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Hotel puts proper gaming rigs in all its rooms, perfect for gamer couples on vacation
Serious gamers on holiday shouldn't need to suffer. A hotel in Taiwan
is offering more than just a bed and TV in its rooms. SEE ALSO: New
luxury internet cafes in China are ensuring gamers won't ever want to
leave Rooms at the i hotel come equipped with two computers, complete
with DXRacer gaming chairs that look pretty plush. The computers aren't
shabby either, and are decked out fully by ASUS,
Hurricane Maria rocks Puerto Rico as island's strongest storm in modern history
(Note: This story will be updated throughout the day as the storm moves
across Puerto Rico.) Hurricane Maria, one of the 10 most intense storms
on record in the Atlantic Ocean basin, roared ashore in southeastern
Puerto Rico, near Yabucoa, at 6:15 a.m. ET. It hit the island as a
powerful Category 4 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per
hour, down somewhat from its peak of 175 miles
"Sovereignty" and a world-wide rush toward Putin-ism
The key word from Donald Trump's United Nations speech - "sovereignty" -
should trigger alarms . That word — repeated 21 times in the 40-minute
speech — has been widely discussed by politicians, pundits and the
media, focusing on how Trump’s U.N. speech bounced between conflicting
impulses "to the point of incoherence." In paying homage to American
generosity on the world stage, for example, Trum
Porpoise unearthed in medieval graveyard
A
recent archaeological dig near Guernsey has yielded something rather
unexpected - a porpoise skeleton. When Oxford University's Philip de
Jersey and...
Abbott vows to cross the floor against any new renewables subsidies — most of Parliament should be with him.
Democracy
in action. Fully 62% of Australians don’t want to pay a pitiful $10 a
month for renewables. They are already paying more, therefore at least
two-thirds of our parliament should be voting “No” on this. Why is
Turnbull even toying with this? Former prime minister Tony Abbott has
threatened to cross the floor of Parliament and vote against any move to
introduce a clean-energy target, descri
Hurricane Maria: Direct Hit Puerto Rico
Via:
Weather.com: Metal roofs were flying off buildings and windows were
breaking in San Juan, Puerto Rico even before Hurricane Maria made
landfall as a Category 4 storm on the island’s southeastern coast early
Wednesday morning. According to the Associated Press, nearly 900,000
people were already without power as the storm approached.
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Catalan president says Madrid is suspending region’s autonomy
Police raid Catalan government buildings in Barcelona and arrest 12
senior officials in run-up to banned independence vote The Catalan
president has accused the Spanish government of effectively suspending
the region’s autonomy and declaring a de facto state of emergency.
Police officers raided Catalan government offices on Wednesday and
arrested 12 senior officials in a bid to stop an independen
Unless Ryanair treats pilots like me better, this crisis will be a long haul | James Atkinson
I
know from bitter experience the truth behind Ryanair’s grounded
flights. Its dire working conditions mean the airline can’t replace
pilots as fast as they quit Ryanair has cancelled many hundreds of
flights over the past two weeks, and that number will soon run into the
thousands. The airline has scrambled to explain the cancellations, and
these explanations grow more colourful each day. A new r
GOP senators are rushing to pass Graham-Cassidy. We asked 9 to explain what it does.
Republican senators are struggling to articulate why they are rushing
to pass their last-ditch effort to repeal and replace Obamacare over the
next 10 days before running into their September 30 deadline. In
interviews with Vox on Tuesday, nine Republican senators primarily
argued that their “Hail Mary” bill — spearheaded by Sens. Lindsey Graham
(SC) and Bill Cassidy (LA) — would return federal p
Everybody still hates Hillary Clinton: But why?
Hillary Clinton (Credit: Getty/Drew Angerer) Hillary Clinton is back in
the public eye to promote her new memoir on the 2016 election, but most
Americans would apparently prefer her to just go away. That’s according
to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll , which found that just
30 percent of respondents had a very positive or somewhat positive view
of the former Democratic nominee, who see
I’ve covered the GOP repeal plans since day one. Graham-Cassidy is the most radical.
Other Republican plans create a poorly funded version of Obamacare.
This one blows the law up entirely. I have spent the bulk of 2017
writing about the different Republican plans to repeal the Affordable
Care Act. Graham-Cassidy , in my view, is the most radical of them all.
While other Republican plans essentially create a poorly funded version
of the Affordable Care Act, Graham-Cassidy blows it
Mexicans Dig Through Quake Rubble Overnight as Death Toll Passes 200
“The priority at this moment is to keep rescuing people who are still trapped,” Mexico’s president said.
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Barn owls found to suffer no hearing loss as they age
(Phys.org)—A
small team of researchers with the University of Oldenburg has found
that barn owls do not suffer hearing loss as they get older. In their
paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group
describes hearing tests they conducted with a group of trained owls,
what they found and why they believe more study of the birds may lead to
preventing hearing loss in aging humans.
Bats anticipate optimal weather conditions
Millions
of animals fly, swim or walk around the Earth every year. To ensure
that they reach their destination, they need to perceive precise changes
in environmental conditions and choose the right moment to set off on
their journey. Bats, too, are influenced by environmental factors. Every
spring, common noctules in southern Germany set off for their summer
territories. Researchers at the Max Pl
Mexicans Dig Through Quake Rubble Overnight as Death Toll Passes 200
“The priority at this moment is to keep rescuing people who are still trapped,” Mexico’s president said.
This Is Why Science Loves Twins
They help with tough issues like facial recognition technology and nature vs nurture -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Cats and cockroaches may ward off asthma in kids
For some children who live in inner-city areas, exposure to certain pet
and pest allergens in infancy may lower the risk of developing asthma
by age 7. A new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical
Immunology , that included children living in inner-city St. Louis,
Baltimore, Boston, and New York City, also linked a mother’s mental
health to her child’s risk of developing asthma. “
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Powerful 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Mexico | National Geographic
A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake has hit Mexico's central state of
Puebla. It's destructive force reached Mexico City, which is 75 miles
from the epicenter. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About
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world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and fil
Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE review
The Apple Watch Series 3 is the first smartwatch from Apple to include
built-in LTE. In theory, this means you should be able to walk away from
your phone and still have cell service through the watch. In reality,
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See the Creepy Remains of Abandoned American Resort Towns | National Geographic
Photographer Pablo Iglesias Maurer revisits scenes from midcentury
postcards and advertisements of resorts that now lie in ruins. ➡
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Megyn Kelly and Ellen Discuss Political Talk Show Guests
Journalist Megyn Kelly told Ellen she'd welcome President Donald Trump
on her new show, "Megyn Kelly Today." Find out if Ellen agreed. From:
TheEllenShow
Megyn Kelly on Why She Kept an Open Mind on Trump's Presidency
Journalist Megyn Kelly explained to Ellen why she encouraged everyone
to keep an "open mind" at the beginning of Donald Trump's presidency.
From: TheEllenShow
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“The News” is a Social Construct. It is Used to Program You.
If
all the "alternative" media ever does is report on "the news" (as
decided by the MSM), then aren't they just unwitting participants in the
mockingbird media system? Join James for this heady thought for the day
as he dissects the idea of "the news" and talks about the real value of
an outlet like The Corbett Report.
Solutions: Stop Using YouTube
Every
year come 9/11 I see my "9/11: A Conspiracy Theory" video making the
rounds again. But this year something marvelous happened. I was able to
point people to my BitChute.com mirror of the video. And my Dtube
mirror. And my minds.com mirror. And my vid.me mirror. The YouTube
crackdown is coming (exactly as I warned you it would), but the YouTube
exodus is also here (just as I predicted at the
Interview 1300 – Jeffrey Tucker Reveals the Future Bit by Bit
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Jeffrey Tucker of Fee.org joins James to talk about his book, Bit by
Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World. We discuss how "the market" is about
cooperation and discovery, and how revolutionary technology is now
making the state and all of its functions and functionaries obsolete.
Interview 1300 – Music Theory to Conspiracy Theory on The Ripple Effect
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James returns to The Ripple Effect Podcast as a co-host, to help Ricky
interview Vinnie, as we discuss everything from Music Theory to
Conspiracy Theories.
The CIA Preps Their Next JFK Psyop
We
all know that the last of the JFK assassination records are due to be
declassified in October. And we even know what the government says it's
hiding from us. But do you know the story that the CIA is trying to
plant in the public consciousness about what is going to be "revealed"
in these documents?
China’s New World Order: Gold-backed oil benchmark on the way
China
has announced a "new world order" for world oil markets that could have
profound effects on the global economy and the monetary order itself.
But as The Shanghai International Energy Exchange gears up for
operation, it's important to note yet again that this is another
engineered conflict with the pre-determined death of the dollar system
being used to bring in the new multipolar world order
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Safeguarding Mexico’s Sierra Madre Cloud Forest against Logging
Recent trip to region uncovered survival of endemic salamander thought to be extinct
Beyond Harvey and Irma
The militarization of homeland security and disaster relief in the climate change era
Images from Assateague Island
Ecology and wonder on a barrier island
Chocolate Industry Drives Devastating Deforestation in Ivory Coast
As global demand for cocoa booms, ‘dirty’ beans from national parks enter big business supply chains
How to Teach Your Kids About Zoos
We owe our children honest answers about the morality of animal captivity
Koch Brothers Versus Small Town USA
In Review: Company Town
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There's a pattern here...
Breitbart Editor: Trans Activism a Plot Against Dumb People Two of the
editors of Breitbart, Neil Munro and Alex Marlow, had a rather bizarre
conversation on the Breitbart Daily radio show about transgenderism.
They think that activism for trans equality is really about clever
people making society too difficult to navigate for dumb people. Munro
claimed the push for transgender rights is “a prep
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"Anti-racism" is powerful propaganda to condone state violence
"Anti-racism"
is the best cover up for the extreme direct and covert military
violence of the Obama-Clinton administrations, and the best propaganda
that Democrat and Trump provisions of war and domestic injustice are
discernible. And we lap it up. The merchants of outrage are having a
field day. >
Cause of USA Meltdown and Collapse of Civil Rights
By
Denis Rancourt, PhDPublished at Dissident Voice:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/09/cause-of-usa-meltdown-and-collapse-of-civil-rights/
SUMMARY: Societies of social animals, including humans, are dominance
hierarchies. Civil rights are codified in law to protect mechanisms of
essential counter measures against excessive exploitation of the
hierarchy by elite classes, which destabilizes the
The Mike Duffy lawsuit is good for civil rights advocacy
> Irrespective of public opinion about Duffy's behaviour, it is
clear on its face that the PMO was shielded by the police and legal
establishment. This lawsuit is push-back against an intrinsically and
highly biased police and court system
The Things That Disturb Me Most
By
Denis Rancourt, PhD The things that disturb me most, in order of
concern.When government institutions and corporations attack me and my
family to suppress my democratic participation and to gag me and deprive
me of my societal position.When my own society is occupied and degraded
by foreign and special interest plutocrats, constantly engineering
public institutions towards stupidity and
Perceived threats from societal grievances are best addressed with respectful dialogue made in good faith
A
potential Nazi-ideology threat in USA-Canada is best addressed by
freedom of speech and insisting on civil rights [see Endnote]. White
nationalism is a diverse social movement made of people whose
fundamental rights in the democracy must be respected. Otherwise, the
suppression will amplify their alienation. Instead we must respect
everyone as human beings and protect their rights to express
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207,744,520 Pakistanis
Pakistaniat Single best policy news coming out of Pakistan in a long
time is that the country has finally completed a census. What is now
Pakistan (then West Pakistan) was 33.7 million people in 1951. Today it
holds 207.7 million Pakistanis. According to schedule this should have
been Pakistan’s 11th census. Instead it was the […] The post 207,744,520
Pakistanis appeared first on ALL THINGS PAKIS
The Best Coke Studio Song of the Year?
Is this the best Coke Studio song of the year? Maybe, maybe not. But it
is certainly a great commentary on Coke Studio. The post The Best Coke
Studio Song of the Year? appeared first on ALL THINGS PAKISTAN .
US-Pakistan Relations: A Retrospective (They Have Always Been Problematic)
US-Pakistan relations are in trouble. They have always been in trouble.
Worth looking back. The post US-Pakistan Relations: A Retrospective
(They Have Always Been Problematic) appeared first on ALL THINGS
PAKISTAN .
Mountbatten’s Momentous Mistakes: A Partition Made More Painful
Adil Najam The midnight between August 14 and 15, 1947, was one of
history’s truly momentous moments: It marked the birth of Pakistan, an
independent India and the beginning of the end of an era of colonialism.
It was hardly a joyous moment: A botched process of partition saw the
slaughter of more than a […] The post Mountbatten’s Momentous Mistakes: A
Partition Made More Painful appeared first o
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How many female MPs and MSPs should there be?
I. A House of Commons committee proposes changes to increase the number
of women MPs : The government has rejected all six proposals to give
parliament more equal female representation, prepared by the Commons’
women and equalities committee, including fines for parties that do not
select enough women as candidates. The women and equalities committee
chair, Maria Miller, said the response showed
Explanation of workfare
Here’s a cartoon explaining the government’s policy on workfare (via Reddit ):
New in ArmsControlWonk
SAR Image of Punggye-ri
Last
week was pretty awesome — we had a huge “new tools” conference here at
Monterey with all kinds of cool space and tech companies like Airbus. We
have a great relationship with Airbus, which made available a pair of
images taken with synthetic aperture radar of North Korea’s nuclear test
site before and after …
Pyrrhic Victories and Draws
Quote
of the week: “What history will remember is not the ideals we were
fighting for, but the methods we used to accomplish them.” — Hans Bethe
In “Lonesome Day,” Bruce Springsteen offered this hopeful lyric: Hell’s
brewing, dark sun’s on the rise This storm will blow through by and by
House is on fire, …
The Hwasong that Never Ends
A
guest post from my colleague Matt Korda Here we go again: another guide
to North Korean missile designations. You might be asking yourself,
“Self, why do I need to learn all these pesky Hwasongs if I already know
all the KN numbers? Surely they’re just different names for the same
things?” Well, to quote the …
A Third War in Sixteen Years?
Quote
of the week: “Go, my people, enter your chambers, And lock your doors
behind you. Hide but a little moment, Until the indignation passes.” —
Isaiah At times like these, Biblical prophecy is called for. Instead, we
get op-eds. Donald Trump spirals downward. He has no other place to go.
Due to circumstances comprehensible …
Glocom Is at It Again
Readers
may recall my earlier rantings about a company called ‘Glocom’, a North
Korean military communications firm masquerading as Malaysian, and
selling missile navigation systems and other arms-related products
around the world. The company was outed by the UN Panel of Experts and a
Reuters special investigation in February, around the time of Kim Jong …
Bombs and Dollars
Two
professors who study nuclear proliferation — Nick Miller at Dartmouth
and Vipin Narang at MIT — have a neat little piece in Politico Magazine
about which poli-sci theories predicted North Korea’s bomb and which
didn’t. Long story short: most didn’t. Etel Solingen’s Nuclear Logics
(2007) holds up well. It was, of course, published four years after
North Korea’s …
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Can
Rush Limbaugh And/Or Rightwing Channels Be Sued Who Broadcast Him For
Saying Hurricane Irma Was A "Liberal Hoax"? How Many Died Because Of
This?
Our local rightwing radio ENTERCOM EIB NETWORK 103.1 WILKKK the Ku Klux
Klan headquarters broadcasts Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh via WILKKK or
YOUR local rightwing KKK channel told his DITTOHEAD listeners HURRICANE
IRMA WAS A LIBERAL HOAX. Now how many DITTOHEADS didn't leave their
homes in Florida and DIED because of Rush Limbaugh AND THE CHANNEL THAT
BROADCASTED THIS??? I guarantee you at leas
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Blogger’s
background: I am an American physicist with 200 frequently cited
publications who was a Democrat but who now eschews both major parties. I
am also a member of the Election Defense Alliance, which has studied
hacked elections in the US ever since George Bush’s supposed reelection
(it was rigged). And I can assure you that it is physically impossible
for someone in Russia to hack an American election without their
infiltration of many hackers into the US, all speaking perfect English,
and all finding ways to infiltrate hundreds of polling places without a
single one being noticed as an outsider. The only good thing I can say
about Trump is that he took the word of Vladimir Putin that the Russians
didn’t hack Hillary Clinton’s election (although he only did this
mainly to continue illegal businesses in Russia). Fortunately, “…thanks
to an exacting forensic examination of the available evidence by the
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), an organization
of…
Will special counsel Mueller examine the DNC server, source of the
great Russiagate caper? September 3, 2017 | Categories: Guest
Contributions | Former federal prosecutor George Parry read the report
by the association of Veteran Intelligence Professionals. which
conclusively proves that there was no hacking of the DNC computer and
that the information was downloaded from within the DNC and then
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Enriqueta Vasquez: Eminent Historian for "The Women of La Raza"
I
am going to go out on an (academic) limb and call The Women of La Raza
by Enriqueta Vasquez both a treasure and a living codex. I will also say
this about Enriqueta herself: Vive en la sabiduri a -- she lives in
wisdom, wisdom of an elder, wisdom of the elders, an elder who also
leaves footprints and also walks in beauty. Her words and generational
knowledge are gifts to us, and I will say that
The National Council of La Raza's Name Change: A National Capitulation
The National Council of La Raza's Name Change: A National Capitulation
Thursday, September 07, 2017 By Roberto Rodriguez , Speakout | Op-Ed The
National Council of La Raza's (NCLR) recent name change to UnidosUS is
bizarre and incomprehensible and its rationale that their name was "
getting in the way of their mission " strains credulity, especially
because it was also purportedly trying to be mo
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BWorld 150, Rising state-inspired murders and budget 2018
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last August 25, 2017. The second
week of August 2017 would possibly be the bloodiest in the drugs war of
the Duterte administration. More than 80 people were murdered mostly by
the Philippine National Police (PNP) in various drugs-raid and victims
were described as “nanlaban eh (they fought the police).” Perhaps 99% of
all countries and governments in the wor
IPR and innovation 37, US-China dispute on IP
Last month, there was a high profile dispute between the US and China,
the former accusing the latter of having policies and practices that
discriminate US companies' IP rights and innovation. Here's one story
from Fox , August 03, 2017. Weeks after that, this news from Lexology ,
August 22, 2017. The China government, its state-owned enterprises and
perhaps many private enterprises, have the ten
BWorld 149, Free tuition and irresponsibility
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last August 17, 2017. There are
many reasons why the new law providing for free tuition for all students
— rich and poor alike — in all state universities and colleges (SUCs)
is wrong, but for this piece, we will limit them to only four arguments.
One, the government has no extra cash to cover extra spending on these
already substantial expenditures. This mea
On the CHR P1,000 or $20 budget for 2018
The House of Representatives led by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez passed
the proposed 2018 budget and it gave the Commission on Human Rights
(CHR) a mere P1,000, less than $20, budget for 2018. Key Duterte
officials are displeased with the CHR, headed by Atty. Chito Gascon (a
friend since the 80s in UP Diliman) because of its investigation of many
murder cases where the main suspects are policemen. L
BWorld 148, Energy Trilemma Index 2016
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last August 11, 2017. The
Philippines has acquired a growth momentum that started a few years ago
in the past administration and we are now looked upon as among the
fastest growing economies in the world. Sustaining fast GDP growth will
require stable and cheaper energy because almost all economic activities
now require energy and electricity. The World Energ
Earthquakes and economics
Among the recent strong earthquakes (EQs) that I personally felt was
last August 11, 2017. I was in the office, 25/F of the building and I
felt a bit dizzy, then I watched the door swinging by itself, the window
blinds were swaying -- for nearly one minute, it was long. And it was a
magnitude 6.3 EQ. We get about 3-4 EQs a day on average in the
Philippines, though most of them are mild (magnitude
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Still #1
Harvard undergrads show their wisdom in course selection .
A Reading List
Every
few years, I teach (in addition to ec 10) a freshman seminar for about a
dozen students. The seminar is essentially a book group for students
who are taking introductory economics concurrently or who have advanced
placement credit in economics. Here is a list of this year's books: The
Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner On Liberty, by John Stuart
Mill Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton
What I did last night
Lady Gaga performed at Fenway Park yesterday (and the day before).
Apparently, she is the first woman ever to headline an event at Fenway.
It was a great concert. Good people watching before the concert started.
Ran into a few former ec 10 students.
What Moderates Believe
I much appreciated today's column by David Brooks , though he seems to
be describing center-right moderates more than center-left moderates (or
is that my own bias showing up?). David also taught me a new word:
syncretistic . It refers to combining different forms of belief.
How to Get People to Get Along
Click here to read my column in Sunday's New York Times .
News from Amazon
Source . To users of my favorite textbooks: Thank you! Have a great semester.
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Reports of Obamacare's death are greatly exaggerated: All counties to be covered for 2018
Obamacare has now obtained an insurer for every county in the country,
defying Republican claims that the program is collapsing. As reported by
The Hill , "At one point or another over the past year, more than 80
counties have been at risk of having no ObamaCare insurer on the
exchanges in 2018." On Thursday (Aug. 24), the last "bare" county, in
Ohio, was covered by insurer CareSource. Insurance
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Integrated Border Management: Scope, Challenges and Framework for Pakistan
by Rashid Munir Siddiqui (2017) Table of Contents Abstract 3
Introduction: … Integrated Border Management: Scope, Challenges and
Framework for Pakistan is a post from News Center Pk .
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Six Things to Know about the BC Liberal Leadership Race
Here are six things you need to know about the race to replace Christy
Clark, based on the rules the BC Liberal Party released Tuesday. First,
you better have money or some rich supporters if you even want to try
for the job. It will cost you $50,000, payable to the party, to become a
candidate. (Plus $10,000 that you’ll get back if the party doesn’t levy
any fines for bad behaviour during the ca
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Dicamba drift? This is on you, Monsanto.
Like a wildfire burning out of control, the epidemic of dicamba drift
blowing across 20 states this summer has already damaged over three
million acres of soybean cropland. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex
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Equity for farmers of color in California
If passed, California's "Farmer Equity Act" will recognize the
historic, systemic wrongs faced by farmers of color — those at the core
of building and sustaining our farming communities. Learn more Slideshow
Category: Flex Slider
Dicamba drift? This is on you, Monsanto.
Like a wildfire burning out of control, the epidemic of dicamba drift
blowing across 20 states this summer has already damaged over three
million acres of soybean cropland. Adding to the list of some 2,200
reported herbicide injuries are likely many more damaged acres of fruit
and vegetable farms, vineyards, trees, home gardens, hedgerows and plant
habitats critical to pollinators and other wildl
The clear case against Clovis
Sam Clovis is not a scientist. Trump's absurd nomination for the top
scientist post at U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is a former
radio talk show host with a history of racist and homophobic commentary —
and zero scientific or agricultural background or credentials. Zero.
The Senate will consider whether to confirm Clovis when they reconvene
after Labor Day — and efforts to block the absur
California, schoolkids deserve better
Ah, back to school. It's a transitional time for parents and kids
alike. But for those living in California's agricultural communities,
this season also brings renewed worry and frustration that the state
still hasn't taken steps to curtail use of brain-harming and
cancer-causing pesticides near schools. The Department of Pesticide
Regulation (DPR) recently announced a risk assessment for the ins
Science for Solutions: Save the brains
This post is part one in our “Science for Solutions” blog series that
amplifies scientist voices and underscores the importance of independent
science as the foundation for evidence-based policymaking and narrative
shifts. With pesticide drift sweeping across the South and Midwest this
summer, and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s recent decision to keep
the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos on
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Increasing Critical Questions Amid Mexican Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy Experiment
Mitchondrial Replacement Therapy (MRT) – sometimes referred with the
headline formulation "Three Parent Babies" – is an innovative, in humans
yet unproven, reproductive genetic technology, by which it is hoped
that a more effective avoidance of having children with severe
mitochondrial hereditary disease (as a rule extremely severe,
untreatable and lethal). MRT is controversial both as assisted r
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OSHA Protects You From Dangerous Working Conditions Post-Hurricane
I'm
getting lots of calls and emails about employers making employees work
in conditions they deem unsafe. Here's what OSHA says about workplace
safety: You have the right to a safe workplace . The Occupational Safety
and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) was passed to prevent workers from
being killed or seriously harmed at work. The law requires that
employers provide their employees with working con
If My Office Is Closed Due To A Hurricane Do I Get Paid?
With
Texas recovering from Harvey and Irma bearing down on Florida right
now, I thought I'd re-run this popular and necessary column. Whether
you’re entitled to be paid when the office is closed depends on whether
you are “exempt” salaried or not. Just being salaried doesn’t
necessarily mean you aren’t entitled to overtime. It’s possible to be
salaried and still non-exempt from the requirements of
If Your Prospective Employer Has Lots Of Turnover, Think Twice
All
the craziness and turnover at the White House has many Americans
wondering what anyone joining the Administration is thinking. But I see
it all the time. Folks either desperate for a job or getting an offer
that's off the charts decide they can handle whatever a difficult
employer throws at them. They're wrong. First of all, let's look at that
off-the-charts offer. It sounds too good to be tru
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KRG Targets Minorities Ahead of Kurdistan Independence Referendum — Part One: Exploiting the Yazidi Genocide
Large signage placed in the Chamishko IDP camp near Zakho for displaced
Yazidis. The imagery includes Masoud Barzani’s face above the Yazidi
Sharfeddin Temple in Sinjar, scenes from the Yazidi Genocide, and
Peshmerga with the Kurdistan flag. The Kurdish text reads: “For the
commemoration of the Shingal Genocide—Shingal, through its tragedy, has
brought forth the spirit of humanity and proved its
Unwinnable: Britain’s war in Afghanistan 2001-2014- by Tam Hussein
The 9/11 attacks gave birth to a Manichean world which is, as I write
this, being played out in Syria and Iraq amongst other places. With this
world in mind and the upcoming 9/11 anniversary, Professor Theo
Farrel’s Unwinnable is a timely reminder of the consequences of the War
on Terror in terms of lives, treasure and more; thousands of Afghan
migrants clustered in Calais and Dunkirk hoping to c
New in The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage
The Total Solar Eclipse and Global Warming
The tallbloke site has a post on "Collecting Data Unique to a Solar
Eclipse", apparently data of concern in climate and atmospheric science,
but limited to the effect of a total solar eclipse upon that part of
the outer atmosphere known as the ionosphere, not to the lower
atmosphere--the troposphere--or the global mean surface temperature (the
one measurement of interest to "global warming" clima
New in The Ergosphere
Pathetic performance of tidal power station lauded as "world record"
In
a "record month" at the MeyGen tidal power project in the Pentland
Firth... I'll just quote them: A tidal power station in the Pentland
Firth between mainland Scotland and Orkney has broken the world record
for electricity generation.... In an update on the progress of the
MeyGen project, by Atlantis Resources, the company said it had generated
700 megawatt-hours of electricity in August, a
New in The Straight Goods
Laurie Throness and Daryll Plecas-The Sickness and The Sanity and "A Political Masterstroke"
Written by Grant G What a fascinating last 6 months, a never ending
elections, missteps, bad political advice and toxic rot that infected
the entire BC Liberal Party Lots of nasty chatter in regards to Daryll
Plecas taking to position of Speaker of the House, Liberal party huffed
and puffed and tossed Daryll out of the party, constituents who voted
for Plecas under a Liberal banner are shouting r
Rest in Peace Merv Adey
I miss you already... Merv Adey.....The warrior spirit lived within
Merv....and so did civility... Merv's last posting..
_____________________ Bye for now It’s with great regret that after two
months not posting to this blog, I’m now announcing what I hope is a
temporary retirement from blogging. I’ve been dealing with a health
issue, and need to restrict my activities to give as much energy as I
New in thwap's schoolyard
Oh Lonesome Me
There was one part of Russell Brand's book that affected me. The human
need for community. He says that consumer capitalism destroys so many of
the opportunities for community. Brand himself mentions religions and
sport teams. I confess to sometimes casting wistful glances at the
church groups/ethnic communities/extended families/workplace friends
that I see cavorting merrily in Sunnybrook Park w
Belated Review of Russell Brand's "Revolution"
Back in 2013 a lot of people were excited by an interview on the BBC
between Jeremy Paxman and Russell Brand . There were demonstrations and
riots in Britain and Brand (a comedian) had recently co-edited a
magazine series about political change and BBC interviewer Paxman
brought Brand on the show to comment about what was going on. At one
point in the interview, Brand said he didn't vote because
Free Speech for Fascists?
Quick thoughts: Should people we disagree with have free speech and
other rights? More precisely: Should fascists have freedom of speech and
freedom of assembly and the right to hold their views and not be fired
for them? Some will argue that leftists would be chumps to stand up for
the free speech rights of fascists. First of all, they wouldn't do so
for us. (With the right-wing's perpetual amaz
Ezra Levant Had Always Been an Idiot
So, it appears that third-rate huckster/shitty lawyer/anti-Arab,
anti-Roma racist/obnoxious asswipe Ezra Levant has been done-in by his
own stupidity and sleaze. Conservative Party politicians (who had done
so much to fill his coffers, both recently with his hate-site "The
Rebel" and formerly with his attempt at a "FoxNews North" called the
"Sun News Network") are disavowing him like the proverbi
New in Vagabond Scholar
Labor Day 2017
Happy
Labor Day! It’s too easy to take for granted the important victories of
the labor movement in the past, and also to overlook the attacks on
workers’ right in the present. Some good pieces for the day: The Nation,
"The Rollback of Pro-Worker Policies Since Trump Took Office Is
Staggering": Last week, as most of us in the United States were riveted
by Hurricane Harvey’s descent on Texas,
New in Weekly Geo-Political News and Analysis
Donald Trump to go on November begathon to Asia
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the Internet’s premiere deep geo-political news and discus
Urgent questions from a political prisoner
1) Have you heard of Leo Wanta and the $30 trillion plus of money that
was stolen from him by the Bush cabal? What do you know of the current
prospects for release of the money to Wanta by Trump? Yes I have heard
of Mr. Wanta. He is not about to get his money. Instead he is going to
join the long list of people who have been ripped off astronomical sums
by the establishment in Washington DC. Just
High level weirdness in US as Khazarian control matrix crumbles
People who are aware are noticing very weird stuff going on with the
world information grid -especially inside the Anglo Saxon world- as
contradictions and bizarre events multiply. These are all signs of a
collapsing power matrix; the sort of thing seen around the time of the
fall of the USSR. The first thing to note about last week in particular
is that the US was hit for the first time since 20
Chances of new financial system announcement and US civil war both skyrocketing
Evidence is mounting that both a new financial system and a civil war
in the US are imminent. There is also a high probability the US east
coast will be hit with a geo-engineered hurricane so severe that people
are being asked to evacuate 60 miles inland, CIA sources say. What seems
to be happening is that the Khazarian mafia is unleashing weather
weapons and making other mischief to try to preve
High level and high stakes Mexican stand off continues despite 911 weather warfare attack on US
Dear Readers, As you may know, Benjamin Fulford has recently been
targeted with financial attacks and in June 2017 his PayPal account was
suspended. At the same time, his former webmaster is suffering from
cancer and she has been hospitalized. To help support Benjamin, the WDS
has arranged a complete renewal of his website, developed and supported
by a new IT team. The website now accepts direct
US military cracking down on hooligans for hire in US
The recent staged demonstrations and violent incidents carried out by
paid hooligans in places like Charlottesville have prompted a crack-down
on Khazarian mafia agents who are paying for these incidents, Pentagon
sources say. The US is now, beyond any doubt, run by a temporary
military regime which intends to clean up the Khazarian gangster
corruption that has destroyed the United States. Once t
New in Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!)
(Happy
Un-Labor Day?) Liars Figuring Still (Stop Democracy Now!) Junior
Soprano Unleashed: As*hole Defined (Ignorant/Racist USA!) Empire of
Never-Ending Debt? (White Lashed) Vouchered Rahm? (After Liberalism?
When?) Watershed History Moment (New International Economics Needed)
Hillary Hype Resented?
Sorry
that this is a ridiculously long one, but I'm catching up as I've been
on long-term hiatus due to desperate economic circumstances . . . just
grab a tall, cold one; you may need a refill. Many of us do constantly
these days. A brief moment of clarity for the jobs-bereft (as well as
the life-bereft (h/t to D. Trump's "Have a good time!" to the desperate
refugees as he scrambled back to
New in What Is Sustainable
Surviving the 21st Century
In the old Three Stooges comedies, whenever Curly did something dumb,
angry Moe gave him a dope slap (SMACK!). With regard to humankind’s war
on the future, a number of thinkers have been inspired to write
passionate dope slap books, including Man and Nature (1864),
Conservation of Natural Resources (1910), Checking the Waste (1911), Our
Vanishing Wild Life (1913). Dope slap books are a two-step:
Safety Nets
Today, a few billion humans live in affluence. Their unsustainable
societies have social safety nets made possible by nonrenewable energy.
When they are disrupted by hurricanes, earthquakes, or famine, food
relief is usually shipped in from other regions, preventing mass
starvation. For most of the human saga, each clan or community was on
its own, far less likely to be rescued by outsiders. The
Sustainability Primer
I was recently interviewed via email by a group of ecologists in
France. I’m sharing it with English-speaking folks because it provides
an easy map for learning, a basic introduction to environmental history
and ecological sustainability. My blog now contains reviews of 170+
sustainability-related books, and dozens of essays — stuff that would
take more than a month to read. Over the years, a num
New in Wide Asleep in America
Citations Needed, Episode 09: Liberal Media Throws #J20 Activists Under the Bus
The
Hashtag Resistance warms up to rightwing ghouls David Frum and Evan
McMullin while ignoring anti-Trump protesters facing 80 years in federal
prison. In the wake of Trump’s unexpected win, the “Resistance” to
Trump displayed by many in liberal media has been a toxic combination of
gratuitous smears of left activists and ignoring their existence
altogether. As over 200 people — including
Alan Dershowitz Invented a Scary Quote to Fear-Monger About Iran
Alan
Dershowitz is a liar. This is not news, of course. His shoddy
scholarship and penchant for plagiarism is well-documented. His
relentless and tedious self-promotion, let alone his obsession with
celebrity - others', as well as his own - is crude, shameless, and
pathetic. His virulent Islamophobia has led him to advocate on behalf of
torture and in favor of the Muslim ban. He's defended
Citations Needed, Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex
Samantha
Power The concept of human rights has served as the underlying moral
foundation of the United States’s role in the world since the end of
World War II. The conceit that the U.S. has been a dedicated and earnest
promoter of “freedom”, “democracy,” and “human rights” throughout the
world — even if, at times, a “flawed” one — is a defining narrative,
largely taken for granted by major
Citations Needed, News Brief: Harvey, Climate Change and Snitch Reporters
On
this Citations Needed News Brief, we discuss the media's fear of
covering Harvey in the context of race, class, and the manifest threat
of climate change. We are joined by Katherine Krueger of Splinter News
to talk about journalist narcs and the criminalization of survival.
*****
Citations Needed, Episode 07: BDS & The Moral Narratives of Colonization
In
Episode 7 of Citations Needed, we explore how the media discusses the
issue of BDS and the broader topic of Palestinian liberation. What are
the stakes? Who are the smear artists? What are the similarities with
past apartheid boycotts? We discusses these topics and more using a
pro-apartheid 1989 Christian Science Monitor op-ed as our guide. The
Guest Steven Salaita previously held
Citations Needed, News Brief: Charlottesville, The ACLU, and the Moral Limits of 'Free Speech'
In
a new Citations Needed News Brief, Adam and I discuss Charlottesville,
the ACLU, and the moral limits of 'free speech' with George
Ciccariello-Maher, Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies at
Drexel University. *****
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