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Will China Invade North Korea? (Updated)
Flags of China and North Korea are seen outside the closed Ryugyong Korean Restaurant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China, April 12, 2016. *Voice of America*: *Analyst Raises Scenario of China's Takeover of North Korea, Others Have Doubts* WASHINGTON — A longtime editor of a magazine that specializes in global power politics recently put forth a scenario where China would stage a takeover of North Korea, giving Washington and the rest of the world a nuclear weapons-free Korean Peninsula. Bill Emmott, the former editor-in-chief of The Economist magazine, said such a move by China w... more »
Iran Threatens The U.S. Military If New Sanctions Are Passed
*Reuters: **Iran warns U.S. against imposing further sanctions* BEIRUT/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran warned the United States against designating its Revolutionary Guards Corp as a terrorist group and said U.S. regional military bases would be at risk if further sanctions were passed. The warning came after the White House said on Friday that President Donald Trump would announce new U.S. responses to Iran’s missile tests, support for “terrorism” and cyber operations as part of his new Iran strategy. “As we’ve announced in the past, if America’s new law for sanctions is passed, this coun... more »
CONFIRMED: UN report says West’s anti-Russian sanctions have failed
UN report says Western sanctions have had limited economic impact; questions their legality More The post CONFIRMED: UN report says West’s anti-Russian sanctions have failed appeared first on The Duran.
CONFIRMED: Foreign investors flock back to Russia
As economy strengthens Russia overtakes India as top pick for foreign investors and equity funds More The post CONFIRMED: Foreign investors flock back to Russia appeared first on The Duran.
Las Vegas police reveal “note found in gunman’s hotel were aiming calculations”
Stephen Paddock practiced shooting in the desert days before the Las Vegas massacre. More The post Las Vegas police reveal “note found in gunman’s hotel were aiming calculations” appeared first on The Duran.
That's funny, because I happen to have Professor Bell right here...
Anonymous meme. So yesterday mainstream historian Kevin Kruse took on parody historian Dinesh D'Souza, with whose "book" *The Big Lie* I have been having a kind of personal war, and his claim in connection with the book, that "mainstream historians have never disputed my research or my conclusions" (partly true, hardly any would mention him at all in their normal existence, since his work is so obviously deviant it doesn't need professional refutation), and hilarity ensued. Check out the thread. Hey professional historians! What do you think of @DineshDSouza's work? https://t.co/foD... more »
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. - Reuters examines how well-being improves when people live in urban areas rather than suburban ones. But Tannara Yelland reminds us that we can't pretend for a second that people will have the opportunity to do so when there's more immediate money to be made pricing housing out of the reach of most residents. - Brian Dijkema takes note of Ontario's work on providing an alternative to payday lending by allowing credit unions to off short-term lending (without the disregard for the borrower which results in exploitation by the commercial financ... more »
This Day In Iraqi History - Oct 8
1948 Export-import licenses for Jewish businesses forbidden after creation of Israel 1983 France secretly began delivering 5 Super Entendard fighter bombers to Iraq 1984 Iraq broke 3 week ceasefire in Tanker War with attack upon ship leaving Iran’s Kharg Island main oil facility 1986 U.N. Res 588 said Iran and Iraq should follow Res 582 to resolve Iran-Iraq War 1986 Iran rejected UN Res 588 because didn’t blame Iraq for starting Iran-Iraq War 1994 US France UK deployed troops to Persian Gulf in response to Saddam putting troops on K... more »
KKK and Nazi ‘rally’ in Charlottesville yesterday brought in 30 scared little racists.
Who this time minded their manners a lot more than the previous attempts. After twice getting their collective ASS HANDED TO THEM by the unarmed citizens of Charllotesville. Imagine, the Mighty Klan who once ruled over little towns in the south with their Anti American Terrorism. They got schooled even though they were the ones […]
Climate Science: Put Up or Shut Up
That’s the theme of an article by Rowan Dean in The Courier-Mail, Australia: Time for climate scientists to produce evidence that carbon dioxide emissions affect climate Full text below with my bolds and images. IT’S time for so-called climate scientists to either cough up one single, solitary shred of genuine scientific evidence that proves that the climate is […]
"How It Really Is"
"A" problem? Only one? Take a look around...
Free Download: Joseph Tainter: "The Collapse Of Complex Societies"
*"Joseph Tainter:* * The Collapse Of Complex Societies"* by Adam Taggart "By popular demand, we welcome Joseph Tainter, USU professor and author of "The Collapse Of Complex Societies." Dr. Tainter sees many of the same unsustainable risks the PeakProsperity.com audience focuses on - an overleveraged economy, declining net energy per capita, and depleting key resources. He argues that the sustainability or collapse of a society follows from the success or failure of its problem-solving institutions. His work shows that societies collapse when their investments in social complexity a... more »
In Defense of Columbus and the Principle of Scientific Discovery
Classical Renaissance World Land-Bridge Video of VT69Dz4pDYE Following her "Open Letter to President Trump in Defense of Columbus", Liliana Gorini, Chairwoman, *Movisol*, (LaRouche's Movement in Italy) addresses the Manhattan Project to tell the truth about Columbus' spirit of discovery and his achievements that benefited all of mankind. Today, a similar spirit of discovery expressed by China's Belt and Road initiative has the potential to transform the future as monumentally as Columbus' accomplishments. The recent attacks on Columbus by groups such as the Antifa are not intended ... more »
“20 Quotes on Dealing with Button-Pushers”
*“20 Quotes on Dealing with Button-Pushers”* by Dr. Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. "We all know the type. The people that seem to instinctively know just how to irritate and anger us. Everyone has buttons that get pushed, and everyone has at least one button-pusher in his or her life. Read on for quotes on how to deal with those people that just know how to drive you up a wall. "Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people." - Carl Jung "When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of em... more »
"We Deny..."
"We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth right in front of our faces." - "Dr. Meredith Grey," "Grey's Anatomy"
"How to Keep Emotions From Running Your Life"
*"How to Keep Emotions From Running Your Life" * by David Cain "The worst period of my life ended shortly after I made a key discovery: most of the difficult experiences in my life arose directly from my desperate need to avoid difficult experiences. At the time, I was flunking in school. I was a bad student because I avoided asking for help or revisiting concepts I hadn’t grasped the first time. I avoided those things precisely because they made me feel like a bad student. It was a perfectly self-defeating strategy, but of course I didn’t realize what I was doing until later. I h... more »
WATCH: Cop Claims Unarmed Biker Made Him ‘Fear For His Life’ So He Nearly Shoots Him
[image: fear]An Arizona cop claims a biker riding a wheelie made him 'fear for his life' so he pulled his pistol and almost shot him in the back.
VIDEO: Houthi forces prepare to ambush Saudi Navy in the Red Sea
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (4:30 P.M.) – A rare television report was aired by the Sanaa-based government on Friday where specialized elements of the Republican Guard and Houthi-led ‘Popular Committees’ were shown training for naval combat off the western coast of Yemen. The footage depicted Houthi combattants maneuvering in speed boats, armed scuba divers swimming beneath the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Graphic pictures: ISIS wreaks havoc on Syrian Army supply line to Deir Ezzor
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (3:10 P.M.) – Although the Islamic State’s counteroffensive in eastern Homs lasted barely a week, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) did take heavy human and material losses due to powerful jihadist attacks on the M7-highway and Al-Suknah. A string of photos released by Amaq Agency on Friday shows an Islamic State convoy gathering […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Syrian Army kills scores of runaway jihadists in central Syria
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (2:40 P.M.) – Dozens of Islamic State militants were hunted down by government troops while trying to escape from east Hama to Idlib province. The slain ultraconservative fighters were among many others who refused to surrender their last bastion in the eastern countryside of Hama when the Syrian forces stormed and entirely reclaimed […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Syrian Army liberates new village east of Euphrates River, encircles ISIS in Deir Ezzor city
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (2:05 P.M.) – On Sunday morning, seasoned contingents of the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) 4th Mechanized Division expanded their bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, thus reaching ISIS-held areas of Deir Ezzor province that have not been under government control since 2012. According to a military source close to Al-Masdar […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
The Guardian: an unusually bright text about the deceitful cryptohype
Hours ago, The Guardian released a text by Edward Helmore (New York) Warnings grow louder over cryptocurrency as valuations soar. It addresses at least several of the issues surrounding the Bitcoin and its siblings that were recently discussed on this blog. They mention that Joe Kennedy, the forefather of JFK, Ted Kennedy, and other relatives and left-wing "lions", sold his stocks in 1929 after a shoeshine boy told him it was great to buy stocks. When even shoeshine boys talk about this "opportunity", it means that almost everyone who could have bought the stocks has already done ... more »
Politicized sustainability threatens planet and people
Paul Driessen, author of "Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death," explains the vast difference between Real Sustainability, which implies wisely using our resources and always looking to innovate, and Politicized Sustainability, a radical policy that focuses on focuses on ridding the world of fossil fuels, regardless of any social, economic, environmental, or human costs of doing so -- and regardless of whether supposed alternatives really are eco-friendly and sustainable.
National Weather Service Reluctantly Takes On Role Of Forecasting Next Gun Massacre
As a nation once again debates whether to debate whether to do anything meaningful to make it harder for Americans to kill masses of people with guns, sources with the National Weather Service said they plan to include potential threats of gun violence in their forecasts. One official sighed very The post National Weather Service Reluctantly Takes On Role Of Forecasting Next Gun Massacre appeared first on Shadowproof.
U.S. Will Give Pakistan 'One More Chance' To Work Together On Afghanistan
*Hussain Nadim, The Interpreter:* *Afghanistan: US offers Pakistan yet another ‘last chance’* Following US President Donald Trump's address on Afghanistan policy in August, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing that the US is willing to work with Pakistan 'one more time' in Afghanistan. In another hearing, General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, alleged that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) maintains links with terrorist groups. For Pakistan, neither calls for 'one last chance' nor allegations of ISI lin... more »
The Taliban Leader Wants A Ceasefire With The Islamic State
*Khaama Press:* *Taliban chief attempting for cease fire with ISIS group* The Taliban supreme leader Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada has reportedly started efforts to end the conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group. A source in South of Afghanistan privy of the development has said the leader of the Taliban group has instructed his fighters to end the war with the terror group. The source further added that the leader of the group has instructed his fighters not to attack the militants of the terror group in a meeting with his commanders during the re... more »
The Afghan War Is Entering Its 17th Year
*VOA: **US, Afghanistan Urge Taliban to Seek Peace as War Enters 17th Year* QUETTA, PAKISTAN — The United States has formally handed over two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to the Afghan Air Force as part of a plan to increase its capability and sustainability in counter-Taliban operations. The handover ceremony took place at the airfield in Kandahar as the U.S.-led international military intervention in Afghanistan entered its 17th year Saturday, with no end in sight for the war against an Islamist insurgency. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in accepting the new aircraft, called ... more »
For profit charter schools charge taxpayers for students who do not show up for classes.
Charter schools touted by @BetsyDeVos lure at-risk students and when they stop coming, the state keeps paying. https://t.co/iB0FOeQHxC — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) October 5, 2017 Courtesy of USA Today: *Last school year, Ohio’s cash-strapped education department paid Capital High $1.4 million in taxpayer dollars to teach students on the verge of dropping out. But on a Thursday in May, the storefront charter school run by for-profit EdisonLearning was mostly empty. * *In one room, vacant chairs faced 25 blank computer monitors. Three students sat in a science lab down the hall, and ano... more »
The Waters of Marah
When then we open the pages of a magazine or turn on the daily news or settle in to watch a movie or read a book or otherwise interact with popular culture, we must remember that the well has been poisoned.
State Supreme Court Rules Having Sex With Minors is Legal But Sexting Them is Illegal
[image: sexting]Sexting minors is illegal, but having sex with them is okay, an Indiana Supreme Court has ruled. -- Seriously.
Grossly Incompetent Cops Arrest Hero Who Stopped a Robbery, Instead of the Robber
[image: robbery]A heroic employee became the suspect after he risked his life to stop a robbery, and the same people who were supposed to protect him, did the opposite.
US Commander:Final Assault to Take Raqqa From ISIS Begins Sunday
*Updated: please scroll down * *Jerusalem Post* *Today. Because ISIS has massed in a “sports stadium” to either fight like a gladiator to their death or .... be massacred. Seriously, that’s what’s being reported. * *ISIS is massing in a sports stadium- massing there to resist or die.* *You need to imagine me rolling my eyes at this claim. * *What I think is much more likely! * *"ISIS"(PKK/YPG/Assorted special ops and a veneer of Arabs) is converging in one convenient location where they will be loaded up covertly and transported to Deir ez Zor. To fight SAA and allies. * * After a... more »
NEW POLL: Greeks favour Putin over Trump and Merkel
Greek sympathies continue to lie with Russia. More The post NEW POLL: Greeks favour Putin over Trump and Merkel appeared first on The Duran.
Iraq and Middle East show more dignity over Kurds than Spain and EU show over Catalans
The Middle East has responded to Kurdish secessionists with a firm dignity while Europe has responded to Catalonia with childish aggression and arrogance. More The post Iraq and Middle East show more dignity over Kurds than Spain and EU show over Catalans appeared first on The Duran.
Keep Space for Peace Week Begins
Keep Space for Peace Week (October 7-14) began with an event in South Korea opposing US deployment of the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) 'missile defense' system. Global Network advisory board member Sung-Hee Choi reports: On October 7, people gathered in Soseong-ri for song contest event and took a photo/video together with the banners of Keep Space for Peace Week and deceased Cho Youngsam (who immolated on Sept. 19 in opposition to THAAD). We shouted slogan, "Pull Out the THAAD and plant the Peace!" It was after People's song contest which followed a 20 minute prese... more »
This Is the One Picture All of North Korea Fears Most
*Zachary Keck* *Security, Asia* Air power destroyed the DPRK in the 1950s. *North Korea actually repaired the war damage faster than South Korea, which had been far less damaged during the war. A more enduring impact of the bombing is that it has been used as a propaganda tool by the Kim regime to instill hatred in all their citizens from a very young age. As Bruce Cumings explained: “Every North Korean knows about this, it's drilled into their minds.”* As tensions between North Korea and the United States reach a fever pitch, it’s worth remembering the origins of the hostility:... more »
This Is How North Korea Would Start a War (And How Bad It Could Get)
*Robert Farley* *Security, Asia* Scary stuff. *This is the best case for North Korea, but it is important to recall that most analysts judge North Korea’s military as insufficient to defeat the forces of the RoK. The static defenses along the DMZ, combined with the mobility and sophistication of RoK forces, mean that any offensive into South Korea is likely to bog down into a logistical disaster before it can capture Seoul. At that point, attacks along the depth of the North Korean position, combined with a concerted assault on regime targets and the KPA’s command and control... more »
U.S. And Afghan Leaders Vow That Air Power Will Defeat The Taliban
Khaama Press *WNU Editor*: *Afghan president, U.S. general vow ambitious air war to defeat Taliban* KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — With a just-delivered Black Hawk helicopter sitting on a military runway behind him, Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr., the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, vowed Saturday that “a tidal wave of air power is on the horizon” in the war against Taliban insurgents and that “this is the beginning of the end for the Taliban.” Moments later, a second new Black Hawk descended and hovered over the runway as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani praised the nation’s air fo... more »
ISIS Fighters Are Now Surrendering En Masse. Most Are Claiming To Be Cooks Or Clerks
At the Kurdish screening center in Dibis, suspects are searched, their shoes taken, their pockets emptied and their belts discarded. Credit Ivor Prickett for The New York Times *New York Times:* *ISIS Fighters, Having Pledged to Fight or Die, Surrender en Masse* DIBIS, Iraq — The prisoners were taken to a waiting room in groups of four, and were told to stand facing the concrete wall, their noses almost touching it, their hands bound behind their backs. More than a thousand Islamic State fighters passed through that room this past week after they fled their crumbling Iraqi strongh... more »
Blogorado, Day 3
Today was our first day at the range. Much fun and games for all concerned. I brought along several firearms I needed to function-test. Saturday was revolver day; three .357 Magnum and .38 Special revolvers. I tested them with Sellier & Bellot 158gr. LRN (lead round nose) ammunition as a first step, and found to my surprise that two out of the three revolvers (both snubnosed, short-barrel firearms) "hung up" after four rounds. They were recoiling hard enough to "pull" the bullets a little out of the cartridge cases, meaning that they protruded out of the front of the cylinder, ... more »
This Is The Way Their World Ends
The American Empire is in decline. Chris Hedges writes that the signs of decay are everywhere: The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe. It is burdened by growing deficits, along with the devastating effects of deindustrialization and global trade agreements. Our democracy has been captured and destroyed by corporations that steadily demand more tax cuts, more deregulation and impunity from prosecution for massive acts of financial fraud, all the while looting trillions from the U.S. treasury in the form of bailouts.... more »
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From Jenna Orkin DA Who Dropped Charges Against Ttrump Kids Did Opposite with Immigrant Family ISIS Triples Down On Vegas Shooter Claims: Claims Paddock "Converted Six Months Ago" Sheriff: Vegas Shooter Led "Secret Life", May Have Planned Car Bombing; Tried To Ignite Jet Fuel Tanks 20% Of Illinois Lawmakers To Quit (To Save Their Pensions?) JPMorgan Updates By-laws In Case Of "Nuclear Disaster" Or World War III 'Decoders' Offer Dire Warnings About North Korea's Nuclear Program Iran, Iraq, And Turkey Unite To Block Kurdish Oil Exports BLS Caught Fabricating Wage Data The... more »
Since 2016, Cops have Killed 3 Times as Many Citizens Than 4 Decades of Mass Shootings COMBINED
[image: kill]As American citizens call for disarming the public, they conveniently ignore the most deadly group of people who will be the only ones with guns.
TSIPRAS TO MEET TRUMP AS MY CASE REACHES NEW CRITICAL POINT, POSTPONED SHOW TRIAL IN A FEW DAYS. NEW CHARGES AGAINT SUPERVILLAIN THEODEKTI AND CORRUPT SOROS AND TSIPRAS JUDGE OVER LATEST SCANDAL IN MY CIVIL CASE TO GET MY MONEY BACK
Alexis Tsipras is set to meet Donald Trump in The White House on October 17th with follow up meetings the next day. http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/10/07/tsipras-preparing-for-oct-17-meeting-with-trump-in-the-white-house/ As media note that Tsipras is the only Greek PM to have met two US presidents in a year, I would like to suggest Barack Obama to the list of people Trump and […]
Dirty tricks scandal engulfs NWO agent Sebastian Kurz, pressure to resign grows
Calls are growing for the resignation of Sebastian Kurz after it emerged that one of his closest aides offered a bribe of 100,000 euros to an operative to participate in a dirty tricks campaign against key Social Democrats rivals. http://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/politik/wahl2017/spoe/Kurz-ist-der-neue-Schuessel/303014189 According to some polls, the scandal has led to a collapse in support for the […]
Does The Government Work For Billionaires-- Or For The Rest Of Us-- A Guest Post By Daniel Biss
Daniel Biss practically was just a kid when *DWT* started covering his ideas about what could be accomplished in politics. When I first met him, in 2007, he told me that folks in Illinois "believe government is capable of benefiting people. The Republican Party functions as if government has to be kept out of the way." He's an intellectually rigorous mathematician, trained at MIT, now a state Rep with a great record of accomplishment, and a candidate for governor. His two opponents are hereditary billionaires with powerful names-- if not minds-- who can spend whatever they want wi... more »
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*Teacher quality* *I agree with the claim below that teacher quality is the key to good learning but I doubt that more teacher training would enhance that. From what students tell me, teacher training courses are so dumb and boring that many students drop out and do something else -- with mainly the dummies left. The enthusiasm of the teacher is the key in my view. My High School economics students did well in their exams because economics is a great enthusiasm of mine and I taught it with many indications of its relevance and importance. And I taught without one min... more »
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*Why fuel efficient cars might do less for the environment than you'd think* *Most people who buy a Prius also have a SUV* Opinion polls tell us Australians are worried about climate change and they think cars are part of the problem. A recent Ipsos survey found voters rate motor vehicle emissions among the top four "specific activities" that cause climate change. But that hasn't prompted us to cut back on the number of cars we own, even though light vehicles contribute about 10 per cent of Australia's total greenhouse gas emissions. The Bureau of Statistics' annual count of regi... more »
Harvard Trained Psychiatrist Says Medication Could Have Caused Vegas Shooter’s Madness
[image: paddock]In a Free Thought Project exclusive, author, and expert on anti-depressants Dr. Peter R. Breggin describes why he believes Stephen Paddock could've committed mass murder.
american colonialism
from An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz US founded on biblical principles. Pilgrims were Puritans who drew upon Calvinist theology to justify their invasion and subsequent extermination of the Indians. Calvinism was a Protestant Christian movement with a strong separatist political component in accord with the doctrine of predestination. Certain exceptional individuals are "called by God" to join The Elect. Salvation has nothing to do with your actions - either you're a chosen one, or you're not. Material wealth seen to be proof that one is o... more »
Most recent poll shows Donald Trump at 32% approval.
Courtesy of The Hill: *President Trump's approval rating has sunk to a new low in a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey. * *Thirty-two percent of Americans polled said they approved of Trump's handling of his job nine months into his presidency, while 67 percent of those polled said they disapproved. * *The president's approval rating in the poll is down from 42 percent in March and 35 percent in June, AP-NORC said. * *Trump also did not fare well among Americans who were asked if he understands their needs and problems. * *Sixty-four percent of A... more »
Al-Qaeda offensive sees Syrian forces besieged in north Hama
BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:30 P.M.) – Pro-government Syrian fighters of the National Defence Forces stationed in the trading village of Abu Daleh have found themselves fully besieged after days of violent clashes with Al-Qaeda-linked militias in north Hama. The siege on Abu Daleh was imposed after Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham and the Turkistan Islamic Party managed to […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Graphic images: ISIS ambushes Nigerian Army convoy, executes all soldiers
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (1:05 P.M.) – Over 30 soldiers of the Nigerian Army (NA) were shot dead after jihadist insurgents in the northern countryside of the embattled country concluded a succesful ambush on Friday afternoon. Deploying land mines, technicals and machine-gun fire at close range, militants loyal to the outlawed Boko Haram (ISIS franchise) caught government […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Map update: Syrian Army reopens Sukhnah-Deir Ezzor highway, seizes half of ISIS capital city
BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:45 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army and allied paramilitaries – backed up by Russian airpower – have regained the strategic initiative in eastern Syria, fully reversing all ISIS gains made along the as-Sukhnah to Deir Ezzor highway since the end of September and pushing forth the front-line all the way to the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Greater Than, Less Than
By Cathy Jameson Ronan was asked if he knew the concepts greater than and less than last week. I watched him as he gave an answer. He pointed first to yes then to no on his letter board. After waffling...
Jeremy Hardy - Nice man or one harbouring murderous thoughts?
'If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.' Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, BBC Radio 4, 13 September 2004
Julian Assange BLASTS mainstream media: Gives 3 simple steps to “Being A Journalist In 2017”
Julian Assange has outlined the key element to being a “Western journalist in 2017” More The post Julian Assange BLASTS mainstream media: Gives 3 simple steps to “Being A Journalist In 2017” appeared first on The Duran.
Russia’s plan to free itself from the US dollar is working better than anyone ever imagined
Russia has now tripled its gold reserves from around 600 tonnes to 1,800 tonnes. More The post Russia’s plan to free itself from the US dollar is working better than anyone ever imagined appeared first on The Duran.
Russia Advertises $ 2.8 Million Contract Bid For Maintaining Its Military Bases In Belarus
From Charter.org: “Russia Allocated $ 2.8 Million For Maintaining Its Military Bases In Belarus 6.10.2017, 9:16 [The Russian Minister of … Continue reading →
Married to the Mob: Investigative Journalist Craig Unger on What Trump Owes the Russian Mafia
By DemocracyNow.org: Link – http://youtu.be/BkE3z8DYEhI “Married to the Mob: Investigative Journalist Craig Unger on What Trump Owes the Russian Mafia, … Continue reading →
Memories of Anna Politkovskaya
From The Committee to Protect Journalists: “Two years without Anna By Nina Ognianova/Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator on October … Continue reading →
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Deep Still Blue”
2002, “Deep Still Blue” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3lcidv5ZrE
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Near the center of this sharp cosmic portrait, at the heart of the Orion Nebula, are four hot, massive stars known as the Trapezium. Gathered within a region about 1.5 light-years in radius, they dominate the core of the dense Orion Nebula Star Cluster. Ultraviolet ionizing radiation from the Trapezium stars, mostly from the brightest star Theta-1 Orionis C powers the complex star forming region's entire visible glow. *Click image for larger size.* About three million years old, the Orion Nebula Cluster was even more compact in its younger years and a recent dynamical study indicate... more »
Chet Raymo, “Cuddle And Cudgel”
*“Cuddle And Cudgel” * by Chet Raymo "Click on the image above to make it as big as you can on your screen. It's pretty, is it not? It is, in fact, an image of something invisibly small, so small and so beyond apprehension by the unaided senses that it can only be represented schematically, in his case as a TinkerToy construction of balls-and-sticks (upper right) and, more abstractly, as a multicolored ribbon (left). What is it? The stick-and-ball construction is the "cuddle" hormone, oxytocin. 43 carbon atoms, 66 hydrogens, 12 nitrogens, 12 oxygens, and 2 sulfurs: the basic Tinke... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Chandler, Arizona, USA. Thanks for stopping by!
"The Human Touch- 5 Seconds Equals a Thousand Words"
"The Human Touch- 5 Seconds Equals a Thousand Words" by Nicholas Bakalar "Researchers have found experimental evidence that a touch can be worth a thousand words, that fleeting physical contact can express specific emotions — silently, subtly and unmistakably. Scientists led by Matthew J. Hertenstein, an associate professor of psychology at DePauw University, recruited 248 students, each to touch or be touched by a partner previously unknown to them to try to communicate a specific emotion: anger, fear, happiness, sadness, disgust, love, gratitude or sympathy. The person touched wa... more »
The Poet: William Stafford, "Ask Me"
*"Ask Me"* "Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden, and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say." - William Stafford
Midnight Meme Of The Day!
*-by Noah* Two for the price of one again today! At zero cost to you! If that sounds like something from a grocery store window ad, that's because today's memes deal with the gifts that President Basket Case showered upon Puerto Rican victims of category 5 Hurricane Maria: Paper towels! I guess he left the sponges at home in Washington to help drain the swamp. After disdainfully trolling Puerto Ricans for almost 2 weeks, Trump embarked on a self-glorifying, way-too-late visit to Puerto Rico, saying that Puerto Ricans thanked him profusely for his efforts on their behalf. Every c... more »
For Those Who Are Interested On China's Development Of Advanced Weapons
DF-5B ICBM *Scout Warrior:* *War Analysis: US vs China* *The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission is requesting expert proposals to provide a one-time unclassified report on China’s development of advanced weapons.* The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission is now reviewing expert proposals to provide a one-time unclassified report on China’s development of advanced weapons. The Request for Proposals seeks unclassified, open-source assessments of specific Chinese weapons systems and areas of ongoing technological inquiry. Some detailed priority areas i... more »
News From Vostok Ice Cores
Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest essay by Richard Taylor Introduction Our current understanding climate was influenced profoundly by the publication (J.R. Petit, et al., 1999) of deuterium (2H) measurements from metre 8 to metre 3310 of the Vostok ice-core, indicating the temperature of the nearby atmosphere from 1800 to 421000 BC. Some…
Global wind speeds slowing since 1960, but nobody knows why
Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Windy enough today? One possibility is that ‘it could be due to ageing wind speed instruments producing inaccurate results’, says the GWPF. If not – bad news for wind turbine operators. Wind speeds around the world seem to be decreasing in a phenomenon known as ‘stilling’ and European scientists…
October Arctic Surprise
Originally posted on Science Matters: Click on image to enlarge. In recent years, October has seen some rapid recoveries of Arctic ice extents. But this year may become something special. With the early onset of Siberian snow cover and the resulting surface cooling, ice is roaring back, especially on the Asian side. Consider the refreezing…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall- Part 2 – Tide Gauges
Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Why do we even talk about sea level and sea level rise? There are two important points which readers must be aware of from the first mention of Sea Level Rise (SLR): SLR is a real concern to coastal cities, low-lying islands and…
New Syrian Army commander placed in charge of east Damascus offensive
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:05 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army is once again trying to advance in the eastern districts of Damascus city, renewing their offensive last night under cover of heavy rocket attacks. According to military reports, storming forces of the Syrian Army is are the process of assaulting militant positions in the districts of […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
VIDEO: Final destruction of ISIS in east Hama pocket by Syrian forces
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:30 A.M.) – Footage has been released on pro-government social media showing the final actions of the Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces in their reducing of ISIS defenses in rural Hama. The footage is mostly centered around the actions of the National Defense Forces which played a major role in anti-insurgency […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Syrian Army gains fire control over main supply line to ISIS capital city
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:15 A.M.) – The elite Tiger Forces of the Syrian Arab Army have scored another key advance against ISIS militants in the Al-Mayadeen city area of southwestern Deir Ezzor Governorate. After liberating the Mayadeen Airport near the city yesterday, the Tiger Forces continued to push on south in order to cut the main […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Breaking News: RNC headed by woman with total amnesia
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel: During three-decades worth of sexual harassment allegations, Harvey Weinstein lined the pockets of Democrats to the tune of three-quarters of a million dollars. If Democrats and the [Democratic National Committee] truly stand up for … Continue reading →
Tweets For Today
It's hard to believe that Oliver Stone's Platoon was released 31 years ago. https://t.co/vMZzsfhmTS — Time To Break (@timetobreaknow) September 13, 2017 This is what people are doing on Bourbon Street in New Orleans as Hurricane Nate approaches the Gulf Coast https://t.co/xesYTnw6Gy pic.twitter.com/tUDkv7dTMp — CNN (@CNN) October 7, 2017 Marvel drops planned joint venture with Northrop Grumman https://t.co/KPmBuoGABn — Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 8, 2017 Belarussian psychology student Aleksandra Chichikova crowned Miss Wheelchair World in 1st edition of beauty pageant ht... more »
Canada Is 'Desperately' Looking For Fighter Jets
An RCAF CF-18A+ over Lithuania in 2014. CANADIAN ARMED FORCES *The Warzone/The Drive:* *Canada Gets Desperate After Trade Dispute Upends Super Hornet Plans* *Spat between Bombardier and Boeing has Canadian officials scrounging abroad for second-hand F/A-18s.* As Canada continues to struggle with what to do about its participation in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, attempts to buy interim replacements for its aging CF-18A+ Hornets have turned into a saga of their own. The country's military is desperately scrounging around for places like Kuwait and Australia for second-hand... more »
Picture Of The Day
Smoke rises at the positions of the Islamic State militants after an air strike by the coalition forces near the stadium in Raqqa. REUTERS/Erik De Castro *WNU Editor:* The above picture is from this photo-gallery .... *Raqqa 'sacrificed' to defeat Islamic State* (Reuters).
"Fukushima Update: 15,415.5 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow"
*"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”* - Shiva *Updated October 7 30, 2017: Fukushima Equals 15,415.5 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow; There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad: *The 3 melted-through cores of the destroyed reactors, now melted together into a single "corium" totaling over *600 tons*, at Fukushima *daily* release the radioactive equivalent of 6.45 Hiroshima bombs directly into the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean. As of October 7, 2017 - 2,390 days since the disaster began - this equals the detonation of 15,415.5 Hiroshima atomic bombs and it is... more »
The F-35 Still Has A Long Way To Go Before It Will Be Ready For Combat.
U.S. Marine Corps F-35B fighter jets (foreground) and South Korean air Force's F-15K fly over South Korea during a joint military drill, South Korea on August 31, 2017. Republic of Korea Air Force/Yonhap/via REUTERS *Dan Grazier, National Interest:* *The F-35 Program Continues to Stumble* The F-35 still has a long way to go before it will be ready for combat. That was the parting message of Dr. Michael Gilmore, the now-retired Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, in* his last annual report.* The Joint Strike Fighter Program has already consumed more than $100 billion and ne... more »
X22 Report: "The Central Banks Are Transitioning The World Away From The Dollar"
X22 Report: "The Central Banks Are Transitioning The World Away From The Dollar" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cin_3j7nJeo
"You're On Your Own!"
*"You're On Your Own!"* by Robert Gore "If the world seems incomprehensible now, just wait... Within a twenty-four-hour span the Catalonian people voted 90 percent in favor of secession from Spain, despite the Spanish government’s effort to violently squelch the referendum, and a man in a Las Vegas hotel room opened fire on a concert, killing fifty-nine and wounding over 500. There’s no tangible connection between the two incidents, but they illustrate incipient forces still gathering steam that are transforming the world. No government, military force, or intelligence unit has fi... more »
60th Anniversary of the Windscale Nuclear Fire Disaster – Events
Please join us if you can – here is a Poster to Download and Display – ThanX! Advance notice of…
Virginia's General Election Is Next Month-- And It Is REALLY Important
Aaron Blake had a wake-up call for Democrats this morning in his *Washington Post* column and thishock of glancing at those two maps above sum it right up. Democrats, he wrote, need to give up their 2016 comfort blanket-- Hillary won by 3 million votes-- because if the two campaign were based on winning the electoral college rather than the popular vote, they both would have used different strategies and there's no telling who would have won. [I]t's totally unknowable whether Clinton actually would have won if our system went by the popular vote. That's because the campaigns were ... more »
Was the Security Guard at Mandalay Bay an ‘Accomplice’ to the Las Vegas Mass Shooter?
Dubious web sites reported, without a shred of evidence, that the security guard hailed as a hero for helping stop the Las Vegas mass shooting was actually an accomplice.
The F-22 Is The U.S. Air Force's 'Scout' Plane Over The Skies Of Syria
F-22 *Robert Beckhusen, War is Boring*:* F-22s Act as Flying Scouts Over Syria* *Sensor fusion puts stealth fighters in a leading role.* Three years ago, four F-22 Raptors taking part in the second-wave of the U.S.-led coalition’s opening air strikes on Islamic State in Syria dropped their bombs. It was the first time the stealthy fifth-generation fighters had ever engaged in combat. The coalition’s war planners also used the F-22s to leverage their low-observable profiles — and far-reaching sensors — while escorting non-stealthy fighters in case Syrian fighters or air-defense syst... more »
Obama's Middle East Policy Is Causing Problems for Donald Trump
*Matthew RJ Brodsky* *Security, Middle East* [image: A voter holds a flag outside the Iranian consulate in central London June 14, 2013. The building was the focus for demonstrators, as it was used as a venue for British based Iranians to cast their vote in their country's election to choose a new president. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth] Left untouched, the nuclear agreement ensures—rather than prevents—Iran from getting nuclear weapons within the next few years. President Trump reluctantly agreed to recertify the nuclear deal with Iran in July, but he indicated that he would not do so... more »
In 1969, North Korea Shot Down a U.S. Airplane and Killed 31 Americans
*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, Asia* Everything you need to know. April 15, 1969 marked one of the deadliest days for the United States in postwar Asia. The shootdown of a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of North Korea was unprovoked, and cost the lives of thirty-one Americans. Despite stern calls from Congress to avenge the deaths of the American servicemen, President Richard M. Nixon ultimately decided to avoid retaliation, lest he start a second Korean War. Although Nixon he never acted on them, he had a range of military options should his administration hav... more »
Rocket Bomb: Why the Air Force Wants Rocket Fuel That's Also a Bomb
*Michael Peck* *Security, Americas* Insane or good idea? The military uses explosives to blow things up. The military also uses rockets to carry those explosives to their targets. So why not combine the two and create a rocket whose fuel also doubles as the warhead? That’s the idea behind an Air Force research project to develop dual-use rocket fuel that also functions as a munition. The idea has precedent, though accidental and hardly desirable. NASA keeps gawkers miles away from the launch pad when it launches rockets from Cape Kennedy, because boosters powerful enough to sen... more »
A Newspaper Headline Nearly Exposed the U.S. Navy's Codebreaking Success against Japan
*Warfare History Network* *History, Asia* Following the Battle of Midway, an overzealous reporter and a negligent naval officer nearly caused an intelligence disaster. Stanley Johnston, a reporter for the *Chicago Tribune* accredited to the Navy as a correspondent, had made two forays into the South Pacific aboard the aircraft carrier *Lexington*. He was rescued when the ship was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942. He and other survivors returned to San Diego via Noumea. En route, Johnston’s roommate aboard the cruiser *Chester* was Commander Morton Seligman, executi... more »
UK Schools Drop BC and AD to Avoid Offending Non-Christians
[image: uk-schools-drop-bc-and-ad-to-avoid-offending-non-christians] In a troubling sign of things to come across the Western world, government schools across the United Kingdom will no longer use the terms “Before Christ” (BC) or “Anno Domini” (AD) for historical dates — even in religious education.
U.S. Trains The Ukraine Army To Fight In The Eastern Part Of The Country
Servicemen march during Ukraine's Independence Day military parade in central Kiev, Ukraine, August 24, 2016.Gleb Garanich/Reuters *Defense One*: *In Ukraine, the US Trains an Army in the West to Fight in the East* For more than two years, some 300 American soldiers have been quietly helping train an enormous partner military in western Ukraine. For more than two years, the U.S. military’s contingent of 300 or so soldiers have been quietly helping train an enormous allied military in western Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russian-backed separatists appear to be keeping pace some 800 miles to... more »
Will The Korean Peninsula Ever Be Unified?
*Zach Montague, WPR*: *Korean Reunification Seems More Quixotic Than Ever. Now What?* Since the initial division of the Korean Peninsula at the end of World War II, there has been a distant hope in diplomatic circles, as well as among many Koreans, that the split might one day be undone. American officials have supported Korean reunification for years, and even China, which benefits from the buffer North Korea provides between its border and the U.S.-allied South, has quietly favored the idea at times of heightened tensions. In preparation for a possible reunion, South Korea funds ... more »
New York City Businesses Targeted With Homophobic and Racist Fliers
The NYPD and the Brooklyn district attorney's office are investigating a string of apparent hate crimes.
It's a Crisis - How Do We Protect Our Kids?
Climate activist Michael Foster convicted on felony charges in North Dakota court for shutting off the Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline.... #ClimateTrial
Anachronistic T-Rexes
I’ve previously suggested that the enormous and long walls such as the Great Wall of China constructed by our ancestors, along with walls around cities and moats around castles, were more to do with keeping wildlife out than anything else. … Continue reading →
Plate Tectonic Problems?
I received a heads-up on a recent published paper in Geophysical Research Letters by Wang, Kusky and Capitanio, titled Ancient Continental Lithosphere Dislocated Beneath Ocean Basins along the Mid-Lithosphere Discontinuity: A Hypothesis. The hypothesis is purported to explain the presence of anomalous … Continue reading →
Do South Korea And Japan Need Nuclear Weapons?
U.S. President Donald Trump meets South Korea's President Moon Jae-In and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany July 6, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria *Fritz Lodge, Cipher Brief:* *Do Japan and South Korea Need Nuclear Weapons?* The North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un conducted its sixth underground nuclear test early this September – which Pyongyang claims as its first test of a hydrogen bomb – and in late August and again, two weeks later, the hermit kingdom launched a ballistic missile directly over the territory of Hokkaido in northern... more »
GOP Fat Cats Are As Sick Of Republican Chaos And Broken Promises As Everyone Else Is-- And They're Zipping Up Their Wallets
Many of the multimillionaires and billionaires who fund Republican elections are fuming. The Trump Regime is a worse 3-ring circus than anyone ever expected-- even those who knew it would probably be a mess. Yesterday they were reading headlines about Jeff Sessions issuing new guidelines for going to war with the LGBT community again. Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed federal agencies and attorneys on Friday to protect religious liberty in a broad, yet vague, guidance memo that critics fear could give people of faith-- including government workers and contractors-- a loop... more »
History Lesson: The Great Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson on colonialism and African American rights circa 1960.
Prototypes are being built for Trump's border wall.
Courtesy of the Daily Mail: *DailyMail.com has obtained drone photos that offer a birds-eye view of construction on Trump's new Mexican border wall. * *The photos show laborers hard at work on eight different prototypes for the new border wall, which Trump hopes will more effectively keep would-be illegal immigrants from crossing into the U.S. * *The prototypes are being constructed in the California desert, near San Diego. Construction began at the end of September, after being stalled three months when firms that didn't win contracts protested. * *Reporters and photographers we... more »
Middle Finger Symphony Theater
* No Tuxedos Required * *Brought To You By BLUESJUNKY: Honorary Chair of Music - Middle Finger Symphony Music Director*
Longest War in US History Turns 16 Today – Thousands Dead, No End in Sight & It’s Getting Worse
*[image: undefined]* On this day 16 years ago, less than one month after 9/11, President George W. Bush delivered a televised address from the White House announcing the beginning of the Afghanistan War. “On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,” he said. What Bush did not say was the fact that the War in Afghanistan would become the longest war in United States history. Thousands of American lives and billions of taxpayer dollars would be wasted at the expen... more »
WHY WE NEED SANCTUARY STATESCalifornia lawmakers have just...
*WHY WE NEED SANCTUARY STATES* California lawmakers have just passed “sanctuary state” legislation – the first state since Oregon, which 30 years ago passed a law preventing state agencies from targeting undocumented immigrants solely because of their illegal status. Other states should follow California’s and Oregon’s lead. Since January, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered immigration authorities to target “public safety” threats, federal arrests of undocumented immigrants have increased by over 37 percent. California is home to an estimated 2.3 million unauthorized i... more »
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