyes.
Sixty-two miles is not particularly far in the ultrarunning world – and the
bleak, beautiful and flat Norfolk coastline may not be as hard on the legs
as the Alps or Hard Rock 100 – but it was further than I had ever run
before. The race pounded me ... more »
Caddyshack: We'll always have Benghazi, continued!
*THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012*
*"Agreeing with Greta" edition:* Based on our several brushes with
greatness, Greta van Susteren is a nice person.
Professionally, she's a rather strange duck. Last night, with the election
settled, she bent to the public will, starting her program thusly:
VAN SUSTEREN (11/7/12): *Is it time? Should Senate Democrats dump their
leader Senator Harry Reid?* He is single-handedly blocking progress on the
budget.
No doubt about it! If there’s one *obvious* lesson from this election, it
surely involves the need for Reid to go!
Whatever! Greta batted this top... more »
The hippies punched back
[Clay Bennett cartoon]
I was so exhausted yesterday from staying up almost night, had a post ready
to go and forgot to publish it. Yesterday I woke up in the middle of the
night so sick it was hours before I could go back to bed. Apparently my
dinner did not agree with me and I've been queasy all day. But just as
well, I suppose. Having lost at politics so many times in my life, I don't
like to gloat when we win and it's taken me this long to stop busting out
into the happy dance every five minutes.
Tuesday was a big night for liberals and progressive politics. Some
discouraging ... more »
Torches of Freedom
Wit's End - 6 hours ago
Upon seeing my last post about the missing autumn foliage, commenter John
left a link to a current television news series from WCAX, "Chasing
Vermont's Changing Leaves", which was nothing less than surreal. I have
more pleasing photographs that will come later in this post, but first,
given the dramatic difference in this year's fleeting fall season, I feel a
bit frantic and obligated to do some foliage forensics while there is still
some left. Can we just start with a picture from the same news
organization taken October 20, 2007 in Ferrisburg, Vermont, just to put
things in con... more »
Odd-Even Gas Rationing System Coming To New York City, Long Island: Hope & Oil Change?
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/08/gas-rationing-system-coming-to-new-york-city-long-island/
The Missing Dead
My wife has a client that is a property management company. Last week the
property management company had a tenant call in from Oceanside California
saying a blonde man dumped a dead Mexican man into their dumpster!
The police were called, the witnesses questioned by police. Yet nothing
was said on the evening news! Nothing in the newspaper and nothing on
Google!
This really has me wondering how many people are killed in this country and
nobody ever knows about it. How can something like this be suppressed?
New Hampshire Political Turnaround On Every Level
Democrats won back something like 8 state legislatures yesterday and
expanded their majorities in several others. That's important. For example, Democrats
won more seats in the Iowa Senate, which effectively ends the threat of
backward religionists reversing marriage equality in the state. And what
happened in New Hampshire was nothing short of astounding. Obama won the
state-- another of Mitt Romney's many home states-- with 366,089 (52.2%)
against Romney's 325,668 (46.4%). Simultaneously, voters fired the state's
two Republican congressmen, sleazy corporate whore Charlie Bass, an... more »
What Stands In The Way of Republican Revival
If the Republicans seriously want to attract minorities, they have to get
rid of bigots like Rush Limbaugh. This jackass can't help himself. You
can skip to the 3:00 mark where Rush explains the difference between light
skinned Cuban Hispanics and all those "others" adding that Cubans are
unpopular in the Hispanic community because they have a work ethic.
Sherbrooke industrial blast injures 17: Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/11/08/sherbrooke-explosion-industrial-park-pepin.html
My Fave Post-US Election Tweet ... (so far)
*(Click on pic to enlarge ... ) *
*Ha!*
you all forgot, didn't you, that this is a Free Planet
it wasn't a question, it was a statement
and this is - should be - a reminder how 'something happened along the
way', the planet's Diversities or Tribes got INVADED or OCCUPIED or WORSE
by the Corporate War Machine ... and yes it was called the Corporate War
Machine right back then when History (big H) was just being laid down on
papyrus and clay and in hymns to Our Lord God PROFIT.
The warmongers and the rapers and the asset strippers knew *thousands of
years ago* that the Corporate War Machine was the only thing worth
building; not LOVE, not PEACE, not HARMONY. None of the things ... more »
Enbridge, The Stephen Harper pipeline, British Columbia`s Coast Can be Sacrificed!
Watch our dear friend David Berner interviewing Rob Fleming
http://thebernermonologues.blogspot.ca/2012/11/enbridge-rob-fleming-ndp-mla.html
Enbridge Covers Up Oil with Grass - YouTube
Enbridge Oil Spill Cover-Up in Michigan - YouTube
Kalamazoo River Oil Disaster - 6 month Update - YouTube
Enbridge not liable for oil spills. Kalamazoo was unforeseeable - YouTube
Enbridge pipeline leaks oil in Illinois - YouTube
Robert Bateman - Not a Pretty Picture - YouTube
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The Straight Goods
Cheers Eyes Wide Open
10 imágenes fantásticas que tus ojos tienen que ver...
*Nota:* Haz click aquí o sobre el collage, para ver todas las imágenes.
Selectivity in the ICTR
Last Tuesday, Rwanda’s high court sentenced Victoire Ingabire to eight
years in prison for conspiring to harm the country through war and terror
and minimizing the 1995 genocide. Some of the evidence used against her
include questioning why no Hutu victims were mentioned in a genocide
memorial. While the case raised controversy in Rwanda because
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美国官员已明确表示，钓鱼岛属于美日安保条约“，这将要求美国帮助日本
美国藐视法律
American Scofflaw
这可能只是一个巧合，也没有必要担心。但美国已经悄然成立了一个强大的空中，陆地和海上舰队的对手不远处的日本和中国在东中国海有争议的岛屿。
的两艘海军航母战斗群和海军陆战队陆空特遣部队已经开始在西太平洋地区，可以方便地前往尖阁群岛。这是日本和中国的巡逻艇，在日益紧张的对峙。
然而，中国已经发誓要继续派遣巡逻船只进入领海，日本海上保安厅的船只已成立得分“保卫”的岛屿。
美国官员已明确表示，钓鱼岛属于美日安保条约“，这将要求美国帮助日本
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Jared Loughner Jailed For Life
A man who pleaded guilty to a deadly Arizona shooting rampage that wounded
a US Congresswoman has been jailed for life.
US District Judge Larry Burns sentenced Jared Loughner, 24, for the January
2011 attack in Tucson, Arizona, which left six people dead and several
injured.
He pleaded guilty to federal charges under an agreement that guarantees he
will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole.
http://news.sky.com/story/1008950/giffords-gunman-jared-loughner-jailed-for-life
Canada, The Road to Facism(chapters 5-6)
Written by Robin Mathews
*Economic, Politics, War, and Cold War*
(Pages 50-57)
In the national policy-making rooms of Canada, *A.J.M. Smith’s 1943
anthology *of Canadian poetry did not register – though its general
tendency was not wholly absent perhaps.That is because the opening months
of the Second World War (1939) threw Canada and the United States into
close discussion about the war in Europe and the threats to their own
territories. A tendency to genuflect to the U.S.A. may have been present
because the superiority of the U.S. – at least in power – was thrust before
Canadia... more »
FEMA offices shut 'due to bad weather'
A strong Nor'easter last night dumped heavy snow on the same region that
was pummeled by Superstorm Sandy last week - even forcing FEMA to shut
its
doors to families in need. The federal agency shuttered its recovery
centers, which were set up to offer assistance to those most affected by
the monster storm, and the Staten Island office closed 'due to bad
weather'. Pictured above is a devastated home in New Jersey.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2229316/East-Coast-fresh-chaos-thousands-stranded-power-Sandy-victims-hit-snow-storm.html
Questions About House Elections 2012
I don't have the answers to these, but I'm sure someone will after a while,
and I'm very interested to hear them. By the way, this reminds me that I
need to plug Brendan Nyhan's excellent column about what reporters could do
better with election results, including the key point that reporters aren't
well-situated to immediately offer causal explanations for relationships
which scholars will tease out (and often fight over) for years. At any
rate, here are the questions I'm wondering about in House elections 2012:
1. What effect to redistricting and gerrymanders actually play? This on... more »
Since Israel Owns The Track, Picking The Wrong Horse Doesn't Matter
*Look at them try to look all presidential and prime ministerial. It's so
cute.*
There is shock in Netanyahu's inner circle. His guy didn't win. Read, *"In
Israel, Worries of Netanyahu’s Pro-Romney Stance in 2nd Obama Term."*
But picking the wrong horse is not a big deal because the right-wing
extremist government Israel owns the track in Washington. 99% of US
politicians are slaves, but they act aggressive in public in order to hide
their subservient nature from the American people.
I'm sure Netanyahu and Obama will make up and wage war against Iran
together. Obama was never a... more »
You Are Not A Loan
In These Times
Rebecca Burns
Is a debt strike the future of Occupy?
Though the Occupy camps have disbanded, many organizers believe they’ve
found the next big tent under which the year-old movement can regroup:
debt. At the one-year anniversary celebration of Occupy Wall Street,
members of the group Strike Debt distributed 5,000 free copies of a “Debt
Resistors’ Operations Manual.”
Debt, Occupiers argue, is a new way of understanding what sets the 99%
apart from the 1%. With wages remain- ing stagnant as the cost of living
has increased, workers increasingly finance their day-to... more »
9/11 Truth Confronts Amy Goodman & Democracy Now! ~ Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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9/11 Truth Confronts Amy Goodman & Democracy Now! ~ Cal Poly San Luis
Obispo 20Oct12 - - - Mark Phillips, mechanical engineer, and member of
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth: (AE911TRUTH.ORG), had dinner with
Amy Goodman twice since 9/11, and was largely responsible for getting
Goodman on local public radio: KCBX FM 90.1, for the San Luis Obispo
county. Phillips provided Goodman with evidence of the controlled
demolition of all three World Trade Center skyscrapers on September 11,
2001 at a dinner, in New York, three years ago. At that dinner Phillips
gave Goodm... more »
Steven Kuhr, New York's emergency management director FIRED for sending Sandy relief crews to his OWN house to remove downed tree
Steven Kuhr, who was working in the state capital of Albany, reportedly
told emergency management crews to go to his house in Long Island and clear
a tree from his driveway.
The order was given a millions of people were without power and hundreds of
other needed recusing in the aftermath of the devastating storm that
ravaged New Jersey and New York.
The New York Times reports that Mr Kuhr called the Suffolk County Office of
Emergency Management after the storm and demanded county workers go to his
home in East Northport and remove the downed tree.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar... more »
Fears grow that Asian hornets are heading to Britain as killer insects sting man to death in France
Fears are growing that giant Asian hornets are headed for Britain by
2014
as the killer insects sting a man to death in France.
A 54-year-old married father-of-three died in the village of Coron on
Monday after disrupting a hornet’s nest while pruning a hedge.
The species, Vespa velutina, is four times the size of our native
honeybees
and has decimated the bee population in France.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2229975/Fears-grow-Asian-hornets-heading-Britain-killer-insects-sting-man-death-France.html
Pregnant Woman Stabbed At Liverpool School
A pregnant woman has been seriously injured after being stabbed repeatedly
within the grounds of a primary school.
http://news.sky.com/story/1008921/pregnant-woman-stabbed-at-liverpool-school
Youthful offender is younger than 29 years old
R. v. Smith, 2012 ONCA 761 points out that a youthful offender ceases to be
so at some point:
[3] We do not accept this submission. The appellant was 29 years old at
trial - other words, outside the normal criminal justice conception of a
young offender.
NATO Has Multiple War Aims - Sheikh Imran Hosein
Source: 108morris108.
DANIEL: Q & A After Release of Geoengineering Paper
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* *Questions and comments are in black font and Daniel’s responses are in
blue (Daniel is color-blind to red). **If you have additional comments add
them to either this posting or the Geoengineering paper, or the Time Lines
papers by Daniel. -AK*
*Aaron of soldierhugs.com comment: **Daniel can only outline whats
happening in the form of explaining the Science that THEY KNOW. But he
certainly cannot be the "savior" of mankind; for that is UP TO MANKIND.*
The bad guys are probably going to be more interested in my research than
the good guys! As I
mentioned, they liste... more »
5.1 Magnitude Earthquake TONGA - 8th November 2012
Magnitude
5.1
Date-Time
Thursday, November 08, 2012 at 17:56:38 UTC
Friday, November 09, 2012 at 07:56:38 AM at epicenter
Location
18.760°S, 173.415°W
Depth
10 km (6.2 miles)
Region
TONGA
Distances
61 km (38 miles) ESE (102°) from Neiafu, Tonga
5.2 Magnitude Earthquake WESTERN INDIAN-ANTARCTIC RIDGE - 8th November 2012
Magnitude
5.2
Date-Time
Thursday, November 08, 2012 at 17:38:05 UTC
Friday, November 09, 2012 at 01:38:05 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
49.794°S, 117.425°E
Depth
10 km (6.2 miles)
Region
WESTERN INDIAN-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
Distances
1641 km (1019 miles) S of Albany, Australia
Cold War II is Back, Almost
Within two years China is expected to begin deploying a fleet of nuclear
missile subs. Nuclear missile subs or "boomers"in Soviet, American and
British fleets were a hallmark of Cold War I. Many credit their
unstoppable retaliatory capability with underwriting the MAD (mutually
assured destruction) reality that dampened both sides' appetite for nuclear
war.
*China in the meantime remains "the most threatening" power in cyberspace
and presents the largest challenge to U.S. supply chain integrity, the
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in a draft of its
2012... more »
Who will stop the Sado-Monetarists as jobless youth hits 58pc in Greece?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100021180/who-will-stop-the-sado-monetarists-as-jobless-youth-hits-58pc-in-greece/
Textbooks, Ethics, and Choice
In preparing for my spring semester course, a seminar for honors
undergraduates on research methodologies, I’ve been paring down readings
and reviewing potential books to add to my syllabus. My needs are pretty
specific, since I need something that bright undergrads can read and is
quantitatively informed but that doesn’t tread on the actual statistics
Continue reading
Cultura Nahua-Maya (today Nov 8 3-4pm)
*Cultura Nahua-Maya*
*Culturas Indigenas de las Americas*
Come learn the cultures, languages and philosophies of Indigenous peoples
of the Americas from maestras/maestros from the UA-Semillas program. First
of several weekly workshops to come.
*1st Workshop*
*Maestra Martha Valencia*
*Lengua, filosofia & conocimientos*
*del Idioma/Cultura Nahuatl*
*November 8 3-4pm*
*Chavez # 209*
Please rsvp as seating is limited
Rodrigu7@email.arizona.edu
520-626-0824
Ron Paul: Election shows U.S. 'far gone' (Important read)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/nov/8/ron-paul-election-shows-us-far-gone/
Steve Israel's Biggest Failures-- Michigan
Michigan Republican Fred Upon, saved by The Reptile
Tuesday, President Obama won the 16 Michigan electoral votes by wracking up
an impressive 54-45% win in one of Mitt Romney's home states. His margin of
victory was around 400,000 votes. At the same time, Senator Debbie Stabenow
swamped right-wing Republican Pete Hoekstra 58.3- 38.5%. But because of the
grotesque incompetence of the DCCC there, there were no coattails
whatsoever. The only race the reptilian Chairman allowed the DCCC to get
involved in was in the 1st CD, the Upper Peninsula, where Israel felt
comfortable backing a fel... more »
A Stealth Fighter Commander Speaks Out - Beware!
One of America's top stealth fighter pilots, Lt.-Col. Christopher Neimi,
has a dire warning to his country about the risks of relying on stealth
technology.
*”Stealth technology demands significant trade-offs in range, security,
weapons carriage, sortie generation, and adaptability. Stealth provides no
advantage in conflicts such as those in Afghanistan or Iraq (since 2003),
and (despite its obvious utility) it cannot guarantee success in future
struggles with a near-peer adversary.”*
* *
*“Most importantly,” Neimi adds, “the cost of F-22s and F-35s threatens to
reduce the size o... more »
PAC Money for Negative Advertising Could Have Helped Haiti
Photo by John Carroll
From the New York Times today--November 8, 2012:
"Mr. Obama faced at least $386 million in negative advertising from super
PACs and other outside spenders, more than double what the groups
supporting him spent on the airwaves."
If one divides $386 million by 10 million (Haiti population), the answer is
$38.60 for each Haitian.
If one Haitian family has a mother, father, and five kids, one then take
$38.60 times 7 which equals $270.20 per family.
Then take $270.20 times 8.4 (Haitian dollars per US dollar) and the answer
is $2,270 Haitian dollars per family... more »
KARL ROVE'S PLAN TO STEAL OHIO FOR ROMNEY WAS FOILED BY (BELIEVE IT OR NOT) FOX NEWS AND FORBES MAGAZINE!
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The Technological Foundations Of Today's Election Are Shaky, Especially In
Ohio
The polls for tomorrow’s presidential election are close, and Ohio will be
the most important battleground. Eight years ago, the election was mired in
the Florida recount, the results of which are still disputed (by at least
half the country.) Could we be heading for something far worse?
This year’s version ... more »
JP Morgan, America's Welfare Service Provider
This is hard to swallow but JP Morgan is making a fortune administering
food stamp programmes for 26-states. The proverty business, it seems, is
enormously lucrative.
*There are just some things that are a little too "creepy" to be
"outsourced" to private corporations. The JP Morgan executive in the
interview below does his best to put a positive spin on all this, but it
just seems really unsavory for a big Wall Street bank to be making so much
money off of the suffering of tens of millions of Americans....*
*So if unemployment goes down will this ruin JP Morgan's food stamp
bus... more »
4.6 Magnitude Earthquake KEPULAUAN BARAT DAYA, INDONESIA - 8th November 2012
Magnitude
4.6
Date-Time
Thursday, November 08, 2012 at 17:06:37 UTC
Friday, November 09, 2012 at 02:06:37 AM at epicenter
Location
7.164°S, 128.518°E
Depth
176.2 km (109.5 miles)
Region
KEPULAUAN BARAT DAYA, INDONESIA
Distances
320 km (198 miles) WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia
Microlight pilot Adrian Paterson killed minutes into first solo flight after 300ft plunge 'had no formal training'
Adrian Paterson, 49, from Clackmannan, Scotland, died when his craft
plunged to the ground, probably after stalling following a steep climb, the
Department for Transport's air accident investigation branch (AAIB) has
revealed.
The investigation concluded the crash, in which he is believed to have
plummeted up to 300ft in his Gernini Flash IIA, happened because Mr
Paterson had attempted a solo flight without the required training.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2229961/Microlight-pilot-Adrian-Paterson-killed-minutes-solo-flight.html
The Actual Lame Abortion Analogy Hall of Fame (With BONUS Parrot-in-a-cage)
November 8, 2012: I started this blogpost back in April. But today I am
INSPIRED! By this piece of batshit lunacy by none other than Stephen
Woodworth, he of Woodworth's Wank, aka M312 or The Motion to Reopen the
Abortion Debate That Was Thumped in Parliament Six Weeks Ago But That
Certain Fetus Fetishists Won't Shut the Fuck Up About.
Now, back to April, 2012:
In the comments here, Ruaidhr said:
I've never been able to figure out why people can't understand how
irrelevant "when life begins" is to the discussion.
You could implant Mahatma Ghandi in me, and it wouldn't take away my... more »
Everything's Up To Date In Southern City...
...where they've got a new skyscraper that's fifty stories high...
...and that's about as high as a building ought to go! Photo: Google
Images.
And that fiftieth story is dedicated to entertainment. This evening was an
event for alumni of Southern Man's workplace: $50 per person for drinks and
hors d'oeuvres. Expensive, but Southern Man had been itching to tour the
new building for a while now and the event was a lot of fun. He even got to
pick up a couple of downtown geocaches.
Southern Man and the wife of one of his graduate students...
...and with another professor and a cou... more »
Turkey mulls defensive measures on Syrian border
Istanbul (CNN) -- Turkey is drawing up contingency plans with the NATO
military alliance to fortify its border with Syria, and a Patriot missile
deployment is one option on the table, Turkish officials say.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/08/world/europe/turkey-border-defense/
Radiation Monitoring Data in Fukushima Not Reliable
*Japanese gov admitted monitored radiation level is indicated to be 10%
lower than actual*. Fukushima Diary *Mochizuki* on November 7th, 2012
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/japanese-gov-admitted-monitored-radiation-level-is-indicated-to-be-10-lower-than-actual/
[Excerpted] On 11/7/2012, nuclear accident responde headquarters admitted
the monitoring posts located in and around Fukushima prefecture indicate
radiation level 10% lower than actual.
They explain it is due to the battery beside the monitoring machine to
shield radiation. They are going to rebuild 675 monitoring posts.
... more »
Rob Ford (again)
Edward Keenan has another good smashing of Toronto's embarrassment of a
mayor, Rob Ford, in this week's Grid TO:
On his radio show this past weekend—in the leadup to a contentious casino
proposal at City Hall—Mayor Rob Ford said he’d welcome a gambling palace in
Toronto, and justified the decision on economic grounds: “We’re in
desperate need of revenues,” he said. And just then, two years into his
term in office—the halfway point to the next election—the last faint signs
of life that had once animated the ideology you might call “Ford Notion”
died out.
For if the mayor has been ... more »
Arizona Education Funding Drops Nearly 22% Since 2008
Reported in the Wall Street Journal (2012 Nov 8) States initiatives show
voter split over education, p. A5 by S. Banchero.
Majia here: Welcome to neofeudalism.
DAVID WILCOCK: DISCLOSURE: CAMELOT ON TRUTV TONIGHT; INSIDER ‘DANIEL’ COMES FORWARD!
David Wilcock Update – November 7th, 2012
*DISCLOSURE: CAMELOT ON TRUTV TONIGHT; INSIDER ‘DANIEL’ COMES FORWARD!*
*
* Written by David Wilcock Wednesday, 07 November 2012 22:22
http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1090-disclosurecamelot
A groundbreaking two-year-old Project Camelot TV pilot, featuring Wilcock
and others, finally airs TONIGHT — just days after our classic black-ops
insider “Daniel” has suddenly come forward for the first time, releasing
fascinating new information!
*IT’S ALL HAPPENING*
*
* The momentum for Disclosure has been building with incredible s... more »
The Petals Have Fallen Off the TurdBlossom
*Mojo No Mo*
George w. Bush gave Karl Rove the nickname "turdblossom." It's a west
Texas term for a desert wildflower that can sometimes grow out of cow dung.
The Republican strategist/organizer went into overdrive in the runup to the
2012 elections, getting wealthy Republicans to part company with some
$300-million in donations. And they're probably wondering why, today,
congressional Republicans didn't sweep the field and Mitt Romney isn't
packing his bags for a move to the White House. Now it seems the bloom is
off the flower and Karl Rove is left, once again, as just anothe... more »
Military action in Mali will have humanitarian cost - ICRC
A military intervention in northern Mali against Islamist militants will
have a high humanitarian cost, the head of the International Committee of
the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday.
Access for aid workers is already precarious in the north, where 500,000
people - half the remaining population - depend on foreign aid, ICRC
President Peter Maurer said.
Military experts from Africa, the United Nations and Europe have drafted
plans to recapture northern Mali, which fell to rebels in March after a
coup in the capital Bamako led to a power vaccum.
Maurer urged foreign leaders to bear... more »
Barack Obama's view on Iran 'completely different' from Israel's
Barack
Obama's view on Iran 'completely different' from Israel's. Iran has
claimed that the Obama administration has "completely different" views
on
the Islamic Republic to Israel and the US Republican Party, according to
an
intelligence ministry report.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9664725/Barack-Obamas-view-on-Iran-completely-different-from-Israels.html
Defections Shake Greek Coalition
The three-party coalition of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was licking its
wounds on Thursday, after the defections of several key members in a
crucial vote on austerity measures. The proposals, aimed at keeping the
country in the euro zone, passed narrowly but the defections, mostly among
Socialist Party members, shook the government’s stability.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/world/europe/defections-shake-greek-coalition.html?_r=0
Phillip Schofield confronts Prime Minister David Cameron with list of 'Tory paedophiles' live on This Morning
The Prime Minister has been confronted with a list of alleged
paedophiles
during a live broadcast of This Morning.
During an interview with presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly
Willoughby,
David Cameron was handed a piece of paper, said to contain a list of
alleged paedophiles affiliated with the Conservative party.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/phillip-schofield-confronts-prime-minister--david-cameron-with-list-of-tory-paedophiles-live-on-this-morning-8297661.html
Northeast digs out from snow following Sandy
New York City and much of the U.S. Northeast on Thursday dug out from a
snowstorm that hammered a region still struggling to recover from the
devastation of Superstorm Sandy.
The unseasonably early winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on
parts of Connecticut and slapped the region with 50 mph winds, plunging
hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses back into darkness and
creating a new commuting nightmare for a region whose transportation system
was already under repair.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/us-storm-sandy-hurricane-idUSBRE89N16J20121108
Photo Props: Steel Tubs and Bubbles
A while back in this series, we talked about all the fun bathtub pictures
you can do with just a towel. A towel is great because it is a relatively
small prop and doesn't require much storage, a steel tub requires much more
storage but it is probably hands down my favorite prop of all time.
The steel tubs, can be found at home improvement stores or through actual
prop stores. The perfect size is about an 11 gallon tub. Anything smaller
doesn't give baby much room to move and anything bigger is just ginormous.
For bubbles, I use plastic Christmas ornaments broken in half. Just lay ... more »
Syrian rebels kill Another prisoner as war fuels hatred
*Unarmed and cornered by Syrian rebel fighters, the man seemed to accept
his death with more silent sorrow than surprise; his killers did not
hesitate as they shot their prisoner. *
The incident, filmed by a Reuters video crew, happened last week in Harem,
near Aleppo
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/us-syria-crisis-discipline-killing-idUSBRE8A70YD20121108
Draghi: economic outlook weak, not improving
The European Central Bank expects the euro zone economy to remain poor, ECB
President Mario Draghi said after the bank left interest rates unchanged on
Thursday.
He noted that recent economic surveys did not signal any improvement
heading to the end of the year.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/us-economy-ecb-outlook-idUSBRE8A70SK20121108
Assad "to live and die in Syria" Doha fails- Mortars fall in Israel
Oh and the Riad Sief plan, mentioned here last week is actually the*Ford/Sief plan as you will read.
*
And, yes that is the terrorist/death squad creator US Ambassador to Syria
-Robert Ford.
*First: Bashar Assad: "Has to live and die in Syria"*
In an exclusive interview with RT, Syrian President Bashar Assad said he
will not leave Syria. Assad also spoke on the calls for armed foreign
intervention in Syria, and the possible fallout on the country’s internal
conflict and across the region.
*“We are the last stronghold of secularism and stability in the region and
coexistence, let’... more »
HD 40307: New Planet In 'Goldilocks Zone' Might Support Life
The Anglo-German team found three new planets orbiting the star 44 light
years away, but only one of them is in the so-called 'Goldilocks Zone' -
the band around a sun where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold
for liquid water to exist.
"The star HD 40307 is a perfectly quiet old dwarf star, so there is no
reason why such a planet could not sustain an Earth-like climate," said
Guillem Angla-Escude from Germany's University of Goettingen, who led the
research with Mikko Tuomi at the University of Hertfordshire.
http://news.sky.com/story/1008730/new-planet-in-goldilocks-zon... more »
The Man Who Would Be King
Taegan Goddard at Political Wire (Go the original site if you want to look
at the full-size .png files. They're much too megabyte intensive to load
here.) made a priceless catch the day after the election that shows what an
utter delusional arrogant prick Mitt Romney truly is. Apparently, the
Romney campaign created a presidential transition site that outlines how a
Romney presidency would've started in the event the American electorate
completely went batshit insane. The site was immediately taken down but not
before Goddard took screenshots. This is perfectly in keeping with a guy... more »
SLOWEST CHILDREN OF THE PRESS CORPS: Jeremy Peters! Again!
*THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012*
*Part 3—Slowest children from Michigan:* In fairness, the timing was
perhaps a bit odd.
Jeremy Peters’ “News Analysis” piece appeared in the New York Times this
Tuesday.
That was Election Day! His report was perhaps a bit late!
But if the timing was somewhat odd, the subject matter was welcome. When
last we looked in on Peters, he had offered a groaning report on an
extremely tired old subject: the press corps’ Official Standard Greatest
Moments from Past Presidential Debates.
Familiar though that offering was, it was one of the *worst* such
compila... more »
After Obama win, U.S. backs new U.N. arms treaty talks (Kiss yer guns goodbye)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/07/us-arms-treaty-un-idUSBRE8A627J20121107
I Am "Roughly" 18 Feet Tall: A Critique of Grinsted et al. 2012
Last month the *Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences* published a
paper by Grinsted et al. titled, “Homogeneous record of Atlantic hurricane
surge threat since 1923.” In what follows I provide a critique of their
paper and offer my argument for why it does not actually tell us much about
hurricanes, much less about damage.
The paper looked at 6 tide gauge stations along the US Gulf and Atlantic
coasts to develop an annual index of storm surges in the United States. The
paper explains why this is important:
[F]rom the economic damage perspective the hurricanes that remain... more »
Beware of Disaster Capitalism (Why Govt. Reactions To Sandy Really Matter To Ensure Fair Rebuilding of US) HINT: Financial Cliff Jumping?
Doesn't this remind you of all the BS screaming about the looters (many of
them just people in distress without food or housing) in New Orleans after
hurricane Katrina, and how all that cheap (no paying-minimum-wage worries)
foreign labor (brought in by packed trucks) and no local contracting was
necessary to the rebuilding? Ah, the good ole days. For the savage Disaster
Capitalists!
The New Cold War: WSJ "Candidates Vow to Fund Ohio Nuclear Plant"
The new cold war is a lot like the old one. It involves a nuclear arms
raceand government support for inefficient and poorly administered
private
industries happily situated within the "nuclear umbrella":
Wall Street Journal Mon Nov 5, 2012 p. A6 by Ryand Tracy
"The USEC Inc plant under construction would employ about 400 people,
making nuclear fuel. The U.S. government says it is crucial to
maintaining
the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile.
USEC has been on federal life support since June, when the Department of
Energy aarranged to give it about $280 million. The company's stock h... more »
Yes, 2016 Started Already
I've mentioned this before, but I'm already hearing the complaints, so here
we go again.
The battle for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president started some
time ago.
The battle for the 2016 Republican nomination probably started during
September, during the stretch where Mitt Romney was down in the polls and
seemed to many to have little chance of changing that; it may have started
even earlier in a less serious way, but it surely began by midnight last
night, at any rate.
To be sure: both of these fights are very much in the preliminary stages.
It's very possible that the e... more »
Going To The Same Place
Lawrence Martin writes this morning that, on Tuesday, the Neanderthals in
the Republican Party were given their walking papers. And he suggests that
Republicans should look to Canadian Conservatives as a model of racial
tolerance:
The GOP would do well to look to Canada’s Conservative party as an example
of a political organization that has been able to triumph over progressives
while remaining entrenched on the right. With the merger of Alliance and
the Progressive Conservative parties in 2004, the progressives saw their
place significantly diminished. But since that time Stephe... more »
Voter turnout in 2012 US presidential elections 9% lower than 2008
PressTV
[image: A voter casts her ballot in US presidential election on November 6,
2012.]
Latest figures show that 117 million Americans, less than 50 percent of the
eligible voters, have taken part in the presidential polls, showing a
reduction of about nine percent compared to the 2008 election turnout of
131 million.
Preliminary figures indicate only 95 percent of precincts have so far
reported their results and the number could change when more votes are
counted.
“By and large, people didn’t show up,” Curtis Gans, director of American
University’s Center for the Study of th... more »
We Are Now A Center-Left Country
Many conservatives have held that we are, deep down where it counts, a
center-right country. Others argue that we drifted left of center as long
ago as FDR. The election this week settled the issue: the country - very
narrowly - voted for more government, more regulation, more war on drugs,
and national health care. In other words, we took one step further towards
becoming Europe, even as Europe struggles to shed the costly burden of
socialism and become more like the USA of old.
The lasting damage will be twofold: First, ObamaCare will be so firmly
entrenched that it'll be impossi... more »
Thursday Morning Linkage – US Election-Free Edition
When time is short, attribution of links is the first casualty. Walter
Russel Mead sees evidence of the “Anglosphere effect” in Australian,
Canadian, and Indian relations. This reminds me that I am very much looking
forward to reading Srdjan Vucetic’s The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a
Racialized Identity in International Relations. The Kremlin fires its
Defense Minister.
Continue reading
How Israel Misread America
In today's Haaretz, Rabbi Eric Yoffie considers how Israel got everything
so wrong and what its leaders must do to make peace with the White House.
*Americans are resolutely centrist. Israel’s politics may be veering right,
but America’s are not. Despite difficult economic conditions and high
unemployment, America reelected a centrist president who speaks the
language of moderation, compromise, and social justice. *
* *
*...The hysterical, Obama-hating Jewish conservatives were wrong about
everything. They said that Jews could be convinced to shift their votes to
Republicans; they c... more »
Assange: Reelected Obama a 'wolf in sheep's clothing'
Russia Today
[image: Julian Assange (AFP Photo / Miguel Medina)]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sees no reason to celebrate the reelection
of US President Barack Obama. The US aggressively pursued and “persecuted”
the whistleblower site under a Democratic administration, he explained.
“Obama seems to be a nice man, and that is precisely the problem,” the
41-year-old told AFP, speaking from his room in London’s Ecuadorian
embassy. “It's better to have a sheep in wolf's clothing than a wolf in
sheep's clothing,” he said. “All of the activities against WikiLeaks by the
United States... more »
Does Obama Have the Killer Instinct He Needs?
Will the United States and the world really have to endure "four more
years" or will a new Barack Obama emerge in his second term?
One sign to look for is whether Obama moves quickly to exploit fractures in
the Republican ranks with "in your face" policies designed to cut moderate
Republicans, and their votes, out of the extremist Republican herd.
This is the moment for Obama to move on Republican "hot button" issues such
as inequality and climate change while the GOP is bitterly divided and
licking its wounds. McConnell and Boehner are talking about Obama having
to meet them hal... more »
Shane Hutton Cycling Crash: he has suffered bruising and bleeding on the brain
Shane Hutton, head coach of the GB cycling team, has been taken to hospital
after a cycle crash near Manchester.
British Cycling confirmed: "Shane Sutton was involved in an incident this
morning on the A6 near Levenshulme in Manchester.
http://news.sky.com/story/1008803/gb-cycle-coach-hurt-in-bike-crash
US: It's a 50-50 nation, give or take
The election laid bare a dual — and dueling — nation, politically speaking,
jaggedly split down the middle on the presidency and torn over much else.
It seems you can please only half of the people nearly all of the time.
Americans retained the fractious balance of power in re-electing President
Barack Obama, a Republican House and a Democratic Senate, altogether
serving as guarantors of the gridlock that voters say they despise. Slender
percentages separated winner and loser from battleground to battleground,
and people in exit polls said yea and nay in roughly equal measure to som... more »
Why Is The S.E.C. Concealing Massive Citigroup Fraud?
Citigroup, the most insolvent bank ever to foul the earth, is being
protected by the S.E.C. We want to know why.
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Guest post submitted by Cheyenne, writer and producer of the soon to be
released documentary, Bailout. Watch a trailer for Bailout here.
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What is the SEC hiding?
*Part One*
William Cohan of Bloomberg wrote a curious story last week, "Why does the
SEC protect banks’ dirty secrets?"
It's a really good question.
Standing alone, however, Cohan's article is just another electric tile in a
giant mosaic that flashes intermittently in a news cycle, briefly
illuminating ... more »
Obama Won... What Now?
Look, I don't know if the newly reelected President Obama will break
free
from the bonds of cautious mediocrity and act like the president he
campaigned as. But we should give him a chance. He is the first Democrat
to
be re-elected with a majority of the popular vote since FDR. This was a
bigwin, despite how the desperate Republicans and their media allies are
trying to spin it. Let's see what he does with-- in George W. Bush's
words-- "the political capital" he's earned. Let's see if he replaces
Geithner with someone other than just another Wall Street shill. That
will
be a clue;... more »
Will Republicans Accept They Are Their Problem
Barack Obama didn't help much but Mitt Romney was actually taken down by
his fellow Republicans. *The Guardian's* Simon Tisdall says Romney's
downfall came from within.
*By campaign end, Romney – moderating his tone and positions – was finally
connecting with 2012 America... But the Tea Party zealots, the radical
evangelicals, the homophobes, the misogynists and the rest of the
unthinking, feckless right had already scuppered his chances. It was too
late to turn it around.*
*Evidence that the Republicans are out of line and out of touch crowded in
from battleground states, near... more »
Presidential Elections: Powerful “Special Interest Groups” Won Again
Global Research
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
[image: AMERICA]The election that was supposed to be too close to call
turned out not to be so close after all. In my opinion, Obama won for two
reasons:
(1) Obama is non-threatening and inclusive, whereas Romney exuded a “us vs.
them” impression that many found threatening, and
(2) the election was not close enough for the electronic voting machines to
steal.
As readers know, I don’t think that either candidate is a good choice or
that either offers a choice. Washington is controlled by powerful interest
groups, not by elections. What the t... more »
Sudan rebels say downed Antonov plane in oil state
Rebels in Sudan's main oil state said on Thursday they had shot down a
government Antonov military aircraft after it had bombed targets in the
territory's Nuba mountains area.
Sudan's armed forces spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for
comment.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/us-sudan-rebels-aircraft-idUSBRE8A70DN20121108
China submarines to soon carry nukes, draft U.S. report says
China appears to be within two years of deploying submarine-launched
nuclear weapons, adding a new leg to its nuclear arsenal that should lead
to arms-reduction talks, a draft report by a congressionally mandated U.S.
commission says.
China in the meantime remains "the most threatening" power in cyberspace
and presents the largest challenge to U.S. supply chain integrity, the
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in a draft of its
2012 report to the U.S. Congress.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/us-china-usa-military-idUSBRE8A705720121108
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Rickie Lee Jones, 58.
Good stuff:
1. Must-read of the day: Alex Massie collects a bunch of junk from NRO that
will be fun reading for those who enjoy that sort of thing, but if that's
not you skip down to his excellent analysis of what ails the GOP. Key
quote: "the answer to the GOP’s problems lies in policy."
2. Suzy Khimm on mandates.
3. Purple America (via the Monkey Cage).
4. Hans Noel isn't wrong about data presentation.
5. And I do believe I was joking around a while ago about aggregating the
aggregators. Guess what? Brice Acree did it, and it worked rea... more »
Rise of the Phoenix: Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act defeated by Small Margin
Mark Daniels
Activist & Blogger
Global Political Awakening
As the Phoenix is reborn with healing tears, so shall the The Yes on 5campaign for the Medical
Marijuana Act of Arkansas (Ballot Issue 5) which was narrowly defeated on
Election Day, November 6, 2012 (52%/48%).
Arkansans for Compassionate Care immediately reported to social media sites
a declaration of sorts, vowing to increase Statewide efforts for education
and outreach, beginning with the state legislature.
Melissa Fults, treasurer for Arkansans for Compassionate Care, said her
group will first pursue the issue through... more »
Running the Numbers on Climate Change
Pricewaterhouse Coopers figures that, from now straight through to 2050, we
need annual, global *carbon emissions cuts of 5.1%* if we are to avoid the
*worst* impacts of climate change.
Efforts since 2000, aided by the Great Recession, have resulted in cuts of
just 0.8% per year. At that rate, says PwC, we are headed for 6C of
warming by the end of the century.
*The report also confirms that greatest rises in greenhouse gas emissions
came from the emerging E7 economies of China, India, Brazil, Mexico,
Russia, Indonesia and Turkey, whose cumulative 7.4 per cent annual increase
in... more »
Voting - Is Only the FIRST Step
Saw this piece on Common Dreams this morning and it expresses pretty much
where I am right now. I am extremely happy about the election results here
in Minnesota and with the re-election of Obama/Biden.
BUT …
Based on quick research (more detail this weekend) of the election results
from Tuesday night – even with the multi-award winning, dedicated work of
the folks at ALECExposed, a timely and excellent expose' of ALEC by Emmy
Award winning, Moyers and Company, researchers dedicated to exposing ALEC,
and other citizen journalists – the election results on Tuesday resulted in
ve... more »
Prison Officers Injured In Attack At G4S Jail
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