320: Stoicism (2 of 4 - Turning Adversity Into Advantage), With Bill Buppert
Bill Buppert of zerogov.com is back to continue our discussion of the philosophy of Stoicism.
Covered:
-Bill's objections to Objectivism
-The 10 Themes of Stoicism
Bill Buppert of zerogov.com is back to continue our discussion of the philosophy of Stoicism.
Covered:
-Bill's objections to Objectivism
-The 10 Themes of Stoicism
Bill Buppert of zerogov.com is back to continue our discussion of the philosophy of Stoicism.
Covered:
-Bill's objections to Objectivism
-The 10 Themes of Stoicism
Bill Buppert of zerogov.com is back to continue our discussion of the philosophy of Stoicism.Covered:-Bill's objections to Objectivism-The 10 Themes of StoicismBill's Reading List:My top three for the novice are:-A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy-
I’ve been re-examining SH proxies for some time now, both in connection with PAGES2K and out of intrinsic relevance. In today’s post, I’ll report on a new (relatively) high-resolution series from the Arabian Sea offshore Pakistan (Boll et al 2014, Late Holocene primary productivity and sea surface temperature variations in the northeastern Arabian Sea: implications for winter monsoon variability, pdf). The series has considerable ex ante interest on a couple of counts.
IMEMC News & Agencies | November 24, 2014 At Kerm Abu Salem crossing Israeli occupation authorities have barred ten truckloads of agricultural products from leaving the war-torn and economically besieged Gaza Strip, due to an alleged dispute between the Israeli army and the Ministry of Agriculture. The dispute is preventing the trucks and their cargo […]
Palestine Information Center – November 25, 2014 GAZA – Senior Islamic Jihad official Yousuf al-Hasaina said that the Israeli cabinet’s approval of new racist legislation defining Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people is a prelude to expelling the Palestinian people from their 1948 occupied lands. In remarks broadcast by the media department of […]
teleSUR | November 24, 2014 HRW statements about Ecuador’s policing are out of proportion compared to their statements about the disappeared students in Mexico. The following two headlines are from news releases by Human Rights Watch (HRW) about two incidents that took place in September: 1) Mexico: Delays, Cover-Up Mar Atrocities Response 2) Ecuador: Police Rampage at Protests […]
by Judith Curry
Group failures often have disastrous consequences—not merely for businesses, nonprofits, and governments, but for all those affected by them. – Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie
Context
The social psychology of groups conducting scientific assessments (e.g. the IPCC) is a topic that in my opinion does not receive sufficient attention. For background, here are some previous CE posts:
Weekly News Update on the Americas | November 23, 2014 At least four demonstrators were wounded in the northern Port-au-Prince suburb of Delmas on Nov. 18 when counter-demonstrators opened fire on an opposition march commemorating the anniversary of the 1803 Battle of Vertières, which marked the final defeat of French forces trying to regain control […]
UNIAN
November 24, 2014
Stoltenberg again urges NATO to increase defense spending
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has again urged the member countries of the alliance to increase defense spending, according to Russian information agency RIA Novosti.
“That which was decided at the summit in Wales was a significant increase in collective security,” Stoltenberg said at a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in The Hague.
FINALLY proper justice has been served in America... Just yesterday, the Grand Jury in the case of Officer Darren Wilson shooting dead Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri has ruled properly that Officer Wilson will not be charged for Brown's death....
By Carlos Miller | PINAC | November 25, 2014 A live streamer named BassemMasri vowed to his viewers that he would continue covering the protests in St. Louis County, “24/7 … unless I’m in jail.” Or unless he gets his camera stolen, which is what happened less than ten seconds after he made that promise. […]
The despicable UN is at the forefront of this rise in human trafficking, misery and exploitation.How can the UN lament this problem, when UN sanctioned interventions are at the heart of this issue? This is simply some type of red herring.
One reason that Barack Obama is slumping in the polls is that Republicans have successfully painted him as weak on foreign policy. Yet, during his tenure so far, Obama has used air power to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, surged American forces in Afghanistan to satisfy the U.S. military, re-entered the civil war in Iraq, […]
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran and the lone Republican on Obama’s national security team, has been fired. And John McCain’s assessment is dead on. Hagel, he said, “was never really brought into that real tight circle inside the White House that makes all the decisions which has put us into the incredible […]
Illustration by PJ Loughran for Philadelphia magazineby KenBeyond the fundamental creepiness of the behavior attributed to Bill Cosby by a growing number of women, there are a bunch of creepy aspects to the mess now swirling around the beloved comedian. Of all of them, perhaps the creepiest is that hardly any of it is news.
At least 83 people were killed and 40 more were wounded in the latest Iraq violence. Also, a new battle could be brewing between Iraq security forces.
Obama says that immigrants can come out of the shadows. Tomas Young has passed away. Bill Cosby may be a rapist, but we are 100% sure that Goldman Sachs is. DEA is after the NFL, …
If we've become inured to the plight of our own countrymen being kicked out of their own homes by predatory banksters, something tells me not too many Americans rushed to the Tanzanian embassy at 1232 22nd St NW in DC or to the consulate at 201 East 42nd Street in Manhattan to protest the eviction of 40,000 Masai from their ancestral homeland bordering the world-famous Serengeti national park, to make room for a Dubai royal family private hunting preserve.
by Anonymous OperativePelosi has lost some of her mental facilities with old age-- as we all do. It's inevitable... and often everyone recognizes it except the person gradually becoming less focussed. When I used to ask Members if they could detect her losing it, they would either flat out deny it or get very defensive.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
November 21, 2014
Secretary General stresses NATO’s commitment to collective security in visit to Lithuania
United States European Command
November 21, 2014
SOCEUR medical team coaches and mentors Ukrainian soldiers
By Media Operations Division
Stuttgart, Germany: U.S. European Command spokesman Navy Capt. Greg Hicks, director of Communication and Engagement, provided the following statement:
Obama secretly extends the war in Afghanistan and fires Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: are these two events connected, asks PBC?….
–Sunday NY Times op-ed section didn’t get the Friday news that Afghan war isn’t over
–Sen. Rand Paul calls for vote on declaration of war against IS…what about Afghanistan extension?
–Hagel obstructed Guantanamo releases; Spencer Ackerman reports that Senate torture report writers interviewed no torture victims;
–in Friday afternoon doc dump, GOP-controlled House Intel Committee drops Benghazi report, clearing ObamaCo
Laurence Easeman is a long time researcher, filmmaker and anti-usury social justice campaigner. He is an activist for Monetary Reform and Land Reform through the abolition of Usury, the creation of Interest-Free Credit and a contemporary system of Tribal Anarchy. At the core of Laurence's work is a struggle against the cabal of Private International Bankers that have a monopoly over our money supply.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was supposed to steer the Pentagon away from a decade of war, including bringing US troops home from Afghanistan and paving the way for a reduction in the Pentagon budget. Instead, the Obama administration has opted for remaining in Afghanistan, continuing the disastrous drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen, and dragging our nation into another round of military involvement in Iraq, as well as Syria. The ISIL crises has also been used as a justification for not cutting the Pentagon budget, as required by sequestration.
By Ralph Nader | November 21, 2014 Two recent news items about the voracious drug industry should call for a supine Congress to arouse itself and initiate investigations about the pay-or-die drug prices that are far too common. The first item—a page one story in the New York Times—was about the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation, […]
The survival of many millions of people is too important to be left to the drug companies. For a fraction of what the federal government is wasting on spreading and failing lawless wars abroad, it can expand from the Walter Reed Army Hospital example to become a humanitarian superpower that produces life-saving vaccines and medicines as if the plight of sick people mattered more than windfall profits for Big Pharma.
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The revolutionists call on us to ignore the political charades and spectacles orchestrated by our oligarchic masters around electoral politics. They tell us to dismiss the liberals who look to a political system that is dead. They expose the press as an echo chamber for the elites.
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Recovered from losing race after race around the country, all the Ready for Hillary operatives came together at Le Souk in New York last week to celebrate their own and their candidate's fabulousness.
Ukraine voted no on this resolution because this new Ukrainian Government is the only nazi regime in the world, and they are doing the standard nazi things, and so what they are doing is in violation of numerous international laws, which are not being enforced, but which are re-asserted and re-affirmed in this resolution, though Ukraine and the Ukrainian situation aren’t at all mentioned in the resolution. The United States voted no on it, because the U.S. Government had placed them into power.
RT | November 24, 2014 A sophisticated malware dubbed Regin has been used to spy on governments, infrastructure operators and other high-profile targets, security company Symantec has revealed. It also targeted private individuals and businesses, particularly in Russia. A back door-type Trojan displays a “degree of technical competence rarely seen,” Symantec said in a press […]
By Matt Agorist | Free Thought Project | November 23, 2014 Data from a five-year period is painting a disturbing picture of a deadly trend among Utah police officers. Up until this year, killings by police officers ranked second only to homicide of intimate partners. However, this year, including a Saturday shooting in South Jordan, […]
Dealing with SavagesBy Rabbi Steven PruzanskyCongregation Bnai Yeshurun Teaneck, New JerseyPosted on November 21, 2014"Anyone who...throws a stone at a Jew should be shot – with real bullets.”"The media should be barred…”“...a Palestinian state will never be created between the river and the sea.
MEMO | November 24, 2014 Egyptian President Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi told an Italian newspaper that his country is ready to send troops to Palestine in order to guarantee Israel’s security and work jointly against terrorism. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Al-Sisi said: “We are prepared to send military forces inside a […]
MEMO | November 24, 2014 Zionist activists have urged British MPs to implement new legislation that police could use to stop non-violent, pro-BDS protests. Manchester-based group North-West Friends of Israel have urged politicians to give police more power to stop boycotts of businesses by pro-Palestine solidarity activists. As cited in a report by The Jewish […]
Press TV – November 24, 2014 A new report has revealed Britain’s approval of arms sales to Israel worth nearly USD 11 million (£7 million) in the six months before the regime’s latest aggression against the Gaza Strip. The Sunday report by The Independent newspaper raised fresh concerns about the use of British-made weapons and […]
Last spring and summer there was a hopeful stir as polling showed several candidates could beat Rahm Emanuel's bid for reelection. For various reasons, none of them decided to make the run. But as of last month, another candidate has stepped up to the plate, Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia. Chicago Teachers Union and other progressive groups have already endorsed him.
RT | November 24, 2014 Russia is losing around $40 billion a year due to Western sanctions, but they are not as critical to the economy as lower oil prices, which add $90-100 billion in losses, says Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. “We lose about $40 billion a year because of the political sanctions and […]
When that "shooting" and "axe"(!) attack happened last week in Jerusalem, I smelled a rat.... It was just too convenient for this type of attack to happen at just the right time for the criminal psychos in Israel, and especially for that arch criminal Benyamin Miliekowsky (Netanyahu) who was under fire from everywhere for his insanity....
UNIAN
November 24, 2014
US ‘to step up military aid to Ukraine’
Sources at the U.S. presidential administration have said the United States will ramp up its military aid to Ukraine and that they expect that the U.S. Congress will allocate additional funds from the budget for this purpose.
Ukrinform
November 24, 2014
Stoltenberg confirms that Ukraine could become NATO member
KYIV: Ukraine will become a member of NATO if it fulfills the criteria required for membership of the alliance.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this at a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in The Hague on Monday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported.
Interfax-Ukraine
November 24, 2014
NATO nations urge to boost Ukraine support, stand firm on Russia
NATO nations must boost support to Ukraine and take a firm stance with Russia as “a very difficult winter” looms for the government in Kyiv, parliamentarians and experts warned Sunday at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Annual Session.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Robert Graves: Selections on war
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Robert Graves
From Good-Bye to All That (1929)
RT | November 24, 2014 A ‘temporary’ deployment of US troops in Poland and the Baltic states has been extended through 2015, a US commander in Europe said. NATO sells its presence as a deterrent to an ‘aggressive Russia’, with Moscow countering that it only escalates tension. The alliance deployed several hundred US troops in […]
Today [November 24, 2014] is the deadline for the closing of a deal with Iran regarding their nuclear program. No one should be surprised that Israel is marking this deadline with a threat to attack Iran regardless of the outcome of the negotiations. As the Jerusalem Post is reporting on its front page: "Israel has […]
It will not shock readers to hear that quite often legislation on Capitol Hill is not as advertised. When Congress wants to do something particularly objectionable, they tend give it a fine-sounding name. The PATRIOT Act is perhaps the best-known example. The legislation had been drafted well before 9/11 but was going nowhere. Then the […]
Heavy fighting between security forces and Islamic State militants over the weekend left 314 dead and 60 wounded. Also dozens of bodies were found in graves.