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For the last couple of years I have been listening to investment advisor's advice (rarely followed) and what they make of the economy (a few think it OK, but most of those whom I perceive to be the best and brightests forsee a major market crash with grave consequences to both the rich and poor). A few strong indications of this can be found in my previous pair of blog re-posts. Here below I am re-posting an article by Bill Bonner, a very rich and very savvy Republican who nevertheless has genuine sympathy for the working poor. Here he tells us all the best way to save our nesteggs and our cash before our banks crash ...which they certainly will.
Original here: http://bonnerandpartners.com/our-favorite-way-to-own-gold/ BALTIMORE – We live in a world of sin and sorrow, infected by a fraudulent democracy, Facebook, and a corrupt money system.Wheezing, weak, and weary from the exertion of trying to appear “normal,” the economy staggers on. Last week, we gained some insight into the ailment. Something in the diagnosis has puzzled us for years
What a perfect story to have followed the one above! I have listened to many experts on investing who, once they get you hooked, announce that there is a price for their advice. However, in all of the many months that I have come across articles by Mike Larson, he has been giving away the knowledge I've wanted for free. For example, we are now made aware of the fact that car sales are tanking. What more do we need to realize that the U.S. economy is an the verge of a crash that might well exceed that of 1929. I believe that buying gold or silver now while its cheep is your best way to protect your wealth.
Right on Cue, Auto Sales Tank; Here’s What to Watch for Next … Mike Larson | Monday, April 4, 2016 at 4:20 pm The market’s focus on Friday was squarely on jobs. Investors apparently decided the employment situation was good enough that stocks should be bought, and the Dow edged ever closer to 18,000.But is there something ELSE investors like you should be paying attention to? I think so. I’m talki
Here Paul Craig Roberts is again focusing on the fake U.S. job results. So as a preamble, I am including below "The ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment Rate for March 2016 is 22.9%" ...as permited by ShadowStats.com at http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts. Note that all officially discouraged workers "were defined out of official existence in 1994". So adding those "out of official existance" to the "U-6 unemployment" rate now proves that about 23% of all Americans are out of work or working only part time. Nevertheless, the Fed and the Stock Markets(!) are running on the (incorrect) assumption that about 95% of all Americans are employed and thus boosting the economy by consuming. What do you think will happen when they find out the truth?
Jobs Report Blues — Paul Craig Roberts April 2, 2016 | Original Here | Use original and sign up at the bottom if you wish to receive his newsletter via email Jobs Report BluesPaul Craig RobertsOn Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there were 215,000 new jobs in March.John Williams of ShadowStats.com reports that these “new jobs” result from the the Birth-Death model that “artifi
"The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave"? The later is surely true, but nothing is being done to care for our troops when the survivers return physically or mentally damaged. And if you believe the former is true, read below to learn about how our Constitution has now been virtually destroyed.
Does The United States Still Exist? — Paul Craig Roberts March 26, 2016 | Original Here | Use original if you wish to receive his newsletter via email Does The United States Still Exist? An address delivered to the Libertarian Party of Florida on March 23, 2016 in Destin, FloridaPaul Craig RobertsTo answer the question that is the title, we have to know of what the US consists. Is it an ethnic gr
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"Jeeps"
October 2015 election campaign : Justin Trudeau defends the Conservative government's $15B armoured combat vehicle deal with Saudi Arabia as being just about "jeeps". Photo at right November 16 2015 : Saudi National Guard moving combat vehicles to Yemen border in November.Are those our LAVs? Yes they are.G&M Feb. 22 2016 : Saudis appear to be using Canadian-made combat vehicles again
Pay to Play in BC with LNG and KBR
On Friday March 18, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna signed off on environmental approval for the controversial Woodfibre LNG Project in Howe Sound, saying the project is "not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects". By Monday morning, Houston-based KBR had been awarded a multi-phased Front-End Engineering and Design contract for Woodfibre.I
Selling the doubleplusgood TTP to Canadians
When she signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal above a NZ casino two months ago, International Trade Minister Chrystia Freetrade was at pains to reassure us that signing it was not the same as ratifying it, and besides there would be conversations with Canadians about it first. "Signing does not equal ratifying. Signing is simply a technical step in the process, allowing the TPP text to b
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Zika and Abortion
I've been a student of the fetus freaks for years now. On their sites, stories are limited to a few categories. Some sites specialize in particular types of stories. The Amateur Statistician does what you'd expect from my nickname for her. Another fetishizes "botched" abortions.The SHRIEEEEEKY categories boil down to:• Number of abortions! YUGE! (China figures prominently here.)• Gruesom
Fetus Freaks React to Sex-Selective Abortion Study
Fetus freaks reacted predictably to the news of a large study confirming that sex-selective abortion probably accounts for a significant male/female birth ratio imbalance in Ontario's Indo-Canadian community. (Note that freaks call it "gendercide.")There are three categories of reactions. 1. Generalized hand-wringing, tut-tutting, and slamming of abortion.2. "Where are the feminists
Any Fix for Sex-Selective Abortion Would Be Discriminatory, Unethical, and Futile
Well, now at least we seem to have some decent research on sex selective abortion in Canada.Previous studies indicated that it might be happening in "some communities," but there were quibbles about methodology.This seems solid.It’s the clearest evidence yet that abortion is being used to help parents have a son. A study has found that some Indian-born immigrants to Canada are selectivel
Vengeance -- and More -- Drives "Unborn Victims" Law
I said I had no more to say about the new “unborn victims” law proposed as a private member’s bill by double-plus good fetus freak Cathay Wagantall. But there have been developments. The bill (C225) has been deemed votable, which mean we will be subjected to a glurge-filled debate in Parliament on it. Like Ken Epp’s ill-fated C484, this “unborn victims law” is intended to and will, if passed, impa
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Earth Embalmed
There are so many calamities - fish kills in Florida and birds falling out of the skies, epic floods and droughts, the slowing of the ocean currents - that when I prepared the 26th Dispatch From The Endocene I left out a major incident I had intended to include - the abrupt and near total coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The fact that it is just one item on the roster of gr
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RELIVING THE TRAUMA OF POLICE VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF SACRED JUSTICEby Roberto Cintli RodriguezCephus Johnson, the uncle ...
RELIVING THE TRAUMA OF POLICE VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF SACRED JUSTICEby Roberto Cintli RodriguezCephus Johnson, the uncle of Oscar Grant, who was killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer in Oakland in 2009, speaking at an event in 2012. When a family loses someone to police violence, many times, "they are shocked into silence. Sometimes they are just shocked," says Johnson. (Photo
On the Path to Sacred Justice
Censored Storyhttp://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/03/rodriguez-uncensored-on-state-sponsored.html
Not Counting Mexicans and Indians
THE VIDEOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G2ZAwKOCKA&feature=youtu.be
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Conspiracy Afoot
If I wasn't such a logical thinker (or at least I like to fancy myself as one) I might be forgiven for thinking there was a conspiracy afoot. The washer, my bookshelf (or lack thereof, to be more accurate) and even the provincial government seemed to be in cahoots regarding my overtime. (Honestly, I'm NOT a government conspiracy nut... a self-professed political geek, yes but a surly anti-govern
Cliff
We weren't biologically related. But that never mattered. In the end, I was always treated like a grandson. He wore many hats during his life and was known by many ways, as a father, a grandfather, Sgt. Beamish among others. To me, though, he was quite simply, Cliff.A sad day it was to learn he had died in his sleep a few days ago but a great life lived and I never tired of hearing all his gre
Elephant in the Room
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year and change, its hard to ignore the fact that the price of oil tanked (no pun intended) and things are very different from the way the used to be. Paradoxically, I've found work very busy the past few weeks due to plant outages and maintenance but I'm wary of the fact the despite the steady work it isn't all sunshine and roses. November thr
Walking Through Time
I spent the remainder of my time in Calgary taking in some of the buildings that I didn't see of photograph during my previous trip. Calgary might have a large number of office buildings per square foot of its downtown core but it also sports some wonderful little historic gems as well. The number of buildings dating from the 1880's up to the end of WWI is actually quite impressive and I only w
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Saudi Arabia Threatens To Crash The Dollar If Congress Exposes Their Role In 9/11 Attacks
Image Credit By Jay Syrmopoulos A bombshell report by the New York Times has revealed that Saudi Arabia, the third largest holder of U.S. Treasury bills in the world behind China and Japan, has warned the Obama administration and Congress that they will begin liquidating their U.S. assets if Congress passes a bill allowing for the Saudi government to be held responsible for their role in th
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Revisiting 'Argo', Hollywood's CIA-Supported Propaganda Fable
Through his dogged pursuit of declassified government documents, VICE News reporter Jason Leopold has revealed that the CIA was directly involved in the production of Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning, propaganda fairy tale Argo. Argo, along with other productions like an episode of Bravo's Top Chef , the USA Network series Covert Affairs; and CIA-related documentaries on the History Channel and
Location Location Location: The Unintended Symbolism of the White House Haft-Sîn
White House Nowruz, 2015 (Photo: The White House) This week, Michelle Obama hosted the second annual White House Nowruz, a celebration of the Iranian New Year. Though a relatively apolitical affair, the placement of the reception's traditional haft-sîn, however, should have raised some eyebrows. Nowruz, which literally means "new day" in Farsi, is an ancient festival of new beginnings,
The Mistakes and Missing History of CFR's #ThisDayinHistory Tweet on Iran
As part of its "This Day in History" series on social media, the Twitter account for the Council on Foreign Relations posted the following this morning: #ThisDayinHistory, 1979: Iran is declared an Islamic republic after 55 years of rule under the Pahlavi dynasty. pic.twitter.com/KvnmSukZmP — CFR (@CFR_org) April 1, 2016 At first glance a couple things are off about this tweet, admittedl
Pandermonium! At AIPAC, Trump Makes Same Promise on Jerusalem We've Been Hearing Since 1972
Breaking news! The news media is abuzz today with reports that, speaking before the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington D.C. - the annual gathering of rabid right-wing Israel supporters - a presidential candidate vowed to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. So who was it this time? Donald Trump. "We will move the American
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Iteration++
That is the first time in this series that I've gone from correlation to causation. And even though I've known for thirty years that debt is the problem, the move still bothers me. Because while it's obvious to me that debt is the problem, it's apparently not obvious to most people.That is the first time in this series that I've gone from correlation to causation. Even though I've known for thirty
"Literally"
From On the Mechanics of Economic Development by Robert E. Lucas, Jr:"The diversity across countries in measured per capita income levels is literally too great to be believed."So Lucas is saying: Yeah, we measure per capita income levels, and we get results, but our results must be no good because we cannot believe -- we literally cannot believe -- those results are right.I literally do
Le mot juste
"Simulation" maybe?So ... if the word comes from the late 20th century or the 1980s ... how come the "use over time" graph shows more use in the 19th century and less in the 20th?Screw it. I'll just use "sim" to mean "simulation".
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Hierarchy in the Forest
Christopher Boehm is a professor of anthropology and director of the Jane Goodall Research Center at the University of California. He has read hundreds of anthropological studies on a variety of human societies. He also spent time with Goodall at Gombe National Park, observing the behavior of wild chimpanzees. These experiences inspired him to speculate on our evolutionary journey, and to atte
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Why Is Bernie Sanders Doing This Well?
By Manifesto JoeAt 74 going on 75, he's too old to run for president. He's a rumpled old senator from a small state, and the only avowed socialist in the Congress since Ron Dellums retired. He's an unremarkable speaker with a heavy New York accent. And he's unlikely to win the Democratic nomination for president even if he does well in forthcoming primaries, because the party machinery (soft deleg
From Joe's Vault, April 2011: Tax Time Again
By Manifesto JoeIn the five years since this post first appeared, I've gotten in trouble with the IRS. Looks like I may end up getting an attorney before this is over. Conservatives may laugh, but hey -- if not for your moronic Iraq War, and your giving zillionaires and big corporations a tax pass, perhaps I wouldn't owe so much.BTW, I didn't post for a few months, but I've been busy with a little
Republican Party Deserves Trump
By Manifesto JoeIt's hard for me to spell his name with the "T."For nearly 50 years, the Republican Party has leaned on a "Southern strategy," as it was called during Richard Nixon's successful run for the presidency in 1968. That year the choice for rednecks was between Tricky Dick and George Wallace, and a good many chose the latter. But the strategy was articulated, and it h
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It's official - Icelandic bankers have been jailed
If you've been following this blog over the last few years, you know that Iceland took the dramatic step of prosecuting top officers at the country's big 3 banks, all of which were allowed to go bankrupt in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse. Unlike Ireland, it did not turn bank debt into government debt, which increased Ireland's debt by close to 100% of gross national product (GNP) overnigh
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Political Influence of AIPAC
The American Israeli Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is the strongest and most influential political lobby in the USA. Some of its member, 18,000, met recently in Washington D.C.The Committee (AIPAC) extended its invitation to the five presidential candidates to attend their meeting and to express their political views towards Israel.The only candidate who did not attend the meeting was Sena
The Corrupt American Congress
The month of March will be always remembered as the month the US invaded Iraq 13 years ago.Unfortunately, only one American politician, senator Cruz, stated publicly that the invasion of Iraq destabilized the Middle East region. He furthermore said that the removal of Saddam Hussein was a mistake because under his rule Iraq was stable.Senator Cruz and do not support him made a correct statement.
The Corrupt American Congress
The month of March will be always remembered as the month the US invaded Iraq 13 years ago.Unfortunately, only one American politician, senator Cruz, stated publicly that the invasion of Iraq destabilized the Middle East region. He furthermore said that the removal of Saddam Hussein was a mistake because under his rule Iraq was stable.Senator Cruz and do not support him made a correct statement.
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Back to Basics. A Departure from Ethic/Spiritual Chauvinism
Since starting this blog, I have endeavoured to search for knowledge. I have always had a healthy respect for people who are on a journey to increase their understanding of what we call reality. I have never had anything but pity for those who cling to a delusional belief that they have all the answers. Sadly, in my travels through the unknown, I lost my way and fell into the trap of proselytisin
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Transfer of activism
Those in educational circles, particularly on social media, are observing a season of meetings of various professional organizations. We were recently treated to the smiles and reunions of academics at the DC meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). And we are now inundated with the bright, optimistic activism of the Network for Public […]
A challenge to education researchers
For the most part, I read education research like I learned to read it: A bit of introduction, skim methods and results, cut right to the discussion and conclusions. When I was doing my dissertation, I was skimming hundreds of articles and simply didn’t have the time to read every word, unless it was some […]
Still some misinformation out there about #optout2016
I’m not necessarily talking about whether or not parents have the right to opt their children out of standardized testing. Opt out of testing groups, of which the NPE is now involved, are doing a pretty good job of getting that bit out there, although it’s still not reaching, from where I stand, the real […]
I do remember those days… #optout2016
My how things change. I do remember those days around 2010 when opting out of standardized tests was considered the most radical thing one can do. Foolish, silly, self-destructive. And now, not so much. How much farther would the movement have been if support for the strategy came on day one? At this point, my […]
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OBSIDIAN WINGS8 unread articles // actions
It's April 15th, So Why Aren't My Taxes Due Yet? -- Open Thread
by wj As everybody here (at least those who live in the US) is aware, taxes are normally due on April 15. That is extended, naturally, when the 15th is not on a week day, i.e. it is on a Saturday or Sunday. But this year, April 15th is a Friday. And yet taxes are not due until next Monday. No doubt there is a well-known (to everybody but me) reason for this oddity. Other possible points for an op
Your WTF? Weekend Open Thread
by Ugh Maybe we could use one of these. McTx asks what marginal tax rates I would set. Eh, probably would require a little more thought than I'm up for right now. I will say that I don't think the theory that higher marginal tax rates cause more consumption of leisure to hold other than in highly unusual cases. It's not like most people can just stop working in November and then pick it up ag
Lifestyle changes
by Doctor Science Wednesday of the week before last, Mister Doctor Science started to have chest pains while he was at fencing. He was wondering if it was just acid reflux (again), but one of the other fencers insisted on driving him to the ER. That friend is currently my favorite person in the whole world, because Mr Dr was in fact having a heart attack. His right coronary artery was completely
an interesting article...
by russell Linked-In sent me this thought-provoking (to me, at least) piece. "Just learn to code" has been the modern-ish equivalent of "one word - plastics" for a little while now. Find yourself on the downside of the new economy? Get some technical skills together and Bob's your uncle! Except those are increasingly being (a) outsourced or (b) automated. Unless you're doing
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New York Times article: In the Mountains of Bolivia, by Michael Benanav
Below is a New York Times article on Bolivia, perhaps the best every published in that paper on Bolivia, we look forward to more like this. It is by Michael Benanav, published on 23 March 2016, titled "In the Mountains of Bolivia: Encounters with Magic." With a face as creased as a walnut shell and a smile as gleeful as it was toothless, 98-year-old Augustina Lamagril welcomed us into
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Fool's Day 2016
Happy Fool's Day! This year, I thought I'd link Vulture's feature, "The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy." It's got many classics, but the list is more impressive for its breadth and less obvious choices. Some supplemental pieces delve further into some of the gags, including Airplane's "Don't call me Shirley."
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PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK8 unread articles // actions
Guess what?! Strawberry pesticides are in the air.
What’s being applied on the strawberry field next door? For many Californians, the answer is a big question mark. And the issue has taken on added significance as state officials consider how best to answer that question — and then inform parents about the health-harming pesticides being applied near homes and schools. According to a 2014 report from the California Department of Public Healt
Guest blog: Another broken trade agreement
On February 4, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was signed by 12 countries in North America, South America and Asia. Now each country’s congress is considering whether or not to ratify this global trade agreement. All eyes are on the United States, where free trade has become a key election issue. The deal was negotiated in secret with 600 corporate advisors; anyone who did read it faced
Test your knowledge
Farmworkers plant, cultivate and harvest much of the food we eat every day. How much do you know about the history of the farmworker justice movement in the U.S.? Find out now. Take the quiz Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
On Autism Awareness Day
World Autism Awareness Day is on April 2 this year. It's a day to shine a light on this condition and reaffirm our support for adults and children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and for their families. It's also a day to learn more about what increases risks of autism — and to think about prevention. ASD and autism are both general terms for a group of complex disorders of brain devel
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PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENT3 unread articles // actions
Awesome Research for Public Health Ethics Scholarship and Training Available Online for Free!
Yes indeed! Super kudos to the editorial team of Drue H. Barrett, Leonard H. Ortmann, Angus Dawson, Carla Saenz, Andreas Reis and Gail Bolan – and the sponsor CDC – for putting together this freely available, pioneering and one of a kind collection of case studies and background texts for global public health ethics study, research and training. With contribution by a pack of high octane scholars,
New paper online: Ethical Hazards in Monitoring and Addressing Patient Decision Capacity in Clinical Practice
Just a little heads-up about a new research paper now being online (free to read and download). This one is lead by my Ph.D. student, Thomas Hartvigsson (presently visiting at Queen's University, Canada) and addresses aspects of his thesis topic about the normative roles of decision competence, for instance, in areas such as law or health care.Together with Gun Forsander, chief senior clinical con
Come and Work with Us on Moral and Legal Responsibility and Agency!
The practical philosophy group at my department has for many years been working on building a research environment focusing broadly on responsibility as a topical theme. This theme encompasses all aspects of moral and legal responsibility and agency, and ranges from the applied and practice oriented (related to different areas and institutions), to the most general and fundamental issues in philos
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Pertussis Microbe Outsmarts the Vaccines As Experts Argue About Why
Posted: 3/29/2016 By Barbara Loe FisherTo activate and view hyperlinked references, please click here once and then click any superscripted number below to access a hyperlinked reference, or scroll down to the bottom of the article to view all hyperlinked references.For the past decade, Americans have been subjected to dire warnings that B. pertussis whooping cough cases are on the rise and it is
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Two More Books
I recently finished Mount Pleasant by Don Gilmor. Somebody was giving it away in a cardboard box outside their house. I live on Mount Pleasant Avenue, so I figured "what the hell." It's a decent look at a middle-aged man's midlife crisis. It's a nice portrayal of the vicissitudes of the Rosedale set. And "Occupy Toronto" makes a presence.I could identify with everything about t
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North Carolina Now Requires Men To Use Your Employer's Ladies' Room
If you work in North Carolina, be warned: your employer now has to require men to use the ladies' room. Not all men, but some men. These men have beards, mustaches, and yes, penises. But they have to use the ladies' room due to a new law just signed by your governor. And if you're a business, you are now legally required to humiliate some customers and allow others to be frightened. This law was m
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“Assad’s Fateful Choice” by David W. Lesch
Assad’s Fateful Choice by David W. Lesch This spring marks the fifth year anniversary of the events that launched a civil war in Syria. Typically, there were some huge miscalculations early on that set the conflict in motion, such as the Syrian opposition’s expectation that the West would militarily intervene to facilitate the overthrow of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. And then
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Recalibrating the BBC’s scales – Part II
Given its legal obligation to remain impartial, a key feature of the BBC brand of impartiality is its effort to appear impartial. Its starting point, wisely enough, is an appeal to common-sense. Whenever possible, the BBC plays upon the audience’s understanding of even-handedness. To see this let’s return for a moment to domestic politics. One well-established political conception is that of a lef
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Sleazy Sell-Out. “Sunny Days”. The Bank of Canada
Sleazy Sell-Out. “Sunny Days”. Part II The Bank of Canada Written by Robin Mathews April 2016We have come upon a brilliant example, here in Canada, of what Anthony Hall calls “imperial globalization” and “the terror economy” (Earth Into Property, McGill-Queen’s, 2011.) Those are terms which describe the move to ‘world government’ by increasingly unregulated (and increasingly crim
"Sunny Days”. Sleazy Sell-Out.
"Sunny Days”. Sleazy Sell-Out. ...........part I Written by Robin Mathews April 2016 Anthony Hall writes about “ballot-box colonialism”, “imperial globalization” and its “licence for lawlessness” – as well as the present “terror economy” - in Earth Into Property (McGill-Queen’s, 2011). Hall focuses attention on the relentless an
Petronas in Prince Rupert, Boulevard of Broken Dreams
_______________Prices of spot LNG for April delivery to Asia averaged $4.46 per MMBtu, according to latest Platts Japan/Korea Marker data for month-ahead delivery.At $4.46/MMBtu, the April JKM was 38.7 percent below prices for the same delivery month in 2015.Platts adds in its report that the latest marker for April delivery is also at the lowest monthly average level seen since July 2009, when th
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That LAV deal
Frankly, the LAV deal is a shitty deal for anyone in Canada but the Tories, and I honestly don't believe the Trudeau, Dion, and the rest like it any more than of us. I think they probably know they've got no good defence for their decision. They've got advisors looking at the tea leaves and wondering what the next of war in the region will look like. We've got no idea where and how any weapons in
Transparency is hard
Lying about major arms deals to illiberal regimes. Dion, please resign. Trudeau, we expected this of your predecessor. If your hands were tied or your government were pressured by things we haven't seen, such as industry lobby pressure, petitions from other states, or something else entirely, explain it to us. That's called transparency. It's hard, I know.
OK, Liberals
Fix this. It doesn't matter how many mayurasana JT can do on his desk or how gender-balanced your cabinet is. Lying to us about the state of the nation's finances or how you spend our tax money, or anything really, is despicable.
Panama papers
Reading the rolling accounts of the Panama Papers (Iceland's PM just resigned, David Cameron's family has some 'splaining to do), I think we're a scandal away from a popular revolt. Each one of these fucking document dumps nakedly shows how much of the game is rigged against us.
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THE HIGH-FAT HEP C DIET4 unread articles // actions
The Tragedy of William Stark, who conclusively proved that eating crap will kill you, by a process of self-experimentation, in 1770, a fact which more people should pay attention to.
How did I not know about William Stark MD? Born in Birmingham of an Irish mother and a Scottish father, he studied philosophy in Glasgow and medicine in Edinburgh and at the University of Leiden before going to work as a doctor in London in 1765."The person on whom these experiments are tried is a healthy man, about twenty-nine years of age, six feet high, stoutly made, but not corpulent
On second thoughts, that vegetarian genomic study did show that not eating animals is not good for you.
Generally, a study that purported to show that vegan and vegetarian diets are harmful would be welcomed by meat eaters, who get a lot of pseudoscientific criticism from members of those groups, some of it disguised as sober science. But no-one was much impressed by the Pune vs. Kansas study. Even Tom Naughton wrote it off as meaning the same thing the head of the NZ vegetarian society said it
Silymarin for type 2 diabetes - significant effects on glucose and lipids from a safe OTC herbal.
This study has an interesting backstory. Hepatitis C (mainly genotype 4) infects nearly a quarter of the Egyptian population. This is the highest rate of HCV infection I've heard of in any country; however the Nile Valley is probably the ancestral home of HCV's transmission to humans.Egypt is not a rich country and drug treatments for Hep C are expensive, not to mention dangerous and unreliably e
The Smoking Gun - the Role of PUFA in Non-Alcoholic Liver Disease
The smoking gun Public health experts are gradually accepting the idea that sucrose and fructose are, like alcohol, causes of fatty liver disease (non-alcoholic liver disease - NAFLD - and its inflammatory development, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis - NASH). After all, sugar is unnecessary and, like alcohol, the rogue macronutrient, associated with pleasure rather than nutrition. There’s
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Hard lessons from the Ghomeshi trial
As news of the Jian Ghomeshi verdict started coming out this week, I felt like a human version of those three monkeys who see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil - all stopped up so I wouldn't have to hear what was coming. I'd had a bad feeling about where things were going from the moment that the first witness was eviscerated by the defence lawyer about her behaviour after the alleg
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The Energy Collective collapses due to gross incompetence and inability to accept criticism
The Energy Collective was recently taken over by Energy Post. This didn't have any visible consequences until just a couple days ago, when Energy Post attempted a conversion of the site from Drupal 6 to Wordpress. I've been using Wordpress for years, and had no real complaints about it. But this conversion... it was like having the Library of Congress edited and reprinted by Mad Magazine.
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