Universal Basic Enslavement
SYRIA COMMENT
Winning in Syria and the Middle East – By David W. Lesch and Kamal Alam
David W. Lesch Winning in Syria and the Middle East By David W. Lesch and Kamal Alam For Syria Comment – July 16, 2018 The common perception today is that Russia has won in Syria, having supported the government of Bashar al-Assad, which is now steadily reasserting its control over previously lost territory. As a result, Russia has inserted itself as the power broker in Syria, if not the entire M
Helsinki Meeting Does Little to Clarify America’s Syria Policy – By Joshua Landis
Helsinki Meeting Does Little to Clarify America’s Syria Policy By Joshua Landis For Syria Comment – July 16, 2018 Washington analysts were fearful that President Trump would declare that the US was withdrawing from Syria at the Helsinki meeting with President Putin. President Trump made no important concessions to or agreements with President Putin on Syria. Although many suggested that some gran
The Think-Tanks Bark and the IRGC Moves On
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Discussions of U.S. policy on Syria mostly revolve around two things: counter-terrorism (i.e. combating the Islamic State and other Sunni jihadist groups) and counter-Iran, the latter of which has gained much more prominence since the Trump administration came to power. Proposals on the counter-Iran angle from many think-tanks largely focus on a policy of containment and
Thoughts On Southern Syria
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi The remaining rebel-held areas of Deraa and Quneitra are currently witnessing the beginning of a military campaign by the Syrian government to retake those areas, with heavy bombardment and displacement in the eastern Deraa countryside in particular. How did we get to this stage and what is the likely outcome? Perhaps the foremost issue for discussion is Russia’s role in
WMTC
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #29
wmtc / 6d
It's TIHATL, Summer Reading Club edition! Summer Reading Club is in full swing in Canadian libraries. In more than 2,100 libraries around Canada, kids are earning prizes and recognition for reading. Thanks to Toronto Public Library and a certain sponsoring bank, we all have lots of free stuff to give away. The most popular kids' series ever, still going strong after almost 15 years. Our motives ar
in which we do something i thought i'd never do: say goodbye to our vinyl
wmtc / 13d
Through all our years together, and all the different places we have lived, Allan and I have hung on to our large collection of vinyl LPs. Most people I know who are old enough to have lived in the vinyl era stopped listening to LPs with the advent of CDs, and got rid of their LPs some time after that. We never understood this. We couldn't possibly re-buy all these albums on CD, so why would we g
kevin baker in harpers: "the death of a once great city -- the fall of new york and the urban crisis of affluence"
wmtc / 13d
Everyone who cares about cities, about privatization, and frankly, about humans and our ability to live on our planet, should make time to read the July cover story in Harper's magazine. New York writer Kevin Baker unpacks " The Death of a Once Great City -- The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence ". As New York enters the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is in imminent
happy canada day: a wish for a pledge
wmtc / 20d
One unfortunate result of the current ascendancy of white supremacy in the US is the increase in Canadians' nationalism and self-love -- the strengthening of Canadians' conviction that our society is peaceful and democratic, our institutions benevolent, our kindness manifest in law. We pat ourselves on the back while Trudeau spends our money trampling Indigenous rights, poisoning our water, and h
from the archives: for millions of american women, roe is already history
wmtc / 21d
With the resignation of US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, it is very likely that Roe v. Wade , the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, will be overturned. I'm getting frustrated by the spate of stories about how abortion will now be illegal -- with no mention of how Roe has become meaningless for so many women. I wrote this (below) on Common Dreams in 2005. I was off on the chronol
CENTAURI DREAMS
Unusual Companion for a Brown Dwarf Binary
A cluster of stars sharing a common origin, now gravitationally unbound, is referred to as a stellar association . I’ve written before about how useful some of these groupings can be. In the form of so-called moving groups — a stellar association that is still somewhat coherent — they help us identify stars of similar age, an aid as we discover new objects. Now we have word of an object called 2M
An Unusually Interesting Asteroid
We learned late last week that the near-Earth asteroid 2017 YE5, discovered just last December, is what is described as an ‘equal mass’ binary. This would make it the fourth near-Earth asteroid binary ever detected in which the two objects are nearly identical in size, both about 900 meters. The binary’s closest approach to Earth was on June 21, 2017, when it came to within 6 million kilometers,
Time Out
Dave Brubeck’s Time Out album was the first jazz LP I ever bought, just after it came out in 1959, the same year that Miles Davis released Kind of Blue . Watershed moments both. Paul Desmond once said of his alto sax work that he was trying to create the sound of a dry martini, a description I certainly can’t top. Last night, while listening to Desmond and Brubeck, I realized that the Time Out al
The Dipole Drive: A New Concept for Space Propulsion
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
The Apkallu Initiative: A Minilithic Artefact for Rebooting Human Civilization in the Event of Global Cataclysm
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
Hayabusa 2 Arrives at Ryugu
The asteroid game is heating up. The Japanese probe Hayabusa 2 has arrived at asteroid 162173 Ryugu, the plan being to reach the surface with landers later this year and bring back samples in 2020. We also have ORISIS-REx, launched in 2014, on course to 101955 Bennu in December, with a sample return planned for 2023. Assuming both missions are successful, scientists will have the opportunity to c
A VERY PUBLIC SOCIOLOGIST
Besmirching Labour's Name
"When she speaks out about antisemitism, people should listen and act rather than condemn her." So says Luciana Berger of Margaret Hodge who, you will recall, called Jeremy Corbyn a "fucking anti-semite and a racist" in the Commons last night. She was careful to say these words in the chamber and does not have the guts to repeat them outside of it. Because she knows they are not true and are, in
No Labour Exit from Brexit
If you have recently woke during the night to the sound of piercing screams and pleas for mercy, you just might have caught the final agonies of Tory hopes on winning the next general election. As their vote is coming unstuck thanks to their incoherent mess of a Brexit, which at first glance appears to be a soft one , does it mean anything as far as Labour's support is concerned? As you will have
Appeasing the Brexiteers
Astonishing scenes. Last night the government scraped a victory by three votes on its customs bill. It was able to do so because thanks to the votes of our friends the Labour-in-name-onlys - Frank Field, Kate Hoey, and Graham Stringer - and the absence from Parliament of Uncle Vince Cable and Tim Farron. Clearly they had priorities more pressing than derailing Theresa May's ridiculous and incoher
808 State - Pacific State
Theresa May undertakes a wrecking operation are her Brexit position, making it even less likely to fly with the EU. She then announces government plans to close Parliament early to prevent any more political embarrassment. And then our mate Donald Trump says he believes Vladimir Putin over the FBI on matters relating to Russian influence on the US election. What a day. Unfortunately, I'm cream cr
Donald Trump Protests: What's the Point?
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
Boris Johnson: A Depreciation
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
CRAIG MURRAY
Detente Bad, Cold War Good
The entire “liberal” media and political establishment of the Western world reveals its militarist, authoritarian soul today with the screaming and hysterical attacks on the very prospect of detente with Russia. Peace apparently is a terrible thing; a renewed arms race, with quite literally trillions of dollars pumped into the military industrial complex and hundreds of thousands dying in proxy w
The Amesbury Mystery
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
No Trump, No Clinton, No NATO
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
Wheel Out the Skripal Story Again
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
Blair and Brown Governments Gory with Torture
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
The Holes in the Official Skripal Story
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
MAJIA'S BLOG
Last Train Out of Hungary
Majia's Blog / 1d
I met a woman whose uncle was on the last train out of Hungary before the borders were closed to people escaping Nazi persecution. She said that her mother had seen the shift to fascism because she had been working with Jewish refugees escaping Nazi occupied regions. Her mother left before most of her community. Fascism arrived incrementally. The signs were visible but people could not see the pa
Using National Security to Rape the Earth and Poison the Population
Majia's Blog / 2d
Buried in a misleading article in today's Wall Street Journal is news that the US Commerce Department opened an investigation into imported uranium after receiving a petition from UR Energy Inc and Energy Fuels Inc, both of which want to mine in the US: Vogt, Heidi (2018, July 19). Trump eyes uranium imports. The Wall Street Journal, p. A6/ The Commerce Dept is investigating whether "uranium impo
More Americans are Dying of Liver Cancer, But it's Their Fault Anyway
Majia's Blog / 3d
Liver cancer death rate in US surged 43 percent in 16 years WSYM Tue, Jul 17 3:37 AM MST Fox 47 News https://www.fox47news.com/news/national/ liver-cancer-death-rate-in-us-surged-43-percent-in-16-years Death rates from liver cancer increased 43 percent for American adults from 2000 to 2016, according to a report released Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Cent
Obama's Speech and the Possibility of "Inclusive" Capitalism
Majia's Blog / 4d
Former President Obama's speech today delivered in South Africa is worth reading in its entirety. The speech contains many truths that i can agree with, but one fundamental contradiction emerges between (1) his valorization of inclusive capitalism and (2) acknowledged institutionalized power relations that erode true inclusiveness in addition to the rule of law: Remarks by President Barack Obama
Missing Plutonium
Majia's Blog / 5d
Plutonium is in the news. Plutonium is rarely found on earth. It is chemically toxic and its radiation decay includes gamma radiation, alpha particles and beta particles. One atom of plutonium internalized has the potential to kill you over time as its alpha particle decay shreds DNA. Of course, plutonium is prized for precisely these decay elements. Its killing radioactivity adds to the allure o
The Politics of Primary and Secondary Effects
Majia's Blog / 9d
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
DAVID CLIMENHAGA'S ALBERTA DIARY
Saskatchewan, Ontario have no constitutional case against Ottawa’s carbon tax, only a political strategy
By vowing to go to court to fight the federal government’s carbon tax, Saskatchewan and now Ontario are rejecting the most cost effective way to reduce carbon pollution, the Pembina Institute complained yesterday. “It is deeply irresponsible of the Saskatchewan and Ontario governments to reject carbon pricing,” said Isabelle Turcotte, interim federal policy director of the Calgary-based energy po
Fildebrandt Agonistes: Hell hath no fury like a ‘Liberty Conservative’ scorned
Hell hath no fury like a “Liberty Conservative” scorned! Derek Fildebrandt, the former Wildrose Party and United Conservative Party finance critic scorned by UCP Leader Jason Kenney after a series of unfortunate events turned him into him the Lemony Snicket of the Alberta conservative movement, has joined the Freedom Conservative Party. The tiny right-wing splinter party that until yesterday almo
This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt spends another week atop Audreys Books’ Edmonton fiction bestseller list
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended July 2, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. EDMONTON FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. This Wound is a World – Billy-Ray Belcourt * + 2. Full Disclosure – Beverley McLachlin 3. The Girl Who Drank the Moon – Kelly Barnhill 4. The Power – Naomi Alderman 5. A
Prab Gill saga seems to have legs, so UCP Leader Jason Kenney attacks environmentalist Tzeporah Berman …
Astonishingly, the Prab Gill saga appears to have legs. Yesterday, the Star Metro arm of the Toronto Star’s effort to create a national footprint, informed Alberta readers there’s no way the United Conservative Party will be revealing the contents of its insider investigation of ballot stuffing and snatching by Mr. Gill, who is the MLA for Calgary-Greenway. The Star even quoted NDP Infrastructure
Elevation of Devin Dreeshen to role of UCP Boy Wonder must be a bitter pill for Derek Fildebrandt
What a bitter pill the elevation of Devin Dreeshen to the role of Boy Wonder of the United Conservative Party must be to Derek Fildebrandt! The Independent MLA for Strathmore-Brooks, after all, used to be the Boy Wonder of the UCP himself. Unless Mr. Fildebrandt can pull off a truly spectacular turnaround, he will soon be a an all-but forgotten footnote to Alberta politics, remembered only for a
By-elections conveniently over, United Conservative Party pushes out MLA accused of ballot stuffing at nomination meeting
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
THE VIEW FROM TAIWAN
Election Selection: 2018 midterms
This KMT candidate promises to change the district of Nantun in southern Taichung city. Time for another pile of photos showing the finest marketing moves the two parties can offer. Go below the read more link to see more... if you want to see more of a photo, click on it to be taken to its page on Flickr. This candidate for Taichung's west district has drunk driving her election issue. A DPP can
Great New Book out this fall: A Culinary History of Taipei
Can't wait to get my hands on this tome from two of the most incredibly knowledgeable people I know, Steven Crook and Katy Hui-wen Hung. Looks delish! The publisher's blurb is below. Order here . +++++++++++++ A Culinary History of Taipei Beyond Pork and Ponlai By Steven Crook and Katy Hui-Wen Hung Praise for A Culinary History of Taipei “Dive deep into the delicious intricacies of a cuisine rich
ACT: Selling out Taiwan is Selling out Japan
Getting back into blogging today. Lots of posts coming. First, my latest for American Citizens for Taiwan Moreover, the “envoy documents” that Shaw refers to do not claim that the Ming and Qing owned the Senkakus. They merely show that the envoys passed by them on their way to Okinawa, and that the boatmen informed them, as they were passing them, that their ships were leaving the world known to
Send them to Taiwan: Aus/Taiwan gov't deal to provide Nauru Refugees medical care in Taiwan
As the economy changes, former farms are becoming spaces for leisure and camping. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on a deal between the Australian government and Taiwan... The Turnbull government has signed a deal to send refugees on Nauru who need urgent medical care to Taiwan, in an undisclosed arrangement aimed at stopping them from applying to stay in Australia after being treated in local
Whither the Media: Sex and the Media (Note clickbait title!)
My man Dom brakes for a view. "Manuel, on some subjects I don't trust even myself. Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.' We are not yet free nor will we be as long as anyone--even our ally Mike--controls our news. Someday I hope to own a newspaper independent of any source or channel. I would happily set print by
While we're on the subject of might-have-beens....
Bookish Asia has an author interview with the brilliant Tonio Andrade, who has written extensively and beautifully on the turbulent 17th century. What’s interesting is that the Dutch colony on Taiwan was, in the 1640s and early 1650s, one of the most profitable of the Dutch East India Company’s holdings, but by the mid-1650s, and especially moving into the late 1650s, it became less profitable. I
NORTHERN REFLECTIONS
Everybody Wants T Get To Heaven . . .
Northern Reflections / 14h
Hugh MacKenzie writes that we should have had an adult conversation about taxes and public services long ago. But that conversation has never happened, despite the obvious connection between the two: Tax cuts reduce fiscal capacity, driving reductions in public services and that if you want better public services, you need to increase the government’s fiscal capacity to generate revenue. The alte
What Brilliance!
Northern Reflections / 1d
Capitalism is alive and well, Gerry Caplan writes , thanks to kids: I've been stressed worrying that all those little kids stolen by Donald Trump's goons from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border were throwing a wrench into American capitalism. Don't be silly. Capitalism abides, Dude. Government payments for shelters and other child welfare services for those children cost $958 million last ye
What's Around The Corner
Northern Reflections / 2d
Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet yesterday. He's getting ready for the next election and for more immediate battles. And the most pressing battle will be with Doug Ford. Susan Delacourt writes : The more you look at this so-called pre-election shuffle, the more you see Doug Ford’s victory rippling through the some of the biggest changes to the federal Liberal ministry. If shuffles had ad sloga
What Is At Stake
Northern Reflections / 3d
Mark Kingwell writes in The Globe And Mail that now is the time to impeach Donald Trump: Historian Simon Schama, articulating the thoughts of many, called it “Trump’s Neville Chamberlain moment,” referring to the hapless British prime minister who claimed “peace in our time” by appeasing Adolf Hitler. Mr. Schama went on: “America sold out by its President. A violation of his oath of office. If th
American Stupidity
Northern Reflections / 4d
America is a very stupid country. That statement must be true, Dana Milbank writes in The Washington Post , because Donald Trump keeps repeating it: He offered this opinion on at least nine occasions since he launched his campaign for the presidency — and he should know. It is furthermore the president’s highly intelligent opinion we have been led by “stupid people” and “our laws are so corrupt a
Less Than Honourable Men
Northern Reflections / 5d
Four British Foreign Secretaries have resigned since Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. Three of them, William Keegan writes , were honourable men: [Lord] Carrington resigned over the way the Foreign Office had mishandled the prelude to the invasion of the Falklands by Argentina in 1982 by sending misleading signals about our attitude towards retention of those remote islands in the south A
ADRIENNE'S CORNER
It's a wonderful Monday - the commie/marxist/libtards have melted into puddles...
time to get it together . In case you were wondering how much crazier the left could become, check out what Brian Stetler of CNN Fake News has to say: Newsbusters: ‘Cannot Be Trusted’: CNN Promotes Conspiracies After Slamming Liar Trump President Trump was set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, and the liberal media were in full campaign mode as they pushed speculation the Pr
If Russians can hack Amazon Prime Day...
why not elections? Only kiiiiddiiing. The fake news and the commie/marxist/ libtards have gone completely bonkers. Anyone one subjects themselves to the wild stories, speculation, and downright insanity of the left should check themselves into the nearest hospital on a 72 hour hold for observation. As Bunkerville said: Recall when Bill Clinton meddled in Russian Election? Putin extracts revenge?
#WalkAway - Brandon Straka, "Why I left the Democratic Party"...
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
The commie/marxist/libtards line up to smear Judge Brett Kavanaugh...
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
Off to history club and roaming about while Trump kicks some ass at NATO...
thank you President Trump. I surely do hope we have clouds since I can see them so much better now. And maybe I will run into Baby Doll Chad Prather again while shopping at the liquor store. And........ Trump kicks some German ass at NATO summit: Amazon Today Up to 30% off select musical instruments from Yamaha, Shure , and more Great Deals in Health and Beauty
''I Really Don'T Care, Do You?"...
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
FREE PLANET
Electric Universe - positions of the invading planets - simulation of arrival
Free Planet / 1d
where they live today... this is an Electric Universe enigma that needs answering, "Based on where the planets are right now, their orbits, orientations, distances from sun and local spins, where did the proto-Saturn cluster come from?" and by this I mean: the pre-Earth-arrival star we now call the sun had Jupiter orbiting it and Mercury Uranus Neptune ... and maybe some other planets we no longe
No Man's SKy - NEXT coming next week - Star Citizen R.I.P.
Free Planet / 1d
I've wasted the last year or so trying to get myself online-involved LOL in the improvement and enhancement of the forthcoming (for six years) record-setting crowd-funded to the tune of $190,000,000 five-studios around the world with 500 employees i.e. Star Citizen.... to no avail. It's like 'they have their (story + sim) plan and they don't give a flying-fuck for lovely creative sandbox input fro
Star Citizen - friend or foe - vote of no confidence
Free Planet / 10d
Cappy Corny You can't teach creativity: one of the real problems of the game's industry is it hones its Game Designers in its Qualitiy Assurance departments. Now, some say this is a really good thing as, "The potential designer gets to see how a game works (or doesn't work) from his first day in the office." Sure, it does, but that doesn't make that future employee a good game designer: hard work
Trailer - Cage - Mandy
Free Planet / 14d
it's been a while since I intentionally went out of my way to watch a Nicholas Cage film (might have been NEXT, the nearly-decent Philip K Dick adaptation) but I think I'm'a gonn' get ma Caaaaaaage on fer this'un. MANDY, I mean what-the-unholy redlit essence of sulphur, dear baphomet-sophia!
NORTHERNTRUTHSEEKER
Vacation Alert
Northerntruthseeker / 1h
I will be taking a week long vacation starting TOMORROW, the 22nd of July and returning on Saturday July 28th.... I was invited to get away out of town for the whole week and because I desperately need some rest and relaxation, especially with all of the time spent on home renovations over these last few weeks, it was an offer I could not resist... I will not be taking my laptop with me on this on
The Next Death You Ignore Just Might Be Your Own!
Northerntruthseeker / 1d
I just spent the morning today with some associates that I have not seen for quite sometime... We all gathered together at the local "Tim Horton's" restaurant here in central Canada, and many of them were actually glad to see me... I spent the first 15-20 minutes filling them in on what I have been doing for the last 6 months (yes, time does fly by very quickly these days..) and of course talking
Criminal Terrorist "White Helmets" To Be Rescued From Syria By Criminal US/Israel/NATO Scourge
Northerntruthseeker / 1d
I and others in the real truth movement have been saying for YEARS now that this "white helmets" supposed "aid" group that was parachuted into Syria under the assumption that they would be working for the betterment of the civilian population of Syria were absolutely nothing of the sort... In fact evidence has kept pouring into yours truly and many others that these "white helmets" were in fact wo
Today Is The Most Perilous Time In World History
Northerntruthseeker / 2d
I have kept tabs on what has been happening in the Jew spew media since the Monday meeting between US President Donald Drumpf and Russian President Vladimir Putin.... It may have been for only 2 hours, but the result has seen the lunatics in the so called 'deep state' in America go absolutely crazy... The lunatics in the US State Department have been foaming at the mouth with the notion that Drump
The Kangaroo Court "Trial" Of Alfred And Monika Schaefer In Germany Continues: Interesting Article Takes Shots At This Jewish Inquisition!
Northerntruthseeker / 3d
I have been waiting patiently for ANY new updates as to the status of that ongoing and most ridiculous "trial" in Germany, where innocent brother and sister, Alfred and Monika Schaefer, are right now up on the most heinous and ludicrous charges of "inciting hate"..... This "trial" which is nothing more than a kangaroo court fiasco where both defendants are guilty in spite of the overwhelming evide
Busted! British Skripal Novichok "Poisoning" Was Done By A British Citizen!
Northerntruthseeker / 3d
I said it before, and I will say it again.... I smelled a rat the moment that the world was coming out after that March incident in Salisbury where supposedly former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were "poisoned" by a nerve
THE REFERENCE FRAME
Postulates of quantum mechanics almost directly follow from experiments
Most of the ordinary people who have tried to understand modern physics find the novel logical framework of quantum mechanics challenging. Some of them have become full-blown anti-quantum zealots which means that they scream "it cannot be true", "physics must ultimately be governed by the logic of classical physics" – well, they love to use different words but this is exactly what they mean. Altho
Cohl Furey understands neither field theory nor octonions
Her mathematical masturbations are physically meaningless Quanta Magazine's Natalie Wolchover wrote a cheesy celebration The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature of a would-be theory of everything by Ms Cohl Furey that is claimed to be based on the octonions \({\mathbb O}\). If you read it, the human part of the story as well as the spirit of the mathematics used for physics sound
Out of Tesla's stock price, $300 is due to Musk's silly PC clichés & government's distortion of markets
I think that most people who seriously trade stocks (or invest into stocks) will agree that they are usually trying to estimate the fair or sustainable price of their stocks with the precision that is finer than 10%. Serious investors estimate the earnings with a similar accuracy and think hard whether P/E (the price-to-earning ratio) should be 10 or 20 and what could affect it. At the end, the st
The U.N. migration compact is toxic
A few days ago, the representatives of 190 U.N. member states agreed with the GLOBAL COMPACT FOR SAFE, ORDERLY AND REGULAR MIGRATION (full PDF text of the draft; press release ). The document is intended to legitimize mass migration and encourage all countries of the world to adopt the same rules how to deal with the migrants and refugees. This document has been planned since September 2016 when O
Slow bottom-up HEP research is neither intellectually challenging, nor justified by the null LHC data
Ben Allanach has been a well-known supersymmetry researcher in Cambridge, England whose name has appeared a dozen of times on this blog and he wrote a guest blog on ambulance chasing . Because of his seemingly bullish presonality, I was surprised by an essay he wrote for Aeon.Co a few days ago, Going nowhere fast: has the quest for top-down unification of physics stalled? The most nontrivial state
Did 12 astronauts cause global warming by 2 °C on the Moon?
Or does an organized movement of brain-dead liars calling themselves "journalists" spread far-reaching cosmic superstitions about a mundane hot piece of dark surface under the sunlight? How much a group of 12 men can change the world? Well, if they're apostles, they may have the last supper with Jesus Christ. They didn't have to pay a penny. Assuming that Jesus Christ was more than Warren Buffett
NOT PC
Bonus QotD: So-called '#HateSpeech' "is the death of #FreeSpeech. By the non-objective standard of 'hate speech,' any idea can be banned. The entire sphere of thought, in other words, becomes politicised.
Not PC / 2d
"'Civilisation depends on reason; freedom means the freedom to think, then act accordingly; the rights of free speech and a free press implement the sovereignty of reason over brute force. If civilised existence is to be possible, the right of the individual to exercise his rational faculty must be inviolable.' ... Freedom of speech is a rational principle. Like any rational principle, it is an a
QotD: "...the universe is inviting you in—if you’re ready to pay the price of admission."
Not PC / 2d
"The proper attitude toward life is a commitment to put in the thought and effort required, and then to expect success. Dedicate yourself to expanding your knowledge and to creating truly human values on whatever scale is open to you, and you will be able to live and thrive. Joy and personal happiness, though demanding, are possible and should be strived for—and then expected, because they expres
QotD: After Trump’s comments at this week’s press conference, Putin's FSB "ought to hang up a 'Mission Accomplished' banner."
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"Yet Putin doesn’t have to tip elections to achieve his goal. He achieves it merely by sowing chaos and discord, which serves his goal of discrediting free countries as a superior model of government... The more conflict Putin sows in the West, the more he is able to point to the world’s vaunted democracies and sneer that this kind of 'normal life' is all an arrogant delusion. "From that perspect
QotD: "Free markets ARE awesome for business, but that does NOT imply that most businesses favor free markets." #cronyism #subsidies
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"Free markets ARE awesome for business, but that does NOT imply that most businesses favour free markets." ~ Stephen Hicks . Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with link and attribution.
Backfire Economics: 6 ways Trump's tariffs are hurting the very people they're supposed to help
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It seems almost embarrassing to have to rehearse the case for free markets and free trade, a case thoroughly established centuries ago by the likes of Adam Smith, Richard Cobden, and especially Frederic Bastiat. But support for Trump’s tariffs is not something generated by desire for greater prosperity, says Mark J. Perry in this guest post -- a compilation of soundings on how the tariff experime
Will the Coalition for Free Speech instead play a part in its muzzling?
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."
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