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In Essence, Racism on Trial in Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Suit
Diverse Issues in Higher Education In Essence, Racism on Trial in Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Suit by Roberto Rodriguez The Arce v Douglas ethnic studies trial, in Tucson’s Federal Court, is expected to commence in early 2017. The suit was filed against the state of Arizona, as a result of the state passing an anti-Ethnic Studies HB 2281 legislation in 2010. Yet for all intents and purposes, it is th
Scholar: Texas Textbook an ‘Intentional Assault’ on Psyche of Mexican American Students September 20, 2016 After readin...
Scholar: Texas Textbook an ‘Intentional Assault’ on Psyche of Mexican American Students September 20, 2016 After reading the proposed Mexican American Heritage textbook for Texas students last week by Jaime Riddle and Valarie Angle, I can without hesitation state that it is obscene and extremely offensive. And beyond being unfocused, incoherent and a badly written book, it is also an intentional
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Dispatches from Haiti
Dear Everyone, For the past five years I have been posting from the Journal Star website in a blog called Dispatches from Haiti. There are approximately 400 hundred posts. I posted this yesterday. Thanks for reading. john www.haitianhearts.org
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FORT MCMURRAY ADVENTURES5 unread articles // actions
Back to the Concert Hall
I had a busy weekend out of town as the concert season is now underway. I took in a performance Friday evening with the Edmonton Symphony and then headed down to Calgary the following day to take in the Calgary Philharmonic. These two concerts actually fell in to my schedule at a very opportune moment given that when I start back to work later this week my work schedule will be changing, adding a
Lifers
With the weather getting colder, I knew that this would likely be my last chance to do any serious birding, at least for places out of town. So I found myself anxiously watching the weather forecast in the days prior to my trip down to Calgary this past Sunday. Things didn't look promising as it was cool and overcast in Edmonton and the downright wet and dreary by the time I reached Red Deer. For
A Little Chopin
I left Edmonton this past Saturday morning for a trip down to Edmonton to see my first concert of the season with the Calgary Philharmonic and what a treat it was. This concert marked the 3rd time I have heard Polish-Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska perform, the previous occasions being a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto #4 back in March in Edmonton and several years ago when I was att
Composers Behaving Badly
One of the things that has always fascinated me as I've delved further in to classical music and history is the disconnect between peoples' conceptions of classical music and the composers who wrote it and reality. To a certain degree, most people's ideas of the concert hall as being all staid and austere, where you dressed to the nines, sat board-stiff in your seat (and heaven help you if you da
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THE HIGH-FAT HEP C DIET2 unread articles // actions
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 terrible English,
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THE EXCAVATOR8 unread articles // actions
What A Joke: France To Hold Talks On Mosul
Source of photo: AFP. France is holding a conference on the future of Mosul. The same country that had a hand in screwing up Iraq and the Middle East a century ago is allowed a leading seat at the table to screw it up for another century. These Iraqis, man, they have no self-respect. Only fools don't learn from their history. Iraqis look to Europe for political leadership and America for military
U.S. And Its Criminal Regional Allies Deem Their ISIS Assets Too Valuable To Be Sacrificed In Mosul Battle
Obama is thinking why let U.S. trained mercenaries go to waste in Mosul when they could be used more productively elsewhere in the region? From the point of view of the Americans, Turks, Israelis, and Saudis, who all love ISIS, it's a great idea. An excerpt from, "US, Saudis to grant 9,000 ISIS fighters free passage from Iraqi Mosul to Syria – source" RT, October 12, 2016: The US and Saudi Arabia
A Conversation with Jacques Barzun (2010)
Video Title: A Conversation with Jacques Barzun (2010). Source: Leo Wong. Date Published: January 17, 2011. Description: A conversation with Jacques Barzun, hosted by Jack Jackson, Sept. 12, 2010, SoL (Source of Light) Center, University Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, TX. Uploaded with the permission of Jacques Barzun and Jack Jackson. For more about Barzun, read Michael Murray, Jacques Barzun
Mosul Operation Coincides With U.S. Presidential Election
Source of photo . LOL @ the poor stupid Iraqis. Their leaders got suckered by a British con man selling them fake bomb detectors and they still use it to this day because they're either too corrupt or too embarrassed to admit their lethal mistake. They can't patrol their streets properly, and they can't defend their people because they don't have control over when they go to war. They go to war w
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GREG MANKIW'S BLOG9 unread articles // actions
Trumponomics
Regular readers of this blog know that I often disagree with Paul Krugman. But I come here today to agree with a recent post of his on the analysis put out by two Trump economic advisers. The Trump advisers' analysis is truly disappointing (though perhaps not surprisingly so, given what the candidate has said over the course of the campaign). Their analysis of trade deficits, starting on page 18,
New Videos from the NBER
1. " The Dramatic Economics of the U.S. Market for Higher Education ," Caroline Hoxby's Martin Feldstein Lecture. 2. " Matching Markets and Market Design ," the 2016 Methods Lectures, which were presented by Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Nikhil Agarwal, Itai Ashlagi, Parag Pathak, and Al Roth. 3. " The Economic Consequences of Brexit ," a panel discussion with presentations by Richard Baldwin, Jeffrey Fr
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NEW ORLEANS LADDER7 unread articles // actions
Hey tourists! Live like a local in a taxpayer-subsidized Airbnb apartment ~Charles Maldonado, The Lens
Hey tourists! Live like a local in a taxpayer-subsidized Airbnb apartment ~Charles Maldonado, The Lens
$80 million Shell Island restoration nears completion ~Mark Schleifstein
$80 million Shell Island restoration nears completion ~Mark Schleifstein
North Rampart streetcars finally a go: Riders to board new line on Sunday ~Jessica Williams, N.O. Advocate Volunteers g...
North Rampart streetcars finally a go: Riders to board new line on Sunday ~Jessica Williams, N.O. Advocate Volunteers gather to rebuild homes across NOLA ~WWLTV Piedmont Wind Symphony getting a jump on Mardi Gras ~Lynn Felder, Winston-Salem Journal “New Orleans was the most musically vibrant city in the country at that time. You could go see a different opera seven days a week, even on Sunday,” ~
Waiting for change: New Orleans restaurant workers, tips and new ways to pay ~Helen Freund, Gambit
Waiting for change: New Orleans restaurant workers, tips and new ways to pay ~Helen Freund, Gambit
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THE EARTH AND MAN: SETTING THE STAGE2 unread articles // actions
Planetary Rotation and Temperature: "Let go, Luke. Use the Force."
The Dr. Roy Spencer site has a post on "The Faster a Planet Rotates, the Warmer Its Average Temperature". My response: As I have pointed out many times, for example here : The Venus/Earth temperature ratio, at points of equal pressure in the two atmospheres, over the full range of Earth tropospheric pressures, is essentially explained by the ratio of their solar distances alone (and precisely so
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 of scientific dogma
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INEXPLICATA-THE JOURNAL OF HISPANIC UFOLOGY9 unread articles // actions
October 1973 Remembered
Sitting, as we are, smack-dab in the middle of the month of October, it is worth remembering a month much like this one forty-three years ago, in a year that would become known as "The Year of the Humanoids" due to the number of close encounters of the third kind (CE-3s) reported in that month and throughout the year. While attention was understandably focused on the U.S. cases, the wave of unusu
Argentina: Alleged UFO over Funes, Santa Fe, 09.23.16
Source: PLANETA UFO and VISION OVNI Date: 10.18.2016 Argentina: Alleged UFO over Funes, Santa Fe, 09.23.16 Silvia Pérez Simondini of VISION OVNI writes: "Dear Friends, I'm attaching a video submitted by Lucho Guerra. A very interesting one, obtained during work-related recording, a very good capture. My thanks to Lucho for sharing it with us all." VIDEO at: https://youtu.be/V_St9-vr4Jw Inexplicat
Argentina: Alleged UFO Reported over San Luis at the Feast of Our Lady of Cobrera
Source: PLANETA UFO and Misiones Online.Net Date: 10.04.16 Argentina: Alleged UFO Reported over San Luis at the Feast of Our Lady of Cobrera A woman taking photos during the feast of Our Lady of Cobrera in San Lusi noticed a strange presence in the images that is comparable to a UFO. Maria del Carmen Gil took photos during the festivities and upon reviewing them, became aware of the odd element.
Spain: A Giant Humanoid in Sangonera, Murcia (1979)
Spain: A Giant Humanoid in Sangonera (Murcia) By Luis Jimenez Marhuenda Contactos Extraterrestres, Vol. 2 No.7 (1979) [The late Luis Jiménez Marhuenda was a distinguished radio personality, having begun his career in broadcasting in Equatorial Guinea (Africa). He went on to become a beloved figure in Spain's UFO and paranormal circles, and INEXPLICATA is pleased and honored to share one of his ar
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White Privileged Bernie Supporters Need to Hold their Noses and Vote for Clinton
I am not a fan of Hillary Clinton's, but I am going to vote for her anyway. I believe the Bill Clinton White House destroyed the liberal left in the United States. The first Clinton administration acted like a wolf in sheep's clothing, gutting social infrastructure, advancing the prison industrial complex to an unprecedented degree and masterminding the destructive global trade deals (WTO and NAF
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A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE9 unread articles // actions
The Socorro Symbol - Resolved?
For the last several weeks I have been looking into the symbol that Lonnie Zamora saw on the side of the object he reported. (Note to all: I am not suggesting anything other than Zamora saw an object with a symbol on it. I am not drawing any conclusions about that object’s origin). During the research, I have found a variety of documents, I have received assistance from a variety of investigators
Rob McConnell Interviews Tom Carey
Rob McConnell, on the X-Zone Broadcast Network interviewed Tom Carey about the Roswell Slides, and Carey said some very interesting things. You can hear the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ0V-Xuzzp0 Tom Carey We learn from Carey (at about 04:15 into the interview) that it was Joe Beason who contacted him after Beason had attempted to interest Stan Friedman in the slides. Friedma
Turning the Field Over to the Youngsters
Several years ago, over at UFO Iconoclasts , now known as UFO Conjectures , Rich Reynolds thought it was time for all us geezers to get out of UFO research and turn the field over to the youngsters. His theory seemed to be that we’d gotten too set in our ways, weren’t coming up with anything new and had had seventy years to find a solution and we hadn’t done it. The young blood, not locked into a
The Socorro Symbols - Redux
A couple of weeks ago I interviewed Ben Moss and Tony Angiola on the radio version of this blog. At the time they said a couple of things that I attempted to follow up on while we were on the air but didn’t get good answers. In the weeks that followed, I again tried to get more information and now have some of that. Ben Moss sent me a DVD copy of their presentation at the recent MUFON Symposium i
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WMTC6 unread articles // actions
it is designed to break your heart
In between my infrequent posts, the Red Sox's postseason came and went. As Basil Fawlty says, blink and you missed it. It was a strange baseball season for Sox fans. In late June, it looked like another lost cause, and I drifted away, preferring binge-watching on Netflix to sitting through loss after loss. Then suddenly it all looked so possible. Boston got hot, Baltimore faded away. Forget about
war resister ryan johnson needs our help
Our friend Ryan Johnson, a war resister, is now in military prison. Ryan and his partner Jenna Johnson lived in Canada for more than 11 years. After running out of court challenges, and exhausted from living in limbo for more than a decade, the Johnsons returned to California, and Ryan turned himself in. Ryan was court martialed, sentenced to 10 months in military prison, and given a bad-conduct
thank you, vin scully!
The Red Sox are cruising into the postseason, something I didn't think I'd see during the dog days of summer. Our beloved Big Papi is saying goodbye with a chart-topping season, fans all over the country enjoying a glut of Ortizmania. But truly, the most momentous baseball story this season is the farewell of Dodgers announcer Vin Scully. The man has been calling Dodgers' games -- solo -- for 67 s
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Labawat al-Jabal: A Druze Female Militia in Suwayda’ Province
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Female fighters in the Syrian civil war are foremost associated with the Kurds, in particular the YPJ division of the Democratic Union Party (PYD)’s armed militias. Indeed, a female role in fighting fits in naturally with the secular and leftist ideology of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), of which the PYD is the Syrian affiliate. However, the phenomenon of female figh
How Will the Syrian Crisis End? – By Ehsani2
How Will the Syrian Crisis End? By Ehsani2 @EHSANI22 For Syria Comment – October 10, 2016 Westerners find it hard to believe that a crisis, such as that afflicting Syria, cannot be stopped. “Surely, someone can and must do something” is the consensus thinking. If the UN has failed to stop it and diplomacy cannot bring it to an end, then the White House must stop the blood letting and use military
“Remember Syria’s Adib Shishakli,” by Christopher Solomon
Remember Syria’s Adib Shishakli Christopher Solomon – @Solomon_Chris For Syria Comment Sept 27, 2016 Nearly 52 years ago, a Syrian political leader hiding in exile was killed in the heart of Brazil. As Syria watchers continue to monitor and understand the country’s grinding civil war, the era of the former Syrian political figure Adib Al-Shishakli could yield some clues. The flag of the Syrian op
Aleppo and America’s Syria Policy – by Robert G. Rabil
A Historical and Contemporaneous Context for American Policy on Syria By Robert G. Rabil – @robertgrabil For Syria Comment October 4, 2016 With Aleppo under indiscriminate heavy bombardment and siege by the Syrian regime and its allies, Russia, Iran, Iraqi Mobilization Units and Hezbollah, the pitch of the chorus of voices blaming and shaming the U.S. for not intervening militarily in Syria to st
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MANIFESTO JOE'S TEXAS BLUES1 unread article // actions
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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New study casts more doubt on data center subsidies
A new report by Good Jobs First confirms what has been long-suspected: Data center megadeals of over $50 million in subsidies create very few jobs at a cost per job that easily exceeds $1 million. Indeed, the average for 11 megadeals going to tech giants like Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft came to $1.8 million ($2.1 billion/1174) nominal cost per job. As I have discussed before , such a fi
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MORTON'S MUSINGS5 unread articles // actions
Limitations Defences Must Be Pleaded
Singh v. Trump, 2016 ONCA 747: [132] This court has consistently held that "[t]he expiry of a limitation period is a defence to an action that must be pleaded in a statement of defence": Collins v. Cortez , 2014 ONCA 685, [2014] O.J. No. 4753, at para. 10, per van Rensburg J.A. (citing S. (W.E.) v. P. (M.M.) (2000), 50 O.R. (3d) 70 (C.A.), at paras. 37-38, leave to appeal to S.C.C. refused, [2001
Calculation of unreasonable delay for 11(b)
R. v. Coulter, 2016 ONCA 704: A. THE NEW FRAMEWORK SUMMARIZED [34] Calculate the total delay , which is the period from the charge to the actual or anticipated end of trial ( Jordan , at para. 47). [35] Subtract defence delay from the total delay, which results in the " Net Delay " ( Jordan , at para. 66). [36] Compare the Net Delay to the presumptive ceiling ( Jordan , at para. 66). [37] If the
The Elks Want to Throw Me Out – What Are My Rights?
One of the most obscure areas of law is "club law". This deals with the rights of members of clubs to have fair hearings when dealing with clubs they belong to. Usually in Canada the clubs involved are sporting clubs but the area of law includes pretty well all voluntary organizations. So if my Freemason Lodge decides to expel me I have certain rights to a "fair" hearing. At the outset, while thes
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SCREW YOU GUYS, I'M GOING HOME3 unread articles // actions
Now That My Office Is Closed For Hurricane Matthew, Do I Get Paid?
So I'm sitting here waiting to get hit by Hurricane Matthew, as is most of eastern Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and I'm already bored. One of the worst parts of hurricanes is waiting in a shutter-enclosed cave, knowing havoc is about to be wreaked. What I do know is that almost every employer in the cone of concern is shut down right now. It occurred to me that you may be wondering: do I get
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
Can You Be Fired For Your Facebook Posts? Yes (With Exceptions)
Do I really have to tell you to watch what you say on social media? Apparently I really do because I run into people all too often who were fired for inappropriate postings, emails, texts, or other comments. My best advice is this: don't put anything in writing that you don’t want posted on the front page of the company newsletter. Examples of social media firings I've heard of that stand out are
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The highs and lows of social media, as experienced through the issue I care most about
Social media is an interesting beast, most particularly for how each form appeals and responds to users in entirely different ways. This is fascinating stuff for us communications types. I’ve found kindred spirits on all three of the platforms I like best – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. But they’re not the same kindred spirits. The people I want to know and connect with on one platform are not
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WIT'S END2 unread articles // actions
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
An audition for Apocalypse, The Musical
Thanks for the memory Of butterfly and bird Whose songs we barely heard Our propensity for multiplicity Our egos so absurd How selfish it was Thanks for the memory Of nature that we spoiled How determinedly we toiled For acid seas And dying trees Stewardship we foiled How greedy it was We thought we were the crown of creation Or at least the pinnacle of evolution We wonder if we’ve destroyed it T
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ENP. The Voice revisited: Issue 42, September 2000
The Voice Issue 42, September 2000 (front page editorial) Link for best reading: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B16HDtMQAGQJN1RNTGswYTlxN2s/view?usp=sharing
ENP The Voice revisited: Issues 2, 9, June '91, August '92
On Charity We believe in charity at a national level. We feel that the best approach to international aid to the Third World is not capital aid but education. To this end we shall repatriate immigrants to countries devastated by recent catastrophes, thus returning the population to its previous level. Contraceptives will also be supplied. These countries will benefit from the British Education th
ITP Final Conflict: FC 1912/53, 11th April / 4th June 2002 - Damn the Monarchy and those they encourage
[FC1911 is one of many lost issues. I will post as many of the lost issues as I can find - but that will be at a later date] Reading Rufus' comments (FC 1911) on the Queen Mother's funeral I can only concur as one who waited four and a half hours to pay the last respect to her lying-in-state at Westminster Hall. Whatever the percentage of London is of ethnic origin it certainly was not represente
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New article on prenatal screening online
Yesterday I received word that the American Journal of Bioethics has accepted a so-called open peer commentary by myself on a coming so-called target-article that presents a seemingly drastic proposal regarding the ethics and policy of prenatal screening using non-invasive sample techniques and so-called whole genome sequencing technology for analysis. I am partly in sharp disagreement with this
New article online: Conscientious Refusal in Healthcare: The Swedish Solution
Indeed, as flagged before , I have a new article published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics on the topic of the Sweden's longstanding policy on conscientious objection by health professionals. I briefly describe the policy and its background and chart some recent challenges to it. The published article, which is to be included in a coming special issue on conscientious objection, is here .
Celebrating 400 000 reads.
Yep, sometime tonight, Philosophical Comment , passed 400 000 reads. Thanks to everyone! Philosophical Comment Blog: Christian Munthe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Chief interests are ethics/moral philosophy, political philosophy and their applications to practical issues
New paper on precaution and existential risk online for free reading and download
Some time back, I had two posts here, with a slightly tongue-in-cheek comment on some ongoing academic campaigns and discussions for attending to small or very unclear risks with potentially very serious negative outcomes - so-called existential risks: here , and here . As reported later , this led to an invitation to debate the issue with Olle Häggström (mathematician and crossdisciplinary futur
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Coca in Peru and Colombia, and the stupidity of the war on drugs
"Why are Peru, Colombia Coca Numbers Going in Opposite Directions?" That was the headline on a recent Insight Crime report . I am a fan of the site, which focuses on organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, offering valuable reporting and analysis. But the answer to the question posed in that headline seems obvious. Cocaine demand isn't going down. Market forces mean suppliers will fin
The sad story of the little railway that couldn't
I wrote about the Island Corridor Foundation and the E&N rail line for The Tyee. You can read the piece here .
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Easy to fix
Reading How high debt leads to income inequality by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi. I thought I'd be interested in the economics. Instead I focus on this: Money can’t make up for the loss of one’s home, but it ensures that a family can begin rebuilding their lives during such a desperate time. "A family" is singular. "Their lives" is plural. How can I assume that Mian and Sufi's economic logic is sound w
Heart and Mind
Sentences in development: I'm something of a monetarist at heart. To my mind, even if monetary balances are not the cause of recessions, they must nonetheless be evidence. That doesn't work. Maybe this: I'm something of a monetarist at heart. Even if monetary balances are not the cause of recessions, they must nonetheless be evidence. Moving on.
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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Pinky is the Brain
The craziness of the Trump candidacy has prompted no end of analysis, trying to understand the motivations and thought processes of the weirdest major candidate to ever run for office in the US. And perhaps anywhere. One constant analytical theme is of the “he’s so crazy, he must be a genius” type; that there must be some sort of coldly calculated end-game that we just haven’t figured out yet.
Antifreeze and Donald Trump
There are despicable criminals that deserve capital punishment. But I do not support capital punishment because no system can guarantee that only the truly deserving criminals die. If one innocent dies for every 100 or 1,000 criminals, then I cannot support or endorse capital punishment. What does this have to do with Donald Trump? Imagine a society that locks up citizens for holding dangerous
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An open appeal to our American brothers & sisters; to choose between a devastating global war or Peace_&_Prosperity.
To our dear American brothers & sisters, Please come out to vote wisely, this Nov 8. Each vote counts. Each vote is part of a collective force to be reckoned with. Do not lose out on a rare opportunity to tilt our world back, from the brink of extinction. The world is watching nervously, this pivotal 2016 US presidential election. For the first time since President JF Kennedy, you have an "outside
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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OBSIDIAN WINGS10 unread articles // actions
Dylan
by liberal japonicus I'm really busy, so with little ado, a thread for your thoughts on and favorite lyrics by the newest Nobel laureate (note to self: when exactly does someone become a Nobel Laureate? Is Sartre a Laureate even though he turned down the prize?). A link or two , and you're on your own...
Humans never migrated out of Africa
by Doctor Science Carl Zimmer is a great science writer I've been following for years. It's not really his fault that his latest NY Times article on human evolution was the last straw for me, finally breaking my ability to quietly tolerate a particular turn of phrase. The headline for Zimmer's article is: "A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find". No. Homo sapiens never "
Trump's Taxes
by Ugh Like the mythical MSM, I am all Trump all the time here at ObWiNews. As I'm sure everyone's seen, the NYTimes was mailed a piece of one of Trump's state income tax returns, which in 1995 showed negative adjusted gross income of $915M for federal income tax purposes. This is quite an accomplishment even for a "highly -skilled businessman" (as described by his own campaign) such as Mr. Trump
Shelter from the Storm
by Doctor Science Hurricane Matthew is nearing Florida. I really hope everyone who lives on Florida's Atlantic-side barrier islands has evacuated. I don't know if any of the regulars here are in the strike zone, but my best web-design client is an antique store in West Palm Beach. I really hope they got their stock moved to the second floor or, better yet, inland. Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh and Mat
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WWF - LATEST NEWS15 unread articles // actions
How investing natural heritage can benefit African countries
By Frederick Kwame Kumah, Director, WWF Regional Office for Africa In early October, media outlets reported that African delegations to the World Heritage Committee have agreed on a continental strategy that the African group will take into the next committee meeting the end of the month. These reports suggested that the Africa group may argue for a special case for African countries to extract o
Belize to begin oil exploration near threatened World Heritage site
The Central American country of Belize today announced plans for the start of oil offshore exploration across a vast stretch of its Caribbean Sea waters. Belize's coastal area consists of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere. Conservationists warn that seismic testing for subsea oil deposits, which is set to begin on Thursday, has dangers for marine life that have not been assessed
Melanesia's Ocean Worth Half a Trillion USD but Under Pressure
Suva, Fiji – A major new report, Reviving Melanesia's Ocean Economy: The Case for Action , launched today, has revealed that the ocean is a much larger part of Melanesia's economy and future prosperity than previously understood. Melanesia is a large sub-region in the Pacific that extends from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji. The region includes Fiji,
Climate wins as another global deal to limit emissions is reached
Gland, Switzerland – More than 170 countries today agreed to amend the Montreal Protocol to allow the phase out of hydroflurocarbons (HFCs). HFCs, used mainly in air conditioners, insulants and refrigeration equipment, are the fastest growing greenhouse gases in many countries. The agreement to limit their growth -- and rapidly transition to climate-friendly alternatives -- will help avoid warmin
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