Friday, February 14, 2014
Taibbi Redux: an attempt at war with the vampire squid
By CNu at February 14, 2014 0 comments
Labels: banksterism , Living Memory
Taibbi Redux: the five bubble history of the vampire squid
By CNu at February 14, 2014 0 comments
Labels: banksterism , Living Memory
Thursday, February 13, 2014
if only the cathedral could stop bellyaching, get off its ass, and find something useful to do...,
By CNu at February 13, 2014 15 comments
Labels: CSC as ESS , culture of competence , What IT DO Shawty...
why people have to periodically poleaxe potatoheads...,
By CNu at February 13, 2014 0 comments
Labels: CSC as ESS , People Centric Leadership , What IT DO Shawty...
poleaxe-ready potatohead pontificating...,
By CNu at February 13, 2014 0 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , global system of 1% supremacy
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
and at sites of longstanding ongoing gangsterism...,
But, thanks to the Nuland's foul-mouthed indiscretion, the truth is out. Washington, from her own admission, is acting like an agent provocateur in Ukraine's political turmoil. That is an illegal breach of international rules of sovereignty. Nuland finishes her phone call like a gangster ordering a hit on a rival, referring to incompetent European interference in Ukraine with disdain - "F...k the EU."
Next up is Wendy Sherman, the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, who is also Washington's top negotiator in the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran. Sherman is another flinty-eyed female specimen of the American political class, who, like Nuland, seems to have a block of ice for a heart and a frozen Popsicle for a brain.
Again, like Nuland, Sherman aims to excel in her political career by sounding even more macho, morose and moronic than her male American peers.
Last week, Sherman was giving testimony before the US Senate foreign affairs committee on the upcoming negotiations with Iran over the interim nuclear agreement. The panel was chaired by the warmongering Democrat Senator Robert Menendez, who wants to immediately ramp up more sanctions on Iran, as well as back the Israeli regime in any preemptive military strike on the Islamic Republic.
Sherman's performance was a craven display of someone who has been brainwashed to mouth a mantra of falsehoods with no apparent ability to think for herself. It's scary that such people comprise the government of the most nuclear-armed-and-dangerous state in the world.
Programmed Sherman accused Iran of harboring ambitions to build nuclear weapons. "We share the same goal [as the warmonger Menendez] to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon." And she went on to repeat threadbare, risible allegations that Iran is supporting international terrorism. That is a disturbing indication of the low level of political intelligence possessed by the US chief negotiator.
The number three in the US State Department went on to say of the interim nuclear deal with Iran: "What is also important to understand is that we remain in control over whether to accept the terms of a final deal or not. We have made it clear to Iran that, if it fails to live up to its commitments, or if we are unable to reach agreement on a comprehensive solution, we would ask the Congress to ramp up new sanctions."
Remember that Sherman and her State Department boss John Kerry are considered "soft on Iran" by the likes of Menendez, John McCain, Lyndsey Graham, Mark Kirk, and the other political psychopaths in Washington. So, we can tell from Sherman's callous words and mean-minded logic that the scope for genuine rapprochement between the US and Iran is extremely limited.
Sherman finished her performance before the Senate panel with the obligatory illegal threat of war that Washington continually issues against Iran: "We retain all options to ensure that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon."
By CNu at February 12, 2014 10 comments
Labels: The Great Game , you used to be the man
time running out for egypt, iran...,
By CNu at February 12, 2014 0 comments
Labels: The Great Game , you used to be the man
meanwhile, back at one of many locations where we meddled extensively....,
By CNu at February 12, 2014 0 comments
Labels: The Great Game , you used to be the man
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
rotflmbao..., “the ideas we’re talking about unite people”
By CNu at February 11, 2014 27 comments
Labels: the wattles , What Now?
what's wrong with kansas and would you trust a forced cake?
By CNu at February 11, 2014 0 comments
Labels: states rights , the wattles
five reasons scientists should stay out of debates with creationists
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Such debates confer unearned legitimacy on the creationist position.
When a scientist debates a creationist about evolution, he or she is
conveying the message that the creationist has a scientific case to
make, even though creationists explicitly or implicitly prioritize
scripture over science. Revealingly, creationists do not argue—nor even
attempt to argue—for their views how scientists argue for their
scientific positions.
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Such debates tend to mislead the audience about the nature of
scientific practice. Scientists argue with each other, sometimes
fiercely, but they do not argue in the service of a religious ideology.
Rather, they argue in the service of a common goal: ascertaining how the
natural world works. And they do so in venues that reward the objective
assessment of evidence rather than oratorical prowess, such as research
publications and professional conferences.
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Most debate formats allow the creationist participant to engage in the
Gish gallop, so named for the late stalwart creationist debater Duane
T. Gish, who was notorious for his breakneck recital of half-truths,
out-of-context quotations, and quibbles, presented in such swift
succession that the opposing scientist was oftens unable to track, let
alone refute, every point. As a result, the audience is left with the
misapprehension that the points left unrefuted by the scientific debater
are valid.
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Such debates are often presented, explicitly or implicitly, as debates
over religion, with the creationist happily assuming the role of
defender of faith, God, and the Bible, and the scientist cast, willingly
or unwillingly, in the opposite role. Because evolution is accepted on
the basis of the overwhelming evidence by scientists of all faiths and
of none, it is inaccurate and unhelpful for it to be presented as
distinctively and inextricably connected with any position on religion.
- Such debates help to stimulate the base and swell the coffers of their creationist sponsors. What’s worse, they fuel local enthusiasm for creationism, contributing to pressure on local teachers to teach creationism or downplay evolution. A survey conducted in 2007 revealed the dismal fact that one in eight public high-school biology teachers in the United States already present creationism as scientifically credible, and that six in 10 already downplay evolution.
By CNu at February 11, 2014 0 comments
Labels: stay-in-your-lane , tactical evolution
Monday, February 10, 2014
is atheism irrational?
By CNu at February 10, 2014 15 comments
Labels: as above-so below , The Straight and Narrow
defense of traditional marriage is a little like creation science...,
By CNu at February 10, 2014 7 comments
Labels: relationship management , tactical evolution
pope francis intends to keep the church's educated constituents...,
By CNu at February 10, 2014 0 comments
Labels: governance , tactical evolution
Sunday, February 09, 2014
wall st. is and has always been a dirty extractive parasite...,
By CNu at February 09, 2014 9 comments
Labels: global system of 1% supremacy , What IT DO Shawty...
the psychopathocracy could not abide transparency...,
By CNu at February 09, 2014 0 comments
Labels: governance , not gonna happen... , tactical evolution
the top lives off the yield of the bottom
By CNu at February 09, 2014 0 comments
Labels: agenda , elite , establishment , Livestock Management
Saturday, February 08, 2014
is realness in need of redefinition?
By CNu at February 08, 2014 16 comments
Labels: deceiver , play-at-your-level , Strict Father
Friday, February 07, 2014
A.T.T.I.T.U.D.E. - and nothing more - defines the identity politics Cathedral
Cool as the bottom of the pillow.
Bouncing, clapping, ratchet hot mess.
By CNu at February 07, 2014 5 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , Cathedral , not a good look
can hiphop help the cathedral's bronies get their testicles to descend?
By CNu at February 07, 2014 13 comments
Labels: Cathedral , institutional deconstruction , The Hardline
the faux coalitions and artificial negativity of the cathedral are fragile as hell...,
By CNu at February 07, 2014 11 comments
Labels: Cathedral , institutional deconstruction
a message to california about what's around that signpost up ahead..,
The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Smith reports that a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman is acknowledging for the first time that a group of snipers shot up a Silicon Valley substation for 19 minutes last year, knocking out 17 transformers before slipping away into the night.
The attack was “the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred” in the U.S., Jon Wellinghoff, who was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the time, told Smith.
By CNu at February 07, 2014 1 comments
Labels: Collapse Crime , domestic terrorism
messages from creationists to people who believe in evolution, jes dayyum....,
buzzfeed | I asked 22 self-identifying creationists at the Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate to write a message/question/note to the other side. Here’s what they wrote.
By CNu at February 07, 2014 0 comments
Labels: the wattles , What IT DO Shawty...
messages from former bronies and current weedheads about parasitizing the least of these to get that paper up!!!
By CNu at February 07, 2014 0 comments
Labels: hustle-hard , parasitic , The Hardline
Thursday, February 06, 2014
"regressive - grandparentish" - more cathedralish whining about the global system of strict-father supremacy
By CNu at February 06, 2014 43 comments
Labels: Cathedral , culture of competence , edumackation , Strict Father
black parents now succumbing to the lure of medicating rather than parenting their sons...,
By CNu at February 06, 2014 0 comments
Labels: consumerism , de-evolution , FAIL
Weak People Are Open, Empty, and Easily Occupied By Evil...,
Tucker Carlson: "Here's the illusion we fall for time and again. We imagine that evil comes like fully advertised as such, like evi...
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theatlantic | The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers...
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Video - John Marco Allegro in an interview with Van Kooten & De Bie. TSMATC | Describing the growth of the mushroom ( boletos), P...
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Farmer Scrub | We've just completed one full year of weighing and recording everything we harvest from the yard. I've uploaded a s...