Sunday, July 15, 2018

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What Is Sustainable

Following a severe Chinese famine in 1920-21, Walter Lowdermilk (1888-1974) was hired to study the situation, and provide famine prevention recommendations. He worked there from 1923 to 1927. Floods and famines had been hammering the Yellow River (Hwang Ho) basin for 4,000 years, sweeping away millions of lives. The basin is covered with a deep blanket of yellowish, nutrient-rich loess soil, dump
Professor Jared Diamond did research in New Guinea, and became buddies with many natives. One day, a lad asked him why some societies became so rich, and others did not. Why are there haves and have-nots? White folks with European ancestors have done better economically than folks in New Guinea, and many other regions. To a number of dodgy white gits, this was absolute proof of their racial super

A Very Public Sociologist

Is there a point? Among those for whom Donald Trump is a pretty repulsive figure, then the answer is obvious. Simultaneously for the minority who don't think antagonising Trump, a man with a notoriously fragile ego along with a dainty set of hands, is a good idea then no, there shouldn't be any protesting. If you don't respect the man then at least respect the office, so goes the argument. And th
In characteristic style, Boris Johnson made the Brexit crisis engulfing the Conservative Party all about him. From ostentatiously gesticulating at Chequers and dubbing the plan a "turd", to stumping for Theresa May in a speech backing the cabinet's deal with itself, and then plunging the knife into his boss's back half hour before she addressed Parliament on the government's position, he showed h
Ever got in a fight with one hand tied behind your back? Well, that was the situation Labour faced during last year's general election, if The Times is to be believed. To hype a bit of interest in what otherwise sounds like a snoring boring slice of Blairist nostalgia, ex-spinner Tom Baldwin made this observation by way of "Shippers": Corbyn's aides sometimes demanded big spending on Facebook adv
England lost. Ho hum. Why not console yourself with my talking incoherently about Boris Johnson, Brexit, and the long-term decline of the Tory party - among other things? Brought to you courtesy of the PoliticsTheoryOther podcast. Follow it on Twitter , check out their Patreon page and don't forget to give them a like on the old Facebook page .
What a summer 1996 was. It had the tunes, it had the footy. Well, you know what, this summer's going to be even better . No time for a proper post tonight for tomorrow we make history!
A hundred thousand pounding pavements in London and you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a political earthquake. At least if you pay attention to the likes of Andrew Adonis and Alastair Campbell. Strangely, these estimates of significance get nowhere as near a wider circulation when trade unionists and community campaigner trudge through the capital in greater numbers . And, of course, for Campbel
do we care? Well - I sure don't. It appears the main concern is Roe v Wade, because dead babies reign supreme in their minds. No "ladies" - it's not "my body, my choice." That baby has it's very own body, separate from your body. It has it's very own little heart and God has given it a sweet little soul - all it's very own. But you, because you're irresponsible and just hate like hell to be incon
because that's what the "elites" think about you. His skanky paramour, Lisa Page, had originally defied her subpoena from Congress and refused to show up for her interview. She has now agreed to testify privately on Friday. Privately? Don't we, the dirt people, have a right to hear her testimony? Here's what bothers me about this whole mess. Nothing ever happens. It seems as though every member o
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powerful. Watch and post - please and thank you. The Unsilent Minority May 26, 2018 Today I’m kicking off the # WalkAway campaign by releasing my video about why I am walking away from liberalism and the Democratic Party. It is my sincere hope t hat you will join me in this campaign and that we may start a movement in this country- which not only encourages others to walk away from the divisive l
nope. I'm with Melania. And I'm betting that the majority of the country is also with her. The best part of the saying on the back of her jacket as she visited the border is that it's driving the commie/marxist/libtards insane. None of them have stopped to consider if it referred to the poor little children at the border as they claim then why in hell was Melania there? As for the crying kid pict
Something happens when we start making maps of hitherto unknown terrain. A sense of familiarity begins to settle in, a pre- and post-visit linearity, even when the landscape is billions of miles away. To put a name on a place and put that name on a map is a focusing that turns a bleary imagined place into a surface of mountains and valleys, a place that from now on will carry a human perspective.
Red dwarfs have a lot of things going for them when it comes to finding possibly habitable planets. A planet of Earth size in the HZ will produce a substantial transit signal because of the small size of the star (‘transit depth’ refers to the amount of the star’s light that is blocked by the planet), and the tight orbit the planet must follow increases the geometric probability of observing a tr
When I was a boy, I used to scan shortwave frequencies with an old Lafayette receiver in search of distant stations. When I learned that Jupiter was a radio source, my passion for radio DXing took a new turn, merging with my interest in astronomy. When I tried to log the planet’s violent outbursts, I learned with a little digging in the library that Jupiter could be detected from about 15 MHz up
Ever since I started Centauri Dreams in 2004, I’ve been talking about the question of infrastructure within the Solar System. My thinking has always been that while we will doubtless get off interstellar missions beginning with robotics on an ad hoc basis during this century, the prospect of a sustained effort will require a built-out infrastructure that will help us create and test out deep spac
One reason we look so often at sail technologies in these pages is that they offer us ways of leaving the propellant behind. But even as we enter the early days of solar sail experimentation in space, we look toward ways of improving them by somehow getting around their need for solar photons. Robert Zubrin’s work with Dana Andrews has helped us see how so-called magnetic sails (magsails) could b
Kelvin Long is a familiar face on Centauri Dreams, the author of several previous articles here and many publications in the field of interstellar studies. The creator of Project Icarus, the re-design of the Project Daedalus starship of the 1970s, Long was a co-founder of Icarus Interstellar and went on to head the Initiative for Interstellar Studies . He also served as editor of the Journal of t
In my last post I set out the official Government account of the events in the Skripal Case. Here I examine the credibility of this story. Next week I shall look at alternative explanations. Russia has a decade long secret programme of producing and stockpiling novichok nerve agents. It also has been training agents in secret assassination techniques, and British intelligence has a copy of the Ru
We are continually presented with experts by the mainstream media who will validate whatever miraculous property of “novichok” is needed to fit in with the government’s latest wild anti-Russian story. Tonight Newsnight wheeled out a chemical weapons expert to tell us that “novichok” is “extremely persistent” and therefore that used to attack the Skripals could still be lurking potent on a bush in
Marina Hyde’s vicious and spiteful attack on Susan Sarandon and the Green Party points to the real danger of anti-Trump protest next week being hijacked by the neo-con warmonger franchise. The idea that those of us who do not want arch warmonger Clinton in power are therefore supporters of Trump is intellectually risible and politically dishonest. Yesterday the OPCW reported that, contrary to US
Just as the World Cup had forced the British media to grudgingly acknowledge the obvious truth that Russia is an extremely interesting country inhabited, like everywhere else, by mostly pleasant and attractive people, we have a screaming reprise of the “Salisbury incident” dominating the British media. Two people have been taken ill in Amesbury from an unknown substance, which might yet be a cont
Even I was taken aback by the sheer scale of British active involvement in extraordinary rendition revealed by yesterday’s report of the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. Dominic Grieve and the committee deserve congratulations for their honesty, integrity and above all persistence. It is plain from the report that 10 Downing Street did everything possible to handicap the work of
A NATO summit approaches that brings Donald Trump to Europe and then on to these shores, and brings the usual clamour for more of the taxpayers’ money to be given to arms manufacturers. Yet NATO is a demonstrably useless institution. It’s largest ever active military deployment, for 12 years in Afghanistan, resulted in military defeat throughout 80% of the country, the installation of a pocket re
With many Albertans apparently in a mood to take Jason Kenney’s claim at face value his year-old United Conservative Party is renewed, reformed and ready to govern, you can’t be too careful about evidence that the same-old-same-old Tory entitlement continues to lurk on the Opposition benches of the Legislature. Not that it sounds as if a little nomination ballot-stuffing scandal in Calgary would
If the events of the past few days in Europe make anything clear, it’s that sucking up to Donald Trump is not likely to get you very far, except possibly somewhere worse than you’d have been if you’d stood up to the man. But Jason Kenney, former Harper Government Cabinet minister and leader of Alberta’s United Conservative Party, decided to double down yesterday and defend the efforts of Innisfai
It’s Friday the 13th, and after two by-elections yesterday in central and northern Alberta, supporters of the province’s NDP government are awaking to a new reality that’s pretty much the same as the old reality. That is, rural Central Alberta is deeply Conservative country pretty well no matter what, and no matter how bad the Tory candidate may seem to horrified observers elsewhere, and the nort
While much of the world looked on in dismay as the results of the Brexit votes rolled in two years ago last month, Jason Kenney Tweeted his congratulations to the people of Britain for “choosing hope over fear by embracing a confident, sovereign future, open to the world.” How’s that looking for them now? With the United Kingdom roiled in chaos, edging toward a post-European recession or worse, s
I’m sure the United Conservative Party will say I’m wrong, so can somebody please explain to me how the UCP’s rural crime “task force” proposal to let rural property owners defend themselves and their property with firearms is not the same as the stand-your-ground” laws in the United States that encourage gun owners to respond to real and imagined crimes with deadly force? This particular UCP pro
Many readers would be offended if someone were to suggest the Roman Catholic Church was a former terrorist organization with cult-like attributes. Still, wouldn’t terrorism be a fair description of the Inquisition, the brutal effort to root out heresy carried out from the 12th to the early 19th centuries by what was effectively a non-state actor, as we say in the bland militaristic bureaucratese
From Jenna Orkin Record Heat Wave This Week Mickey Huff of Project Censored Interviews Me and Jon Gold, Author of We Were Lied to About 9/11 (now available in transcript form) Ontario Cancels 758 Renewable Projects Cuomo's Biggest Donors Rake in Millions from ICE Assange Legal Victory As Court Orders Safe Passage Out of Embassy Pence Family Failed Gas Stations Cost Taxpayers 20M Japan is reversing
From Jenna Orkin Nights Are Warming Faster Than Days. Here's Why That's Dangerous. U.S. Is Set to Become World’s Top Oil Producer, Government Says Latin America's largest solar park turns Mexican desert green Probe into Samoa infant deaths after vaccine jabs Bill Could Send Antifa Protesters to Prison for 15 Years 5 Of The Most Controversial Moments From Peter Strzok's Chaotic Testimony To Congre
From Jenna Orkin Heatwave Spreads to Arctic So Dry in Michigan that Starting Lawnmower Can Cause Fire CFTC Approves Record $30 Million Award For JP Morgan Whistle-Blower Senate Confirms Brian Benczkowski, Justice Official Who Worked for Russian Bank US "Asleep At The Wheel" – As Nuclear Industry Faces Collapse Ah, if only this were happening for the right reason! Ruppert Murdoch Given Got Clearan
From Jenna Orkin A desperate hacker tried selling US military files for $150 — only to find no one wanted them Sarah Palin says she was 'duped' into participating in a sham interview with Sacha Baron Cohen, alleges she was dropped off at the wrong airport Comment: She’s in good company (Ron Paul, Noam Chomsky, former Secretary General of the UN Boutros Boutros Ghali… Google “Ali G.) Standing Rock
From Jenna Orkin Antarctic Melting Three Times Faster Than Previously Thought video . NYMag: Trump/Putin Collusion How Fracking Companies Use Facebook Surveillance to Ban Protests People with autoimmune diseases may be more likely to develop psychosis, according to new research …Except for the ones such as rheumatoid arthritis who are LESS likely. Tesla Planning Shanghai Factory With Capacity For
From Jenna Orkin Monsanto’s First Trial Over Allegations Roundup Caused Cancer How US Policy in Honduras Set Stage for Today's Mass Migration Felony Eavesdropping Charge For 13-Year-Old Who Recorded Illinois School Principal When It's Too Late to Stop Fascism According to Stefan Zweig Erdogan Reelected As President Of Turkey According To State-Run Media, Opposition Claims Manipulation How US Poli
Elon is arguably the greatest human of the 21st Century Highhandedly he has done more to push Civilization down the field than the greatest Empires and corporations Without Tesla there is no electric car revolution today it would still be like the fuel cell always five years away His powerwalls will destroy the stupid grid and make every human the master of thier own domain Last but not least Spa
Fantastic Sci Fi can no longer be original because someone has already been there the imagination is exhausted so for amusement we must watch this genre become historical For example Foundation and Empire written in 1945 predicted Trump In addition to this internal corruption, an external threat arises in the form of a mysterious man who is known only as the Mule. The Mule (whose real name is nev
MECHANICAL TIME There are no seconds, no minutes, no hours or days of the week. There are no months of the year, no decades. it is not 2018. It is not 5778. It is not 4716. Day breaks, the sun rises, the sun sets then there is the night. The seasons do not fall into convenient groups. Natures time is not mechanical. Mechanical time is an illusion. "If victory over nature has been achieved in this
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on July 05, 2018. When developing economies attract multinational companies, they reap benefits. These developing economies get to have more commodities and services that otherwise would remain untapped for a long time. And, as a result, they also earn more revenues, taxes, and royalties even if these economies spent very little. Moreover, technology transfer
This is not from The Onion, this is from his twitter account, I simply copy-pasted. A friend suggested that perhaps Elon associates himself with "voluntary socialism". For me that term is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms, it does not exist. Socialism by nature is never voluntary, it is done by coercion, by force. The state will socialize the means of production -- land, factories, etc, by fo
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last July 02, 2018. “For every action, there is an equal opposite reaction.” — Isaac Newton (1642 — 1726) 3rd law of motion. “Every government intervention creates unintended consequences which leads to further intervention.” — Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973, Austrian economist) My addition to the two related statements above is: For every government intervention
Last Tuesday, July 10, I was one of several guests on "Agenda" hosted by Cito Beltran. It was shown at 8-9am, replay at 12-1pm, then 4:30-5:30pm. Very quick interview by , about 2 minutes, Cignal TV. Banned within school cafeteria/canteen is fine because it is the school's prerogative what can be sold/not sold inside its premise/campus. Bigger issue is if these should also be banned in stores out
* This is my column in BusinessWorld on June 28, 2018 Fans, allies, and supporters of Dutertenomics continue to cite high world oil prices as the reason for the Philippines’ rising inflation rates. As expected, they maintain that tax hikes imposed by the newly implemented revenue legislation — Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) — have little impact on inflation. The numbers for man
Last month when President Duterte went to Seoul, he spoke before Filipinos. After his speech, he invited some Filipinas, Duterte supporters of course, to come up stage. After a brief chit-chat, he kissed one Pinay lips to lips on stage, in front of local and foreign media. The Pinay is married to a S. Korean. And many versions of the "Duterte kiss" have sprouted, like this. Another satire news, n
(Camp New World Order, 1977 confab) Mankind has been subverted by a satanic cult, the Illuminati based on Cabalism. Bohemian Grove has flown under the radar but each year the Illuminati meet during the third week of July for depraved rituals that ensure conformity to their sick agenda. 2018 is no exception. "My purpose at the Grove was sexual in nature, and therefore my perceptions were limited t
When civil war comes to America, no one will be surprised. Andrew is a retired attorney living in Texas. by Andrew (henrymakow.com) In his 1928 classic, PROPAGANDA , Edward Bernays explains how America's Public Opinion is controlled: "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate th
Putin inaugurated by Archbishop Kirill "At present, Russia appears to be feigning a return to conservatism and Orthodoxy as part of its two-tiered hyper-normalization deception. But make no mistake, it is all a ruse. The crypto-Soviet power is no friend to the Church, to the West, nor to the Russian people." (Disclaimer- I don't see the Communist threat coming from Russia. I see it coming from th
Iran's leaders are veterans of the Iran-Contra Affair where Israel sold $500 million worth of arms to Iran in return for oil. The Ayatollahs are billionaires using Islam to hold Iran's population hostage. The warlike rhetoric is in Israel's interest. Part 1 - Iran Does Not Oppose Jewish Power Elite Shayan Zarrin is an Iranian American Iran Not an Enemy of the Jewish Elite (About 40 references can
Left, the Shah criticized Jewish power publically in 1976 for CBS' 60 minutes with Mike Wallace The same drug trafficking, money laundering Rothschild Banking Syndicate that rules the West also rules Iran. "The Ayatollahs were on the CIA and MI6 payroll, and they were the ones who recruited the street thugs from the Iranian underworld who were instrumental in creating agitation against Mossadegh.
Umar, a Pakistani writes: " Iranian Jews are not only the poster child of the Anti-Zionist movement among the Jews but according to Islamic prophecy, they are also the sleeper agents and the torchbearers of the NWO Messiah ." (Disclaimer- Iran's role in destroying CIA-Mossad-created ISIS tends to contradict this view of Iranian collusion with the NWO. However, it does seem that all the politician
New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is a democratic socialist. Nixon, who is challenging incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo, wrote in an email to Politico that some “more establishment, corporate Democrats get very scared by this term but if being a democratic socialist means that you believe health care, housing, education and the things we need to thrive should be a basic right not a privil
The paper the forms are printed on at City Hall. The desk your child sits at in math class. The books in your local library. Amazon has begun to profit from all of these products, extending its business from consumer retail into government procurement, according to a new report released today. As detailed by Stacy Mitchell and Olivia LaVecchia of the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (I
For most major media outlets, the events of the past week have yielded a straightforward narrative: Donald Trump, at the behest of his puppet-master in the Kremlin, tried and failed to destroy the NATO alliance and bring down the post-war liberal world order, the latest in a series of treasonous actions that will culminate in his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday. But there is ano
Holly Lindsey, 52, has been a licensed home child-care provider for 22 years and a union member for 12. She joined SEIU 925 when the local formed in 2006. “At the very beginning, the union went house to house to recruit us,” recalls Lindsey, who runs a home day care and preschool near Longview, Wash. In time, the union began holding regular meetings. Working from home can be isolating, so Lindsey
It’s easy to be hyperbolic about Ben Jealous’ victory in Maryland’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. Last winter, Mother Jones called it maybe “the most important election of 2018.” In truth, it isn’t even the most important race that Ben Jealous, the winner, will compete in this year. That will take place in November, when Jealous faces the incumbent Republican, Larry Hogan, whose approval numb
Residents of Puerto Rico are confronting the prospect of a fresh hurricane season, which will likely bring five to nine hurricanes, including one to four major hurricanes. The island, badly battered by last year's Hurricane Maria, still hasn't recovered. We continue to learn more about how dire the disaster has been. A recent academic study showed that the death toll from Maria was likely about 4

Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology

Source: El Sol (Argentina) / Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía Date: 07.11.2018 Argentina: "Trumpet Sounds" Heard Over Mendoza Social media users claim that in the early hours of Tuesday, disquieting sounds were heard for which no explanation can be found. The phenomenon has occurred in other provinces in the past. To some it was noise caused by speakers and trumpets. Others speak of noises simila
Source: Siete Dias Magazine #35 - August 3, 1965 Date: 07.12.2018 Our friend and colleague Marcelo G. Metayer , whose photographic work we have been pleased to feature in Inexplicata, shared the following photograph with us. It appeared in Argentina's Siete Dias magazine (which went on to become Argentina's equivalent of LOOK or Paris Match). "At this point," Marcelo observes, "It was still a sup
Source: PLANETA UFO and El Comercio (Peru) Date: 06.13.2018 An article by Miguel Garcia Medina Peru: A Mysterious Flying Object over Miraflores (1950) The enigmatic subject of UFOs is no stranger to the pages of the El Comercio newspaper, as evidence by a copious amount of articles in our files. The year 1950 records considerable information about unidentified flying object sightings in many part
Argentina: The Spaceships of Lara By Luis Burgos (ICOU & FAO) There are times when those of us who have spent years researching the UFOs, having covered thousands of kilometers in search of the phenomenon, having heard countless stories of all sorts, formulated dozens of hypotheses and evidenced over a thousand imprints of alleged landings in our fields, can still be surprised. Every so often the
The following article is taken from Issue #2 of the INEXPLICATA JOURNAL (Winter 1998). Our friend and colleague Luis Burgos of the Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía (and later of ICOU as well) provided us with this interesting report on the sobering connection between UFO activity and cattle mutilations. UFOs Also Kill Cows That Aren't Mutilated by Luis Burgos Introduction One of the greatest enig
Source: www.lateja.cr (Costa Rica) and Planeta UFO Date: 06.25.18 Article by Franklin Arroyo Costa Rica: CE-2 - UFO Kills Car Engine, Tampers With Odometer and Clock, Leaving Numbers 3-3-3 Behind Architect Alejandro Sáenz had a very strange experience, one that would give the hardiest soul goosebumps. He was heading to inspect a construction project in his car when the vehicles odometer and clock
I read a very interesting news story recently reporting on a study that concluded that air pollution plays a major role in causing diabetes AFP (2018, June 29). Air pollution plays significant role in diabetes: study. Yahoo. Available https://www.yahoo.com/news/air-pollution-plays-significant-role-diabetes-study-055031393.html Paris (AFP) - Air pollution caused one in seven new cases of diabetes
Yesterday I saw in the Wall Street Journal an interesting article discussing the huge transfer of housing wealth that occurred in the wake of the recession and the renewed push by financial firms to gobble up housing, particularly in the sunbelt: Dezember, R. & Kussito, L. (2018, July 10). Rental investors gamble on affluent tenants. The WSJ, p. B1-2. The number of home purchased by major investo
Perhaps we can leverage the incredible coordination and cooperation that made possible the rescue of all 12 boys and coach from Thailand's flooded caverns to rescue endangered children everywhere. https://www.yahoo.com/news/rescuers-gear-final-push-save-remaining-five-thai-023625316--sow.html It is my belief that CARE for our children - not just our biological children but all children (including
It was nice to see some good news. The French juridical decision that fraternity shields individuals who for humanitarian (not economic) reasons help illegal immigrants is a small victory for those of us who value life and empathize with the plight of migrants driven from their home by war, repression, and the hope of a better life for themselves and their children: Yves Clarisse (2018, July 7) F
...the one ring that would bind them all. To the best of my knowledge, Plutonium remains at the pinnacle of fissile materials. It is highly combustible and highly toxic. It is actively synthesized in breeder reactors and isolated in reprocessing in many countries: International Panel on Fissile Materials. Fissile Materials Stocks http://fissilematerials.org/home/fissile_material_stocks.html Produ
Jim Green (2018, July 3) Aboriginal First Nations and Australia's pro-nuclear 'environmentalists' Online Opinion, http://onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=19825&page=0 The plan to turn South Australia into the world's nuclear waste dump has lost momentum since 2016 though it continues to be promoted by some politicians, the Business SA lobby group, and an assortment of individuals and lobbyis

Northern Reflections

On Friday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the indictment of 12 members of the Russian GRU for attempting to sabotage the American election. Donald Trump knew the indictments were coming. But, when they were announced, Trump was unimpressed. Andrew Coyne writes : “I think I would have a very good relationship with President Putin if we spent time together,” Trump mused the next m
Yesterday, Federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen and Ontario Minister of Children, Community and Social Services sparred with each other over refugees. It's getting pretty ugly. Martin Patriquin looks at the numbers: In 2017, the Canadian Border Security Agency processed 11,400 asylum claimants at the country’s land ports of entry, a more than 170-per-cent increase over 2011, according to sta
Boris Johnson has let it be known that he admires Donald Trump. And Donald Trump has returned the compliment. William Davies writes in The New York Times : “I am increasingly admiring of Donald Trump. I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.” These comments, subsequently leaked, were made last month by Boris Johnson, who was then Britain’s foreign secretary. Neve
John Ibbitson warns his readers that Ottawa and Queens Park are about to embark on a battle royal: One of Mr. Ford’s first acts as Premier was to scrap his Liberal predecessor’s cap-and-trade carbon tax. In response, Mr. Trudeau is vowing to impose a carbon tax on Ontario and Saskatchewan (which also opposes the tax) on Jan. 1. Where we live, the Ford government has cancelled a wind farm, which w
The next episode of the Trump Show -- "Blowing Up NATO" -- is being broadcast today. Donald Trump has his script. But if the members of the alliance hang together, it will not go as Trump has planned. NATO, however, isn't the climax. It's Trump's meeting with Putin. And there are at least a couple of reasons Trump has made the summit with Putin the real show. To begin with, Trump and Putin are bi
For those who don't live on a seacoast, rising oceans mean little -- unless you put the issue in dollars and cents terms. Tim Radford, who was the science editor for The Guardian for twenty five years, does just that: The rising seas’ cost may be $27 trillion a year in U.S. dollars for the world by 2100 if it fails to meet the UN’s 2ºC global warming limit by then, with sea level rise of, at its
I have been doing some renovations in my home for the last while.. And yesterday while I was doing some drywalling, I turned on the Talmudvision in the background and of course the Jew spew news channel that I had on was spewing a lot of crap about the bullshit NATO meetings in Europe and one of the "analysts" that the bullshit Jew spew new network had on started harping about the fraud "war on te
I put in my last article here at this blog that I have been a bit annoyed that very little updates have been coming my way in terms of the kangaroo court "trial" of both Monika and Alfred Schaefer in Germany... But I may have spoke too soon, for no sooner than right after I put up my last post that contains that important video summary of the first two days of this farcical "trial", I FINALLY got
* I have just had a most exhausting day doing major home renovations.... But I can finally see some light at the end of the tunnel as most of the major work is now done in terms of drywalling and repainting... Now comes the fun part of getting the new decor put into place..... I will be a bit 'late' once again tomorrow in getting my weekend "rant" out due to the need to get a bit of rest.... I wa
I have been saying for several decades now that NATO has long out lived its usefulness... It was created in 1948 under the "fear" of this "big and bad" Soviet Union (which was unknown at the time to be funded and operated by Wall Street) being this ominous "threat" to the planet... The whole goal at the time was supposedly to unite all of the "weaker" nations of Europe under an alliance to prevent
Monika and Alfred Schaefer are now entering the third week of their so called "trial" in Germany on the ridiculous charges of "inciting hate" and "Holocaust denial"...... I have of course put up every update that I have received so far concerning this farcical kangaroo trial thanks to the efforts of Lady Michel Renouf who is in attendance for this fiasco..... But at the moment there are now update
Yes, I am once again playing 'catch up' with what has been happening in our sick world... This is of course due to my projects on the go and my inability due to lack of time to sit down, surf the internet, and come up with articles at this blog... I am stuck with having to write articles when I have the time! It has been a while since I last filed a report here about the real situation in Syria...
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In this guest post, Terry Verhoeven shares his concern that pending legal action in the name of free speech may instead cement in place legal precedents outlawing so-called "hate speech." ______________________________________________________________________________ After having spent the week seriously considering contributing to the Free Speech Coalition legal challenge, I want to share my reas
"It is in their teens and early twenties that most people seek philosophical answers and set their premises, for good or evil, for the rest of their lives. Some never reach that some; some never give up the quest; but the majority are open to the voice of philosophy for a few brief years. These last are the permanent, if not innocent, victims of [post]modern philosophy." ~ Ayn Rand . Content is c
Having achieved its $50,000 target, NZ's newly-minted Free Speech Coalition has proceeded immediately into battle by demonstrating that it knows very little about free speech. Free speech does not require that you, or the state, provide anyone with a microphone. It simply means that the state must refrain from banning anyone from using their own. In the case being litigated by the Coalition, the
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"Before the U.S. election, I was asked to compare Trump to Hillary. Isn't Trump better? "At the time, I said he will implement a similar socialist disaster to Hillary. Maybe it will be slightly less disastrous (too early to tell). However, the key distinction is that he would do so in the name of capitalism . He would make people hate capitalism. How could people even know that he was implementin
by russell In the SCOTUS post, Sebastian raised the problem of the Supreme Court making rulings that result in laws and policies that do not reflect the will of the people, i.e., do not align with what the majority of people want. Which is something to be concerned about. If governance drifts too far from the popular will, we have trouble. Then, this , from the Washington Post, appears in my in-b
by Ugh As many (some?) of you know, I was "lucky" enough to take Constitutional Law from Prof. John "Torture? Hell yeah!" Yoo at Berkeley, back before his tenure at OLC in the Bush Administration. This was Con Law I, which mainly focused on things like separation of powers, the rights and duties of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, and not, e.g., the Bill of Rights, due process,
by liberal japonicus Ok, that's probably overstating it. But I realize that not everyone is a football fan or even a sports fan here. But even if you aren't, read this LGM post and the attached links and get back over here to chat. Fascinating stuff.
--By Sebastian Justice Kennedy resigning is a horrible blow. As a gay man I wouldn't say that he always had our back, but he was an ally (in the sense of having very different priorities, yet still working together with us) nonetheless. If we are going to get through all this we probably need to accept even reluctant sort-of allies. In the parts of the blogosphere and social media world I inhabit
by Doctor Science Sneakers September 1999 - June 15, 2018 We had to say good-bye to Sneakers on Friday. He'd clearly reached the end of the line, he wasn't eating and was down to skin and bones. He had a really good run: more than 18 1/2 years is a full life for a cat, and he had very few illnesses or problems before the last few months. We loved him (especially me), and he loved us (especially m
by wj For the past week, we have mostly been focused on the family separation fiasco. Understandably. But in some senses this has been just another distraction effort (after all, they have now gone 3 steps forward and 1 step back; probably without general notice of the net movement). Meanwhile, there have been other things going on which will end up having a bigger impact on more people, both in
My thoughts? Like any/every other dog and pony show this alleged summit is going to be all show and no substance at all! The NGO's will steal the day. They've got protests all ready to go. They'll get the majority of the news coverage. They'll blather on about human rights etc., All of it meaningless of course, but, it's what NGO's exist to do! Trump and Putin will be derided. For perception mana
Choosing to intentionally ignore all the white noise (meaningless or distracting commotion, hubbub, or chatter) about the NATO summit and opting instead to cut to the chase ( focus on what is important) immediately below... Trump claims victory on NATO Military Spending & Trump signs a NATO declaration at odds with his own statements- Strongly condemning Russia Trump at NATO Summit Despite his at
RAND : Military Industrial Complex Linked- Time to make a deal on Syria? Trump Putin Summit Pending “Although U.S. leverage is much diminished by the Assad regime's recent gains, there are still opportunities for Washington and Russia to achieve a settlement that preserves some U.S. interests” I was thinking just that with regard to the southern front- The US had just lost some leverage in any ne
Yah, last week was hot. That said it’s July so heat is what should be expected. Years ago it used to be hotter for longer periods of times. Hubby and I have had a veggie garden for 26 years now. We used to plant cool weather veggies earlier (April)- but for the past several years it’s been to cool to do that- Soil to cold and wet. For that matter it’s been too cool to plant tomatoes, eggplant and
Was hoping to get to this last week- no such luck- Still worth reading. I'm omitting the parts about the recent success in Daraa including the taking of the very strategic border crossing between Jordan and Syria since that was all covered in friday's post: What of Daraa? Israel Warns Syria- "Rebels" Reach Deal with Russia Without further adieu... Pepe Escobar- Asia Times excerpts in blue "Ahead
RAF Bombed Syrian Forces at Border of Iraq/Jordan A Typhoon fighter jet dropped a 500lb laser-guided bomb during a firefight last month near the intersection of Syria’s border with Iraq and Jordan. A Syrian army officer was killed and seven others were wounded, according to local reports. NYpost British forces have bombed Syrian troops loyal to the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, for the fi

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It was clear from the minute he was appointed that Scott Pruitt was a wildly inappropriate choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA.) Last Thursday, after months of public pressure and outrage, he finally submitted his resignation. Though we know the work continues, we want to take a moment to celebrate this win. Over the past year, PAN supporters joined hundreds of thousands acros
Successfully ending reliance on hazardous pesticides can only happen by creating healthy, just food and farming systems. And this means for all of us. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
It's been clear for years that the pesticide industry has too much influence on public officials and the policies they set. Veteran journalist Carey Gillam’s new book Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science digs into one egregious example of this: Monsanto’s (now Bayer) aggressive efforts to protect their RoundUp Ready seed and pesticide empire. Through investi
Last month, the Bee Informed Partnership (BIP) published results from their annual survey of managed honey bee colony losses in the United States. With the combination of increased overall pathogen load, poor nutrition, habitat loss and pesticide exposure all contributing to bee declines, the results were — unsurprisingly — not comforting. But looking past the numbers for this year’s survey, the
Last week, after an early morning call with international colleagues, I had a moment to chat with my friend Susan from PAN Germany. She asked what in the world is going on in the U.S. these days. It was hard to know where to begin. The constant firehose of chaos and crisis that is now our national politics is so exhausting — and the root causes so complex and deep — that describing “what’s going
We know that ending reliance on hazardous pesticides can only happen by creating healthy, just food and farming systems — and this means for all of us. One way we can do this? A safer, more transparent food chain. This week, people across California are convening to learn more about and take action for Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) standards. The EFI program is designed to signify that workers
Let me qualify that. Donald Trump is every bit as perfectly normal as the pathological soul-destroying capitalism which passes for democracy in our so-called free world. That's why I find the overreaction to his gaslighting tour of Europe this week to be so amusing. Once again, our renegade president is single-handedly destroying all the advanced Norms of Civilization, which, legend has it, reach
If you that the kidnapping and imprisonment of 3,000 children by ICE thugs was cruel and inhuman, then get a load of this : A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly. Based on decades of research, the resolution says that
"My administration is the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks," Barack Obama reassured a group of nervous Wall Street bankers in 2009, when the government bailouts were eliciting a tsunami of popular outrage. Absent a new New Deal and absent any prosecution of said Wall Street bankers, that outrage soon evolved into the Tea Party movement on the right, the ephemeral Occupy movement
"These principles had not their origin in him, but in the original establishment, many centuries back; and they were become too deeply rooted to be removed, and the augean stable of parasites and plunderers too abominably filthy to be cleansed, by anything, short of a complete and universal revolution." Thomas Paine Thomas Paine could just as well have been writing about why the liberal hand-wrin
My senator, Chuck Schumer of New York, wants me to call my senators to express my displeasure with Trump's Supreme Court nominee. The rights of organized labor depend upon my phone call, but even more the fate of Roe v Wade and the "Affordable" Care Act depends upon me and a couple hundred million other Americans picking up the phone and imagining, if only for one minute, that we still live in a
Donald Trump visited the new Foxconn electronics factory on Thursday, outlandishly praising the Taiwan-based electronics giant as "the eighth wonder of the world" while mouthing vague threats against Harley-Davidson, which has threatened to leave the US over the president's steel tariffs. "Don't get cute, Harley, " sneered Trump in his best Tony Soprano imita

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