opinion,
the President provided some suggestions, but Netanyahu smiled and will
continue his aggressive annexations of Palestinian lands in the occupied
West Bank
New in Morton's Musings
Reasonable Apprehension of Bias
Miracle
v. Maracle III, 2017 ONCA 195: [2] The test for reasonable apprehension
of bias laid down and consistently endorsed by the Supreme Court of
Canada is: what would an informed person, viewing the matter
realistically and practically—and having thought the matter
through—conclude. Would he think that it is more likely than not that
[the decision-maker], whether consciously or unconsciously, w
Expert Police Evidence Excluded for Lack of Independence
R. v. McManus, 2017 ONCA 188: (c) The Relevant Principles [63] To be
admitted into evidence, an expert's opinion must be (1) logically
relevant to an issue in the proceedings; (2) necessary to assist the
trier of fact; (3) not precluded by an exclusionary rule; and (4)
tendered by a properly qualified expert: Mohan , at pp. 20-25. The trial
judge also has residual discretion to exclude evidence t
Lawsuits are to be determined on the pleadings
Moore v. Sweet, 2017 ONCA 182: [39] This Court has made it clear on a
number of occasions that lawsuits are to be decided within the
boundaries of the pleadings (i.e., the documents framing the issues),
and based on findings and conclusions that are "anchored in the
pleadings, evidence, positions or submissions of any of the parties".
Otherwise, they are "inherently unreliable" and "procedurally
Better to Be Fair Than Fast
Traditionally in Canada very serious criminal cases go to trial only
after they have been reviewed by a judicial officer who hears from
witnesses and decides there is enough evidence to make a trial
necessary. The idea is that someone ought not to be put on trial for a
serious case like arson or manslaughter or kidnapping without having an
independent judicial officer listen to at least some of t
Role of Trial Judge: Nelson (City) v. Mowatt, 2017 SCC 8
It is not the role of appellate courts to second‑guess the weight to be
assigned to the various items of evidence. Absent palpable and
overriding error — that is, absent an error that is plainly seen and has
affected the result — an appellate court may not upset a fact‑finder's
findings of fact.
Speedy Trial
How
long should a criminal case take to get heard? The Canadian
Constitution provides that anyone charged with an offence is entitled to
a speedy trial. The concept is that having a charge hanging over your
head for a long time is not fair - what's more evidence for trial may
not last well. Witnesses' memories fade over time and proving a case
becomes progressively harder as time goes on. Society
New in New Orleans Ladder
Mardi Gras Pass is building land. Here’s why it’s important ~ Theryn Henkle
Mardi Gras Pass is building land. Here’s why it’s important ~ Theryn Henkle
Hankering for oysters? Here's how your craving is helping save Louisiana's coastline ~Janet McConnaughey, The Advocate
Hankering for oysters? Here's how your craving is helping save Louisiana's coastline ~Janet McConnaughey, The Advocate
New in News Center PK
Water: India Victimizes Pakistan
Pakistan is facing acute shortage of water, as being on lower riparian
in connection with the rivers emanating from the Indian-Occupied
Kashmir. Since its inception, India has never missed an opportunity to
victimize Pakistan by creating deliberate water scarcity with the aim to
damage the latter agriculturally. Historically, India has been trying
to establish her … Water: India Victimizes Pakist
TTP Connections
In the recent past, new wave of terrorism in Pakistan’s province of
Punjab, Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa killed several
innocent people, while various terrorist outfits such as the Islamic
State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS, ISIL) and the affiliated faction
of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar (TTP-JA also known as … TTP Connecti
Importance of the Baloch Cultural Day
Every year on March 2, Baloch Cultural Day is being celebrated with the
aim to highlight and promote the diversified and rich Balochi culture.
The importance of this very day could be judged from the fact that it is
being commemorated not only in various districts of the Balochistan
province, but also throughout the country … Importance of the Baloch
Cultural Day is a post from News Center Pk .
Nepal: A Memorandum about Indian Permanent Membership of the UN
It is misfortune that by ignoring the modern global trends like
renunciation of war, peaceful settlement of disputes and economic
development, India continues its hegemonic designs by threatening the
security of South Asia and Asia in particular and the entire world in
general. Besides other neighbouring countries, Nepal is another victim
of the Indian hegemonic … Nepal: A Memorandum about Indian
Modi Led the Gujarat Riots
The 2002 Gujarat riots were a three-day period of communal violence in
the Indian state of Gujarat by extremist Hindus under the guidance and
command of the Indian Prime Minister Narinder Modi who was chief
minister of Gujarat and mastermind the massacre of the Muslims. Besides
previous massacre of Muslims, more than 2500 Muslims were … Modi Led the
Gujarat Riots is a post from News Center Pk .
Confused Trump: Terror Attack Occurred in Pakistan’s Town of Sehwan, Not Sweden
US new President Donald Trump confused the Swedes and Pakistanis in
particular and the people of other countries of the world in general by
confusing the terror attack in Pakistan’s town of Sehwan with Sweden.
Sehwan is a historic town located in Jamshoro District of Sindh province
in Pakistan. It stands on the west bank … Confused Trump: Terror Attack
Occurred in Pakistan’s Town of Sehwan, Not S
New in Pesticide Action Network
Who needs clean air, water & soil?
Well then. If there was ever any doubt that the new administration's
oft-stated commitment to "clean air and water" was insincere, there's no
question now. Just as Trump was reading these hollow words in his
address to Congress, his team was proposing draconian cuts to the agency
whose job it is to protect our resources and health. This is both
hugely irresponsible and foolish. For one thing, sci
"New" pesticides, same Monsanto story
Last fall, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rubberstamped
Monsanto’s newest formulation of the herbicide dicamba for use on the
corporation’s genetically engineered (GE), dicamba-resistant soybean and
cotton seeds. Expecting that this approval will lead to a dramatic
increase in use of the herbicide dicamba, PAN and partners just filed a
federal lawsuit challenging the agency's deci
A fighting chance for Minnesota bees
As Scott Pruitt takes over as head of the Environmental Protection
Agency, it's clearer than ever that our federal decisionmakers won't be
stepping up to protect communities — or our food system — from
pesticides anytime soon. It's that much more important therefore for
state and local leaders to do their part. Here in Minnesota,
decisionmakers are beginning some important steps to protect pollin
Standing up for science
Lately scientific evidence seems to matter a lot less than it used to.
It's not that evidence hasn't been ignored by policymakers in the past.
But there are some unique things happening under the new administration
that seem to directly and fundamentally challenge the value of science.
Across the country, scientists are responding by standing up and
speaking out. Years ago, my roommate shared som
Food & Farm Lobby Day in Iowa
In early February, a mighty group of Iowa farmers congregated at the
Iowa state capitol to participate in the Iowa Farmers Union (IFU) annual
Food and Farm Lobby Day. A carload of my farmer friends and I were
thrilled to have the chance to speak with our legislators about the
obstacles that beginning farmers so often face in our current system of
agriculture. Every year, the membership of IFU des
#NoBanNoWall & justice for all
Rational and just immigration policies are central to a healthy and
functioning U.S. food system. Unfortunately, the new administration
seems determined to push us in the opposite direction. In the midst of a
barrage of hurried and unorthodox executive orders in the first weeks
of the new administration, two orders passed beneath the President’s pen
concerning immigration. Both are bad for farmwo
New in Philosophical Comment
Save
the date! Symposium on Ethics and Value Challenges in Antibiotic
Resistance Management, Policy and Research, November 15-16, 2017
Ethics and Value Challenges in Antibiotic Resistance Management, Policy
and Research, symposium in Gothenburg, November 15-16, 2017. Save the
date! The World Health Organization identifies antibiotic resistance as a
global challenge so serious that it threatens the fundamental
achievement of modern medicine. Ethics and value conflicts are at the
centre of this challenge: understanding its nature
The Leadership Moral Qualities of President Donald "So-called POTUS" Trump
The new US president, Donald Trump, has now been in office for some –
very brief – time. Mostly these beginning days of a new presidency – or a
new cabinet in a parliamentary democracy – are ones of relative calm
and ease; of settling in and attending to the formalities necessary to,
thereafter, be able to rule for real and do one's best to realise
whatever political program one has been elected
Independent
Science Journalist Who Exposes Research Fraud, Ethics Breaches &
Corruption Threatened by Lawsuits: Here's How You Can support Him!
As I have been reporting before , no holds barred independent German
science journalist Leonid Schneider, who runs the blog For Better
Science to expose and call out science fraud , ethics breaches and
general scientific hype and institutional corruption, particularly in
the life and medical sciences, has recently been hit by civil lawsuits
to silence his reporting. Besides the couple of Thorsten
New in red
Bird Is The Word
Maybe you’d better sit down for this one. According to a report by
Politico , corned-beef dirigible Donald Trump, a skill-free inheritance
baby with a virtually unbroken lifelong track record of incompetence and
failure, has found that running the United States government is a
tougher job than lending his name to mail-order steak delivery scams run
by other people. Because he is a world-historica
The Americans Are Too Stupid To Even Have A Country
“ Better to get your news directly from the president ,” Republican
congressman Lamar Smith said last month. “In fact, it might be the only
way to get the unvarnished truth.” You may call that sentiment
Orwellian, but nine out of ten Republicans would call it common sense: A
new poll from Emerson College finds 90 percent of Republicans believe
that the Trump administration is “truthful”—while les
Terminator Tantrum
So it seems the reason Herr Twitler cannot stop screaming, all day and
all of the night on his twit machine, and even at the National Prayer
Breakfast , about Arnold Schwarzenegger, is because when NBC selected
the Austrian actor as Mongo’s replacement on Celebrity Apprentice , it
spurned Mongo’s own choice—his longtime fuck-toy, daughter Lolita Mongo.
The shitgibbon badly wanted his daughter, Lo
A River Runs Through It
You’d have these roadside restaurants overlooking the tea fields.
There’d be a river running through the restaurant itself, and there’d be
these fish, these carp, that would be running through. You’d pick the
fish. They’d grab it for you and fry it up, and the skin would be real
crispy. They just served it with a bed of rice. It was the simplest meal
possible, and nothing tasted so good. — Barack
New in Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
Disabled Employees and Lawyers: Beware Legal Marijuana Laws
So
I've been predicting that the Trump administration would crack down on
legalized marijuana, and when I said that on NPR I was accused of being a
fear-mongerer. Wednesday I spoke to a group of law students about
legalized marijuana and how it affects employment law, and the first
thing I said is that lawyers should beware representing marijuana
dispensaries because a crackdown was coming from th
What A Broad Religious Exemption To Discrimination Laws Will Mean
While
the Trump Administration announced that it would keep in place
President Obama's Executive Order protecting employees of federal
contractors from LGBT discrimination, there have been reports of another
proposed executive order that would provide a religious exemption from
all discrimination laws. The four-page draft order, a copy of which is
currently circulating among federal staff and advo
New in Stranger in a Strange Land
Mold and Fungus Biggest Hidden Health Threat
Published on March 11, 2017 Infowars reporter Millie Weaver interviews
Infowars Life Chief Formulator Dr. Edward Group about the hidden health
dangers of mold, yeast, and fungus.
Weapons Of Mass Feminization by Jennie Ann Freiman MD
Weapons Of Mass Feminization by Jennie Ann Freiman MD Green Med Info.
31 January 2017 Weapons Of Mass Feminization If you’ve ever wondered
where all the alpha males have gone, the interaction between chemistry
and biology may offer a clue. Gender bending chemicals are everywhere,
literally impossible to avoid. They act as endocrine disruptors (EDs)
that block, decrease, or overstimulate hormones.
Jon Henrik Fjällgren & Aninia - En värld full av strider - A World Full Of Fighting
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnc09zwKiXY This was from
a Music Festival that determine who will represent Sweden in the
Eurovision Song Contest 2017. This song is sunt in both Same and
Swedish. You Will just have to listen & enjoy the music or just feel
it.
We Are Not Going To Let....An Inspirational Quotation From President Trump
I will admit that I was not so keen on Donald Trump being our President
before the election but the more I listened to what he was saying, the
more I found that I agree with him on much of his policy. I now
thoroughly enjoy listening to his truthful talk and see him as a voice
for reason and common sense in a world gone mad with so many unable to
see reality or what is right before their eyes. As
When You Boil Milk - An Insight by M.N. Hopkins
When you boil milk, the scum always rises to the top. Ponder this and
consider the current state of leadership within education, health care,
government, corporations and in fact, all institutions within our
current human communities. One can remain in the black cauldron and
allow the heat or great pressure put upon you to transform you into scum
or become as the stream created which has the powe
400 Reasons To Consume Green Tea by Sayer Ji
400 Reasons to Consume Green Tea by Sayer Ji Green Med Info, 8 February
2017 Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage ~ Kakuzo Okakura,
Book of Tea Things have come full circle. Green tea, which is consumed
by billions the world over as an enjoyable beverage, is once again its
attaining its rightful status as a powerful medicine in the eyes of both
the public and health practitioners, ali
New in Syria Comment
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Civil Society in Jabal al-Summaq
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi The formation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
(‘Liberation of al-Sham Commission’- HTS) has understandably provoked
fear of a total jihadist/al-Qa’ida takeover of Syria’s rebel-held
northwest, centred around Idlib province. HTS was announced on 28
January amid wider rebel infighting in Idlib that saw multiple groups
merge under Ahrar al-Sham in a bid to protect themselves from
Liwa al-Mukhtar al-Thiqfi: Syrian IRGC Militia
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Emblem of Liwa al-Mukhtar al-Thiqfi. Flanked
by the flags of Syria and Iran, the top reads: “Fawj Qamr Bani Hashim.”
The centre consists of a flag with the inscription: “Labbayk ya
Hussein.” At the bottom is the name Liwa al-Mukhtar al-Thiqfi. The rise
of ‘Syrian Hezbollah’ is by now a well-established aspect of the
conflict, as multiple Syrian militias have arisen that
A Response to Roy Gutman’s “Have the Syrian Kurds Committed War Crimes?”
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi A recent article in The Nation by Roy Gutman
has generated considerable controversy, as the article attempts to
highlight what it portrays as the more unsavoury and neglected aspects
of the Democratic Union Party (PYD)- the main Kurdish faction operating
in Syria and linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)- and its armed
wing the People’s Protection Units (YPG), whi
The rise and fall of a CIA-backed rebel commander in Syria – by @ErikaSolomon
This is a wonderful and important article by Erika Solomon . @
ErikaSolomon for the Financial Times . I have cut out sections, marked
with a “….” The rise and fall of a CIA-backed rebel commander in Syria:
Former ‘fixer’ for anti-Assad forces comes to terms with failed US
policy By Erica Solomon Abu Ahmad: ‘I used to think America was the
ruler of the universe. If you ask me whether I was wrong?
Akram al-Hawrani: Syria’s Left-Wing Populist and the United Arab Republic – By Christopher Solomon
Akram al-Hawrani: Syria’s left-wing populist and the United Arab
Republic By Christopher Solomon For Syria Comment – February 15, 2017
Gamal Abdul Nasser (left) with Akram al-Hawrani (center) and Egypt’s
Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi (right). As the pro-Assad forces recaptured the
last sections of rebel-held Aleppo in December, they excitedly declared
that these areas now had “green eyes” (eyoon khadar
Yes, Syrian Kurds Have Committed War Crimes – Roy Gutman Responds to Aymenn Tamimi
Roy Gutman Responds to Aymenn al-Tamimi on “Have the Syrian Kurds
Committed War Crimes?” By Roy Gutman – @ Roy_Gutman For Syria Comment –
February 12, 2017 Any journalist covering a controversial topic like
alleged war crimes can expect a hostile response from the subject of the
story, but it’s extremely rare in my experience for a specialist in the
field to respond to a major journalistic invest
New in The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage
Marching For Dogma
This will be a very short post, as I see no real good in arguing at
length with the deeply deluded. This is just a succinct reminder of the
truth so many refuse to confront now. Judith Curry has a post on "What
Are Scientists Marching For?". (There is going to be a march on
Washington around April 22nd, basically in hysterical protest over the
new President and what they so deludedly think he rep
Layers of Belief: Political, Religious, and Scientific Dogma
I have submitted the following comment to the American Thinker site, to
an article on the "causes of scientific decline in American academia".
The article imputes the decline to Leftist beliefs and actions.: Left
(versus Right) is just the top, political, layer. Underneath that is the
atheist (versus spiritual believer) religious belief system. And under
that, at bottom (in the context of science
Modern Scientific Ignorance and Dismissal of the Ancient Truth
I have submitted the following response to the climate etc site of Dr.
Judith Curry, who carries a post on "the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycle". The
introduction states, "Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) events are the most
dramatic and frequent abrupt climate change events in the geological
record.": Impressively detailed speculation, but wrong. The Earth's
surface was re-formed, wholesale and late in geologi
An Ever-Darker Future Imminent
The Jo Nova site has a post on South Australia's energy infrastructure
woes, and the comments put blame on all the usual suspects. The
following is my response, as a competent scientist: Underlying the lazy
(still too well fed and entertained), politically polarized public, and
their representatives, and the larger tyrannous agenda of the Insane
Left, is the fundamental crisis: A general scientif
New in The High-fat Hep C Diet
Dietary Cholesterol and Hepatitis C
Dr Yu's group have produced (in 2015) a re-analysis of their diet data
from the HALT-C study; the original paper, which led me to look into
liver cholesterol mechanisms a few years back in the NASH series, had an
increased risk of transplantation and death in people on the HALT-C
trial (a long-term, low-dose trial of alpha-interferon for prevention of
cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer in Hep C,
New in The Straight Goods
Christy Clark's 2017 Throne Speech-The Fakery, B.C. Edition
Written by Grant G Listening to the throne speech, if one didn't know
better, if one believed even half of it, millions would be building
statues and monuments province-wide honoring the greatest leader the
world, let alone British Columbia has ever seen....The honorable Premier
Christy Clark.. Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon, I wonder how she
feels tonight, did she sterilize her mouth with an
Hey hey, ho ho, Christy Clark has got to go
Better audio in this Youtube version.... "hey hey, ho ho, Christy Clark
has got to go"..."shame, shame, shame" ______________ Thanks for the
link... The Straight Goods Ears Wide Open
What British Columbia Really Thinks About Christy Clark
Jane Doe @ ausername Watch as Christy Clark gets booed at the
legislature on February 14, 2017. #bcpoli #vanre #vanpoli #cdnpoli
#teambc2017 RETWEETS 40 LIKES 39 12:15 AM - 15 Feb 2017 6 replies 40
retweets 39 likes __________________ Something going on here people....
British Columbia realizes they made a huge mistake electing Christy
Clark. Hey hey, ho ho, Christy Clark has got to go....Shame
New in thwap's schoolyard
What's Going To Happen To Chris Alexander?
I've loathed Chris Alexander since I'd first heard of his existence,
back in 2011. That was when he was first running for office as a
Conservative candidate in the riding of Ajax-Pickering. He was saying
that torture in Afghanistan wasn't a big issue, even though
Afghanistan's entire justice/legal system was rife with abuses from top
to bottom. But, aside from my own misgivings, the meme about hi
Glenn Greenwald on the US Democrats
Foolish chump, or mercenary Democratic Party hack Driftglass has a
hate-on for Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald is a libertarian don't you know.
He isn't a corporate stooge Democrat who mouths platitudes about the
working class and minorities like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
Therefore his exposes of Obama and Clinton's mass spying and crimes
against humanity are of no account. But I have a helluva
Profiles in Liberal Fuck-Wittery
Sorry liberals/Liberals. Not going to apologize for not supporting
corrupt, mass-murderer Hillary Clinton. "Lesser-Evilism" brought us to
Trump. It was HRC's job to get people to support her. It wasn't
everybody else's responsibility to force themselves to want to vote for
her. She could not get people mobilized, even against someone as
loathsome and stupid as Donald Trump because she was running
My "alt-right" Co-Worker
No. He's not a Nazi, or a white supremacist. First of all, he's
Filipino. And, while he might be dismayed to find out what Steve Bannon
really thinks of him when the chips are down, "Breitbart" (which he
reads regularly) has a big enough tent that if features the gay, partly
Jewish, Greek (and utterly vile scum-bag) Milo Yiannopoulis as one of
their star editors. (Which is not to say that the "gr
New in Toxic Reverend - Revelations
Heroin & Opioid Epidemic in USA - Safe Alternative Outlawed
The DEA recently Outlawed a safe alternative to Opioids pain management
( 1 ). The Cannabis CBD Hemp Oil that lacks quantities of THC and does
not "get you high" ( 2 ) has been declared a Schedule 1 Drug {like
Heroin} ( 1 ). The drug companies are in danger of losing a huge market
share of their addictive pain drugs (3, 4 ). With four out of five
Heroin Addicts getting started on prescription nar
Coast To Coast AM Radio Show Date 09-18-10
Database summarizes toxic chemical contaminants and approximately 180
human diseases - conditions. http://database.healthandenvironment.org/
12:21 PM Sep 7th via Power Twitter My comments and review of the
database are posted at The Toxic Reverend - Tribe Profile Coast To Coast
AM Radio Show Date 09-18-10 from 11 PM to 2 AM Pacific Time Ian's guest
is the"Toxic Reverend" aka "Justice Is Homeless"
Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
The realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and
political system Bt The Toxic Reverend is pasted in after this article
This first article that I am citing before the text of my blog titled; "
The realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and
political system" shows the devastating effects on the financial health
of our country. The L.A. Times article and the study I
New in Vaccine Awakening
Getting A Flu Shot: No Guarantee It Will Work
Posted
2/28/2017 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. Like a lot of
people, in January when I suddenly developed a high fever (101 F), body
aches, fatigue, nasal congestion and cough, I
New in Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!)
Suckers!
For that Low-Inflation Rate (Neutering Trump Who'll Die in Jail with
Total War on the Horizon?) Nuts and Fruits: A Smorgasbord of Liars/Lies
(Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine) Cooked by Gamma Rays? (Chinese
Blackwater Prince) Flynn Flossing, Holy Money Bags and Great Fraud
(Wikileaks Origin?) Dr. Strangelove Shows US the Way (US
Financialization Cognitive Dissonance Crashes) Max & Stacy Farm; Lee
Camps; Glenn Outrages; Hedges Contacts
Yes,
it's a long one, so be prepared with a tall cool drink. You may need
two. Why Is the Cost of Living so Unaffordable? Mainstream Media’s
‘Victimhood’ Feeling rich yet? Feeling suckered? Again? And you thought
it was okay to ignore the news on the MSM about how the economics
measures were changed by those who, of course, only had your best
interests at heart. Again and again. And
(Coalition
Creation of ISIL/Daesh Outing Flynn?) Still Wondering What the Appeal
of Trump Was to the Hurting Middle Class? (Refiddling Definition of
Employed) Fiddling While Valentine's Day Burns?
Senators
Told Their Jobs At Risk After Confirming Wall Street Banker for
Treasury. Republicans [and Democrat] in the Senate cannot excuse putting
a lying foreclosure profiteer at the head of our economy. Michael Flynn
is out as National Security Adviser, and the Trump administration is
currently trying to spin it as not that big a deal. It’s…not going well.
The White House would like you to
New in What Is Sustainable
Nature Connection
Stalking Wolf was a tracker raised in a wild, free Apache community.
His people never surrendered to the barbarian invaders, and some still
continue living in freedom, as undocumented Americans, in remote desert
regions. Later in life, he spent time with his son in New Jersey, where
he happened to meet an 8-year old boy named Tom Brown. He mentored Tom
and his buddy Rick for nine years, giving th
The Falcon
For almost the entire human saga, our ancestors were hunter-gathers.
For most of us, these kinfolk are long forgotten in family memory. Quite
a bit has been written about wild societies by visiting outsiders from
civilization, strangers who could not fully understand the cultures of
their subjects. The Falcon is the autobiography of John Tanner, a
fascinating book that gives readers a ringside se
Cradle of Humankind
East Africa is called the Cradle of Humankind because it’s where our
ancestors originated. As noted in an earlier post , two to four million
years ago, the region became cooler and dryer. Forests shrank. The
ancestors of baboons and humans moved out of the forest and adapted to
savannah ecosystems (grasslands with scattered trees). In this new
habitat, male baboons evolved large canine teeth, to
The Good Old Days
I’ve been reading John Tanner’s autobiography, The Falcon , ( Download
). He was born in Kentucky in 1780. At age 9, he was kidnapped by
Shawnees, and adopted by an Ojibwa chief. Tanner spent 30 years living
as a wild hunter-gatherer, wandering in the wilderness between the Red
River of North Dakota and Lake Huron in Michigan. He once tried to
return to his birth family, but white society was int
New in Wit's End
All Begins to Wither
Twenty years have flowed away down the long river And never in my life
will return for me from the sea Ah years in which looking far away I saw
ages long past When still trees bloomed free in a wide country And thus
now all begins to wither With the breath of cold-hearted wizards To
know things they break them And their stern lordship they establish
Through fear of death ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, Rotterd
All Begins to Wither
Twenty years have flowed away down the long river And never in my life
will return for me from the sea Ah years in which looking far away I saw
ages long past When still trees bloomed free in a wide country And thus
now all begins to wither With the breath of cold-hearted wizards To
know things they break them And their stern lordship they establish
Through fear of death ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, Rotterd
All Begins to Wither
Twenty years have flowed away down the long river And never in my life
will return for me from the sea Ah years in which looking far away I saw
ages long past When still trees bloomed free in a wide country And thus
now all begins to wither With the breath of cold-hearted wizards To
know things they break them And their stern lordship they establish
Through fear of death ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, Rotterd
New in WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz End of Mission Statement 3 March 2017 In my
capacity as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of
indigenous peoples, I carried out a visit to the United States of
America from 22 February to 3 March 2017 to study the human rights
situation of indigenous peoples, in particular with regard to ener
ART MATTERS NOW by Eva Yaa Asantewaa,2017,Copyright Since word first leaked that Donald J. Trump wants to gut the Natio...
ART MATTERS NOW by Eva Yaa Asantewaa,2017,Copyright Since word first
leaked that Donald J. Trump wants to gut the National Endowments of the
Arts and the Humanities, along with the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, many commentators have focused on the economic impact of
the arts on communities, cities and the nation as a whole. Statistics
argue for the arts as a contributor to American prospe
New in A Different Perspective
Project Blue Book and Fold3
While chatting with Barry Greenwood on the radio version of A Different
Perspective , we got around to talking about Fold3. This is a web site
that houses tens of thousands if not millions of documents that have
historic and military information. Most of the Project Blue Book files
are included and those interested can “join” the web site for free to
have access to those files. Other aspects of t
Curse of Oak Island - Season 4 Finale (sort of)
Well, that certainly was a disappointment. After a week of teasing us
with the discovery of a gold coin from deep in the fourth hole they dug,
and with their archaeological expert (Dr. Lori and whose last name I
didn’t write down) saying that it was an important discovery, we finally
learn the truth. It wasn’t a gold coin but a gold-plated button and Dr.
Lori wasn’t talking about the button when
BG Schulgen and His Memo
The other day Fran Ridge who hosts the NICAP web site, posted the
following to members of the list: I just wanted to ask all of you if you
consider the ACTUAL Shulgen memo as indicative of Roswell knowledge. 3.
Items of Construction a. Type of material, whether metal, ferrous,
non-ferrous, or non-metallic. b. Composite or sandwich construction
utilizing various combinations of metals, plastics, a
X-Zone Broadcast Network - Paul Kimball (Oak Island and More)
This week I talked with Paul Kimball about a variety of topics that
included Oak Island, reality TV, and some of the best UFO sightings. You
can listen to the program here: https://youtu.be/Qxo55By5zWg For those
interested, since Paul lives in Nova Scotia, the scene of the Oak Island
program, and since they have teased us with the idea that treasure has
been Paul Kimball found, I asked if he had
X-Zone Broadcast Network - Don Ledger
This week I reached out to Don Ledger, a Canadian UFO researcher. My
thought was to talk about the Shag Harbour UFO crash and his book Dark
Object written with Chris Styles. He mentioned another book about
Maritime UFO sightings cleverly called Maritime UFO Files . However,
other than a brief mention here and there, the discussion centered
around the Shag Harbour case. You can listen to it here:
Psychic Warriors
Back in the olden days, as I was working on my doctoral degree, I spent
a lot of time in the University of Iowa’s psychology library doing
research. While there I noticed that, at one time, there were a number
of peer reviewed journals devoted to parapsychology and there were many
universities, some of them quite prestigious, that had majors in
parapsychology and related fields. I also noticed th
New in A Very Public Sociologist
Truxton for the MegaDrive/Genesis
Taking a night off from the politics and suchlike, it's time we had a
look at a well known MegaDrive title that's been in my sights for some
time. Truxton , or Tatsujin as it was dubbed in Japan, is a vertically
scrolling shooter that sees you operate a rocketship of doom against
waves upon waves of dastardly aliens just begging to get blasted. Yes,
as no frills shooters go, Truxton pretty much w
Owen Jones and Naive Cynicism
Why has there been a rapid descent in the eyes of many Jeremy Corbyn
supporters of Owen Jones? Formerly the favoured son of the British
radical left, he finds himself hanging out with Tony Blair and Alastair
Campbell in the demonology, and he didn't even have to sex up a dossier
to get there. It interests me and disturbs me for a couple of reasons.
Interests because his latest missives ( here and
Hammond's National Insurance Nightmare
George Osborne may have been the worst chancellor of modern times, but
he understood one thing. Subordinating the national interest, i.e. those
of British business-in-general to the narrow concerns of the
Conservative Party , allowed for good press and the accumulation of
political capital. It didn't matter if these actions weakened the
economy or made life worse for millions just as long as it h
The Stupidity of Melanie Phillips
It's chip wrappings now, but I still wanted to say a few things about
Melanie Phillips and her egregious stupidity. In case you missed it, she
caused a flap with this article that made a number of tendentious
claims. Namely that Great Britain is an ancient nation whose existence
predated the Act of Union, and is therefore indivisible while, at the
same time, Ireland "has a tenuous claim to nation
Supporting the Women's Quilt
A cross post from Emma Burnell about an excellent initiative started by
friend-of-the-blog, Cllr Roxanne Ellis . How do you turn hundreds of
separate tales of murder, loss, grief and abuse into something positive?
How do you turn a statistic that is at once both shocking and
under-reported into something that tells stories and raises awareness?
For Gedling Labour Councillor Roxanne Ellis, this be
Meet the Next Tory Leader
Let's leave behind the argy-bargy and specumalations surrounding Jeremy
Corbyn and his leadership, and turn our attention to the Conservatives
and who will succeed Theresa May. It's not exciting anyone at the moment
because the issue is beyond settled. May convincingly took the farce of
the Tory party leadership contest and now rides high in the polls. And
yet, as everyone obsesses about Labour's
New in Adrienne's Corner
Protest exhaustion, TrumpCare, Deep State, and Samantha Bee...
how many of you are as exhausted as I am? We have the ladies who march™
running around trying to cause mayhem - and not doing a very good job
of it because most people are just so tired of all the protests.
Trumpcare? Then we have the wrangling over what is supposed to be phase
one of dumping Odumbocare. Rand Paul is trying to rip the throat out of
Paul Ryan claiming phase one is no more than Odu
It's Saturday: Let's talk about mechanically separated chicken...
or as I call it - beaks and feet (with an occasional side of eyeballs)
Many months ago I bought some frozen pizzas that were on sale. I failed
to read the label before bringing them home. When I did read the label
they hit the trash can because the fatal words "mechanically separated
chicken" (MSC) was one of the ingredients. Good thing they were uber
cheap. Last week Digiorno pizzas were on sale
Is the lunatic left looking for a civil war?...
they need to remember that we own all the guns. Ace of Spades had a
very good article How to Survive In the Age of Rage Just in case people
don't get this: I'm not being rhetorical when I say that a large
fraction of the country, on both the left and the nevertrumper/GOPe side
of things, has gone insane. The world feels like a Twilight Zone
episode to them -- the world they went to sleep in on No
Are
you as disturbed as I am? Illegal wire taps, Charles Murry protest,
OFA, convicted terrorist and murderer Rasmea Yousef Odeh a leader of the
Day Without Women, and crazy Loretta Lynch...
this is way more serious than we could ever imagine. Why? Because it
would never occur to those of us who lean right to impede and/or
physically assault someone who held different views. Did we block the
crazy ladies who march™? Do we riot when a libtard is going to give a
speech? Do we carry around signs with vulgar language and wear sexually
explicit costumes? Do we smash windows, flip over car
The Grammy Awards are tonight...
I won't be watching. How about you? According to The Blaze: Longtime
Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich says he welcomes musicians going “off
script” during the awards ceremony on Sunday to speak their minds about
politics and President Donald Trump. In fact, Ehrlich told the magazine
that the speeches only have one restriction: they can’t have profanity,
given the 3.5 hour long awards ceremony i
Melania in the Spotlight...
good job! Deals of the Day at Amazon More: Left Coast Resistance: How
To Spot A Snowflake (Excellent!) Virtual Mirage: Shall we Tolerate
Islam?
New in AMERICAN KABUKI
Back to back energy and frequency upgrades...
Postings have been sparse here, and I am not apologizing for that. Been
going through some personal upgrades energetically and assimilating all
of that. There's not a lot new to say about Antarctica except that I
now know who four of the architects of Andromedan/Lyran/Orian base in
Antartica are, but I am not going to reveal that quite yet. This
situation in Antarctica keeps becoming richer and r
Clif High On Looming Banking Crisis
By American Kabuki Some interesting videos from Clif High, on possible
pending financial liquidity issues by what Clif High appropriately calls
the "occupying banks". The fuel for the banking systems was cut off in
December 2012, by the law filing of the One People's Public Trust. Its
taken a bit for what was in the pipeline to run out, longer than anyone
knew. For the past 2 years the banking sy
HOT CHINESE MONEY: ZEROHEDGE -> There Are 66,719 Empty Mansions In Vancouver
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-11/there-are-66719-empty-mansions-vancouver
There Are 66,719 Empty Mansions In Vancouver by Tyler Durden Feb 11,
2017 2:57 PM One year ago, when we first started discussing the
Vancouver housing bubble, which as we first speculated - and was later
confirmed - was the result of Chinese oligarch money-launderers parking
"hot cash" in this offshore housing marke
New web site from Heather Tucci-Jarraf: UNIDYNOMICS.INFO
Screen capture from Heather's web site.... There is a new web site from
Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf. Its http://unidynomics.info . You might want
to check it out. The site is terse and brief, my sense is that it is
directed more at specific particulars that need need some personal
instruction to come up to speed very rapidly in "unidynomics". More
content may be forthcoming. She's has a very interes
The Dark Side of Sending Jobs to China and Mexico
Saw this research paper on PBS news tonight. The rising mortality rates
among white middle aged people in America. What is interesting is they
are dying from diseases of despair, depression, alcoholism, drug
addiction. There has been a sense in "white America" of being besieged.
Over 20 years of jobs being sent to China, Mexico and India has created a
depression in middle America. There is a reas
Session with Loie 2/17/2017 -- A.O.L. Antarctic Base at 74 Degrees South, 164 Degrees East... PART 1
Terran note: thought I'd get this out, as part 1, there's more data to
be posted separately after this, and I will try to update this with some
sketches, as crude as my art ability is when it comes to drawing.... I
have other posts to come but have been really wacked hard with these new
frequencies and am still assimilating them best I can. Finding I'm
having to wear my "readers" to even see the
New in Catharsis Ours
Economic
News , Data & Views...... March 11 , 2017 ....... 1) Fukushima
Nuclear Disaster - 6 Years Ago Today And The Disaster Continues
Unabated. 2) Market Overview : Doug Noland's Weekly Commentary "
Unparalleled Credit And Global Yields " , Data & News For The Week
That Was , Global Bonds And Stocks Battered Last Week. 2) Europe In
Focus : Germany Warns Trump On Border Tax Implications As Merkel US
Visit Looms ; Greece - Creditor Talks Updates ; Turkey Vs EU Nations -
Turkey Threatens Germany , Netherlands & Greece on Various Issues
While Dangling Cancellation Of Migration Deal Card Over EU's Heads ;
France Election Updates ; Additional Items Of Note. 3) US Politics : US
Political News For Saturday. 4) Odds & Ends - Mosul Campaign , Syria
& Libya Updates.
Fukushima.... fred walton @ fredwalton216 59s 59 seconds ago fred
walton Retweeted Asia Times 6 years later , still many unanswered
questions.... fred walton added, Asia Times @ asiatimesonline
http://www. atimes.com/article/unansw
ered-questions-fukushima-nuclear-disaster/ … #Fukushima fred walton @
fredwalton216 1m 1 minute ago fred walton Retweeted Fairewinds.org
Important to keep this sto
Economic
News , Data & Views.....March 19 , 2017.....Quick Hits For Friday
-1 ) Markets : US Markets Have a Green Friday ; US Non Farm Payrolls
Better Than Expectations Today ; Fed Rate Hike Set For March , Now
Markets Look Toward Possible June Hike ; Crude Oil Ends Lower On Friday ,
Back Toward Key Support ; Europe Indexes Mixed On Friday . 2) US
Politics Round Up : G-20 Next Week Will See Currencies As A Key Focal
Point ; Repeal And Replace Updates For HC ; Updates On Russia Related
Concerns ; Raqqa Plan Being Considered , US Boots Already On The Ground ;
Additional Items Of Note. 3) Europe In Focus : EU-Turkey Deal Examined ;
Greece Updates - Creditor Talks , Economy , Odd Items In Focus ; France
Election Updates ; Netherlands / Germany Polling Data ; UK- Brexit /
Article 50 Related Items Of Note. 4) Odds & Ends : Fukushima Nuclear
Disaster - 6 Years Later ; West Mosul Campaign Map Updates ; Bitcoin
ETF Panned By SEC ; Libya Updates.
Markets..... Anthony Barton @ AntBarton89 10h 10 hours ago US
Briefing 10-Mar-17: US Jobs Data Dominates Todays US Docket ForexLive @
ForexLive 5h 5 hours ago S&P 500 falls into negative territory
HotAir.com @ hotairblog 9h 9 hours ago February jobs report: 235K
added, 4.7% unemployed http:// hotair.com/archives/2017/
03/10/february-jobs-report-235k-added-4-7-unemployed/ … ForexLive @
For
Economic
News , Data & Views......March 8 , 2017......Quick Hits For
Thursday -1) Markets : Asia- Economic Calendar For Friday And Market
Moving Data & News ; US Markets - US Major Indexes End Barely Above
Flatline Ahead Of US Employment Report Due Friday , US Debt Yields Keep
Rising , Oil & Gold Lower Again Today , Additional News To Consider.
2) US Politics : Richard Spencer May Be Nominated For Navy Secretary ;
Repeal & Replace "Obamacare" Updates ; Tax Reform Kicked Back To
Fiscal 2018 ; Revised Travel Ban Hit By Lawsuits From 4 States So Far ;
Additional Items Of Note. 3) Europe In Focus : Donald Tusk Re-Elected
EUCO President Despite Poland's Opposition ; ECB Monetary Policy
Decisions Released ; Greece - Creditor Talks Seem To Be Progressing ,
Additional News On Economy ; France - Political Updates ; Additional
Items To Consider. 4) Odds & Ends - Iraq ( Mosul Campaign ) And
Libya ( Oil Crescent War ) In Primary Focus.
Markets.... Asia..... ForexLive @ ForexLive 2h 2 hours ago Economic
data due from Asia today ForexLive @ ForexLive 1h 1 hour ago ICYMI -
China February lending growth slows a little ForexLive @ ForexLive 1h 1
hour ago New Zealand - Electronic card spending (February), Retail
-0.6% m/m (expected -0.4%) US..... ForexLive @ ForexLive 2h 2 hours
ago Stocks end the day near unchanged levels Fo
Economic
News , Data & Views.....March 8 , 2017.....Quick Hits For Wednesday
-1) Markets : Economic Calendar For Thursday , Data & Market Moving
News ; US : Dow & S&P End Lower Today , Nasdaq Marginally
Higher , Gold Slumps , Oil Does a Header , Ten Year Treasury Yields
Higher but Some Recovery As Day Wore On. 2) US Politics : Trump Tweets ;
Repeal & Replace Updates ; WikiLeaks - Vault 7 Leak ; Travel Ban
Faces First Lawsuit - Hawaii ; Trump Wiretapped Claims To Get Scrutiny ;
Additional Items Of Note. 3) Europe In Focus : Top News Touching On
Greece ; EU Summit Looms Along , With Tusk "Push- Pull With Poland ;
France Election News De Jour ; Germany - Wikileaks Stirs Cyber Spy Hub
Potential Investigation By Germany , Berlin Still Seeks European
Monetary Fund - But Doesn't Want Eurobonds ; UK - Article 50 , Brexit
News For Wednesday. 4) Odds & Ends - Syria , Libya , Iraq &
North Korea In focus.
Markets..... Asia..... ForexLive @ ForexLive 2h 2 hours ago Economic
data due from Asia today - China inflation David Ingles Verified
account @ DavidInglesTV 53m 53 minutes ago Good where's-yield-gravity
morning Asia Pacific. Aussie 10Y hasn't been this close to 3% in 2 years
ForexLive @ ForexLive 54m 54 minutes ago Australian PM Turnbull says
credible path to surplus to help maintain AAA r
Economic
News , Data & Views.....March 7 , 2017.....Quick Hits For Tuesday
-1) Markets : Asia - Economic Calendar - New Zealand Manufacturing
Activity Data , China Trade Data , Japan GDP ( Q4) Headline Wednesday ;
US : US Major Indexes Moderately Lower Today , Private Oil Inventory
Shows Bigger Build Than Expected In Crude But Also Larger Draw In
Gasoline. 2) US Politics For Tuesday : Replace & Repeal Obamacare
Updates ; Wikileaks Discloses Big Splash Of CIA Documents Today ; Trump
Tweets To Consider ; Wiretap Claim ( Trump's ) Update ; Additional Items
To Consider. 3) Europe In Focus : UK Political Updates ( Brexit In
Focus ) ; Various Electoral Polls To Consider ; France Political Updates
Of Note ; Hungary's Parliament Passes Plan To Detain All Asylum
Seekers. 4) Odds & Ends - Syria , Iraq , Libya & North Korea In
Focus.
Markets..... Asia..... ForexLive @ ForexLive 2h 2 hours ago Economic
data due from Asia today - Japan GDP (Q4 2016, final) ForexLive @
ForexLive 1h 1 hour ago Economic data due from China today - trade
balance! ForexLive @ ForexLive 2h 2 hours ago New Zealand -
Manufacturing activity data for Q4 US...... ForexLive @ ForexLive 2h 2
hours ago US major stock indices end the day lower ForexLi
Economic
News , Data & Views.....March 6 , 2017......Quick Hits For Monday
1) Markets : Asia - Economic Calendar For Tuesday & Market Moving
Data And News , North Korea Claims Missile Launches Over The Weekend
Were An Exercise To Strike US Bases In Japan ; US - The 3 Major Indexes
Grind Lower But End Off Lows Of Day , Gold / Oil End Lower , US Bond
Yields Move Higher. 2) US Politics : New Executive Action For Travel Ban
Involving 6 Nations Rolled Out , Russia Election Interference ( And All
Related Tangled Webs Such As Wiretapping " S-Storm" ) Updates ,
Obamacare Update , North Korea Responses Contemplated After Latest
Provocative Missile Launches , Trump Tweets For Monday , Additional
Items Of Note. 3) Europe In Focus : Fillon Pulls Off Hail Mary Pass -
Huge Crowd Sunday , Juppe Not Running In Presidency Race , Conservatives
Close Ranks ; Greece Updates - Domestic & International Concerns ,
Creditor Talks Updates , Refugee Crisis Updates ; Germany - Erdogan
Calls Germany…
Markets.... Asia..... ForexLive @ ForexLive 1h 1 hour ago Economic
data due from Asia today (& RBA meeting) ForexLive @ ForexLive 18m
18 minutes ago Reserve Bank of New Zealand outlines plans for bank
capital review ForexLive @ ForexLive 47m 47 minutes ago Yonhap: N.
Korea claims it held missile launch exercise to strike U.S. base in
Japan US ..... ForexLive @ ForexLive 1h 1 hour ago Fore
New in Centauri Dreams
Biofluorescence: A Potential Biosignature for M-Dwarf Planets
The seven planets circling the star TRAPPIST-1 have been lionized in
the media, and understandably so, given that more than one have the
potential for habitability. But of course M-dwarfs call up the
inevitable problems associated with such tiny stars. Habitable planets
must orbit close to the star, with the probability of tidal lock and
subsequent climatic issues. Moreover, the flare activity pa
HD 219134: A Nearby System with Multiple Transits
While we’ve all had our eyes fixed on TRAPPIST-1 (amid the still
lingering excitement of the discovery of Proxima Centauri b), news about
another stellar neighbor has caused only a faint stir. But what’s
happening around HD 219134 (Gliese 892) is noteworthy, and it’s
interesting to see that Michaël Gillon (University of Liège – Belgium)
has had a hand in it. Gillon, after all, led the work on TRA
Fragmented Asteroid Develops Comet-like Tails
You wouldn’t expect main belt asteroids to develop tails like comets —
their orbits are circular enough that they don’t undergo the kind of
temperature swings many comets experience in their plunge toward
perihelion — but we do have some twenty cases of asteroids that do
exactly that. The photo below, showing imagery from the 10.4-meter Great
Canary Telescope, gives us views of asteroid P/2016 G1
Kepler Data on TRAPPIST-1 Coming Online
K2 Campaign 12 is an observational window that comes at the right time.
Operating as the K2 mission, the Kepler spacecraft collected data from
December 15, 2016 to March 4 of this year on the TRAPPIST-1 system. With
seven planets, at least six of them likely to be rocky worlds,
TRAPPIST-1 is suddenly high on everyone’s target list for future
observation. The new Kepler data are a key part of this
Ceres: Close Look at Occator Crater
We’ve looked recently at the possibility of cryovolcanism on Ceres with
regard to the unusual feature called Ahuna Mons (see Ice Volcanoes on
Ceres? ). Now we have further evidence that outbursts of brine from
beneath the surface have been occurring over long periods of time, and
that some of these eruptions have been recent. The work comes out of
analysis of data from the Dawn mission by scienti
Seven Planets around TRAPPIST-1
The red dwarf known as TRAPPIST-1 could not have produced a more
interesting scenario. Today we learn that the star, some 40 light years
out in the constellation Aquarius, hosts seven planets, all of which
turn out to be comparable to the Earth in terms of size. Moreover, these
worlds were discovered through the transit method, meaning we have mass
and radius information for all of them. Today’s
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