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Adolf Hitler on race
John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 18 minutes ago
Video found via *JewishProblem.com*:
*…I promise you I am quite free of all racial hatred: It is, in any case,
undesirable that one race should mix with other races. Except for a few
gratuitous successes, which I am prepared to admit, systematic
cross-breeding has never produced good results. Its desire to remain
racially pure is a proof of the vitality and good health of a race. Pride
in one’s own race – and that does not imply contempt for other races – is
also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or
the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They ... more »
Congressional Election Stat Porn-- How The GOP Stole The House In 2012
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 29 minutes ago
A million more votes were cast for Democrats running for Congress than for
Republicans. When you include third party candidates, Democrats got 49.03%
of the vote for House seats, Republicans got 48.15% and third-party
candidates got 2.81%. If House seats were awarded proportionally the
make-up of the House would be 213 Democrats, 209 Republicans and 13
independents. Instead there are no independents and the Democrats only have
201 seats. The dozen that slipped away, plus the 13 that would have gone to
third-party candidates all went to the GOP, which has 234 seats in the next
Cong... more »
Big Brother Denialism
Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 45 minutes ago
Both presidential campaigns got a lot of negative press this campaign
season for the creepy Orwellian ways they were able to peer deep into the
personal lives of millions of potential voters. The nerve centers of
campaign HQs were sending volleys of synapses into the Great American
Brainpan. I know, because my mind had been getting all jittery over the
perpetual political horse race.
Now, thank goodness, all is temporarily calm and bright in my own little
corner of cyberspace. Blissfully gone are those days when I couldn't visit
a web-page without the grinning face of Barack or the... more »
Shocking Article: Children Assessed For Their Future Tax Value!
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 45 minutes ago
Again, I have had many long conversations with my friend and colleague,
Whitewraithe, (www.pragmaticwitness.com) over exactly what ails our world,
and exactly what the criminal Jewish power elite is planning for both our
destruction and our future enslavement. It sometimes is disheartening to
think that these criminals are in the last stages of their plans, and there
is now very little that can be done to stop them from unleashing their hell
on Earth!
I want to share a very important article, that comes from the Pragmatic
Witness website, at www.pragmaticwitness.com, and is entitle... more »
Round Up: Student Remarks about Minister Upset Social Order, Cause Earth to Crash into Sun
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 hour ago
*Just picked up a Tokina 100mm macro lens. Sharp and built like a panzer,
I'm going to have a ton of fun with it.*
Well, you'd think the earth was crashing into the sun, anyway. FocusTaiwan rounded
up some of the comments in the media on Tsinghua U's Chen Wei-ting scolding
Minister of Education Chiang for being a hypocrite and a liar who never
apologizes....
The staidly pro-KMT China Times was the most restrained and insightful:
Renowned local writer Chang Ta-chun said the biggest problem of the
students is not that they were being impolite but that it was their "empty"
remarks th... more »
David Bacon : Who's to Blame for the Bangladesh Fire?
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour ago
Black
Friday demonstrations: Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
President Mary Kay Henry pickets at a Walmart store in Richmond, CA, in
support of better wages and benefits for workers. Photo by David Bacon.
Who's responsible?
Deadly fire in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh fire that killed 112 workers tells us a lot about the
conditions under which the garments consumers bought this
Michael Simmons : I Was a Texas Jewboy!
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour ago
Left
to right: Larry Campbell, Michael Simmons, Jim Rider, and Kinky
Friedman at the Lone Star Roadhouse, 1989. Photo by Cleveland Storrs.
Move over, Kinky:
I was a Texas Jewboy!
The Kinkster blew my still-growing mind and helped make me the
disrespectful malcontent I am today.
By Michael Simmons / The Rag Blog / December 6, 2012
My first live sighting of Richard “Kinky” “Big Dick”
Status, Cliques, and the Political-Science Job Market
Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
There are many things I find unsurprising about Robert Orisko’s claims in
the Georgetown Public Policy Review about hiring patterns in academic
political science. Among those are the disparate reactions produced by its
summary in Inside Higher Education. In brief, Orisko argues that academic
political-science hiring displays dynamics more associated with
status-conserving cliques than an efficient market. This tracks
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Ron Paul: The Film A Powerful Message of Freedom, Liberty, and Anti NWO
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
Video: Ron Paul's historic farewell speech in Congress is juxtaposed with
historical documents, video clips, and news evidence that support his
arguments and conclusions.
It was never about the temperature
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 hour ago
Since the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change is meeting again
preparatory to issuing another scare-mongering report explaining how we’re
all going to die—meeting this time without the scientists because, really,
it’s never been “all about the science” has it—it seems a good time to see
how some of their earlier predictions have panned out.
The divergence between what has happened and what the UN’s scientists
always said would happen is shown below.
[image: image]
The green line shows their projections if we’d carried on at 1990 levels of
industry; the blue if we’d beefe... more »
Artillery Silencer: The Definition of Madness
Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
*Matt's thoughts:*
I recently stumbled across this. Millions of people going hungry and
homeless every day. Plenty of money to develop silencer pieces... for giant
mobile artillery, however.
Mr. Scheer stood by saying nothing during the incident.....
leftdog at Buckdog - 2 hours ago
‘Don’t threaten my House leader!'*Thomas Mulcair *
*Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada *
*National Post coverage*
Syria loads chemical weapons into bombs; military awaits Assad's order
Matt at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
*More here:*
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/05/15706380-syria-loads-chemical-weapons-into-bombs-military-awaits-assads-order?lite
What Shipbuilding Jobs, and When? Evergreen line, Surrey memorial hospital, Where have we seen this play before?
Grant G at The Straight Goods - 3 hours ago
The Below has been presented by yours truly, right now we are in the midsts
of a propaganda war, even the BC Government California jobs fair is a
fraud, to all you mainstream media, ask the BC Government how many people
were hired at this jobs fair, or perhaps ask if these jobs are contingent
upon a bunch of LNG plants opening, and proposed mines, ask some hard
questions, and if you gutless media really had any balls you would ask
Stephen Harper about what`s laid out below..Nevermind cowards.. Irving
Shipbuilding presses Ottawa on Arctic ship deal *Michael MacDonald*
* The Canad... more »
Kathleen Parker on Susan Rice's qualifications: Sometimes it takes a right-winger to put the real crazies in their place
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"[T]he opposition's arguments are weak, chief among them that Rice isn't
qualified. This from [Sen. John] McCain, whose vetting history includes
about 80 minutes of conversation with Sarah Palin before selecting her as
his running mate in 2008. . . .
"[T]houghtful Republicans might reconsider the image of white men ganging
up on a highly qualified black woman as they ponder the reasons for their
collapsing tent. The road to redemption ain't thataway."*
*-- Kathleen Parker, in her WaPo column*
"Susan Rice and the Senate's blame game"
*by Ken*
As right-wing pundits go, *Washington ... more »
Alan Waldman : 'Thin Blue Line’ is Uproarious Britcom
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 3 hours ago
Waldman's
film and TV
treasures you may have missed:
One of the cleverest, funniest-ever British sitcoms, The Thin Blue Line,
available on YouTube, really should not be missed.
By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / December 5, 2011, 2012
[In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite
films and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas,
mysteries, and
BANNED! (3.5 min. Aungelique Rodriguez VIDEO)
Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 3 hours ago
Proud to pass this along, from one of my students, though she did not do
this for my class. It's our community standing up before the recent federal
court hearing on Raza Studies. It is but 3.5 minutes. BANNED: MAS Seeks
Opportunity to Reinstate Classes At TUSD:
http://aungeliquerodriguez.blogspot.com/
IDEAS / Bill Meacham : The Mayan Calendar
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours ago
The
sun at the intersection of the galactic equator and the ecliptic. Image
from Philosophy for Real Life.
Is the end near?
The Mayan Calendar
On December 21 the 13th baktun will come to an end. Rather than starting
a 14th baktun, the grand cycle will start over again. It’s like your
car odometer rolling over from all nines to all zeroes.
By Bill Meacham / The Rag Blog / December 5, 2012
Optical Camouflage?
Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 4 hours ago
In case you're wondering this is not my video.
Dave Brubeck, 1920-2012
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
[image: image]
Musician Dave Brubeck died overnight one day shy of his 92nd birthday.
Brubeck made the cover of *Time* magazine back in 1954, preceding the huge
popular success of his time-challenging biggest hit ‘Take 5,’ featuring
Paul Desmond’s fluid saxophone lines over Brubeck’s riffing (stick that on
the dance floor and watch your dancers get their feet tangled up), and his
best-selling album *Time Out*. Touring with Duke Ellington at the time, his
first move when he heard the news of his cover portrait was to walk along
the corridor to apologise. Duke should have been first... more »
Art show opening tomorrow night!
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
[image: Railway St]
Artists Jasmine Kamante and Jesper Sundwall, who I feature here regularly,
mostly because they’re so damn good, emailed to tell me:
“We will both have works in Artstation's Professional Practice End of Year
Group Show.
Please join us at the opening next Friday December 7th from 5.30pm to 8pm
at *Railway Street Studios, 8 Railway Street, Newmarket*.”
See you there tomorrow!
PS: The show runs until January 16th, Mon to Sat, 10am to 2pm.
Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission
to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Sallie Mae and ALEC Mic-checked at ALEC Summit
2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours ago
10 Student Labor Action Project activists recently got into an ALEC
[American Legislative Exchange Council] meeting and mic checked it while
Sallie Mae was presenting a workshop called "Best Practices for Debt
Collection and Tax Amnesty."
Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council Dec. 20-21, 2012
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago
Cheyenne River, Crow Creek, Fort Peck, Lower Brule, Pine Ridge, Rosebud,
Santee, Standing Rock, Yankton
December 4, 2012
Chiefs, Headsmen, Elders and People of the Lakota Oyate:
**
*Mi cante’ etan uha cante’ waste’ nape ciuzapiyelo.
*
As Itancan of the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council, I am calling for
a
**
*Wolakota Omniciye **
*for the Tiospaye/Bands of the Oceti Sakowin. The gathering will be held on
*December 20 & 21, 21012, *10:00 a.m. at the *Mother Butler Center in Rapid
City.*
**
The discussion will include issues relevant to the governance and
preservation of the O... more »
Lobbying and Member Incentives
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours ago
Matt Yglesias saw "Lincoln" and got interested in patronage and the
incentives it provided to, in this case, exiting lawmakers in a lame duck
session.
It will surprise none of the regular readers here that I'm a fan of
patronage, I'm sure. But Yglesias asks a good question: given the existence
of extremely lucrative lobbying opportunities, can modern-day legislators
be bought off influenced by the jobs which presidents can control?
It's an excellent question. One answer is that political parties do
probably have at least some influence on the influence-peddlers. Suppose
Barack Obam... more »
GOP to disabled humans: Screw you
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours ago
[Jim Long photo]
Granted my memory isn't perfect but I *have* lived through many dozens of
Congressional sessions. I honestly can't remember another time when the far
fringe extremists took over the entire Republican party. I've lived to see
Senate Republicans reject a UN disability treaty, based on our own ADA Act.
By a vote of 61-38 which was completely premised on crackpot conspiracy
theories.
This UN Disability Treaty was an easy vote. A mere formality to endorse a
long established American value within the international community. It had
wide support.
The treaty, already s... more »
Harry Targ : The Two Faces of the 2012 Elections
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 5 hours ago
Tea
Party favorite Mike Pence is the new governor of Indiana. Photo by
Darron Cummings / AP.
Electoral contradictions:
The progressive majority and
the reactionary state governments
Challenges to a progressive future do not come just from Washington,
Wall Street, or the Pentagon. In 2012, state election results led to
single-party control of 37 state governments: 24 Republican and 13
Democratic
Don't Survive the "Collapse" - Prevent It
Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 5 hours ago
*December 5, 2012* (LocalOrg) - Cuba, Thailand, New York City. All three
have faced either economic or natural disasters. The adversity and degree
to which each was affected varies, but all have lent us invaluable lessons
and warnings about future, inevitable collapses and disasters. With this
knowledge in hand we can begin preparing ahead of time, so not only do we
"survive" the collapse, but we create thriving, advanced communities that
remain entirely unaffected by such collapses - after all, prevention is the
best medicine.
*Cuba*: In 1991, the Caribbean nation, after the fall ... more »
Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls 2012
noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 5 hours ago
Earlier this year, Jessica Weinkle, Ryan Maue and I published a paper in
the Journal of Climate on trends in global landfalling hurricanes (a PDF
can be found here as well). At the global level the data is good from 1970.
Our analysis covered through 2010. With 2012 almost in the books I recently
asked Ryan if he could provide an initial tabulation of the 2012 data (note
that the data could be revised from these initial estimates, and 2012 is
still not quite over). The tracks of the fourteen landfalling storms of
2012 can be seen in the graphic at the top of this post.
Below is th... more »
Thomas Sowell’s Fiscal ‘Cliff Notes’
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
The always very quotable Thomas Sowell has some things to say about the
follies of fiscal cliffs—and the real problem the “cliff” conceals.
Amid all the political and media hoopla about the "fiscal cliff" crisis,
there are a few facts that are worth noting.
First of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on "the
rich," even if that is done it will scarcely make a dent in the
government's financial problems. Raising the tax rates on everybody in the
top two percent will not get enough additional tax revenue to run the
government for 10 days.
And what will the g... more »
US Firms Holding Cash Assets Offshore; Offshoring Assets Produced in US
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 6 hours ago
From "Top US Firms Are Cash-Rich Abroad, But Poor At Home" by Kate
Linebaugh Dec 4, 2012, p. B1, B6.
[paraphrasing] This article explores the growing tendency for US
corporations to hold their cash overseas, while often failing to specify to
investors where the cash resides.
The SEC is concerned that customers may be deceived as a result of lack of
transparency in the location of cash holdings.
Examples from the article:
Illinios Tools Works inc a diversified manufacture: $2.1 billion in cash,
with none of that in the US
Johnson & Johnson kept all of its $245 billion of cash outs... more »
William Peake: Pennsylvania Trooper Claims He Was Fired Over Filing Reports "In Ebonics"
Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2012/12/05/ex-pa-trooper-claims-he-was-fired-over-ebonics/
*Added thoughts:*
The trooper may have been a dunce, and this may have happened. The
trooper's boss may be an unabashed racist, and it may not have happened.
However, this brings up something really interesting: children throughout
the world (and especially in Australia and New Zealand according to
reports, surprisingly, where some children are actually allowed to use
cell-phone speak at their schools) are increasingly using "text speak" or
other mangled forms of English to communicate and condu... more »
SaLuSa - December 5, 2012
Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 6 hours ago
*Message from SaLuSa by Mike Quinsey - December 5, 2012*
With only days to go to the first part of your experience of a powerful
upliftment, we urge you to try and arrange to be free on the 12th. and able
to relax and enjoy it. As a key moment in your Ascension process, it is one
to be totally aware of and remembered for the intensity of the energy. It
is not that every person will have an identical experience, but if you are
prepared for it you will be left with some memory of the changes within.
Some of you will wake up from your sleep before 11.11 Universal time, and
will be... more »
Conservative Van Loan Gives Finger To NDP Leader Mulcair on Floor of House of Commons - CTV News
leftdog at Buckdog - 6 hours ago
*A verbal altercation between Government House Leader Peter Van Loan and
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair occurred in the House of Commons Wednesday,
briefly disrupting proceedings.*
* It wasn’t immediately clear what transpired, but NDP House Leader Nathan
Cullen accused Van Loan of giving the middle finger to Mulcair.*
*Heated exchange between Van Loan, Mulcair in House | CTV News*
*We also now learn that although the Conservatives insist that everyone
else abide by the 'letter of the law' ... they always seem to want to bend
rules for themselves:*
*iPOLITICS has more ....*
*"Fundament... more »
» It’s never been about the 1967 borders - Legal Insurrection
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours ago
' . It's never been about the 1967 borders, and it isn't today. It's about
the elimination of Israel and wearing Israel down over time.'
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/12/its-never-been-about-the-1967-borders/
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 7 hours ago
This graph comes to you from a newly published article on the politics of
the drone campaign published this week in International Studies
Perspectives. I haven’t yet read the full piece so cannot yet comment on it
substantively or theoretically. Nor have I looked closely at the authors’
code-book. However based on the abstract,
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IT’S GOING TO TAKE A REALLY BIG WAR TO CREATE THE ZIONIST DREAM OF A GREATER ISRAEL
Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 7 hours ago
It should be made clear from the very start; Israel has absolutely no
intention, and has never had any intention, of ever allowing a Palestinian
state to exist. Israel, from its very birth, has sought to find ways to
expel and transfer the Arab population from what is now Israel and from the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip in order to annex these territories to create
an Arab-free Greater Israel. That has always been the Zionists plan. There
has never been any other plan that does not include the territories. It is
still their plan.
Ever since 1947 the Israelis have attempted to remove... more »
Democrats Have Their First Challenger Of 2014-- Nick Ruiz Wants To Take Out John Mica... And Lots Of Bad Democrats
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Nick'n'Nancy-- for my own amuselment
The other day we applauded Congresswoman-elect Carol Shea-Porter's
unambiguous line in the sand she wrote in a hometown OpEd: "I will not vote
to reduce Medicare and Social Security. You can bet on that." She didn't
have to say a word about it; she's not part of the lame duck and won't
start voting until next year. But "not saying a word" is not part of Carol
Shea-Porter's DNA-- and her outspoken advocacy for ordinary working
families is why Blue America has been so proud to support her over the
years.
Bernie Sanders, next door in Vermont, was al... more »
Tale of Two Schools' Statistical Tricks
John Thompson at Schools Matter - 7 hours ago
NPR’s Scott Simon interviewed Brad Wolverton who asks the perennial
question for college athletes who are struggling in class, “Need three
credits to play ball?” "Call Western Oklahoma" describes the online
learning program at this isolated college. Before his expose, athletes
across the nation would get themselves into academic trouble and say, “'Oh,
I'm going to go take a Western Oklahoma.'" As a result of Wolverton’s
article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the North Central Association
of Colleges and Schools is planning an investigation of the program.
Wolverton describes... more »
F-35 May Not Be Usable in Asia Either.
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours ago
Range may be the Achilles' Heel of the F-35 stealth light attack bomber.
At the end of the day, the Joint Strike Fighter may not be the right
warplane for the Pentagon's Pivot to Asia. A detailed story of the F-35's
troubles and shortcomings was recently published in *The New York Times.*
The current cost of the F-35 is estimated at $137,000,000 per copy and
that's not taking into account fixes and upgrades that will be tacked on as
the airplane crawls through testing. Full production is now not expected
until 2019.
*"While weapons cost overruns have long been a problem, the F-... more »
REVOLUTIONS MAKE THINGS WORSE - HAITI
Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago
*Haitian slaves today.*
Revolutions lead to dictatorship, and are 'a bad thing'.
What about the The Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804?
*1791-1804*
We've been to Haiti and it still looks like a slave colony.
In Haiti, the French slave owners produced many mixed-race children.
These children were given an education and helped run the French colony.
They became the elite after the revolution.
*Papa Doc, former ruler of Haiti*
After the revolution, the 'black' Haitians continued to be treated like
slaves.
Today in Haiti, at least 300,000 children live as slaves - in forced and
usua... more »
Merry Christmas, you scum.
Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 8 hours ago
I found out yesterday apparently most of the proceeds from the ongoing public
sector pay freeze (and pension contribution rise) have gone toward the £5
billion capital investment announced today. Public sector workers, doesn’t
that make you feel better all that money going to good causes, like Michael
Gove Novelty Schools ™ ? You’d have only spent it on things like food,
clothing, rent and whatnot.
Surely now this year can be written off as the worst, most calamitous year
in working class memory, living memory. A year of Olympics, Royals and no
strikes, no big ones anyway. There w... more »
The worst cover version ever?
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
I have just been made aware of Fuzzbox's 2010 version of Pop Musik
Why? Why? Why?
Here's M's very wonderful original version from 1979
Now that's much better...
Six Rules For Dating Southern Man
Southern Man at Southern Man - 8 hours ago
Southern Man isn't a very experienced dater.
He counted up the other day and realized that, up to a couple of years ago,
he'd been on ten first dates in his entire life.
*Ten.*
Well, before you write Southern Man off as a complete loser, we note that
eight of those led to long-term relationships. With one first date that was
not followed by a second (this was the girl that Southern Mother had picked
out for him) and Southern Man's one-and-only one-night stand. Well, we went
out a few more times, but there was only one night. So Southern Man has
been in relationships pretty much c... more »
Arms Race Update - More Subs for India
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
From South Asia to Southeast Asia to China and Australia, suddenly
everybody has a thing for submarines, loads of them. It's Christmas for
sub-builders.
Today it's India announcing plans to get next-generation submarines built
in France.
*India is getting ready to create another flutter in the arms bazaar — 10
months after it selected French firm Dassault Aviation for a $18-billion (Rs. 99,000
crore) deal to equip the air force with Rafale fighters. This time, India
will spend more than $10 billion ( Rs. 55,000 crore) to scale up the navy’s
undersea combat capabilities — induct... more »
Decks the halls with macro follies
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 9 hours ago
Yes, it’s nearly Christmas. But that doesn’t mean you need to deck your
halls with economic stupidity.
Brought to you by the good folk who brought you the Keynes v Hayek rap,
here’s the latest from EconStories:
*Deck the Halls with Macro Follies*
*Each year, our attention turns to the holidays… and to holiday consumer
spending! We’re told repeatedly that, because consumer spending is 70
percent of measured GDP, such spending is vital to economic growth and job
creation. This must mean that savings, the opposite of consumption, is bad
for growth. But is it? Can we really consume... more »
Zero Dark Propaganda - Trailer & Comments
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago
YouTube comments left on the video below:
"the disimformation campaign carries on with hollywoods help, great film
but when is the real backstory going to be told ??"
"How would you ever know if this the real story or even if any of this is
false?"
The public is definitely waking up. Hollywood-Pentagon propaganda doesn't
fly anymore.
Egypt erupts despite proposal to end crisis
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Islamists fought protesters outside the Egyptian president's palace on
Wednesday, while inside the building his deputy proposed a way to end a
crisis over a draft constitution that has split the most populous Arab
nation.
Stones and petrol bombs flew between opposition protesters and supporters
of President Mohamed Mursi who had flocked to the palace in response to a
call from the Muslim Brotherhood.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/05/us-egypt-politics-idUSBRE8B30GP20121205
Ireland Budget: More Austerity Measures
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Irish finance minister Michael Noonan has introduced new austerity measures
while saying there are signs his country is emerging from the worst of the
crisis.
Delivering Ireland's budget for 2013, Mr Noonan said the country must get
back to a level which would fulfil the conditions of the EU/IMF bail-out
package, so that it could return to borrowing money from the international
lenders.
He introduced tax increases and spending cuts worth up to 3.5bn euros
(£2.8bn).
http://news.sky.com/story/1021182/ireland-budget-more-austerity-measures
An Unfortunate Broken Promise
Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 9 hours ago
Back in 2008, when President Obama was running for his first term, he
promised to be a post-partisan leader. While a Democrat, he said he would
accept good ideas when they came from Republicans. At the time, I believed
him, at least to some degree. And I wrote about it in this *NY Times*column
.
Sadly, I was wrong. The short version of the story is this: As a
candidate, President Obama campaigned on a platform of raising taxes on the
rich. Yet he and his economic advisers also said they wanted to raise
dividend taxes only slightly, from 15 to 20 percent. For reasons I
explaine... more »
Land of the free . . .
Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours ago
ACCORDING
TO ZERO HEDGE'S George Washington, "Americans Have Less Access to
Justice than Botswanans … And Are More Abused By Police than
Kazakhstanis", America is now Amerika with State Security.
Cannibal Fears Over Lost Russian Fishermen
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Two fishermen who survived three months lost in Siberia may have eaten
their companion, Russian investigators fear.
A murder investigation has been launched following the men's rescue by the
River Sutam, 155 miles from the nearest town of Neryungri in the federal
republic of Yakutia.
The pair were among four fishermen who disappeared during an August
river-fishing expedition in one of the world's most remote and inhospitable
locations.
http://news.sky.com/story/1021180/cannibal-fears-over-lost-russian-fishermen
3.4 Magnitude Earthquake OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - 5th December 2012
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Magnitude
3.4
Date-Time
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 19:00:20 UTC
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 11:00:20 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
40.311°N, 124.566°W
Depth
18.6 km (11.6 miles)
Region
OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Distances
24 km (15 miles) W (266°) from Petrolia, CA
Earth day: What Marco Rubio said to GQ!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012*
*How old are the culture wars:* For us, the most interesting thing in the
papers this week are the letters in yesterday’s New York Times about what
Marco Rubio said.
What Marco Rubio said to GQ about the age of the earth!
The letters appeared in yesterday’s Science Times section. For unknown
reasons, they don’t seem to be available on-line. (Sigh.)
The eight letters were sent in response to an article in the previous
week's Science Times. In the original piece, Nicholas Wade quoted what
Rubio was asked, then quoted his full answer:
WADE (11/27/12): It... more »
Hearsay cannot be avoided by claiming state of mind is circumstantial evidence
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago
In Brisco Estate v. Canadian Premier Life Insurance Company, 2012 ONCA 854
the argument was made that an otherwise hearsay statement was adduced to
show state of mind only and that state of mind was circumstantial evidence
of the truth of the statement – the Court rightly rejected the argument:
(ii) State of Mind as Non-hearsay Circumstantial Evidence
[42] It may be argued that there is no hearsay problem at all. This is
because evidence is only hearsay when it is adduced to prove the truth of
the contents and there is no contemporaneous cross-examination of the
declarant: R. v. Khe... more »
Sheldon Glashow, Werner Heisenberg: birthdays
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago
*Also celebrating:* Arnold Sommerfeld, Cecil Frank Powell, Giuseppe
Occhialini, Franco Rasetti (RIP 2001)
For some mysterious reason, maybe because I am too shy (and I will remain
shy, as you will see below) ;-), I have never written about physicists'
anniversaries celebrated on December 5th. While Czech children are served a
trio of an angel, St Nicholas, and a devil tonight (only 20% of the Czech
households ordered one this year, however),
people are being born and they're dying, too. Believe me, I know something
about it – thankfully about the former only so far. The physicists... more »
Genetic patents . . .
Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours ago
MONSANTO'S
MONSTROSITIES? Seems that Monsanto has been really pushy about patents,
with the result that WIRED reports "Supreme Court to Rule on Patents
for Self-Replicating Products", as people have resisted Monsanto's
demands for payment because some of their patented seeds have spread to
their crops.
The Supreme Court is weighing in on the soybean patents, agreeing to
hear an appeal by a
Peter Kent Sings Harper's Praises in Doha
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
Peter Kent never lets reality get in the way of his message, especially
when he's singing the praises of his boss Harper.
Kent, showing the nerve of a canal donkey, showed up at the UN climate
summit in Doha to tout his government's record on wrestling with Canada's
carbon emissions. According to Kent, we're just hunky-dory.
*Figures released by his department in August estimated that Canada's
annual heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions would be about 20 per cent
above the target pledged by Prime Minister Stephen Harper under the 2009
Copenhagen agreement.*
*But Kent told del... more »
Israel pushes settlements, EU summons envoy
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
Israel moved ahead with plans to build 3,000 settler homes in one of the
most sensitive areas of the West Bank, as the European Union summoned
Israel's envoy to add its voice to a storm of international protest.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday the global
condemnation, some of it from the Jewish state's closest traditional
allies, would not deter it from defending its "vital interests".
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/05/us-palestinians-israel-netanyahu-idUSBRE8B40NS20121205
NATO calls on North Korea to cancel rocket launch
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
NATO on Wednesday called on North Korea to cancel plans for its second
rocket launch of 2012, saying it would violate U.N. resolutions and could
further destabilize the Korean peninsula.
NATO ambassadors expressed "grave concern at North Korea's declared intent
to launch a rocket using ballistic missile technology this month", an
alliance statement said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/05/us-korea-north-nato-idUSBRE8B412120121205
Rebranding the GOP
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 11 hours ago
It's not like Republicans *really* didn't get the message of the 2012
election. They do seem to understand they have an image problem because the
majority of the country sees them as the party of the rich. The sudden shift
in the GOP rhetoric drift is at once amusing for its lack of sincerity and
irritating in its potential for succeeding with the rubes.
Of course all they did was add an extra step to their master plan:
1) Enact policies that cause enormous uptick in Americans living in poverty.
2) Make somber speeches about how sad it is there are so many Americans
living in povert... more »
Amazon Kindle FreeTime: ‘Give me a Child……’
Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 11 hours ago
Amazon have once again shown their astute marketing awareness, ability to
drive the market and have announced Kindle Freetime Unlimited. FreeTime
delivers what it says on the can and serves up unlimited access to
thousands of preselected books, games, apps, movies and does so by a
monthly subscription. The target audience is in not adults, or the teens,
but young children aged between 3 and 8. The service recognises who owns
the purse in this area and offers full parental control. The service itself
is tied to the new Kindle Fire and what is fast becoming a pivotal tool and
market... more »
UN calls on Israel to open nuclear facilities
Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours ago
Boston
Edith M. Lederer
The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling
on Israel to quickly open its nuclear program for inspection and backing a
high-level conference to ban nuclear weapons from the Middle East which was
just canceled.
All the Arab nations and Iran had planned to attend the conference in
mid-December in Helsinki, Finland, but the United States announced on Nov.
23 that it wouldn’t take place, citing political turmoil in the region and
Iran’s defiant stance on nonproliferation. Iran and some Arab nations
countered that the real reason f... more »
George Monbiot - Time to Ditch Our Malignant Politics
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
*Guardian* enviro-scribe George Monbiot writes that the road to saving the
world has to be paved with the shattered remnants of today's corporatism.
We must dismember corporatism and the plutocracy that drives it.
*Humankind's greatest crisis coincides with the rise of an ideology that
makes it impossible to address. By the late 1980s, when it became clear
that man-made climate change endangered the living planet and its people,
the world was in the grip of an extreme political doctrine whose tenets
forbid the kind of intervention required to arrest it.*
*Neoliberalism, also kno... more »
Well, somebody thought there was queue jumping, that’s for sure!
david at Alberta Diary - 11 hours ago
Your blogger with Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman, the former
Conservative Parliamentary Secretary for Health. Below: Former Alberta
Health Services CEO Stephen Duckett. In other medical news, Alberta seems
to be suffering an epidemic of mild memory loss. Not just Alberta, either.
The problem has cropped up Down Under as well! The Health Services
Preferential ... more »
GOP Acts Out The Terrible Two's Here Everyday But Now It's Spilling Over Into The International Arena
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Senate Republicans lost the election but today they celebrate crushing the
rights of the disabled
How embarrassing was it yesterday when the Senate-- where a two-thirds
majority is needed to ratify a treaty-- saw Republican obstructionists take
out their institutional anger by voting down a pact that codifies the
rights of people with disabilities. The bill had a 61-38 majority-- but not
the two-thirds needed. Every single Democrat-- even Nelson, Manchin and
McCaskill-- voted for it and so did 8 Republicans willing to act like
adults: Doctor John Barrasso (WY), Scott Brown (MA), Susa... more »
Casa con un muñeco de nieve - Paisajes de navidad
José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 11 hours ago
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Aspiring Dictator Morsi And Muslim Thuggerhood Suppress The Voice of The Majority of Egypt
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago
5.6 Magnitude Earthquake EASTERN IRAN - 5th December 2012
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Magnitude
5.6
Date-Time
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 17:08:12 UTC
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 08:38:12 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
33.520°N, 59.570°E
Depth
5.4 km (3.4 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region
EASTERN IRAN
Distances
42 km (26 miles) ESE of Qayen, Iran
4.6 Magnitude Earthquake ATACAMA, CHILE - 5th December 2012
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Magnitude
4.6
Date-Time
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 16:25:31 UTC
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 01:25:31 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
28.629°S, 70.037°W
Depth
71.5 km (44.4 miles)
Region
ATACAMA, CHILE
Distances
70 km (43 miles) E of Vallenar, Chile
Playa tropical en la isla caribeña de san andres, colombia
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Postmortem Fun
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours ago
Jill
Lawrence over at National Journal writes up the Harvard campaign
postmortem by organizing it around four things that, she claims,
"changed
the course of the race and possibly even of history." Via Ezra, who
tweetedthat "You can never know for sure, but I doubt any of these
things would
have changed the outcome of 2012."
Yup. All four are worth thinking about.
One is that without his back issues, Rick Perry might have run a much
better campaign and been nominated. I think that's probably a plausible
story -- but it's hard to see him doing a lot better than Mitt Romney in
the gen... more »
Steve, Are You Listening? Tom? Justin?
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has said it about as
succinctly as possible:
"*The climate change phenomenon has been caused by the industrialisation of
the developed world. It's only fair and reasonable that the developed world
should bear most of the responsibility*."
That's right, the developed world, our team. It's on us. Not entirely, of
course, but predominantly and certainly enough that we have to "*bear most
of the responsibility*" for what our affluence has caused to the poorest
and most vulnerable peoples on Earth.
A critical part of that responsibility... more »
Regalos de navidad en forma de estrella
José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 12 hours ago
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THE 'FEUDAL' ELITE
Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago
*Belvedere Palace; elite*
It was not Ronald Reagan or the Jews who brought in the system whereby the
rich elite control much of the wealth of the country.
The adjective *feudal* was invented in the 17th century, and the noun*
feudalism* was invented in the 19th century.[3]
Most of you will be too young to remember the invasion of England which
reportedly brought in some kind of harsh 'Feudal System', under which the
top people controlled most of the wealth.
*William*
That invasion was the Norman Conquest of 1066, when the Normans, from
Northern France, took over 'Anglo-Saxon' En... more »
Wednesday Mid-day Linkage
Adrienne LeBas at Duck of Minerva - 12 hours ago
Ghana votes. Egyptian protesters move from Tahrir to the presidential
palace. Rio’s Olympics clean-up uncovers policemen collaborating with drug
cartels. Chronicle of Higher Education visualization of gender and
publication records across disciplines and over time. Political science
not doing so well. For those interested in civilian casualties and war,
Chinamanda Adichie has written a moving and very
Continue reading
Bolivia address to COP 18 in defense of Mother Earth in Qatar
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
*STATEMENT BY JOSE ANTONIO ZAMORA GUTIERREZ MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT AND
WATER, OF THE PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOLIVIA IN THE UN CONFERENCE OF
CLIMATE CHANGE COP18 IN QATAR *
President Evo Morales with Jose Antonio Zamora*(5, 12,12)*
UNIDAD MADRE TIERRA Y AGUA / MINISTERIO DE RELACIONES EXTERIORES ESTADO
PLURINACIONAL DE BOLIVIA
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
DOHA, Qatar -- Mr. President of the COP, distinguished Heads of State of
countries of the world, Ministers, Officials, delegates and representatives
of social organizations, indigenous peoples and communities a... more »
Esferas decorativas - Imágenes de navidad
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Clinton says "desperate" Assad could use chemical arms
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
Washington fears a "desperate" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could use
chemical weapons as rebels bear down on Damascus, Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday, repeating a vow to take swift action if
he does.
Rebels fighting to overthrow Assad said they had surrounded an air base
near Damascus, a fresh sign that battle is closing in on the Syrian
capital, a day after NATO agreed to send air defense missiles to Turkey.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/05/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE8AJ1FK20121205
4.5 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA - 5th December 2012
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
Add captionMagnitude
4.5
Date-Time
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 14:35:00 UTC
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 06:35:00 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
64.886°N, 133.990°W
Depth
5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program
Region
SOUTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
Distances
171 km (106 miles) NNE of Mayo, Canada
Allies weigh Syria no fly zone and special forces on the ground
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 12 hours ago
This is going to be a very long post, but, it is worth reading. In my
humble opinion.
*First; *The news breaking in Australian media as I type.
The rest that follows was a post began yesterday, but sidetracked by the UN
vote regarding Israel's nukes.
Allies weigh Syria no-fly zone and special forces
*A NO-FLY zone, ground troops and special forces form the main planks of
British-US contingency plans drawn up over recent months in anticipation of
a Syrian chemical attack. *
* *
If a political decision is made to intervene, a limited no-fly zone could
be imposed to stop the Syrian ... more »
4.9 Magnitude Earthquake SAMOA ISLANDS REGION - 5th December 2012
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
Magnitude
4.9
Date-Time
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 13:48:46 UTC
Thursday, December 06, 2012 at 01:48:46 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
14.970°S, 173.237°W
Depth
35.8 km (22.2 miles)
Region
SAMOA ISLANDS REGION
Distances
121 km (75 miles) NNE of Hihifo, Tonga
Ardillita tomando la foto del recuerdo de navidad
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Stuart Hall 'Arrested Over Rape Claim'
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
An 82-year-old man arrested over an allegation of rape and indecent assault
has been named by Sky sources as broadcaster Stuart Hall.
Lancashire Police detained the man at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire,
earlier today, the force said.
He was taken to a police station for questioning on the allegations,
described as "historic".
http://news.sky.com/story/1021192/presenter-stuart-hall-held-over-rape-claim
Cielos - El resplandor de la luna en las nubes
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Iglesia entre las montañas de nieve
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A Christmas Gift for Dad? Glenfiddich, Maybe?
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago
Scotch whiskey distiller, William Grant & Sons, has suddenly become a burr
under Donald Trump's saddle. For many years the distiller has hosted a
"Top Scot" competition. It's open to the public. People just vote for
whomever they chose to be named Top Scot for that year.
This year's lucky winner is Michael Forbes, a major critic of Trump's
controversial golf course. *The Guardian* describes Forbes as Trump's "*obstinate
neighbour in Aberdeenshire*."
Trump figures the distiller set up Forbes to win and has banned all William
Grant products, including Glenfiddich, from being so... more »
Secrecy with Fracking Fluids
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours ago
Fracking Secrets by Thousands Keep U.S. Clueless on Wells By Ben Elgin, Benjamin
Haas & Phil Kuntz - Nov 29, 2012 Propublica
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-30/frack-secrets-by-thousands-keep-u-s-clueless-on-wells.html
[Excerpted] ....Few people outside Nabors, the largestonshore drilling
contractor by revenue, know exactly what’s in that blend. This much is
clear: One ingredient, an unidentified solvent, can cause damage to the
kidney and liver, according to safety information about the product that
Michigan state regulators have on file.
A year-old Texas law that requir... more »
The Well-Dressed War Machine Wears Green
Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours ago
*By Fred Drumlevitch*
(cross-posted with permission from FredDrumlevitch.blogspot.com)
With that title, I’m referring not to the color of soldiers’ uniforms or
St. Patrick’s Day attire, but rather, to modern attempts by the armaments
makers to greenwash their operations, and to the taxpayer greenbacks that
pay for American militarism instead of genuine environmental preservation
and other beneficial programs.
Of course, “Raytheon Celebrates Earth Day”. From their corporate website:
But for a truly astounding example of such greenwashing (which I still find
surreal more than a y... more »
"How It Really Is"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
Clowns... too bad the joke's on us... - CP
"The Coming Derivatives Panic That Will Destroy Global Financial Markets"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
*"The Coming Derivatives Panic That Will *
*Destroy Global Financial Markets" *
by Michael Snyder
"When financial markets in the United States crash, so does the U.S.
economy. Just remember what happened back in 2008. The financial markets
crashed, the credit markets froze up, and suddenly the economy went into
cardiac arrest. Well, there are very few things that could cause the
financial markets to crash harder or farther than a derivatives panic.
Sadly, most Americans don't even understand what derivatives are. Unlike
stocks and bonds, a derivative is not an investment i... more »
Osborne's Class War Statement
Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 13 hours ago
There is a bit of a change with to Gideon's autumn statement that marks a
shift in the government's business-as-usal. Before, Gideon's budgets were
almost solely concerned with implementing austerity, which the Tories
believed would reduce the debt and the deficit. And insulating rich folks -
their core support - from the effects of their policies. This, from the
outset, was a class project for underlying, protecting, and reinforcing the
narrow interests of finance capital at the expense of everyone else. The
warnings of the Labour front bench and many others about the damage Tory ... more »
CND: Fighting for the International Order
Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 13 hours ago
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is a pressure group in the UK which
campaigns for the abolition of nuclear weapons. CND has been at the
forefront of the exposure of Depleted Uranium and its devastating impact
upon the health of soldiers and civilians in countries where it has been
deployed. Having an agenda for international peace, CND should be an ally
in the fight against the International menace. However, CND is no friend
of National Sovereignty, and as it has shewn in its current campaign for
social housing, it is being controlled by people who are hell-bent on
ushering... more »
In the year 2000….
Brian Rathbun at Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago
Hi everyone. I haven’t been around much lately as I’ve been furiously
writing a book. But it is almost done and I’m feeling reflective. Have you
missed me? I’ve missed you. What’s that you say? Why yes, this is a new
shirt. Thank you for noticing. I thought that I would offer some thoughts
about
Continue reading
Conference on Internet "Government"
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours ago
WSJ "Nations Meet to Discuss Web Rules" by Rory Jones Dec 4, 2012, p. B7
[Excerpted] "The question of who rules the internet and how is being
debated at a 12-day conference in Dubai. The World Conference on
International Telecommunication which started Monday, aims to draft a new
treaty to underpin international telecommunications regulations. The
current rules were put in place in 1988...
The bid to change the rule book has unleashed fears of a grab for
centralized control of the Internet by the UN. The process has also come
under criticism for its lack of transparency. Among the ... more »
Foreign press beats IDF
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago
'Journalists need to be courted, wooed, educated and trained. Complaints
against media must be lodged and legal claims brought. Until Israel enters
the fray of world opinion, its world beating army could yet again find
itself sitting uselessly on the sidelines.'
YNet have more of this story. Personally I think it's too late for Israel
to woo the western media. 'News' organisations such as the BBC are
institutionally anti-Israel, nothing will change their minds.
"The 'Fiscal Cliff': Three Feet to the Bottom"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
*"The 'Fiscal Cliff': Three Feet to the Bottom"*
by Addison Wiggin
“Equating tax hikes and spending cuts in the U.S. with a ‘fiscal cliff’ is
like calling a spot of exercise and a balanced diet ‘Caloric Armageddon’
for the morbidly obese.” So quipped The Daily Reckoning’s Joel Bowman
during a flurry of intercontinental emails. Surely, it’s more entertaining
than this: “Stocks and commodities,” reports the Financial Times this
morning, “are struggling for traction as investors express renewed concern
about the prospects for the U.S. economy amid continual bickering in
Washington ... more »
When is inciting genocide not inciting genocide?
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours ago
WSJ have the story.
The answer of course, is when it's genocide against Jews.
Ch-ch-ch-changes: What’s so great about dumping deductions!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012*
*Incomparably, we take a guess:* Yesterday, David Brooks made a concession
about tax deductions—a concession against tribal interest.
But first, a bit of background:
In the current tax debate, Republicans are breaking their backs to avoid
raising upper-end tax rates. Instead, John Boehner says he wants to
eliminate deductions and loopholes for high earners. Like-minded
Republicans are willing to enact some extremely complex schemes in order to
do this.
What would this distinction matter? Either way, the highest earners would
end up paying more in taxe... more »
5 BEST FOODS FOR MEN
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours ago
1. Broccoli (packed with potent anticancer compounds)
2. Edemame (helps prevent prostate growth)
3. Oysters (boosts fertility)
4. Baked Potatoes (lowers blood-pressure. Skip the butter & sour cream)
5. Tomatoes (helps lower prostate cancer risk)
- from Best Health Magazine
(Thanks to CD for this)
Ethnic Germans: A Forgotten Genocide
John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 14 hours ago
Video found at the excellent blog *Justice for Germans*:
*It is estimated that between 12 and 15 million ethnic Germans, including
children, were systematically expelled, tortured, raped, put in camps,
starved, enslaved and executed after World War II from 1944-1948, and
later. Their only crime was being German. These actions were many cases
government sanctioned and done in full knowledge of the victorious allies.
To date, no one has ever been held accountable, and most do not know or do
not acknowledge this genocide.*
USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier arrives off Syrian shore
Matt at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*More here:*
http://www.debka.com/article/22586/USS-Eisenhower-aircraft-carrier-arrives-off-Syrian-shore
Global warming worries Indians
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: One of the uninhabited islands of Lakshadweep, which comprises tiny
low-lying islands, are at risk of being inundated by sea level rises
associated with global warming. Lenish Namath via Wikipedia]
By Jayanta Basu
2 December 2012
Doha, Qatar (Telegraph India) – The majority of people in India, China and
America believe their governments "should be doing more" to address global
warming and climate change, says a study released today.
About 54 per cent Indians want their government to be more proactive on
climate, while the figure is nearly 90 per cent for China and the US.... more »
Details of MacIntyre firing shows premier's office plays rough
paul at Paying attention - 14 hours ago
They play rough in the premier’s office. At least that’s the way it looks
from a series of emails following Sara MacIntyre’s firing as communications
director in October.
Vaughn Palmer wrote about the emails this week.
MacIntyre seemed “blindsided and bereft” at her firing after eight months
in the job, Palmer notes. She had apparently given up a pretty good gig as
press secretary to Stephen Harper to join Christy Clark’s team.
The hiring might not have worked out. Certainly MacIntyre messed up in one
notable exchange with the media - the video is here - that came to define
her in a n... more »
Applebees, Dennys, Darden - Feel Anti-Obamacare Pinch
2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours ago
Guess YOU folks are making news with your activist noise (but you aren't
getting the credit you really deserve!!!!)
*Darden Blames Negative Obamacare Publicity For Declining Profits*
Olive Garden, Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse
In October, the company had said it was putting more workers on part-time
status in a test aimed at limiting costs from President Barack Obama's
health care law.
Suer the would blame Obamacare publicity
Might want to blame yourselves - Darden!!!
External locus of control - someone else is always to blame.
Anti-Obamacare rhetoric from PapaJohn’s CEO an... more »
The Economy: "The Fiscal Distraction"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
*"The Fiscal Distraction"*
by Joel Bowman
"You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin’
and you keep losin’ when you oughta not bet.
You keep samin’ when you oughta be a changin’.
Now what’s right is right, but you ain’t been right yet."
— “These Boots Were Made For Walkin’”,
written by Lee Hazlewood, performed by Nancy Sinatra.
"Where did we leave off last week? Oh yes…right where it began. Nothing
new. Stocks were virtually flat. Gold hemmed and hawed. And Facebook tore
up a contract with a social gaming company called Zynga. We have no idea
what that even means…but the paper... more »
Permafrost thaw to cause more global warming, not yet accounted for in climate predictions
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: A scientist standing in front of an ice-rich permafrost exposure on
the coast of Herschel Island, Yukon Territory. Permafrost covering almost a
quarter of the northern hemisphere contains 1,700 gigatonnes of carbon,
twice that currently in the atmosphere, and could significantly amplify
global warming should thawing accelerate as expected, according to a report
by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Michael Fritz via UNEP]
Doha, 27 November 2012 (UNEP) – Permafrost covering almost a quarter of the
northern hemisphere contains 1,700 gigatonnes of carbon, twice that
current... more »
Germany puts brake on bank union plan
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
Plans to create a eurozone banking union hit a brick wall on Tuesday after
Germany's influential finance minister cautioned over moving too quickly,
casting doubts over whether the EU would seal a deal by the end of the year.
The objections from Wolfgang Schäuble come just a week before a summit of
EU leaders and raise the prospect of a significant delay to establishing a
single eurozone banking supervisor, a reform billed as critical to
rebuilding confidence in the bloc's shaky financial sector.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/04/business/eu-bank-union-plan/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Rising seas swallowing island nation
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
Kieren Keke remembers growing up on the Pacific island of Nauru, the
world's smallest independent republic.
"The weather patterns were predictable," he says. "There was a wet season
and a dry season, an annual cycle. When there was drought, it was limited."
"Now it's different," he tells CNN. "There's no predictability -- periods
of drought can last seven or eight years, and when we get storms they are
more intense. The coastline is being eroded. Now the sea is right up to
people's doorsteps."
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/04/world/asia/nauru-ocean-danger/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
Egypt: Confrontation between rival protesters looms
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called for a rally backing President Mohamed
Mursi outside his palace on Wednesday and leftists planned a
counter-demonstration, raising fears of clashes in a crisis over a disputed
push for a new constitution.
Mursi returned to work at his compound a day after it came under siege from
opposition protesters furious at his drive to ratify a new constitution in
a snap referendum set for December 15 after temporarily expanding his
powers by decree.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/05/us-egypt-politics-idUSBRE8B30GP20121205
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