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I have been asked by some here who I know are also fans of George Anne Hughes' The Byte Show, to update on her situation, as she is in Oklahoma. I talked to George Anne after the horrible tornado in Moore, OK, and she is ok. She lives in Talihina, a small town about 30 miles southeast of McAlester, OK. Talihina sits in a valley between the low mountains and hills of the Ouchita Mountains...she is ok. … [Read more...]
TIDBIT: WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
Uhm.... does anything strike anyone as being a little "off" in this picture? … [Read more...]
RUSSIA-BRICS PLAN TO DISMANTLE DOLLAR RESERVE SYSTEM
So many of you sent me this one that I have to post it. Additionally, it provides more of a geopolitical and financial backdrop for my comments on last Thursdays News and Views from the Nefarium on the geopolitical dangers posed by Mr Putin and the kind of Neo-Tsarism he represents. Here's the article: Russia's Plan For The BRICS To Dismantle The Dollar System And there's this: 'The world is in a state of financial war' - Russian presidential advisor The essence of this assault, as I averred yesterday, is I suspect more complex than just the financial. Russia and China (and … [Read more...]
CHRIS HEDGES ON AMAIRCUN EDGYCAYSHUN
I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Chris Hedges, though I often disagree with him. Our web developer, Daniel, shared this with me, and I had to pass it along: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System My only regret about this article, is that I wish I had said it, exactly as he said it. Bravo Mr. Hedges. … [Read more...]
NEW INTERVIEW HERE
There's a new interview here with David Whitehead: … [Read more...]
RT: TOP RUSSIAN PUTIN CABINET MEMBER RESIGNS
Now I don't know the ins and outs of Russian politics, obviously, but I suspect this one is highly significant, especially given the way RT is reporting it, and especially since I've been saying "watch Russia, and watch Mr. Putin," very closely: Top politician, longtime Putin ally Surkov quits Cabinet Now, in the bad old days of Stalin, Khrushchev, Kosygin, Brezhnev, Chernenko, Andropov, and perhaps even Mr. Openness himself, Mr. Gorbachev, I doubt we would have read anything this forthcoming from the Russian media: "The head of non-parliamentary liberal party Yabloko, Sergey Mitrokhin, … [Read more...]
RT: PROTESTS AGAINST MON(STER)SANTO
Russia Today reported that on May 25 of this year protests were scheduled against American "agribusiness" giant Mon(ster)santo. The article is here: Monsanto protests scheduled in 36 countries What I find disturbing here is, predictably, Mon(ster)santo's attitude, best summed up in the encyclical pronunciamenti of its CEO, Hugh Grant: "They're the most-tested food product that the world has ever seen. Europe set up its own Food Standards Agency, which has now spent €300 million ($403.7 million), and has concluded that these technologies are safe,” Grant said in January. “France … [Read more...]
AMAIRUCUN EDGYCAYSHUN AND ICBMs…
As you know, I've little good to say about the Amairicun edgycayshun system and the doctors of edubabble, the whole system of credentialization, the goofiness of the federal government's programs for it, and the even goofier trend to put socialist doctrines into curriculum and pedagogy as yet another "educational psychology" or "pedagogical method." And if you think that that's directed solely at Dummycrooks, think again of "No Child Left behind' (sounds wonderful, doesn't it?) and the havoc wrought by the Republithugs in its name. Years ago, I used to somewhat laughingly tell my college … [Read more...]