Friday, June 16, 2017

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Your Spouse Criticizes Your Boss On Social Media: Can You Get Fired For That?
The story about Kellyanne Conway's husband criticizing her boss, President Trump, on social media made me think about an issue that arises off an on in my employment practice: whether you can be fired for something your spouse does. If you are one of my regular readers, you probably aren't surprised that the answer is: of course you can. Unless you have a contract or collective bargaining agreemen
9th Circuit Decision Proves Need For Laws Banning Prior Salary Inquiries
A few weeks ago I wrote that some states are passing laws banning prospective employers from asking applicants about their salary history. The reason lawmakers give for this law is that basing salary on an applicant's pay with another employer locks in discrimination. This practice particularly impacts women. A recent case out of the normally very liberal 9th Circuit demonstrates the need for laws
Can Litigation Last 27 Years? If You're Suing Government, Yes
This case out of Washington, DC is a good example of why I have been refusing to handle cases against government for many years. My last case against government lasted 10 years. After that, I was done. So when people ask me why I don't handle cases against government, I can start using this sexual harassment case as Exhibit A. Bottom line with government is that it isn't their money. So whereas co
Will My Employment Law Claim Show Up In A Background Check?
I'm constantly asked about whether certain actions against employers for discrimination and other issues will show up in a background check. Other than a lawsuit, most probably will not. And now, even with a lawsuit, a court just allowed a plaintiff to go forward with a sex discrimination suit as "Jane Doe" so her reputation would not be damaged. So, what kinds of actions will and won't show up on

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Nationalism Between Europe and The Middle East – By Sam Farah
Nationalism Between Europe and The Middle East By Sam Farah For Syria Comment – June 9, 2017 Steven Bannon, the man behind the nationalist policy in the Trump administration, is quoted as saying, “I think strong countries and strong nationalist movements in countries make strong neighbors. And that is really the building blocks that built Western Europe and the United States, and I think it’s wha
Farewell to Ibrahim “Abe” Soliman: A Syrian-American Who Worked for Peace between Syria and Israel – By Geoffrey Aronson
Farewell to Ibrahim “Abe” Soliman: A Syrian-American Who Worked for Peace between Syria and Israel By Geoffrey Aronson For Syria Comment – June 10, 2017 Abe Soliman, Jeff Aronson in middle, and Alon Liel at the Bnot Yaacov Baily bridge over the Jordan River “Hey, it’s Akiva. Who was the old guy with you?” The “old guy” was Ibrahim “Abe” Soliman. He and I had just finished a meeting with Ron Proso
The End of the PKK in Sinjar? How the Hashd al-Sha’bi Can Help Resolve the Yazidi Genocide
This article was published May 30, 2017 by NRT, a media service in Iraqi Kurdistan. The original article is available here . Photos and Images have been added to this re-post that were not present in the original. by Matthew Barber Sinjar is at a pivotal moment of transition and the next phase of its future will likely be determined by what happens over the next few weeks. This environment of cha
The SSNP’s Military: The Eagles of the Whirlwind & Their Emblem – By Jesse McDonald
The SSNP’s Military: The Eagles of the Whirlwind By Jesse McDonald For Syria Comment – June 5, 2017 Nusur al-Zawba’a and Some Figures from Syria Since 2016 The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), like many political parties in the region, also possesses an armed wing. In this case, the SSNP’s military wing is called Nusur al-Zawba’a which translates to ‘Eagles of the Whirlwind.’ The Whirlwind

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Writing Women Back In
This is a guest post from Anjali K. Dayal (Assistant Professor, Fordham University), Madison V. Schramm (PhD Candidate, Georgetown University), Alexandra M. Stark (PhD Candidate, Georgetown University) The gender citation gap in international relations is an important part of today’s disciplinary conversations about diversity : research indicates that scholarship by women is less cited in academi
Duck Forum on Paris Withdrawal
With the news that the Trump Administration has signaled its intent to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, I reached out to a number of leading experts on global climate governance and U.S. climate policy for advanced comment. Contributors include Jessica Green , Jennifer Hadden , Thomas Hale , Matthew Hoffmann , Angel Hsu , Joanna Lewis , Johannes Urpelainen , and Stacy VanDevee
Emancipation through Song: What Can We Learn from Rock Music?
This is a guest post from Sean Kay , Robson Professor of Politics and Government, and Director of International Studies, at Ohio Wesleyan University. The interview quotes appear in his new book Rockin’ the Free World! How the Rock & Roll Revolution Changed America and the World (2017). There is power in rock and roll – an art form that has modernized American values and helped them to ripple arou
Trump’s Unpopularity and What It Means for NATO
In the aftermath of Trump’s visit to Brussels one dynamic has been overlooked. It starts with a basic reality of NATO: when there is a mission, countries are not obligated to hand over military units for the effort . Instead, what happens is this (see chapter two of Dave and Steve’s book ), as one officer told us that “ force generation is begging :” The officers at the NATO military headquarters
Trolling Me Softly
While the Russia probe is expanding to include naïve 36-year old Harvard graduates , pundits all over the world have been worried about elections in other countries. The massive WikiLeaks dump (pun intended) on Emmanuel Macron’s campaign in France did not work, so the next troublesome case seems to be Germany (the UK is fine, they are already leaving the EU). As Quattrociocchi et al. note , the s
Gauging Public Opinion in the Age of Trump
This a guest post from Robert M. Eisinger , a political science professor at Roger Williams University. He is the author of The Evolution of Presidential Polling (Cambridge University Press). Many of us recall reading the website 538 just prior to election day, and noted that there was a 71.4% probability that Hillary Clinton would garner more than 270 Electoral College votes than Donald Trump. D

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The Bigotry of Radiative Transfer Believers
I received the following comment this morning, submitted to the November 2010 "Venus: No Greenhouse Effect" post. The commenter was apparently too impatient to notice that comments were closed to that post a long time ago, and readers directed to submit any further comments to the May 2015 "Venus No Greenhouse Effect Comments Overflow" post. From "Anonymous": "I suspect you got no response becaus
No Clear Thinking Among "Climate" Scientists
I have submitted the following comment to a post about the "global warming pause" on Dr. Roy Spencer's site (the link may not work, if Dr. Spencer did not allow it to appear): "...when the next big warm El Nino occurs, the zero trend will end. And that’s exactly what happened, with the 2015-16 El Nino. A trend is very sensitive to what happens at the end of a time series, and a big (natural) warm

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New comment moderation policy at The Energy Collective
TEC editors decided to moderate (and often edit, without notice or attribution) all comments on the site. This was done without making any announcement, and nobody responds to e-mails. Discussion is open here.
Schooling an idiot
Some wag once wrote to the effect of "Never argue with an idiot; people may not be able to tell which is which." On the other hand, if nobody bothers to school idiots publicly the public may begin to take their nonsense seriously. And on that note.... Over at The Energy Collective a clown calling himself Joe Deely says that the exercise of analyzing California's daily load and generation

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The Existentialist Cowboy: Life, Logic and Meaning:
The Existentialist Cowboy: Life, Logic and Meaning : "An ancient problem is unresolved by 21st Century technology: how can we as human beings learn to think better, to free ourselves from superstition and prejudice, to achieve the full potential implied in our very 'humaness'? Plato espoused an ideal Republic ruled by 'philosopher kings'. However, we don't live in an ideal society. We live in a i

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Gilbert's Syndrome - a user's guide
Last week I received some liver test results from my last follow-up visit to Auckland Clinical Services after clearing HCV genotype 3 in the Phase 3 Epclusa trial mentioned here . ALT and AST were gratifying low at 12 and 15 U/L respectively, albumin healthy at 45 g/L, but total bilirubin was high at 23 umol/L despite direct bilirubin being low at 3 umol/L. The normal reference range for total bi
Fruit and Diabetes - some evidence
It's a commonly discussed paradox of sorts - how can fruit have a negative association with diabetes in epidemiology when it's full of sugar? Two recent papers from China go some way towards clearing this up in my opinion. One is a prospective study of Type 2 Diabetes risk, in which a difference is seen between different classes of fruit; apples are good, tropical fruits - pineapples, mangos, and

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John Horgan and Andrew Weaver, British Columbia's New Government, Closer To The Heart
Written by Grant G ( With a little help from Rush) " And the men who hold high places... Must be the ones who start... To mold a new reality.. Closer to the heart .. Closer to the heart" By the end of July John Horgan and Andrew Weaver will be the architects of not only a new government but creators of a new governance model, at least new to British Columbia...one molded in cooperative progress f
John Horgan, Andrew Weaver...BC's New Government
Grant G and Canadian......BC's hottest political talk... http://www.blogtalkradio.com/canadianglen/2017/06/01/liberals--they-win-some-the-people-win-some the first 25 minutes is Canadian Glen on Nova Scotia's May 30th election, then after a short technical issue I join Glen in slicing and dicing BC's political hot potato.....Who is gunning for Christy Clark, how long will BC Libs be lost in the w
John Horgan, Born to Lead!
originally posted March 11th 2010 ___________ Time to talk class, time to talk about a born leader, someone willing to speak to the truth, someone who puts common sense before political points, a rebel in his own party, a man who is not afraid to rock the boat, lets talk John Horgan. It`s absolutely amazing, John Horgan made an appearance on CFAX radio on Vancouver island, John horgan was asked a
Breaking news....New NDP Leader...A re-run of an earlier post....Lets have an election !
Originally posted Dec 5th 2010 _____________ What a shocker,the complete story here......... Vancouver Sun March 15/2010 NDP Press conference shocker, John Horgan in Carole James out Story by Vawn Pawlmer In a hastily put together press conference, in attendance was John Horgan, Carole James and a handful of other NDP MLAs and all the media, a blockbuster announcement by Carole James followed by
John Horgan, A Man On A Mission
Originally posted Jan 10th 2011 What an interesting day, what are we to talk about, how about the leadership campaigns, last week Dana Larsen announced he was running for leader of the NDP, the pundits all laughed, then Harry Lali threw his hat in the ring and still the politicos laughed, then Nicholas Simons joined the race and still the media laughed and giggled like school girls.... Yes indeed
John Horgan, A Cut Above the Rest
originally posted Jan 10th/2011 Well well well, the big gun is throwing his hat in the ring tonight, perhaps our island readers will want to join his rally....The place..7:00 pm in Langford... For those not familiar with John, he is the current energy critic for the NDP, nobody knows more about what is going on with run of river than Horgan, buy high and sell low, our rivers, our water, our salmo

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10,000 BC
"10,000 BC" is a silly movie. It's got an 8% rating on "Rotten Tomatoes" (meaning it's ROTTEN). I bought it for a few bucks back when I liked to get high and watch CGI. I have a bunch of such DVDs and I now only pull them out when the internet is down or so fucking slow that it might as well be down. I have stuff playing in the background as i work on my comics. And I'm usually high when I'm draw
Terrorism in the UK
So, apparently there was a terrorist attack on London Bridge carried out with a van and knives. A suicide attack. Then there was the Manchester concert bombing. Now, we know that the alleged perpetrator of the Manchester bombing was the member of a family of anti-Qaddafi Islamic extremists and that their war against the Libyan dictator was aided and abetted by British intelligence. This was "blow
Oh Those Fucking "Conservatives"!
I'd never heard of Katie Hopkins before. Apparently she's a British right-wing racist scribbler, known for her "outrageous" outbursts of stupid bigotry. (A UK version of uber-hypocrite shit-stain Ann Coulter.) But she took it too far when in the wake of the Manchester concert bombing she tweeted a call for a "Final Solution" to the "problem" of the existence of Muslim people. Supposedly she came
Operation Medusa
Recently, hysterical Liberal Party hack Montreal Simon had been swooning about attacks against Liberal Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan. Apparently Sajjan wilfully overstated his role in the planning of one of the Canadian Forces' biggest operations; "Operation Medusa." Now, some political columnists who I tend to respect (and you can check this blog and find out that I do respect several of them)

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Geographic Nationalism Solves the Problems of Ethnic Nationalism, Globalism, and Degradation Combined
I want to address two points that have been making the rounds on the web as of late. Both deal with the ideas or policy recommendations of "sustainability nationalism," to coin a phase. Sustainability nationalism is a recent ideology that has a false dichotomy at its core. On the one hand of this dichotomy, people argue that "nationalism (read as ethnic, religious, or linguistic homogeneity) is t

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Memorial Day 2017
Memorial Day is meant to remember those who died in military service. I watched the Memorial Day Concert from the U.S. Capitol on PBS, as I often do. I'm not a fan of schmaltzy stuff, and there's plenty of that, but I do appreciate that for the past several years the concert has told some not-rosy wartime stories and has covered subjects such as PTSD, suicide, and recovering from severe injuries

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Weekly Geopolitical News and Analysis 20170612 Khazarian mafia will make several more tries to start WW3 before their final defeat
Notice to readers Because I will be off the grid in Bougainville this week this report was written three days earlier than usual and will thus not capture all the latest news However as compensation there should be plenty of interesting stuff to report from Bougainville next week The Khazarian mafia, still unable to comprehend their ongoing historic defeat, are fanatically trying yet again to sta
Hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of gold now available to help planet
This Saturday a delegation from the White Dragon Society, including this writer, will be heading to Bougainville in the Solomon Islands to meet with King David Peii II to discuss how to reopen the Panguna mine, which contains about $170 trillion worth of gold and copper. Furthermore, there are six other mine sites under the control of King David and his people on the Island meaning that many hund
US and Russia to put the squeeze on Rothschild controlled France and Germany
The split in the Western power structure between the meritocratic gnostic illuminati and the Khazarian bloodline families was put out for all to see during last weekend’s G7 meeting. For those who follow normal diplomatic protocol, the war of words at and after the meeting, between the Germans and the French on the one side and the British and the Americans on the other, was unprecedented in the
The old guard simply refuses to hand over the financial system so it will have to be replaced
The old guard that hijacked the world’s financial system is stubbornly refusing to cede control over the process of creating dollars, euros and yen to the people of the planet earth. This was evident when Rothschild lawyer and Mossad agent Michael Greenberg visited the Japanese Emperor last week to demand unlimited funds for him and his fellow Khazarian gangsters, according to sources close to th

New in Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!)

(Goodbye No Angel Gregg) Democratic Party Elites Don't Have Ideals (Republicans Do - Very Bad (Criminal) Ones)  Real History of First Black President? (BLS BS) Social Security Always In Black (Rule-Breaking Trumped?) Never a Left-Wing Alternative? (Known Con Man Leads Polls) US World Domination End Seen? (Necessity of Cover Stories) JFK at 100 Tremors (False Flags Bragging Material?) Terrorism & Dot-Com Bubble 2.0
Did someone forget to pay the Saudis their bribe on time? I've said early and often that Obama always seemed more like someone who was chosen than someone who made the hard choices. Paul Street fills us in on the real history of our first black president. “In Chicago…we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard
Embarrassed Enough Yet? It Was a Good Plan (Calling Roger Stone!) Please, Drink the Koolaid (Really. It's Not Soma) There Is No Such Thing As Cyber Security
First off, in self defense, seriously consider this: Truth Has Become Un-American That peace with Russia and China would undermine the justification of the $1,000 billion military/security budget, and that the military/security complex is the American government, is too much truth for most writers to state. Truth is the most rare element in the Western world, and we will not be permitted to

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Hunting Strategies in Central Europe
Hunter-gatherer cultures differed widely in their dependence on technology. The persistence hunters of the Kalahari used almost none, while those inhabiting cold regions required huge survival toolboxes — weatherproof shelters, warm hearths, fur clothing, canoes, specialized weaponry, food storage. In the far north, hunting clans also required dozens of large sled dogs, and feeding them required
Pleistocene Hunting in Europe
Humankind is confronted with an enormous and perplexing riddle. We’ve developed a way of life that is ecologically super-idiotic (but look at our awesome phones!), and pounding the vitality of the natural world (and soon we’ll have self-driving cars!). The great riddle is how did we get into this mess? Can we get out of it? Who are we? Where did we come from? Many books reveal important clues. Bo

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what i'm reading: words on the move by john mcwhorter
John McWhorter is changing my mind about language. And that is no easy thing to do. I'm a grammarphile. Word nerd, language junkie, spelling nut, stickler -- whatever you want to call it. I appreciate proper spelling and good grammar, and I cringe at all the bad grammar all around us. Apostrophe abuse drives me insane. Same for unnecessary quotation marks . Misspelled words on websites, signs, fl
"what kind of dog is that?" part 2: in which we learn more but feel like we know less
You may recall, we decided to have Diego's DNA examined to see what breed mix he is. Here's what the folks at DNA My Dog have determined. Supposedly Diego is 37-74% German Shorthaired Pointer, 20-36% German Shepherd , and 1-9% Collie . I just don't get it. Diego looks nothing like a German Shorthaired Pointer . Other than his prick ears, he looks and behaves nothing like a German Shepherd. He does
"what kind of dog is that?"
At the beach! Diego's favourite place. What kind of dog is that? People ask this all the time. All our dogs have been rescues, but most had recognizable breed markers. We could answer "white Shepherd-Husky cross" or "Lab-Shepherd mix" or "Jack Russell-Fox Terrier cross". Of course those dogs probably had many other breeds in the mix. When you think about it, unless a dog is actually the product o
authors i keep wanting to read but don't
My book list is extremely long, so long that I don't call it a reading list or a to-read list, because I will never read even half the books on the List. It's more like books I would read. A list to narrow down the universe of books to a smaller universe of books to choose from. Working in a library has increased this likelihood that I won't read even a majority of these books -- or decreased the
what i'm reading: the new jim crow by michelle alexander
When I first heard the incarceration of African Americans in the United States referred to as a "new Jim Crow," I thought it must be hyperbole. So did Michelle Alexander, a fact she discloses in the introduction to her book. As Alexander researched the concept, the more she learned, the more she changed her mind. She changed my mind, too. In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colo
what i'm reading: leaving lucy pear
The year is 1917. A teenage girl from a wealthy family is pregnant, the result of rape -- by a man who her mother pushed her to pursue for marriage. Now the girl is being forced to surrender her baby to an orphanage. She has met the person who runs the orphanage, and she cannot bear the thought. The girl devices a plan, a way she can leave her infant daughter to be found by a large family who wil

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First UN Ocean Conference signals global goal out of reach without major new action
New York, 9 June 2017 – On the concluding day of the first ever United Nations Ocean Conference, WWF calls for unprecedented action to achieve the agreed Ocean sustainable development goal. This comes as member states prepare to endorse a call for action that acknowledges the serious threats to the ocean from overexploitation and climate change, and the need for much greater ambition. John Tanzer
Leaders in U.S. Economy Say "We Are Still In' on Paris Climate Agreement
WASHINGTON, DC -- The broadest cross section of the American economy yet assembled in pursuit of climate action, today declared their intent to continue to ensure the U.S. remains a global leader in reducing carbon emissions. Together, these leaders are sending a strong signal to the international community and the 194 other parties to the Paris Agreement about the continued commitment of the U.S
US Intent to Withdraw from Paris Agreement Triggers Renewed Call to Action
GLAND, Switzerland (1 June, 2017) – President Donald Trump today announced his intent to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris Agreement, the world's first global plan to address climate change. This announcement is a call to action to national and local governments, businesses and people worldwide to step up their commitments to address climate change. The historic agreement, approv
World leaders forge ahead on Paris Agreement despite uncertain United States
TAORMINA, Italy (27 May, 2017 ) – Six of the world's largest economies today reaffirmed their support for the Paris Agreement and its continued implementation at a meeting of the G7 in Taormina, Sicily. The meeting was attended by heads of all G7 member nations, and ends today. While the leaders reached consensus on the need to harness economy opportunities and job creation offered by the clean e
G7 must act with urgency to meet climate commitments – and then do more
ROME, Italy (25 May, 2017 ) – Leaders of the world's seven big economies must show the way on climate action by fulfilling the commitments they made in the Paris Agreement, and then doing more. Commenting on the upcoming meeting of the Group of 7 (G7) in Sicily, WWF's global Climate & Energy Practice leader Manuel Pulgar-Vidal , said it was incumbent on the G7 members to accelerate decarbonisatio
Harnessing Nature to Manage Rising Flood Risk
WASHINGTON, D.C. (24, May 2017 - 8:00am ET) – Worldwide, flood risk will continue to rise as cities grow larger and rainstorms become more intense, making conventional engineering insufficient as the sole approach to flood management. " Natural and Nature-Based Flood Management: A Green Guide " released today by WWF, introduces an integrated framework for flood management, drawing on policy, gree

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The Grenfell Tragedy is Class War
The victims of yesterday’s fire at the Grenfell tower in north Kensington are casualties of the class war. There is no other frame, no other explanation that can convincingly thread together the answers to questions about how this unnecessary and entirely avoidable tragedy happened, and why it was allowed to happen . Consider the circumstances: Grenfell residents had repeatedly complained to the
Labour and 21st Century Class Politics
It's taken me almost a week to write about Labour's result, that's how shocked I was. Just as that exit poll plunged millions of Labour supporters into gloomy depression in 2015, the one from last Thursday was an occasion of such jubilation that it will live on in the party's collective memory forever. I know it's been said, but it should always be said : we have not seen such an upset since 1945
2017 Far Left UK General Election Results
Forget Labour's surge, the Tory advances in Scotland, the collapse of Theresa May's majority and her arrangement with the Democratic Unionists. Only one set of results mattered on Thursday, and they were the far left's. As we saw , the bulk of the far left decided to steer clear of the field for a change. In England and Wales, the Communist Party of Britain, the Socialist Party (via TUSC), and th
Touring Tory Turmoil
If you listen hard enough, you might hear echoing off the hills the curdling screams of a Tory party in distress. I cannot lie, as a socialist, a labour movement person, and a Labour Party member I have waited a long, long time to see some proper blue-on-blue action. And what makes it all the sweeter is that a left wing leader on a left wing manifesto administered the initial kicking. With a conf
Advice for the 2017 Labour Intake
Taking a break from politics for a night because. However, it hasn't escaped my notice that 36 new Labour MPs were elected to the Commons last Thursday (well, 35 if you take of Chris Williamson as he is a repeat offender). That means I get to dust this down this (lightly edited) advice again from earlier in the year. Readers may recall its appearance in the wake of Labour's victorious by-election
Are the Tories in Terminal Decline?
Time to return to a recurring theme of this blog: that the Conservative Party is an organisation in long-term decline. On its weight among the British electorate, the demographic profile of its support - particularly along the lines of age, and its long slide from a membership in the couple of million to somewhere between 130k-150k today, the tendency is pronounced and obvious. How does this argu

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Tucker Carlson and Mark Steyn speak for me...
and I thank them. Yesterday has left me very shaken and gotten me thinking some very uncharitable thoughts. Dehumanize and Depersonalize This is what Hitler did with the Jews. Using propaganda he depersonalized and dehumanized them until it became acceptable to beat and kill them and cart them off in cattle cars. Now you have libtards, you know - the ones who espouse love, kindness, fairness, div
Comey the Cowardly...
lies to protect himself and his "friends." Friends is in quotes, because people like Comey don't really have any friends. I sat through the entire session yesterday. Admittedly, I did not pay strict attention as I was flitting about the internet while Comey droned on about his "feelings." He "felt" Trump may not be honest. He "thought" he had to document his discussions with Trump to protect hims
This isn't about Sandy Hook, Megyn Kelly, or Alex Jones...
this week's outrage in full bloom. As the "Russian" hack keeps us all occupied with it's nonsensical attacks on Trump, we're being diverted by the latest Megyn Kelly dust-up over her interview with Alex Jones. An interview, I might add, that is reported to have been snipped and clipped to make Alex Jones look like a complete fool and tries to tie him to Trump. Admittedly, Alex doesn't need a whol
Voting Open for 5th Annual Paul Revere Award...
take a moment to vote. From Curmudgeon of Political Clown Parade: The number of small conservative blogs nominated since the inaugural award presentation in 2013 has tripled. We here at Political Clown Parade are indebted to everyone who took the time to submit the names of blogs who are the modern-day offspring of the American Revolution’s pamphleteers—the brave and resolute men and women who fe
Trump hating Bernie supporter is shooter...
but somehow it's all Trump's fault. What the heck happened to "Love Trumps Hate?" There are actually people on his Facebook page congratulating him for a job well done. Doesn't make him any less dead, though. Yep - no name, no picture. He doesn't deserve any recognition. I'm going to go pull weeds and contemplate the state of our country. Prayers for Steve Scalise, Zachary Barth, and the others w
Newt Gingrich: “Look, this is a frenzied, almost a death behavior by the left...
because they’re in such trouble and Trump potentially represents the end of their world." But first, since everyone else has something to say about Kathy Griffen, I guess I'll throw in my opinion. Many years ago I watched a video of an actual beheading carried out by muslim scum. I thought long and hard before deciding that by refusing to watch it I was deliberately avoiding the truth of a situat

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Sechser & Fuhrmann: Deterrence Yes; Coercion No.
Quote of the week: “How can we suppose that something so monstrously powerful would not, after forty years, compose our identity? The great golem we have made against our enemies is our culture, our bomb culture—its logic, its faith, its vision. … Is it possible that the bomb, in its inventions and reinventions, is not …
Brixey-Williams on the legal implications of the nuclear ban
This is a guest post by BASIC Project Leader Sebastian Brixey-Williams. The legal implications of the nuclear ban: separating fact from fiction The nuclear ban treaty’s draft text is out, and the arms control community is beavering away trying to understand what it all means. I observed the first round of UN negotiations in March, …
North Korean WMD: A Guide to Online Resources
North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs are the topic du jour in the WMD world, but if you’re trying to get smart about the subject, where should you turn? The amount of material never gets any smaller, and you’ve nearly got to be an expert in your own right to judge what’s what. I won’t try to catalogue and …
Daniel Salisbury: A Malaysian Shipyard with North Korean Connections?
This is a guest post by CNS Postdoctoral Fellow Daniel Salisbury. The assassination in February of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur airport has turned international attention to North Korea’s other shady activities in Malaysia. A Reuters investigation has already revealed that a North Korean company has been marketing military radios …
U.S. Leadership on the Rocks
Quote of the week: “He was born with a roaring voice, and it had the trick of inflaming half-wits. His whole career was devoted to raising these half-wits against their betters, that he himself might shine… What animated him from end to end of his grotesque career was simply ambition – the ambition of a …
The 1st Nuclear Ban Draft is Out
Long time reader, first time Wonker. My thanks to the Wonk-Supreme for allowing me to contribute. The president of the negotiations for a nuclear weapons ban convention has just released her first draft of the proposed treaty. As will become readily apparent, I am not an expert on international law, but I am a keenly-interested …

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Economic News , Data & Views....June 10 , 2017.......Quicks Hits for Saturday -2) UK Election Aftermath : Tories Sorting Things Out After The General Election ; Two Key May Aides Resign ; May Vows To Power Forward , But Doubts & Doubters Are Considering Alternatives. 3) France - National Assembly Elections Set Fro Sunday ( First Round ) & Macron's EM Party Set To Perform Well , Local News For France Today. 4) US Politics - Round Up Of News For Saturday. 5) Odds & Ends - Iraq , Syria & Libya In Focus.
UK..... Should I stay or should I go ? fred walton ‏ @fredwalton216 48s 48 seconds ago fred walton Retweeted Guido Fawkes Saturday refresher.... fred walton added, Guido Fawkes Verified account @GuidoFawkes Saturday Seven Up: the most-read stories on the site in election week https:// order-order.com/2017/06/10/sat urday-seven-up-380/ … PoliticsHome ‏ Verified account @politicshome 9m 9 minutes a

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