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Overwhelming Evidence Points To Orlando Shooting Being A FALSE FLAG
It looks like the government and mainstream media are once again LYING to us and pushing the usual FALSE FLAG stories: either a Muslim terrorist lone nut gunman or a white supremacist rightwing lone nut gunman. In this post, I will provide all the information the government and mainstream media aren't telling us about the Orlando shooting and Omar Mateen. Some of the information is actually FROM t
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I suppose that many of you who visit my blog get most of your news from the US "mainstream media," which constantly reports military and propaganda provocations against Russia. Here, Paul Craig Roberts asks the question: “What if the Russians believe us? What if we convince Russia that we are going to attack her?” Well, from extensive reading of non-mainstream media, I have learned that Vladimir Putin is not a monster, and that he plans to attack no one but ISIS in Syria. That is, until NATO completes its anti-nuclear-missile installations in Eastern European countries surrounding Russian …which would put Russia in true danger. So, like the Minute Men at Bunker Hill, Putin won't shoot until he sees the whites of the eyes of those who plan to attack Mother Russia. However, whereas the Minute Men fully expected the arrival of the Red Coats, the US continues to pretend that their illegal planting of anti-nuclear-weapons in Russia's front yard is only defensive. While Putin is still…
Where Do Matters Stand? — Paul Craig Roberts April 23, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. Dear Readers: Support Your Site. Your Site Needs Your Financial Support and Your Moral Support.Where Do Matters Stand?Paul Craig RobertsOn the eve of World War II the United States was still mired in the Great Depression and found itse
Dear friends, Normally I would find the video on YouTube and put it in a blog re-post. However, there was no YouTube version. Why? Likely because
Western Financial System Looting Greece June 2, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. http://kyklosproductions.com/video/160526_pressTV_greece/ Cherchez la Verite
From two lines in this article: "[I]t was Mrs. Clinton who hectored her husband into bowing to a chorus of neoconservative and liberal interventionist voices and finally giving the order to bomb the former Yugoslavia." Continuing… "...Serbs in the northern part of the country were demanding some form of local autonomy to stave off violent attacks by Kosovar ultra-nationalists." Long story short, Kosovo and Serbia were abutting provinces in the former Yugoslavia, and the former was attacking the latter ...supported by Hillary. Flash back to early 2001. The blogger (Dave Griscom) was an Invited Professor of Research at Universtiés de Paris 6 & 7 and, most improbably, a Serbian professor was also invited at the same time doing the exactly the same kind of research! Thus we had to take turns using the main instrument called an ESR spectrometer (see the photo of us in front of this instrument below). We immediately became great friends and corresponded for some time. Then all of a sudden…
Kosovo: Hillary Clinton’s Legacy of TerrorThe “liberation” of Kosovo unleashed radical Islamism in Europeby Justin Raimondo, May 25, 2016 Kosovo is Clinton Country: a 10-foot-high statue of Bill overlooks “Bill Clinton Boulevard” in the capital city of Pristina. Hillary is also memorialized in what has become the crime capital of Europe: right off the street named for her husband is a store named
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First meeting of Electoral Reform Committee
The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, seconded by Elizabeth May, to allow members of the public access to question the expert witnesses before the committee in real time via email or twitter hashtag.Cullen (paraphrased @mark 18:00) : As MPs we will have the privileg
Last week in Real Change™
FRIDAY June 17No need for inquiry into Afghan detainee torture, Liberals sayFederal Liberals who argued for a public inquiry, while in opposition, into the treatment of prisoners during the Afghan war, now say they will not conduct such an investigation.Assisted Dying Bill C-14 Passes Senate With Liberals' Restrictive ApproachCanadians suffering intolerably from non-terminal medical conditions can
A Last Stand for Lelu
The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary – Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian energy giant Petronas – without the consent of the people who rejected a $1.15 billion dollar deal from Petronas to gain that consent.The undersigned First Nation leaders and citizens of the Nine Allied Tribes of Lax
Pay to Play in BC with Postmedia real estate
In June 2013, the ailing Vancouver Postmedia papers The Sun and The Province dumped 100 employees plus two out of four floors of their downtown Vancouver offices. Colliers International, "the biggest player in the domestic commercial real estate industry", subleased the two now empty floors.The previous year, Colliers and Postmedia had launched their joint venture "Property Post&qu
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Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Bill: The E-Petition
In December last year, Canada's government acknowledged the power of the Intertoobz and started allowing e-petitions. They need to be sponsored by an MP and if they get 500 signatures, can be tabled in Parliament.Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada yesterday initiated an e-petition against Bill C225 (full text of bill), "An Act to amend the Criminal Code (injuring or causing the death of a pr
LifeSite Is Just Embarassing Itself: Fetal Pain Redux
They really got nuthin'. Look at this from yesterday's LieShite.The Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA] is facing calls to retract a 2005 study that pro-lifers have labeled a “propaganda tool” for abortion activists.In 2016, fetus freaks are attacking a study from 2005 still deployed to refute the BAD (biased, agenda-driven) science used to pass "fetal pain" laws, lowering
New! Fraudster Certification
Hey, fetus freaks! Want to make money from your fetish? Of course you do!Get certified in Fake Clinic Management!OKWU [Oklahoma Wesleyan University] is launching an “applied bioethics” certificate program this July that will train students in pro-life activism and pregnancy center management. It’s a partnership with the Life Training Institute and Care Net.The "credits" will be transferr
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Fire: A Brief History
We live in a perplexing era. On one hand, we are the most brilliant critters that ever existed. On the other hand, we are knowingly destroying the ecosystem upon which our survival depends, which sane folks might see as the opposite of brilliant. You and I descend from ancestors who, once upon a time, lived in balance with the family of life. What happened?Obviously, the industrial era has s
How Did Things Get To Be This Way?
Here’s a new creature provided for your amusement by the wonderful folks at Dark Mountain: How Did Things Get To Be This Way?
The Myth of Human Supremacy
When an unlucky person has been swept away by the brainwashing of a wacko cult, concerned friends or family members sometimes seek the assistance of a skilled deprogrammer to exorcize the demons. It’s a painful process. The scrambled soul is blasted with a fire-hose of strong rational arguments, hour after hour, hammering away at the many contradictions in the cult’s beliefs. Ideally, the shi
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As part of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, the National Security Archive's Cuba Documentation Pro...
As part of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, the National Security Archive's Cuba Documentation Project is posting a selection of key CIA, State Department, and Pentagon documentation relating to Guevara and his death. This electronic documents book is compiled from declassified records obtained by the National Security Archive, and by authors of two new books on Guevara: Jorg
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Formatting HTML, a detail
On the econ blog I'm complaining about Martin Feldstein. Yeah you should have heard of him // I'm not gonna say who he is // It doesn't matter anyway.I looked him up on Wikipedia. Copied the first paragraph & pasted into my blog. Pasted it in the "compose" view. That way the links and HTML formatting gets pasted in, along with the text. So I get to see how (in this case) Wikipedi
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The Great North American Mid-life Baseline Assessment
North America and I have reached mid-life. My doctor tells me that at 52, I am actually not in mid-life, but old, and I suppose the same is true for the United States and to a lesser extent, Canada. We have enjoyed the exuberance and productivity of youth, fueled by abundant energy. We reached our peak, thinking it would last, but now decline seems unavoidable and inevitable. I have spent the past
Suffer the Children
In his epic new work Half-Earth, renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson opens with the most poignant description of humanity I have ever seen:Storyteller, mythmaker and destroyer of the living world. Thinking with a gabble of reason, emotion and religion. Lucky accident of primate evolution during the late Pleistocene. Mind of the biosphere. Magnificent in imaginative power and exploratory drive, yet
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Memorial Day 2016
Memorial Day is meant for remembering those who died in military service (a worthy commemoration). It's also a holiday that naturally spurs thoughts of civilians killed in war, of living veterans and how they're treated, and how war is discussed in our country. It's only right to pause and remember the dead. And perhaps the best way to honor them the other days of the year is by challenging the
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Our Official Position on Global Warming Vs Global Cooling and what is causing Climate Change
By Suzanne MacNevin and Charles Moffat.We are writing this together because both of us have changed our minds about what we think is causing climate change.Up until now we were stern advocates that carbon dioxide (CO2) was causing global warming and climate change. We are here now because we are not officially changing our opinions on the topic. We are changing our opinions because we have both be
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Subsidy Tracker Reaches Major Milestones
Subsidy Tracker, the free subsidy database created in 2010 by Good Jobs First, has reached major milestones in its coverage of state, local, and federal subsidies.This month's enhancements to the database bring it to a once-unimaginable 500,000 individual incentive awards with a cumulative nominal subsidy value of $250 billion! That's starting to add up to real money!I explained two years ago how
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Supreme Court holds tribunal finding is entitled to deference
British Columbia (Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal) v. Fraser Health Authority, 2016 SCC 25:The standard of review applicable to a tribunal's original decision requires curial deference, absent a finding of fact or law that is patently unreasonable. Because a court must defer where there is evidence capable of supporting a finding of fact, patent unreasonableness is not established where the
Penile swab legitimate incident to arrest
Saeed, 2016 SCC 24:To be reasonable and therefore consistent with s. 8 of the Charter : (1) a search must be authorized by law; (2) the authorizing law must be reasonable; and (3) the search must be conducted reasonably. Determining whether the common law power of search incident to arrest may reasonably authorize a penile swab involves striking a proper balance between an accused's privacy inter
Does a lawyer become liable to pay costs personally because he starts an action that has little chance of success? Maybe
Yesterday's decision in Best v. Ranking, 2016 ONCA 492 suggests counsel is not liable for costs for pursuing a weak action. But the court goes on to say the weakness of a case "is not unfamiliar in this context". What that means is rather unclear but it suggests counsel is at risk of pursuing a weak action. Some might say the facts in the case were extreme but suggest counsel ought to ex
Self Defence Not to be Analyzed from a Viewpoint of Perfection
R. v. Cunha, 2016 ONCA 491:[24] I accept the appellant's argument that "the trial judge parsed the appellant's reactions down to the split-second and held him to a standard of perfection, informed by his hindsight knowledge that Mr. Barros was actually unarmed and that Mr. Massaquoi had already left the house through the back door." This was an error in principle, since the trial
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The experience of school choice as a teacher
A massive story on school choice in NYC is in the NY Times magazine. Many of these issues are local matters, but many are also part and parcel of the false promises of school choice, which all evidence underscores the fact that schools have become more, not less, segregated as a result. Moreover, choice benefits families […]
Yet another march and conference. Is this what we really need?
The short answer is no. The longer answer is still no. Actually, I thought Save Our Schools was defunct. But since their initial march in 2011, which arrived with some very high profile speakers and great fanfare from those of us already embedded in various movements on behalf of public schools, things have been pretty quiet […]
We lost an amazing teacher and person this week
Here’s the obituary for a young man and teacher who left us too soon, Mr. Kaylor Keck. It’s been several days now, and as I type these words, I can’t believe it. But in our time of mourning, for those of us that knew Kaylor, this is when we share what was best about him. […]
Principals should be elected to four year rotations
Like a lot of things in today’s pubic schools, the principal is a position that harks back to factory models of schooling. The building principal is a middle-level manager, a waypoint between the rank and file teacher and central management. In highly centralized and hierarchical school systems, perhaps in many urban school districts with highly […]
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June Post
I've had five days straight off of work and a lot's been happening in the world. Blogging is a waste of time but I've got time to waste today so ..."Elbow-gate": - Ramming through legislation without debate is icky. NDP working with the Conservatives for any purpose is icky. The delaying tactics were silly. But Liberals do them too. Trudeau's choice of words showed that he lost his tempe
Brief Return On harper's Departure
So, stephen harper is retiring and plans to open a consulting group that dispenses foreign policy "expertise" (which is really just a polite fiction whereupon his corporate masters reward him for his services to keep him quiet until such a time, if ever, when they can kill him and whatever secrets he has on them go with him to his grave).**[Unlike most other things, it's impossible to go
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Postmedia Defends the Indefensable, Site C Dam Boondoggle and Defunct British Columbia LNG Industry
Written by Grant GRoss K likes to use fanciful verbiage when describing British Columbia's media and BC's provincial Liberal government..."lotusland...Clarkland..Clarklandia" etc etc etc ..And if one really thinks about it....Ross K's descriptors are the most accurate around...Is there any better way to describe our legislative reporting gang..?..Perhaps..The in need of polident denture
Seeing Canada’s Direction? Imperial Globalization. Part III
Seeing Canada’s Direction? Imperial Globalization. Part III.Written by Robin MathewsSomething strange is occurring in Ottawa… something more than ordinarily strange.Call it, for short, The Canadian Infrastructure Bank … an apparently totally unnecessary (and expensive) idea being moved toward existence by the Liberal government headed by Justin Trudeau. The work of such a ‘Bank’ can be done by t
British Columbia's Legislative reporters and Columnists go silent on Christy Clark's Epic Failures and LNG Broken Dream
Perhaps you wondered why I reposted this LNG article..http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2015/08/british-columbia-and-lngs-last-gaspa.htmlThe answer is obvious...For several years now I have been calling out the LNG industry, and calling out the BC Liberal government...been warning everyone who will listen that British Columbia arrived too late to the LNG game, very similar to those dupes who
Another Made In British Columbia LNG Tale
Written by Grant G Unfortunately I can't believe a word Christy Clark blathers, on anything.....Christy Clark through her entire youth and adult life has used every opportunity to advance her career, and she does it using the crudest of political smears...As a longtime watcher of question period and legislative proceedings... Christy Clark snickers, smirks and responds with nothing but smarmy lowb
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Atkins, ketones, methylglyoxal and cancer
What you lose on the swings you make up for on the roundabouts. Recently this study enjoyed a bit a revival as it was used in a presentation at a DAA meet. I'm not sure of the exact context but the Dietitians Association of Australia has been outstandingly fossilised in its attitude to low carb diets.Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005 Jun;1043:201-10. Ketosis leads to increased methylglyoxal production on
#Context - Butter, eggs, and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and diabetes
When Ancel Keys started work on his hypothesis, in 1955, he reported that butter only accounted for 4.8% of fats consumed in the USA.[1] Remember that. It’s well-known that eggs are associated with type 2 diabetes in the USA, but there’s no such association in the rest of the world, and in Finland eggs have protective association with type 2 diabetes. “When stratified by geographic area, th
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When you say #ImWithHer, this is what I hear, and it isn't pretty
I just want you to understand what I hear when you say "I'm with her." I hear: You support fracking. You support lying to people routinely. You support allowing government officials to deliberately circumvent Freedom of Information Act statutes for the preservation and accessibilty of records. You support wars against people who never attacked us and had no means to attack us. You are ok
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Threats? Oh dear.
Often, people who issue threats are betraying the precarity of the own position. As a major potential F-35 customer, a lack of or continued postponement a Canadian order likely increases the cost of the F-35 for other customers, perhaps prohibitively. This could be terminal to the program as it would also impact US orders. More to the point, Canadians generally find naked threats terribly
Events unfold, the centre cannot hold
Sometimes things just happen. In the UK just a short time ago, prime minister David Cameron created a monster in the form of a suggestion that, despite being publicly pro-EU, he would open a conversation, and later a referendum about Britain's withdrawal from it. Lord knows just what he was thinking (my own view is that he thinks very hard but finds thinking very hard). Fear of UKIP's fear of
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10 Things Every Teen And Young Adult Should Know About Workplace Rights
If you're in high school or college, odds are you're looking for or starting a summer job or internship. Maybe you're even working during the school year. Of course, your school gave you detailed preparation on what your legal rights are when you work. Right? Ha. Not a chance. Schools do roughly zip to prepare teens for the real world workplace. You have to figure this stuff out on your own.If you
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“Why the Islamic State Is Losing, and Why It Still Hopes to Win”
I have just published a new paper on the war against the so-called Islamic State over at The Century Foundation, arguing that the group is now clearly losing the war on the ground in Syria and Iraq. But the tide may turn, depending on what happens in the Syrian Civil War, among the rival Kurdish factions in northern Iraq, and with the increasingly tense situation in Baghdad. The introduction is be
“The Asad Petition of 1936: Bashar’s Grandfather Was Pro-Unionist,” By Stefan Winter
The Asad Petition of 1936: Bashar’s Grandfather Was Pro-Unionist By Stefan Winter For Syria Comment, June 14, 2016 This week marks the 80th anniversary of a now famous petition, supposedly addressed by six ‘Alawi notables from the Latakia region—including Hafiz al-Asad’s grandfather Sulayman al-Asad—to French prime minister Léon Blum on 15 June 1936. The six ‘Alawi notables criticize the negotiati
Dealing with Syria’s Foreign Fighters: A Liberal Conundrum
The Case of Mirsad Bectašević and Amer al-Hasani by Tam Hussein @tamhussein For Syria Comment, June 14, 2016 As a result of Syria’s bloody conflict Europe is at a turning point. The threat of terrorism, the fear of lone wolf attacks, of independent cells operating with in Europe has changed the political landscape. Europe is wrestling with a liberal conundrum. But whilst policy makers and intellig
The ‘Martyrs’ of Liwa al-Sayyida Ruqayya (The Ja’afari Force)
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Current emblem of Liwa al-Sayyida Ruqayya. Top: “If God supports you, no one can overcome you” [Qur’an 3:160]. Centre: “The Ja’afari Force: Liwa al-Sayyida Ruqayya.” Bottom: “The Islamic Resistance in Syria.” Readers may be familiar with the previous post on this site about Liwa al-Sayyida Ruqayya (Sayyida Ruqayya Brigade, named for the Sayyida Ruqayya shrine in Damascus
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THE EXISTENTIALIST COWBOY2 unread articles // actions
A Genius, A Saint, and SCOTUS Agree: Conspiracies Exist! by Len HartThe right wing spent the 1950s trying to convince th...
A Genius, A Saint, and SCOTUS Agree: Conspiracies Exist! by Len HartThe right wing spent the 1950s trying to convince the nation that it was threatened by a vast world wide communist conspiracy. Now the right wing is trying to convince the nation that conspiracies don't exist at all! Right wingers have targeted Tin Foil Hatters for ridicule when it was not so long ago that the term applied better
Rush Limbaugh and Trump: Will our nation survive it?
Although Rush Limbaugh has never explicitly described himself as a creationist, he does bypass a few facts like the fossil record that supports evolution. Limbaugh claims that both creationism and evolution are based on faith. In Darwin there is no mention of "faith". That's why Darwin's work has passed every hurdle; most hurdles are the work of idiots. LIMBAUGH is among them! In Darwin
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Jo Cox snuffed out to boost EU Remain campaign
Jo Cox is dead. She was killed in Batley by a man who it is claimed is a neo-nazi. The motive? Why, because she was campaigning for the UK to remain trapped in the EU concentration camp! Seriously - we are supposed to believe that some lunatic nazi shot her dead because killing a puppet politician would change things in the UK!But would killing an MP have an impact upon public life? Well, if th
The invasion of Europe as a weapon to smash sovereignty world-wide
Alex Jones and David Icke have been working in the 'conspiracy' arena for decades. Jones was infamous for his 'Germanic Death Cults' disinfo, Icke for his 'Shape-shifting Interdimensional Reptilians. Jones was at the forefront of exposing the Saudi role in the 11th September 2001 massacre at the New York World Trade Centre, Icke propelled the Rothschilds beyond fringe politics and into the publi
The Sanity of Anti-Globalism versus the Lunacy of Nationalist Supremacism
I have been active politically for longer than I care to think about! I have seen groups come, I have seen them go. It is an unspoken rule amongst Nationalists to be generous to a fault when dealing with anyone who appears to be against the globalist agenda. This has seen serious scum tolerated just because they happen to have a few points of ideology which are useful in confronting the forces
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Radiophobia continues to keep people from their homes - NOT Japan either!
In the Marshall Islands. Here's the money quote from the abstract of a paper on the continued "unsafety" of living on the former nuclear test site: Measurable excess radiation could be expected from the decay of 137Cs produced by the US nuclear testing program there from 1946 to 1958. These recordings are of relevance to safety of human habitation and resettlement... and relatively hig
Getting steamed by nuclear power
District heating has been big in the Big Apple since the eighties... that is, the 1880's. The whole island of Manhattan is cris-crossed with steam pipes which occasionally make the news. On a whim, I tried to find the price of steam in Manhattan. I was somewhat surprised when I found it. Steam goes for about $31 per thousand pounds, and each pound carries about 1200 BTU of energy. This comes
Where to find scientific illiterates? Physicians for Social Responsibility, that's where.
The BAS just published a guest piece by one Steven Starr, among whose howlers I pulled this gem: many individual pools contain more cesium-137 than was released by all atmospheric nuclear weapons tests combined. These utterly lethal radionuclides will require some form of supervision for hundreds of thousands of years.... Clue for you, Steven: Cs-137 has a half-life of 30.17 years. Roughly 90%
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