Left I on the News
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11 minutes. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) --
Sept. 14, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: This week’s
“Fake News By Omission”: YouTube shuts down pro-Syrian government
channels https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2018/09/youtube
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Sept. 7, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *U.S. Accuses
North Korea of Plot to Hurt Economy as Spy Is Charged in Sony Hack
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/politics/north-kore
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August 31, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *Democratic
Embrace of Diverse Candidates Collides With Barbed Politics of Trump Era
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/us/politics/race
Trump is in the news today for complaining that Google searches for
“Trump news” turns up only “fake news” from “left-wing” sites (in which
he includes every single “mainstream” news source with the exception of
FOX News!), and charging Google with suppressing news from conservative
sources. Interestingly, moments after he tweeted that I went to Google
and did just that (searched for “Trump news”
Middle Class Political Economist
After
several years of work, my colleague Susan G. Mason (Boise State
University) and I have published a new article on TIF in Missouri,
specifically in the St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas.
"Exploring Patterns of Tax Increment Financing Use and Structural
Explanations in Missouri's Major Metropolitan Regions" appeared in the
July 2018 edition of the HUD journal Cityscape , downloadabl
News From Atlantis.
The liberal dystopia we have become completely swamped by, is very
bizarre. Full of contradictions, this cause of social insanity is the
result of trying to stabilise cognitive dissonance, with such ludicrous
notions of the the coexistence of mutually exclusive ideas and
attitudes. Multiculturalism is a prime example of an inherent
contradiction in liberal thought. Atheists and Theists can only c
Killed
With Kindness, by Paul Dutton The scene is set in Fallowfields
Chesterton Cambridge there is an elderly lady in her 90’s her name is
Matilda she used to sell ticket for Cambridge football club, she also
put up a lot of players when they came to Cambridge back in the old days
she also helped dig the holes for the spot lights when they were fitted
she stopped helping Cambridge united football
The
fact that we have to mechanize and mobilize all our creativity to state
something about politics or our common contempt for Trump is the […]
I
know millions, maybe tens of millions know that Rush Limbaugh predicted
the “Kavanaugh conundrum” for the Republicans! For months Rush has
said, the issue(s) […]
In
216 AD at the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal deceived the Roman legions
(80,000 men) by intentionally giving way in the center and drawing the
[…]
In
the past, Brett Kavanaugh and Republicans have demonstrated little or
no credibility. So when Republicans say that the latest attack on
Kavanaugh is strictly […]
Is
it a crime to continually agitate the American public through the
publication and distribution of news which is inaccurate and fabricated?
During the worst […]
Great
timing! Laura Ingraham asked; why would America vote Republicans out if
most Americans see our nation as doing well! Laura is a true advocate
[…]
Obsidian Wings
by liberal japonicus Like a military history buff who spends an
inordinate amount of time looking at some skirmish down the road from
Waterloo or Gettysburg, I'm pretty fascinated by not so much the main
event, but the little wins and losses on the periphery. At for this
post, Amy Chua. Background below the fold. Amy Chua is references as the
author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , and she st
by liberal japonicus Like the salt and meat diet, only the truly strong
can subsist on a reading diet of only he said, we aren't going to
believe what she said , and wimps like me need our swiss chard and
salads. So for us wimps, an interesting article about China's new social
credit system. Leave no dark corner The integration of video with the
article is quite powerful, but comes at the loss of
by wj I see that things with Brexit are looking increasingly
problematic:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/theresa-may-just-warned-of-a-no-deal-brexit-here-are-some-of-the-doomsday-scenarios/2018/09/17/3507ab2c-943b-11e8-818b-e9b7348cd87d_story.html
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/09/14/britains-housing-market-could-be-headed-for-disaster
Brexit Secretary Dominic R
by liberal japonicus This seems interesting Sheldon Whitehouse Asks
Brett Kavanaugh If He Has A Gambling Problem I usually don't post
breaking stuff (I think this is) but Whitehouse was a US attorney and a
State Attorney General and the last political thread is quite full.
Interesting times...
by Ugh This whole Florence thing has the 9YO freaked out. Living just
outside DC on the MD side makes me think he might be overly worried but
that's his mojo. In other news, I can't really say Serena was robbed (if
anyone it was Osaka who was clearly outplaying the legend up to that
point and had her celebration spoiled), but that ump has got to go. I
mean, WTF? Is it just me or is Kavanaugh "at
by wj I notice that we’ve got politics sneaking into the TWA thread, so
clearly we need a new open thread. Here goes. I’ve seen a variety of
discussions about a possible impeachment next year. The general argument
seems to start with the assumption that the Democrats take the House,
so they can hold hearings, dig out facts that have been covered up, and
generally build a case. But, the argument g
Pesticide Action Network
As the headlines of their corporate misdeeds pile up, the Monsanto name
is becoming even more synonymous with shady dealings and the
obfuscation of science, all at the expense of public health. Will the
company’s recent mega-merger with fellow seed and pesticide giant Bayer
erase Monsanto’s track record? Bayer seems to think so, as they made the
decision to drop the Monsanto name completely post-
This week, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)
officially announced their hiring of the new Farm Equity Advisor (FEA), a
position now filled by Thea Rittenhouse . The creation of this position
was one of the main pieces included in the Farmer Equity Act of 2017 (
AB 1348 ) — legislation proposed by the farmer and farmer-advocate
group, the California Farmer Justice Collaborat
Congress is taking up the Farm Bill again this week, and many issues
key to our food and agriculture system are on the table — including how
we deal with pesticides. Earlier this summer, the Senate passed its
version of the 2018 Farm Bill. While flawed, the Senate bill was much
better than the widely-criticized House version of the bill, which
narrowly passed a week prior. A small group of Senato
Adam Vega is a community organizer with Californians for Pesticide
Reform. In this blog, he shares his experience living in the
agricultural community of Ventura County, California, where pesticide
use is high, children and farmworkers are at risk, and community members
are stepping up to take action together. I am very fortunate to call
California — Ventura County specifically — home. The Golden
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
After
a storm, I usually get lots of calls and emails about employers making
employees work in conditions they deem unsafe. In general, you don't
have to work in unsafe conditions, so I'm re-posting this for those
affected by Florence. Here's what OSHA says about workplace safety: You
have the right to a safe workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1970 (OSH Act) was passed to prevent
In
the bad old days, after an employee filed a Charge of Discrimination,
employers would file a position statement and then one of two things
happened: either the investigator would read a summary of the position
statement quickly over the phone, or the investigator would write up a
summary of the position statement. Then the employee would have 10 days
to respond. I say the bad old days, because
It's
time, unfortunately, to re-run this popular and necessary column. I
hope you make out okay in Hurricane Florence and suffer no damage.
However, you may be wondering if you're getting paid. Whether you’re
entitled to be paid when the office is closed depends on whether you are
“exempt” salaried or not. Just being salaried doesn’t necessarily mean
you aren’t entitled to overtime. It’s possible
Syria Comment
David Lesch The Game Above the Game by David W. Lesch For Syria Comment
– Sept 21, 2018 The various combatants in and around Idlib seem to have
hit the pause button for the time being. What just a short time ago
appeared to be an imminent onslaught by Russian and Iranian supported
Syrian government forces to take back one of the last areas outside of
the control of Damascus, accompanied by widesp
The Duck of Minerva
I woke up to find a piece that castigates the academic world for being
ignorant about the armed forces . My reaction was: I love how broad this
brush is. “I talked to some folks who are profs and they say some dumb
stuff, so let’s suggest that this is a broader thing” Confirmation bias
much? https://t.co/jWhcaniD2B — Steve Saideman (@smsaideman) September
20, 2018 Tom Ricks, who posted this quest
In the run-up to the American Political Science Association Conference
in Boston this week, some political scientists are protesting the award
of the Hubert Humphrey prize to former National Security Advisor
Condoleeza Rice . The award, which includes a cash prize of $1,000, is
given each year “in recognition of notable public service by a political
scientist.” Rice earned her PhD in political sc
Great opportunity to donate in memory of a beloved scholar of African
politics. The Lee Ann Fujii Minority Fellows Program Travel Grants will
help up to 15 scholars from underrepresented backgrounds get to APSA
each year, 2019-2023. Details: #APSA2018 pic.twitter.com/0eUgcg3vsQ —
Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) August 31, 2018 This is a guest post by
Lahoma Thomas, a doctoral candidate in the Departm
This is a guest post by Betcy Jose and Peace Media. Betcy Jose is
Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver. She tweets
@betcyj. Peace A. Medie is a Research Fellow in the Legon Centre for
International Affairs and Diplomacy at the University of Ghana. She
tweets @PeaceMedie . Their work on civilian self-protection can be found
here and here . On July 25, 2018, DAESH launched a sur
This is a guest post by Andreas Pacher who initiated the Observatory of
International Relations (OOIR) , a website which tracks Political
Science and IR journals to continually list their latest papers. Follow
OOIR on Twitter: @ObserveIR. You may have noticed that the Impact
Factors of IR journals are sometimes followed by a statement that it
ranks “nth out of 85 journals in the category ‘Interna
The fall semester is upon us, and with APSA in the rear view window,
we’d like to bring on a new slate of guest Duck bloggers to continue to
bring IR-related insights to bear on important real world problems, to
explore important debates in the academy, and to do some professional
introspection. We’re especially keen on having gender balance and
increasing representation of voices from beyond Nor
The High-fat Hep C Diet
One of the great mysteries of nutrition is the behaviour of
polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). They often look good in the kind of
sloppy epidemiology used to drive or latterly protect dietary
guidelines*, are more ambiguous in RCTs, and can easily be shown to have
deleterious effects in a number of specific medical and experimental
conditions that might be expected to have a "canary in the coa
The Straight Goods
Written by Grant I and many others had high hopes for Rachel Notley
when she got elected and became Alberta's premier....not quite four
years ago, though it seems like ages ago to me.. We here at The Straight
Goods wrote flattering things about NDP Rachel Notley when she was
vying to be premier...I was impressed with her platform, her stated
goals, in fact before even being elected she stated tha
JUSTIN TRUDEAU KNOWS THERE IS A GOD… AND HE KNOWS THAT GOD IS A LIBERAL
Written by Robin Mathews Sweating a little before the cameras, Justin
Trudeau saw that Andrew Scheer was becoming ‘reasonable’. BUT HE IS NOT
the much more strange creature thrown up (“thrown up”?) by the
Conservative Hordes … Stephen Harper … who wrested all power from
‘Progressive Conservatives’, then pulled Rightest admire
The View from Taiwan
" ...But we have crossed millions of miles of nothingness. We have
visited another world. And our Locar had said `Why bother? What is the
worth of it? It is all vanity, anyhow.' And the secret is," I lowered my
voice, as at a poetry reading, "he was right! It is vanity, it is
pride!" "You will say to them in Warwickshire: Eh, he wor a wonderly
fine candle?" I should have been a pair of ragged cla
An address sign in Guocuoli Time once again for our regularly irregular
feature on a scholarly paper about Taiwan... While I was looking at the
complicated ethnic history of Quanzhou in Fujian, where 45% of the
pre-1949 immigrants to Taiwan came from, I ran across this fascinating
paper by Oded Abt entitled "Muslim Ancestor, Chinese Hero or Tutelary
God:Changing Memories of Muslim Descendants in
Yesterday was first nice day in weeks. I hit the mountains. It was
wonderful. This week brought us a sloppy and potentially libelous
headline from Taiwan News on Mayor Ko and Ethan Gutmann's book on organ
harvesting in China: Book claims Taipei Mayor transplanted organs from
Falun Gong prisoners . To wit: Butterfly Orchid Cultural Creativity
(蝴蝶蘭文創), the pro-Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) pub
Bullying, threatening letter sent to U of Salamanca by PRC Embassy
@Xiani_PCh Today I decided to go public with the email #China’s embassy
in Spain sent to coerce the University of #Salamanca into cancelling
“#Taiwan Cultural Days” on October 2017. ENG version on the account of
what happened. English version of what happened .
_______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And ch
A KMT candidate dominates a Taichung intersection. Another day, another
collection of colorful election posters. Rode around in Changhua this
week, a key battleground that is currently leaning KMT. You can click on
any photo to be taken to its Flickr page if you want to zoom in on it.
Click on READ more to see more.... Candidates on a building near Huilong
Metro Station in New Taipei City. Earnes
Where cultures mingle... American Citizens for Taiwan has published my
latest piece for them.... Taiwanese food products have done much to
raise awareness of Taiwan, as chefs in North America and Europe are
learning how to make “Taiwanese pork belly sliders” (gua bao) while
Taiwanese pearl milk tea is a hit in many countries. Government cultural
agencies in Taiwan have put great effort into promo
thwap's schoolyard
This is a good essay from commondreams.org: "No, Capitalism Will Not
Save the Climate" by Karin Nansen . We are facing deep-rooted climate,
social, and environmental crises. The current dominant economic system
cannot provide solutions. It is time for system change. For Friends of
the Earth International this means creating societies based on peoples’
sovereignty and environmental, social, econom
This is one of the most pervasive assaults on left-wing calls for
social justice; that we expect that the world owes us (and everyone
else) a living, simply by virtue of our having arrived on the planet. It
is at this point that those who champion an economic system of
unlimited growth on a finite planet begin to shriek about "scarce
resources" and how we can't just give people riches without the
This piece - "Workers' Power vs. Climate Destroyers: What It Will Take
to Save the Planet," by Bruce Lesnick, is the kind of thing I'm talking
about here: Asking those few with wealth and power to please do the
right thing is not a very effective strategy and it hasn’t gotten us
very far up to now. A much better approach would be to take the power
and wealth into our own hands – into the hands of
You cannot have unlimited growth of anything on a finite planet.
Obvious, right? Not to the geniuses in charge of the world's
political-economic system. Or to humanity in general. The inherent lack
of empathy in our species is evidenced by the continued desires of many
of us for lots and lots of offspring. I once asked "Do you suppose that a
Petri dish of bacteria had individuals in it saying 'Do
In our system the state has a monopoly on the use of violence. The
police and the military are the main tools by which the state exercises
its monopoly on violence. The only message that I want to convey with
this post is that if you have access to members of the police or the
military (or, really, any other enforcement arm of the state that can
cause serious damage to a person's life), that you
Vagabond Scholar
Happy
Labor Day! These videos are repeats, but they're good. Here's Robert
Reich from 2013, about celebrating labor on Labor Day. This a Woody
Guthrie classic, performed at the Pete Seeger 90th birthday concert:
Given the latest pushes from conservatives to further concentrate wealth
and power with the wealthy, to let wages stagnate, and to slash the
social safety net, it's a
What Is Sustainable
Note: I need to devote more time to my upcoming book, now known as Wild
Free & Happy . The following is Jim Minter’s review of James Howard
Kunstler’s book, Home from Nowhere . It was posted over 20 years ago (5
December 1996) on the e-design website. This was back when the Peak Oil
movement still lived in caves. Oddly, most of the essay could have been
written in 2018. America’s fanatical addict
God is Red fascinated me. Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2006) was a Yankton
Sioux activist. His great-grandfather was a medicine man. His
grandfather was a chief who became a priest. His father rose to an
executive position in the Episcopal Church. Deloria graduated from a
seminary, but chose not to become a minister, because of his father’s
frustrations. He sought a path that could be of greater benefi
wmtc
We're
going glamping! Allan, Diego, and I are hitting the road -- in this:
Going here: Killarney Provincial Park Lake Superior Provincial Park
Sleeping Giant Provincial Park Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park Pancake
Bay Provincial Park Grundy Lake Provincial Park Plus quick visits to
Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, and Thunder Bay. Hike, grill, explore. Watch
dogs play on beaches. Read. Keep an eye on the
In July, I wrote that we planned to get rid of our LP collection. Well,
the deed is done. We turned this into this First Round then this What's
left: classical, soundtracks, CD box sets, and albums Allan didn't want
to part with (front). and finally, this. We got much more money than we
expected, thanks to the honesty and integrity of Lincoln Stewart. * * *
* For the most part, the business of bu
In
my most recent Listening to Joni post, I said that I write with my
brain, but I listen to music with my heart. A few nights ago in New York
City, my music heart broke in pieces, over and over again. I've seen a
lot of theatre -- and quite a bit of Bruce Springsteen -- but I'd never
experienced anything quite like this. Springsteen on Broadway is one of
the most intensely moving theatrical exper
This
is one of those posts I write only for myself. This blog functions as
my travel diary, and I like that diary to be complete. So here I am.
Feel free to ignore. Which of course you always are, and you don't need
me to tell you that. I was supposed to go to New York by myself to see
Springsteen on Broadway . (Review to follow in separate post.) I had
been trying to get a ticket since they first
We are here ! Staying here . Going to this ! Also here , scene of many
past celebrations. Ah, New York. And Bruce!! That is all.
Tokyo, Japan, 13th September 2018 - Yahoo Japan is the single biggest
online platform for elephant ivory sales in Japan, according to a new
TRAFFIC investigation, which recorded a staggering 4,414 ivory items
plus 35 whole tusks for sale over a four-week period in June and July
2018. The latest findings were revealed today in System Error, Reboot
Required: Review of online ivory trade in Japan ,
Florianópolis, Brazil, 10 September 2018 - Participants from about 66
countries will meet in Florianópolis, Brazil this week to make decisions
on issues that could significantly impact the future of whales,
whaling, and the direction of the International Whaling Commission
(IWC). Deliberations over the next five days are expected to define the
Commission's ability to regulate the conservation and
A Different Perspective
Well, another episode and another major disappointment. However, it did
get me thinking about the production of the show rather than what was
happening on my TV screen. What do you mean, you might ask? Remember
that we were treated to that harrowing ride on the Highway of Death, the
trek with a number of burros, the just missed landslide, and all the
other obstacles they had to defeat just to rea
I was watching Treasure Quest when they flashed the document that
supposedly launched several expeditions into the Sacambaya region of
Bolivia. I really wasn’t paying much attention because, well, we’re in
the first couple of episodes where nothing much will happen. On the
document were a couple of symbols. One of them I recognized. Now, we go
back to last year when I was working on a book about
The other day Rich Reynolds over at the UFO Conjectures blog, sent me a
link to a skeptics site. He wondered if I had seen the information
published there about the Socorro UFO landing. I had not, but found the
information interesting. You can see that here for yourself:
http://www.nmsr.org/socorro.htm Dave Thomas, who hosts the site, gave me
permission to quote from the two new stories that he h
A couple of weeks ago we were all told, alerted to the fact really,
that the Del Rio UFO crash of the mid-1950s had been validated. New
information had been mentioned to George Knapp during his hosting duties
on Coast-to-Coast . Dr. Eric Davis had made the comment. But what did
he actually say? Knapp, during their discussion, said, “That makes it
sound like there is something to analyze or revers
I have come to believe that the producers of Treasure Quest believe
that we all are pretty dumb. The last two episodes prove that point.
First, we have the great snake fight as they try to chase away a rather
large snake that was annoying the burros. I’m just not sure of the
wisdom of messing with something like that. I don’t know what kind of
snake it was, but I do know there are some very deadl
Almost from the moment that I became interested in the Roswell case,
people were offering solutions for it. Like most everyone else, I
thought that a balloon of some nature would answer the questions about
the crash. After the first few days in New Mexico, as Don Schmitt and I
talked to various people who claimed some inside knowledge of the case,
we were disappointed. It seemed there was less th
A Very Public Sociologist
Sooner or later, all political positions come into contact with
reality. Some do much better than forecast while others, well, others
have a rude awakening. Judging by the expression on Theresa May's face
after learning that her Chequers plan hasn't survived contact with what
she surely now views as the enemy tells you all you need to know. What
now, then? Never the most adroit of politicians, th
For liberal defenders of its vaunted impartiality and balance,
sometimes the BBC makes their job hard. Take Nick Robinson's interview
with Theresa May for Panorama on Monday night, for example. Between
Sunday morning and the final news bulletin prior to broadcast, it was
the lead item on the news, and what got highlighted were the softest of
soft questions. One has Robinson and May reclining on t
The world is a complicated place, so pity those who do not possess the
tools to understand it. That Tony Blair for instance is one of many from
the politics of yesteryear having a hard time adjusting to our
polarised times . As you've probably heard, in conversation with Nick
Robinson he cast doubt on whether moderates (sic) could ever win back
the Labour Party from the left. With politics domina
On Thursday night, the Chris Williamson Democracy Roadshow rolled into
sunny Stoke-on-Trent and pitched up at the Florence Sports and Social
Club. Of course, yours truly couldn't pass the opportunity up and went
along to hear what Chris had to say. Also speaking was Chris Spence ,
the secretary of Newcastle under Lyme CLP, and Heather Mendick from
Hackney South. Kicking off proceedings we heard f
Michael Foot was a paid Soviet informant! so reports The Times this
morning. Any impartial observer of the political scene might have
thought the Russian money regularly deposited in Tory party coffers
right now would be more newsworthy, but okay. According to their front
page splash (to promote interest in Ben MacIntyre's The Spy and the
Traitor ), the former Labour leader received cash and, app
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