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New in Obsidian Wings
Your ObWi Hospital report
by liberal japonicus It is another example of ObWi synchronicity that
Sebastian writes about fears just before I went under the knife (that's a
phrase) If you really want to crank those fears up to 11, aim for a
long convalescence in a hospital. I suppose you can become accustomed to
it, but getting old isn't the problem, it's getting helpless. I'm on
the mend, and I should be back to ADL in a we
Ur American Sh1thole Values NFL Open Thread
by Ugh More Trump because why not? Eh. I've seen responses to the
latest sharted eruption from POTUS saying that it "does not represent
American values," to which my response of late is "Are you sure?" Almost
63 million people voted for this waste. There is a long history of
American racism in immigration (and obviously other) matters that
continues to this day, apparently. So, who are we kidding
Personal Fears Semi-Open Post
--Sebastian In this time of Trump, it seems almost indulgent to worry
about personal fears of unverifiable things, but we can't let Trump be
our only source of misery now can we? My paternal grandmother had a
particularly nasty descent into Alzheimer's disease about 10 years
before her death. The signs started earlier, but she had a long bitter
spiral downward. One of her only great joys was bird
Your Boxing Day Open Thread
by Doctor Science Mister Doctor Science had the peroneus tendons on his
left foot reconstructed on Friday. He'd managed to completely rupture
the brevis tendon, and longus was in pretty bad shape. The surgeon was
able to reconstruct them into a single useful tendon that is predicted
to make it possible for Mr Dr to keep fencing. For the next 6 weeks,
though, he can't put any weight on that leg, s
Talking Past Each Other on #metoo
--by Sebastian I wonder if some of the reason we are talking past each
other on sexual harassment in employment is colored by true experiences
that people we personally know have had with companies that dealt with
things very differently. I used to work in employment law in California
(an employee friendly state). I’ve thankfully gotten out of an area of
law that makes me want to wring people’s n
Wednesday books: fic and non
by Doctor Science I just engulfed & devoured the new book in "James
S. A. Corey" (Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck)'s Expanse series,
Persepolis Rising . This work begins the final three volumes of the
series, and may possibly be self-contained enough to read if you haven't
read the previous volumes; I'm a poor judge. The timeline leaps ahead
30 years, to a point where most of the main characters from
New in Paying attention
Carole James’s Big Budget Problem
(Belatedly posting my recent Tyee column.) Finance Minister Carole
James put a good spin on this week’s quarterly update on the province’s
finances. But the update highlights big problems the NDP government
faces in crafting its first budget, due in mid-February. Without tax
increases, the government won’t be able to deliver on its election
promises or provide the changes supporters expect. The S
New in Pesticide Action Network
Do the crime, pay the fine
On Tuesday, California lawmakers took steps to add stricter penalties
for pesticide drift violations in the state. With a 5-0 vote, members of
the Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee moved AB 1419
forward , signaling support for the health and safety of California
farmworkers and farming communities. Protections for farmworkers The
bill , which was authored by Assemblymember Bill Q
A city goes 'organic'
In early January, the City Council of Portland, Maine unanimously
passed a tough ban on synthetic pesticide use in the city, leading many
Portland residents to applaud their city’s new “organic” status. The
ordinance comes in as one of the strongest pesticide use reduction
policies in the country. A strong city ordinance Beginning July 1, 2019,
residents and city workers of Portland won’t be usin
Killing two birds with one seed
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released
several scientific assessments that found commonly used neonicotinoid
pesticides (neonics) can kill and harm birds of all sizes. This comes on
the heels of new research from the University of Saskatchewan, with
experimental evidence finding dramatic effects of neonics on birds
inhabiting farmland or open countryside — causing migr
A year like no other
What an incredible — and challenging — year this has been. On the
national stage, we've seen several key issues we work on here at PAN
move into the spotlight like never before. Thanks to ill-advised federal
policy decisions, it is now common knowledge that pesticides harm
children’s health, and that farmland can be devastated by pesticide
drift. The corporate capture of our public agencies has b
A year like no other
What an incredible — and challenging — year this has been. On the
national stage, we've seen several key issues we work on here at PAN
move into the spotlight like never before. Learn more Slideshow
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New in Philosophical Comment
A Thought on the "One State Solution" to the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Since the Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995 initiated what has become known
as the "Oslo Process", the recognised vision of how to resolve the
longstanding violent conflict between the state of Israel and
Palestinian representatives, organisations and people have been the
so-called Two State Solution, where the state of Israel is to mostly
withdraw to its original 1947 borders, and a state of Palesti
New in Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
How I Did On My 2017 Predictions
Last
year my predictions were all gloom and doom. After all, Republicans
have control of the Presidency, the House, the Senate and the Supreme
Court. Plus they are appointing federal judges in droves after holding
up those appointments for years under President Obama. I expected a
quick rain of disaster for employees. I was only partially wrong. It's
been more like a series of showers. Here's how
If The Office Is Closed Due To A Blizzard, Do I Get Paid?
Now
is usually when I run my posts about how I did on my predictions from
last year, but with the snowicane bombarding the Northeast and even
Florida, I thought I'd better re-run this ever-popular and necessary
piece. Whether you’re entitled to be paid when the office is closed
depends on whether you are “exempt” salaried or not. Just being salaried
doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t entitled to
New in Syria Comment
Beit Jann: Myths and Reality
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi The Syrian government’s recent recapture of
the last rebel-held pocket in the vicinity of Mt. Hermon (Jabal
al-Sheikh) near the border with the Golan Heights- comprising the three
towns of Beit Jann, Mazra’at Beit Jann and Mughir al-Mir- has led to
much exaggeration and distortion about the matter, primarily emanating
from Israeli discourse and supporters of the rebels.
New in The Duck of Minerva
Turning the Lights Out on American Leadership
What a time to be alive. By some accounts, we are witnessing a power
transition between the United States and China, with the United States
voluntarily relinquishing its claim of global leadership despite having a
sizable advantage in hard power over all of its rivals. Evan Osnos, who
spent many years in China writing for the New Yorker, has a provocative
piece that sums up his view of Trump’s fo
The Return of Geopolitics
Geopolitics has returned with a vengeance. The end of the Cold War
wrought a moment in which there was no credible alternative to liberal
democratic capitalism. Russia was seemingly fatally weakened, and China
was not yet the economic powerhouse it would become. By the late 2000’s,
Russia, with power and resources concentrated in the hands of Vladimir
Putin, was newly assertive in its near abroad
President Trump, You’re No George Carlin
The Trump Administration has decided it’s finally time for it to whip
out its best George Carlin impression. It’s announced its own list of
seven words you can never say—at least not if you are working for the
Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention. In 1972, “ Seven Words You
Can Never Say on Television ” was the last track on his stand-up album,
Class Clown . In an interview with Terry Gros
The top 5 issues in International Politics for 2018
2017 was not a great year for international politics. The sentence I
heard the most during conferences and other academic gatherings was that
“the global order is in crisis.” Granted. It all started in 2016 with
the victory of Trump, Brexit and the No to the Peace Agreement in
Colombia. Nationalist ideologies have nothing but grown in 2017, when
the victories of Marine Le Pen in France and of Gee
Size Doesn’t Matter
Any woman would tell you that. What matters is what you do with it and
whether you know how to use it. Whatever Brobdingnagian thing you’ve got
going on there, it’s way more important to have a game plan and
understand the sweet spots you need to target. Otherwise, both parties
may come away less than satisfied from the encounter. I am talking, of
course, about the nuclear arsenal size and the ev
UFOs and the Hyperreal
On Saturday, the New York Times ran an investigative story that
revealed a few significant facts about the US’s programs to study UFOs.
There were some interesting findings in the article (and
citations/paraphrases below are from the article, which can be found
here ): A 22 million dollar program called “Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification” was operated at DoD from 2007 to 2012—and, in fact,
New in The Straight Goods
Canada: Craven Colony Of The USA
part I ........The Media At Work Written by Robin Mathews , January
2018 David Walmsley, Editor-in-Chief of the Globe and Mail, printed a
column on December 29, 2017 entitled “Your trust is the pulse of our
journalism” (A13). Vowing to clean up the Globe’s journalistic act
(without ever intending to do so, we may believe), Walmsley put his
finger on the real problem – for the Globe. By making the
John
Horgan-Once Gaining Power Veers NDP Party To Right-Abandons
Grassroots-Rolls Electoral Dice-Can Horgan Garner BC
Liberal(Conservative) Voters to Make up for Losing BC's Progressive
"Activist" Support
Written by Grant G "Will the real John Horgan please stand up" I must
say....John Horgan's year end message to me, to all BC's progressive
voters, to all NDP issue savvy voters is rather disheartening, to say
the least, it's actually more.. John Horgan is telling you to shut up,
be quiet and except the status quo, except the New NDP Government, a
government that administers better, administers BC
British Columbia N D P.....John Horgan, is he Dr Jeckyll or Mr Hyde(hide)
Written by grant G A first term government, merely months old and
already fatigue has set in, the dog days of December, the fatigue I
refer to is mutual, John Horgan's government has already turned stale
and has resorted to using public communications bureau to silence
critics, grassroot members speaking up on Site C are now ridiculed by
the party insiders, dismissed as unreasonable activists....
New in thwap's schoolyard
Black Holes
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/8/16822272/black-hole-looks-like-what That is all.
(Unfinished) Book Review: "Radical Transformation"
Kevin MacKay is a friend of mine, so I was very happy when his book
Radical Transformations: Oligarchy, Collapse, and the Crisis of
Civilization was published by "Between the Lines" press. Also, as a
favour to Kevin, I've decided to post a review of the book here at the
blog for my [officially] eleven "followers" and the half-dozen or so
casual readers who might pop-in every month or so if there'
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
New in Vagabond Scholar
Jon Swift Roundup 2017
(The
Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves) (A Jon Swift
lolcat for a little fun. After all, Godwin's "law" was never meant to
shut down serious discussion.) Welcome to the 2017 edition! It's been a
bizarre year. This tradition was started by the late Jon Swift/Al
Weisel, who left behind some excellent satire and would have had a
wealth of material this year. He was also
New in Weekly Geo-Political News and Analysis
Financial war may escalate into massive EMP attacks as final showdown looms
The ongoing war over the control of the financial system, and thus
control over the future of the planet, is reaching a dangerous
crescendo, multiple sources agree. Most significantly, the U.S. military
distracted world attention last week with a fake feud between U.S.
President Donald Trump and his former consiglieri Steve Bannon while
they used SpaceX to launch their secret Zuma satellite, Pent
Happy New Year: Hundreds of top Khazarian mobsters, including the Bush family, renditioned to Gitmo
In a historic moment of poetic justice, most of the U.S.-based top
perpetrators of the fake “war on terror” have now themselves been
renditioned to the U.S. Navy camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Pentagon
sources say. “The Rothschild assets George Soros, Peter Munk, Peter
Sutherland, the Bushes, the Podestas, and many others may have been
airlifted to Gitmo for military tribunals, as the Department o
Merry Christmas: The 13 “Illuminati” bloodline families sue for peace
Peace on earth and goodwill to all (and not just men, but all life
forms) is looking like a realistic goal for 2018 now that the 13
“Illuminati” * bloodline families, seeing their ancient rule of planet
Earth collapsing, are suing for peace. Last week a representative of the
G7 (Germany, the U.K., the corporate U.S., Japan, Italy, France, and
Canada) met with a representative of the White Dragon
U.S. troops deploy worldwide with 10,000 sealed indictments to take down Khazarian mob
U.S. President Donald Trump spent the weekend at Camp David with his
top generals to map out the exact strategy for decapitating the
Khazarian mafia worldwide, say Pentagon sources. “The Atlanta airport
was shut down, while the Department of Defense refused to disclose the
locations of 44,000 U.S. troops who may be involved in terminating the
cabal worldwide,” a senior Pentagon source said. There
Letter to the Editor – Experimental Quantum Anti-Gravity Successfully Replicated
I would like to let you know that my anti- gravity experiments have
been successfully replicated by the Aerospace Engineering Department at
the New Sciences & Technologies Faculty of the University of Tehran
in the Islamic Republic of Iran. I have developed complete quantum
anti-gravity hypothesis with direct testable predictions that are
simple, clear, easy, and inexpensive. As you know, present
White Dragon Society Cryptocurrency Portfolio Update
Following our initial report describing the overall Cryptocurrency
State of Play , we aim to begin releasing quarterly reports summarizing
major market developments and changes to our working investment
portfolio. The White Dragon Society (WDS) has access to a wide range of
esoteric intelligence and aims to share this cryptocurrency intel on a
continuing basis with Benjamin Fulford’s readership.
New in Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!)
(America!)
Nothing to see here. Move along. (Smoking Gun Proof of Massive
Collusion) Republicans Agree to Hate Knowledge, Democracy and Hippies
(Kiss His Ring at Davos?) CFPB Orwellian Rebranding (Lee Camp Exposes)
Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose (Being Protected by MSM with Fluff News)
Feinstein Dumps Fusion GPS (Get Well Soon, Bob, We Miss You!)
“Oh
My God, This Is So F---ed Up:” Inside Silicon Valley’s Dark Side
Really? Large Green Bird clarifies this American moment: From the
normally rational Digby:"The released transcript of Simpson's testimony
contains a good deal of interesting information, all of which will be
gone over with a fine-toothed comb in the press." Ha ha. Whatever on the
face of the earth could make you think
(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
The Horse in Human History
Our ancestors evolved on the savannahs of tropical Africa, arid
grasslands home to herds of large herbivores. Later, some ancestors
migrated out of Africa, into non-tropical Eurasia, a cooler climate for
which evolution and experience had not carefully prepared them. They
discovered northern grasslands, called steppes, home to herds of
gazelles, argali sheep, saiga antelope, reindeer, and wild ho
The Inner Life of Animals
In his bestselling book, The Hidden Life of Trees , Peter Wohlleben
revealed the fascinating magic and mystery of trees. He spent his
childhood close to nature, where he was fascinated by the family of
life. In his adult years, he has been a forest manager in Germany,
continually striving to nurture the health of the land, and minimize
harms. He has spent much of his life outdoors. Consequently,
New in Wide Asleep in America
Citations Needed, Episode 22: Trumpwashing -- How the Media Uses Trump to Launder Our Criminal Past
The
unique threat and vileness of Donald Trump’s presidency can’t be
overstated. Since he took office a year ago, he’s increased civilian
deaths in Afghanistan by 50%, increased civilian deaths in Syria and
Iraq (surpassing Obama’s death toll in just under 7 months), issued
dozens of nuclear threats against North Korea, unraveled the Iran deal,
bombed Hezbollah, Iranian and SAA positions in
Citations Needed, Episode 21: Quantifying Negative Media Portrayals of People of Color
According
to one 2014 study, 75% of white Americans don’t have any non-white
friends. Put another way, white people’s perception of African Americans
and other people of color comes primarily from media representations
rather than actual interactions. As such, how communities of color are
portrayed in the media – from news and opinion pages to movie and TV
screens – is tremendously important.
Citations Needed, Episode 20: Lotteryism, Part II A Most Dangerous Game -- How Sports Are Used to Fleece Public Trusts
Previously
on Citations Needed, we discussed the notion of "Lotteryism," that is,
the use of the media by large corporations to obscure solidarity in
favor of morality tales of "making it." It's a scam to extract resources
from local governments in hopes they can "win" corporate cash,
headquarters, facilities, and, of course, the promise of "jobs". Cities
around the US and the world debase
Citations Needed, Episode 19: Lotteryism, Part I How a Compliant Press Fuels the Spectacle of 'Winning'
"Lotteryism"
is the use of the media by large corporations to obscure solidarity in
favor of morality tales of “making it”. It’s the atomization of parties
of mutual interest by lording over them the promise of something greater
than what they could achieve if they simply banded together. Lotteryism
is an ideology and a PR operation. Lotteryism, above all, renders us
politically impotent.
Law and Justice Ignored in Favor of Media Frenzy Over "Violence" in Wake of Jerusalem Speech
Brothers
in Apartheid: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on May
23, 2017. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner) My Citations Needed co-host Adam
Johnson and I wrote a piece together for Fairness & Accuracy in
Reporting (FAIR) on much of the media's reaction to the recent
announcement that the United States now recognizes Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel and that the Trump administration
New in wmtc
rip fred bass, who gave nyc a priceless gift
Is there a New Yorker alive who hasn't spend time in The Strand? A New
York City tourist who didn't thrill to their first visit to The Strand?
The man who gave NYC this unique gift died recently at the age of 89.
Although his father founded the store, Fred Bass made it the
book-lovers' mecca that it came to be. Here you can see the ever-present
he outdoor shelves. I won't recount my memories of t
what i'm reading: what i haven't read and am not reading
Like
most avid readers, my to-read list contains far more titles than I
could ever read in a lifetime, even if I did nothing but read. Although I
add books at a considerably faster rate than I tick them off, I do
still keep The List, and I consult it when I'm looking for my next book.
I do this with movies, too. I also read books not on my list, much more
so now that I work in a library, and my re
required reading for revolutionaries: jane mcalevey and micah white
I've
wanted to write about these two books for a long time, but adequately
summarizing them is a daunting task. I just want to say to every
activist and organizer: READ THESE BOOKS . I don't want to represent the
authors' ideas, I want you to read them yourself . No Shortcuts:
Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey and The
End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution by Mi
new year's un-resolutions
I
don't do New Year's Resolutions, but I do enjoy using the revolution of
our Earth around the Sun as an excuse to take stock in where I am and
think about where I'm going. This is not a Big Promise To Do Something;
it's not even goal-setting. In my ongoing work to free myself from a
strong tendency towards All Or Nothing , to not paint myself into a
corner, to not create Rules which I then use to
in a youth novel about adoption, abortion doesn't even exist
I
am reading a YA novel about adopted people connecting with their
biological siblings and parents. This is a topic I have written about
and have an interest in, and it's supposed to be a very good book: Far
From the Tree , by Robin Benway. On page 3, the teenage protagonist
knows she cannot raise a child, so she immediately begins the adoption
process, interviewing prospective parents during her
what i'm reading: rolling blackouts, graphic novel asking many big questions
I
see by the wmtc tag "graphic novels" that I intended to write about
graphic books I read and enjoyed...and I see by the scant number of
posts with that tag that I have not been doing so! The last wmtc post
tagged for graphic novels is from four years ago , almost to the day. In
any event, I want to tell you about a graphic book I just finished and
really enjoyed: Sarah Glidden's Rolling Blackout
New in WWF - Latest News
Bulgarian government silently moves to open almost half of Pirin National Park to construction despite public concerns
Sofia, 29 December 2017 - In a surreptitious move, the government of
Bulgaria approved on Thursday alarming new changes to the Pirin National
Park management plan that could allow construction in up to 48 per cent
of the park, a World Heritage site home to bears, chamois, wolves and
centuries-old pine forests. The decision, announced a few days before
Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Eur
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
New in A Very Public Sociologist
The Last Days of the Conservative Party?
I love it when a Tory shambles comes together. Watching Theresa May's
ridiculous cabinet reshuffle unfold on Twitter provided for some wry
amusement in-between marking papers. Chris Grayling as party chair, and
then 27 seconds later he was dumped for Brandon Lewis. The awful Jeremy
Hunt, fresh from the NHS debacle , said no to a move to business and
ended up coming out of it with social care adde
Our Snowflake Press
Ah diddums, the Daily Mail is no longer to be sold by Virgin Trains.
Please note that sentence. Sold, not banned . Yet going from a range of
right wing rent-a-quoters, you'd think Branson were forcibly pressing
Mail readers into clearing up the storm damage to his Caribbean island.
According to Nigel Farage, "Banning things because you don’t like them
solves nothing." And right you are, Nige. So
Toby Young and the Taming of Higher Education
It's good to see meritocracy alive and well. I mean these days you can
get yourself appointed to an august body overseeing "value for money" in
Britain's universities without any experience of the higher education
sector at all. You can do so even after blagging your way into one of
the country's top establishments and sneering at the working class
students who, you know, actually had to work to
The NHS Crisis and Stubborn Tory Voters
You know it, I know it, the government tacitly admits it . The NHS is
in crisis. In fact, it's in permanent crisis thanks to funding not
meeting demand. What we are witnessing are ebbs and flows in how acute
the crisis is. Let's recap: all non-urgent operations (some 55,000!) and
hospital appointments have been cancelled, and the targets which the
(often private) providers who run A&Es have to me
What is the Brexit Stamp Collection?
Oh there are plenty of other things you can call Boris Johnson, a
repertoire that has now grown thanks to digging done by Adam Bienkov.
But on this occasion this blog is not chiming to the melodious infamy of
Johnson's self-importance, instead it's the substance of the miserable
article (above) from your snoreaway currant bun: the Brexit stamp
collection. You can see for yourself. The Sun are "ca
Robots and Toryism
Early on in Owen Jones's Chavs , we are treated to a scene in which a
nameless Tory grandee drops the pretense and speaks to a group of Oxford
students with some uncharacteristic honesty. "‘What you have to realize
about the Conservative Party,’ he said as though it was a trivial,
throwaway comment, ‘is that it is a coalition of privileged interests.
Its main purpose is to defend that privilege.
New in Adrienne's Corner
CNN's Jake Tapper gets his ass kicked by Stephen Miller...
Fire and Fury a "grotesque work of fiction." I watched almost 100% of
the Trump rally's. It was always a good rally when Miller was one of the
opening speakers. He is a dynamo. Until about about the six minute mark
Miller is calm and then he cranks up and starts to tap dance on
Tapper's skull. Finally, Tapper, unable to contain the "Miller Time"
outrage cuts him off in petty fury. I have a few qu
Lara Trump brings us the first Real News Update for 2018...
and we thank her. Trump makes good use of his family. One of my
personal favorites from Amazon Yogi Teas are available at Walmart for
slightly less money, but they're always out of stock. So now I have a
nice guy bring it to my door. Yogi Tea, Kava Stress Relief, 16 Count
(Pack of 6) 96 total I also like: Yogi Tea, Vanilla Spice Perfect
Energy, 16 Count (Pack of 6) (96 total I receive a small com
Golden Globes gives standing O to woman abuser Tonya Harding*...
I guess time really isn't up - right hypocrites? Yesterday at the
Golden Globes, the Hollywood elites adorned themselves with pins stating
"Time's Up" against sexual harassment and assault against woman. Thank
goodness Tonya Harding only had Nancy Kerrigan's leg wacked instead of
pinching her bottom. I thought for just a nano-second that maybe, just
maybe, the elites were coming a teeny bit out o
Project Veritas: Twitter manipulates views? And you didn't know that?...
explain to me exactly how you didn't know that? Facecrap does the same
thing. I just suffered through the first Project Veritas undercover
video, made all the worse by the PV "journalist" having one of the worst
cases of vocal fry I've ever heard, and throwing in a bit of up-speak
to further annoy. I suppose that was necessary to make her sound stupid
and disarm the blabbermouth engineer from Twi
Christmas Day Yorkshire Pudding...
no words necessary (except cluck cluck) All sorts of after Christmas
deals at Amazon Sending thanks to everyone who shops through my
affiliate links to Amazon. I receive small commission at no additional
cost to you. How cool is that??
New in CENSORED NEWS
Halliburton Fracking Destroying Sacred Chaco Region
Halliburton destroying the sacred Chaco region, in Lybrook, New Mexico area, on Jan. 10, 2018 Photo by Daniel Tso
Paid FBI informant to testify at Red Fawn's trial
Paid
FBI informant Heath Harmon of Fort Berthold, North Dakota By Brenda
Norrell Censored News Heath Harmon, paid FBI informant at Standing Rock
water protector camp, owned the revolver Red Fawn is charged with
firing. Harmon, from Fort Berthold, North Dakota, posed as Red Fawn's
lover, and continued to deceive her after she was jailed, sharing his
notes with prosecutors. A new article by
Suquamish Calina Lawrence: 'Violence against Native Women: Boarding Schools, Domestic Violence, Missing and Murdered Women'
.
Democracy Now! Time's Up: Meet Five of the Women Who Staged Protest at
Golden Globes Against Gender Violence Democracy Now! Watch at:
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/12/times_up_meet_five_of_the AMY
GOODMAN: If you could speak, Calina Lawrence, about Native American
women and what they face? When we talk about rates of sexual abuse, we
must multiply this so many times when
American Indian Genocide Museum: 'Same Old Bait and Switch Scam Targets Lakota Land'
American
Indian Genocide Museum: 'Same Old Bait and Switch Scam Targets Lakota
Land' 'Only history will show who the great warriors were.' Steve
Melendez, Paiute By Steve Melendez, Paiute President, American Indian
Genocide Museum Censored News The Justice system when dealing with
Indians is based on "The Doctrine Of Discovery." It is a rigged system
based on the old scam of "the bait
Mountain Protector Rally and March to End City Contract with Snowbowl
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Advisory Contact: mountainprotectors@gmail.com Mountain Protector Rally
& March to End City Contract with Snowbowl FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. —
Arizona Snowbowl ski area is entering into its 5th year of making fake
snow from 100% treated sewage on the San Francisco Peaks, which are holy
to 13 Indigenous Nations. A Mountain Protector Rally is being held the
day before Martin
Watch -- Standing Rock On Native Ground
Standing
Rock on Native Ground at Green Bay Film Festival in March 2018
Schedule:
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/entertainment/movies/2018/01/10/green-bay-film-festival-2018-season-schedule/1006749001/
On Native Ground Dec. 7, 2016 This special segment of On Native Ground
focuses on the events occurring at Standing Rock, North Dakota,
regarding the Dakota Access Pipe Line.
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PicSat: Eye on Beta Pictoris
To understand why Beta Pictoris is receiving so much attention among
astronomers, particularly those specializing in exoplanets, you have
only to consider a few parameters. This is a young star, perhaps 25
million years old, one with a well observed circumstellar disk, the
first actually imaged around another star. We not only have a large gas
giant in orbit here, but also evidence of cometary ac
Exoplanet Prospects at Earth-based Observatories
Although I often write about upcoming space missions that will advance
exoplanet research, we’re also seeing a good deal of progress in
Earth-based installations. In the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, the
Extremely Large Telescope is under construction, with first light
planned for 2024. With 256 times the light gathering area of the Hubble
instrument, the ELT is clearly going to be a factor i
SETI and Astrobiology: Toward a Unified Strategy
Will we recognize life if and when we find it elsewhere in the cosmos?
It’s a challenging question because we have only the example of life on
our own world to work with. Fred Hoyle’s The Black Cloud raised the
question back in 1957, a great memory for me because this was one of the
earlier science fiction novels that I ever read. I remember sitting
there with it in my 5th grade class in St. Loui
Tightening the Focus on Brown Dwarfs
Among the many indicators that we have much to learn about brown dwarfs
is the fact that we don’t yet know how frequently they form. Recent
work from Koraljka Muzic (University of Lisbon) and colleagues has
pointed, however, to quite a robust galactic population (see How Many
Brown Dwarfs in the Milky Way? ). Working with observations at the Very
Large Telescope, the study pegged the brown dwarf
Exploring Origins of a Fast Radio Burst
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) continue to intrigue us given their energy
levels. You may recall FRB 121102, which was revealed at a press
conference almost exactly one year ago to be located in a radio galaxy
some 3 billion light years away. This is a repeating FRB (the only
repeating source yet found), making its study an imperative as we try to
characterize the phenomenon. With data from Arecibo, th
The Plasma Magnet Drive: A Simple, Cheap Drive for the Solar System and Beyond
Can we use the outflow of particles from the Sun to drive spacecraft,
helping us build the Solar System infrastructure we’ll one day use as
the base for deeper journeys into the cosmos? Jeff Greason, chairman of
the board of the Tau Zero Foundation, presented his take on the idea at
the recent Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop . The concept captured
the attention of Centauri Dreams regular A
New in David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
New Year’s bitter Twitter attacks on fact-checking economists suggest UCP will try to make 2018 the Year of the Big Chill
PHOTOS: University of Alberta economist and professor Andrew Leach.
Below: Calgary-Fish Creek United Conservative Party MLA Richard Gotfried
(Photo: Mr. Gotfried’s Facebook page), UCP Leader Jason Kenney, and
University of Calgary economist and professor Trevor Tombe (Photo: U of
C). New Year’s in Alberta blew in on a bitter winter wind. That was the
weather. […] The post New Year’s bitter Twitte
Today marks the 10th anniversary of AlbertaPolitics.ca – which presumably makes this blog an Internet institution!
PHOTOS: Part of the original header on this blog, back in its St.
Albert Diary days, which ran from the last week of 2007 to mid-2009. The
blog, of course, has continued under slightly different names to the
present. Below: The first post, and my picture with Alberta’s two best
premiers, in my opinion, since […] The post Today marks the 10th
anniversary of AlbertaPolitics.ca – which presumably ma
Those lame green coroplast arrows point to one thing: the UCP’s cozy relationship with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
PHOTOS: United Conservative Party MLA Wes Taylor with his notorious
green coroplast arrow. Below: An example of the fun made of Mr. Taylor
by Internet wags; Porky the Waster Hater, the Canadian Taxpayers
Federation’s mascot; Wildrose MLA Derek Fildebrandt and Wildrose Leader
Brian Jean in happier times with their lame CTF-style signage; and UCP
Leader […] The post Those lame green coroplast arrow
Put the Christ back in Christmas? Never mind that! Keep the marks in the market! Merry Christmas!
PHOTOS & ILLUSTRATIONS: Early opponents of the War on Shopping
fight back at Christmastime (Photo: Chicago History Museum). Today
consumerism is the state religion of both the United States and Canada,
helping to put the marks back in the market. Below: Sol Invictus. Any
resemblance to the Statue of Liberty is purely coincidental. Is it […]
The post Put the Christ back in Christmas? Never mind th
As expected, UCP Leader Jason Kenney chalks up another convincing win in Calgary-Lougheed by-election
PHOTOS: UCP Leader Jason Kenney celebrates his victory in the
Calgary-Lougheed by-election last night (Photo: CBC). Below: NDP
candidate Phillip van der Merwe, Liberal leader and candidate David
Khan, and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, all their photos grabbed for
simplicity’s sake from Twitter. Never mind Surrey and Alabama. Jason
Kenney won his by-election victory last […] The post As expected,
There was a whole lotta scrambling going on, 24/7 … can the 2015 PMO security breach whodunit be solved?
PHOTOS: Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, at right,
somewhere in Iraq in 2015 (Photo: Screenshot of Global News video).
Below: The very model of a modern major general, although not
necessarily a Canadian one (Photo: Wikimedia Commons), and the Canadian
defence minister of the day with some ghostly military personnel passing
behind him (Photo: […] The post There was a whole lotta
New in From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin 2017 crushed a major temperature record and scientists are sounding the alarm These Birds of Prey Are ...
From Jenna Orkin 2017 crushed a major temperature record and scientists
are sounding the alarm These Birds of Prey Are Deliberately Setting
Forests on Fire Wall Street Bank With Three Felonies Sends Employee To
Head SEC Trading Division Facebook Introducing Sweeping Changes: Will
Prioritze Only "Trustworthy" News Mexican Interior Minister Resigns Amid
Soaring Murders; US Warns "Do Not Travel" To
From Jenna Orkin Fake News and False Flags How the Pentagon paid a British PR firm $500 million for top secret Iraq pro...
From Jenna Orkin Fake News and False Flags How the Pentagon paid a
British PR firm $500 million for top secret Iraq propaganda Snopes
confirms in principal, if not the precise amount New York City plans to
divest $5bn from fossil fuels and sue oil companies Inmates Can't
Receive Donated Books Anymore, They Have to Buy Them Feinstein Admits
She Was Mentally Unstable When Releasing Fusion GPS Trans
From Jenna Orkin Fusion GPS Lawyer : "Somebody's Already Been Killed" Because Of Trump Dossier Former Idaho State Rep C...
From Jenna Orkin Fusion GPS Lawyer : "Somebody's Already Been Killed"
Because Of Trump Dossier Former Idaho State Rep Commits Suicide After
Sexual Assault Allegations "A Strange Coincidence": US Spy Plane Circled
Near Russian Base During Massive Drone Attack Venezuela Oil Production
Plummets To 28 Year Low Amid Chaos, Corruption Buffett: "I Would Buy A
Five-Year Put On Every Cryptocurrency" Zimba
From Jenna Orkin Feinstein posts testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder After Government Corruption-Driven Mistrial, Judge ...
From Jenna Orkin Feinstein posts testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder
After Government Corruption-Driven Mistrial, Judge Dismisses Case
Against Bundys China's Richest Woman Just Made $2 Billion In 4 Days
Baltimore Residents Use GoFundMe To Buy Heaters For Broken, Freezing
Schools "Meanwhile, Baltimore City is spending $1,630 per student on
administrative costs, which is the highest in the United St
From Jenna Orkin What Would Happen If All the Coral Reefs Died? - FB Technofixes will lead to Jevons Paradox. False Mem...
From Jenna Orkin What Would Happen If All the Coral Reefs Died? - FB
Technofixes will lead to Jevons Paradox. False Memories - Pros and Cons -
FB Gives a whole new meaning to "fake news." Europe Becomes Victim Of
Russia's Newest Oil Strategy Estonian State-Backed Cryptocurrency Moves
One Step Closer to Reality Grand Jury Empaneled In $10 Million Fraud
Probe Involving Jane And Bernie Sanders Sydne
From Jenna Orkin Michael Wolff Did What Every Other White House Reporter Is Too Cowardly to Do Pea Milk video . Wikilea...
From Jenna Orkin Michael Wolff Did What Every Other White House
Reporter Is Too Cowardly to Do Pea Milk video . Wikileaks Publishes
Michael Wolff's Entire Sold Out Trump Book As A PDF Bannon Apologizes:
"Donald Trump Jr. Is A Patriot And A Good Man" Robots Have Replaced
Humans In 25% Of China's Ammunition Factories WSJ Is Seeking A Moscow
Bureau Chief: Oath To Russiagate Required, Russian Languag
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Pol Ideology 72, You love capitalism
I am reposting this good article in Manila Standard by a friend, Eric.
--------- You love capitalism posted January 05, 2018 at 12:01 am By
Eric Jurado You love capitalism. Really, you do. And you can’t stand big
government. Really, you can’t Don’t believe me? Then I’ll just have to
prove it to you. Do you use an iPhone? Android? Macbook? PC? Read on a
Kindle? Watch TV and movies on Netflix? Vide
BWorld 178, Top 8 energy news of 2017
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last January 2. This should have
been a “Top 10” list but due to space constraints, I limited it to only
eight, divided into four news stories each for global and national.
GLOBAL 1 “Non-news” to many media outlets but good and big news to me:
NO major energy catastrophes in 2017. No major oil spill, no gas
blowouts, no reactor meltdowns, no major infrastruct
Energy 105, When both world oil prices and domestic oil taxes are rising
Dutertenomics' tax-tax-tax implementation is off to bad timing. Raising
oil taxes on already high global oil prices is insensitive. But then
again, even if the tax hike is P20 or P50/liter, the "money will go to
the poor" naman daw is always a convenient, hollow, cavalier and
opportunistic alibi. "Diesel tax will increase from zero in 2017 to
P2.50/liter in 2018, P4.50 in 2019, and P6.00 in 2020.
BWorld 177, On MMDA car towing and impounding
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last December 29, 2017. “Little
else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence
from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes and a tolerable
administration of justice: all the rest bring about by the natural
course of things.” — Adam Smith, lecture in 1755; author of The Wealth
of Nations (1776) This is the continuation of my article, “
Climate tricks 64, Bitter cold and snow are caused by AGW
Al Gore the planet saviour. Less rain or lots of rain, less snow or
more snow, less cold or bitter cold, the planet is in danger from
anthropogenic (man-made) global warming (AGW) so we should send him and
the UN more money. :-) rom Dr. Roy W. Spencer : My imagined conversation
with Al Gore: MR. GORE: This cold wave and snowstorm are just what
global warming predicted! ME: And what if the weather
BWorld 176, Road trips and PPP projects
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last December 28, 2017. For the
third straight year, I drove my family from Makati City to Iloilo City
via roll-on roll-off (RoRo) vessels during the holidays. The road trip
came with its own set of inconveniences that were nevertheless offset by
several benefits: It allowed my family to carry more cargo (compared to
flying) and also allowed my two daughters t
New in henrymakow.com
More People Realize the "Enemy" is Within
The largely positive reaction to Mohammed Moorad's article Muslim to
"Red Necks" - We are Not Your Enemy suggests more people are cluing into
the fact that Muslims are not the enemy. The Illuminati is. The
mainspring of the Illuminati is the central banking cartel which
controls business, government, media, education, law and the military
using Organized Jewry (Zionism) and Freemasonry as instrum
"War of Civilizations" is a Zionist Scam - Muslim
A British Muslim reader explains the Saudi role in the Zionist
(Masonic) plan to start a war between The West (Christianity) and Islam.
He exposes the online facilitators of this agenda, Alex Jones and Jeff
Rense. by Ash (henrymakow.com) To bring about the Albert Pike's World
War 3, the Satanists had to create a violent bloodthirsty "Islamic"
cult. The British establishment found an ancient sect,
Brendon O'Connell - Syria, Russia & Iran are Not the "Good Guys"
Makow to O'Connell: "I'm having trouble with your thesis that Netanyahu
and Putin are in bed together. Seems to me Israel was not pleased with
Putin saving Syria and destroying ISIS." This is Brendon's reply. I'm
not buying it but I post it in the interest of provoking discussion. By
Brendon O'Connell (henrymakow.com) Syria "saved"? Its been split into
three - Southern Syria, Damascus (semi-centr
"Homophobia" Means China Will Eclipse the West
Nothing says the West is slated for decline more than a comparison of
China's gender policies with ours. The Illuminati allow the Chinese to
be "homophobic," i.e. to protect gender, marriage, and family. "Gay
Rights" were never about shielding homosexuals from persecution. They
were designed to spread homosexual dysfunction to heterosexual Christian
society, destabilizing & rendering it vulnerabl
Muslim to "Red Necks" -- We are not your Enemy
(left, the author) M.S. Moorad, 44, (left) is a single plumber who
lives in South Africa. He has traveled widely, including visiting many
cities in the USA. He comments on the slave mentality of the goyim in
the west who prefer to advance Zionist world tyranny rather than their
real national interests. This was a response to "Charlottesville: A
Marcher's Perspective." By M.S. Moorad (henrymakow.c
#MeToo is Beginning of a Female Power Grab
(Left, Greta Gerwig gets Golden Globe for Ladybird) #MeToo is an
opening artillery barrage to pathologize males. The real battle will
supplant males, especially white males, as much as possible. by Henry
Makow Ph.D. The headline was like a lightning strike which illuminates
the road ahead on a pitch black night. Hollywood: "Women held 18% of the
behind the scenes jobs in 2017." Among the report's
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