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mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode357-lq.mp3"][/audio] "In
our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing" wrote
George Orwell 70 years ago, and the observation remains true today. But
bad writing is not just bad writing; the language employed by
politicians (and their string pullers) can literally be a matter of life
and death. Join James today on the podcas
The annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy has been released.
Global demand for energy is speeding up again — mainly thanks to China,
India and the US. Tellingly, all fuels — coal, oil, gas, nukes and hydro
— grew faster than their ten year averages, but not renewables. So the
momentum has shifted back to fossil fuels, especially gas which was up a
remarkable 5.3%, one of the fastest rates
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This week on the New World Next Week: female psychopaths feel left out
at boys-only Bohemian Grove; the SCO prepares to be ignored again at
this weekend's summit; and broken clock Jon Stewart is right about 9/11
responders in Congressional hearing.
The
UK leads the way with more radical rain-dance h/t James Delingpole,
Eric Worrall If people work only one-day-a-week, they will need to spend
the other six days growing food and feeding the chickens in their own
back yards. The head of the so-called conservative government, Theresa
May, wants to spend $1,000 billion dollars on fashionable weather, and
the leader of the opposition, who may be th
At midnight on Friday, Taylor Swift dropped her new track "You Need To
Calm Down," in what is her most political effort yet. Sitting just under
three minutes, the single is a markedly less saccharine experience than
her last single "ME!" , but it's the lyrics, ardent in their support
for the LGBTQ community, which has got the internet very excited. Swift
said in a video posted by Beats 1's Twitte
This article has been published to coincide with an episode of
Mashable's new podcast, Fiction Predictions . Listen here . 30 years
ago, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett joined forces to write Good Omens .
The story — a comedy is all about the impending apocalypse — has just
been made into a TV show for Amazon Prime. With its themes of war and
climate change, it feels more relevant than ever. "The
Via:
Reuters: Attacks on two oil tankers on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman
left one ablaze and both adrift, shipping firms said, driving oil prices
up 4% over worries about Middle East supplies. The Front Altair was on
fire in waters between Gulf Arab states and Iran after an explosion that
a source blamed […]
Scientists
have determined that Europa's ocean may be more like the Earth's oceans
than previously thought. The discovery was made by using the Hubble...
Via:
The Rutherford Institute: The government now has at its disposal
technological arsenals so sophisticated and invasive as to render any
constitutional protections null and void. Spearheaded by the NSA, which
has shown itself to care little to nothing for constitutional limits or
privacy, the “security/industrial complex”—a marriage of government,
military and corporate interests aimed […]
Mohammed Amin calls frontrunner a ‘buffoon’ and compares popularity to
Hitler’s Follow the day’s political developments - live The chairman of
the Conservative Muslim Forum has drawn a comparison between Adolf
Hitler and Boris Johnson, saying “many horrible people have been
popular” and that he would quit the Tory party if the former foreign
secretary was elected leader. Mohammed Amin, a longtime
Daughter pays tribute to Grace Jones, who had attributed her longevity
in part to whisky Britain’s oldest person, Grace Jones, has died at the
age of 112. Her daughter said the supercentenarian, who was nicknamed
Amazing Grace, died at her home in Worcestershire on Friday. Continue
reading...
A
young man and woman, both 18 years old, were killed by a lightning
strike during a thunderstorm Thursday in a park in Mt. Pleasant. The
Westmoreland County Coroner's Office identified the victims as Brendan
McGowan, of North Huntingdon, and Kaitlyn Rosensteel, of Donora. The
agency said McGowan and Rosensteel had "injuries consistent with being
struck by lightning." A report from the coroner's o
A Japanese company’s account of the damage to its ship differed from the explanation of American officials who blamed Iran.
Dr. Bandy Lee convened experts to study the Mueller report. They conclude that Trump "can no longer see reality"
In
a move that surprised exactly zero people, Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo has wasted no time scrambling to blame Iran for damage done to
two sea vessels in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, citing exactly zero
evidence. "This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used,
the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar
Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no
A
team of researchers from Jülich in cooperation with the University of
Magdeburg has developed a new method to measure the electric potentials
of a sample at atomic accuracy. Using conventional methods, it was
virtually impossible until now to quantitatively record the electric
potentials that occur in the immediate vicinity of individual molecules
or atoms. The new scanning quantum dot microscop
Researchers
report a new machine translation system that outputs subtitles in
multiple languages for archived university lectures. As countries like
China and Japan expand their international student cohort, this system
could relax language demands and allow the students to study in their
mother tongue.
As
NASA's Cassini dove close to Saturn in its final year, the spacecraft
provided intricate detail on the workings of Saturn's complex rings, new
analysis shows.
If this fundamental symmetry of the universe doesn’t hold, it could break open new physics.
Scientists
have developed a way of amplifying DNA on a scale suitable for use in
the emerging fields of DNA-based computing and molecular robotics. By
enabling highly sensitive nucleic acid detection, their method could
improve disease diagnostics and accelerate the development of
biosensors, for example, for food and environmental applications.
Nature, Published online: 14 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01868-2 A
new law formalizes restrictions on the collection and use of people's
genetic data.
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