New in Greg Mankiw's Blog
Summers on the Carrier Deal
Interesting observations from Larry . A tidbit: Some of the worst
abuses of power are not those that leaders inflict on their people. They
are the acts that the people demand from their leaders.
On the Election Results
I
did not support Mr. Trump, but now that he is our President-elect, I
wish him well. To my many friends who are now freaking out, I encourage
you to take a deep breath and calm down. Our political and economic
system is more robust than you sometimes give it credit for being.
Earlier this year, I wrote : People often ask me whether it is
frustrating to work in Washington, noting how hard it is to
The Triumph of the Less Educated
In
a Times column back in July, I noted that the Brexit vote was strongly
correlated with education. The recent presidential election shows the
same pattern: "College graduates backed Clinton by a 9-point margin
(52%-43%), while those without a college degree backed Trump 52%-44%."
The graph below shows that it is unusual for the more educated and less
educated to be in such substantial disagreeme
Memories of Fidel's Cuba
From my friend and colleague George Borjas .
An Interview with Ed Conard
Click here to watch me interview Ed Conard about his new book, The
Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class for
C-SPAN Book TV’s “After Words.”
New in Home Nature Report
ELECTION NEWS 2016 ~Stay in the How & Imagine a Better Reality
Here's a round-up of the stars that now form a bright constellation
around Jill and Ajamu - and what they have to say: 1.) Dr. Cornel West
"I wholeheartedly support Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka. And I’m writing
to you today to let you know, they have my endorsement - and I know they
have your support as well." 2.) Chris Hedges "It is imperative that you
join me in contributing to the Stein/Baraka
New in killing Mother
We the Majority have the Actual Power.
With the Electoral College U.S. Presidential win by Donald J. Trump,
self-proclaimed racist, xenophobe, misogynist, scientific skeptic and
assaulter of women, the majority of people in the United States woke up
on 11/9/2016 in a state of shock, bewilderment and despair. Trump's
proposed agenda [of stepped-up corporate welfare, dramatic tax cuts for
the 1% (who are already not paying their fair sh
New in LILITH NEWS
Lån uten sikkerhet og lovdata
Finansdepartementet jobber kontinuerlig med å gjøre nordmenns
privatøkonomi bedre. De er til stadighet ute i media og foreslår nye
lover og regler som skal regulere […] The post Lån uten sikkerhet og
lovdata appeared first on Lilithnews.com .
Avida Finans – fleksibelt forbrukslån
Avida Finans er en svenskeid bank som har etablert virksomheten sin i
Sverige, Finland og Norge. Bedriften har helt siden 1985 drevet ulike
former for […] The post Avida Finans – fleksibelt forbrukslån appeared
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10 økonomiske ord og uttrykk
Økonomi er en svært viktig del av hverdagen til de fleste, og slettes
ikke alle har like god kontroll på økonomien som de kanskje burde […]
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New in Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues
Rump: Couldn't The Republicans Come Up With Somebody Better Than This?
By
Manifesto Joe One thing I've learned in 60-plus years on this planet is
that political ideology is not the measure of a person. As a veteran
blogger, I've personally known right-wingers who are stand-up folks, and
lefties who aren't worth their own shit. And trying to change someone's
mind on politics is like trying to change their religion. It tends to
be a cognitive thing that one learns from
New in Middle Class Political Economist
Clinton's lead now more than a million votes
As
I explained last week , Donald Trump was elected to the Presidency
despite having fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. She has already set a
record for the biggest popular vote victory despite losing the Electoral
College; according to CNN , she now (11/17/16 5:00am EST) leads by
about 1,045,000 votes, roughly twice the margin of Al Gore's victory
over George W. Bush in 2000. This equates to 0.8%
Need Readers' Advice
Yesterday,
a non-plurality of the voters chose a new President. Just like in 2000,
the Electoral College is not going to the candidate with the most
votes. As this new President has also shown himself to not share our
democratic ideals, I find it difficult to have much respect for him.
Indeed, I am considering not calling him by his name, ever. But perhaps I
am just reacting out of the immediate s
Election of popular vote loser proves necessity of abolishing Electoral College
For
the second time in just 16 years, the new President is actually the
loser of the national popular vote (click on "Popular Vote"). This is
the fifth time this has happened in U.S. history; the last time it
happened prior to 2000 was in 1888. As children, we were all taught to
believe in democracy and majority (or as we later learned, sometimes
just plurality) rule. But with the way that rural a
New in Middle East Today
Major Problems Facing the Egyptian Economy
Egypt recently requested a $12,000,000,000 USD loan from the
International Monetary Fund to be paid back in three years. On November
11, 2016, the request was approved, and the first payment to Egypt,
totaling $2.75 USD, will be delivered on November 15, 2016. Furthermore,
the Egyptian government has already implemented the conditions imposed
by the bank. These conditions include floating the Egy
New in Morton's Musings
Litigation Privilege - the SCC speaks
Lizotte v. Aviva Insurance Company of Canada, 2016 SCC 52: Litigation
privilege is a common law rule that gives rise to an immunity from
disclosure for documents and communications whose dominant purpose is
preparation for litigation. This privilege has sometimes been confused
with solicitor‑client privilege, both at common law and in Quebec law.
However, since Blank v. Canada (Minister of Justic
Sentence Appeals
It's then end of a criminal trial and you have been convicted. The
judge gave a sentence and you don't think it's fair. Can you appeal and
get a different sentence? Maybe. If you want a lower sentence you must
convince the appeal court that the sentence is "unfit" or unreasonable.
Judges have a wide discretion in sentencing; It is not good enough for
you to believe that the judge made just any ki
Failure to comply with CBCA not, standing alone, oppressive conduct
Mennillo v. Intramodal inc, 2016 SCC 51: There are two elements of an
oppression claim. The claimant must first identify the expectations that
he or she claims have been violated and establish that the expectations
were reasonably held. Then the claimant must show that those reasonable
expectations were violated by conduct falling within the statutory
terms, that is, conduct that was oppressive,
Collusion
R. v. Clause, 2016 ONCA 859: [81] Collusion can arise both from a
deliberate agreement to concoct evidence, as well as from communication
among witnesses that can have the effect, whether consciously or
unconsciously, of colouring and tailoring their descriptions of the
impugned events: R. v. B. (C.) (2003), 167 O.A.C. 264, [2003] O.J. No.
11 (C.A.), at para. 40. As this court noted in R. v. F.(J
Expired limitation periods and amendment of pleadings
1100997 Ontario Limited v. North Elgin Centre Inc., 2016 ONCA 848: [19]
A cause of action is "a factual situation the existence of which
entitles one person to obtain from the court a remedy against another
person": Letang v. Cooper , [1965] 1 Q.B. 232 (C.A.), at pp. 242-43, as
adopted by this court in July v. Neal (1986), 57 O.R. (2d) 129 (C.A.),
at para. 23. [20] In Morden & Perell, The Law of
Sexual Touching Requires True Consent
One important component of sexual assault law is consent. Any sexual
touching requires that both parties give their consent or voluntarily
agree. It can only be given by the persons involved and not by a third
party. The relevant time period for determining whether a person
consented or not is at the time of sexual contact. Consent is determined
by reference to that person's state of mind towards
New in New Orleans Ladder
Homes bought out in Bayou Corne sinkhole disaster provide place for tornado victims ~David Mitchell, The Advocate
Homes bought out in Bayou Corne sinkhole disaster provide place for tornado victims ~David Mitchell, The Advocate
The veins of America: Stunning map shows every river basin in the US ~ Daily Mail Created by Imgur user Fejetlenfej , a...
The veins of America: Stunning map shows every river basin in the US ~
Daily Mail Created by Imgur user Fejetlenfej , a geographer and GIS
analyst with a ‘lifelong passion for beautiful maps,’ it highlights the
massive expanse of river basins across the country – in particular,
those which feed the Mississippi River, in pink
Study says New Orleans will see one of the highest levels of sea level rise in the world ~Bob Marshall, The Lens
Study says New Orleans will see one of the highest levels of sea level rise in the world ~Bob Marshall, The Lens
Consider The Alligator II: Big Changes Come To Louisiana’s Gator Ranching Industry ~Scrumptious Chef
Consider The Alligator II: Big Changes Come To Louisiana’s Gator Ranching Industry ~Scrumptious Chef
New in News Center PK
US-led Cabal to Raze the Muslim Unity
By acting upon the old policy of divide and rule, US-led cabal of
Israel and India are razing the Muslim unity to obtain their secret
designs against the Islamic World. As part of the double game, secret
agencies agencies-American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad are using
various terrorist outfits such as the Islamic State … US-led Cabal to
Raze the Muslim Unity is a post from News Center Pk .
New in News From Atlantis.
Decline of the Knowledge Is Power Forum
In October 2011 I started the Knowledge Is Power Forum . In the 5 years
since it began, it attracted 96 users, 57 of whom posted (39 just
lurked), with 44 getting involved in debate (13 posted once only). The
Forum gained 499 unique topics, with a total of 1757 posts. These
figures are right, as of the time of writing. In addition to the figures
above, the Forum attracted a poster who flooded it
New in Not Quite Unhinged
The Ultimate Conspiracy
Donald
Trump's problematic relationship with facts and the truth has been well
documented. But of the analysis I have read, each assumes Donald knows
he is lying. I don't agree with that. It doesn't quite match the
behaviour we have observed. A consummate liar familiar with the facts
skillfully distorts and dodges. Donald shows no such skill. He's a bull
in the China shop of facts. He doesn't
Yes, as a Matter of Fact, I do Blame You!
The
problem created by the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of
the United States of America, is not the fault of the Electoral College,
Hillary Clinton, President Obama, the Democrats or Jon Stewart. It is
the fault of the electorate. It is not the fault of neo-liberalism,
political correctness or the news media. It is the fault of the
electorate. Yes Hillary Clinton received a
The Emperor has no Clothes
How
does one process the 2016 US Presidential Election? For those that saw
Donald Trump for the narcissistic, misogynistic, racist, thin-skinned
bully he is, the fact that he is the President of the United States is
logic defying. Those that supported Donald Trump were somehow willfully
blind to the fact that there is not one single redeeming personality
trait or feature to that man. There is no
New in Our Manmade Disasters
STOP Hillary from stealing the presidency.
STOP Hillary from stealing the presidency. Please sign up. Your little
voice together with millions of little voices all over America and the
world, will snowball into 1 giant tsunami VOICE, the ruling elites just
simply cannot ignore. Christiantimesnewspaper.com - Breaking-ICE
agents-arrest-illegal-immigrants-in-several-states-attempting-to-cast-votes/
With over 5 billion email accounts, 1% amou
New in Paying attention
Sorry, have we met? Adventures in face blindness
Have we met? You look familiar The New Yorker ran a fascinating story
about “super-recognizers,” focusing on a small Scotland Yard team whose
skills let them identify suspects among hundreds of faces in the
murkiest surveillance videos. And it included a link to the Cambridge
Face Memory Test , one of the tools used to assess officers’ ability to
recognize faces. The test is about 20 minutes. At
OK everybody, that sucked. Now, back to work
I
confess to despair watching the U.S. election results last night. I
turned off the television before 9:30 p.m., knowing Donald Trump would
win but thinking I'd sleep better if there was the faint hope of a
different outcome. (I didn't.) My partner refused to watch any of the
coverage, choosing to work and play accordion while instructing me not
to share any information. I'm not usually deeply in
New in Pesticide Action Network
EPA greenlights two controversial pesticides
Amidst the election turmoil of the last few weeks, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly approved more harmful
pesticide products for use with genetically engineered (GE) seeds. EPA
put Dow's "Enlist Duo" cocktail of glyphosate and 2,4-D back on the
market, after pulling it off just a year ago due to widespread concern .
The agency also gave a green light to Monsanto's new formul
Monsanto, you scared?
Does glyphosate cause cancer? That's the question Monsanto is
desperately trying to prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) from answering. With governments around the globe recently divided
on how to regulate glyphosate, Monsanto’s spin machine is in overdrive
trying to discredit anyone who suggests their biggest moneymaker is
toxic to human health. Its latest target is EPA, which
. . . and justice for all.
This is a very different post-election blog than the one I planned to
write. I was going to call the new president's attention to the
political importance of food and farming, highlighting the fact that how
we grow our food directly impacts the health of our families, the
well-being of our communities and the future of our planet. All of that
is still true, but the political winds have dramatical
Kid-friendly farming in California
In late September, California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation
(DPR) released a draft plan for protecting schoolchildren in
agricultural communities from drift-prone, health-harming pesticides.
The agency's proposed pesticide use rules don't do nearly enough —
luckily, some farmers are already doing much more. In brief, these are
the proposed new rules: Prohibit drift-prone pesticide applicat
Moving forward
Like other public interest and social justice groups across the
country, we're wrestling with exactly what the recent election means for
our work going forward. This will take some time to sort, but one thing
is already crystal clear: our efforts will be more challenging — and
more critical — than ever before. We're ready . There are already deeply
disturbing signals from the incoming administrat
Potatoes, pesticides & people
In early October, thousands of concerned community members across the
country joined PAN, Toxic Taters, Corporate Accountability International
(CAI) and other allies to participate in the “Farm to Family: Pesticide
Free” National Week of Action. The goal of the seven days of
concentrated activity was to make an invisible problem visible, and
stand with rural communities in potato-growing country
New in Philosophical Comment
New article on the possibility of machines as moral agents online
One of the real perks of supervising PhD students is that they tend to
force you outside your established academic comfort zone, and explore
new territories of philosophical inquiry. This is what has happened when
I have followed the footsteps and eventually joined the work of Dorna
Behdadi , who is pursuing a PhD project in our practical philosophy
group on the theme of Moral Agency in Animals a
Come and Join our team in Practical Philosophy: One or more senior lecturers sought!
Our practical philosophy group at the Department of Philosophy,
Linguistics and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg is
hiring. We are presently seeking one or several senior lecturers in
practical philosophy. This subjects includes all aspects of philosophy
relating to human action and social practices, such as applied and
general normative ethics, ditto political philosophy and phi
New in ProgressiveIslam.Org
Get Beautiful nose, a permanent facial feature with rhinoplasty
When it comes to weigh the beauty of someone’s face, the very first
feature that you must think of at the get go is definitely the nose,
which is the centric and probably the pivotal part of human of face that
influences the facial beauty to great extent. And when it comes to the
beauty of the nasal structure, the pointed tip and sharp nose is of
course everyone’s majestic imagination. But not ev
Soak your head with the factors contributing to a successful nose job
It’s the nose, which plays the cupid between Grecian sculpture and
flawlessness of a human face. Hence, the beauty of the nose influences
the overall beauty of a face to great extent undoubtedly. Round or oval,
whatever facial structure you have, the sharp and pointed nose is the
best implication, which is a wow addition to any ordinary face no doubt.
But not everyone is blessed with such beautif
Have a complete information about Rhinoplasty
The famous saying that the beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder is
true undoubtedly. But if you are not that much happy with your overall
appearance, and especially there is some great flaw in your face, which
stops you from knocking everyone
New in Real History Blog
We need a constitutional upgrade
I
think we need a new constitution. There is so much that is simply
antiquated and outdated. For one, when the "two Senators per state" rule
was created, the states were smaller and closer together. I think
California deserves four Senators. The electoral college was a good idea
and is actually designed to prevent a madman from getting elected. But
what if the guy isn't perceived by enough
New in Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
Federal Contractors, You Don't Know What You've Got 'Til It's Gone: Preparing for the Trumpocalypse Part III
President-elect
Trump has promised to undo all of President Obama's executive orders on
day one of his presidency. If you are one of those middle class folks
who voted for him, you may not realize what you voted for until he does
it. If you work for a federal contractor, you will lose a whole heck of a
lot if he keeps this promise. Here's what you've got that may be gone
soon: Paid sick leave : Yo
Preparing Yourself For The End of ObamaCare (Bracing for the Trumpocalypse Part I)
Well,
Donald Trump is our President-elect. He has made a cascade of promises
throughout the campaign, and many of them will affect the workplace.
First up will be the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. That seems to be
Republican priority number one. With control of the House, the Senate,
the Presidency and soon the Supreme Court, they will get to do whatever
they want for at least two years. So t
What Happens When The Feds Decide To Enforce Marijuana Laws? Preparing For The Trumpocalypse Part II
While
four more states legalized marijuana for recreational use and four
passed medical marijuana laws, meaning a majority of states now have
some form of legal marijuana, it looks like the Trump administration may
step up enforcement on the federal level. What does this mean for
workers who need marijuana for disabilities? Nothing good. So far, seven
states have passed laws banning discrimination
Facebook At Work: What's The Worst That Could Happen?
So
Facebook came out with a yuge announcement that it has a brand new
social platform in beta testing called "Facebook At Work." I know, huh? I
gasped when I saw this announcement and if you've been doing employment
law as long as I have (since dinosaurs roamed), you probably gasped
too. What the heck is Facebook thinking? Well, I know what they're
thinking. They're thinking $$$$$. I'm thinking po
New in Syria Comment
China’s Interests in Syria and the Middle East – by Dr. Christina Lin
China’s Interests in Syria and the Middle East By Dr. Christina Lin
Syria Comment – November 13, 2016 Interview with Dr. Christina Lin about
China’s view of Syria, ISIS, Ughurs and Turkey What is China’s
motivation for a greater involvement in Syria, considering that many
Uighur fighters seem to be going to Syria, with the goal of making a new
permanent home for themselves, and thus not returning
Prison Radicalisation: Dealing with Muslim Inmates with Terror Convictions, By Tam Hussein
Anjem Choudhary, 49, founder of Sharia4UK convicted for supporting the
Islamic State. @tamhussein Recently, Anjem Choudhary, 49, and Mizanur
Rahman, 33, were imprisoned for their active support of the Islamic
State. Choudhary’s imprisonment ends, for a small period at least, his
decade plus history of agitation in the UK. Whilst the British press
lapped up his colourful and extreme pronouncements
Kata’ib Humat al-Diyar: A Prominent Loyalist Militia in Suwayda’
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Emblem of Kata’ib Humat al-Diyar, featuring
Syria as the main part of the emblem and the group’s name beneath it.
The predominantly Druze province of Suwayda’ in southern Syria has a
variety of militia factions, some of which lean more third-way and
reformist from within (most notably the Rijal al-Karama movement) and
others of a more Assad regime loyalist orientation. K
New in The Ergosphere
Fast, cheap, good biofuels: Can we have all 3?
Converting
biomass (lignocellulose) to high-quality liquid fuels has been a huge,
costly headache since the first log was retorted to make wood alcohol.
Acid hydrolysis of cellulose is costly and leaves lots of sulfate to
deal with. Enzyme hydrolysis is also costly in materials and typically
slow. Various types of pyrolysis have their good and bad points, but
while some products like "liquid
Bleg: Clean videos of A-tests
I
need some video of an above-ground nuclear test, shot from the ground,
with no watermarks and the original sound with no music or voice-overs.
Everything I can find has some problem or other, and the original
versions are buried way down the search results by all the crapped-up
and promoted copies to the point where I wore out before I could dig
that deep. ADVthanksANCE.
New in The Existentialist Cowboy
When Scalia Beamed up!
by Len Hart These flights are critical to the the government's
crumbling cover up! Without those flights, Bush and his murderous
co-conspirators will have to revise the big lie. They will have to
concoct yet another cover story from the ground up! A cover up is on the
brink of collapse when those guilty of capital crimes and high treason
either turn on one another or are forced to revise the lie!
New in The Galloping Beaver
More #ERRE thoughts
I'm
finding it interesting to contrast the Liberal and NDP supplements to
the ERRE committee report, found on pages 321-333. The Liberal
dissenting opinion makes frequent reference to witness testimony and
descriptive data from the report to make its case for a comprehensive
public engagement and knowledge building exercise prior to any hard
decision on electoral reform. In contrast the NDP
#ERRE report and poison pills
There's
a lot of hay being made of about Maryam Monsef's parliamentary attack
on the Electoral Reform committee's report. In brief, Monsef went on the
attack and accused the committee of failing in its job by producing a
recommendation for proportional representation and a referendum on
whether Canadians want it. In response, the committee members, other
MPs, and the general public bristled,
New in The High-fat Hep C Diet
The HDL correlations in CANHEART probably don't mean what the druglords will want them to mean
The CANHEART study findings on HDL have made a big splash, supposedly
debunking the idea that raising HDL is a good idea. Of course, raising
HDL with drugs by sticking a spanner in the works at some point has
never been an effective strategy, and there are genetic polymorphisms
that give elevated HDL of little worth, but healthy diet and lifestyle
changes that are reasonably expected to extend li
New in thwap's schoolyard
Both Trump & Hillary Supporters Are Stupid
I really don't want to start blogging again. But the US election farce
is finally over and I've had some thoughts and sharing bits of them with
one or two friends just isn't enough. So I'll express myself here and
then quit for a while. The whole response to this travesty has ratcheted
up my misanthropy levels. Hillary supporters deluding themselves that
Trump voters have rejected the way of ligh
The Racist, Rapist Won
How stupid and/or ignorant would you have to be to vote for a
piece-of-shit like Donald Trump? As stupid as a Canadian "Blogging
Tory." As stupid as Davis Aurini. And these people aren't just stupid
and/or ignorant. A lot of them are deplorable. (The opposite of
"adorable.") We're in for a rough ride world. But, unlike those
self-described "progressives" who turned their brains to shit so that th
Both Clinton and Trump Are Unacceptable
Keeping in mind my earlier assertions that the Left's inability to
fight back makes any idea of resistance null and void, I am changing my
advice for US-Americans from "don't vote for either of the two rotten
front-runners" to "oppose the system that gave you two such rotten
candidates." That is the proper position for non-US-American
progressives as well. Yes. Donald Trump is a nasty man. A rapi
Damn!
Damn this is a beautiful movie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_467324&feature=iv&index=10&list=PLHLYMMYCXqijkZCTVfmyhOlpABxXNuTlu&src_vid=TgLB08lTxM4&v=CctH0iAyqYs
(It's a link to Iggy Pop's scene in the movie "Dead Man.")
New in Vagabond Scholar
Spite
Donald
Trump is a bully and a bullshitter. His fans love him for the first
part and don't recognize or don't care about the second. They love him
because he hates the people they hate and vows to inflict pain on those
other people, who aren't real Americans or full citizens in one way or
another, due to their skin color, national origin, religion, gender,
sexuality, or just beliefs slightly more
Armistice Day 11/11/16
(Click
on the comic strip for a larger view.) In 1959, Pogo creator Walt Kelly
wrote: The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me
to be special. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went
on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart.
Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first
war rather seriously, but I still
Forgiveness, Compassion and Generosity
Some
thoughts for Armistice Day (or Veterans Day, or Remembrance Day). How
does one deal with a tragedy? Or a great injustice? Or persistent
unfairness for years? How does one face violence, or conflict or hatred?
One of the most striking stories I've encountered this year is that of
Terri Roberts and her Amish neighbors. Both The Washington Post and
StoryCorps did excellent pieces
The Cubs Win the World Series
I
can't claim to be the most diehard Cubs fan, living and dying with
every game and season, but I have been a lifelong and loyal fan since
visiting family in Chicago as a kid and attending Wrigley Field for my
first-ever baseball game. I used to joke that I was a Cubs fan because I
was a masochist, and I think many Cubs fans have approached their
fandom with loyalty, fatalism and a sense of
New in Viva Bolivia
Donald Trump and Bolivia
Today
Donald J. Trump became the 45th President of the United States. There
are protests on 5th Avenue and some are turning violent, the Clinton
crowd has set fires, blocked traffic for hours, smashed a newspaper
office, it is out of control. So I am sure Bolivia is watching the
outcome and preparing for a new jefe in los EEUU. The former jefes were
not good to Bolivia; Bush treated it with contem
New in Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!)
(Trumped?
Jailed! Deep State Raises Ugly Head) Kissingered: USA War/Greed Factor
Overwhelming (Waiting for the Barbarians) Dear President Putin (How Dems
Could Win Again But WaPo Says NO) Too Many Americans Are Watching from
the Sidelines (Google Gives PRISM Petabytes of Personal Data But No Evil
Doers They!) Schmidt Next President? Commies Detected! (Hillary Running
on Obama Sand Legacy) EFF Denied
(A
few bucks in the Pay Pal to help cover server costs would be much
appreciated. It's the holiday season. Thanks for your support.) The war
is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. - George Orwell
Official Washington’s rush into an Orwellian future is well underway as
political and media bigwigs move to silence Internet voices of
independence and dissent. As an unemployed
The
Failure of American Liberalism (And Now, The Real (Terrible) News - Re:
The Game of Ethical Behavior Is Over for the USA USA USA!) Small-Town
Sleeper Cell Unravels (What Killed the TPP?) Still Always-At-War USA?
Fidel
Castro Dies at 90 The same people who railed against ‘political
correctness’ now seem to believe there should be no criticism of their
choice. You can’t have it both ways Vote shaming, anyone? rump voters
sure are sensitive lately. They’re upset that the cast of the hit play
Hamilton made a statement to Vice-President-elect Mike Pence, and that
the audience booed him. They’re
BE
EVIL Wins! (Cleverer Trump) Neofascist Bang, Not Whimper Ends Era -
Next Financial Catastrophe Upcoming (Google Evil Apparent) Hard Evidence
Trump/Pence Stole Election (So Where's the Left?) Why We'll Never Have a
Real Investigation of Anything Involving Acquisition of Power, Money
and Influence (Google/Facebook, Mass Surveillance and The Endless War)
.
"The neoliberal era in the United States ended with a neofascist bang.
The political triumph of Donald Trump shattered the establishments in
the Democratic and Republican parties - both wedded to the rule of Big
Money and to the reign of meretricious politicians." I think I've been
clear enough in my designation of Trump as the most clever candidate in
this past election - even cleverer we
(Trump
Is Obama/Hillary Legacy?) "Crosscheck" Lies Rule Election Choices
(Unhinged Normal) Who Is Huma Abedin? (Deep State Arms-Sales Collusion)
Power of the Shadow Gov't (Creeping Normality) They Paved Paradise &
Sold It (Liberal Progressivism's Alleged Failure) That's Not Liberalism
Trump
victory margin in North Carolina: 177,008 North Carolina "Crosscheck"
purge list: 589,393 Some final Election 2016 analysis? In the week
leading up to last Tuesday’s election the press was busy writing
obituaries for the Republican Party. This continued even after Donald
Trump’s “surprising” victory – which, like the 2008 bank-fraud crash,
“nobody could have expected.” The pretense
What the DNC and RNC Don't Want You To Know (Presstitutes Finally Exposed? Dream On!)
Our
best election reporting (Surprise! Surprise! Sergeant) may be from Max
Keiser and Stacy Herbert, who are London-based, but internationally
focused. And not paid-to-play (not by Soros or the Deplorables). If you
wondered how our "enemies" came to be, we've learned (painfully) that
both Saudi Arabia and the Clinton Foundation have been funding ISIS. And
how about the 95 million USA USA USA
(Black
Swans Running Over Fake Progressives) Trump Inverts Instantly With
Election (Corporatocracy Wins Again As Warmongers Are Warned)
Cross-Checked Agony & Henry F. Kissinger Smug About Deplorables
(Good-Night, Sweet Leonard - Don't Go!)
“I
know I said I’d meet you, I’d meet you at the store, But I can’t buy
it, baby. I can’t buy it anymore. And I don’t really know who sent me,
To raise my voice and say: May the lights in The Land of Plenty Shine on
the truth some day.” - “Land of Plenty” Leonard Cohen dies. Vogue
celebrates our Leonard. Robert Vaughn, Who Starred as Napoleon Solo in
‘Man From U.N.C.L.E,’ Dies at 83 And
New in What Is Sustainable
Ancient Spirit Rising
Life in 2100 will look very different from today. Industrial
civilization is addicted to the mass consumption of nonrenewable
resources, a design that can have no long-term future. To add to the
excitement, climate change is a powerful wildcard. How did we get into
this mess? Many too-clever mistakes. Are the problems widely understood
now? No, most know little or nothing about ecological sustain
The Gallic Wars
After a long and crazy joyride in overshoot, enormous bills are coming
due. Industrial civilization is sliding toward foreclosure. Capitalism
gets the blame, but the roots of the madness go far deeper, older than
ancient empires. Many public buildings in America imitate the
architecture of the Roman Empire, with their rows of tall stone columns.
Like ancient empires, our economic tentacles reach
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