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New book on investment incentives will help shape policies debates for years to come
This past week I received my chapter author's copy of a new book from
Columbia University Press, Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and
Policy Options. Based initially on the November 2013 conference on
investment incentives at Columbia Law School, the contributors were put
through their paces to upgrade their conference presentations into
proper papers. The result is what Theodore Moran of
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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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Pesticide Action Network 9 unread articles // actions
Bayer: Keep the Hives Alive!
Outside Bayer’s North Carolina headquarters this week, a beekeeper stood
with 2.5 million dead bees — a symbol for the number of kills U.S.
beekeepers face across the country annually — thanks in part to the
bee-harming pesticides that Bayer and others manufacture.
This was one stop on the beekeeper-led Keep the Hives Alive Tour, which
made its way across the country during National Pollinat
Let's protect rural kids from drift
Pesticide drift happens all too frequently, especially in rural
California where homes, schools and agricultural fields can be nextdoor
neighbors. Children — the most vulnerable members of these communities —
are often the first to experience drift exposure and its resulting
health impacts.
Unfortunately, our regulatory process is so weak and broken that those
responsible for drift too often
Long-awaited action on atrazine (maybe)
EPA recently released its assessement of the ecological risks posed by
the widely used herbicide atrazine. Agency scientists found that current
exposures greatly exceed its "levels of concern" for chronic risk for
birds, mammals and fish — by 22, 198, and 62 times, respectively. When
it comes to wildlife harms, these new findings on atrazine are pretty
damning.
This Ecological Risk
Will EU ban Monsanto's RoundUp?
The fate of Monsanto's flagship herbicide in the European Union (EU)
remains unclear. Earlier this week, the standing Committee on Plants,
Animals Food and Feed declined to extend authorization for glyphosate
sales in the region. The sales license is set to expire at the end of
this month.
Concerns about potential impacts of the widely used herbicide on human
health are the main driver of 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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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
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The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage 7 unread articles // actions
A "Climate-Political Nightmare", But So Much More
The notrickszone site has a post, on the "climate-political nightmare"
of Brexit (Britain leaving the European Union, due to a referendum of
its outraged population, not its feckless political leaders). My
response: Here's a new word (I haven't seen it used yet, anyway), to
describe the situation: Dementia. Total dementia, being "serious" about
"climate policy". The R
What Incompetent Climate Science Has Wrought: A Criminal Conspiracy on the Left, an Elitist Disregard on the Right
I want to write only about science here (and I won't take any political
comments), but I have found that I cannot. Suppressive, false dogmas
are ascendant, not just among scientists, but among our political
leaders. And the latter need to be addressed, and reined in from what
has become, on one side at least, criminal activity at the highest level
against the fundamental right of freedom of speech
No Getting Around It
The notrickszone site has a post debunking an AGW alarmist's theory
about a slowdown in the Atlantic ocean circulation, to which I
responded: Yet this article (quoting from climatecentral.org) still
says: "...greenhouse gas pollution causes ice sheets to melt, which
prior research has shown is causing the circulation to slow overall." So
it doesn't even touch the core delusion, that ther
Responding to a Believer in False Science
I have just responded to a comment on the jonova site, from a skeptic
who wanted to know how to respond to an AGW (anthropogenic global
warming) believer, who claimed that skeptics "conflated natural with
anthropogenic" factors in pointing out the infamous "global warming
pause" since 1997, and so lacked mental acuity, or words to that effect.
I responded by referring to a rece
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What KQED and FAIR aren't fair to
Straight talk. I posted this to KQED's discussion of the Diablo Canyon
shutdown last night:
But as more renewable energy comes online, running renewables, natural
gas and other power sources all together sometimes creates more power
than the state needs. At those times, the California ISO has to switch
off solar farms to avoid overloading the grid.
Retiring Diablo Canyon could help with that
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
Watts Bar Unit 2 synced to the grid and generating power
Short item at Nuclear Street.
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The Excavator 9 unread articles // actions
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner - David Olney (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Video Title: The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Part The First - David
Olney (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Source: David Olney. Date Published:
May 28, 2009. Description: http://www.davidolney.com/"The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner" - a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Part The First
Performed by David Olney. Filmed by Jack Irwin for Super 88 Films.Watch
the complete series Parts 1 - 7 here:http
Geoff Nicholson Maps the Territory
Title: Geoff Nicholson Maps the Territory. Source: LA Review of Books.
Date Published: June 3, 2014. Description: LARB A.V. teams up with LA
Magazine to bring you a journey into Hollywood through the eyes of
renowned author, Geoff Nicholson, celebrating the release of his new
book "The City Under the Skin."
'A World Without a World View: the condition of post-modernity'
"How do we know?: Letters to April" By Alan Macfarlane
(2014).Description of the book (Source: Amazon): We often tend to
believe that we can understand the world around us by just applying our
eyes and ears to what is happening. In fact, our knowledge is filtered
through many cultural and intellectual forces which shape our
understanding. This short book looks at changing world views and
X22Report: US Travel Warnings In Turkey Have Been Extended To The End Of July - Episode 1009b
Title: US Travel Warnings In Turkey Have Been Extended To The End Of
July - Episode 1009b. Source: X22Report. Date Published: June 28, 2016.
Description: FBI not informing people that they are on the IS list.
State Department creating social media trolls to spread propaganda to
change the narrative on social media sites. US airstrikes in Afghanistan
kill innocent people. US and South Korea pushing
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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
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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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The High-fat Hep C Diet 2 unread articles // actions
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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Signed into Blogger but cannot find blog? Solution
There are lots of bloggers complaining when they sign into
www.blogger.com they 1. cannot find their blog2. cannot edit3. cannot
publish new post, etc.One likely cause is this very common confusion due
to the gmail ADD ACCOUNT feature.If you click your Google profile
photo/avatar when you are signed into your gmail account, you will see a
drop down which would have a tab ADD ACCOUNTAnd if you clic
Hyperlink: Internal link, link to another spot in the same post
Suppose you are writing a long post and you want to link from a
particular spot A to another spot B in the same post/webpage. The way to
do this is (you will have to use the HTML mode of the post editor):At
A, write the code some words to describe spot
BFor example, I want to link this spot to a spot with title
Chapter 1 below. Here I write Chapter 1 (
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British Columbia And Imperial Globalization. Part IV
British Columbia And Imperial Globalization. Part IVWritten by Robin
Mathews June 2016Attention across the world is, at last, focussing
more and more on what is called ‘imperial globalization’ – the growing
power of unchecked international capital to poison grand attempts at
democratic community such as the ones struggling in the European
Community and the Mercosur countries of South America ..
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
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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
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Defending the Religious Exemption to Vaccination
Posted: 6/28/2016 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.Every summer,
Americans celebrate the 4th of July to mark the day in 1776 when the
American colonies agreed they would no longer be
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(Hillary Declared in Charge Before Convention - Bigger Wars Coming?)
Bernie Won CA! (Whither Brexit?) Lotsa Controversy (Silencing USA As
It Goes to War)
Our real war president is taking the reins.
Or is that reigns?
I used to think I'd love to see a woman in charge of military decisions.
Especially a woman who values and has worked hard to improve the lives
of vulnerable people: children, women, the handicapped, the jobless or
half-jobless, the elderly . . . .
People who have never caught up from the financial scams that began in
the 80's
(This Is News Reporting?) Indentured Studentitude (Obama/Wall Street
Push Passage of TPP During Lame Duck Session) Obama's TPP/TTIP Trade
Deals His Lasting Legacy? ($31 Trillion Lost in 2008 Dwarfed Today)
Not Islam at All? (Bezos Hopes Sanders Gone) Brexit Yet? (D.C.'s
Expensive Global Grandeur Footprint Threatened by Trump)
For days or weeks on end, a single place - call it Newtown, San
Bernardino, or Orlando (one school, one gathering of government workers,
one club) - is the center of our universe. The rest of the world? Not
so much. However significant the 24/7 event may be, it blots out just
about everything else and so plays havoc with our sense of what’s
important and what isn’t. It also ensures that
Greater or Lesser Evilism (FBI Lured Mateen?) Con Vs. Con? (EPA Raises
Radiation Levels) Bilderberg Looking Glass (Healthcare Profits Wrung
Out in NC) Dismissing Widespread Election Fraud? (Implosion of House
of Saud)
Howell Says CIA and Four Other Suspects were Involved in Planned Sunday
Massacres
Is this a joke on US?
Not that funny.
Before Omar Mateen Committed Mass Murder, the FBI Tried to 'Lure' Him
into a Terror Plot
BDS: Security Company G4S Announces Plans to Exit Israeli Market“It
looks like it's pretty much standard operating procedure for preliminary
inquiries to interview the subject or
(America At War With Itself?) Middle Class Death March (Politics of
Disposability) Taxpayer Is Unicorn Meat? (Nazi USA Coming Up) Missing
28 Pages Explains 9/11 Origins?
America at war with itself? (Max, say it ain't so!)
That would explain all the other wars the U.S. is involved in as semi
guilt relief with all that murder and mayhem assauging the fact that
U.S. neoliberal leaders have been waging war against the Middle Class
(and all the people living in their now nonexistent trickle-down stream)
for the last 40 years.
Hello Reaganism Reborn! Yeah. I still
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What Is Sustainable 2 unread articles // actions
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?
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mississauga library workers vote overwhelmingly to strike
Yesterday, the members of CUPE Local 1989, Mississauga Library Workers
Union, voted overwhelmingly to strike. Amid massive turnout in three
separate meetings, 96% of the members in attendance said they are
willing to take strike action in order to win a fair contract for all
members. The July 4th strike deadline coincides with the start of summer
programming, the Library's busiest time.We, the mem
we still like lists: recipe for effective activism
What it takes to be an effective activist:1. Hopefulness2. Persistence,
perseverance3. Reliability4. Enjoyment of teamwork5. Willingness to
take direction from others6. Willingness to make space and time in your
life for your cause7. Good listening skills8. A long view9.
Boundaries10. Passion for your cause
we movie to canada 2015-16. this year there's a part 2.
From the I Have Too Much Going On, Systems Are Breaking Down
department, this year's we move to canada awards omitted a big chunk of
viewing. I was very surprised -- and a bit disturbed -- to discover
this!Leaving aside questions about my mental competence, I'm reviewing
the omitted films and series here, and I'll also update the main post.
I'm also using this as an opportunity to move some of my
further thoughts on himym
A few weeks ago, I blogged about watching "How I Met Your Mother," a
show that has been a huge surprise to me. At the time, I thought the
show was slipping in quality. I had started the eighth season, and the
whole thing was off. The characters were too shrill, the situations too
zany and over-the-top. Having come that far, I was determined to soldier
on. To my surprise, I was rewarded.
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Donna Summer - Last Dance (Nobel Peace Prize Concert '09) HD (no Copyright Infringement Intended)
In honor of those who died of AIDS in the 1970's, the long term
survivors who still fight the good fight today and to those who were
killed in Orlando, Florida this week. Peace this Gay Pride.
Michael Franti
BUY THIS
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Making Sense of the Meltdown
A view from my old mucker, @ianpmclaughlan.Darwin’s Law, that it's the
species that best adapts to change that will survive, is as true of
political parties as it is of the natural world. That is the main reason
we see such turmoil in our politics right now: they simply haven’t
adapted quickly enough to change.The second factor, and this is crucial,
is that people need good information to be able
Quarter Two Local By-Election Results 2016
PartyNumber of CandidatesTotal
Vote%+/- Q1Average/contest+/- Q1+/-SeatsConservative 9971,089
29.4% +2.4% 718 +351 -11Labour 9583,941 34.7% +6.6% 884
+423 +3LibDem 7026,245 10.9% -5.5% 375 +75 +4UKIP
6324,227 10.0% +0.4% 385 +180 +1Green 4814,497 6.0% +2.5%
302 +199 +1SNP* 3 5,849 2.4% -3.2% 1,950 +755 0PC**
5 574 0.2% +0.2%
Local Council By-Elections June 2016
PartyNumber of CandidatesTotal
Vote%+/- MayAverage/contest+/- May+/-SeatsConservative 17 8,122
24.5% -5.2% 478 -287 -3Labour 16 7,901 24.2%-13.3% 494
-525 -1LibDem 14 5,643 17.3% +7.8% 403 +32 +2UKIP 10
4,062 12.4% +2.6% 406 +2 +1Green 11 2,686 8.2% +2.3%
244 -97 +1SNP* 1 1,055 3.2% +1.5% 1,055-2,142 -1PC**
3 440
Duke Dumont - Ocean Drive
Don't say a word while we dance with the devil. Apt.
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Adrienne's Corner 45 unread articles // actions
How are you celebrating Independence Day 2016?...
inquiring minds want to know.I just read somewhere that 43 million
people will be traveling this weekend. Glad I'm not one of them.Did you
hear that Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton got together to discuss their
respective grand-kids? Right. More like, "Nice grand-kids you have
there, Loretta. Be a shame if anything happened to them."Rush Limbaugh's
take on the situation is epic: What I
Spokane: Armed bank robber shot by concealed carry customer and starting
tomorrow concealed carry is legal in Idaho without a license...
YES!Looking forward to tomorrow. SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. (emphasis mine)
Deputies in Spokane Valley have responded to an attempted robbery at the
Spokane Teachers Credit Union branch located in the 13200 block of E.
32nd Avenue.About 1:40 pm Spokane County Sheriff's deputies responded to
the credit union on a report of an attempted bank robbery. An initial
report, which Deputy Mark Gregory stressed
Michelle Obama wears flour sack to meet beautiful lady in red dress...
Queen Letizia was not available for comment. Michelle Obama, off on her
tax-payer funded vacation with her daughters and her mother, once again
be-clowns herself by wearing what appears to be the wrap from her last
visit with her gynecologist.Was she in Spain to lecture Queen Letizia on
improving education for little Spanish girls? I'm sure Letizia really
appreciated that.Maybe Letizia should com
Citizens of Idaho threatened by Obama-appointed U.S. attorney for Idaho Wendy J. Olson...
while they protect Muslim rapists.The Obama-appointed U.S. attorney for
Idaho is stepping in to see to it that Muslim juveniles are protected
from white racist Islamophobic citizens who are outraged at the coverup
of three Muslim juveniles abusing and possibly raping a 5 year old girl.
I reported on it:Twin Falls, Idaho: 3 Syrian Muslim Refugees
Allegedly Rape Minor Girl; Muslim Women Spit on Ci
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Economic News , Data & Views ..... July 2 , 2016...... Quick Hits -
1. Brexit & UK Politics - Thought Provoking Points Of View . 2.
Markets & Market Moving News. 3. Around The Horn - EZ & EU. 4.
Odds & Ends .
Brexit - UK Politicsfred walton @fredwalton216 7mWhat polling failed
to capture....fred walton added,Patrick Wintour @patrickwintourWhy had
voters had enough of the experts ? An expert reflects. Individuals don't
live as an aggregate. via @ProSyn http://prosyn.org/WSNG5wf fred
walton @fredwalton216 11s12 seconds agofred walton Retweeted Mark
WallaceGood read...fred walton added,Mark Wallace @w
Economic News , Data & Views .... June 24 , 2016..... Quick Hits -
1. Markets : June 24, 2016 AKA "Black Swan Friday" ; Not Surprisingly - A
Notable Day For The VIX ; Austria Loses Last AAA Rating , Yet UK
Retains Its Top Ratings ; Bloodbath For The Banks Today. 2 Brexit
Highlights ( Much More At Twitter T.L. ) 3. Spanish Election On Deck.
4. Odds & Ends. )
Markets.....As Wichita Falls , So Falls Wichita .........Charlie
Bilello, CMT @MktOutperform 3h3 hours agoJune 24, 2016 will forever be
known as "Black Swan Friday"...fred walton @fredwalton216 1h1 hour
agofred walton Retweeted zerohedgeSurveying the bloody
battlefield...fred walton added,zerohedge @zerohedgeBrexistential
Bloodbath http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-24/brexistent
Economic News & Views ...... June 18 , 2016...... Quicks Hits for
Saturday 1. UK Referendum News & Views - The Ipsos MORI Poll For
The Evening Standard Has Leave In Front By 6% , Different Perspectives
On Leave , IMF Assessment States Recession Not Inevitable If Brexit
Occurs , Additional Information To Consider . 2.Top News From Elsewhere
In Europe -Terror Arrests This Morning In Belgium , ECB Item On
Unemployment Wores Of Southern Europe , Greece Firing Independent
Appeals Board For Doing Its Job. 3.MENA Updates - Iraq , Syria &
Libya In Focus. )
Brexit......fred walton @fredwalton216 14s14 seconds agofred walton
Retweeted Louise MenschEU referendum: Poll reveals 10-point swing
towards Brexit as campaigns enter final stagesfred walton added,Louise
Mensch @LouiseMenschThe independent reports as a ten point swing to
#Brexit what i think is a 20 point swing to #VoteLeave
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-referendum-poll-brexi
Economic News , Data & Views ...... June 16 , 2016 Quick Hits ---
1. Markets : UK Referendum Has Central Bankers Weighing Liquidity
Injections ; ECB QE / Bonds "NIRP-Dom" News ; FOMC Decision &
Aftermath Totally Overshadowed By Today's Event In The UK ; US Data On
Thursday - Philly Fed . 2. UK - Shock Public Murder Of Labor MP Jo Cox
Throws UK & Referendum Campaign Into Freeze-Mode . 3 Greece De Jour
- First Review For Third Bailout Closed , Greece to Get Second Tranche
Partial Payment of 7.5BN Early Next Week , Additional Items Of Note .
4. Brazil In Focus - Corruption Travails Snag Another Minister Of Temer ,
Zika Update , Foreign Investment Drops Off . 5. Odds & Ends. )
Markets & Market Moving News....Holger
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liquidity injection as #Brexit looms.
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Interstellar Comparisons
No one thinks big better than Adam Crowl, a Centauri Dreams regular and
mainstay of the Icarus Interstellar attempt to reconfigure the Project
Daedalus starship design of the 1970’s. If you’re looking for ideas for
science fiction stories, you’ll find them in the essay below, where Adam
considers the uses to which we might put the abundant energies of the
Sun. Starships are a given, but what about
Calibrating Distances to Low Mass Stars
Accurate distances are critical for understanding the physical
properties of brown dwarfs and low-mass stars. We need to know the
intrinsic brightness of these objects to proceed, but we can’t know that
until we have an idea of their distance. After all, a relatively faint
star can seem much brighter if nearer to us, while a distant bright star
can appear deceptively dim. Intrinsic brightness is a
Deep Stare into a Dusty Universe
It’s not often that I get the chance to back up and take a broad look
at the universe, the kind of thing that reinforces my interest in
cosmology and structure at the grandest scale. But today I’ll take my
cue from the Royal Astronomical Society’s annual meeting, now underway
in Nottingham UK, which gives me the chance to look at a new catalog
from the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observ
Spacecoach: Toward a Deep Space Infrastructure
With manned missions to Mars in our thinking, both in government space
agencies and the commercial sector, the challenge of providing adequate
life support emerges as a key factor. We’re talking about a mission
lasting about two years, as opposed to the relatively swift Apollo
missions to the Moon (about two weeks). Discussing the matter in a new
essay, Brian McConnell extends that to 800 days — a
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It’s Still the Iraq War, Stupid.
No rational person could blame Jeremy Corbyn for Brexit. So why are the
Blairites moving against Corbyn now, with such precipitate haste?
The answer is the Chilcot Report. It is only a fortnight away, and
though its form will be concealed by thick layers of establishment
whitewash, the basic contours of Blair’s lies will still be visible
beneath. Corbyn had deferred to Blairite pressure not to apo
Thoughts on the Media and the EU Referendum
Al Jazeera’s Listening Post programme on the EU referendum media
coverage was just broadcast. They only used about 5% of what they
recorded of me, split into four soundbites to fit their format. I think
the much more interesting points I made were not used at all. So just
for the record, I also made these points:
a) I did not accept the argument that the BBC was biased in the
referendum campaign t
On the Lost Art of Intellectual Honesty
I remain strongly opposed to Brexit. However, I feel obliged to state,
purely as a matter of intellectual honesty, that if the UK leaves the
EU, even if it has no special trade deal and is merely subject to WTO
terms, the fall in value of sterling already due to Brexit would give
its goods a comparative advantage over the pre-referendum position even
when the EU tariffs are applied. I say that in
There Will Be No Early General Election
Labour and Tories were neck and neck on 32% in the Mail on Sunday
Survation poll on 25 June, the day before the Blarites launched their
coup against the “unelectable” Corbyn. Before Corbyn became leader,
Labour were consistently between 7 and 12 points behind on Survation.
That Corbyn has done so well in popular opinion and in elections, is
remarkable considering the Blairites who dominate his own
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2nd Electoral Reform Committee meeting
was held in camera yesterday. The entire three hour meeting from 10am
til 1pm - with presentations from five in-house analysts and tech
experts and questions from MPs - was held in camera.What happened to
last week's decision to televise them? Meanwhile ...Former Ontario
Progressive Conservative Party president Richard Ciano and Nick Kouvalis
of Campaign Research - pollsters and managers of the Ro
Lelu Island : LNG Divide and Conquer Politics
A community torn apart by LNG and pipeline politics. A mayor who sent a
letter to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency confirming
opposition to the PacificNorthWest LNG plant on Lelu Island in
accordance with a community vote. He then sent another letter eight days
later retracting the first letter and replacing it with one of
conditional support.The mayor and his brother are VP and CEO of
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
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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