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THE RULES OF EXPOSITION
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Not for its economics
From The Economist : David Ricardo showed in 1817 that a country could benefit from trade even if it did everything better than its neighbours. A country that is better at everything will still be “most better”, so to speak, at something. It should concentrate on that, Ricardo showed, importing what its neighbours do “least worse”. If bad grammar is not enough to make the point, an old analogy mig
Use over time
Not quite at random, "use over time" graphs from Google:

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Mexico: Are UFOs Tampering with Volcanos?
Source: El Gráfico (Mexico) Date: 07.16.2016 Mexico: Are UFOs Tampering with Volcanos? By Yohanan Díaz Vargas An increase in volcanic activity is directly proportional to an increase in UFO sightings. We are dealing with anomalous objects shaped like disks, cigars or spheres flying over the volcanos without suffering any ill effects, as they appear to be impervious to the high temperature in the
The Uneasy Skies: A History of Airliner and UFO Encounters
The Uneasy Skies: A History of Airliner and UFO Encounters By Scott Corrales 1991 seems so long ago that the details of what took place so long ago have been erased from the minds of most people, but this is surely not the case with the pilots of a Boeing 727 flight from Barcelona to Madrid. The Iberia airliner was at an altitude of 30,000 feet when it encountered some unexpected and unwelcome co
Peru: A Recent Airliner-UFO Near Miss?
Synchronicity is an amazing thing. Just as we were posting our article on UFOs and airliners ("The Uneasy Skies") contributing editor Guillermo Giménez made us aware of this incident in Perú, which allegedly took place on July 22, 2016. The source is Radio Santiago (Chile) http://www.radiosantiago.cl/siguen-apareciendo-ovni-luminoso-casi-choca-con-un-avion-de-pasajeros-en-peru-video / a

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Alaska - The Final American Frontier*
3 rd August 2016 March 24, 1989, 12:27 A.M.: “We’ve fetched up hard aground…evidently we’re leaking some oil, and we’re going to be here for a while” – Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazlewood to the U.S. Coastguard The end of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline at Valdez *Alaska is known as America’s final frontier. A Google search of the term “frontier” yields the following definition: “The extreme limit of
The Alberta Tar Sands - Ground Zero for Western Civilization
10 th and 11 th July 2016 I now know what it is like to enter a disaster zone. On approach to Fort McMurray, Alberta, roadside signs advise that mental healthcare is available. Roadworks are underway to patch rearranged asphalt on the highway. Blackened sticks line the highway where boreal forests once stood. A roadside sign advertises a Denny’s, but only a pile of white ash exists where a restau
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Agriculture and the Lies Humanity Tells Itself
9 July 2016 In the past couple of days, I have passed from temperate forests to boreal forests to prairies, shifting with earth's latitudes and precipitation rates. The temperate and boreal forests have, for the most part, been logged, but many are regenerating with secondary growth. I drove 500 miles today across Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and I am still looking for an unfragmented piece of natu
Dawson City and the Top of the World - Thawing Rivers and Wildfires
19th and 20th July 2016 Dawson City feels like the most remote city on Earth. To get there by road, one can travel 532 kilometers northwest from Whitehorse on YT2 or 298 miles northeast from Tok, Alaska on the Taylor Highway and then YT9 (a.k.a. "the Top of the World Highway"). Neither one of these options offers easy open highway. Both involve narrow, two-lane roads, with long areas of


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Liberal Hillary-Bots
No. It's not "progressive" to support Hillary Clinton. She's a corrupt, mass-murdering, neo-liberal, imperialist scum-bag. Reading and watching all these US and Canadian liberals twist their minds up into pretzels about how awesome she is and how evil, selfish and deluded her critics are is really just depressing. I get that there's fear of the ignorant boor Donald Trump's racism and hi
H. R. Clinton Supporters: Evidence of a Debased Political Culture
Basically, if you support Hillary Clinton for president (whether enthusiastically or resignedly), then you're a person who has lost all sense of perspective. It doesn't matter that a race-baiting, sexist, megalomaniac con-man named Donald Trump is her likeliest opponent. I would say that what the Left should do is to "fight" either of these monsters once they're elected, but the Left do

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Donald Trump's Big Gamble
By Manifesto Joe The mogul of Atlantic City is doing some high-stakes gambling these days. And if he wins, the country is likely to lose -- BIG. I didn't consider Donald (T)rump to be all that dangerous, even amid the comparisons to Hitler and such -- until last Thursday night. I thought of him in terms of a corrupt buffoon, akin to Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister and media mo
From Joe's Vault, November 2012: Does Donald Trump Belong In Jail For Suggesting 'Revolution'?
By Manifesto Joe I'm pretty much of a First Amendment purist. No matter how contemptible the speech is, in the good ol' U.S. of A., it's supposed to be free, and protected by law. But a question now nags me. If Romney had won the presidential election, and someone with the background of, say, Bill Ayres, tweeted something suggesting "revolution," do you think he would be getting a visit
From Joe's Vault: Bin Laden Isn't Qualified To Be Dead Until Donald Trump Sees The Death Certificate
By Manifesto Joe This May 2, 2011, blog post came to mind recently as Republicans prepare to anoint Donald Rump (er, Trump) as their presidential nominee. The question I would ask is: With so much horror happening in the world now, can the U.S. afford to have a neofascist buffoon like this man as president? Oh well, here goes: The problem is, how would we know that it wasn't a fake? I guess that m

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A bet with Tim Worstall on Apple's state aid repayment
Tim Worstall , a contributor at the Forbes Magazine website, wrote a column Thursday wherein he challenges all comers to a bet on the outcome of Apple's state aid case I discussed Sunday . He repeated the challenge to me specifically in the comments section of my post, and I accepted. It's for bragging rights only (I think I'd prefer for the prize to be a beer next time I go to London, oh well).
We will soon know if Apple is ordered to pay billions in EU state aid case
$19 billion? $8 billion? A few hundred million? Estimates are all over the map regarding the European Commission's imminent decision on whether Apple received illegal, unnotified state aid (subsidies) from Ireland. As I mentioned two years ago, two factors go into the Commission's claim: Ireland's creation of a corporate entity that is taxable nowhere , and the possibility that the company negotia

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There by the grace of God.
Though there is no true love / Just a finely tuned jealousy You may have noticed there weren't any posts last week. Well, there was one, but it seems to have mysteriously disappeared. A couple of reasons for that. The main one being in the 11 years I've been writing this blog I have never felt such abject, crushing despair at the state of politics, not only in this country but around the world. I
This is yesterday.
I have no fucking idea what I'm doing. Not that I ever do. This is different though. I didn't expect this. You think that for so long you want something, only for it to turn out that you don't really. You don't want the wrong impression to come across. Your motives to be seen as malign when you don't have a proper clue about them yourself. It's not about you. Except it looks for all the world as
Babies crippled in Christ.
Here we go gathering nuts in July.
Whenever journalists wet their pants over a speech, you can guarantee it will fall apart within hours. They did it time and again over Tony Blair's conference speeches, ditto for David Cameron's, and especially George Osborne's budgets. Lord, did they repeat the Pavlovian routine last night. Never mind that Theresa May's address outside Downing Street was almost word for word the same as the one
Too cold here.

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Mel Hurtig. 1932-2016. ......Robin Mathews and Company Say Goodbye
Mel Hurtig. 1932-2016. Written By Robin Mathews On Wednesday, August 3, 2016, Mel Hurtig shook off the chains of his mortality to find the place of peace that passeth understanding, and - as Shakespeare has it - ‘ from whose bourn no traveller returns’. On Wednesday, August 3, 2016, Canada lost one of its finest citizens. At once truculent, determined, irascible, warm, colourful, imaginative … an
China's Insurance Policy Against High-Priced LNG, COAL= Death of British Columbia's LNG Super-Power Fantasy!
Written by Grant G Well well well...more bad news on the British Columbia LNG front....Shell Canada, which possessed a Federal environmental certificate, a 40 year export license, all the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission permits, a deal with First Nations has postponed their proposed LNG project until mid 2020s, or..never! http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/shell-backed-lng-canada-de
Justin Trudeau. Pierre Trudeau. Canada And Imperial Globalization. Part VI
Justin Trudeau. Pierre Trudeau. Canada And Imperial Globalization..... Part VI Written by Robin Mathews Reading Justin Trudeau’s Election-time book, Common Ground (2015) is not a richly rewarding experience. In the face of the Stephen Harper/Conservative Party incipient fascism, however, Justin Trudeau’s insistence upon democratic consultation and multi-racial equality in the book is important. B
GloEuropean Union And Fascism. Imperial balization. Part V
GloEuropean Union And Fascism. Imperial balization. .... Part V Written by Robin Mathews Canadians had a taste of incipient fascism with the Conservative government led by Stephen Harper. Flagrant abuse of Parliament. Vicious attacks on organized labour. Deliberate destruction of pubic information and record. Perversion of the National Police Force. Even ( I claim ) a false, fabricated court acti

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More evidence links pesticides & falling IQs
A new study from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley found that when pregnant mothers live within one kilometer of fields where certain pesticides are used, their children are more likely to have lower IQs. These findings confirm those in several earlier studies . Which leads me to wonder: just how much evidence do we need before taking action? This latest study looked at 283 se
What happened to GE labeling?
Last night, my neighborhood gathered for a community potluck. My neighbor David planned kid-friendly activities, including a piñata. He confessed to me that there was no candy inside it, only toys — he had originally bought a big bag of Tootsie Rolls, but when he read "this product made with genetic engineering" on the packaging, he decided to fill the paper maché Minion doll with trink
Dear candidates: Let's talk about food
As I follow the news from this very unusual (!) presidential election cycle, it's clear that food and farming issues aren't high on the political agenda — which is a shame. Fixing our very broken system could help us tackle a wide range of health, equity and environmental issues, including our resilience in the face of a changing climate. The need for food system reform also showcases the broader
California highlights atrazine harms
Early this month, California health officials declared Syngenta's flagship herbicide atrazine a reproductive toxicant, adding it to the Prop 65 list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or reproductive harm. Proposition 65 is a California law mandating labels and notification for all chemicals known to cause these health harms. Pesticide giant Syngenta fought tooth and nail to keep a

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Problems with Song et al Animal Protein vs Plant Protein study
According to Harvard, this truck has saved more lives than an ambulance. Here we have another study from the hydra-headed monster that is the Harvard school of public health's interpretation of the NHS and HPFS studies. By my count there have been four of these so far this year, all saying much the same thing, that dietary guidelines were correct. Or rather, they've been presented as saying that,
This little piggy had none: are fat soluble micronutrients diluted by serum lipids in CVD and psoriasis?
This will be a rambling post, I'm afraid, and more of a sketch of an idea rather than a pinning down. This excellent pig study, first tweeted by Prof Andro of the Suppversity blog, is clear proof that the Seven Countries study, as long suspected, was severely confounded by latitude, sunlight exposure, and vitamin D.Summary 4 groups of swine (n=16) fed 2 different atherogenic diets, one with 1500i

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FLIGHT 11 DID NOT FLY ON 911 by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy American Airlines itself is the source for informat...
FLIGHT 11 DID NOT FLY ON 911 by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy American Airlines itself is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. These flights are critical to the the government's crumbling cover up! Without those flights, Bush and his murderous co-conspirators will have to revise the big lie. They will have to concoct yet another c
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Massachusetts Legislators Fail To Protect Citizens Against Abusive Noncompetes. Again
For a second year in a row, Massachusetts legislators introduced legislation to ban or severely limit the use of noncompete agreements in their state. And for the second year in a row, those efforts failed. Things looked hopeful for awhile, as both houses passed legislation, but then legislators couldn't agree on a compromise. So for the time being the citizens of Massachusetts will have to put up

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Liwa Sayf al-Mahdi: A Syrian Army Shi’i Militia
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Emblem of Liwa Sayf al-Mahdi. The top of the emblem features the Dhu al-Fiqar, the sword of Imam Ali. The group’s name means “The Sword of the Mahdi (may God hasten his emergence) Brigade.” The Syrian civil war features multiple Syrian Shi’i formations primarily affiliated with Hezbollah, such as Quwat al-Ridha and Liwa al-Imam al-Mahdi . Another militia- the Ja’afari Fo
The Boy Beheaded by Zinki Fighters, Abdullah Tayseer, Who Was He? – By Ehsani2
The Boy Beheaded by Zinki Fighters, Abdullah Tayseer, Who Was He? By Ehsani2 For Syria Comment , July 22, 2016 The video of the beheading of the young Syrian boy by the Zanki group in Aleppo caused widespread public shock. Since the appearance of the video, the boy’s identity has been the subject of much speculation. This account of his identity is based on hours of conversations with Aleppo resi
“Who is to blame for Syria’s nightmare?” By Ehsani2
Who is to blame for Syria’s nightmare? By Ehsani2 For Syria Comment , July 31 Once the popular demonstrations of the Arab spring brought down the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt, many Syrians assumed that they could bring down President Assad just as quickly. Early in 2011, most expected him to last no more than a few months. Five and a half years later, Assad remains president. In the 20th century,
“What the Rebel Loss of Aleppo Will Mean for Syria,” by Landis, Heras, Lund & Abdulhamid
What the Rebel Loss of Aleppo will mean for Syria? Four Analysts respond – Joshua Landis, Nicholas Heras, Aron Lund and Ammar Abdulhamid Aleppo Reenforces Regime Claims to Be Able to Retake Most of Syria By Joshua Landis – Director, Center for Middle East Studies, Univsity of Oklahoma The encirclement of Eastern Aleppo by the Syrian military and its allies is a major blow to the opposition. It re

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Quote without comment
... nuclear currently provides 75% of France’s electricity, supporting a 90% non-fossil grid, all without advanced batteries or [s]chedulable BEV charging. California is proposing to move to a renewable-rich grid (a 50 or 55% non-fossil grid), over a couple of decades, only to be 5 times dirtier than today’s French grid. This is fraudulent environmentalism, and should be condemned in the

 

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Living 'in the red'
Eight months into 2016, humans have already spent Earth's ecological budget for the year. Earth Overshoot Day – the approximate date when humanity's annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year – is on Monday, 8 August this year, according to the Global Footprint Network . As global consumption rises, we are emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than our ocean
Persian leopards set to make roaring comeback in Russia's Western Caucasus
Gland/Moscow, 15 July 2016 – Researchers released three Persian leopards into the Russian wilderness today in the first-ever attempt to reintroduce the species into the wild. The animals are expected to become the founders of a new population of Persian leopards in Russia as part of an ambitious programme to bring the animal back to a region it once roamed in abundance. The release of the leopard
An environmental visionary and a father to WWF
GLAND, Switzerland – WWF mourns the death on Thursday of Dr Luc Hoffmann at the age of 93. At the same time, WWF celebrates his extraordinary life-long contribution to nature conservation and to the organization. Dr Hoffmann was one of WWF International's first board members and served as WWF International's second vice president until 1988. In addition to working with WWF International's founder
Thailand's Tiger Temple Raid Highlights Need to Close Tiger Farms in Asia
Gland – Following the serious crimes recently uncovered during a raid on Thailand's Tiger Temple, WWF is using Global Tiger Day today to call on governments across Asia to investigate all tiger breeding centres and close any operations proven to be involved in the illegal tiger trade. Closure of these operations, commonly referred to as 'tiger farms' to distinguish them from legitimate zoos or ca

 

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Could the Olympics Help Human Rights?
Grab your popcorn – opening ceremonies for Rio 2016 are tonight! It’s my favorite part of the Olympics; I really could do without the whole “sport” thing that comes after. And, one of my favorite parts of tonight’s opening ceremonies are when the various country teams get to be announced: the parade of nations. I love the outfits , the flags, the background stories, the family members crying, and
A General Arms Race in US Conventions: Not Great But Unavoidable
LTG (retired) Mike Flynn has become a Trump advocate and appeared at the Republican National Convention. General (retired) John Allen surprised many by not just speaking at the Democratic National Convention but giving such enthusiastic support to Clinton. The big question is: is this problematic to have recently retired military officers take such public positions in the middle of a national ele
Improvised Explosive Robots
A common argument made in favor of the use of robotics to deliver (lethal) force is that the violence used is mediated in such a way that it naturally de-escalates a situation. In some versions, this is due to the fact that the “ robot doesn’t feel emotions ,” and so is not subject to fear or anger. In other strands, the argument is that due to distance in time and space, human operators are able
A (Un)Dead Letter?: Zombies, Feminist Theory and the IR Classroom
It’s always exciting to see articles on pop culture gracing the pages of mainstream political science journals. And it’s always good to see international relations scholars being encouraged to engage more deeply with questions of gender in the course of their teaching. This issue of PS: Political Science and Politics gives us both : an article by Rebecca Susan Evans , taking Daniel Drezner to tas

 

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Dr. Spencer, It Is Simply the Hydrostatic Condition
The Dr. Roy Spencer site has a post, "The Warm Earth: Greenhouse Effect or Atmospheric Pressure?". For what it's worth, that is the wrong way to pose the question, between those for and against the greenhouse effect. But too many "skeptics" of consensus climate science make the same mistake, even now, nearly 6 years after my 2010 "Venus: No Greenhouse Effect" post. S
It Beggars the Imagination
When I first became aware of the "global warming" debate in late 2009 (a debate which was, years later, infamously changed to "climate change" when the "global warming pause" from 1997 to the present made it "politically expedient" to direct attention away from the continuing LACK of scientifically measurable global warming), I knew as a hard scientist that
The New Paradigm: Beyond Sunken Cities and Rifted, Drifting Continents
The climate etc site of climate professor Judith Curry has a guest post, "Canopus, Herakleion, New Orleans and Continental Rifts", on an "alternative perception of sea level rise and climate change". By "alternative perception" the author, Anthony Lucas, means an alternative theory to the consensus earth science (i.e., plate tectonics), to wit an "expanding Eart

 

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(NC's Pat McHenry Is PayDay Lenders Best Boy) Has the Don Already Found His Next Grift? Is It Reason to Vote for Hillary? (CIA Torturer Touts Goldwater Girl Hillary) Fissures in the Empire? (Smearing Stein) Excessive Trump Bashing Warning (More Phony Jobs Harrah) Michael Moore Predicts Trump Win (Lee, Max and Stacy Chat Economics Farce)
North Carolina Has OutLawed Payday Lenders - But Patrick McHenry Is The Industry's Champion Even More So Than Debbie Wasserman Schultz Can we make it to the election in November? Forget Halloween. Will Herr Trumpf’s candidacy for the highest office in the land even last that long? Might it be over by Labor Day? Oh the irony of a Republican nominee for president dropping out on Labor Day.
(Vote NO to Rule by Aristocrats Demanding Tax-Paying Serfs) If You Understand that No One Donates Millions Without Expecting Big Returns It All Becomes Clear (DemExit?) A Stampede (Jane Speaks) Real Election Fraud Hillarybots Results (Trump Leads - Good Job DNC!) Yeah, But Will Computers Outdumb Us? (Afterthought: Are There Any Mathematicians Observing These Crazy Results?) Happy Birthday, Jerry!
Someday, someone will write a history of the U.S. national security state in the twenty-first century and, if the first decade and a half are any yardstick, it will be called something like State of Failure. After all, almost 15 years after the U.S. invaded the Taliban’s Afghanistan, launching the second American Afghan War of the past half-century, U.S. troops are still there, their “
Clean Up Convention Wisdom (Blame the Russians, Nader, Alan Grayson) HST Speaks
(Due to Blogger blow-ups, the Thursday night Convention coverage will come later) Blame It on the Russians Dems Dropping the N Word: When in Trouble, Blame Ralph The Clintons Celebrated, But Likely a Disaster for the Rest of the World So, at the end of the truly bought-and-paid-for New Democrat(ic) Convention we learn that the Clintons are very happy (why not?), our saviors like Alan Grayson
Dem Problem Out and Back In - Mother Donna Courtesy of CNN Replaces Her (How the FED Could Have Solved Lehman Without Ruining Economy Forever?) Jamie Dimon Violates More Proudly (Does Hillary Get IT? Does Trump?) Warren Buffett's Machines Choose Hillary or Trump (Who Wants Elections Easily Stolen?) Same Israeli Photographs Munich and Nice - Where Are Moving Vans?
Same Israeli Photo-Propagandist Pre-positioned to Record Both Munich and Nice Attacks - Cynthia McKinney Afghanistan: President Obama’s Vietnam Wasserman-Schultz out and then back in? Remind you of anything? Hillary Clinton Welcomes Wasserman-Schultz to Campaign as ‘Honorary Chair’ CNN commentator Donna Brazile will suspend her ties with the news network as she takes the reins of the

 

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SETI, Astrobiology and Red Dwarfs
If you’ve been following the KIC 8462852 story, you’ll want to be aware of Paul Carr’s Dream of the Open Channel blog, as well as his Wow! Signal Podcast , both of which make for absorbing conversation. In his latest blog post , Carr offers sensible advice about how to look at anomalies in our astronomical data. Dysonian SETI tries to spot such anomalies in hopes of uncovering the activities of a
KIC 8462852: Fading in the Kepler Data
Those of you who have been following the controversy over the dimming of KIC 8462852 (Tabby’s Star) may remember an interesting note at the end of Bradley Schaefer’s last post on Centauri Dreams . Schaefer (Louisiana State University) had gone through his reasoning for finding a long-term dimming of the star in the DASCH (Digital Access to a Sky Century@Harvard) database. His third point about th
The Evolution of Antimatter Propulsion
Thinking about Eugen Sänger’s photon rocket concept inevitably calls to mind his Silbervogel design. The ‘Silverbird’ had nothing to do with antimatter but was a demonstration of the immense imaginative power of this man, who envisioned a bomber that would be launched by a rocket-powered sled into a sub-orbital trajectory. There it would skip off the upper atmosphere enroute to its target. The Si
Antimatter Acquisition: Harvesting in Space
Talking about antimatter, as we’ve done in the past two posts, leads to the question of why the stuff is so hard to find. When we make it on Earth, we do so by smashing protons into targets inside particle accelerators of the kind found at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, IL and CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research). It’s not exactly an efficient process from
Making Jupiter into a Star

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Are Fukushima Emissions Visible During Day Time Hours?
Usually the night-time emissions aren't visible in day time hours but today they might be. Here are a few screenshots. Look at the steam plume in screenshot 1 and compare it with the distortion in the same location in screenshot 2. You judge whether that halo over Fukushima is visible emissions:
Hell on Earth
Unbelievable footage of A-Bomb destruction within a couple weeks of the disaster. I strongly recommend watching the 4 minute clip. It is shocking: Yosuke Takashima and Kentaro Yamano. 2016. Hiroshima, Nagasaki release Soviet footage of A-bomb damage. THE ASAHI SHIMBUN August 5, 2016 http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201608050061.html Rare footage documenting the devastation of Hiroshima and Nag
Chromosome 16: Linked to Human Evolution, Autism, and Susceptibility to Ionizing Radiation
A new gene linked to autism may be the first completely new gene distinguishing humans from Neanderthal and ancient hominid cousins: Xander Nuttle et al. Emergence of a Homo sapiens-specific gene family and chromosome 16p11.2 CNV susceptibility, Nature (2016). DOI: 10.1038/nature19075 This finding supports other research suggesting that autism is correlated with increased micro-deletions and dupl
Fukushima Daiichi August 5 and 7 2016
Still steaming away. August 5, 2016 August 7, 2016 TBS IS DOWN

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Graham Hancock - Do psychedelics matter? - The Common, Glastonbury 2016
Graham Hancock recently addressed the Glastonbury pit and he went off on a massive (foul mouthed but deeply cogent) rant about The New World Order, psychedelics and who the fuck do t.h.e.y. fucking think they are sending our children to FOR PROFIT wars in a global fucking casino of death and torture. I like this one, a lot.
Rurouni Kenshin - Kyoto Inferno - The Legends Ends.
I stumbled across Kyoto Inferno , Nobuhiro Watsuki 's second manga-to-film adaptation in the Rurouni Kenshin live-action series, and from what I've seen from the action, it's a cracker! The sequel is The Legend Ends . The prequel is eponymous ... If Warner Bros wanna send me this DVD trilogy for review here on Free Planet, so be it.
Kakistocracy - Political Paedophilia - Corbett Report 2015
back in 2015 Corbett Report did a rivetting show about Political Paedophilia. What has happened to the so-called Kakistocracy of ambitious-therefore-compromised psychopaths who are trained to run our establishments, and is this ultimate form of dog-eats-dog mentality still 'the way we do business' as a country? As a corporate world of war-profiteering...
Hypnotic reinforcement - The Ten Commandments - Doomed to Failure
You can't hypnotically impress a NEGATIVE onto a human consciousness. Take away all the 'thou shalt not's from the tablets of doctrine and you simply have the DIRECT COMMANDS Kill Steal Commit adultery Covet they neighbour Bear false witness etc... it's like a rulebook for continued Tax Revenue via the promulgation of sin and all its Jurisdictional machinations... fact.

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From Jenna Orkin Meet IDI: The Company That Has "Weaponized" Profiles On Every American Adult Never-before-se...
From Jenna Orkin Meet IDI: The Company That Has "Weaponized" Profiles On Every American Adult Never-before-seen video shows the devastation from the most powerful weapon ever used Iran has executed a nuclear scientist for spying for the US This is how the House of Lords could delay Brexit A stray bullet went through a media tent at the Rio Olympics Police 3D-printed a dead man's finger
From Jenna Orkin Lead Attorney In Anti-Clinton DNC Fraud Case Mysteriously Found Dead 3 Simple Charts That Help Explain...
From Jenna Orkin Lead Attorney In Anti-Clinton DNC Fraud Case Mysteriously Found Dead 3 Simple Charts That Help Explain Why 9,000 Businesses Have Left California In Just 7 Years Sheriff Raids House To Find Anonymous Blogger Who Called Him Corrupt Caught On Tape: Hillary Exclaims "We Will Raise Taxes On The Middle-Class" Student, Auto Loans Hit Record High As Credit Card Debt Surges In L
From Jenna Orkin We went to the NYC restaurant that serves grasshoppers and they're delicious How Europe Is Getting Ric...
From Jenna Orkin We went to the NYC restaurant that serves grasshoppers and they're delicious How Europe Is Getting Rich by Fueling Its Own Terror Epidemic Nicaraguan President Removes Political Opposition From Congress, Nominates Wife As Vice President The Secret Service may have been 'impaired' the day JFK was assassinated Fabulous writer Susan Cheever gets unwittingly hijacked to the realm of
From Jenna Orkin DOUBLE DIGITS: Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 10 points in new Fox News poll A British Muslim w...
From Jenna Orkin DOUBLE DIGITS: Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 10 points in new Fox News poll A British Muslim woman was detained after cabin crew reported her for reading a Syrian art book on a plane Hey, what do you expect? The title had the word "frontline" in it. Texas college students are planning on protesting 'campus carry' laws by carrying sex toys 10 Facts The Mainstream

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I don’t support all-boys initiatives
Washington, DC’s Ron Brown College Prep High School has opened this year, an all boys program. Why does it always come to this nonsense? What is this? The students are required to wear jackets and ties to school. So on Tuesday, Green was guiding them through a session on dressing appropriately, maintaining personal hygiene, polishing […]
Our students’ missing moral compasses
As this Atlantic article laments, students are lacking a robust character education. This has everything to do with the strong push for growth in math and reading since NCLB, continued under RTTT, and now will likely progress under ESSA. (Who can keep track of these acronyms?) Obsession over growth in math and reading only will […]
Any school leaders out there willing to own up to hateful practices?
Like this one. Who approves things like this, and what teacher worth her or his salt would draft something like this? Of all that I’ve seen, this is certainly not the worst, but it’s certainly up there. I’m not angry as much as I’m embarrassed.
What if police “reform” played out like school “reform”?
I don’t know very much about how law enforcement works. I also think the whole concept of “reform,” for schools and otherwise, is so much nonsense, anyway. But let’s think about this for a moment, shall we? Law enforcement, as a public service, is failing in low-income black and brown communities, largely in concentrated and […]

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Prices For Iraq’s Oil Drop In July While Exports Increased
The up and down nature of Iraq’s oil industry continued in July 2016. Exports increased, while prices for the country’s crude declined. That led to a loss in revenue. Iraq was still making more than it did at the start of the year when revenues were at a nadir due to the collapse of the international oil market, which helps the country as it is facing a huge budget deficit. The Oil Ministry annou
Political Battle For Control Of Iraq’s Anbar Province
Today, the Iraqi forces are in the process of freeing the remaining areas of Anbar from the Islamic State. As the province has been liberated however, a series of political battles have emerged over control of the government. The main dispute is between some tribal sheikhs and the Sunni Endowment versus the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) that has run the governorate since 2005. No one is coming out lo
Security In Iraq, Jul 8-14, 2016
The Iraqi Security Forces made a significant victory in the second week of July 2016. They seized the air base in Qayara, which will be used as a launching pad for further operations into northern Ninewa province with the ultimate goal of taking Mosul. The Islamic State’s spring/Ramadan offensive finally came to an end as well. There were just 125 security incidents reported in Iraq from July 8-1

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