New in Syria Comment
US Policy Toward the Levant, Kurds and Turkey – By Joshua Landis
US Policy Toward the Levant, Kurds and Turkey By Joshua Landis January
15, 2018 The State Department has turned the page on Turkey for it no
longer views Ankara as a reliable US partner. Many argue that Washington
will abandon Syria’s Kurds in order to assuage Turkish anger. I doubt
this. Washington expects more anti-US actions from Erdogan. Many in DC
believe that Turkey’s rising Islamism, harde
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
On Writing the IR Dissertation
Partly in response to Steve Saideman’s post today with advice on
dissertation topics, and partly also in response to a pretty
enthusiastic discussion of advice to graduate students on Twitter
yesterday, I thought I’d write a few things about getting started on the
path of researching a dissertation in a field as unwieldy (and a job
market as uncertain) as IR. Here is where my perspective comes fr
Beware of Irrelevant Topic? Advising Phd Students to Surf the Wave
In the past couple of days, an academic issue has played out on
twitter: are advisers doing a disservice to students and to the creation
of knowledge by warning them off of topics that are deemed less
relevant, less in the moment? Damned if I know. On the one hand, I have
heard plenty of tales of former/current students elsewhere that say that
they were interested in a topic, but their adviser to
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
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
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
New in thwap's schoolyard
The US-American Thought and Behaviour Control Project
Back in the day when Obama was running for president I thought that it
was the genius of the US-American political system to convince jaded
US-American voters that their political system wasn't a complete waste
of time. After 8 years of Bill Clinton "triangulating" policy to capture
right-wing "independent" voters, betraying the Democrats' progressive
base over and over; and after 8 years of the
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 Viva Bolivia
Bolivia, the US and MS 13
2018
brings us a whole new era in US history. The presidency of Donald J.
Trump, and the vicious attacks his critics make on him every day. No
doubt he has his faults. But he is not the monster that the left wing
extremists in the US make him out to be. For instance, one of his first
acts was to sign legislation in support of gay rights. Then he gave away
his entire pay on each pay day to a charit
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
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.
New in wmtc
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
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
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
New in A Very Public Sociologist
The Conservative Party's Eugenics Problem
To find one leading Conservative mouthing off about eugenics is
unfortunate, the incid ence of others indicates something else . We know
about Toby Young, the self-styled "Toadmeister" and his hanging around
with Nazis and paedophile apologists at a eugenics conference. He was
joined this week by Ben Bradley, the Tories' new youth supremo for
ill-advised blog posts advocating vasectomies for the
Against Outsourcing
Love him or loathe him, John McTernan is a useful fella because he's
one of the few commentators the Labour right have got who plainly, and
sometimes bluntly, states their collective position on an issue. No
shilly-shallying, no fudging. That doesn't mean he's right, as his
latest piece in outsourcing demonstrates. What John demonstrates is the
managerial/technocratic approach to politics as oppo
Tory Cynicism: A Stoke-on-Trent Case Study
On Twitter a few weeks back, Cllr Dan Jellyman, cabinet cloak room
attendant on Stoke-on-Trent City Council invited me to sign a petition
pushed by fellow Tory councillor and MP for Stoke South, Jack Brereton.
The issue concerns the hourly train service that runs from Crewe to
Derby. This also happens to be the train I have the pleasure of
commuting to work on nearly every day. The problem with t
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
New in Adrienne's Corner
Women's March: Foul mouthed demon possessed liberal people - a must see video!...
shocking! See a side of the women's march the MSM won't show you. I'm
shocked. Not surprised - but still shocked that people would act like
this in public. And they bring their children to witness what looks like
demon's writhing in the pits of hell? If there is any doubt in your
mind that these people are seriously sick in the head, after watching
this video you will be convinced of the distinct
Thank Goodness! The scary government shut down appears to be over...
because the good Lord knows my life has been turned upside down by the
thousands of non-essential government workers who were enjoying a paid
vacation. Not. More: Art of Manliness: 21 Epigrams Every Man Should Live
By and two three of my favorites. Go over there and read the rest:
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” —Marcus
Aurelius In Rome just as America, in the foru
Trump's Fake News Awards Today on Twitter and what I discovered yesterday...
I discovered that you do not put a bumper cover for a 2008 Sonata
inside the Sonata to which it will affixed in the future. Short Form: I
ordered a rear bumper cover off of ebay (already painted in the proper
color) for my car. It had to be picked up at FedEx Ground in the
Industrial Park in Spokane Valley since it was "oversized" and they
couldn't even get it to Couer d'Alene. Two FexEx employee
Memo: FISA Abuse?...
Justice Department,FBI, and Hillary Clinton under the microscope. FISA
abuses detailed in memo! And it doesn't look good. Actually, it's
probably going to be very, very bad. However, don't get too excited,
because the libtards will absolutely ignore it all - and so will a whole
bunch of ordinary dirt dwellers. Will it get buried? Wouldn't surprise
me one teeny bit. I already checked the top three
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
President Trump Camp David Press Conference 1/6/18...
"Michael
Wolff is a fraud" "Sloppy Steve" I have two things to say: It's sad to
see Steve Scalise on crutches, but I guess it's better than the
alternative. and I think Donald needs to join me at Weight Watchers. We
need to keep him healthy. MAGA
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Mohawk Nation News 'Identity Theft Update'
Read article at Mohawk Nation News .http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/01/22/identity-theft-update/
Music from the Frontlines of Standing Rock at Sundance Film Festival
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At Sundance Film Festival -- 'The making of Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock'
At
Sundance Film Festival -- 'The making of Akicita: The Battle of
Standing Rock' Watch news video below: Article by Brenda Norrell
Censored News News video by Deadline Studio at Sundance PARK CITy, Utah
-- At the Sundance Film Festival, for the premiere of Akicita: The
Battle of Standing Rock, Producer Cody Lucich describes his arrival at
Standing Rock water protector camps. In this
Dineh Marcus Mitchell 'Morton County shot out my eye at Standing Rock'
By
Marcus Mitchell, Dineh Censored News Published with permission Good
morning everyone, it is a beautiful morning. I had a dream about what is
to come last night. The time has come for all of us to go after North
Dakota law enforcement. The events that have affected all of us are for
life. We pray to our ancestors, the mountains, the trees, the birds for
guidance. I ask my
Rattler Reaches Non-Cooperating Plea Agreement
Rattler
(Photo: Jonathan Klett Liminal Films) By Water Protector Legal
Collective Censored News MANDAN, North Dakota: A change of plea hearing
has been scheduled for Michael Markus, who is known as Rattler, after
reaching a non-cooperating plea agreement with prosecutors. Under the
agreement, the government will drop the most serious charge and both
parties will recommend a sentence of 36
Northern Nevada AIM Leads Women's March -- Photos by Bad Bear
. Photos by Western Shoshone Carl Bad Bear Sampson Women's March in
Reno, Nevada 2018 "The Natives lead the March. The Jingle Dress Dancers
and Drum group Northern Nevada AIM Chapter," said Western Shoshone Carl
'Bad Bear' Sampson, photojournalist. Photos by Western Shoshone Carl Bad
Bear Sampson, Censored News Watch
New in Centauri Dreams
Planet Mimicry: Disk Patterns in Infant Systems
The wrong initial assumption can easily lead anyone down a blind alley.
The problem comes across loud and clear in new work from Marc Kuchner
(NASA GSFC) and colleagues, which Kuchner presented at the recent
meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington. At issue is
the matter of the disks of gas and dust around young stars, in many of
which we can find patterns such as rings, arcs a
K2-138: Multi-Planet System via Crowdsourcing
As Centauri Dreams readers know, I always keep an eye on the K2
mission, the rejuvenated Kepler effort to find exoplanets with a
spacecraft that had originally examined 145,000 stars in Cygnus and
Lyra. Now working with different fields of view, K2 has examined a
surprisingly large number of stars, some 287,309, according to this
Caltech news release . Digging around a bit, I discovered that each
New Titan Findings from Topographical Map
Cassini’s huge dataset will yield discoveries for many years, as
witness the global topographical map of Titan that has been assembled by
Cornell University astronomers. The map draws on topographical data of
the moon from multiple sources by way of studying its terrain and the
flow of its surface liquids. Bear in mind that only 9 percent of Titan
has been observed at relatively high resolution,
Pulsar Navigation: Mining Our Datasets
Science fiction dealt with interstellar navigation issues early on. In
fact, Clément Vidal’s new paper, discussed in these pages yesterday,
notes a George O. Smith story called “Troubled Star,” which originally
ran in a 1953 issue of Startling Stories and later emerged as a novel
(Avalon Books, 1957). Smith is best remembered for a series of stories
collected under the title Venus Equilateral , b
Substellar Objects in Orion
Although I carry on about upcoming observatories on the ground and in
space, I never want to ignore the continuing contribution of the Hubble
telescope to our understanding of planet and star formation. As witness
the latest deep survey made by team lead Massimo Robberto (Space
Telescope Institute) and colleagues, which used the instrument to study
small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula. At a r
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
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
As the year runs out, here are AlbertaPolitics.ca’s Top Ten developing Alberta political news stories of 2017
PHOTOS: As time runs out on 2017, here are AlbertaPolitics.ca’s Top Ten
developing new stories for the year. Below: Opposition UCP Leader Jason
Kenney, NDP Premier Rachel Notley, serial conservative screw-up Derek
Fildebrandt and Labour Minister Christina Gray. It’s easy to pick list
of news stories that caused a big splash the day they appeared. […] The
post As the year runs out, here are Albert
New in FREE PLANET
Star Citizen - interview questions - 3D prototype demos
modular 600i for me, please I've been thinking (more and more) that I'd
like to go to USA (Austin or L.A. office) and work with the CIG (Cloud
Imperium Games) on their still-in-pre-alpha game Star Citizen. And I've
thought a lot of how I might approach them, what cunning sort of letter
I'd write to entice them, as currently there are no vacancies at the
company that might cover the senior level r
Star Citizen - costume weapons ships - the spawning issue
IT MAKES NO SENSE!!! CIG wakes up groggily, as if from some terrible
truth hangover, "What now Mike?" Costumes, weapons, ships... I mean, I
covered this in my COMMERCIALISE HYPERSPACE post from exactly one year
ago but nobody at either CIG or Backers or players of the game seem to
want to truly address this basic glitch in the matrix . Where are they
coming from? When you try on a suit in a shop.
Star Citizen - unifying the control system - screen relative push pulling
supposedly,
Star Citizen is 'doing things that other games don't do' but...
seriously? and this is just for one mode of movement They have a clunky
interface written by a database designer. They have a problem with
doors. They have multiple control mappings per vehicle you're in,
personal or space. One of the things I felt was very important (when I
was in the games industry) was UNIFY THE CONTROL
Start Citizen - quantum engine - mine or not?
Watch
youtuber XenthorX put Star Citizen through its paces in glorious 4K.
He's in a light nimble single-seater ship that can really kick up dust.
Watch him first Canyon Run like a pro then launch himself into high
altitude space. It all kicks off at the 00:10:00 mark in the following
video... What would have topped this off PERFECTLY would have been a
crescendo-leap into Hyper Drive using the Qua
Star Citizen - when is a ladder - not a ladder
is this a ladder I see before me? Star Citizen is a strange kinda
ass-backwards bird. Five years in production, so far, and I still can't
work out what it is. Or what IT wants to be. Planetary streaming -
check. Micro-pore rendering - check. Quantum drive mechanism - check.
Ladders suck... well, they do in Star Citizen. And they always have.
Almost every entry/exit (to the smaller ships) involves
Electric Universe - 2018 truths emerge - universe is electric
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...
New in From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin Last three years hottest on record: UN Fake medicines flourish in Africa despite killing thousands How...
From Jenna Orkin Last three years hottest on record: UN Fake medicines
flourish in Africa despite killing thousands How a tropical pathogen
came to reside in the Pacific Northwest Booby-trapped messaging apps
used for spying: researchers NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to
preserve Google Has An Actual Secret Speech Police Only one road in the
world leads from Russia to North Korea — and
From Jenna Orkin From Senator Tom Cotton to Constituents Who Disagreed with him post . Military Deployed As Jamaica Off...
From Jenna Orkin From Senator Tom Cotton to Constituents Who Disagreed
with him post . Military Deployed As Jamaica Officials Declare State Of
Emergency Pay for Some New York Private School Chiefs Nears $1 Million
Alarming Rise In The Number Of Gun-Store Burgalaries Across America
Venezuelan Rebel Cop Oscar Perez Massacred By The Government After He
Surrendered NSA "Sincerely Regrets" Deleting Al
From Jenna Orkin Area 51 flights? Top-secret government airline seeks flight attendant TV crew tried to sneak fake expl...
From Jenna Orkin Area 51 flights? Top-secret government airline seeks
flight attendant TV crew tried to sneak fake explosive device through
Newark Airport security, feds say How China Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms
Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Dies In Helicopter Crash Sweden Is Preparing
For A "Civil War": PM Wants To Deploy Army In No-Go Zones "We Must Avoid
Day Zero" - Cape Town Is 90 Days Away From
From Jenna Orkin The Rover Pipeline spills again, in the same spot where it spilled 2 million gallons last year How the...
From Jenna Orkin The Rover Pipeline spills again, in the same spot
where it spilled 2 million gallons last year How the heroin trade
explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan "He Slipped Up": The One Thing
Bannon Told Congress Yesterday That Could Haunt Trump This Is How Drug
Lords Make Billions Smuggling Gold To Miami California's Homeless
Problem Revealed In One "Incredible" Video FBI Investiga
From Jenna Orkin Grand jury indicts Maryland executive in Uranium One deal ... - The Hill DHS Is Planning To Arrest San...
From Jenna Orkin Grand jury indicts Maryland executive in Uranium One
deal ... - The Hill DHS Is Planning To Arrest Sanctuary City Leaders
Skynet Now: Pentagon Deploys Terrorist-Hunting Artificial Intelligence
Ex-CIA Officer Suspected Of Helping China Assassinate US Informants
Arrested At JFK Norway Desperately Needs Large Oil Discoveries Frack,
baby, frack. Or risk turning into another shithole
From Jenna Orkin New California declares "independence" from rest of state Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs —...
From Jenna Orkin New California declares "independence" from rest of
state Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American and Russian,
Part 1 As Petro-Yuan Looms, Bundesbank Adds Renminbi To Currency
Reserves As No One Watched, Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks For Corruption
Charges 5 Reasons Why Egypt And Sudan Might Be About To Go To War Is
Facebook 'Championing' Blasphemy Laws Across Europe?
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BWorld 181, Effects of Supreme Court TRO on RCOA
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last January 18. “The real bosses,
in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers… The
entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the
consumers better than other people have done.” — Ludwig von Mises,
Bureaucracy Geographical monopolies in electricity distribution are
among the last remaining state-created monopolies in the c
WHO must go back to basics
I am reposting this good article by a friend, Philip Stevens, published
in BusinessWorld last Thursday, January 18. ------- To maintain
relevance, WHO must go back to basics AS one of 34 executive board
members of the World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Geneva next
week, the Philippines shares a pivotal role in setting the global health
agenda for the next year. The WHO’s work has never be
Pictures from UP Diliman, 1985-1987
Mula sa baul ni Fidel Nemenzo at ibang mga friends sa UP, these photos
strike nostalgia and happy memories. Below, in one of the group photos
of the Independent Student Alliance (ISA) student party during the UP
University Student Council (USC) elections. Among the people here: Agnes
Camacho, Rowena Alvarez, Alan Ortiz, Marie Sharon Guerrero, Sheila
Espine Villaluz, Doby Pineda, Jay Batongbacal,
BWorld 180, Has East Asia liberalized its trade enough?
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last January 11. Under a system of
perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and
labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. By rewarding
ingenuity… it distributes labour most effectively and most
economically: while, by increasing the general mass of productions, it
diffuses general benefit, and binds together by one c
Interaksyon shutting down
Interaksyon's "Fat-Free Economics" column was my other home for two
years, early 2012 to mid-2014. I wrote several dozen articles there with
the support of my editor and friend, Arnold Tenorio. Am sad with this
news... My first article in interaksyon, March 2012, Fat-Free Econ 1:
Macroeconomics for Micro Concerns My concluding paragraph: "Main lesson:
BIG government is bad for the economy. More t
IPR and innovation 40, WHO health alarmism and IPR tinkering
Seven years ago, I briefly surveyed the various offices under the UN
and I was surprised to see about 100+ different agencies. See UN
bureaucracies -- too many! (December 20, 2010). Among the huge and wide
UN offices and bureaucracies is the World Health Organization (WHO). On
its website, Media Center, News Releases 2017, these stories seem like
we are still in the 90s or even the 80s, or the 70
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Taboo Against Anti-Semitism Must be Lifted
(left, Trump is a crypto-Jew who has won power by opposing globalism.
Beholden to Mossad, he belongs to the Zionist branch of the Masonic
Communist-Zionist dialectical strategy . Orchestrated by George Soros,
Communist Jews & their liberal minions appear to oppose him. )
Organized Jewry clearly has a pernicious political agenda. To stigmatize
resistance as "bigotry" is a ruse that will no longer
MLK Holiday is Proof the US is Closet Communist
They never quit because subverting you is their religion. (left, the
Jewish owned and operated NewYorker portrays paid Communist Party
instigator Martin Luther King arm-in-arm with multimillionaire players
protesting the plight of Black Americans.) Monday was Martin Luther King
Day in the US. Martin Luther King was a fraud. Below, Alan Stang
(1932-2009 ) shows that King was literally a Communist
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
MI-5 Used Terror Groups to Assassinate Leaders
( Charles Haughey was Irish Prime Minister "Taoiseach" from 1979-1982
&1987-1992) MI-5 tried to assassinate Irish Prime Minister in 1985
"Everyone with half-a-brain knows that Israel, the US, and Britain have
used front groups like Isis and Al Nusra Front to wreak carnage in the
Muslim world on behalf of Anglo-Zionist interests, but the same
interests have long used western terror groups to get r
"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,
"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
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Houston Is Being Rebuilt on a Foundation of Wage Theft
To gird themselves against Houston’s freakish sub-40-degree weather,
the jornaleros , or day laborers, draw the hoods of their sweatshirts so
tight that just their noses peek out. Huddled in groups of four or five
across a Home Depot parking lot, the clusters disintegrate when Maurico
“Chele” Iglesias approaches. Although Iglesias, an organizer with the
Workers Defense Project , has been coming t
Centrist Dems May Not Call Black and Brown Communities Shitholes—But They Treat Them That Way
During a bipartisan meeting this week, President Trump allegedly
referred to immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and the African
continent as coming from “shithole countries.” Why, he asked, were so
many of their people being let into the U.S.? The denunciations came
rapidly and from every corner of the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton
called the comments “ignorant” and “racist.” Her husband twe
The 38 Dakota Warriors Lincoln Hanged
MANKATO, MINN.—On Dec. 26, 2017, Mankato’s salt-caked streets awoke
from their subzero slumber to a thunder of riders on horseback loping
down the asphalt of Riverfront Drive. A wave of steam emanated from the
horses and riders. Leading the charge was Jim Miller, an elder of the
Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. Wearing a black cowboy hat,
he held the reins in his left hand and in his r
The Trump Admin’s Approval of Medicaid Work Requirements Is a Slap in the Face to the Poor
Less than a month after the GOP passed its $1.5 trillion tax bill that
will disproportionately benefit corporations and the super rich, the
Trump administration opened the door to a policy that could gut
Medicaid. New guidelines issued on January 11 will allow states to
require recipients to work in order to receive healthcare benefits
through the program. In May 2017, Seema Verma, the Trump-appo
Meet the Coal Miner’s Daughter Taking on Joe Manchin for Senate in West Virginia
On Dec. 27, 2017, self-professed “hillbilly” Paula Jean Swearengin flew
from her hometown of West Virginia to the posh enclave of Beverly
Hills, Calif., to participate in a forum of reform-minded women running
for Congress. But Swearengin, who is running in the Democratic primary
for West Virginia Senate against incumbent Joe Manchin, has more in
common with feisty fictional Southern union organi
The War on Drugs Is an Abject Failure. Jeff Sessions Just Ramped It Up.
The U.S. tide is clearly turning in favor of marijuana
decriminalization. Twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C. have
legalized medical marijuana. On January 1, California joined Alaska,
Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington in legalizing the sale of
recreational pot. A Gallup poll completed in October found that, for the
first time, a majority of Republicans (51 percent) support legalizing
po
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Fukushima Unit 2 in the News Again
TEPCO tells us they have identified the remains of "part of a nuclear
fuel assembly" scattered at the bottom of unit 2's containment vessel:
CHIKAKO KAWAHARA January 20, 2018 Melted nuclear fuel seen inside No. 2
reactor or at Fukushima plant. The Asahi Shimbun
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201801200017.html A
remote-controlled camera captured what appears to be melted fuel inside a
reactor
7 Strategies for a Radioactive Wasteland
One of the commentators at this blog observed that there is a concerted
effort underway to turn the world into a radioactive wasteland, if
we've not already achieved that outcome. I agree and have outlined here
the 7-point strategy aimed at this outcome: 1. Strategy One is to
reinvigorate uranium mining: Uranium Miners Pushed Hard for a Comeback.
They Got their Wish. (2018, January 13). The New Y
Now this is simply getting weird
First Hawaii received a false alarm about incoming ballistic missiles,
then Japan when a NHK broadcaster inadvertently issued a similar false
alarm: Anna Fitfield (2018, January 16). First Hawaii, now Japan sends a
false alarm about incoming North Korean missile. The Washington Post,
SEOUL — Japanese public broadcaster NHK mistakenly sent an alert Tuesday
warning that North Korea had fired a miss
Last Moments are a WAKE UP CALL PEOPLE!
I cannot get the experience of the people in Hawaii out of my head. I
cannot imagine what it would be like to receive emergency broadcasts
announcing incoming ballistic missiles. There would be no place to
escape or hide. No time to reach family members at work or school. What
would go through your head? What would your thoughts be? I cannot
imagine the experience of thinking you and your loved o
WTF?
38 MINUTES for some people to get the error message! "Ballistic missile
threat inbound" 'This is not a drill': Hawaiians get false alert of
missile attack due to worker's pushing 'wrong button' (January 13,
2018). Yahoo. Available,
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/not-drill-hawaii-residents-wake-false-alarm-imminent-190106351--abc-news-topstories.html
"this is not a drill, take an immediate shelter"
Climate Change and Nuclear Armageddon
I've had a busy week, ending with a workshop on climate change. I never
had the opportunity at the workshop to share my thought on the "climate
change" paradigm: Although I think climate change is an important and
pressing issue, I find it an inappropriate trope for encapsulating the
human made apocalypse that seems to be right around the corner, and that
apocalypse looks most likely to be nuclea
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Democracy Depends On It
Michael Harris has watched Steven Spielberg's new movie, The Post, the
story of The Washington Post's decision to publish the Pentagon Papers.
He writes : When the Washington Post printed the story of the Pentagon
Papers, it was still owned by the Graham family. One person, Katherine
Graham, ultimately decided to press the red button to start the printing
presses. No small decision, since it coul
Tales From the Coral Reefs
In our age, coral reefs are the canary in the coal mine. Tim Radford
writes : Forty years ago, the world’s coral reefs faced a known risk:
every 25 or 30 years, ocean temperatures would rise to intolerable
levels. Corals would minimise the risk of death by everting the algae
with which they lived in symbiotic partnership: that is, the reef
animals would avoid death by getting rid of the algae, de
Are Americans Too Stupid?
The government of the United States has shut down. Republicans are
outraged. Richard Wolff writes : Today’s Republican party is built on
principle. As a matter of principle, the GOP believes it is the only
party that can shut down government as a negotiating tactic. The
Democrats’ job is to keep that government open and to cave in to its
demands. When one looks at the history of government shutdo
Fear Itself
Franklin Roosevelt told Americans the only thing thy had to fear was
fear itself. Tony Schwartz -- who ghost wrote Donald Trump's Art of the
Deal -- write s that Trump is fear itself: Fear is the hidden
through-line in Trump’s life – fear of weakness, of inadequacy, of
failure, of criticism and of insignificance. He has spent his life
trying to outrun these fears by “winning” – as he puts it – an
It's All About Power
It's certain that the way the heirs to the Tim Horton's fortune handled
Ontario's minimum wage hike will become a classic case study. Linda
McQuaig writes : Apparently thinking nobody would find out, the daughter
of hockey player Tim Horton and the son of his business partner Ron
Joyce, who are married to each other in a plot twist worthy of the Game
of Thrones, sent a note to their grossly under
Only Votes Will Do It
Yesterday, Dr. Ronny Jackson gave Donald Trump a clean bill of health.
So much for the fantasy that Trump's ill health will remove him from
office. Likewise, even if Robert Mueller finds Trump guilty of money
laundering and obstruction of justice -- which seems ever more likely --
a Republican controlled congress will not impeach him. It's clear,
Jonathan Freedland writes , that only democracy wi
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