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Monday Morning Links

Greg Fingas at Accidental Deliberations - 13 hours ago

Assorted content to start your year. - Noah Smith notes that private monopolies may be as bad for workers as they are for consumers, as a lack of alternative employers results in near-total power for corporate behemoths: (I)n addition to monopolies, we need to think about local monopsonies -- cases where there’s only one employer, or a few employers, in town. A company doesn’t need to be nationally big in order to be locally dominant -- it could be a Wal-Mart branch, but it could just as easily be an independent lumber mill, coal mine or dairy farm. If a locally dominant employer l... more »

This is America so you could not close out 2017 without yet another mass shooting. This one cost the life of a Colorado police officer.

Gryphen at The Immoral Minority - 13 hours ago

Douglas County Coroner confirms shooting suspect in #CopperCanyonOIS as Matthew Riehl DOB 9/09/80 (pictured). Investigation still ongoing and being investigated by @DA18th Critical Response Team. pic.twitter.com/H6wT0klSQv — DC Sheriff (@dcsheriff) January 1, 2018 Courtesy of the LA Times: *In a year racked by mass shootings, including the deadliest in U.S. history, a spasm of violence here on the last day of 2017 added one more to the grim tally. * *Four Douglas Country sheriff's deputies responding to a noise complaint were ambushed by a gunman who sprayed them with more than 10... more »

‘Eat Boy! Eat!’: Taxpayers Shell Out $175K After Cop ‘Fed’ Man to His K9

Matt Agorist at The Free Thought Project - 13 hours ago

[image: k9]Taxpayers of Broward County were just held accountable for the vicious actions of two of their officers who forced a K9 to 'eat' two young men.

Damning Report Shows Pentagon is Actively Poisoning Millions of Americans and Covering It Up

Rachel Blevins at The Free Thought Project - 13 hours ago

[image: poisoning]The Pentagon has recklessly contaminated more than 40,000 sites across the United States, exposing hundreds of thousands of Americans to deadly chemicals

Current Treatment Options For Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 13 hours ago

Benign prostatic hyperplasia is one of the common urological disorders with at least 50% incident rate amongst men aged 50 years and above. The pathological condition is linked to poor quality of life and leads to urinary problems and urinary … Continue reading →

Green Leafy Vegetables to Lower Glaucoma Risk

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 13 hours ago

Story at-a-glance – People who consumed the most nitrate from leafy green vegetables had a 21 percent lower risk of open-angle glaucoma Those who ate the most leafy greens were 48 percent less likely to develop paracentral glaucoma, which is particularly … Continue reading →

Chomsky: Trump is a Distraction, Used by the Deep State to ‘Systematically Destroy’ America

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 13 hours ago

Smashing the two party paradigm Noam Chomsky called out deep state democrats and republicans alike for using Trump as a distraction to destroy America. World-renowned intellectual giant and respected academic, MIT professor Noam Chomsky recently sat down for an interview called ‘A … Continue reading →

IN THE LAST JEDI, THE RESISTANCE KEEPS MAKING THE SAME TACTICAL MISTAKE

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 13 hours ago

The urge to fight one decisive battle has undone countless real-world rebellions—and those in the Star Wars universe as well. OVER THE COURSE of the Star Wars franchise, we’ve been treated to some epic battles: dogfights between X-Wings and TIE fighters at Yavin-4, … Continue reading →

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS CONTROVERSY WITH STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 13 hours ago

ANOTHER DECEMBER, ANOTHER massive opening for a Star Wars movie—this time to the tune of $450 million worldwide. That alone isn’t really surprising; Star Warsfans tend to be the See It Opening Weekend type. What is surprising, though, is how divisive the film turned out … Continue reading →

Is Nausea a Sign of Cancer?

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 13 hours ago

Nausea and cancer are often related in that nausea can be a side effect of treatment, but can nausea be a symptom of cancer itself? If there is a tumor that lives in the colon, esophagus, stomach, or somewhere else … Continue reading →

Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists, The Preferred Treatment For BPH

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 13 hours ago

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a nonmalignant adenomatous overgrowth of the prostate gland commonly seen in aging men. Alpha-1 adrenergic receptor blockers are the most prescribed pharmacotherapy for the treatment of BPH and associated lower urinary tract symptoms. This article … Continue reading →

How Precision Medicine Turned Jesus’ Unique Tumor into an Operable One

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 13 hours ago

On a hot, August day in a Boston park, Jesus Apolinaris Cruz cooled off with a water squirt gun fight with his mother and sister. As he nimbly ran and dodged their aim, he twisted around to sneak shots of … Continue reading →

WHY THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IS THE SINGLE BEST THING WE DID

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 13 hours ago

The International Space Station is one of the few nonstellar things up there that we can see from down here without instruments. It’s a prefab home the size of a football field, 462 tons and more than $100 billion worth of pressurized … Continue reading →

MEET THE UNLIKELY HERO WHO PREDICTED HURRICANE HARVEY’S FLOODS

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 13 hours ago

Leisure-time meteorologist Eric Berger looked at the models and thought “Big-time floods are coming to Texas.” ON AUGUST 24 at 8:20 pm, a 44-year-old moonlighting meteorologist named Eric Berger was nearly finished writing a post for his Houston-centric blog, Space City Weather, … Continue reading →

World News Briefs -- January 1, 2018

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 13 hours ago

*NBC:* *Kim Jong Un highlights his ‘nuclear button,’ offers Olympic talks* SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un used his New Year’s Day address to warn the U.S. not to test him while striking a softer tone with South Korea, including the possibility of sending a delegation to next month's Winter Olympics. “The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat,” Kim said in the annual address. “This year, we should focus on mass-producing nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles for ope... more »

WikiLeaks Releases Proof of NY Times Colluding With Clinton’s State Dept to Deceive America

Jay Syrmopoulos at The Free Thought Project - 13 hours ago

[image: colluding]A New York Times reporter was exposed colluding with the U.S. State Department by providing a timetable of upcoming publications during Cablegate.

Argentina: Luis Burgos Forecasts a UFO-Active 2018

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 14 hours ago

*Argentina: Luis Burgos Forecasts a UFO-Active 2018* *“A year of greater UFO activity is forecast throughout the country.”Article by Sebastián Aranguren for Mas Allá del Misterio (Diario Popular)* A renowned ufologist has stated that 2018 will be a year with greater UFO activity, having its epicenter in the environs of Buenos Aires, Cordoba and the Patagonian region, especially in the summer, where the most striking phenomena will involve "lights" and black flying triangles, among others. Luis Burgos, who heads the Fundacion Argentina de Ovnilogia (FAO) and Investigadores de Ca... more »

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Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 14 hours ago

From Jenna Orkin Largest Green Roof in Manhattan video. Beyond Cynicism: America Fumbles Towards Kafka’s Castle Hinkley Point: The ‘Dreadful Deal’ Behind the World’s Most Expensive Power Plant Bitcoin is Eating Itself DHS Announces Program To Illegally Scan Our Faces China Launches New Capital Controls: Puts $15,000 Annual Cap On Overseas ATM Withdrawals Jihadist Group Blows Up Oil Pipeline In Iran, In Midst Of Protests Australian Banks Reportedly Freeze Accounts Of Bitcoin Users Weiner Laptop Doc: Assange Warrant Issued 2 Weeks After Swedish Election Leaks Warning More than... more »

Devin Nunes returns with a vengeance to undermine the Russia investigations.

Gryphen at The Immoral Minority - 14 hours ago

Courtesy of WaPo: *Rep. Devin Nunes, once sidelined by an ethics inquiry from leading the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe, is reasserting the full authority of his position as chairman just as the GOP appears poised to challenge special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. * *The California Republican was cleared in December of allegations he improperly disclosed classified information while accusing the Obama administration of exposing the identities of Trump affiliates on surveillan... more »

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- January 1, 2018

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 14 hours ago

*VOA:* *UN Chief Warns World Faces More Dangers in Year Ahead * GENEVA — U.N. Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres warns the world is likely to face many complex and new dangers in 2018. In a year-end message, Guterres appeals for greater unity to overcome these threats and create a more peaceful world. When Guterres assumed office one year ago, the world was in the midst of a hopeful moment. Negotiations to end more than four decades of division on the island of Cyprus appeared to be moving toward a successful resolution. Guterres jumped into the fray and worked tirelessly to prod... more »

Report: The Obama Administration Warned Iran Of An Israeli Plot To Assassinate Top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 14 hours ago

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp Brigadier General Haj Qassem Soleimani *Haaretz*: *Report: U.S. Gives Israel Green Light to Assassinate Iranian General Soleimani* *Al Jarida, considered an Israeli mouthpiece, says Israel was 'on the verge' of assassinating Soleimani, but the U.S. warned Tehran and thwarted the operation.* Washington gave Israel a green light to assassinate Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, the overseas arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Monday. Al-Jarida, considered an Israeli mouthpiece, quoted a source i... more »

Tweets For Today

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 14 hours ago

#UPDATE Kim Jong-Un urges North Korea to mass-produce nuclear warheads and missiles in a defiant New Year message suggesting he would continue to accelerate his rogue weapons programme https://t.co/dgnYHVoZjK pic.twitter.com/vbyONEgD5F — AFP news agency (@AFP) January 1, 2018 Nuclear war with North Korea is closer than ever before, former Joint Chiefs chairman says https://t.co/fxuCXbEasl pic.twitter.com/oI8hvePpEE — CNN International (@cnni) January 1, 2018 New protests were held in Iran overnight despite President Hassan Rouhani calling for calm and vowing more "space for criti... more »

Things To Do In San Diego When You're ... [cue Warren Zevon]

Mark Tushnet at Balkinization - 14 hours ago

I'm looking forward to the ACS panel on norms at the AALS meeting, though I expect to come away grumpy. (There's also been a series of posts on Lawfare dealing with norms and the President. The link is to the homepage where all the posts are listed.) Why grumpy? Because the focus is likely to be too much on the President and the pressure placed by his words (as the Lawfare posts argue, more than his actions) on constitutional norms. The overall Lawfare argument, which seems to me basically correct, is that the norms focused on the presidency have not yet been displaced by other more... more »

Russia's Military Is Proving Just How Dangerous It Really Is (And Testing New Weapons)

Paul Iddon at The National Interest - 14 hours ago

*Paul Iddon* *Security, Middle East* Thanks to the Syrian Civil War. Russia this month announced another draw-down from its combat operations in Syria, which began on Sept. 30, 2015. The Russian military will retain troops in the country, likely indefinitely, where it has demonstrated the capabilities of new weapons and tactics — which together show it has learned from its shortcomings in past operations. Nevertheless, as experts told War Is Boring, many of the Russian military’s old habits were also on display throughout this campaign. It’s no secret that Russia used its milit... more »

Obama's character and legacy

Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 14 hours ago

After you pick up the Nobel Peace Prize (sic), look the man in the eyes, shake his hand, and give him a warm smile, before you murder him and virtually all his extended family (target their residential compound directly), and watch him be killed on your satellite TV screen, visibly celebrating for the USA media cameras with the self-identifying "feminist" Hillary Clinton (I will never

Russian Environmentalist Hospitalized After Brutal Beating; Link To High Level Officials-Power Structure Suspected

miningawareness at Mining Awareness + - 15 hours ago

Krasnodar “originated in 1793 as a military camp, then as a fortress built by the Cossacks to defend imperial borders … Continue reading →

Caught Our Notice: After ORI flags a paper by former grad student, university flags another

Alison Abritis at Retraction Watch - 15 hours ago

Title: The L3MBTL3 Methyl-Lysine Reader Domain Functions As a Dimer What Caught Our Attention: Six months ago, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) determined that former graduate student Brandi Baughman had doctored 11 figures in a PLOS ONE article, which was retracted shortly after. The PLOS ONE paper listed two affiliations for Baughman — the National Institute […] The post Caught Our Notice: After ORI flags a paper by former grad student, university flags another appeared first on Retraction Watch.

From Sydney To New York, Pyongyang To London - This Is How The World Welcomed 2018

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 15 hours ago

Happy New Year! From Sydney to New York, Pyongyang to London - this is how the world welcomed #2018 pic.twitter.com/BXgtpQvz5S — BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 1, 2018

Picture Of The Day

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 15 hours ago

The ancient Greek temple of the Parthenon atop Athens' Acropolis hill was in the shadow of fireworks during New Year celebrations in Greece The above picture came from this photo-gallery ....* Capitals across the world welcome 2018 with series of spectacular fireworks displays *(Daily Mail). More pics here .... *AP PHOTOS: New Year’s Eve observances around the world* (AP), and a great batch from the BBC here .... *In pictures: The world celebrates 2018's arrival* (BBC).

Syria deploys super elite troops to smash besiegers of East Damascus army base

Brecht Jonkers at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (4:40 PM) – Troops of the Syrian Republican Guard have not succeeded in relieving the siege of a key armoured vehicle military base in Harasta that is currently being attacked by rebel forces, prompting Damascus to deploy elite forces from Beit Jenn. The armoured vehicle base near the East Damascus city of Harasta […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Syrian Army annihilates tens of jihadists in repelling rebel assault on key east Damascus base

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:30 P.M.) – Units of the Syrian Arab Army currently besieged by jihadist-led militias at key military base in east Damascus have repelled a powerful assault by rebel fighters against their positions, killing scores in the process. According to military-affiliated sources, Syrian Army defenders of the military vehicle depot base in east Damascus’ […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Rouhani: Protests caused both by internal problems and by foreign intervention

Brecht Jonkers at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (03:20 PM) – President of Iran Hassan Rouhani has said on Monday that the recent wave of protests in several Iranian cities are due to both actual internal problems facing the country, as by foreign intervention by imperialist powers. “The enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran are angry with the glory, success, […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Hamas and Fatah vow resistance after Likud votes on West Bank annexation

Brecht Jonkers at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (03:10 PM) – Both Fatah and Hamas, the two biggest political movements in Palestine, have reacted strongly to an internal vote by Israeli ruling party Likud on the so-called “sovereignty over settled expanses”. Said vote by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party essentially called for the total annexation of all illegally constructed Zionist […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Betting on the wrong horse? US and Iranian hardliners spin anti-government protests

James M. Dorsey at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago

In supporting recent anti-government protests in Iran, both Iranian hardliners and the US State Department may want to be careful what they wish for. Not only are the protests unlikely to spark the kind of change either of the two adversaries may be hoping for, they also are refusing to stick to the different scripts the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Pictures: Turkish forces set up anti-aircraft missile systems in Syria’s Aleppo province

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:25 P.M.) – Photo evidence has emerged showing that forces of the Turkish Army in Syria’s Aleppo province have deployed anti-aircraft missile systems. The reason for the establishment of an air defense system in the country by Turkey remains unclear. On Sunday, Turkish sources shared two images over social media showing the deployment […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

A post about grey wagtails

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 15 hours ago

A new year, and a new bird in my garden today (one I've never seen before)... A grey wagtail no less. It bobbed about for at least an hour. It certainly lived up to the latter part of its name by very busily wagging its tail as it went about its business. (It would put Miley Cyrus to shame). Pied-wagtails now seem lazy in comparison. The 'grey' bit of its name undersold it though. It had vivid splashes of yellow. Lovely. (Just thought I'd share). Back to you Michaela and Chris...

ACS @ AALS

Joseph Fishkin at Balkinization - 16 hours ago

For those who are attending the AALS conference this week in San Diego, the American Constitution Society is sponsoring a panel that may be of interest to some of you, on Norms and the Rule of Law. (ACS went way out on a limb and decided that this might feel like a timely topic in 2018 for some reason or other.) The panel will include Jamal Greene, Leah Litman, Neil Siegel, and moderator Eric Segall. It's 5:30-6:45 on Thursday, January 4th in the Balboa room (South Tower, 3rd floor, at the Marriott Marquis). Description here. ACS is also sponsoring a reception afterward, 6:45-8:... more »

Drugs: A Good Reason To Fly To Thailand More Often

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago

I love Thailand. I’ve been going there for 4 decades and have explored every part of the country— from Chiang Rai and the Golden Triangle, through Mae Hong Son, Chaing Mai, Udon Thani, down through Hua Hin, Ko Samui (back when there were no hotels, no phone service and no airport), Surat Thani, Phuket and Yala. And, of course Bangkok. They call it the Land of Smiles and the Thai people are the biggest asset the country has, of course. The food is great too. And I usually get off the plane and head right for Health Land for a 2 and a half hour massage. But now I have a new reason to... more »

New Year's wishes for peace from Henoko

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 16 hours ago

Hiroji Yamashiro singing his iconic protest songいまこそたちあがろう (Time to Stand Up and Fight) during a New Year's morning celebration on the beach at Henoko in Okinawa. It is there that the people are resisting at the Camp Schwab gate and on kayaks in the water US efforts to build twin-runways on top of the bay for Marine aircraft that will destroy coral reefs and Dugong (relatives of the Manatee). During the Obama administration his Ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, repeatedly refused to meet with the Okinawan people as they pled with the US not to go forward with this disastrou... more »

The F-15 Eagle: The Amazing Fighter Jet No Air Force Can Shootdown?

Tom Cooper at The National Interest - 16 hours ago

*Tom Cooper* *Security, * Or is this a myth? According to official releases from Boeing and the U.S. Air Force, the F-15 Eagle has a clear-cut win-to-loss ratio of 104 to zero. But in fact, opposing air forces have claimed, in nearly a dozen cases, to have shot down the iconic, twin-engine fighter. All the claims have one thing in common. The claimants were never able to provide any evidence for their supposed victories. Iraqi sources claimed that on Jan. 4, 1991 – 13 days before the U.S.-led coalition launched Operation Desert Storm — Iraqi fighters intercepted a formation of... more »

Craziest Idea of 2017: Let Students Pay Down Their College Loans by Delaying Their Social Security Benefits

Bob Adelmann at rss - 17 hours ago

[image: best-idea-of-2017-let-students-pay-down-their-college-loans-by-delaying-their-social-security-benefits] What a world! Broken promises traded for other broken promises, and offered with a straight face!

"Pretty relevant I think"

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago

*Certainly the common assumption after the end of the Cold War that liberal democracy would sweep all before it and spread all over the world has been shattered. On the eve of a New Year at the end of the politically tumultuous one that was 2017, we're asking if we are at a critical tipping point all over the world. For there's also the rise of the hard-right in Europe, Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. That's forced some to question basic assumptions about the wisdom of the rule of the majority. Of course, Winston Churchill once said this: many forms of government have be... more »

You need to read this Twitter thread.

Gryphen at The Immoral Minority - 17 hours ago

(THREAD) BREAKING: The NYT has published a bombshell report on George Papadopoulos—the biggest Trump-Russia news since Flynn's plea. This thread dissects the new revelations—as well as some major implications for the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. I hope you'll read and share. pic.twitter.com/vHDvlxkqsF — Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 30, 2017 1/ First, here's the article. The NYT foregrounds the story's significance as a rebuttal of Trump's claims the Russia investigation began with the Steele Dossier. But in fact, anyone who knows criminal investigations knew long ag... more »

AHA Sends Out Warning: Saturated Fats Should Be Avoided

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 17 hours ago

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All About Growing Cabbage

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 17 hours ago

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 17 hours ago

*Australia: Feminist Push to make childcare unaffordable* *The Leftist IEU (Independent Education Union) have issued the call below. Government "quality" mandates, including high staff numbers and sweeping educational requirements for child-minders, have already pushed up the costs of child-minding to the point where most working mothers spend a large slice of their earnings on child care. The union wants a leap in pay for child minders that could push many working mothers out of the workforce altogether. So I support the call. Young children need their mothers at home, as th... more »

Booker On Offshore Wind Power

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 17 hours ago

By Paul Homewood Yesterday, Booker led with a follow up to the ASA/Greenpeace offshore wind story from last week: A weird propaganda blitz, widely publicised again last week, is trying to persuade us that the cost of power from wind farms has been “tumbling” so fast that wind has now replaced coal […]

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 17 hours ago

*Australia's greenhouse gas emissions increase for third consecutive year* *These figures are very dodgy. There is no way such a figure could be directly measured. They are estimated by adding together the amount of cement produced, the amount of coal mined and the number of sheep farting etc. There are many ways that could be inaccurate. Such figures could be fairly good at enabling year to year comparison but fluctuating commodity prices are a big influence on Australia's economic activity so are probably much less accurate than world figures, where losses and gains are more ... more »

Drinking Water Quality in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico

drinkingwateradvisor at The Drinking Water Advisor - 18 hours ago

Rowles LS 3rd, Alcalde R, Bogolasky F, Kum S, Diaz-Arriaga FA, Ayres C, Mikelonis AM, Toledo-Flores LJ, Alonso-Gutiérrez MG, Pérez-Flores ME, Lawler DF, Ward PM, Lopez-Cruz JY, Saleh NB. Perceived versus actual water quality: Community studies in rural Oaxaca, Mexico. … Continue reading →

As a New Year dawns...

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 18 hours ago

(h/t StewGreen) This is a good start to the New Year. Paddy O'Connell is promising to correct his mistake about Lord Adonis on next week's *Broadcasting House*. If he also credits John Longworth for being correct in that apology, it would be admirable behaviour indeed.

Immanuel Kant: The Life of The Party

Anoop Verma at The Verma Report - 18 hours ago

Immanuel Kant loved to eat, but he held that eating alone is bad for a philosopher because it encourages intellectual self-gnawing which leads to a lack of vitality. He saw dinner parties as the part of the “highest ethicophysical good,” holding that a dinner party brings not only physical satisfaction but also intellectual and moral stimulation. In the section entitled, “On the highest moral-physical good,” in the conclusion to the Part One of his *Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View*, Kant argues that good living and true humanity can be realized by having a good meal in ... more »

Top 100 Independent Tweeting Bloggers 2017

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 18 hours ago

Cue the Pearl & Dean music. Yes, another year has gone and the beginning of the next calendar coincides with a reflection on who's hot and who's not in the world of independent political blogging, at least as far as Twitter is concerned. In case you're a newbie, here are the rules. This is not a "best of". This is not a reflection of people I agree with, think write well, or another arbitrary classifying schema. It is, as per the list of tweeting political commentators, a simple rank ordering by the number of Twitter followers. But independent? How is that defined? It is a blogger w... more »

Tribes, tribalism, and security

Peter at Bayou Renaissance Man - 18 hours ago

Being from Africa, I grew up understanding the importance of tribes in traditional African society; how they offered a social cohesiveness and security, a sort of *über-*family bond that transcended even national loyalty. I saw that play out during war and peace, in politics, business and social relations. When I served as a prison chaplain in the USA, I found prison gangs could best be understood if I treated them as the equivalent of tribes. They exhibited many similar behaviors, albeit more violently and more criminally than most tribes in Africa would have been allowed to g... more »

North Latakia offensive inevitable, jihadists likely to strike first

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 19 hours ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:30 P.M.) – As both Syrian army-led forces and armed rebel groups continue to rush what reserve units they can spare to the front-lines in northern Latakia province it is become more and more apparent that militant factions will strike first. Several days ago, the Al-Qaeda-linked Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly called Jabhat al-Nusra […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Power restored to western Syria after militant missile attack heavily damages large power-plant

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 19 hours ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:20 A.M.) – A large power-plant in the province of Homs that was badly damaged by militant rocket fire several days ago has been repaired and is now working at full capacity again. On Thursday, militant forces in northern Homs targeted the Al-Zahraa power-plant with five rockets, hitting the energy facility. The damage […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Picture: Syrian military deploys upgraded anti-aircraft systems at key base south of Damascus

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 19 hours ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:50 A.M.) – Syrian air defense forces have deployed heavily-upgraded surface-to-air missile systems to protect a key military installation south of Damascus city. According to reports from Syrian conflict military analysts, the Syrian air defense forces have deployed several heavily-modified S-125 Pechora batteries (a Soviet-designed system originally built in the 1960s) to the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Happy New Year from Age of Autism!

Age of Autism at AGE OF AUTISM - 19 hours ago

Goodbye 2017. And don't let the door hit you! We mean, Happy New Year! What are your resolutions?

The Top 5 Most Disturbing Police Brutality Videos From 2017

Matt Agorist at The Free Thought Project - 19 hours ago

[image: brutality]Police brutality in America has gotten so rampant that it is no longer rare to see entirely innocent individuals being beaten or killed by US cops.

Happy New Year IMers!

Gryphen at The Immoral Minority - 20 hours ago

I have to say that I am almost surprised that we all managed to survive 2017. With Trump in charge it felt a little touch and go at times. However I think that 2018 is going to be an awesome year! While I am not at all sure that Trump will actually get impeached during this year, I am brimming with confidence that the midterms are going to give the Democrats a lot more control and then shit is going to get really real. My prediction is that in a year's time we will all meet back here and have a much better, and more hopeful story to share about 2018.

No, Birth Control Isn’t Dangerous. But Guess Who Wants You to Think It Is.

Ethical Technology - 20 hours ago

*Headlines and hype can leave women wondering what’s real and how best to take care of their health.* https://ieet.org/images/uploads/bedsider-birth-control-effectiveness-poster.jpg

Electric Universe - 2018 truths emerge - universe is electric

Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's free planet blog - 20 hours ago

magnetic fields are formed by electric currents flowing through cold space plasmas R.I.P. nuclear stars, big bang creationism and black hole nonsense, now let's move on researching this electric universe... more »

New Year's Eve fireworks and spacetime continuity at the event horizon

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago

Happy New Year! Note that 2018 factorizes as 2*1009, the latter is a prime. Most of you have probably seen and heard *some* fireworks. In my hometown, most of the havoc looked privatized. The explosions were a Poisson process with the rate around 10 per second – well, assuming an IR distance cutoff so that I could hear them. Millions of crowns had to be spent on these pyrotechnical toys, providing us with some extra evidence of the prosperity right now. It's really irrational to treat the transition from 2017 to 2018 as a discontinuity. The moment when the year jumps to the new... more »

I remember 2017 like it was yesterday...

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 21 hours ago

*Radio 4's Sunday programme offers perhaps the most undiluted liberal bias to be found anywhere on the BBC - Damian Thompson, Daily Telegraph (2010)* Though yesterday is already 'so last year', I must just dip back into it to mention Radio 4's *Sunday,* as the programme more than lived up to its reputation for 'undiluted liberal bias'*.* The first topic was President Trump's first year on office and his impact on religion in the USA. Instead of a balanced discussion we were merely given an interview with a liberal American journalist, Sarah Posner. Her comments dripped with dis... more »

MAR-A-LAGO, 31 DECEMBER 2017.

Anon at Aangirfan - 21 hours ago

The Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve party in Palm Beach, Florida on December 31, 2017. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin The Trumps. Eric Trump Donald John Trump III, son of Donald Trump Junior. Viktor and Amalija Knavs, the parents of Melania Trump. Steve Wynn. *David Rockefeller's Rolodex of cards lists Trump as a friend*.

End of the Deep State

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago

It may seem early to make this declaration, but i think it is essentially correct as the bits and pieces trickle in. 1 Trump now has complete intelligence and knows everything from the past two years of NSA surveillance. He knows exactly who was engaged in treason and the DOJ has all the pertinent conversations. Thus the deluge of sealed indictments. There is thus no better time to get them all and when better than the Christmas holidays. 2 Add into this that the Marines actually stormed the CIA and completed a massive intelligence haul. This was certainly going to b... more »

The Pros and Cons of Eating Meat

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago

We have three biological regimes in our gut and one of them handles meat. So we own it. however excess consumption will constipate as excess consumption of starches will produce sugar diabetes. Our diet should entail occasional animal protein on a staple vegetarian dietary regime. My own preference is an egg or two at breakfast and possibly some meat in the evening meal. Of course, i now do a full fast on Monday, Wednesday and Friday totaling at least thirty five hours each or 105 hours per week. That allows me to eat on four days or 56 hours. My weight is now converging on a ... more »

Ancient bronze pot found 15 feet under the Nacoochee Valley

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago

[image: Ancient bronze pot found 15 feet under the Nacoochee Valley] What this strongly suggests is that these mines were also worked during the Bronze Age along with Lake superior and any number of other Copper deposits in both North And south America. We have had such confirmation elsewhere so this is no surprise. It will still be hard to prove. What we do have is a trade anchor at New Potosi for the Atlantean Great Circle route and the Inca Mayan Cuba Florida Trade System or the Caribbean Great Circle route as well. What can now be mapped out is an extensive SE American civil... more »

The Kenneth Arnold Files: Part II - Venusian Encounters

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago

I was unaware that Ken Arnold, who truly broke the UFO story in 1947 almost accidentally, went on to spend the rest of his life tracking other sighting that naturally were reported then to him. Thus we have a trove of reports from the first two decades not picked over by the Airforce first. The Venusian meme has gone out of favor since the fifties with our ability to inspect the surface of Venus. This is unfortunate though because we now understand that all our planets and the Sun itself are actually shells with an interior environment and an active inner sun producing both Second... more »

Five Most Popular Posts in December

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 21 hours ago

The most read last month were ... 1. Why Galloway Shouldn't Be Allowed Back 2. The Intellectual Collapse of the Labour Right 3. Bordering on the Ridiculous 4. Labour NEC Ballot: Vote Left 5. Three Things Stoke Got Wrong with its City of Culture Bid A quieter month befitting the scant efforts I put into writing, therefore not surprising to see the top five clustering toward its beginning. The prospect of George Galloway returning to the party in a pointless kite flying exercise by Andrew Murray captured most views, followed by something a bit more thoughtful trying to make sense of th... more »

A little slice of Alaskan tundra is finally open for drilling by Paul Driessen

Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D. at An Objectivist Individualist - 22 hours ago

*Tax bill provision opens ANWR, to bring more oil online and keep Alaska pipeline operating* Way back in 1980, Congress passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, establishing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and making numerous other land use decisions for our 49th state. Section 1002 of the act postponed a decision on managing ANWR’s 1.5-million-acre coastal plain, which has enormous oil and gas potential and is [an] important summertime wildlife habitat. For four decades, environmentalists blocked legislation that would have opened the coastal plain to leasi... more »

Midnight Meme, Special Edition: The 12 Days Of Christimemes #6

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago

*-by Noah* One foggy morning this summer, I awoke, went to the window and exclaimed, "Damn! What's the hell is that smell?" Fortunately, the whales were still alive and, thanks to some heavy equipment from the county we were able to drag them back into the water in time. However, the smell persisted. It wasn't until the guy folded up his chair and walked away that the mystery was solved.

Syrian forces endure terrible losses in east Damascus amid ongoing Nusra-led offensive

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 23 hours ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:40 A.M.) – Since the opening of a big Al-Qaeda-led offensive against a key Syrian Arab Army base in eastern Damascus three days ago, government troops have endured a hefty toll on their ranks. On Friday, forces of Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly called Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda) and Ahrar al-Sham […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Kurdish forces push on to capture new town in east Syria despite fierce ISIS counter-attacks

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 23 hours ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:05 A.M.) – Syrian Coalition-backed forces (of which Kurdish units form a key component) continue to roll up the eastern shore of the Euphrates River in the province of Deir Ezzor despite of constant counter-attacks by Islamic State terrorists. According to Kurdish sources, the US-led Syrian Democratic Forces captured from ISIS the town […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

2,000 Syrian militants fighting in north Hama bastion

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 23 hours ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:45 A.M.) – There may be up to two thousand militants – most of them jihadists – opposing the Syrian Arab Army and allies forces in a key area of strategic terrain that spans a big part of northern Hama province as well as some of southeast Idlib province according to pro-government sources. […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

VIDEO: Hama airbase comes under rocket fire from Ahrar al-Sham

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 23 hours ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:40 A.M.) – Jihadist militants belonging to a powerful Muslim Brotherhood-linked armed faction in Syria have attacked a key Syrian military airport in the province of Hama using Katyusha-style rockets. On Saturday, rocket artillery units of the Ahrar al-Sham (Syrian Muslim Brotherhood affiliate) militant group carried out an attack against Syrian military service […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Happy New Year

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago

WNU Editor: I say the same thing every year .... another year .... another 10,000 posts .... 1,000,000+ visitors .... 2,000,000+ page views .... reaching an worldwide audience (and this is what always amazes little me) that includes Generals, diplomats, soldiers, intelligence officials, foreign governments and their military organisations, politicians, students, teachers, well known cartoonists, actors and actresses, journalists and bloggers, and finally .... the average Joe and Jane. Yup .... it's been an interesting year. But first things first .... I want to wish a Happy New Year... more »

Happy New Year From DMF

Diogenes Sarcastica™ at Diogenes' Middle Finger - 1 day ago

Radiation Free Lakeland: Review of 2017

miningawareness at Mining Awareness + - 1 day ago

The Beautiful Lake District – pre National Park the whole of the Lake Counties included the Lakeland mountains to the…

Here Are The Top 21 Biggest Military Stories Of 2017

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago

*Adam Weinstein, Task & Purpose*:* We Asked You For The Biggest Military Stories Of 2017. Here Are The Top 21 * How do you make sense of 2017? Maybe you don’t. But you can’t deny that it was a defining year for the United States military, which got a shiny new chain of command, renewed interest from the U.S. public at large, and a whole lot of weird news day after day. Task & Purpose asked you, our readers, what you thought our community’s biggest stories were this year, and these are the results. *Read more* .... *WNU Editor*: My top two stories for 2017 are .... (1) the elect... more »

Political Survivor

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

*-by Tom Sullivan* (Part 1 of 2) From a post last December: There is a lot of "old-boyism" in party politics. Mostly because people who have the time and/or resources to pursue party work are older. But older doesn't always mean more skilled; experienced doesn't always mean the right kind. Political leaders tend to hang onto power and neglect cultivating heirs who have mastered technologies they don't understand. They would rather turn over the reins to trusted chums. Kathy Sinclair was not in the club. Sinclair had been the driving force in organizing an unofficial John Kerry ... more »

How to Do Squats: 8 Reasons to Do Squat Exercises

zedie at Someone Somewhere - 1 day ago

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The 5 Big National Security Challenges of 2018

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago

*Daniel R. DePetris, National Interest*: *Peace, War or Chaos?: The 5 Big National Security Challenges of 2018* Will North Korea conduct an atmospheric test? Will the frozen conflict in Ukraine turn hot? Daniel DePetris makes his predictions for 2018. If, before Election Day 2016, you predicted Donald Trump would win the presidency, that a special counsel would be appointed to investigate potential collusion between Trump campaign officials and the Kremlin, and the U.S. military would take military action against the Syrian government, there’s a good chance that your family or fr... more »

New studies point to less intense, less frequent storms due to global warming

drinkingwateradvisor at The Drinking Water Advisor - 1 day ago

“The studies fly in the face of a recent Nature editorial piece, one filled with the usual worn out alarmist propaganda language of climate doom we’ve been seeing for over a quarter century. The editorial claims some scientists have already found the … Continue reading →
( So, if we drop into a deep freeze, presumably storms will be worse )

A Middle Finger Symphony New Years Eve

Diogenes Sarcastica™ at Diogenes' Middle Finger - 1 day ago

** Happy New Year ** *Brought To You By BLUESJUNKY: Honorary Chair of Music - Middle Finger Symphony Music Director*

In 1969, Nuclear War Almost Broke Out Between Russia and China

Kyle Mizokami at The National Interest - 1 day ago

*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, * It would have been World War III. *On the minus side, a nuclear strike against China would have earned the Soviets worldwide condemnation. An attack into Manchuria would have also played to China’s “People’s War” strategy of slowly dissolving invading forces with a combination of Chinese army forces and peasant militias. China’s leadership, which had already proven itself bloody minded against its own people, would have had little compunction in sacrificing millions in a war against the Soviets. From the Soviet perspective, a grinding, never-ending ... more »

Happy New Year North Korean Style

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago

Here are the new year celebrations in Pyongyang, North Korea #HappyNewYear pic.twitter.com/tMXwxlZWpZ — BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 31, 2017 *Daily Mail:* *Now that's a COLD war! North Korea marks the New Year by showing off its nuclear ambitions with ice sculptures of an intercontinental ballistic missile* * Many of the isolated nation's citizens spent New Year's Eve at the Pyongyang Ice Sculpture Festival * Visitors took pictures in front of large ice sculptures of Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile * It comes after a former top US military officer said the ... more »

Huge ISIS bombing in east Syria by German jihadist leaves nearly 100 US-backed fighters killed, wounded

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 1 day ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:45 A.M.) – The Islamic State terrorist group has carried out a huge suicide bombing in eastern Syria against US-backed forces, killing and wounding nearly one hundred pro-Coalition fighters according to its own accounts. The attack was delivered by a German jihadist within the faction’s ranks. On late Sunday afternoon, the ISIS media […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Pictures: Syrian Army floods east Damascus with massive reinforcements to annihilate jihadist offensive

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 1 day ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:30 A.M.) – Only hours ago, reports (which are now confirmed) came in that on late Sunday afternoon, jihadist militias operating in eastern Damascus had isolated a key Syrian Arab Army military vehicle base in the district of Harasta following three days of heavy clashes for the site. According to newly emerging reports, […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Breaking: Jihadists cut-off key Syrian Army base in east Damascus amid renewed offensive push

Andrew Illingworth at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 1 day ago

BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:52 A.M.) – Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood affiliated jihadist factions operating in eastern Damascus have managed to cut-off a key base held by the Syrian Arab Army in the capital city’s district of Harasta amid a now three-day long offensive that has seen both side trade heavy blows. Several hours ago, opposition and […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Trumps global warming tweet

Scottish-Sceptic at Scottish Sceptic - 1 day ago

I often find this. I hear someone in the public eye say something I think is extremely mild and so hardly give it a passing thought, and then when I finally start reading about it, it turns out to have … Continue reading →

North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un Says Nuclear Launch Button Is On His Desk To Hit All Of The U.S. Mainland With Its Nuclear Weapons

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un delivers a New Year message on Monday. (Yonhap) *Reuters:* *North Korea's Kim says nuclear weapons will prevent war with U.S.* SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday that the United States will never be able to start a war against North Korea now that his country has developed the capability to hit all of the U.S. mainland with its nuclear weapons. “The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat,” Kim said during a televised New Ye... more »

Despite all pains and attacks : Happy New year From Egyptian Chronicles

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) at Egyptian Chronicles - 1 day ago

Happy New year From Egyptian Chronicles. I know that 2017 was very hard in Egypt with all the terrorist attacks that took place across the country, most recently on Friday with that failed attack against a Coptic Orthodox Church in Helwan district in Cairo where ten people were killed *“Yes, it is a failed attack thanks to God then to the Egyptian people”* but we should not lose hope in better tomorrow or better Egypt that is inclusive of all people regardless of their race, gender, color, religion as well nationality. [image: Egypt's Nile] So Happy New year 2018 And I chose a pho... more »

Does Maine Really Need A Congressman Representing Wall Street?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Frank Schaeffer’s last roadtrip for 2017 took him from Agua Dulce in California’s Santa Clarita Valley to Lewiston, Maine to talk with progressive Democrat Jared Golden. Frank bonded with Jared over the service Jared and Frank’s son both experienced as marines in Afghanistan. If you’re not from a military family, you may find what Frank and Jared had two say about that in the video enlightening. Give it a watch. [image: Goal Thermometer]Jared is running on a change ticket in Maine’s second district. His opponent, multimillionaire Republican Bruce Poliquin is a Wall Street shill w... more »

Famed Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein says that Trump's lawyers have an "out of control client" who they are trying desperately to manage.

Gryphen at The Immoral Minority - 1 day ago

Courtesy of Raw Story: *Addressing Trump’s belief that he will be exonerated, Bernstein said Trump is lying but also may be in the dark because his legal team is afraid of what he might say or do if he knew what was really going on. * *“There is no reason to believe almost anything Donald Trump says because what we know is that the president of the United States and his presidency is characterized, above all else, by the lying of the president of the United States,” Bernstein explained.”That doesn’t mean that lying by the president is a crime, but it does mean that we see him cover... more »

Russia's Tsar Bomb: The 57 Megaton Nuclear Weapon North Korea Wish It Had

Steve Weintz at The National Interest - 1 day ago

*Steve Weintz* *Security, * So was the Tsar Bomb really a functional weapon? *Multi-megaton thermonuclear weapons rely on staging. A first-stage fission device generates the heat, pressure and radiation to ignite nuclear fusion in a second-stage fuel vessel, and the more fusion fuel, the bigger the reaction. A third stage can be added by cladding the second stage in weapons-grade uranium metal—the fusion reaction induces nuclear fission in the uranium cladding and adds many megatons of yield. All-up three-stage thermonuclear weapons can be very dirty bombs, with more than half t... more »

North Korea: It's About America's Allies (or Should Be)

Wallace C. Gregson at The National Interest - 1 day ago

*Wallace C. Gregson* *Security, Asia* [image: U.S. President Donald Trump greets South Korea's General Kim Byeong-joo (L) and U.S. Army General Vincent Brooks (C) as he arrives to receive a briefing from military commanders at the U.S. Eighth Army Operation Command Center at U.S. military installation Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea] North Korea has been an “existential threat” to our allies, Japan and the Republic of Korea, for quite some time. Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union and China supported North Korea. When the Soviet Union collapsed their support to No... more »

America Would Benefit from a Balance of Power in the Persian Gulf

Doug Bandow at The National Interest - 1 day ago

*Doug Bandow* *Security, Middle East* Saudi Arabia's current tradjectory is toxic and threatens America’s interests in the Middle East. President Donald Trump once was skeptical of the totalitarian dictatorship commonly known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). He complained, correctly, that Saudis had funded terrorism against America and wondered why the United States subsidized the protection of a wealthy petro-state. After taking office the president, perhaps affected by abundant flattery judiciously employed by people highly skilled in the art, acted like just another West... more »

President Vladimir V. Putin greets all Russia for the New Year Celebrations.

Seraphim Hanisch at The Duran - 1 day ago

New Year’s Day in Russia is a unique experience. While each nation may have its own special traditions, for this American, the Russian way is simply astounding. From the Communist times, the relevance of Nativity (Christmas) celebrations has never been what it became in the West. The suppression of Christianity in Soviet Russia was probably […] More The post President Vladimir V. Putin greets all Russia for the New Year Celebrations. appeared first on The Duran.

Palestinian Authority Recalls It's US Envoy 'For Consultations'

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago

*The Independent:* *Palestinians recall US envoy 'for consultations' after Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital* Leaders deciding on shape of future relationship with US The Palestinian Authority has recalled its envoy to the US following Donald Trump‘s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The move will allow for “consultations” over leaders’ future relationship with the US. Days of protests followed Mr Trump’s announcement, leading to arrests and a number of deaths. *Read more* .... *More News On The Palestinian Authority Recalling Its US ... more »

Happy New Year 2018!

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

*I wish you all a very safe, happy and prosperous New Year!* *And, as always, thanks for stopping by!*

As 2017 Ends

LL at Virtual Mirage - 1 day ago

*I wish you all a Happy 2018 *- which will be *Year of the Dog* on February 16th. It's an auspicious day because there are no dogs in North Korea. It's the only country with no dogs. They were eaten by the Norks long ago. The AIDS Advisory Council - was disbanded on December 31, 2017. It was one of MANY generally useless commissions and councils that abound in Washington DC and are largely used by members to puff their CV's. The gender confused are howling that President Trump is a monster, but the commission was just another paper tiger that needed to go into the shredder. Let th... more »

"I Wish You Enough"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

"I Wish You Enough" by Bob Perks "I never really thought that I'd spend as much time in airports as I do. I don't know why. I always wanted to be famous and that would mean lots of travel. But I'm not famous, yet I do see more than my share of airports. I love them and I hate them. I love them because of the people I get to watch. But they are also the same reason why I hate airports. It all comes down to "hello" and "goodbye." I must have mentioned this a few times while writing my stories for you. I have great difficulties with saying goodbye. Even as I write this I am experienc... more »

"Promise Me..."

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” - Christopher Robin to “Pooh”

"Always Remember..."

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” - Harriet Tubman

Unrest In Iran -- News Roundup December 31, 2017

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago

*Daily Mail:* *Iran blacks out social media as President Rouhani slams Trump in address to his nation after defiant protesters face water cannon and hundreds of arrests on the fourth day of demonstrations* * Rouhani hit back at Donald Trump saying he had called Iranians terrorists * Trump supporting protesters 'but has no right to sympathise with Iranians' * Iranian regime blocked Instagram and messaging app Telegram amid protests * Comes after regime vowed protesters would 'pay the price' for causing unrest * Despite clampdown on social media, protesters continue to take to the st... more »

"Sometimes We Have To See For Ourselves..."

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

"The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to ‘seize the day'. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wonder... more »

"I Wish You Enough"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

“Walking Through Your Fear: Emerging Courageous”

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

*“Litany Against Fear”* “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” - Frank Herbert *“Walking Through Your Fear: Emerging Courageous”* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM “Frequently, in walking through our fear, we discover that the strength of our fright was out of sync with reality. The situations, activities, and individuals th... more »

The Poet: John O'Donohue, "In These Times"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

*"In These Times"* "In these times when anger Is turned into anxiety, And someone has stolen The horizons and mountains, Our small emperors on parade Never expect our indifference To disturb their nakedness. They keep their heads down, And their eyes gleam with reflection From aluminum economic ground, The media wraps everything In a cellophane of sound, And the ghost surface of the virtual Overlays the breathing earth. The industry of distraction Makes us forget That we live in a universe. We have become converts To the religion of stress And its deity of progress; That we may have co... more »

"How To Cure A Hangover, Or Not"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

*"How To Cure A Hangover, Or Not"* By Colleen Graham "Now you've done it and it's official, you have a hangover. Now what? No matter what you do sleep and water or juice should be included. There are many folk cures that are supposed to help cure a hangover. Many of them will help you cope by replenishing the vitamins and liquid you lost over night, while some like avoiding caffeine are very important to a quicker recovery. There is no one size fits all cure, find what works for you but the list below is a good place to start. There are also a few suggestions from readers who found... more »

"I Wish You Enough"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

"Write Your Worries On The Sand..."

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

"I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in." - Arthur Gordon

2017 Was A Bad Year For China

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago

*Douglas Bulloch, Forbes:* *2017 Was A Bad Year For China. Will 2018 Be Worse?* It seems like a long time since China was routinely the source of good news. Growth rates remain impressive, but it is increasingly obvious that they are being bought at the cost of ever rising debt. Aside from that, there are routine announcements that indicate senior figures are trying to address a range of problems, and bold proclamations about China's ascendant place in the region, but these announcements now seem to raise many questions as once they merely raised expectations. Warnings from the I... more »

Baby It’s Cold Outside – evidence of solar cycle affecting Earth’s cloud cover

Hifast at Climate Collections - 1 day ago

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest essay by David Archibald News comes that the light reflected back from Uranus is affected by the solar cycle. “The atmosphere around Uranus is one of the coldest in the solar system, but still contains clouds and ice, like our own atmosphere here on Earth. “The changing brightness of…

Chinese President Xi Delivers New Year Speech Vowing To Implement Reforms In 2018

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a New Year speech to extend New Year greetings to all Chinese, and best wishes to friends all over the world, in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 31, 2017. (Xinhua) *Xinhua:* *China Focus: President Xi delivers New Year speech vowing resolute reform in 2018* BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping Sunday delivered a New Year speech, vowing that China would resolutely carry out reform in 2018. "We will take the opportunity of celebrating the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening-up in 2018 to further carry out reform, as r... more »