An interview with former KGB agent.
Via Moonbattery, (h/t Paul).
Lots more at Roborant
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That should give you lots to chatter about.
Not Watching For The Asteroid
Associate professor of journalism Kelly Toughill, direct from the fishbowl;
It is time to stop focusing on the decline of newspapers and start worrying about the loss of mass media in general.
The newspaper crisis is a symptom of a broader problem.
We are in danger of losing institutions that cut across income, race, culture, gender and age to provide a shared intellectual space in society. We are in danger of losing one of the few activities that forces us, even briefly, to consider people, ideas and interests different than our own.
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The common narrative goes like this: The Internet is killing newspapers because it is faster, cheaper and easier for readers to use. The casualties are jobs and public interest journalism essential to democracy.
Wrong. The Internet is part of the problem, but not because it is faster and easier. The Internet hurts old media because it can deliver targeted advertising to niche markets without wasting time and money delivering ads to those who aren’t interested.
Whereupon, the commoners narrate right back at her in the comments…
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here is Jeff Hawkins, founder of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, presenting his talk: Brain Science is about to Fundamentally Change (2003, 22:10).
I think it can be reasonably argued that our DLDI series has, at least so far, some dependence on the processing engine involved thereto, even though I don’t think that effects the fundamental undergirding; yet so it is that if we are to look at knowledge, then we must consider our implementation of knowledge. Epistemology, like metaphysics, doesn’t depend, in my opinion, on the human engine, but we do.
In this video Jeff takes a look at some of the ways in which our understanding of our processing engine is changing, most notably that intelligence might not be principally about logic and reason per se, rather, it might be more about memory and the predictive accuracy of our pattern matching skills (of which logic and reason are two particularly effective examples).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Are You Feeling Stimulated?
Think about that number. That’s the real power of “we, the people.” It’s the shoulder behind our votes if we will only begin to believe again in our own might more than we do in a feckless, unproductive government that seeks to buy our faith with a piddling $925 billion they’ll have to borrow from us before they can get their pictures taken giving it away.
h/t Tenebris
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
More People Are Murdered By Islamists Each Year.
… than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined.
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council sanctions talk radio host Lowell Green for noticing out loud.
You can send Mr. Green a message of support here and a running tally of this year’s victims of the Religion of Peace to the CBSC here.
h/t Maz2
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time television show, here is the Mr. Bedloe Strikes Again, II, III, episode of Petticoat Junction (“It is run by Kate, come and be her guest, at the Junction“, 1963, 28 minutes). By the way, I show up at 3:20 in part III; yup, that’s me: Sam Drucker ;-)
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Fruits Of Multiculturalism
“It’s a gift, a gift,” says Ali,
At the market in Belleville, three women curse each other in French and Arabic as they fight over a bag of leeks.
Comrade Frank
Congress will consider legislation to extend some of the curbs on executive pay that now apply only to those banks receiving federal assistance, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said.
“There’s deeply rooted anger on the part of the average American,” the Massachusetts Democrat said at a Washington news conference today.
He said the compensation restrictions would apply to all financial institutions and might be extended to include all U.S. companies.
And people think Glenn Beck is “over the top”.
USS Cole Victim’s Mother Refuses Obama’s Invitation
Via Fox – Diane McDaniels, whose son Frank died in the terrorist attack on the USS Cole, is refusing to participate in window dressing…
Now They Notice
The Executive Council of the American Association for Public Opinion Research said Dr. Gilbert Burnham, a Johns Hopkins University professor, had repeatedly refused to cooperate with an eight-month investigation into his research on the Iraqi death toll that made headlines in October 2006 when it was published by The Lancet, a British medical journal.
The widely publicized study headed by Burnham contended that nearly 655,000 Iraqis had died because of the U.S.-led invasion and war in Iraq.
“When asked to provide several basic facts about this research, Burnham refused,” the council said in a statement. It noted that the group’s Code of Professional Ethics and Practices calls for researchers to disclose their methodology when survey findings are made public so they can be independently evaluated and verified.
More at Hot Air.
Maz2
“Under My Thumb”
Not Watching For The Asteroid
I repeat: This isn’t an extinction. It’s suicide.
Diane Sawyer looks to become the next Dan Rather;
In an interview with Sen. John McCain on Monday, anchor Diane Sawyer described Limbaugh’s “I hope he fails” comment as “another big issue in the news.”
She then tossed to a sound bite comprising two separate comments made five days apart, which ABC joined together. The edited comment made it sound like Limbaugh wants Obama to fail because he’s black.
Here’s the ABC version of Limbaugh’s comment:
Limbaugh: “I don’t need 400 words. I need four. I hope he fails.”
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“We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, because his father was black, because this is the first black president, we’ve got to accept this.”
“Good Morning America” took the first sentence from Limbaugh’s Jan. 16 radio program. The second sentence comes from Limbaugh’s January 21 appearance on Sean Hannity’s TV show.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Are Polar Bears Really Disappearing? (17 meg mp3)
A guy you’ll never see on the CBC – polar bear biologist, Dr. Mitch Taylor (interviewed on John Gormley Live). I listened to most of it on the way to town yesterday – highly recommended. Now, if only there were a transcript!
Via The Frontier Centre for Public Policy.- a great resource to add to your bookmarks.
Obama Orders Charges Against Cole Bomber Withdrawn
U.S. President Barack Obama will likely order a military commission to withdraw charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a suspect in the U.S.S. Cole bombing held at Guantanamo naval base, ABC News reported on Thursday.
The decision, likely to be announced on Friday, would end prosecution of al-Nashiri in the military court system that Obama has criticized and may ultimately dismantle, ABC News reported, citing unnamed sources
Word on the blog street has it that he plans to defend the decision in a photo op session after meeting with Cole bombing survivors and families of 911 victims – perhaps to remind them he “won”.
(The reason the 911 families were invited? Just guess.)
More on the rationale here, but the short form is “his order to close Gitmo made him do it.”
Meanwhile, over in the dead center of the universe…
Via Darcey.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here are Pink Floyd performing, from their album Meddle (the third LP, it turns out, that I ever purchased), a tune now finally available via the Interwebothique, and one of the most interesting songs ever: Echoes ~ I, II, & III (1971, 23:31). Echoes, along with Iron Butterfly‘s In A Gadda Da Vida, were among the first psychedelic rock works to occupy an entire side of a modern LP; they are, indeed, seminal works in the history of modern rock, psychedelia, and electronica.
Update: wait, wait, there’s more. I see where (pursuant to research undertaken in relation to the comments) the original 1967 BBC footage of Pink Floyd’s Astronomy Domine is now available again via the Interwebothique, and I must say, it is quite something.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Yoo Hoo, Greyhound….
Take Me, Obama
America’s News Media: Asking the tough questions. Getting the tough autographs.
But Will He Share CTV’s Split Screen With Protestors?
Like his predecessor did during his visit;
The Obama visit, which will revolve around a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper but include a courtesy chat with Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in his capacity as Official Opposition leader, is expected to take roughly five hours from landing to the President’s return to Washington, D.C.
Five hours? That’s barely long enough to raise Heather Mallick’s respiration rate.
