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Retired chiefs are an asset — they can say what they think without worrying that they will offend a politician. Jerry Ellis is a truly independent opinion. Just the kind of guy the very dependent ABC won’t put on the 7:30 report this week. Ex-BHP Chief: Scrap Paris Now by Tony Thomas Ex-chairman of BHP (1997-99), Jerry Ellis (left) ex-chancellor of Monash University, and an ex-director of ANZ Ban
One of the fieriest and most apt speeches in Washington was surely from Senator Graham. Since ABC viewers have missed this, I thought I would help out. If the Democrats get away with this (so they can do it again) only a kevlar-coated-narcissist would want to run for public office. Question for the #Metoo movement. When the mob rules and evidence is irrelevant, which gender will be less likely to
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/qfc041-lq.mp3"][/audio] This time on Questions For Corbett: Did eugenics fake its own death? Why was KAL 85 ordered to squawk a hijack code on 9/11? Will deep fakes make people more skeptical of authority? And can you download Corbett Report videos directly from the website? Join James for the answers to these and other burning questions.
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Are you a big Pulp Fiction fan? Let us ruin that for you. The production company Elara Pictures posted a disturbing video mashup to Instagram Friday: the hamburger scene from Pulp Fiction alongside a few choice moments from Brett Kavanaugh's petulant testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Remember how, in the movie, Samuel L. Jackson says "Check out the big brain on Brett?" And remember
The unusually-shaped space rock made headlines back in 2015 when it passed the Earth on October 31st. Known as 2015 TB145, the asteroid is thought to ...
MacOS Mojave is finally here. Desktop Stacks , Dark Mode , and new applications (Stocks, News, and Home) are clearly the headline features of Mojave. But there's lots more under the hood if you know where to look. SEE ALSO: 5 features of macOS Mojave that will level up your Mac experience We've been digging through macOS 10.14 since the first beta dropped in June, and here are 10 features that wi
Via: LiveScience: There’s something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it. Physicists don’t know what it is exactly. But they do know it’s some sort of cosmic ray — a high-energy particle that’s blasted its way through space, into the Earth, and back out […]
"You're telling me that my assault doesn't matter," one protester said to Arizona Republican Jeff Flake as he headed to a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. (Image credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Nottingham East MP accused of ‘disloyalty and deceit’ but he says he was unfairly targeted The Labour MP Chris Leslie has lost a vote of confidence from his Nottingham East constituency party. Activists voted to pass the no-confidence motion on Friday night, citing his involvement in a plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn as leader and criticising what they said were his “repeated attempts … to undermine t
Eight years after Sally Challen took a hammer to her husband’s head, a groundbreaking appeal hopes to reveal the truth about their relationship On a rainy Saturday morning in August 2010, Sally Challen left her house in Claygate, Surrey. She had bought the house less than a year earlier, her first step away from a 31-year marriage. That morning, she returned to 1 Ruxley Ridge, just around the cor
In 2012, a Justice Department probe shut down law firms that helped Chinese asylum-seekers fabricate or inflate claims of persecution. The clients were left alone, but now 13,500 may have to leave. (Image credit: Sally Deng for NPR)
To find the very best products that no human being would have the time to try, look to the best-reviewed (that’s four-to-five-star ratings and lots of ’em) products and choose the most convincing. You’ll find the best crowdsourced ideas whether you’re searching for comforters , bed sheets , or even Christmas trees . Below, the best pressure cookers determined by the hard-nosed reviewers on Amazon
A new tool using data and AI is hoping to better predict famine and help millions experiencing food insecurity. At this week’s United Nations General Assembly, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Red Cross teamed up with tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to announce an unlikely new tool to stop famine before it starts: artificial intelligence. The Famine Action Mechanism (FAM), as
Six million stars in the Milky Way's disc are not behaving as they should be.
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The Hurom H-AI juicer has a self-feeding auger that works very well. But you probably don't need one in your kitchen.
A powerful typhoon pummelled Japan's southern island of Okinawa Saturday, injuring at least five, as weather officials warned the storm would rip through the Japanese archipelago over the weekend.
Cosmic rays emanating from the south polar ice cap could lead to new physics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
…by Jonas E. Alexis and Henry Makow Henry Makow has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 1982 and is the author of the best-selling book Cruel Hoax: Feminism & the New World Order. Makow grew up in a Jewish family. Jonas E. Alexis: The “Holocaust” has always been used as a weapon. In […]
© Alexander Shcherbak / TASS UN, on 28 September. / TASS /. Moscow is talking with the Americans about the cessation of their military presence in Syria. This was stated on Friday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a press conference on the results of participation in the high-level week of the 73rd session of the UN […]
Machine translated from Russian, suppressed in the US. Editor’s note: American forces have never had to exist in an ECW environment before with exception of the infamous USS “Donald Duck” incident in 2014 when Keshe based plasma technology shut down an AEGIS destroyer. MOSCOW, / TASS /. Russia will deploy electronic warfare (EW) systems in Syria […]
Editor’s note: In 2009, VT discovered two Israeli bases inside Azerbaijan, former Soviet fighter bases, which were to be used to attack Iran. Supplies to the bases were transferred, including runway denial and bunker-buster bombs, through the Georgian port of Poti via the USS Grapple, an American naval ship leased to Germany but crewed by Israelis. […]
…from SouthFront The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies continues their slow advance on ISIS positions in the al-Safa area in the al-Suwayda-Rif Dimashq desert. The SAA reportedly ambushed at least two groups of ISIS members killing six terrorists and destroying a vehicle. Nonetheless, most of the area remains in the hands of ISIS. […]
The recent public approval of the actions of Moscow, Tehran and Damascus by US leader Donald Trump, support for the plan to create zones of de-escalation in Syria and the successful implementation of this complex plan have suddenly changed into new Washington accusations. The entire course of the war with terrorists in Syria occurred before […]
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Ellen tested basketball icon Kobe Bryant's skills post-retirement in an entertaining game of "Ellen & Kobe's Connect 4 Hoops." #KobeBryant #TheEllenShow #Ellen From: TheEllenShow
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When Hurricane Florence touched down in North and South Carolina, former Marine Ryan Nichols sprang into action and drove all the way from his home state of Texas to help with evacuations. In the process of helping people to safety, he spotted abandoned dogs, and in an amazing act of kindness, assisted them to dry land. Ellen had a gift for both Ryan and the Humane Society of the United States, t
Sam is a 27-year-old music-teaching, sovereign ring-wearing, chanting Buddhist. He is the lead singer of an up-and-coming punk band - but he’s also mute ... at least for most of the time. After two unsuccessful vocal chord operations, Sam spends most of his time in pain and on voice rest. Yet, by communicating silently through writing notes, mouthing words and blowing kisses (one for yes and two
Protests were planned ahead of San Francisco climate summit this week
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Refugees from the lowlands are settling on areas reserved for livestock pastures, wetlands, and even river banks
Swine fever has made its way into China, home to half the world’s pigs. Farmers in Estonia are already counting the cost
A trip to Baja California drives home the perils of irresponsible whale watching
The Youngs are among 3.25 million Ohioans living within half a mile of oil and gas plants
Imagine you're a high school student doing a homework assignment on the Federal Reserve. You go to YouTube and type in "Federal Reserve" in the search bar and find "Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve." The horror! Luckily, you don't have to worry about that, because now that MSNBC and Mother Jones have ganged up, it's being scrubbed from the search results! Welcome to the w
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode346-lq.mp3"][/audio] Little did we know at the time, 9/11 was not a normal day of blue sky aviation. On the contrary, it was one of the busiest days in the history of American aviation, a dense forest of live fly exercises, drills, simulations, fake radar injects and utter confusion. And that was before the attacks even began. This is the story
As we know from the political puppets and their mouthpieces in the controlled corporate media, Syrian President Basher al-Assad is a bloodthirsty monster responsible for the wanton slaughter of (fill in the number) of his own citizens, and he particularly enjoys dropping chemical weapons on women and children despite knowing that this is the one thing that will bring him universal condemnation and
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-09-07%20Niels%20Harrit.mp3"][/audio] Prof. Niels Harrit joins us to discuss the mysterious "Frank Taylor report" that launched 17 years of NATO destruction in the middle east. He connects the dots with a little-known declassified document and exposes the lie that has resulted in the deaths of untold millions.
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-09-14%20James%20Corbett.mp3"][/audio] In this video, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange gives you the latest breaking news on the China World Order and why it is here on purpose. We talk about the real news while exposing fake news media censorship on the topic of China with James Corbett of the Corbett report.
I like a good analogy for figuring out complex problems with moral overtones. I got to thinking about which one might work for understanding the opioid crisis after I saw the comments from my Facebook post today linking to the BC government’s announcement of a class action law suit against the opioid manufacturing industry. How’s this: Reimagining the issue as if it were the use of pesticides. Li
Almost three years since my last post! Yikes. I have decided to bring this blog back from the dead, per suggestion of my momma. Coming soon! Pura vida.

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Do vaccines cause autism? No, but autism causes vaccines :
And the prize for the best thing I’ve read on Twitter this week goes to :
India is thinking about making itself independent of US big tech companies: For some Indian political leaders, it is as if their nation — which was ruled by Britain for a century until 1947 — is being conquered by colonial powers all over again. And they are determined to stop it. For Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, India’s moves would curb a lucrative business avenue — especially after so m
Jeremy Corbyn recently suggested creating a state-run alternative to Facebook : Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has come up with the idea of a new sister organisation to the BBC called the “British Digital Corporation”, which might be able to create a new, publicly funded Facebook-like platform. Despite the large digital footprint of the BBC already, Corbyn said the new organisation would take on the
My colleague Olivia Vassalotti is back with another guest post, this time with an update on the recent activities of Glocom, a North Korean intelligence-linked company selling military communications technology overseas. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in North Korea’s contemporary efforts to access the global defence market, or for those curious about the limits …
Thailand has ratified the CTBT, while Tuvalu has signed it. It’s hardly front page news, but Jenny Nielsen, a VCDNP alum and now an information officer at the CTBTO, makes the case what we should care. This won’t make headlines—but it should. Thailand ratifies and Tuvalu signs the CTBT! Jenny Nielsen As an Information Officer for …
Quote of the week: “I stand and look in the dark under a cloud, But I see in the distance where the sun shines” — Walt Whitman Note to readers: This is my 500th post on ACW. Time flies. Human consciousness is being squeezed out of deliberations over nuclear weapons and arms control. It’s easier …
At CNS we are fortunate to have a stellar group of young researchers, who in the course of their research come up with some really interesting insights into the issues we work on. The post below is courtesy of Olivia Vassalotti, one of our DC-based specialists working on North Korea. It’s weird, wonderful and well …
In today’s episode, Aaron and Jeffrey discuss the 2020 Commission and its relationship with how we are conditioned to think about nuclear weapons. The podcast is filled with spoilers (you’ve been warned), but attempts to use the book — and one of the main characters, President Donald Trump — to discuss nuclear war, American nuclear policy, the …
Quote of the Week: “Nuclear history is the history not only of weapons but also of societies and individual destinies. This fact was obscured by the secrecy that prevailed during the Cold War, and yet it is in the human dimension of nuclear history that one has to look for hope that the nuclear danger …
Everything that has ever happened in the ranks of the New Democratic Party of Canada before his arrival, is of no interest to Jagmeet Singh. 'Rolex socialism' and 'out-cooling' Justin Trudeau are his primary concerns ... What a sad day for the New Democratic Party of Canada. Every Member of the Federal NDP Caucus who remains silent on his comments are complicit with Mr. Singh's reckless negligenc
Many pragmatic, experienced veterans of the New Democratic Party of Canada are preparing for the Party to be nearly obliterated in the upcoming 2019 Election under the leadership of Jagmeet Singh. The reasons are many, but none more public than Singh's handling of the Erin Weir and Christine Moore harassment allegations in the Federal Caucus. Singh has also managed to ignite an outright battle wi
JAGMEET SINGH!!! Just resign so that New Democrats can repair the damage your inexperience and stubbornness has created before the next Federal Election!! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-troubled-ndp-faces-its-do-or-die-moment-in-bc-caucus-meetings-this/
Weir and Moore Demonstrate Singh / NDP Stunning Hypocrisy September 9th, 2018 · 2 Comments So much for the federal NDP’s pretense of being the party of fairness, equality and even reconciliation. The differences between leader Jagmeet Singh’s and the federal party’s internal handling of two “inappropriate conduct” cases involving two NDP MPs recently are staggering … and horribly hypocritical. Sas
I joined the federal New Democrats in November, 1981 and after 37 years of continuous membership, I had my membership in the Federal NDP cancelled in the spring of 2018 specifically because of the horrible performance by new leader, Jagmeet Singh. So,as a result, I will not receive a copy of the Federal NDP's survey. Allow me to once again communicate with the Federal NDP and tell them how Jagmee
By Joan Bryden — Sep 6 2018 OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh won't allow scorned MP Erin Weir to run as a New Democrat in the next election — a decision that has caused a rupture between the NDP leader and the party's long-standing members in Saskatchewan. In a letter to Weir this week, Singh says he isn't confident the Saskatchewan MP won't repeat the harassing behaviour that got him kicked out of the NDP
New school year, new challenges and questions. For parents and students alike. In Ontario, the Fraud government is trying to axe the "new" sex ed curriculum and is running into more trouble than it expected. In Calgary, the school board has severed ties with a fake clinic that taught sex ed in PUBLIC schools . A couple of other school boards in Alberta have done the same. @ABProchoice tweeted a th
UA-MAS WOMEN'S PLAZA HONOREES ( https://mailchi.mp/041d6123a4f6/l6scyiofvs ): The fundraising campaign continues. The Raza Studies struggle in Arizona produced many narratives. One rarely heard was the role of the young women - from middle school students (who got arrested May 12, 2010, along with 11 others, mostly students) to high school and college students who took over the school board (Apri
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So, games like Eve Online, Elite Dangerous, Dual Universe, Star Citizen and No Man's Sky... what are they hoping to achieve, gameplaywise? They're all set in space ... and SPACE IS VERY verrrrry BIG . To strip the fuck out of the newly-discovered universe. Even the mostly-positive No Man's Sky is an evil asset strip of every innocent planet a player finds. Same with Star Citizen, it's a fucking u
Jacob Gable is re-creating archetypal plasma formations in his low-pressure jars in his 'lab'. Snakes digging for food. Craters cratering the rims of craters. Dualism of Birkeland circuit pairs reigning supreme.
chiming the sound of silence Gah, how utterly fucking disgusting and cynical, mainslime media here in UK, I'm talking about BBC and SKY obvz, is regurgitating the time-worn corporate message of 19 arabs flying two planes into three buildings and VOMIT HORROR BULLSHIT story later, I'm still as stunned as I am every fucking 9/11 anniversary. How can these people sleep at night, knowing (or at least
new novel coming in 2020 of all the alternative-mindset concepts the Free Planet blog has featured, like 9/11 and UFOs and Growing Earth and gah there's loads of them, Talbott and Thornhill's ELECTRIC UNIVERSE has proven to be the most alluring... for myself and others. While I've been banging on about electric universe for a few years now, I'm habitually 50/50 as to whether I totally subscribe t
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Fox 5 News breaking news on 911 This is a screen capture of a fade out transition from the morning show to the breaking news This is a clip from Fox 5 News at 8:52 am on September 11, 2001. Although reported as breaking news it is clearly edited and has a fade in transition between their morning show and the news coverage. of the World Trade Center disaster. They show that the footage is courtesy

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I will be talking at the annual conference of the National Economics Teaching Association, to be held October 25-26, 2018, in Phoenix, Arizona. If you are interested in learning more about the meeting, click here for more information.
I am looking to hire a couple part-time RAs. Information here . These positions tend to go to Harvard students, but I will consider applicants from comparable institutions. Update : Positions are filled.
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September 24, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - While China builds roads, rail, pipelines, airports, seaports, and factories across Africa, the United States finds itself resigned to selling weapons and stirring up conflicts between and within African states to disrupt the rise of the continent independent of Western hegemony. Part of stirring up conflict involves political subversion. In Uganda,
September 24, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - A terrorist attack on a military parade targeting civilians and military personnel alike left at least 29 dead and up to 70 more wounded in Iran's southwest region of Ahvaz. At the same time, in New York City, US political figures including US President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudolph Giuliani attended and expressed open support for "revolution" in Ira
September 7, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The United States has raised tensions further amid Syria's ongoing conflict. It has issued a threat in the form of a "warning" against Damascus against retaking the northern region of Idlib. More specifically, the US has accused Damascus of preparing chemical weapon attacks as part of its alleged strategy to retake the territory. No evidence has been
September, 3 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The Washington Post has now repeatedly used its platform to systematically cover up extensive US political interference across Southeast Asia. Last month, the Washington Post attempted to deny US interference in Cambodia . Its article - however - did more to reveal US meddling in the process - exclusively citing opposition organizations and individual
September 2, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The worst sort of deception is that perpetrated by those who pose as defending the most vulnerable when in reality, are leveraging their circumstances, exploiting their suffering, and in many cases, playing a direct role in perpetuating both. This is an apt description of Washington, London, and Brussels' global-spanning human rights racket - used rep
September 19, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Western and Russian media sources have reported an alleged joint Israeli-French strike on Syria on September 17. The attack included Israeli warplanes and French missile frigates operating in the Mediterranean off Syria's coast. Amid the attack, a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft with 14 service members aboard disappeared. The attack immediately

Left I on the News

Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio . Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted 11 minutes. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) -- Sept. 28, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *Trump at the U.N.: Undiplomatic? This Time, Aides Fear the Opposite https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/trump-united-nations-
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio . Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted 11 minutes. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) -- Sept. 21, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *No, Trump Doesn't Have an 'Anti-Palestinian Agenda' https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/14/no_trump_doesnt_have_an_anti-p
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio . Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted 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
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio . Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted 11 minutes. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) -- 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
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio . Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted 11 minutes. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) -- August 31, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”

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