INEXPLICATA-THE JOURNAL OF HISPANIC UFOLOGY7 unread articles // actions
"If the Military Admitted the Existence of UFOs, Their Scam Would Collapse"
Source: PLANETA UFO and La Vanguardia (Spain) Date: 09.13.2016 "If the Military Admitted the Existence of UFOs, Their Scam Would Collapse" An interview with Juan Jose Benitez by Andres Guerra Juan Jose Benitez (Born in Pamplona, Spain, 1946) found it necessary to quit his newspaper job due to the stubbornness of the UFO phenomenon. He has never regretted it, although he went through har
Argentina: Cattle Mutilations in the Patagones District
Source: VISION OVNI & Comarca Hoy.com.ar Date: 09.08.2016 Argentina: Cattle Mutilations in the Patagones District Is the Chupacabras on the loose? Questions arise over the discovery of dead cows and sheep. The discovery of mutilated animals in various fields caused alarm in the rural community, which is unable to explain the reason for these events. A cattleman describes the situation experie
Argentina: Woman Claims Finding ET in Gualeguay 48 years Ago
Source: Facebook Date: 09.12.16 An article by Sebastián Aranguren Argentina: Woman Claims Finding ET in Gualeguay 48 years Ago Forty eight years ago, a girl playing with a friend on a property locating the Tiro Federal football club of Gualeguay, Province of Entre Rios, was a direct witness to a case that would be a sort of Roswell-type event, should it be confirmed, as the child spoke to a small
Ten Thousand Views and Thanks
There was a particular reverence for the ten thousand mark in ancient Greece - the "myriad", the unit employed to designate the largest amount conceivable. A small number by modern reckoning, in an age where a cat video on YouTube can rack up a million views. Nevertheless, INEXPLICATA is pleased to have reached its ten thousandth read on Scribd.com this week, and we would like to extend
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The Waste Land
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something differ
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The Call of Distant Mammoths
I’ve long been interested in the megafauna extinctions of Pleistocene North America. A number of books endorse Paul Martin’s “Pleistocene Overkill Hypothesis,” which asserts that the early humans on the continent were “super predators” who launched a blitzkrieg of overhunting. Hunting began in northwest Canada, and spread south and east like a wild fire. Within 2,000 years, at least 33 genera (50
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LILITH NEWS1 unread article // actions
The Toronto Air Show, a poignant reminder of what an invasion sounds like
Every year the sounds of military jet engines breaking the sound barrier while flying over the city of Toronto serve as advertising that the Toronto Air Show is once again upon us. As Toronto's oldest annual air show, it isn't going to disappear any time soon. The base tickets bring in thousands of people, but they also offer VIP tickets which have staggering prices of upward to $1519 per ticket,
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THE RULES OF EXPOSITION1 unread article // actions
Literacy skills
Found this in the new 70-page PDF from the Harvard Business School Survey on U.S. Competitiveness, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided : Younger cohorts of U.S. workers have higher literacy scores than older cohorts in absolute terms, reflecting U.S. skills improvement over time. But workers elsewhere have improved even faster. American workers from earlier generations are more literate than t
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MIDDLE CLASS POLITICAL ECONOMIST3 unread articles // actions
That's what I'm talkin' about! (Ireland)
I have argued many times (most directly here ) that, contrary to the claims of nearly all Irish policymakers, low taxes are not what makes the Irish economy tick. The country experienced 30 years of low taxes with no gain on average European income; it was only after 1987 that other policy changes (education, EU-funded infrastructure, and Social Partnership) led to gains on the EU average. Thanks
European Commission orders Apple to repay Ireland $14.5 billion in illegal tax benefits
Today the European Commission slapped down tax avoiding Apple and low-road economic developer Ireland with a $14.5 billion state aid repayment order. Yes, you read that right: Apple has to pay Ireland €13 billion in back taxes, plus interest, covering the years 2003-2014. According to the Commission's order, Apple's effective tax rate in Ireland ranged from 1% in 2003 to 0.005% in 2014, far below
Mike Pence subsidizes offshorers
The Indianapolis Star reports (h/t Greg LeRoy) that the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), which is headed by Governor/Vice-Presidential nominee Mike Pence, has given millions of dollars in incentives to companies that have subsequently offshored jobs to countries including China, Mexico, Taiwan, and Japan. Not only that, but the 10 companies that outsourced the jobs sent more jobs a
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The 8 th of September- International Literacy Day The United Nations (UN) and the United Nations Educational, Scientifi...
The 8 th of September- International Literacy Day The United Nations (UN) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), designated September 8 th of each year to celebrate and remind people around the world to eliminate illiteracy. Many countries worldwide have succeeded in doing so, while other countries have a long way to go. Unfortunately, the Arab world, w
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MORTON'S MUSINGS6 unread articles // actions
Improper to ask accused to provide theory of case
A witness is to testify as to facts - not to explain their theory of a case. R. v. Dhaliwal, 2016 ONCA 652: [11] This line of questioning was improper. It put an onus on the appellant to explain the allegations against him: R. v. S.(W.) (1994), 18 O.R. (3d) 509, 90 C.C.C. (3d) 242 (C.A.) at 252; R. v. Vandenberghe (1995), 96 C.C.C. (3d) 371 (C.A.) at 373. [12] The point was made by the Alberta Co
Failure to comply with Rules can lead to personal liability for costs
Adlair v Nunavut 2016 NUCJ 23: Lawyers have an ethical and professional duty to ensure that the advice they give a client, and the actions they take, are proper. In other words, every lawyer has a duty to present the case for their client in good faith, according to the Rules of Court and the applicable law; in this case the laws of evidence. An affidavit may be the sworn evidence of the client,
Why the Judge won't reply to a Facebook post
I was recently involved in a criminal case. The judge ruled on sentence and the defendant was sent to jail for a long time – longer than I suggested but not quite as long as the Crown asked for. It was a difficult and tragic case but the result sensible and fair. But wow the criticism online was brutal. No one attacked me or the Crown but the judge was given a real shellacking. People made some re
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What is planning time to a teacher?
One of the things I remember most about teaching in Maryland roughly 15 years ago was the amount of time I had to do my job. In fact, I had so much time to actually teach, plan, and grade during the day, with a class of 32 fifth graders, that I actually took on a […]
Rocketship is a gross place
I’ve always thought Rocketship was a really gross model for a charter school. It’s a terrible experiment for poor black and brown children, one that more affluent parents would would never stand for, and they’d run these hucksters out on a rail. What really grossed me out was catching Rocketship people poaching our students outside […]
The contradictions of reading as emancipation in the #edreform era
From Douglass: I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man. It was a grand achievement, and I prized it highly. From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom…I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at […]
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WELCOME TO POTTERSVILLE 2 (BLOGGING AGAINST F...7 unread articles // actions
MS to Triumph Again? Neil Nails Indian Givers (They LOL'ed! Bernie BERN MUST Restart Soon Or Else) Cenk's Secret (Jeffrey Sterling Suffers Heart Attack) Losing Whole Middle Class? Almost As Rich As In 1998! (Banking Has Become a Criminal Enterprise) Scott Walker Leaks Dark Money (GMO Crops Study Show Massive Environmental Damage) Arms-Dealing Democratic Frauds Strike Again (Living In Vans - Middle Class Losing Ground)
Did you hear the latest? Microsoft Corporation, which can't make a stable operating system after 40 years of effort, is going to cure cancer. So, please stop yer whining about their low taxes and clever market-capturing legal manipulations. Just hush up! They are your friends. And also stop your mindless yammering about the rich and powerful controlling the national dialogue. NO ONE IS
(Election a Tie?) Russia Did It (5-Alarm Monsanto-Bayer Merger Threat? ITT Frauds) 9/11 Truth (Syriza Fake Reforms) Mass Murder Megaphone (Contract Ensured Bush Beat Kerry?) Rubin Criminal Probe (Wall St. Fakes) Co-ops Vs. Capitalism (NYT Obituary) FOIA Lawsuits Grow 42% (Deutsche Bank Like Trump Says NO!) Warren Opens Pandora's Box (BDS NOT) Son of a Bitch? (Delusional Democracy) Living 15 Years In a Lie
All politicians, like all human beings, shade the truth, use evidence selectively, recast the emphasis of events to cast themselves in a more favorable light.But what we are seeing here is a campaign that, with not one iota of moral conscience, has reached into the playbooks of Big Brother, Joseph Goebbels, and Soviet Russia and simply fabricated an entire false narrative. This is not a case of
(Toxic Soap Opera) Wells Fargo Ups Wachovia Drug-Dealing Ante (The Real Unemployment Rate?) NCAA Says "NO" NC - Thanks Duke Power! (Fooled Again? Don't Get) Generous To a Fault - To Our Betters/Owners? (Witch Hunt! But Which Witch?) Leprechauned Attack
Wells Fargo ups the Wachovia drug-dealing ante? You can't make this stuff up. And if you do, you can't do it better than they do. Max and Stacy fill us in on the dirty details. [KR966] Keiser Report: US Elections Toxic Soap Opera September 13, 2016 by Stacy Herbert We discuss the "basket of deplorables" and the fistful of dollars that is the toxic soap opera called US Elections 2016 in
Can Hillary Lead (Or Just Give Orders)? American Horror Story (U.S. Financial House of Horrors Since Glass-Steagall Repeal) 9/11 Revisited (Kissinger's Walking Dead Corpses) Wall Street Bailout Redux (Wells Fargo Cheats)
“9/11 Intercepted” Observe the timing of “terrorist” events today, e.g. Orlando, Paris, Brussels, Nice and countless others. The problem-reaction-solution pattern to achieve their goals necessitates this. A pattern reveals itself. When France or the U.S. needs to bomb or invade in order to shore up ISIS terrorists in Syria, a Muslim “terrorist” incident occurs on the home front, and the
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OBSIDIAN WINGS6 unread articles // actions
Your Skittles and Blitz Open Thread
by Ugh Well. Great week America, great week. Is it really too much to ask that police body cam footage in shootings be released as a matter of course? You're not inspiring a lot of confidence there Charlotte. Also , too . And three . Separately, I'm beginning to wonder if we will have a permanent 8 member SCOTUS, as I don't see a GOP controlled senate confirming an HRC nominee. I'm sure this is t
There hasn't been nearly enough freaking out, apparently
by Ugh I don't know what to think anymore about the reaction to these latest "attacks" in New York/NJ and Minnesota. CNN is running large font, all caps headlines like "MANHUNT" and now "CAPTURED" on its front page. There is the lovely fascistic style of referring to these as "attacks on American soil" and the "Homeland," since the jingoism in the
Summer's end book round-up
by Doctor Science Between preparing for, going to, and recovering from Worldcon, it's been a while since I wrote about what I've been reading. This round-up covers several weeks, and includes novels by Genevieve Cogman, Laura Anne Gilman, Jo Walton, N.K. Jemisin, and Mary Robinette Kowal. huh. I didn't plan to read only books by woman, it just happened. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman.
We shall deplore them on the beaches....
by Ugh I don't know, I keep seeing the NYTimes home page "% chance of winning the election" graphic ticking up for Trump. A few weeks ago it was a 91% chance that Hillary would win, now it's down to 74% at last look, and recent polls show Trump tied! I keep thinking at some point there will be klaxons and air raid sirens and emergencies declared and bunkers prepared and panic in the str
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Facts about War on Drugs: Bolivia is winning, Colombia, thanks to the US, is losing
The United States constantly berates Evo Morales and insinuates that he is dealing drugs. However, the facts speak for themselves, and in the New York Times , 14 September, 2016, (editorial pages) we can read about how it is Colombia, where the US agencies are actives allegedly fighting drugs, that drugs are up 40% - while they are being eradicated in Bolivia. Obama needs to read the papers! And h
Escritura en la pared
A 16 August article in El Deber - http://www.eldeber.com.bo/bolivia/vagabundo-boliviano-apoya-trump.html - captured the graffiti art work of a homeless Bolivian who is writing that in Iran, there are no free elections, and that he is supporting Donald Trump in the US elections. He is not the only Bolivian to support Trump, and far from being the only Latin American. Thousands of Bolivians in the s
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Talk Like a Pirate Day 2016
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day! I like to celebrate by using one of the English-to-Pirate translators out there to translate a scurvy dog. This year, there's no competition. Follow the links to see the original words of looter and pillager Donald J. Trump, but here are some of his greatest hits in pirate: When Mexico sends its swabbies, they’re nay sendin' the'r best. They’re nay sendin' ye.
Labor Day 2016
Happy Labor Day! As uusal, I'll include some videos. (They're repeats, but good.) Let's kick it off with Billy Bragg: Here's Robert Reich from 2013, about celebrating labor on Labor Day: This one's funny but not safe for work. The YouTube poster explains that "This was a PSA that the voice-over person decided to record an "alternate" version of for fun." Over at Lawyers, Guns &
Assessing Hearts and Minds
The old adage to avoid discussing politics and religion remains a wise social decision in plenty of situations. However, such discussions have to be held somewhere. (Alas, honest, intelligent discussion is fairly rare on the Sunday political shows – the good guests tend to be badly outnumbered by hacks and dolts.) The art of discussion, listening and persuasion isn't dead in politics, and blogs
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OUR MANMADE DISASTERS1 unread article // actions
God's answers to prayers, hasten by high speed internet?
God's answers to our prayers, hasten by high speed internet? Gforce. Dear God, I know our prayers to you, used to take a very long time to be answered. For instance, o ur prayers for the evil dictator Marcos (Philippines), to be disposed took 21 bloody long years. He was disposed on Feb 25 (225), 1986 (6) following the evil Kabal_orchestrated 1986 Oil Crash. By the way, Marcos was a 911 child. Bo
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CDC Wants to Expand Power to Eliminate Measles What You Need To Know and Do Now
Published 9/13/2016 By Barbara Loe Fisher To activate and view hyperlinked references, please click here once and then click any superscripted number below to access a hyperlinked reference, or scroll down to the bottom of the article to view all hyperlinked references. I remember the day in 2007, when I was standing in front of a Maryland country courthouse videotaping interviews with mothers and
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PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK4 unread articles // actions
Way to bee, Minnesota!
Last Friday, a small crowd gathered in the agriculture building at the Minnesota State Fair. Beekeepers, entomologists, reporters, farmers and pollinator advocates circled around a small podium, waiting for Commissioner of Agriculture Dave Frederickson and Governor Mark Dayton to speak. The crowd wasn't disappointed. In a short press conference, Frederickson and Gov. Dayton announced new rules to
44 years later, pesticide-free soap
Well that took awhile. In early September, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a list of products they will no longer allow in soaps. On that list was the pesticide triclosan — which was identified as a chemical of concern in 1972. Yep, 44 years. Here's what I wrote back in 2011 when FDA set the process in motion that resulted in this month's announcement: FDA first flagged concerns a
Bayersanto? Monbayer? Yikes.
There have been ups and downs in the romance between Bayer and Monsanto, but this week they publicly announced their engagement. Monsanto has accepted a $66 billion offer from Bayer, heralding another mega merger between pesticide and biotech corporations. This has already been a big year for consolidation in the agricultural sector, with Dow-DuPont and Syngenta-ChemChina deals well underway. If
DPR, it's time to protect schoolkids
Protecting children from pesticides. What could be more straightforward than that? Science clearly shows that children — from the tiniest newborn all the way through high school — are much more vulnerable to the impacts of pesticide exposure than adults. And state data shows that rural California kids are regularly exposed to pesticides drifting from agricultural fields into their schools and day
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PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENT2 unread articles // actions
Four Positions in Financial Ethics open at my University
A quick repost of this splendid opportunity for any early carreer philosophy/ethics/economics student or academic with an interest in the ethics and philosophy of finance and economic systems. 4 positions (research fellow, postdoc and PhD's) and a chance to work with my former PhD student, now stellar researcher in his own right, Joakim Sandberg . Joakim has landed a bunch of grants to suppot his
Consensus statement on conscientious objection in healthcare
Just a very brief pointer to this post at the Oxford Practical Ethics blog, showcasing a consensus statement on how states and health systems should handle the phenomenon of healthcare staff conscientiously objecting to practices included in medical practice that comes out of the symposium on this very topic that I related in a recent post . *** Philosophical Comment Blog: Christian Munthe, Profe
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THWAP'S SCHOOLYARD4 unread articles // actions
The Obama Fan
So on FaceBook there was a meme with all the leading figures of the bush II regime pictured besides a list of their several crimes including torture and illegal wars of aggression. It was posted in a group someone had hooked me up to so I didn't know many of the people posting. Three comments about the evil, perfidious Repugnicans and how they should be forced to pay for what they did. I posted &
The Rob Ford Fan
At work it's mostly all immigrants. West Indians and South Asians mainly. But lots of Jamaicans, Arabs, Africans too. Whites are definitely in the minority on the shop floor. It's a lot of fun. Young women from India innocently flirting with young Jamaican men. Chinese and Indian people speaking Hindi to each other. Comments about one another's cultures that have none of the venom of majority pop
Jason Kenney
So, Jason Kenney had the luxury afforded by a six-figure income, to ponder at his leisure about a move to Alberta provincial politics. Ostensibly he was going to "unite the right" against the upstart Alberta NDP government of Rachael Notley. Only things haven't turned out that way. Jason Kenney is a Catholic social conservative whose views are, perhaps informed by his being (perhaps) a
harper Retires
stephen harper recorded a video of himself announcing his retirement from politics and posted it on social media. No questions. No having to face other humans. All tightly controlled. It was consistent with the overall pattern of cowardice that marked his career. harper did not like having to face other human beings. he liked to utter brazen lies and ignore questions. Whenever things got to hot h
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SCREW YOU GUYS, I'M GOING HOME3 unread articles // actions
Trump Campaign Noncompete Agreements May Break Multiple Laws
You may have seen that the Trump campaign is imposing confidentiality and noncompete agreements on its staffers that are quite broad. Here's the agreement, posted online . It's a great example of what not to do. Let's take a look at what they did wrong for a moment. Election law : The agreement is with The Trump Organization. If Wikipedia has it right, “The Trump Organization (formerly Elizabeth T
Is Retaliation Illegal? Sometimes
Lots of people approach me every week and say they feel they were retaliated against. I usually have to ask, "Retaliation for what?" I think there's a basic misunderstanding of what retaliation is, and when it's illegal. The first part of the problem is understanding retaliation itself. Webster's defines retaliation as: To do something bad to someone who has hurt you or treated you badl
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“Turkey’s Syria Intervention,” by Joshua Landis
Turkey’s Syria Intervention By Joshua Landis August 28, 2016 I answer questions asked me by a Turkish journalist. Has Turkey established a No Fly Zone over the Azaz-Jarablus pocket? Turkey has established a No Kurd Zone over the Jarablus pocket, not a NFZ. The US has control of air. When it leaves, Russia will resume control over the airspace, not Turkey. This is undoubtedly why Russia and the Sy
The Druze in the Syrian Conflict – By Talal El Atrache
The Druze in the Syrian Conflict By Talal El Atrache* @ TalalElAtrache For Syria Comment – Sept 5, 2016 Five years after the beginning of the Syrian conflict, the Druze show no signs of joining the rebellion. Even calls made by the Saudi-financed opposition, asking the Druze to rise up against the Syrian army, have fallen on deaf ears. Israel’s two-fold psychological campaign – consisting of supp
“Why the UN’s Excuses For its Aid Fiasco in Syria Fail to Convince,” By Reinoud Leenders
Why the UN’s Excuses For its Aid Fiasco in Syria Fail to Convince By Reinoud Leenders* @ ReinoudLeenders for Syria Comment – Sept. 3, 2016 Judging from the UN’s comments on its aid agencies’ conduct in Syria, business will go on as usual –too bad if it throws a lifeline to the Syrian regime. Two UN spokespersons, one for Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the other for the UN’s Office for the Coor
Lens on Syria, by Daniel Demeter
Back in January 2015, I introduced the readers of Syria Comment to my website, Syria Photo Guide , where I have documented the historic and cultural sites of the country. I also posted a small collection of my photography of Syria taken between 2006 and 2009. Since that time, I have been privileged to work with Just World Books to publish Lens on Syria , a photography book to be released this upc
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Soot
Written by Grant G Originally posted February 2/2012 I'm reposting this for a reason....... Goodbye Kleo The Cat SOOT With a big disposal bin placed out back I finally found courage to remove the charred embers of my past life...... For months now we waited patiently for a promised clean up by our insurance company, weather and excuses dominated and day after day I would drive by my scorched home
Justin Trudeau, Christy Clark, We Are Idiot!
Flowery words, gentle tone, grandiose optimistic future visions opined by Justin Trudeau.... But on the ground policy, regulation, captured regulators and cowtowing to industrial giants continue as if Stephen Harper was still running the show.... I had such great expectations for Justin Trudeau, he talked of a "new relationship" with First Nations, Justin talked of "regulatory refo
British Columbia's Reflection, Wild Salmon
Written by Grant G Salmon, wild British Columbia, ......Chinook, also known as Spring salmon, or Blackmouth...Cohoe, also known as Blueback, sometimes called Silvers...There's also Sockeye Salmon, Pink Salmon, Dog Salmon, Chum Salmon, Steelhead Salmon...... Dr. Alexandra Morton....in my eyes she is a Saint, an angel, a wild salmon scientist who's lifelong goal is to save our salmon from extinctio
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Animal Protein vs Plant Protein - the illusion of scale in diet epidemiology.
This graph appeared in Jason Fung's excellent Intensive Dietary Management blog here . I don't really want to disagree with Jason's statement that animal protein raises insulin more than plant protein, as I haven't looked into the evidence for that or what it means - I merely want to point out that this graph, and the paper it comes from, do not by themselves provide evidence that eating animal p
Court of last appeal - the early history of the high-fat diet for diabetes
It's a long story, and not a proud one. Seeing an email in my inbox from the Journal of Diabetes & Metabolism, which seemed like the title of a journal I'd investigated earlier, I impulsively sent off a draft of my history of Louis "Harry" Newburgh and the Michigan diet. I just emailed the unformatted pdf to them, and never engaged any portal or website. The journal replied, in terr
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I Broke Up With Michel Foucault*
I broke up with Michel Foucault. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. I sort of ghosted him. Let me explain. When I was in grad school I fell in love with Foucault. He was just exactly what I was looking for- he made me see gender differently, and he helped me to finally piece together what I thought I was trying to say in my thesis. It was magical. He just really ‘got me.’ You know? But then thin
Global Environmental Governance Syllabi – Open Thread
As I blogged earlier today, climate change has not gotten sufficient attention from political scientists. Part of the problem is that few people teach graduate classes on the environment. I didn’t take one in graduate school and basically had to teach myself the topic. This past spring, I taught a full 15 week graduate class for MA students on global environmental governance, expanding a previous
Remembering 9/11: Open Thread
What were you doing 15 years ago on 9/11? What do you remember? How should we remember that day, given the momentous impact the event had on the direction of U.S. foreign policy and global politics? I woke up in my Adams Morgan basement room in the house where I was living to the sound on the radio of a hip hop station. Suddenly, they broke into news about the attack of the first plane on the Wor
Unsolicited Job Talk Advice
Seems to be the time of year when folks post their advice for aspiring professors on how to succe ed at the job talk. While there are other parts of the process–being interviewed one on one by various members of the department or getting grilled by a committee (something that happens far more in Canada than in the US), the most important (and probably not deservedly so )* part of the “fly-out” is
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Nikolov and Zeller Again
The tallbloke site has another post on Nikolov and Zeller's "Unified Climate Theory", about a Washington Post interview with Nikolov. Their latest paper was withdrawn (by "common agreenment with the authors and editors") because they used pseudonyms to get past the consensus guardians that have long made a mockery of peer review (I gave up on peer review years ago--the defense
Undirected Evolution: The False Religious Dogma Strangling True Science
The wuwt site has a post on news of research suggesting that "a Mercury-sized planet" collided with Earth relatively soon after the Earth was first formed, and this supposedly accounts for the amount of carbon in and on the Earth. My response: Both this post and most of the comments following it (the uncritical ones) are all incompetent, dogmatic speculation (i.e., speculation within th
My Bio, As I See It
I received (from one Scott Brooks) a request for my full "bio" (biographical information), so I wrote the following, for anyone who is interested (one caveat: this is not definitive, just what came to me just now): We live in a time of general incompetence, in science and in society, which seems to have come upon us suddenly, yet which has had a long buildup. I'm afraid academic titles
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Squeeze 'em until it hurts: The hostile takeover of the average air traveller experience
I love almost everything about a life with lots of travel in it. But the airport and flying experience is one notable exception. I’m just back from flights in and out of Orlando, Florida, where I went for two weeks to visit family. I've been travelling quite a bit these past five years, and what becomes clearer with each passing flight is that the air industry service model is to make us suffer s
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Donald Trump's Amerika: Love It Or Eat It
By Manifesto Joe My sense of fairness compelled me to hold off on attacking Donald Trump. I actually thought he might change as the nominee of a major political party. Might as well wait for the next glacier to move through Texas. The latest Trump travesty was him lamenting about how well the Manhattan bomb suspect was being treated in the hospital, that he will be represented in court by a good l
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Buckwheat Zydeco, bandleader who helped introduce Louisiana zydeco to the world, dies at 68 ~Keith Spera
Buckwheat Zydeco, bandleader who helped introduce Louisiana zydeco to the world, dies at 68 ~Keith Spera
Helis Oil abandons fracking project in St. Tammany Parish ~ Robert Rhoden
Helis Oil abandons fracking project in St. Tammany Parish ~ Robert Rhoden
After Federal Flood of New Orleans 8-29-05, house elevations depended on timing, funding, mindset ~David J. Mitchel, Th...
After Federal Flood of New Orleans 8-29-05, house elevations depended on timing, funding, mindset ~David J. Mitchel, The Advocate
Why we're going to lose on short term rentals ~Library Chronicles
Why we're going to lose on short term rentals ~Library Chronicles
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US-led West’s Double Standards May Culminate into Nuclear War
There is a co-relationship of the US-led West’s double standards and double game in relation to human rights, terrorism and so on. But, this dual strategy, particularly regarding India and Pakistan in wake of the unresolved issue of Kashmir, including the Middle East in connection with the unsettled Palestinian-Israeli dispute, especially the Syrian question may … The post US-led West’s Double St
Russia is Restoring Balance of Power
Russia is restoring balance of power—Renowned scholars of international relations, Lord Castlereagh, Quincy Wright, Hans J. Morgenthau and Kenneth Waltz agree by remarking, “Checking the unusual dominance and hegemony of the world by a single power is very essential for the survival of other states which live in anarchic situation where there is no international … The post Russia is Restoring Bal
Donald Trump Follows William II, Hitler in the Modern Era
By following the policies of Germany’s earlier rulers William II (Kaiser) and Adolf Hitler in the modern era, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump will cause destruction in the entire world, if he becomes the president of the United States. Robert G. L. Waite in his books “Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of … The post Donald Trump Follows William II, Hitler in th
Who Support ISIS in Afghanistan?
It has been learnt through credible online sources that Engineer Mohammad Khan, the 1st Advisor and a close friend of Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has been arrested by Afghan forces/agencies for alleged links with the Islamic State group also known as Daish, ISIS or ISIL. Information strongly suggests that Daish has penetrated even in … The post Who Support ISIS in Afghanistan? appear
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