by Judith Curry I am in the Netherlands, attending a Workshop on The Roles of Climate Models: Epistemic, Ethical, and Socio-political Perspectives. I am particularly excited to meet many researchers from the philosophy of science community whom I have referenced in … Continue reading →
Fred Upton's "monkey court"Today Congressman Fred Upton grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sabelius over the error-plagued launch of HealthCare.gov, the federal government’s enrollment website for mandatory health insurance. Would that he were so assiduous in his support for Americans’ access to high quality, affordable health care!This is the same Upton who voted 40 times to defund the Affordable Care Act.
At least 32 people were killed and 63 more were wounded in continuing violence. Mosul, by far, suffered the most casualties in today's attacks.
RT | October 30, 2013
Despite having front-door access to communications transmitted across the biggest Internet companies on Earth, the National Security Agency has been secretly tapping into the two largest online entities in the world, new leaked documents reveal.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
October 30, 2013
LAND FORCES – CONNECTING THE ALLIANCE AND OUR PARTNERS
“From the Cockpit”
Phil Breedlove
General, USAF
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander, U.S. European Command
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
This show contains excepts from our logic discussion (which will be in the next podcast). These are are two pieces that I did not want to leave on the cutting room floor.
Look Closer:
Trivium and Quadrivium Cliff Notes by Gene Odening by 8thestate
This show contains excepts from our logic discussion (which will be in the next podcast).
This show contains excepts from our logic discussion (which will be in the next podcast). These are are two pieces that I did not want to leave on the cutting room floor.
Look Closer:
Trivium and Quadrivium Cliff Notes by Gene Odening by 8thestate
Plus: Worst spam of the day"When Ted Cruz lies, he appears to be praying. His lips narrow, almost disappearing into his face, and his eyebrows shift abruptly, rising like a drawbridge on his forehead into matching acute angles.
John Pilger pays tribute to Britain's greatest political cartoonist: Steve Bell of the Guardian. From his Thatcher-eyed caricature of Tony Blair to other celebrities of the British establishment as they are immersed in or water-ski on a sea of bullshit, Steve Bell's satire is rare - and needed.
Of course Buck McKeon voted for NAFTA and every other disastrous "free" trade agreementOn November 17, 1993-- quite late at night-- the House voted on NAFTA, the George H.W. Bush "free trade" bill that he couldn't pass but that Clinton assured Wall Street he would get done. At it got done, Rahm Emanuel twisting arms for the White House.
Voice of Russia
October 30, 2013
Europe a proxy for projecting US force – General Breedlove
John Robles
The NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Europe and commander of US European Command, US Air Force General Philip Breedlove recently spoke with reporters from the American mass media in the Pentagon in what appears to be an attempt to assuage fears spreading in the US military industrial complex over a loss of US influence in Europe.
A witness saw a UFO in the southern sky this morning at around 6:00 am. (it may have been a few minutes earlier).It was traveling from east to west.The witness was standing on his front porch west of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, looking at a constellation after retrieving the morning newspaper from the driveway, and suddenly he saw what first appeared to be a meteor but was traveling much slower than a meteor -- it resembled more a white particle beam with a white head on it.
Russian Information Agency Novosti
October 30, 2013
Russia to Question US-Japan Missile Defense Plans
MOSCOW: Moscow plans to take issue with the placement of US missile defense elements in Japan during an upcoming ministerial meeting in Tokyo, a Russian deputy foreign minister said Wednesday.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander made their umpteenth appearance in front of Congress yesterday to do damage control in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s leaks. As always, they insisted NSA surveillance programs are lawful and subject to oversight by Congress and the courts.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 092. This is my appearance on Michael Shanklin’s Triple-V: Voluntary Virtues Vodcast with Michael Shanklin (Oct. 30, 2013). We discussed a variety of topics around IP and other issues, such as Can You Trade Something You Don’t Own?, Polycentrism, Contract theory, argumentation ethics, and so on. Some background material for these […]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Maritime Command
October 29, 2013
STANDING NATO MARITIME GROUP PAYS VISIT TO TUNIS
Story by HQ MARCOM Public Affairs Office
TUNIS, Tunisia: This past weekend, two NATO ships assigned to Standing NATO Maritime Group TWO (SNMG2) paid a visit to the port of Tunis.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
October 30, 2013
UKRAINIAN MOD AND GENERAL STAFF DELEGATION VISITS SHAPE
Story by SHAPE Public Affairs Office
I think just about anyone could see this delay coming. Painfully obvious since the US/Israel/GCC have an agenda of regime change for Syria, Iran and then at some point in time, Russia.Exclusive: Syria peace talks face delay as big powers split
Both of Maine's congressmembers are Democrats-- and one, Chellie Pingree, is a strong progressive leader. Last year Obama beat Romney 401,306 (56%) to 292,276 (41%) in the state. And the Democrats regained control over both Houses of the state legislature. Still, the DSCC is reluctant to take on Senator Susan Collins.
Who What Why (to read the full story)
By Dave Lindorff, Russ Baker and Milicent Cranor on Oct 29, 2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron has issued a veiled threat against the Guardian and other media organizations, calling them to stop publishing the reveals leaked by former CIA employee Edward Snowden.
POLITICO gives us a good news bad news report (at least from my perspective) on Lindsey Graham. The article cites two new polls that show support for Graham in his home state of South Carolina is dropping overall. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that his political challengers still have very little chance of getting elected over Graham.
It’s been really hard for Iran hawks these days. With a reformist Iranian president initiating unprecedented diplomacy with the U.S. and offering major concessions on its nuclear program, the best they’ve been able to come up with is that it’s all a sham. Rouhani is “a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists. He may seem nice on the outside, but he is really evil. This diplomatic push to resolve longstanding disputes with the West is all a ploy so they can build a nuclear bomb and destroy Israel.
Glenn Greenwald went on CNN last night to respond to Dick Cheney’s accusation of Edward Snowden as a traitor and to yesterday’s testimony from Clapper and Keith Alexander on NSA spying.
Al-Manar | October 30, 2013
The Zionist enemy plans to build another 1,500 settlement units in the Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem almost immediately after it began freeing 21 prisoners to the West Bank and another five to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
Published on Oct 30, 2013 Conspiracy Guy Episode 3 – Beer: The Conspiracy Guy takes on beer loving patriots. Would you like to learn more? JoyCamp on YouTube JoyCamp on FaceBook Published on Oct 30, 2013 Conspiracy Guy Episode 3 – Beer: The Conspiracy Guy takes on beer loving patriots. Would you like to learn more? JoyCamp on YouTube JoyCamp […]
The big news in Florida this morning wasn't exactly a surprise. After Florida's former chief financial officer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Alex Sink, expressed interest in running for the open congressional seat in Pinellas County (FL-13), she became the focus of all Democratic attention.
by Judith Curry How should we interpret the growing disagreement between observations and climate model projections in the first decades of the 21st century? What does this disagreement imply for the epistemology of climate models? One issue that I want … Continue reading →
"♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode082 - Turn It Up which features brand new sounds from Darkside, Primal Scream, Crystal Antlers, U
We’re supposed to believe President Obama had no idea the NSA was spying on Angela Merkel’s cell phone, but the Liar-in-chief was effectively refuted by his own underlings when NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines huffily told the Wall Street Journal: "The agency’s activities stem from the National Intelligence Priorities Framework, which guides prioritization for the operation, […]
As the first formal probe by an international rights body into allegations of U.S. mass surveillance began here Monday, privacy advocates from throughout the Americas accused Washington of violating international covenants and endangering civil society. Monday’s hearing took place before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an arm of the 35-member Organization of American […]
Recent revelations about Iraq have exposed a pattern that may be just as revelatory about Syria. When the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons recently won the Nobel Peace prize, its former director general, José Bustani, decided to finally discuss the circumstances behind his firing eleven years ago. Bustani says that the Bush administration […]
The foreign leaders are dropping like flies – to American surveillance. I’m talking about serial revelations that the National Security Agency has been spying on Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, two Mexican presidents, Felipe Calderón (whose office the NSA called “a lucrative source”) and his successor Enrique Peña Nieto, at least while still a candidate, and […]
Sending a shock wave through the U.S. military-industrial complex, NATO ally Turkey passed up the usually dominant American defense industry in favor of an obscure Chinese defense company for a contract on a long-range missile defense system. Unlike the American Patriot system, the Chinese system, produced by China Precision, is not easily compatible with existing […]
Over the weekend, Time Magazine published a mood map-- "an interactive guide to the United States of Attitude." A multinational team based at Cambridge and "using personality test data from over one million people, researchers have identified three distinct personality regions in the country-- "friendly and extroverted," "relaxed and creative" and "temperamental and uninhibited." OK… so West Virginia is the most neurotic state, Utah is the most agreeable and the folks of Wi
At least 50 people were killed and 21 more wounded across Iraq. The worst attack was a triple suicide bombing at a banquet near Baghdad.
There have been many that say that I should change the format of my comment section and turn it into an "open forum" to discuss some of the material I post here.... I have always refused to take my comment section in that direction, primarily due to the incessant stupid attacks from known TROLLS and JIDF/Hasbara clowns that constantly try to flood my pending for approval comment section with their disgusting language and stupid attacks on myself and others....I decided that for this article, I would give some recent examples of the so called "comments" that come from these trolls.....
I recently put up several articles concerning the Sandy Hook fraud operation of last December, where it seems that the US Government recently authorized a payout of some $50 Million to the citizens of Newtown, Connecticut, for the "rebuilding of the school". This was a preposterous amount, considering that all estimates show that the school could easily be rebuilt for around $7 Million. When I read the article, a red flag came up automatically and I called it as I saw it...
RT | October 29, 2013
The current revelations on the NSA’s spying are just the tip of the iceberg and affect “almost every country in the world,” said Glenn Greenwald. He stressed the NSA stores data for “as long as it can,” so they can target a citizen whenever they want.
Glenn Greenwald, the man behind the reports on the NSA global spy program, spoke to El Mundo journalist German Aranda and stressed that the US espionage activities went much further than just Europe.
An international volunteer organization urged Canadian authorities to arrest former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on war crimes charges when he visits the 2013 Toronto Global Forum later this week.
