Monday, January 22, 2018

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US Policy Toward the Levant, Kurds and Turkey – By Joshua Landis
US Policy Toward the Levant, Kurds and Turkey By Joshua Landis January 15, 2018 The State Department has turned the page on Turkey for it no longer views Ankara as a reliable US partner. Many argue that Washington will abandon Syria’s Kurds in order to assuage Turkish anger. I doubt this. Washington expects more anti-US actions from Erdogan. Many in DC believe that Turkey’s rising Islamism, harde
Beit Jann: Myths and Reality
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi The Syrian government’s recent recapture of the last rebel-held pocket in the vicinity of Mt. Hermon (Jabal al-Sheikh) near the border with the Golan Heights- comprising the three towns of Beit Jann, Mazra’at Beit Jann and Mughir al-Mir- has led to much exaggeration and distortion about the matter, primarily emanating from Israeli discourse and supporters of the rebels.

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On Writing the IR Dissertation
Partly in response to Steve Saideman’s post today with advice on dissertation topics, and partly also in response to a pretty enthusiastic discussion of advice to graduate students on Twitter yesterday, I thought I’d write a few things about getting started on the path of researching a dissertation in a field as unwieldy (and a job market as uncertain) as IR. Here is where my perspective comes fr
Beware of Irrelevant Topic? Advising Phd Students to Surf the Wave
In the past couple of days, an academic issue has played out on twitter: are advisers doing a disservice to students and to the creation of knowledge by warning them off of topics that are deemed less relevant, less in the moment? Damned if I know. On the one hand, I have heard plenty of tales of former/current students elsewhere that say that they were interested in a topic, but their adviser to
The top 5 issues in International Politics for 2018
2017 was not a great year for international politics. The sentence I heard the most during conferences and other academic gatherings was that “the global order is in crisis.” Granted. It all started in 2016 with the victory of Trump, Brexit and the No to the Peace Agreement in Colombia. Nationalist ideologies have nothing but grown in 2017, when the victories of Marine Le Pen in France and of Gee
Size Doesn’t Matter
Any woman would tell you that. What matters is what you do with it and whether you know how to use it. Whatever Brobdingnagian thing you’ve got going on there, it’s way more important to have a game plan and understand the sweet spots you need to target. Otherwise, both parties may come away less than satisfied from the encounter. I am talking, of course, about the nuclear arsenal size and the ev
Turning the Lights Out on American Leadership
What a time to be alive. By some accounts, we are witnessing a power transition between the United States and China, with the United States voluntarily relinquishing its claim of global leadership despite having a sizable advantage in hard power over all of its rivals. Evan Osnos, who spent many years in China writing for the New Yorker, has a provocative piece that sums up his view of Trump’s fo
The Return of Geopolitics
Geopolitics has returned with a vengeance. The end of the Cold War wrought a moment in which there was no credible alternative to liberal democratic capitalism. Russia was seemingly fatally weakened, and China was not yet the economic powerhouse it would become. By the late 2000’s, Russia, with power and resources concentrated in the hands of Vladimir Putin, was newly assertive in its near abroad

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Canada: Craven Colony Of The USA
part I ........The Media At Work Written by Robin Mathews , January 2018 David Walmsley, Editor-in-Chief of the Globe and Mail, printed a column on December 29, 2017 entitled “Your trust is the pulse of our journalism” (A13). Vowing to clean up the Globe’s journalistic act (without ever intending to do so, we may believe), Walmsley put his finger on the real problem – for the Globe. By making the
John Horgan-Once Gaining Power Veers NDP Party To Right-Abandons Grassroots-Rolls Electoral Dice-Can Horgan Garner BC Liberal(Conservative) Voters to Make up for Losing BC's Progressive "Activist" Support
Written by Grant G "Will the real John Horgan please stand up" I must say....John Horgan's year end message to me, to all BC's progressive voters, to all NDP issue savvy voters is rather disheartening, to say the least, it's actually more.. John Horgan is telling you to shut up, be quiet and except the status quo, except the New NDP Government, a government that administers better, administers BC

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The US-American Thought and Behaviour Control Project
Back in the day when Obama was running for president I thought that it was the genius of the US-American political system to convince jaded US-American voters that their political system wasn't a complete waste of time. After 8 years of Bill Clinton "triangulating" policy to capture right-wing "independent" voters, betraying the Democrats' progressive base over and over; and after 8 years of the
Black Holes
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/8/16822272/black-hole-looks-like-what That is all.
(Unfinished) Book Review: "Radical Transformation"
Kevin MacKay is a friend of mine, so I was very happy when his book Radical Transformations: Oligarchy, Collapse, and the Crisis of Civilization was published by "Between the Lines" press. Also, as a favour to Kevin, I've decided to post a review of the book here at the blog for my [officially] eleven "followers" and the half-dozen or so casual readers who might pop-in every month or so if there'
Random Thoughts on Canadian Political Scene
Rabble's Karl Nerenberg has a fair and balanced piece on why Trudeau needed to apologize for an all-expenses paid vacation at the Aga Khan's island: The Aga Khan himself does not do business with Canada. The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) does. It functions, in the Canadian context, as a non- governmental organization (NGO), receiving Government of Canada funding to provide services in the d

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Jon Swift Roundup 2017
(The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves) (A Jon Swift lolcat for a little fun. After all, Godwin's "law" was never meant to shut down serious discussion.) Welcome to the 2017 edition! It's been a bizarre year. This tradition was started by the late Jon Swift/Al Weisel, who left behind some excellent satire and would have had a wealth of material this year. He was also

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Bolivia, the US and MS 13
2018 brings us a whole new era in US history. The presidency of Donald J. Trump, and the vicious attacks his critics make on him every day. No doubt he has his faults. But he is not the monster that the left wing extremists in the US make him out to be. For instance, one of his first acts was to sign legislation in support of gay rights. Then he gave away his entire pay on each pay day to a charit

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

(America!) Nothing to see here. Move along. (Smoking Gun Proof of Massive Collusion) Republicans Agree to Hate Knowledge, Democracy and Hippies (Kiss His Ring at Davos?) CFPB Orwellian Rebranding (Lee Camp Exposes) Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose (Being Protected by MSM with Fluff News) Feinstein Dumps Fusion GPS (Get Well Soon, Bob, We Miss You!)
“Oh My God, This Is So F---ed Up:” Inside Silicon Valley’s Dark Side Really? Large Green Bird clarifies this American moment: From the normally rational Digby:"The released transcript of Simpson's testimony contains a good deal of interesting information, all of which will be gone over with a fine-toothed comb in the press." Ha ha. Whatever on the face of the earth could make you think

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The Horse in Human History
Our ancestors evolved on the savannahs of tropical Africa, arid grasslands home to herds of large herbivores. Later, some ancestors migrated out of Africa, into non-tropical Eurasia, a cooler climate for which evolution and experience had not carefully prepared them. They discovered northern grasslands, called steppes, home to herds of gazelles, argali sheep, saiga antelope, reindeer, and wild ho
The Inner Life of Animals
In his bestselling book, The Hidden Life of Trees , Peter Wohlleben revealed the fascinating magic and mystery of trees. He spent his childhood close to nature, where he was fascinated by the family of life. In his adult years, he has been a forest manager in Germany, continually striving to nurture the health of the land, and minimize harms. He has spent much of his life outdoors. Consequently,

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Citations Needed, Episode 22: Trumpwashing -- How the Media Uses Trump to Launder Our Criminal Past
The unique threat and vileness of Donald Trump’s presidency can’t be overstated. Since he took office a year ago, he’s increased civilian deaths in Afghanistan by 50%, increased civilian deaths in Syria and Iraq (surpassing Obama’s death toll in just under 7 months), issued dozens of nuclear threats against North Korea, unraveled the Iran deal, bombed Hezbollah, Iranian and SAA positions in
Citations Needed, Episode 21: Quantifying Negative Media Portrayals of People of Color
According to one 2014 study, 75% of white Americans don’t have any non-white friends. Put another way, white people’s perception of African Americans and other people of color comes primarily from media representations rather than actual interactions. As such, how communities of color are portrayed in the media – from news and opinion pages to movie and TV screens – is tremendously important.

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what i'm reading: what i haven't read and am not reading
Like most avid readers, my to-read list contains far more titles than I could ever read in a lifetime, even if I did nothing but read. Although I add books at a considerably faster rate than I tick them off, I do still keep The List, and I consult it when I'm looking for my next book. I do this with movies, too. I also read books not on my list, much more so now that I work in a library, and my re
required reading for revolutionaries: jane mcalevey and micah white
I've wanted to write about these two books for a long time, but adequately summarizing them is a daunting task. I just want to say to every activist and organizer: READ THESE BOOKS . I don't want to represent the authors' ideas, I want you to read them yourself . No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey and The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution by Mi
new year's un-resolutions
I don't do New Year's Resolutions, but I do enjoy using the revolution of our Earth around the Sun as an excuse to take stock in where I am and think about where I'm going. This is not a Big Promise To Do Something; it's not even goal-setting. In my ongoing work to free myself from a strong tendency towards All Or Nothing , to not paint myself into a corner, to not create Rules which I then use to
rip fred bass, who gave nyc a priceless gift
Is there a New Yorker alive who hasn't spend time in The Strand? A New York City tourist who didn't thrill to their first visit to The Strand? The man who gave NYC this unique gift died recently at the age of 89. Although his father founded the store, Fred Bass made it the book-lovers' mecca that it came to be. Here you can see the ever-present he outdoor shelves. I won't recount my memories of t
in a youth novel about adoption, abortion doesn't even exist
I am reading a YA novel about adopted people connecting with their biological siblings and parents. This is a topic I have written about and have an interest in, and it's supposed to be a very good book: Far From the Tree , by Robin Benway. On page 3, the teenage protagonist knows she cannot raise a child, so she immediately begins the adoption process, interviewing prospective parents during her
what i'm reading: rolling blackouts, graphic novel asking many big questions
I see by the wmtc tag "graphic novels" that I intended to write about graphic books I read and enjoyed...and I see by the scant number of posts with that tag that I have not been doing so! The last wmtc post tagged for graphic novels is from four years ago , almost to the day. In any event, I want to tell you about a graphic book I just finished and really enjoyed: Sarah Glidden's Rolling Blackout

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Bulgarian government silently moves to open almost half of Pirin National Park to construction despite public concerns
Sofia, 29 December 2017 - In a surreptitious move, the government of Bulgaria approved on Thursday alarming new changes to the Pirin National Park management plan that could allow construction in up to 48 per cent of the park, a World Heritage site home to bears, chamois, wolves and centuries-old pine forests. The decision, announced a few days before Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Eur

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The Conservative Party's Eugenics Problem
To find one leading Conservative mouthing off about eugenics is unfortunate, the incid ence of others indicates something else . We know about Toby Young, the self-styled "Toadmeister" and his hanging around with Nazis and paedophile apologists at a eugenics conference. He was joined this week by Ben Bradley, the Tories' new youth supremo for ill-advised blog posts advocating vasectomies for the
Against Outsourcing
Love him or loathe him, John McTernan is a useful fella because he's one of the few commentators the Labour right have got who plainly, and sometimes bluntly, states their collective position on an issue. No shilly-shallying, no fudging. That doesn't mean he's right, as his latest piece in outsourcing demonstrates. What John demonstrates is the managerial/technocratic approach to politics as oppo
Tory Cynicism: A Stoke-on-Trent Case Study
On Twitter a few weeks back, Cllr Dan Jellyman, cabinet cloak room attendant on Stoke-on-Trent City Council invited me to sign a petition pushed by fellow Tory councillor and MP for Stoke South, Jack Brereton. The issue concerns the hourly train service that runs from Crewe to Derby. This also happens to be the train I have the pleasure of commuting to work on nearly every day. The problem with t
Toby Young and the Taming of Higher Education
It's good to see meritocracy alive and well. I mean these days you can get yourself appointed to an august body overseeing "value for money" in Britain's universities without any experience of the higher education sector at all. You can do so even after blagging your way into one of the country's top establishments and sneering at the working class students who, you know, actually had to work to
The NHS Crisis and Stubborn Tory Voters
You know it, I know it, the government tacitly admits it . The NHS is in crisis. In fact, it's in permanent crisis thanks to funding not meeting demand. What we are witnessing are ebbs and flows in how acute the crisis is. Let's recap: all non-urgent operations (some 55,000!) and hospital appointments have been cancelled, and the targets which the (often private) providers who run A&Es have to me
What is the Brexit Stamp Collection?
Oh there are plenty of other things you can call Boris Johnson, a repertoire that has now grown thanks to digging done by Adam Bienkov. But on this occasion this blog is not chiming to the melodious infamy of Johnson's self-importance, instead it's the substance of the miserable article (above) from your snoreaway currant bun: the Brexit stamp collection. You can see for yourself. The Sun are "ca

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Women's March: Foul mouthed demon possessed liberal people - a must see video!...
shocking! See a side of the women's march the MSM won't show you. I'm shocked. Not surprised - but still shocked that people would act like this in public. And they bring their children to witness what looks like demon's writhing in the pits of hell? If there is any doubt in your mind that these people are seriously sick in the head, after watching this video you will be convinced of the distinct
Thank Goodness! The scary government shut down appears to be over...
because the good Lord knows my life has been turned upside down by the thousands of non-essential government workers who were enjoying a paid vacation. Not. More: Art of Manliness: 21 Epigrams Every Man Should Live By and two three of my favorites. Go over there and read the rest: “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” —Marcus Aurelius In Rome just as America, in the foru
Trump's Fake News Awards Today on Twitter and what I discovered yesterday...
I discovered that you do not put a bumper cover for a 2008 Sonata inside the Sonata to which it will affixed in the future. Short Form: I ordered a rear bumper cover off of ebay (already painted in the proper color) for my car. It had to be picked up at FedEx Ground in the Industrial Park in Spokane Valley since it was "oversized" and they couldn't even get it to Couer d'Alene. Two FexEx employee
Memo: FISA Abuse?...
Justice Department,FBI, and Hillary Clinton under the microscope. FISA abuses detailed in memo! And it doesn't look good. Actually, it's probably going to be very, very bad. However, don't get too excited, because the libtards will absolutely ignore it all - and so will a whole bunch of ordinary dirt dwellers. Will it get buried? Wouldn't surprise me one teeny bit. I already checked the top three
CNN's Jake Tapper gets his ass kicked by Stephen Miller...
Fire and Fury a "grotesque work of fiction." I watched almost 100% of the Trump rally's. It was always a good rally when Miller was one of the opening speakers. He is a dynamo. Until about about the six minute mark Miller is calm and then he cranks up and starts to tap dance on Tapper's skull. Finally, Tapper, unable to contain the "Miller Time" outrage cuts him off in petty fury. I have a few qu
President Trump Camp David Press Conference 1/6/18...
"Michael Wolff is a fraud" "Sloppy Steve" I have two things to say: It's sad to see Steve Scalise on crutches, but I guess it's better than the alternative. and I think Donald needs to join me at Weight Watchers. We need to keep him healthy. MAGA

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Mohawk Nation News 'Identity Theft Update'
Read article at Mohawk Nation News .http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/01/22/identity-theft-update/
Music from the Frontlines of Standing Rock at Sundance Film Festival
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At Sundance Film Festival -- 'The making of Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock'
At Sundance Film Festival -- 'The making of Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock' Watch news video below: Article by Brenda Norrell Censored News News video by Deadline Studio at Sundance PARK CITy, Utah -- At the Sundance Film Festival, for the premiere of Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock, Producer Cody Lucich describes his arrival at Standing Rock water protector camps. In this
Dineh Marcus Mitchell 'Morton County shot out my eye at Standing Rock'
By Marcus Mitchell, Dineh Censored News Published with permission Good morning everyone, it is a beautiful morning. I had a dream about what is to come last night. The time has come for all of us to go after North Dakota law enforcement. The events that have affected all of us are for life. We pray to our ancestors, the mountains, the trees, the birds for guidance. I ask my
Rattler Reaches Non-Cooperating Plea Agreement
Rattler (Photo: Jonathan Klett Liminal Films) By Water Protector Legal Collective Censored News MANDAN, North Dakota: A change of plea hearing has been scheduled for Michael Markus, who is known as Rattler, after reaching a non-cooperating plea agreement with prosecutors. Under the agreement, the government will drop the most serious charge and both parties will recommend a sentence of 36
Northern Nevada AIM Leads Women's March -- Photos by Bad Bear
. Photos by Western Shoshone Carl Bad Bear Sampson Women's March in Reno, Nevada 2018 "The Natives lead the March. The Jingle Dress Dancers and Drum group Northern Nevada AIM Chapter," said Western Shoshone Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, photojournalist. Photos by Western Shoshone Carl Bad Bear Sampson, Censored News Watch

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Planet Mimicry: Disk Patterns in Infant Systems
The wrong initial assumption can easily lead anyone down a blind alley. The problem comes across loud and clear in new work from Marc Kuchner (NASA GSFC) and colleagues, which Kuchner presented at the recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington. At issue is the matter of the disks of gas and dust around young stars, in many of which we can find patterns such as rings, arcs a
K2-138: Multi-Planet System via Crowdsourcing
As Centauri Dreams readers know, I always keep an eye on the K2 mission, the rejuvenated Kepler effort to find exoplanets with a spacecraft that had originally examined 145,000 stars in Cygnus and Lyra. Now working with different fields of view, K2 has examined a surprisingly large number of stars, some 287,309, according to this Caltech news release . Digging around a bit, I discovered that each
New Titan Findings from Topographical Map
Cassini’s huge dataset will yield discoveries for many years, as witness the global topographical map of Titan that has been assembled by Cornell University astronomers. The map draws on topographical data of the moon from multiple sources by way of studying its terrain and the flow of its surface liquids. Bear in mind that only 9 percent of Titan has been observed at relatively high resolution,
Pulsar Navigation: Mining Our Datasets
Science fiction dealt with interstellar navigation issues early on. In fact, Clément Vidal’s new paper, discussed in these pages yesterday, notes a George O. Smith story called “Troubled Star,” which originally ran in a 1953 issue of Startling Stories and later emerged as a novel (Avalon Books, 1957). Smith is best remembered for a series of stories collected under the title Venus Equilateral , b
Substellar Objects in Orion
Although I carry on about upcoming observatories on the ground and in space, I never want to ignore the continuing contribution of the Hubble telescope to our understanding of planet and star formation. As witness the latest deep survey made by team lead Massimo Robberto (Space Telescope Institute) and colleagues, which used the instrument to study small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula. At a r
The Plasma Magnet Drive: A Simple, Cheap Drive for the Solar System and Beyond
Can we use the outflow of particles from the Sun to drive spacecraft, helping us build the Solar System infrastructure we’ll one day use as the base for deeper journeys into the cosmos? Jeff Greason, chairman of the board of the Tau Zero Foundation, presented his take on the idea at the recent Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop . The concept captured the attention of Centauri Dreams regular A

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New Year’s bitter Twitter attacks on fact-checking economists suggest UCP will try to make 2018 the Year of the Big Chill
PHOTOS: University of Alberta economist and professor Andrew Leach. Below: Calgary-Fish Creek United Conservative Party MLA Richard Gotfried (Photo: Mr. Gotfried’s Facebook page), UCP Leader Jason Kenney, and University of Calgary economist and professor Trevor Tombe (Photo: U of C). New Year’s in Alberta blew in on a bitter winter wind. That was the weather. […] The post New Year’s bitter Twitte
Today marks the 10th anniversary of AlbertaPolitics.ca – which presumably makes this blog an Internet institution!
PHOTOS: Part of the original header on this blog, back in its St. Albert Diary days, which ran from the last week of 2007 to mid-2009. The blog, of course, has continued under slightly different names to the present. Below: The first post, and my picture with Alberta’s two best premiers, in my opinion, since […] The post Today marks the 10th anniversary of AlbertaPolitics.ca – which presumably ma
Those lame green coroplast arrows point to one thing: the UCP’s cozy relationship with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
PHOTOS: United Conservative Party MLA Wes Taylor with his notorious green coroplast arrow. Below: An example of the fun made of Mr. Taylor by Internet wags; Porky the Waster Hater, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s mascot; Wildrose MLA Derek Fildebrandt and Wildrose Leader Brian Jean in happier times with their lame CTF-style signage; and UCP Leader […] The post Those lame green coroplast arrow
Put the Christ back in Christmas? Never mind that! Keep the marks in the market! Merry Christmas!
PHOTOS & ILLUSTRATIONS: Early opponents of the War on Shopping fight back at Christmastime (Photo: Chicago History Museum). Today consumerism is the state religion of both the United States and Canada, helping to put the marks back in the market. Below: Sol Invictus. Any resemblance to the Statue of Liberty is purely coincidental. Is it […] The post Put the Christ back in Christmas? Never mind th
There was a whole lotta scrambling going on, 24/7 … can the 2015 PMO security breach whodunit be solved?
PHOTOS: Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, at right, somewhere in Iraq in 2015 (Photo: Screenshot of Global News video). Below: The very model of a modern major general, although not necessarily a Canadian one (Photo: Wikimedia Commons), and the Canadian defence minister of the day with some ghostly military personnel passing behind him (Photo: […] The post There was a whole lotta
As the year runs out, here are AlbertaPolitics.ca’s Top Ten developing Alberta political news stories of 2017
PHOTOS: As time runs out on 2017, here are AlbertaPolitics.ca’s Top Ten developing new stories for the year. Below: Opposition UCP Leader Jason Kenney, NDP Premier Rachel Notley, serial conservative screw-up Derek Fildebrandt and Labour Minister Christina Gray. It’s easy to pick list of news stories that caused a big splash the day they appeared. […] The post As the year runs out, here are Albert

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Star Citizen - interview questions - 3D prototype demos
modular 600i for me, please I've been thinking (more and more) that I'd like to go to USA (Austin or L.A. office) and work with the CIG (Cloud Imperium Games) on their still-in-pre-alpha game Star Citizen. And I've thought a lot of how I might approach them, what cunning sort of letter I'd write to entice them, as currently there are no vacancies at the company that might cover the senior level r
Star Citizen - costume weapons ships - the spawning issue
IT MAKES NO SENSE!!! CIG wakes up groggily, as if from some terrible truth hangover, "What now Mike?" Costumes, weapons, ships... I mean, I covered this in my COMMERCIALISE HYPERSPACE post from exactly one year ago but nobody at either CIG or Backers or players of the game seem to want to truly address this basic glitch in the matrix . Where are they coming from? When you try on a suit in a shop.
Star Citizen - unifying the control system - screen relative push pulling
supposedly, Star Citizen is 'doing things that other games don't do' but... seriously? and this is just for one mode of movement They have a clunky interface written by a database designer. They have a problem with doors. They have multiple control mappings per vehicle you're in, personal or space. One of the things I felt was very important (when I was in the games industry) was UNIFY THE CONTROL
Start Citizen - quantum engine - mine or not?
Watch youtuber XenthorX put Star Citizen through its paces in glorious 4K. He's in a light nimble single-seater ship that can really kick up dust. Watch him first Canyon Run like a pro then launch himself into high altitude space. It all kicks off at the 00:10:00 mark in the following video... What would have topped this off PERFECTLY would have been a crescendo-leap into Hyper Drive using the Qua
Star Citizen - when is a ladder - not a ladder
is this a ladder I see before me? Star Citizen is a strange kinda ass-backwards bird. Five years in production, so far, and I still can't work out what it is. Or what IT wants to be. Planetary streaming - check. Micro-pore rendering - check. Quantum drive mechanism - check. Ladders suck... well, they do in Star Citizen. And they always have. Almost every entry/exit (to the smaller ships) involves
Electric Universe - 2018 truths emerge - universe is electric
magnetic fields are formed by electric currents flowing through cold space plasmas R.I.P. nuclear stars, big bang creationism and black hole nonsense, now let's move on researching this electric universe...

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From Jenna Orkin Last three years hottest on record: UN Fake medicines flourish in Africa despite killing thousands How...
From Jenna Orkin Last three years hottest on record: UN Fake medicines flourish in Africa despite killing thousands How a tropical pathogen came to reside in the Pacific Northwest Booby-trapped messaging apps used for spying: researchers NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve Google Has An Actual Secret Speech Police Only one road in the world leads from Russia to North Korea — and
From Jenna Orkin From Senator Tom Cotton to Constituents Who Disagreed with him post . Military Deployed As Jamaica Off...
From Jenna Orkin From Senator Tom Cotton to Constituents Who Disagreed with him post . Military Deployed As Jamaica Officials Declare State Of Emergency Pay for Some New York Private School Chiefs Nears $1 Million Alarming Rise In The Number Of Gun-Store Burgalaries Across America Venezuelan Rebel Cop Oscar Perez Massacred By The Government After He Surrendered NSA "Sincerely Regrets" Deleting Al
From Jenna Orkin Area 51 flights? Top-secret government airline seeks flight attendant TV crew tried to sneak fake expl...
From Jenna Orkin Area 51 flights? Top-secret government airline seeks flight attendant TV crew tried to sneak fake explosive device through Newark Airport security, feds say How China Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Dies In Helicopter Crash Sweden Is Preparing For A "Civil War": PM Wants To Deploy Army In No-Go Zones "We Must Avoid Day Zero" - Cape Town Is 90 Days Away From
From Jenna Orkin The Rover Pipeline spills again, in the same spot where it spilled 2 million gallons last year How the...
From Jenna Orkin The Rover Pipeline spills again, in the same spot where it spilled 2 million gallons last year How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan "He Slipped Up": The One Thing Bannon Told Congress Yesterday That Could Haunt Trump This Is How Drug Lords Make Billions Smuggling Gold To Miami California's Homeless Problem Revealed In One "Incredible" Video FBI Investiga
From Jenna Orkin Grand jury indicts Maryland executive in Uranium One deal ... - The Hill DHS Is Planning To Arrest San...
From Jenna Orkin Grand jury indicts Maryland executive in Uranium One deal ... - The Hill DHS Is Planning To Arrest Sanctuary City Leaders Skynet Now: Pentagon Deploys Terrorist-Hunting Artificial Intelligence Ex-CIA Officer Suspected Of Helping China Assassinate US Informants Arrested At JFK Norway Desperately Needs Large Oil Discoveries Frack, baby, frack. Or risk turning into another shithole
From Jenna Orkin New California declares "independence" from rest of state Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs —...
From Jenna Orkin New California declares "independence" from rest of state Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American and Russian, Part 1 As Petro-Yuan Looms, Bundesbank Adds Renminbi To Currency Reserves As No One Watched, Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks For Corruption Charges 5 Reasons Why Egypt And Sudan Might Be About To Go To War Is Facebook 'Championing' Blasphemy Laws Across Europe?

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BWorld 181, Effects of Supreme Court TRO on RCOA
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last January 18. “The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers… The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.” — Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy Geographical monopolies in electricity distribution are among the last remaining state-created monopolies in the c
WHO must go back to basics
I am reposting this good article by a friend, Philip Stevens, published in BusinessWorld last Thursday, January 18. ------- To maintain relevance, WHO must go back to basics AS one of 34 executive board members of the World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Geneva next week, the Philippines shares a pivotal role in setting the global health agenda for the next year. The WHO’s work has never be
Pictures from UP Diliman, 1985-1987
Mula sa baul ni Fidel Nemenzo at ibang mga friends sa UP, these photos strike nostalgia and happy memories. Below, in one of the group photos of the Independent Student Alliance (ISA) student party during the UP University Student Council (USC) elections. Among the people here: Agnes Camacho, Rowena Alvarez, Alan Ortiz, Marie Sharon Guerrero, Sheila Espine Villaluz, Doby Pineda, Jay Batongbacal,
BWorld 180, Has East Asia liberalized its trade enough?
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last January 11. Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. By rewarding ingenuity… it distributes labour most effectively and most economically: while, by increasing the general mass of productions, it diffuses general benefit, and binds together by one c
Interaksyon shutting down
Interaksyon's "Fat-Free Economics" column was my other home for two years, early 2012 to mid-2014. I wrote several dozen articles there with the support of my editor and friend, Arnold Tenorio. Am sad with this news... My first article in interaksyon, March 2012, Fat-Free Econ 1: Macroeconomics for Micro Concerns My concluding paragraph: "Main lesson: BIG government is bad for the economy. More t
IPR and innovation 40, WHO health alarmism and IPR tinkering
Seven years ago, I briefly surveyed the various offices under the UN and I was surprised to see about 100+ different agencies. See UN bureaucracies -- too many! (December 20, 2010). Among the huge and wide UN offices and bureaucracies is the World Health Organization (WHO). On its website, Media Center, News Releases 2017, these stories seem like we are still in the 90s or even the 80s, or the 70

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Taboo Against Anti-Semitism Must be Lifted
(left, Trump is a crypto-Jew who has won power by opposing globalism. Beholden to Mossad, he belongs to the Zionist branch of the Masonic Communist-Zionist dialectical strategy . Orchestrated by George Soros, Communist Jews & their liberal minions appear to oppose him. ) Organized Jewry clearly has a pernicious political agenda. To stigmatize resistance as "bigotry" is a ruse that will no longer
MLK Holiday is Proof the US is Closet Communist
They never quit because subverting you is their religion. (left, the Jewish owned and operated NewYorker portrays paid Communist Party instigator Martin Luther King arm-in-arm with multimillionaire players protesting the plight of Black Americans.) Monday was Martin Luther King Day in the US. Martin Luther King was a fraud. Below, Alan Stang (1932-2009 ) shows that King was literally a Communist
More People Realize the "Enemy" is Within
The largely positive reaction to Mohammed Moorad's article Muslim to "Red Necks" - We are Not Your Enemy suggests more people are cluing into the fact that Muslims are not the enemy. The Illuminati is. The mainspring of the Illuminati is the central banking cartel which controls business, government, media, education, law and the military using Organized Jewry (Zionism) and Freemasonry as instrum
MI-5 Used Terror Groups to Assassinate Leaders
( Charles Haughey was Irish Prime Minister "Taoiseach" from 1979-1982 &1987-1992) MI-5 tried to assassinate Irish Prime Minister in 1985 "Everyone with half-a-brain knows that Israel, the US, and Britain have used front groups like Isis and Al Nusra Front to wreak carnage in the Muslim world on behalf of Anglo-Zionist interests, but the same interests have long used western terror groups to get r
"War of Civilizations" is a Zionist Scam - Muslim
A British Muslim reader explains the Saudi role in the Zionist (Masonic) plan to start a war between The West (Christianity) and Islam. He exposes the online facilitators of this agenda, Alex Jones and Jeff Rense. by Ash (henrymakow.com) To bring about the Albert Pike's World War 3, the Satanists had to create a violent bloodthirsty "Islamic" cult. The British establishment found an ancient sect,
"Homophobia" Means China Will Eclipse the West
Nothing says the West is slated for decline more than a comparison of China's gender policies with ours. The Illuminati allow the Chinese to be "homophobic," i.e. to protect gender, marriage, and family. "Gay Rights" were never about shielding homosexuals from persecution. They were designed to spread homosexual dysfunction to heterosexual Christian society, destabilizing & rendering it vulnerabl

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Houston Is Being Rebuilt on a Foundation of Wage Theft
To gird themselves against Houston’s freakish sub-40-degree weather, the jornaleros , or day laborers, draw the hoods of their sweatshirts so tight that just their noses peek out. Huddled in groups of four or five across a Home Depot parking lot, the clusters disintegrate when Maurico “Chele” Iglesias approaches. Although Iglesias, an organizer with the Workers Defense Project , has been coming t
Centrist Dems May Not Call Black and Brown Communities Shitholes—But They Treat Them That Way
During a bipartisan meeting this week, President Trump allegedly referred to immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and the African continent as coming from “shithole countries.” Why, he asked, were so many of their people being let into the U.S.? The denunciations came rapidly and from every corner of the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton called the comments “ignorant” and “racist.” Her husband twe
The 38 Dakota Warriors Lincoln Hanged
MANKATO, MINN.—On Dec. 26, 2017, Mankato’s salt-caked streets awoke from their subzero slumber to a thunder of riders on horseback loping down the asphalt of Riverfront Drive. A wave of steam emanated from the horses and riders. Leading the charge was Jim Miller, an elder of the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. Wearing a black cowboy hat, he held the reins in his left hand and in his r
The Trump Admin’s Approval of Medicaid Work Requirements Is a Slap in the Face to the Poor
Less than a month after the GOP passed its $1.5 trillion tax bill that will disproportionately benefit corporations and the super rich, the Trump administration opened the door to a policy that could gut Medicaid. New guidelines issued on January 11 will allow states to require recipients to work in order to receive healthcare benefits through the program. In May 2017, Seema Verma, the Trump-appo
Meet the Coal Miner’s Daughter Taking on Joe Manchin for Senate in West Virginia
On Dec. 27, 2017, self-professed “hillbilly” Paula Jean Swearengin flew from her hometown of West Virginia to the posh enclave of Beverly Hills, Calif., to participate in a forum of reform-minded women running for Congress. But Swearengin, who is running in the Democratic primary for West Virginia Senate against incumbent Joe Manchin, has more in common with feisty fictional Southern union organi
The War on Drugs Is an Abject Failure. Jeff Sessions Just Ramped It Up.
The U.S. tide is clearly turning in favor of marijuana decriminalization. Twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C. have legalized medical marijuana. On January 1, California joined Alaska, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington in legalizing the sale of recreational pot. A Gallup poll completed in October found that, for the first time, a majority of Republicans (51 percent) support legalizing po

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Fukushima Unit 2 in the News Again
TEPCO tells us they have identified the remains of "part of a nuclear fuel assembly" scattered at the bottom of unit 2's containment vessel: CHIKAKO KAWAHARA January 20, 2018 Melted nuclear fuel seen inside No. 2 reactor or at Fukushima plant. The Asahi Shimbun http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201801200017.html A remote-controlled camera captured what appears to be melted fuel inside a reactor
7 Strategies for a Radioactive Wasteland
One of the commentators at this blog observed that there is a concerted effort underway to turn the world into a radioactive wasteland, if we've not already achieved that outcome. I agree and have outlined here the 7-point strategy aimed at this outcome: 1. Strategy One is to reinvigorate uranium mining: Uranium Miners Pushed Hard for a Comeback. They Got their Wish. (2018, January 13). The New Y
Now this is simply getting weird
First Hawaii received a false alarm about incoming ballistic missiles, then Japan when a NHK broadcaster inadvertently issued a similar false alarm: Anna Fitfield (2018, January 16). First Hawaii, now Japan sends a false alarm about incoming North Korean missile. The Washington Post, SEOUL — Japanese public broadcaster NHK mistakenly sent an alert Tuesday warning that North Korea had fired a miss
Last Moments are a WAKE UP CALL PEOPLE!
I cannot get the experience of the people in Hawaii out of my head. I cannot imagine what it would be like to receive emergency broadcasts announcing incoming ballistic missiles. There would be no place to escape or hide. No time to reach family members at work or school. What would go through your head? What would your thoughts be? I cannot imagine the experience of thinking you and your loved o
WTF?
38 MINUTES for some people to get the error message! "Ballistic missile threat inbound" 'This is not a drill': Hawaiians get false alert of missile attack due to worker's pushing 'wrong button' (January 13, 2018). Yahoo. Available, https://www.yahoo.com/gma/not-drill-hawaii-residents-wake-false-alarm-imminent-190106351--abc-news-topstories.html "this is not a drill, take an immediate shelter"
Climate Change and Nuclear Armageddon
I've had a busy week, ending with a workshop on climate change. I never had the opportunity at the workshop to share my thought on the "climate change" paradigm: Although I think climate change is an important and pressing issue, I find it an inappropriate trope for encapsulating the human made apocalypse that seems to be right around the corner, and that apocalypse looks most likely to be nuclea

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Democracy Depends On It
Michael Harris has watched Steven Spielberg's new movie, The Post, the story of The Washington Post's decision to publish the Pentagon Papers. He writes : When the Washington Post printed the story of the Pentagon Papers, it was still owned by the Graham family. One person, Katherine Graham, ultimately decided to press the red button to start the printing presses. No small decision, since it coul
Tales From the Coral Reefs
In our age, coral reefs are the canary in the coal mine. Tim Radford writes : Forty years ago, the world’s coral reefs faced a known risk: every 25 or 30 years, ocean temperatures would rise to intolerable levels. Corals would minimise the risk of death by everting the algae with which they lived in symbiotic partnership: that is, the reef animals would avoid death by getting rid of the algae, de
Are Americans Too Stupid?
The government of the United States has shut down. Republicans are outraged. Richard Wolff writes : Today’s Republican party is built on principle. As a matter of principle, the GOP believes it is the only party that can shut down government as a negotiating tactic. The Democrats’ job is to keep that government open and to cave in to its demands. When one looks at the history of government shutdo
Fear Itself
Franklin Roosevelt told Americans the only thing thy had to fear was fear itself. Tony Schwartz -- who ghost wrote Donald Trump's Art of the Deal -- write s that Trump is fear itself: Fear is the hidden through-line in Trump’s life – fear of weakness, of inadequacy, of failure, of criticism and of insignificance. He has spent his life trying to outrun these fears by “winning” – as he puts it – an
It's All About Power
It's certain that the way the heirs to the Tim Horton's fortune handled Ontario's minimum wage hike will become a classic case study. Linda McQuaig writes : Apparently thinking nobody would find out, the daughter of hockey player Tim Horton and the son of his business partner Ron Joyce, who are married to each other in a plot twist worthy of the Game of Thrones, sent a note to their grossly under
Only Votes Will Do It
Yesterday, Dr. Ronny Jackson gave Donald Trump a clean bill of health. So much for the fantasy that Trump's ill health will remove him from office. Likewise, even if Robert Mueller finds Trump guilty of money laundering and obstruction of justice -- which seems ever more likely -- a Republican controlled congress will not impeach him. It's clear, Jonathan Freedland writes , that only democracy wi

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