Bread that lasts for 60 days could cut food waste BBC (John L)
Fracking Our Food Supply Nation. Scary.
The Drug Store in American Meat Counterpunch (May S)
Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase Wired
Take it a bit easier in the gym: Too much exercise can wear out your heart Daily Mail (May S)
7 jailed in ‘kidney for iPhone’ case Shanghai Daily
The 16 scariest maps from the E.U.’s massive new climate change report Gristmill (Aquifer)
The Big Data Fallacy And Why We Need To Collect Even Bigger Data TechCrunch (Lambert)
The very curious case of the disappearing reinsurance deal South China Morning Post
Strauss-Kahn Discussed Settling Suit, His Lawyers Say Bloomberg
BoE tells banks to crack down on bonuses Telegraph. So what’s the Fed’s excuse?
Cairo readies for pro-Morsi rally BBC
Housing Move in Israel Seen as Setback for a Two-State Plan New York Times
Crunching the numbers shows how Obama and Romney were polls apart Guardian
Audit finds billions in unverified Medicare spending Washington Post (furzy mouse)
Republicans Take Aim at Entitlements Wall Street Journal
Bradley Manning: a tale of liberty lost in America Glenn Greenwald
NY Fed Mortgage Debt Data Says No US Recovery Ilargi
Where Are the Foreclosures? Adam Levitin, Credit Slips
It’s 2007 again, thanks to the US Fed Financial Times. No, it was more fun the first time around.
Creating and Destroying the Universe in Twenty-Nine Nights New York Review of Books. For a small dose of something like this (not the artistry, but having your time sense adjusted), watch Die Große Stille, if all possible on a large screen.
Antidote du jour (Richard Smith):
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/01/watergate-scandal-secret-files-revealed
Nixon, Cox, Sirica, Hunt: what it was like when American democracy sputtered to life. Doctors were worried that Hunt would “weep in court”. Anybody on the state side worrying about Manning?
The Manning story illustrates just how brutal and merciless the US military can be against someone they consider an enemy.
I worked for them for years as a civilian, and am now retired. But I was a whistleblower, and am now suffering the retaliation they could not legally carry out during my work years.
One of the methods is night-time awakening, which is torture now matter how they want to make it look. They are systematic and merciless.
The only reason they can do this to me is that I live alone, so have no witnesses. The local police are not interested either.
What is “night-time awakening”?
It’s what your bladder does to you once you are over 55.
I was referring to the Manning story, where he describes having his sleep constantly disrupted so his captors could “see his face” or “ensure he was not suicidal, thus disguising torture as concern.
I think “sleep depravation” is the better term for that.
Ya see Bill, when you wake up at night you are in you’re own home and it’s your body, not some stranger who has awakened you that tells you it’s time to go to the bathroom. And your body doesn’t wake you every 5 minutes and ask you if you’re OK. And when you go to the bathroom you don’t have to stand in front of a TP dispenser that has a camera and ask for permission to recieve TP. And you don’t have to wonder whether anyone cares about your circumstances. And you don’t have to wonder if you might possibly end up dead without anyone being able to do anything about it just because some system is in a snit. And you don’t have to be concerned with your sanity and if it’s better to give up your morality, your essence, in order to not be punished anymore for something that is a thousand times less than what the two-party system, the Klingon party has done to America and the world.
Susan Rice’s best client reacts to its loss in the UN [from the NYT link above]:
Apartheid pays its spokesbots well to advocate for hate.
It sure does, and though the Times can sponsor the apologist parade as often as it wants, we, the people, know Israel is in the process of recinding its right to exist.
Mers taught us title is bull.
BoE tells banks to crack down on bonuses Telegraph. So what’s the Fed’s excuse?
The jerb creators would get depressed and Go Galt, and then who would we have not creating any jerbs, hmmm???
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Homestarrunner fan, I see. Nice
I have noticed an anti-exercise bent in links you have posted over the years. This latest on exercising too much is just one example; here are some snippets from the article, for those who didn’t click the link:
“They warn that exercising intensely for more than an hour or two can damage the heart, causing its tissue to stretch, tear and scar and raising the odds of dangerous changes in heart rhythm.
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However, closer analysis of the results revealed the longevity benefits to be limited to those who ran between five and 20 miles a week.”
Most people never come close to exercising 1 or 2 hours at a time, or running 5 to 20 miles per week.
fear of exercise…fear of austerity…same thing.
pass the drone remote…i wanna see what’s on tv…
I am pretty sedentary, but since I started to lose some weights, I spend 40 minutes on the treadmill for a 3mph/2mile walk, trot – and then swim a mile in just over an hour.
That’s pretty standard for the women at the gym.
And again, I’m no athlete. I think perhaps you are more sendentary than me – and that’s not good.
I am very much in favor of exercise. However, more than 40 mins of cardio in a session, you go catabolic (as in you produce stress hormone, which undermines the effectiveness of the exercise, you’ll actually accumulate fat rather than lose it) and more than an hour of weight training in a session is similarly counterproductive.
I used to do 2-3 hours a day on the stair machine at high intensity. I also used to do more than an hour a day of high impact aerobics when I wasn’t doing a lot of stair machine. I have the messed up knees to prove it.
It is very easy to screw up your joints from too much exercise. Knees and shoulders are most vulnerable.
I have found bicycling and cross country skiing as activities that are low impact on joints and which you can do for longer periods than other exercises beneficially.
Chicago Incorporated, a joint venture.
Here comes another city privatization deal forged behind closed doors
One hundred and fifty-five million bucks is a lot of money. Or maybe it isn’t.
It’s more than most of us have to spend on holiday gifts this year. But is it the right price for letting a private company put up dozens of billboards on public land around the city for at least 20 years?
[snip]
The mayor and his aides officially call it a “municipal marketing initiative.” If you cut through the jargon, though, it’s the latest privatization deal out of City Hall, this one involving the long-term rental of public space to advertisers.
Hey skippy-
China Kidney for iHole-
There are lots of arbitrage opportunities until the real market gets going. iHoleX vs. Kindney markit index is positive 3000bps.
Glenn, Glenn – the undying disgrace of Obama’s first term is the only thing keeping him alive. That’s his prime directive as NCS Puppet Ruler: impunity for Bennett’s torturers and murderers. Our quavering figurehead’s first official act was announcing impunity for torture, “look forward, not back.” Manning’s actions permit effective application of the Nuremberg Principles, so cruel, inhuman, and degrading infliction of severe mental suffering on Bradley Manning, and decisive abortion of justice in his case, that’s the one pledge Obama will never break. If Obama puts a foot wrong here, Marine One is gonna throw a rotor and they’ll put up a fugly Stalinist-gothic statue of him right next to MLK’s, so they can look at each other like, Why didn’t we keep our mouths shut about CIA crimes of concern to the international community?
BINGO!
Now there are two of us who understand the depravity that is the American power structure.
This country is disgraceful. More disgraceful is the problem that the electorate refuses to see these monsters for what they are.
Smithsonian mag this month has a wonderful piece on Jefferson the slave owner. He was my last hero – and now I see the horrors of his nail factory, and his feigned interest in freeing slaves. Et Tu Jefferson – another monster. A horrible horrible man.
So, I have no more heroes in American history.
Dear Gmarks;
I found it better to remould my “Heros” into semi mythical forms. People have feet of clay, heros have winged extremities. After all, once one enters the realm of the Heros, one is beyond time and space. That is why Historical figures don’t fit the bill.
Oh, my god. My bread now lasts for 59 days and we are going to improve on that? For whom is this innovation being made? Could it be for the stores who like to have things last forever on their shelves? Just asking.
A twinkie replacement?
In honor of Twinkies…
The political implications, part 1 http://media.caglecartoons.com/media/cartoons/130/2012/11/15/122435_600.jpg
The political implications, part 2 http://media.caglecartoons.com/media/cartoons/91/2012/01/13/104468_600.jpg
The political implications, part 3 http://media.theweek.com/img/dir_0087/43561_cartoon_main/twinkies-second-life.jpg?155
A legal implication http://cmsimg.visaliatimesdelta.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=J4&Date=20121121&Category=OPINION&ArtNo=311210023&Ref=AR&MaxW=640&Border=0&Editorial-cartoon-Nov-21-2012
Snacks of the future! http://www.nationalmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/twinkies.jpg
ha ha. The thing that amazes me is that the word twinkie can mean both “a wimp” AND an indestructible snack food.
Ah, but is it frackable? And could it be used to stick the cows tails back on?
Get rid of the oxygen and most foodstuffs should last quite a while-think vacuum packing.
I have real pumpernickel, either in thick foil or in thin cans. Lasts years. Just don’t go for the fluffy stuff (but it would last in cans as well).
The ‘I Don’t Remember’ Files, Part II: Hedge Fund Chief Stevie Cohen
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
“Housing Move in Israel Seen as Setback for a Two-State Plan New York”
How can you have a setback to a plan that has been dead 17 years, since the assassination of Rabin in 1995? Who knows maybe the Times will follow this up with a medical update on Rabin’s condition.
Supposedly, he’s still dead. Not Sharon, though – relatively speaking, he doing quite well.
There’s no “relatively speaking” about it. Sharon is not only not dead, he is currently living a life of luxury, spending his entire day loafing in bed while waited on hand-and-foot.
Perhaps the NYT could do one of its Special Features on him: What brand of sheets does he lie on? Does he wear designer pajamas? And what rare delicacies are running into his IV/feeding tube?
Times readers expect—nay, demand—to know.
What is that animal in the Antidote du Jour photo? I can’t tell even after craning my neck to the left.
It’s something like an anteater/aardvark but not either of those: look at the head and the claws. I’ve seen this animal in documentaries but I can’t remember what it is or where it lives.
I think it’s the “southern tamandua” type anteater.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anteater
I googled that and can’t find a pic that looks anything like. I’m stumped.
looks like this guy. filhote de tamandua = puppy tamandua.
it also looks similar to the northern tamandua here.
southern tamandua at the denver zoo.
Be right neighborly if whoever submitted the pic identified the animal.
Here is another picture of tamanduas, titled “Anteaters wearing sweaters.”
http://www.boners.com/grub/805622.html
It’s an “SPCA comes to your house with a can of whoop-ass” anteater. Do not put animals in the laundry devices.
agreed – bad choice for “antidote of the day”!