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Aftermath of #MeToo? I Predict Ugly Backlash
In
the wake of Al Franken's resignation over eight women's allegations of
forced open-mouthed kissing, butt grabbing and boob groping, there has
been much angst. Many of my fellow liberal Democrats are beginning to
understand what many HR folks have had to go through when the top
salesperson, popular CEO or much-loved manager is accused of sexual
harassment. The overwhelming temptation is to deny,
New in The High-fat Hep C Diet
Fibre and the risk of Type 2 Diabetes - the InterAct meta-analysis
Recently the Australian government publicised claims generated by
Nutrition Australia, in an opinion paper funded by Kellogg's, that
Australians increasing their cereal fibre intake could reduce the cost
of CVD and diabetes to the Australian economy: “ This research
demonstrates that if Australian adults use grain fibre to increase their
intake of dietary fibre to target intake levels for chronic
New in The Intercept
Note: This is not associated with First Look's site Entitled "The Intercept"
First
Look purchased the url, "The Intercept" in January, 2014. "The
Intercept", aptly named, originally consisted of the posts below with
many reposts of articles and blogposts collected to share. They consists
of stories that we thought were the most important and verifiable
news/opinions at the time. There are some originally written posts
covering various topics we happened to be knee-deep in
New in thwap's schoolyard
Random Thoughts on Canadian Political Scene
Rabble's Karl Nerenberg has a fair and balanced piece on why Trudeau
needed to apologize for an all-expenses paid vacation at the Aga Khan's
island: The Aga Khan himself does not do business with Canada. The Aga
Khan Development Network (AKDN) does. It functions, in the Canadian
context, as a non- governmental organization (NGO), receiving Government
of Canada funding to provide services in the d
On Turning "Conservatives" Into "Liberals"
Montreal Simon recently posted about some study that claims there are
physical differences between the brains of "conservatives" and
"progressives": Peering inside the brain with MRI scans, researchers at
University College London found that self-described conservative
students had a larger amygdala than liberals. The amygdala is an
almond-shaped structure deep in the brain that is active during
New in Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!)
(Special
Ops Rules Over All?) Bye Bye Reliable Internet & Monitor WSJ for
Reporting by Comcast & Spectrum? (WAR! What/Who Is It Good For?)
Analysis-Suppressing Mental Munchkin (Flim-Flammery of Tax Cuts) Leda
& the Swan Redux? (How It All Happened) Dubya Is Still Either the
Dummy or the Smarty (The Enemy of One's Enemy Is . . .?)
Donald
Trump's First Year Sets Record for US Special OpsAmbassadors of the
traditional kind? Who needs them? Diplomats? What a waste! The State
Department? Why bother? Its budget is to be slashed and its senior
officials are leaving in droves ever since Donald Trump entered the Oval
Office. Under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, hiring is frozen, which
means those officials are
New in What Is Sustainable
Kitchi-Gami
In the Ojibway language, Kitchi-Gami means Lake Superior. Johann Georg
Kohl (1808-1878) was a German travel writer, geographer, and
ethnologist. In 1855, he spent six months visiting trading posts and
missions in Ojibway country near Kitchi-Gami, mostly at the Apostle
Islands off the north coast of Wisconsin, and at the settlements at the
base of Keweenaw Bay, in northern Michigan. Kohl’s book, K
Kitchi-Gami
In the Ojibway language, Kitchi-Gami means Lake Superior. Johann Georg
Kohl (1808-1878) was a German travel writer, geographer, and
ethnologist. In 1855, he spent six months visiting trading posts and
missions in Ojibway country near Kitchi-Gami, mostly at the Apostle
Islands off the north coast of Wisconsin, and at the settlements at the
base of Keweenaw Bay, in northern Michigan. Kohl’s book, K
Kitchi-Gami
In the Ojibway language, Kitchi-Gami means Lake Superior. Johann Georg
Kohl (1808-1878) was a German travel writer, geographer, and
ethnologist. In 1855, he spent six months visiting trading posts and
missions in Ojibway country near Kitchi-Gami, mostly at the Apostle
Islands off the north coast of Wisconsin, and at the settlements at the
base of Keweenaw Bay, in northern Michigan. Kohl’s book, K
Northern Antiquities
Paul Henri Mallet (1730-1807) was a Swiss historian who had a fondness
for the Teutonic (Germanic and Scandinavian) tribes of northern Europe.
Their strength, ferocity, and devotion to total liberty eventually
enabled them to reduce the Roman Empire into a bloody blotch of road
kill. Mallet had no fondness whatsoever for the corpulent, decadent,
oppressive Romans and their legions of slaves. The
New in wmtc
i hate christmas 2017: the return of a wmtc tradition and then some
Last year, I took a break from my annual "i hate christmas" post. I
don't remember the circumstances, but it was probably related to getting
ready for our trip to Egypt. We lost Tala a few days later, but for
better or worse, we were ignorant of that until the day before. This
year I revive the fine wmtc tradition and then some. I did a stupid
thing and it caused me to remember just how much I ha
why i write for rights and how you can too... redux #write4rights
Trying to compose my annual Write For Rights post, I thought I would
recycle a good one from 2014... only to learn I had already recycled it
in 2015! And here it is again -- slightly edited, with new cases linked
below. Tomorrow, December 10, is Human Rights Day . The date
commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
by the United Nations on December 10, 1948, the first
listening to joni: #3: ladies of the canyon
Ladies of the Canyon , 1970 Original Front Cover I put this album on
for the first time in probably three decades, and I thought, ah, here's
Joni. Ladies of the Canyon , Joni's third album, is the first time we
hear the seeds of the future Joni, the first glimpses of elements in her
music which would become old friends. It's the first time we hear her
on piano. The first time she has arranged hor
in which i achieve a career milestone
I
am a Senior Librarian! It's a position I have aspired to for quite a
while. Although I love my current job as a youth librarian, I've been
ready to move on for a while. I had several near-misses, but couldn't
get over the top. Just as my colleagues and I were all convinced I was
being discriminated against because of union activism, I placed first in
a big competition, and ended up with my choic
listening to joni: footnote #2
I
decided to solve the problem of over-interpretation of lyrics in
Reckless Daughter ( described here ) by putting down the book. I'll go
back to it in the future. For now the listening project is more
interesting and absorbing to me than reading the biography. This means
I'll review the two books on the nonfiction book group blog without
having finished the second book. Don't tell anyone. Then I'
listening to joni: footnote #1
Reading
the biography Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell while
doing this re-listening project is proving to be an obstacle. In general
I'm enjoying the book. I love learning more about the artist who
created the most meaningful music in my life, and about the woman I have
always considered a personal role model. I love the stories of how
albums were recorded, and even how they were re
New in WWF - Latest News
WWF welcomes China's national carbon emission trading system
Beijing, 21 December 2017 – China's nationwide carbon emission trading
system, launched on 19 December, marks an important step toward
promoting a low carbon transition in the world's leading emitter of CO 2
, according to WWF. Szeping LO, CEO of WWF-China , says the emissions
trading system (ETS) could provide new impetus for China's low carbon
development and the country's transition toward a l
TRAFFIC Study: Japan's ivory market must close
Well-organized transnational criminal networks and a poorly regulated
domestic market are among the factors making Japan a lucrative target
for procuring ivory products for illegal export. In the continued
absence of effective regulation and law enforcement, WWF and TRAFFIC are
calling for the closure of Japan's domestic ivory market pursuant to
CITES [1]. Japan remains one of the world's largest
First ever tagging of Amazon dolphins to boost conservation efforts
For the first time ever, WWF and research partners are now tracking
river dolphins in the Amazon using satellite technology after scientists
successfully tagged dolphins in Brazil, Colombia and Bolivia, attaching
small transmitters that will provide new insights into the animals'
movements and behaviour and the growing threats they face. As of today,
11 dolphins, including both Amazonian and Boli
Eleventh hour support for vaquitas at CITES meeting but urgent action still needed on tackling illegal wildlife trade globally
Geneva, 2 December 2017 - The 69th meeting of the Standing Committee of
the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
Fauna and Flora (CITES) has come to a close in Geneva having tackled the
largest agenda with the largest number of participants ever. In the
final hour of the week-long session, Mexico, China and the United States
made a surprise agreement to convene a high-l
WWF statement on Stiegler's Gorge
WWF is today asking potential investors, banks and construction
companies not to invest in or lend to controversial hydropower dam
Stiegler's Gorge, until a full Strategic Environmental Assessment has
been carried out. Proposed to be built at the heart of Selous Game
Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania, WWF wants the true
impacts of the dam to first be assessed and the World Heritag
Revealed: New WWF report unveils the unseen benefits of saving wild tigers
Money invested by governments, aid agencies and funds raised by
supporters across the globe to save wild tigers have unseen benefits for
Asia's wildlife and millions of people, according to a new WWF report -
Beyond the Stripes: Save tigers, save so much more. Tiger landscapes -
which range from the world's largest mangrove forests in the Sundarbans,
to temperate forests in the snowy mountains of
New in A Very Public Sociologist
Appalling Scenes with Cadbury's Heroes
Nothing says Christmas better than fulminating over the injustice
nestled in our sweetie tins. Puncturing the season of goodwill this year
is Cadbury (AKA Kraft) and their shortchanging fans of their Heroes (
sans Miniature) range. This year Santa delivered us two tins of
diminutive iterations of their popular chocolates. And lo, the scandal
we have seen in previous years is back. See for yoursel
Merry Christmas!
It's been a long year. It's been an exhausting year, but we're nearly there. So Merry Christmas to you all!
Damian Green: Making the Bald Man Cry
Spare a thought this Christmas for Theresa May. 2017, it was something
of a roller coaster. From getting feted as all-powerful and unstoppable,
she recklessly gambled on an unnecessary general election and lost.
Since then she and the Tory party have put themselves through the
political agonies they so richly deserve, their body politic slick with
self-inflicted wounds. And yet, despite it all, t
On Poundland's Pathetic Edgelording
1. Ho, ho, ho. You've got to larf, haven't you? Because if you don't
you're po-faced, humourless, PC, SJW, and have a broom up your arse.
Well actually, no, you don't have to laugh. Poundland's marketing stunt
is crass, stupid, sexist, and cynical, designed entirely to kick up a
Twitter storm as the media winds down for Christmas and can't be arsed
to put much out beyond rewritten press releases.
Why Galloway Shouldn't Be Allowed Back
According to the Morning Star , chief Corbyn ally and top Unite mover
and shaker, Andrew Murray, has intimated that George Galloway should be
allowed to return to the Labour Party. You may recall the Gorgeous One
was removed for bringing the party into disrepute after the invasion and
occupation of Iraq. Opposition to Blair's ruinous and stupid war was
one thing, but exhorting troops to refuse or
Labour NEC Ballot: Vote Left
When I've finished writing this blog post, I'll be heading over to my
inbox to send my National Executive Committee votes off for Yasmine Dar,
Rachel Garnham and Jon Lansman. For obvious reasons this internal
contest has been portrayed as pro-Jez or anti-Jez; you're either for him
or against him. Yet it's worth remembering this isn't a case of Corbyn
supporters motivated by the Labour leader's ce
New in Adrienne's Corner
President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump's Christmas Message...
"we celebrate the miracle of Christmas"
President Trump signs the tax bill...
MAGA (16:21) Q Mr. President, as you mentioned, no Democrats have
supported this tax cut legislation. Will they regret it? THE PRESIDENT: I
think the Democrats will really regret — the Democrats already regret
it. You know, they have their typical thing — “It’s for the rich.” They
know that’s not true. And they’ve been called out on it by the media,
actually. But the Democrats very much regret it
President Trump at Utah State Capitol 12/4/17...
always a pleasure to hear from the president. "Christmas is back" Much
of the land is being returned to Utah from the feds. Can Idaho have it's
land back too???? Not tired of winning! Day Two of 12 Days of Deals at
Amazon continues
Second Sunday of Advent...
prepare. Preparing our Hearts and asking for the Grace We prepare this
week by stepping up the longing. We move through this week by naming
deeper and more specific desires. Each morning this week , if even for
that brief moment at the side of our beds, we want to light a second
inner candle. We want to let it represent “a bit more hope.” Perhaps we
can pause, breathe deeply and say, “ Lord, I pl
So Who are the Real Fascists?...
and it's not the right. I'm tired of Trump being called a fascist by
the ignorant libtards who couldn't even give you a definition of the
word or have the least understanding of the movement. Dinesh D'Souza
gives you a short and concise explanation of who the real fascists are.
More: Dinesh D'Souza: FASCISM'S KARL MARX IS THE MAN THE LEFT DOESN'T
WANT YOU TO MEET Day 4 of 12 Days of Deals at Amaz
Trump's travel ban and tax plan...
according to the libtards the world is coming to an end. No it's not,
and I'm not buying into the hysteria and hyperbole. How many times can
you predict the end of the world before people stop paying attention?
I've think the left has reached the point of nonsense fatigue. A quick
peek at the comments on Huff and Puff (no link on purpose) is all one
needs to see how cray-cray the left really is.
New in CENSORED NEWS
Nobel Peace Prize Forum Deceives, Betrays, Standing Rock Water Protectors
Chief
Arvol Looking Horse at Standing Rock in Nov. 2016 Photo UK Daily Mail
Nobel Peace Prize Forum Deceives, Betrays, Standing Rock Water
Protectors By Brenda Norrell Censored News Last Real Indians reveals
that the Nobel Peace Prize Forum sabotaged and ambushed Standing Rock
water protectors, in a systematic scheme of deceit and betrayal. Chief
Arvol Looking Horse responds after being
FBI Informant's Misconduct Continued after Red Fawn was Jailed
Informant
Heath Harmon of Fort Berthold, North Dakota,owned revolver Red Fawn is
charged with firing. Paid FBI informant engaged in intimate relationship
with Red Fawn and continued intelligence gathering after Red Fawn was
jailed Heath Harmon By Brenda Norrell Censored News Updated Dec. 22,
2017 The misconduct of paid FBI informant Heath Harmon, 46, of Fort
Berthold, North Dakota,
Mountain Protector Rally Planned as Snowbowl Furthers Desecration
Contact:
mountainprotectors@gmail.com Mountain Protector Rally Planned as
Snowbowl Furthers Desecration FLAGSTAFF, Arizona — Despite having no
natural snow, Arizona Snowbowl has opened a handful of runs at their
controversial ski area with snow made from 100% treated sewage on the
San Francisco Peaks. A Mountain Protector Rally is being held to address
environmental issues,
NOW! TACOMA SHUT DOWN Blockade at fracked gas plant opposed by Puyallup Indian Nation
By
Last Real Indians Censored News December 18, 2017 All three entrances
to the construction site for a fracked gas plant at the Port of Tacoma
have been successfully blockaded! Workers have been sent home.Water
protectors continue to occupy and block the entrances. The proposed
fracked gas plant at the Port would hold 8-million gallons of liquefied
natural gas from the Bakkens. It is
Louisiana activist buys land in path of proposed Bayou Bridge pipeline
Julie
Dermansky's blog With Tribal Blessing, Louisiana Activist Buys Land in
Path of Proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline By Julie Dermansky • Sunday,
December 17, 2017 - 19:51 On December 16 anti-pipeline activists calling
themselves water protectors gathered in Rayne, Louisiana, on land
located along the proposed route of the Bayou Bridge pipeline. The
gathering occurred two days after
Attorneys: Government Withholding Key Evidence in Red Fawn Case -- Revolver Belonged to Paid Government Informant
Government
Withholding Key Evidence in Standing Rock Federal Prosecution Revolver
Belonged to a Paid Government Informant By Water Protector Legal
Collective Censored NewsPosted on December 14, 2017 BISMARCK, North
Dakota -- Federal defense attorneys for Red Fawn Fallis filed a Motion
to Compel Discovery yesterday in the District of North Dakota. The
motion outlines numerous videos
New in Centauri Dreams
Interstellar Communication Using Microbes: Implications for SETI
Mention Robert Zubrin’s name and the planet Mars invariably comes up,
given his long-time work on finding ways to establish a human presence
there. Dr. Zubrin is the originator of Mars Direct, the author of The
Case for Mars , and founder of the Mars Society. But his work on
interstellar matters is likewise significant, including the analysis,
with Dana Andrews, of the Bussard ramjet, which taugh
A Pulsar Habitable Zone?
Life and pulsars don’t seem to mix. But science fiction hasn’t shied
away from making the connection, as witness Robert Forward’s Dragon’s
Egg (Ballantine, 1980). In the novel, a species called the cheela live
on the surface of a neutron star, coping with a surface gravity 67
billion times stronger than that of Earth. An interesting consequence:
The cheela live at an accelerated rate, going from
Voyager and Mission Longevity
Sometimes it’s helpful to look back at the original intent of a space
mission. Extending missions is all about continuing to do good science,
and it’s often a major benefit of missions as successful as Voyager. But
consider the Voyager parameters when the two craft launched in 1977.
The plan: Study Jupiter and Saturn, as well as their larger moons and
Saturn’s rings, with spacecraft that were bui
A Second Super-Earth for K2-18
The transiting red dwarf K2-18 is about 111 light years out in the
general direction of the constellation Leo, with a mass of 40 percent of
Sol’s. A super-Earth, K2-18b, was detected here in 2015 through light
curve analysis of data from the reconfigured Kepler K2 mission, and we
now have the first measurement of the planet’s mass, drawing on radial
velocity data from HARPS. The two planet detect
Ozone Problematic for Biosignature Detection
TRAPPIST-1 and its seven interesting planets may be the most compelling
stellar system we’re investigating, given the range of worlds here and
the possibilities for analyzing an entire, nearby planetary system. But
as we look toward examining systems like this with new space- and
ground-based instruments, we may run into problems with searching for
biosignatures. Both the TRAPPIST-1 planets and t
Cassini’s Exquisite Last View
The release of Cassini’s last images of Saturn and its rings is a
welcome event, a capstone to the mission that has taught us so much.
What we see below is a series of images that have been grafted together,
42 red, green and blue images that allow us to see a wide-angle mosaic
of Cassini’s view. The images were taken by the spacecraft’s wide-angle
camera on September 13, and include the moons Pr
New in David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
Kent Hehr: He’s not necessarily an empathetic guy, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing
PHOTOS: Kent Hehr, back in the days he was an Alberta Liberal MLA. I
have to tell you, Mr. Hehr is not crazy about this picture, probably
because he regrets wearing that particular shirt. Below: The image Mr.
Hehr would prefer to project; Niccolo Machiavelli, advisor to princes
through the ages; and Prime Minister Justin […] The post Kent Hehr: He’s
not necessarily an empathetic guy, and that’s n
Bill 30, Alberta NDP’s workplace safety and Workers Compensation legislation, steps bravely into 21st Century
PHOTOS: Alberta Labour Minister Christina Gray, in a shot taken by the
author at last summer’s Premier’s Pancake Breakfast on the Legislature
grounds. In the background, media camera crews mob Premier Rachel Notley
as she flips pancakes on the griddle. Below: UCP leader Jason Kenney
and Joe McCarthy, some guy who is also mentioned in […] The post Bill
30, Alberta NDP’s workplace safety and Worker
Saskatchewan’s War on Licence Plates: Is Brad just mad because he’s been upstaged by a woman, and an NDP woman at that?
PHOTOS: No press releases about Texas plates? Saskatchewan Premier Brad
Wall didn’t used to have a problem with out-of-province tags on work
trucks, at least when they were being used to undermine publicly owned
Crown corporations, as this photo posted on social media by Saskatchewan
Federation of Labour President Larry Hubich illustrates. Below: Mr.
Hubich, […] The post Saskatchewan’s War on Lic
Discomfort about UCP Leader Jason Kenney’s relationship with the truth winkles into respectable circles
PHOTOS: Jason Kenney, leader of the United Conservative Party and, if
things go as expected on Thursday, leader of the Opposition soon
thereafter. Below: Alberta commentators Susan Wright, a blogger, and
Graham Thomson, one of Postmedia’s political columnists, and U.S.
political essayist Frank Rich (Photo: Twitter). There’s a growing
discomfort among those who pay attention […] The post Discomfor
The politics of harassment-free workplaces – UCP House Leader Jason Nixon walks right into a trap of his own creation
PHOTOS: A steely-eyed Alberta Premier Rachel Notley meets the media in
the Alberta Legislature yesterday in this screenshot of a Government of
Alberta video. Below: United Conservative Party House Leader Jason Nixon
and UCP Leader Jason Kenney, the subjects of her ire. Mr. Kenney faces
the voters in a by-election in the Calgary-Lougheed Riding today. […]
The post The politics of harassment-free w
NDP set to introduce legislation to control ‘Political Action Committees’ today in wake of Liberal private member’s bill
PHOTOS: Liberal Leader David Khan, left, and former leader and sole MLA
David Swann in front of the Alberta Legislature last week. Below: NDP
Labour and Democratic Renewal Minister Christina Gray, Alberta Chief
Electoral Officer Glen Resler (Photo: Elections Alberta), Justice
Minister Kathleen Ganley, and ethics and accountability committee chair
Jessica Littlewood. Later today, we’ll […] The pos
New in FREE PLANET
Electric Universe - Thunderbolts of the Gods - Lightning Scarred Planet Earth
Electrical
phenomena are totally scalable, from the activity of an electron around
an atom's core (should such a machine exist) to the width of an
electrical discharge pulsating through space birthing galaxies and
stars. On Earth, erosion has been given too much credence when all you
need is a decent electrical charge to hit the surace of the planet to
form some quite spectacular geological featur
Luc Besson - Valerian - all the critics are wrong!
what
did Luc Besson remember when he made Valerian ? ...spell-binding... he
remembered to allow us to love EVERY FUCKING MOMENT that these creatures
were on screen. And for that he deserves all the accolades 'the
critics' forgot to heap upon this gloriously lovely film about man's
IDIOCY IN SPACE .
Arthur C Clarke - 3001 - electric universe ruined my read
Dear Electric Universe, thank you. Thank you for RUINING my latest
read, namely Arthur C Clarke's final chapter that began with 2001 i.e.
3001. Electric Universe, or my research into it, has totally ruined this
novel for me. Dirty snowball asteroid harvesting? And a number of other
things mentioned in the novel. I just can't enjoy it. "Electric
Universe is the new science-fiction enjoyment-murder
Mike Philbin art - Introversions & Dichotomies 2017 - Caffe Nero Blackwell Oxford solo show
here's
a video: it's not a marketing video, more a 'what's on at my new solo
show' on the walls of Caffe Nero on the first floor of Blackwell's book
store in Broad Street, Oxford. Show ends Jan 31 2018. All art for sale.
art - mike philbin - black, black, paint it black...
yeah,
I know, "Black's the new black," all over again. Swings and
roundabouts. Once more round the sun, dear art friends. But here's what
started it. 100 cm by 100 cm black primer over a gloss painting And
here's the most recent Black'd Work, with the addition of metallic
silver conversing with metallic gold. 3 x 80 cm by 60 cm 2 x 100 cm by
100 cm 2 x 60 cm by 60 cm
dreams - pull your finger out
now this was gorgeous, already the dream was vivid and memorable and
surreal but then it did this... I got a splinter. Yeah, a tiny little
splinter at the tip of my left index finger. So, I got the fingernails
of my right hand under it and started to pull. And it came out, but then
a new one grew. So I pulled that one out but it came and came and
came... Then it turned decidedly weird, like I was
New in From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin Voucher Schools Championed By Betsy DeVos Can Teach Whatever They Want. Turns Out They Teach Lies. How...
From Jenna Orkin Voucher Schools Championed By Betsy DeVos Can Teach
Whatever They Want. Turns Out They Teach Lies. How Facebook's Political
Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda Facebook Ditches Its
"Fake News Flag" After People Shared Flagged Articles Even More Vegas
Massacre Victims Must Wait A Year For More Clues About Shooter's Motive
House Republicans Secretly Gathering Evidence T
From Jenna Orkin Forget what they say — House Democrats are readying for impeachment Featuring one of the truly honorab...
From Jenna Orkin Forget what they say — House Democrats are readying
for impeachment Featuring one of the truly honorable men in the House,
Jerry Nadler. New study: Snake fungal disease may now be a global threat
Crackdown on alternative health remedies US ambassador to Netherlands
describes own words as 'fake news' "It’s Unprecedented": Bank Of New
York Freezes $23 Billion In Kazakh Assets Demog
From Jenna Orkin Long Island Iced Tea Soars After Changing Its Name to Long Blockchain Goldman Sachs to set up cryptocu...
From Jenna Orkin Long Island Iced Tea Soars After Changing Its Name to
Long Blockchain Goldman Sachs to set up cryptocurrency trading desk:
Bloomberg United States Sanctions Human Rights Abusers and Corrupt
Actors Across the Globe Let it go: The Arctic will never be frozen again
Strengthening Cradle-to-Grave Control of Radioactive Sources
Considering Faking Your Own Death? Then The Philippines Is
Fromthewilderness.com is now at Fromthewilderness.NET From Jenna Orkin Plant Based Protein to Save Planet - CNBC Federa...
Fromthewilderness.com is now at Fromthewilderness.NET From Jenna Orkin
Plant Based Protein to Save Planet - CNBC Federal Ban on Making Lethal
Viruses Lifted The Full List Of Every Senator Who Stands To Be
Personally Enriched By The Tax Bill Wasserman-Schultz IT Aides Ran Shady
"CIA" Car Dealership, Borrowed $100K From Hezbollah Fugitive Litecoin
Founder Cashes Out, Sells Entire Stake After 9,300%
From Jenna Orkin CIA releases full Contras manual on “Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare” Finland's Largest ...
From Jenna Orkin CIA releases full Contras manual on “Psychological
Operations in Guerrilla Warfare” Finland's Largest Newspaper Faces
Treason Charges For Publishing Leaked Files On Spy Ops Targeting Russia
Dershowitz: "Mueller Playing Into Trump's Hands, No Need To Fire" Hamas
Torturing Militants In Crackdown On "Unauthorized" Rocket Attacks
Against Israel NATO Crisis: Germany's Entire Submarine
From Jenna Orkin The Senate’s Russia Investigation Is Now Looking Into Jill Stein U.S. Government Planned False Flag At...
From Jenna Orkin The Senate’s Russia Investigation Is Now Looking Into
Jill Stein U.S. Government Planned False Flag Attacks to Start War With
Soviet Union, JFK Documents Show (Newsweek) Here's How The Dallas Police
Chief Plans To Fill A Record 250 Job Openings Essential Science:
Delivering drugs via nanoscale emulsion Nagasaki A-bomb survivors lose
suit seeking official recognition Saudi Media R
New in henrymakow.com
1914 Christmas Truce Exposed All Bankers' Wars
The "Christmas Truce" of 1914-15 suggests soldiers didn't want to fight
a war designed by Illuminati Jewish bankers and Freemasons to eliminate
Christians. "The total number of military and civilian casualties in
World War I was over 37 million: over 16 million deaths and 20 million
wounded, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history." ---
Wikipedia "The government of the Western n
Swedish Activist's Murder Spurs Call to Action
Bechir Rabani's death has aroused the Swedish people to confront the
complete corruption of the Swedish elite and MSM. The real Swedish
opposition --rational people-- has found their martyr. "Rumours have it
that Bechir got information concerning Aschberg and pedophilia. Everyone
is waiting for the next video now. We don´t believe the intelligence
community has taken all the copies." By "Patrioti
On Christmas Day - What Christ Means to Me
Henry M- Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Christ and Christ's
teachings. Christ taught that God is a Moral Order, a spirit of
Perfection, whether absolute Truth, Goodness, Love, Beauty or Justice.
God is ultimate Reality. They've made religion needlessly complicated.
All we need is to live up to theses ideals. The New World Order is an
attempt to erase Christ and His teaching from human
Brendon O'Connell Describes His NZ Ordeal
(left, O'Connell showing effect of 2 week hunger strike) Brendon
O'Connell was encouraged to come to New Zealand Oct. 9 by well-connected
people. He was in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia but wanted to continue his
career in nursing in New Zealand. O'Connell was encouraged by NZ's
anti-Zionist stand. But NZ doesn't have facilities for asylum seekers
and he was put into a maximum security facility. This is
Hague War Crimes Tribunal are NATO Fraud
Suicide of Bosnia General Wednesday draws attention to NATO Kangaroo
Court in the Hague. "Why are no Western Nato leaders on trial for 'war
crimes', for 'conspiring', 'allowing' etc war crimes in Libya, Syria,
Iraq and many other places?" by Brabantian (henrymakow.com) The dramatic
public suicide of Bosnian Croat General Slobodan Praljak Wednesday in a
'war crimes trial' courtroom in the Hague (d
Having Facilitated Holocaust, Can Zionists Represent Jews?
(Rudolf Kastner 1906-1957) Rudolf Kastner, the Zionist leader in
Hungary, made a deal with Adolf Eichmann. For allowing 1700 hand-picked
Zionists to go to Palestine, he would help transfer 460,000 Hungarian
Jews to death camps. Kastner acted with the approval of the World
Zionist Organization. He was murdered in 1957 to suppress the scandal.
Details Here. Zionist bankers funded the Nazi Party. It
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J20 “Not Guilty” Verdict Deals Blow to Trump Admin and Shows the Power of Collective Defense
In a blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to quell dissent, on
Thursday six defendants arrested at Inauguration Day “Disrupt J20”
protests were found not guilty of all charges. The heavy prosecution of
the “J20” case has become a bellwether for repression in the era of
Trump, with this first wave of defendants facing multiple felonies and
decades in prison for participating in—or simply bei
The Tax Bill Just Opened a New Front in the Class War. In 2018 We Must Make the Super Rich Pay.
The American economy is about to undergo another shock. Yet this time
there will be no bursting bubbles, oil crises or collapsing financial
institutions to blame. The current economic status quo—with stock
markets soaring while wages remain flat and inequality widens—is both
unstable and unsustainable. The coming shock will only accelerate these
trends in order to benefit the wealthy, and it’s be
It’s Time to Nationalize the Internet
Defying widespread popular objection , on December 14 the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality. The
principle regulates broadband as a utility, thus forbidding cable
companies and Internet service providers (ISPs) from throttling,
blocking or otherwise discriminating against online traffic. While net
neutrality was only enacted in early 2015 , it swiftly proved a
How To Catch a Wage Thief
At 7:15 p.m. Nov. 14, 2017, day laborer Victor Alfonso Santos and
organizer Amy Czulada meet near an illuminated, two-story suburban home,
just out of sight of the windows. They confer quietly in Spanish,
solidifying a game plan. They believe this is the address of Alfonso
Santos’ former employer, whom Alfonso Santos says owes him $1,080. To
date, the employer has proven elusive, failing to respo
How a Vegan’s Experience with Disability Is Helping Her Heal the Divide Between Two Movements
A few years ago a Canadian hunter came across a fox with
arthrogryposis, a condition that left the fox with foreshortened and
weak limbs. The hunter assumed the fox was deformed and in pain, so shot
him; as is common in responses to disability, pity was twinned with
destruction. Yet, a post-mortem examination showed the fox had a full
stomach: His disability had not prevented him from becoming a
The 10 Best Off-the-Beaten-Path Films of 2017
We have to face the fact that we're no longer living in a movie
culture. The belle epoque for film lasted meaningfully for maybe a full
century, but now we've moved on. The repetitive, distended stream of TV
shows and the limitless abyss of online distractions are ascendant.
Movies—real cinema, the kind made for thinking adults, not just
children—have become a specialty medium, for a dwindling tr
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Western Media Consumed by Myanmar Monster of Own Creation
December 23, 2017 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Years ago, those
confronting and questioning the Western media's "pro-democracy"
narrative regarding Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her
National League for Democracy (NLD) political party and her supporters
including saffron-clad supposed "Buddhist monks," were ridiculed and
dismissed. Warnings that Suu Kyi's political movement was nothin
EU "Restoring" Ties with Thailand Symbolic, Foreign Interference Will Continue
December 21, 2017 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - A mid-December announcement
by the European Union was made stating that the EU had agreed to
restore ties with the Southeast Asian Kingdom of Thailand "at all
levels" after suspending them in 2014 in the wake of a military coup
which ousted the government of Yingluck Shinawatra. AFP reported in its
article, " EU resumes official contacts with Thai junta
US Looks to Southeast Asia to Unleash its ISIS Hordes
November 26, 2017 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Western think tanks have
been increasingly busy cultivating a narrative to explain the sudden and
spreading presence of militants linked or fighting under the banner of
the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" (ISIS) across Southeast Asia. This
narrative - these think tanks would have audiences believe - entails
militants fleeing Syria and Iraq, and entren
ISIS Helps US Keep Military's Foot in Philippines' Door
December 7, 2017 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - Current US ambassador to the
Philippines, Sung Kim, recently congratulated the Philippines' armed
forces and the US military for their successful completion of KAMANDAG, a
joint military exercise held for the first time this year. The US
embassy in the Philippines on its website noted that: KAMANDAG, which
will run until October 11, is an acronym for the
Confronting the Threat of Ethnic Bioweapons
November 30, 2017 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The United States Air
Force's 59th Medical Wing's molecular biology branch recently was
revealed to have been collecting specifically Russian RNA and synovial
(connective) tissue samples, prompting fears in Russia of a possible US
directed ethnic-specific bioweapons program. TeleSUR's article, "
'Ethnic Bomb' Feared as US Air Force Confirms Collection
Thailand: US Creating "Space" For Destabilisation
December 13, 2017 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - In late November, the US,
Canadian and British embassies along with several other European
partners as well as the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and
Amnesty International, organised what they called the "Isaan Human
Rights Festival" in northeast Thailand. Foreign embassies have funded
and directed a number of events to breath new life into t
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Connecting the Dots that Illustrate Catastrophic Risk and Catastrophic Disregard
The following collection of news headlines (with brief excerpts)
demonstrates how catastrophic risk and disregard are produced KNOWINGLY:
TRIVIALIZATION OF NUCLEAR RISKS Jim Green (2017, December 20). The
Banana Equivalent Dose of catastrophic nuclear accidents. Online
Opinion, http://onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=19475&page=0
Ryosuke Ishibashi, Masanobu Higashiyama and Toshihide Ueda (20
The Right to Transparency of Environmental Information: We Are Going Backwards
In 2010 I published a book chapter on "transparency" as a social
responsibility strategy. You can see the chapter here , although its
behind a pay wall (sorry). At that time, the United Nations
Environmental Development Program was attempting to take INFOTERRA
online and make it available to the general public. INFOTERRA is a
network of environmental monitoring information. The right to access to
Aliens and Secret Defense Department Budgets
If you haven't read this article, you should: Helene Cooper, Ralph
Blumenthal, and Leslie Keandec (2017, December 16). Glowing Auras and
‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program. The New York
Times,
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html?_r=0
WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the
$22 million spent on the
Trump Admin NewSpeak Signifies Nihilism
By now you probably have read about the Trump Administration's list of
banned words, a list delivered to the CDC: Jessica Ravitz (2017,
December 16). Word ban at CDC includes 'vulnerable,' 'fetus,'
'transgender'. CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/16/health/cdc-banned-
words/index.html (CNN)Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention ... are now under order by the Trump administratio
Ajit Pai, Minion of Telecom Giants, Greviously Insults Intelligence of American People
Today in the paper, Ajit Pai, Federal Communications Commission
Chairman and revolving door champion of the telecommunications industry
grossly insulted the intelligence of the American people in his myopic
and infantile comments John D. McKinnon (2017, December 15). FCC
Reverses Rules on Net Access. The Wall Street Journal, A, A4 (print
edition): Mr. Pai attempted to counter the predictions of d
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And So This Is Christmas
And, John Lennon asked, what have you done? These days, we -- the
collective we -- do little that is noble. Everywhere we look, Folly
appears to be in the driver's seat. But every year at Christmas we are
reminded of another kind of folly. It's not the folly of what we
possess, but the folly of what we give. It's perhaps best expressed in
O. Henry's short story, The Gift of the Magi . The final p
The Marriage Of Godzilla And Frankenstein
Politicians have lied since the beginning of recorded history. But,
Chris Hedges writes , we are living in a time when lying has become
permanent: Donald Trump and today’s Republican Party represent the last
stage in the emergence of corporate totalitarianism. Pillage and
oppression are justified by the permanent lie. The permanent lie is
different from the falsehoods and half-truths uttered by p
Will It Stick?
Mary Dawson has found that Justin Trudeau flagrantly broke the rules.
Tim Harper asks , "Will it stick?" This is a government and prime
minister who rode to power two years ago on the type of inspirational
message of hope and a new dawn that propelled Barack Obama to the White
House in 2008. This was a government that was going to do everything
differently than the Stephen Harper government, yet
A Losing Game
Donald Trump has a chaotic mind. That conclusion is buttressed by
everything he says and does. Most recently, that chaos was evident in
Trump's statement on international security. Tom Walkom writes : This
particular document appears to reflect the foreign affairs logic of one
wing of the Republican Party. But it doesn’t always reflect the stated
views of Trump. Whether it ends up guiding the for
She Knows How To Get Things Done
Jane Philpott has her work cut out for her. But, Tim Harper writes ,
she's determined to get it done: The federal Indigenous services
minister has ambitious plans when it comes to ending water quality
advisories in First Nations communities, closing the gap on Indigenous
child welfare spending and reducing what she calls an “abhorrent” number
of Indigenous children living in foster care. One thin
The End
Hart Williams writes that the Republican tax bill -- which is speeding
its way toward passage -- marks the end of democracy in the United
States: Think about it: a bill that will affect EVERY SECTOR of the
American economy is put together in secret in the House and the Senate.
Both bills pass, using legislative tricks like ‘budget reconciliation’
to sidestep normal process, holds no hearings, all
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Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, December 24th, 2017
Sunday once again.. And after a most interesting and gruelling week, it
is time for my weekend rant.. First and foremost... I do want to wish
all of my readers a warm felt Merry Christmas... I have long said that
even though I know every single religion are nothing but frauds and
forms of mind control, the TRUE MEANING of Christmas should be first and
foremost in everyone's minds and their hearts
War Against North Korea? Not Going To Happen, And The Real Reasons We Are Seeing All Of This Fear Propaganda!
Over
the last 6 or so weekend rants, I have been emphasizing again and again
that there will absolutely be NO war against the isolated nation of
North Korea.... I have come under fire from several commentators who
have said that I do not have a clue as to what I am talking about... I
figured I would clear the air and explain in this article as to why we
will NOT be going to war against North Korea
Google Censorship Struck Last Night
I
have been "warned".... Google basically and unceremoniously shut this
site down for a short time yesterday, claiming that I "violated their
protocols and standards"... I have to basically scale back my messages
for a while, or I will be shut down at Blogger.... Therefore for the
time being I will try to not call the Jewish scumbags that control this
planet, scumbags and other truthful metaphors.
The
Global Warming, AKA "Climate Change" Scam: FINALLY A Major News Service
States What I And Others Have Said For Years - The Entire Galaxy Drives
Our Climate!
It
has been a while since I last reported on the fraud of "Global
Warming"... But this one does indeed vindicate what I have said for
years...... That our climate is driven by not only our own Yellow Dwarf
star, Sol, but by the cosmos itself..... OK, First, I want to present a
most important link to a report that just came forward a couple of days
ago, from the Mail Online news service, at www.dai
Amtrak Train Crash In Washington State: Latest Update Shows That It Was Purposely Derailed, But By WHOM?
*I
took another of those "me days" yesterday... I had to take care of the
last bit of Christmas shopping as well as spend some time with my mother
who is still not getting any better.... It has been a very stressful
time, and once again my ability to post articles at this blog has had to
suffer... I received a heck of a lot of emails and some most
interesting comments from my last posting where I
Amtrak Train Crash In Washington State: What The Heck Really Happened There?
OK,
When I first heard and saw the reports over the Canadian Jew spew media
about this crash of an Amtrak train in Washington state yesterday, I
thought it was an accident that had to do with the poor state of
American infrastructure these days.... The initial reports were all
talking about how the train basically jumped the tracks at a 30 MPH
curve and the passenger cars went over an embankment a
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Happy Christmas -- from Frank Lloyd Wright and us!
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright used to send out his poetic Christmas
message every year. So I do too. He called it “Man the Enlightened
Being.” “The herd disappears and reappears," says Wright's message, "but
the sovereignty of the individual persists." What better time of year
to take time out to reflect on that.* L iterature tells about man.
Architecture presents him. The Architecture that our ma
Quote of the Day: On promises and hypocrisy
“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never
intending to go beyond promises, it costs nothing .” ~ Edmund Burke .
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What's with Jerusalem?
You could read many thousands of words about the Realpolitik of the
decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and several
thousand more about the outrage in reaction thereto. Or you could just
read this from Ali Rivzi , aka The Atheist Muslim : "The truth about why
Jerusalem has been such a nexus of conflict & bloodshed for
billions of Jewish, Christian & Islamic mythologists is r
Ernest Hemingway advises ...
"The most solid advice is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe
deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to
sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good
and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough... "Finish what
you start... Live the full life of the mind, exh
QotD: "The secular meaning of the Christmas holiday ... "
"The secular meaning of the Christmas holiday is wider than the tenets
of any particular religion: it is good will toward men... “The charming
aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a
cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: ‘Merry
Christmas’—not ‘Weep and Repent.’ And the good will is expressed in a
material, earthly form—by giving presents to one’s fri
QotD: "They’ve always been here. But not everybody’s joining up."
"Terrorism has ... come of age with the millennial generation. The
Islamic State ... is miles from the Al Qaeda it grew out of. Its
supporters aren’t coming from Afghanistan, Iraq, or Pakistan anymore.
They’re living in Belgium, France, Britain, and ... even the United
States. They’re not refugees or illegal immigrants. They’re legal,
passport-carrying, Western-born or naturalised citizens of our
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Canadian JDL Member Indicted By Grand Jury For Assault Outside of AIPAC Conference
In case anyone who reads here is unaware- JDL is a vigilante/terrorist
group. Let’s read about this most recent incident, surely just one among
an undoubtedly long list of crimes committed by this group— that don’t
generally get any attention. We’ll start with news published today by
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency - Then I'll provide some additional
background via NowToronto "A Canadian member of
Merry Christmas to All
Merry Christmas to All Wherever you may be. Near or Far Matters not, to
me. Seems so hard to achieve Despite my desire to make it a reality
Therefore I must, at the very least To all that are here, there &
everywhere... I've said it before, but It's worth repeating.. From
blogger peers, to readers that comment and you silent lurkers too. I
thank each and everyone one of you for being here with me
Israel, same as the US, Exit UNESCO- Breaking News
Via Jerusalem Post: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday
directed Israel's UNESCO ambassador Carmel Shama Hacohen to exit the
United Nation's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) after previous threats to do so. Joining the US, which left
UNESCO in October, Israel notified the organization that, as of December
31st, it will no longer be a member. ''Sane and well-run c
Tax Cuts & Jobs Act: Did the GOP Open THE Door To a Carbon Tax
Diggin' that double speak title- "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" I suspect this
act may be the set up for the carbon tax.... Trump did just sign this
Tax Bill into Law The U.S. Congress this week passed the tax bill along
party line, with no Democrats voting for it. At the signing ceremony,
Trump called it "a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs,"
adding that "corporations are literally going wi
Trump’s Speech on US Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital
Ominous Being one who did not believe Trump was anything but the status
quo... From the earlier post: Trump to Recognize Jerusalem as Capital
of Israel? Linking back, again: January 18/2017: Trump's Presidency: A
Dangerous Deception Personally speaking here. I've never been a believer
in "the Donald" as the leader of any sort of grassroots/populist
movement. Nor do I buy the common presentation o
The Times/UK: Talal Silo: The Defector Embarrasing America
It's behind a pay wall- so I'll post what I can read and relink the
three previous posts covering the whistle blower that most of the so
called alt media is ignoring- Hattip Northerntruthseeker for giving this
information more attention. Al Masdar covered the news December 4th,
the same day I did post #3 Talal Silo, the defector embarrassing America
Talal Silo a member of Syria’s Turkmen minority
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