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In
Donald Trump's 2011 book, Time To Get Tough, his ghostwriters Wynton
Hall and Peter Schweizer - both Breitbart editors - wrote: Kids who grow
up in homes where a magic check appears each month from the government
believe there's nothing wrong with sitting at home doing nothing while
taxpayers bust their humps working to fund them. For an entire
generation, government welfare programs are
Few
words elicit such warm feelings as the term "Democracy." Wars are
supposedly fought for it, foreign policies are built around it,
protecting and advancing it is considered the United States' highest
moral order. Democracy's alleged opposite - broadly called
"authoritarianism," "autocracy" or "tyranny” - is cast as the ultimate
evil. The stifling, oppressive boot of the state that curtails
At
Citations Needed we enjoy nothing more than ragging on corporate media -
indeed, it’s our primary job. But can constant snark and negativity
breed cynicism? Recent feedback from some of our listeners has us
wondering if the act of media criticism need also make room for some
media complimenting, lest we succumb to the forces of defeatism. In this
episode, rather than critiquing the myriad
On
this all-access News Brief, Adam and Nima discuss why it's not a
"government shutdown" but a liberal government shutdown – or, more
precisely, a backdoor right-wing coup. Head over the our Patreon page
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We’ve
all seen these feel good segments on the local news. The adorable and
resourceful seven-year-old in California who's been recycling cans since
he was three and now has $10,000 saved up for college. The Oklahoma
community that chipped in to buy a car for a beloved Walmart greeter so
she wouldn't have to walk to work in the bitter cold anymore. The
“inspiring teen” who returned to his fast
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We've
added something new to our streaming capabilities: AppleTV. I never
thought I'd own an Apple product, but one app made it irresistible:
CraveTV. Crave is a Canadian streaming service that has exclusive rights
to HBO and Showtime content, shows that will never appear on Netflix.
And Crave, in turn, has an exclusive deal with AppleTV. Researching
this, I could see that Crave won't be available
Blue , 1971 Front Cover The back cover is solid blue. Inside, only
lyrics and credits. Ask people their favourite Joni album, and you are
very likely to hear Blue . In my experience, this is especially true of
older fans who discovered the album in real time. Blue is a masterpiece;
there is no doubt of that. It is also the masterpiece that is more
straightforward and accessible. When a Joni fan n
New in WWF - Latest News
[HONG KONG – 31 January 2018] - A ban on the domestic ivory trade with
no compensation by 2021 and an increase in the maximum penalty for
wildlife crime offences to 10 years was approved today by the
Legislative Council. WWF welcomes the new legislation and would like to
thank all the supporters that helped to make this happen. "A ban on
ivory sales with heavier penalties in Hong Kong shows a cle
New in A Very Public Sociologist
Could the government get any worse? The bar can never get too low, it
seems. The latest in your Tory crisis briefing comes the not-at-all
surprising news that Michel Barnier has said the transitional deal due
to come into force next March after Britain formally leaves the EU is
not a foregone conclusion , and that failing to establish a continuity
relationship with the single market and customs u
I do love a good scrap , especially if it features the most awful
people in British politics having a pop at one another. If you do as
well, Tim Shipman's All Out War , his celebrated history of 2016's EU
referendum campaign comes highly recommended. It's extremely readable,
has the knack of turning the obscure stakes politics throws up into
moments of high drama, and captures well the febrile de
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
Tony and Blair. Two words conjoined guaranteed to draw a sigh of
disapproval from, well, nearly everybody. And I regret to record that
when it comes to daft things said to the press, he's been at it again .
In his interview with the paper of Fleet Street's highest profile editor
, Blair doesn't say a great deal. It's all a bit "blah blah New Labour
was fine blah blah Corbyn evil blah". Specifical
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
Some good political news for a change. Council Leader Claire Kober of
Haringey has announced her decision to step down as leader and
councillor this coming May to take on "new challenges". This, of course,
has nothing to do with the rebellion of her own local party and trade
unions, the opposition of the local Labour MPs and the unanimous NEC
decision to issue advice and offer mediation between h
New in Adrienne's Corner
Queen of the Seamless Argument Garment. What is this "seamless garment
theory" and why is it important. Based on John 19:23: When the soldiers
crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares,
one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was
seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. I have no desire to go
into a lengthy discussion of the seamles
by Cory Lewandowski and David Bossie. I'm currently speed reading Let
Trump be Trump - the inside story of his rise to the presidency, because
it's due back at the library in a few days. I started this morning and
I'm already half way through this most excellent book. Our library books
are checked out for a month, with renewal possible for another month if
the book is not on hold. Unfortunately,
because I'm all tapped out. Heading to Costco to decompress. I would
suggest that you visit my comment section on this post and watch the
videos that commenter TuNeCedeMalisPJS posted. Predictably, the first
one, Why Women DESTROY NATIONS * / CIVILIZATIONS - and other
UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS, has been flagged by YouTube as being "offensive"
to some viewers, and therefore cannot be embedded and comme
promises to be very, very cold. Tomorrow's temperature in Minneapolis
is expected to top out at 6° with a wind of 10 mph. That works out to a
wind chill factor of about -10°. Good luck if you have to stand in line
to get into the gazillion dollar stadium. Meantime, every little commie
dissident group known to man and beast is planning mega protests over
absolutely everything. They're really ticke
this is how you wear a pants suit, Hillary. A message for libtards:
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will it be pivotal in our country's history? One thing that will be
pivotal around here is actually turning on our big screen TV to watch
President Donald J. Trump give his SOTU on Tuesday. The millionaire
low-life celebrities are planning their own state-of-the union. Who
cares? I've heard the Grammy's sucked. Was there actually any music
presented? No matter how you spin it, a bunch of half nak
New in Centauri Dreams
Anomalous objects are a problem — we need more than one to figure them
out. One ‘hot Jupiter’ could have been an extreme anomaly, but we went
on to find enough of them to realize this was a kind of planet that had a
place in our catalog. Or think of those two Kuiper Belt objects that
New Horizons imaged, as discussed in yesterday’s post. Soon we’ll have
much closer imagery of MU69, but it will ta
Icy moons around Jupiter and Saturn offer exciting venues for possible
life elsewhere in our Solar System. But how do we penetrate surface ice
to reach the oceans below? In today’s post, Kostas Konstantinidis
surveys the field of in-situ operations on places like Enceladus and
Europa. Enceladus will be a tricky place to land thanks to rough
topography and polar lighting conditions. Europa poses i
New Horizons continues to push our limits, revealing new sights as it
makes its way through the Kuiper Belt enroute to a January 1, 2019
encounter with the KBO 2014 MU69. No object this far from the Sun has
ever been visited by a spacecraft. Adding further interest is the
unusual nature of the target, for MU69 is thought to be a contact
binary, two independent bodies that have touched (comet Chur
I was pleased to be a guest on David Livingston’s The Space Show last
week. David’s questions are always well chosen, as were those of the
listeners who participated in the show, and we spoke broadly about the
interstellar effort and what it will take to eventually get human
technologies to the stars. The show is now available in David’s archives
. I suspect that if David and I had spoken a coupl
Are there large moons — perhaps Earth-sized or even bigger — around gas
giant planets in habitable zones somewhere in the Milky Way? It’s a
wonderful thought given how it multiplies the opportunities for life to
find a foothold even in systems much different from our own. Centauri
Dreams regular Andrew Tribick recently passed along a new paper that
addresses the question in an interesting way, by
This week offers two interesting papers about the TRAPPIST-1 planets,
one from Hubble data looking at the question of hydrogen in potential
planetary atmospheres, the other drawing on data from the European
Southern Observatory’s Paranal facility as well as the Spitzer and
Kepler space-based instruments. We’ll look at the Hubble work this
morning and move on to the second paper tomorrow. Both off
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PHOTOS: Some of the Fathers of Confederation looking, well, fatherly.
Below: Steely eyed Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, B.C. Premier John
Horgan, and would-be premier Jason Kenney. In case you missed it, a new
constitutional doctrine seems to be developing in Alberta. To wit: the
idea that creating business uncertainty violates Section 121 of the
Constitution […] The post Is just talking about re
PHOTOS: Kirill Kalinin, Press Secretary of the Embassy of the Russian
Federation in Ottawa, in a reception room of the Soviet-era structure on
Charlotte Street. Below: An image shot last week of the exterior of the
Embassy, built in 1956 after the original building on the site burned
down; the Embassy’s replica of the flag […] The post He’s no bot, but
Russia’s social media and press guy in Canad
PHOTOS: Caroline Mulroney (Photo: Wikimedia Commons). Below: Former
Canadian Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney in his heyday
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons), lobbyist Robin Sears, conservative godfather
Preston Manning, and Ontario Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne. It’s now
been more than a decade since Stephen Harper ordered all members of his
government’s Parliamentary caucus to sever their t
PHOTOS: The Legislative Assembly’s portrait of former United
Conservative Party MLA Don MacIntyre. Below: UCP Leader Jason Kenney,
who issued a statement today on the charges against Mr. MacIntyre.
OTTAWA Thanks to the ruling of a judge in Red Deer, it can now be
reported that former United Conservative Party MLA Don MacIntyre is the
[…] The post Judge lifts publication ban; former UCP MLA Don Ma
PHOTOS: Grape vines grow in B.C.’s beautiful Okanagan Valley, one of
the prime wine producing regions of the world (Photo: Kelowna Wine &
Cuisine Flickr, Creative Commons). Below: Alberta Premier Rachel
Notley, B.C. Premier John Horgan, and Alberta Opposition Leader Jason
Kenney. With Alberta’s Sour Grapes Strategy, the official boycott of
wine from British Columbia […] The post The Alberta NDP’s
PHOTO: Nothing to see here, people, please move along … It should be
pretty clear by now that Canada’s legal mechanisms to protect victims of
crimes and the rights of accused persons haven’t kept up with the
digital era in which we live. In case you’re part of the tiny minority
of Albertans who have […] The post Making facts everyone knows secret
doesn’t protect crime victims, accused persons or
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trade winds suggest a logical route below Australia? about 3,000 years
ago, elongated skull people from (wait for it) GEORGIA between the Black
Sea and the Caspian Sea, made their way to the Indian Ocean and then
the Pacific Ocean and arrived on the coast of Peru. They have very large
eye sockets, no sagittal suture in the skull like normal humans,
different mother pelvis arrangment, and a strang
I thought we were in trouble there for a second there, but it's all good....
Nebra Sky Disc I'm surprised I haven't blog'd about this before, since I
did read about it a long while ago. Anyway, in this video Howard
Crowhurst reveals his numerical/astronomical investigation into the
1,600 BC i.e. 3,600 years old, Nebra Sky Disc artefact. He highlights
the functions of the 39 holes punched out around the disc's perimeter
which hold the key to what might have been a 20-day m
Prior
to starting today's blog, I'd like to note that, "Iff electric boundary
layers in these star-forming Birkeland Currents exist," then it safely
demonstrates how and where planets orbit their star. Layers = orbits,
and should become more off-plane as the outer planets are allowed to
orbit a 'fatter' orbit potential in the solar polar vector. Q: can large
electric fields power Jupiter's super-m
The Day The Earth Stood Still is about The Electric Universe... of
course I hadn't realised this wehn I was a kid, but I saw the 1950s film
just the other day and I was mesmerised by it. Especially when they
'turned off the electricity' as Klaatu explains what happened when
'nothing worked' for half an hour, as a demonstration of Gort's
ingerited power. Jesse Ventura also loves this film, hence t
you all know I had this dream back in 1985 of water flowing down a
constant slope past a spinning engine that (if overloaded) spat out
excess water WITH the flow of water or AGAINST it. I always suspected
I'd had a Kekule-like revelatory dream about an atomic model for
hydrogen... And I could never really come up with a physical model for
this 'machine'. I surmised therefore that space was an eth
New in From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin City of London financiers contemplate “imminent” 2018
US stock market crash of up to “50%” The prostitution claims surrounding
Oxfam don’t surprise me. I’ve seen it all before with charities across
the world – and the UN Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running
For Congress In 2018 CNN Firing Dozens Ahead Of AT&T Takeover:
Report Iran Unveils Two Nuclear-Capable Ballistic M
From Jenna Orkin Boston Dynamics Gets Even Scarier video Trump
administration wants to sell National and Dulles airports, other assets
across U.S. Recycling Plastic at Home video 'Russiagate' Delusion Dies -
Who Is 'Bill' Priestap? Intel's New "Smart Glasses" Shoot Laser Beam
Directly Into Your Retina UK Police Roll Out Handheld Device To
Fingerprint Migrants In Under A Minute The 11 Cities Most
From Jenna Orkin Flu Killing Up to 4000 Americans a Week Fox News
Contributor Who Claimed Hillary Clinton Was A ‘Criminal’ Pleads Guilty
To Felony Fraud In the U.S. 49.7 Million Are Now Poor, and 80% of the
Total Population Is Near Poverty Tardigrade Walking Through Algae video .
Plastic Alternative Made of Yucca video But what about rain? Super wood
material can replace steel Op-Ed: Former Bush
From Jenna Orkin Israeli police recommend indicting Netanyahu for
corruption: report Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online in 'Biggest
Leak in History' Now Mattis Admits There Was No Evidence Assad Used
Poison Gas on His People Iraq war redux U.S. Secretly Negotiated With
Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents — and the Russians Offered
Trump-Related Material, Too James Risen Artificial Intelli
From Jenna Orkin Duluth schools remove 'To Kill a Mockingbird,'
'Huckleberry Finn' from curriculum California police worked with
neo-Nazis to pursue 'anti-racist' activists, documents show The Michigan
town where only Christians are allowed to buy houses Thawing Arctic
permafrost could release huge amounts of mercury World's biggest rocket
soars toward Mars after perfect launch Indonesia pushes f
From Jenna Orkin Former Stuyvesant High School students raise awareness
of 9/11 health rights Japanese Company Plans To Build A Space Elevator
By 2050 ... Man Who Sold America The Iraq War Just Warned Iran Is
Next... But Is Anyone Listening? Leaked Document Reveals Soros Backing
Secret Plot To Overturn Brexit Your Guide To Top Anti-Russia Think Tanks
In US & Who Funds Them Trump Administration To
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* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 01, 2018. Despite a
significant increase in the Philippines’ power generation capacity in
recent years, the country’s installed capacity and electricity
production remains small compared to the ASEAN-6 and North East Asian
neighbors. For instance, its installed capacity of 21.2 gigawatt (GW) in
2016 was what Vietnam has about 10 years before. Vi
Last month, I gave a talk about the new tax-tax-tax law of the
Philippines called TRAIN, signed in December 2017. Audience were
accountants, auditors, managers of medium to large corporations plus
officials and staff of Deloitte. I said that I entitled my paper as such
because I believe that the TRAIN law is a lousy and ugly law. The
audience (100+) smiled, others wondered. My concluding notes: *
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last January 29, 2018. “The
people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in
taxes. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit.” —
Lao Tzu, or Laozi (6th-5th century BC) The good news about the new tax
law called TRAIN (Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion) is that
overall personal income tax (PIT) rates have dec
From only 5 million barrels per day (mbpd) oil production in 2010, up
to 10.2 mbpd average for January 2018, congratulations America. And
EIA's projection is 10.6 mbpd average for 2018. OPEC (mostly dictatorial
member-governments like Venezuela, Iran, Saudi) and Russia are
quivering.
https://www.aei.org/publication/historic-energy-milestone-us-oil-output-surges-to-new-record-highs-reflecting-amer
Another good article from a friend, Eric. Reposting this. The idol
ofequality February 01, 2018 at 12:01 am By Eric Jurado Aren’t we all
supposed to be equal? And yet the gap between rich and poor just keeps
growing. We need to maintain equality among people. Isn’t vigorous
government action necessary to keep the playing field level—to keep the
wealthy and powerful from taking more than their fai
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last Monday. “There is no evidence
that fuel and electricity subsidies benefited the poor. There is no
evidence that trade protection benefited the poor. Elimination of
subsidies if compensated by reduction of cost doing business
(corruption) will help the poor.” — Muhamad Chatib Basri, presentation
about Indonesia energy and food subsidies, EFN Asia conferenc
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(l. Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown in her office in 1965) "For every
genuine case of men sexually harassing women, there are probably ten
cases of women using sex for advancement. Helen Gurley Brown made that
strategy explicit." -Reader The Illuminati taught women to trade in sex.
Now they initiate a witchhunt for the potentially infinite number of
women who feel wronged. The Illuminati bankers
(Fr. Denis Fahey left) Modern society is the product of a Cabalist
(satanic) conspiracy against God & man. No one has demonstrated this
better than Denis Fahey (1883-1954) in his book "The Kingship of Christ
and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation." Marie Henrie introduces us to
the man and his work. Fahey wrote, "These forces are three in number,
one being invisible, the other two visible. The i
Feminist icon Kate Millett passed away last September at the age of 82.
Her 1970 book Sexual Politics , called "the Bible of Women's
Liberation" by the New York Times , launched Millett as what the Times
called "a defining architect of second-wave feminism." In a cover story
that same year, TIME magazine crowned her "the Mao Tse-tung of Women's
Liberation." Kate's younger sister Mallory, a CFO fo
(Trump aide Rob Porter, credited with helping to draft the State Of the
Union address resigned Friday after ex-wives complained of abuse. If he
had punched a man, or a wife punched him, it would be ignored. Why the
double standard?) This article which appeared 15 years ago is
particularly prescient now that every day another man's career is ruined
over some roughhousing or unwanted kisses that oc
Rabbi Marvin Antelman (193?-2014) deserves credit for revealing that
the Illuminati originated in a "heretical" Cabalist Jewish movement --
the Sabbatean Frankists -- named after its progenitors Sabbatai Zvi
(1626-1676) and Jacob Frank (1726-1791.) This mostly Jewish movement,
which garbs itself in Gentile Freemasonry, assumes the identity of the
target population and subverts it from within. A J
(left, former Ontario Conservative leader Patrick Brown and assistant
Chelsea Nash) Patrick Brown was shoo-in to become the next Premier of
Ontario in June. But last week, a former assistant, Chelsea Nash,
remembered a night in 2013 when he wanted sex. He resigned last week.
Men are losing their jobs for what is commonplace heterosexual behavior.
In a Communist system, jobs are an extra-legal for
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TAMPA, FLA.—In a fluorescent lit classroom with handmade posters
covering one wall, approximately 15 high school students are chanting
the words of black revolutionary Assata Shakur: “It is our duty to fight
for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and we
must support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” With
some embarrassed giggling, they recite it once, t
When the pop star Lorde made the decision in December 2017 to cancel an
upcoming concert in Israel, a predictable backlash gathered steam.
Social media invective ensued . The New Zealand Jewish Council said
Lorde had “ succumbed to a small but loud group of extremist bullies.”
And right-wing celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach paid to print an
advertisement in the Washington Post calling the singer a
The first time I said my new job title aloud was over the phone, to a
man at my husband’s marketing company. “You’d better make me your
contact person,” I told him, “since I’m the stay-at-home mother.” "Must
be nice,” he said, chuckling. I could sense a whole lifestyle taking
shape in his imagination—yoga, wine, soap operas, maybe a literal couch
where I eat literal bonbons. I wanted to tell him
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA—Kymberly Cutter expected an uphill battle for
custody of her 8-yearold daughter. She is a sex worker and her case was
being tried in a rural, conservative part of the state. Her
ex-boyfriend, the child’s father, brought to court a file of photographs
and advertisements for her bodywork and prostate massage business. “He
was trying to make it seem like I was raising [our daught
The revolution will not be televised, but it might be live-streamed.
“It ain’t gonna be on CBS, it ain’t gonna be on NBC,” Sen. Bernie
Sanders said on Tuesday evening, near the end of a “Medicare for All
Town Hall” that was streamed to an estimated audience of more than a
million people over three social media outlets—Now This, Attn: and The
Young Turks Network (YTN). Sanders was referring specif
New in Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Source: Diario La Provincia (San Juan, Argentina)
https://www.diariolaprovinciasj.com/sociedad/2018/2/13/guardianes-cielo-cuyano-aseguraron-haber-visto-nuevo-ovni-pocito-83990.html
Date: 02.13.2018 Argentina: New UFO Sighting in Pocito "Guardianes del
cielo cuyano" (Guardians of the skies over Cuyo) claim having seen a new
UFO in Pocito. The UFO watchers allegeldy saw an unidentified flying
objec
Source: Diario Libre (Dominican Republic) Date: 29 August 2015
Dominican Republic: UFO and Alien Experiences and Sightings By
Bienvenido Pérez GarcÃa There can be no doubt that the imagination is a
powerful creative engine and a recreator of powerful images and even
sensory perceptions and illusions. The principle is well established by
the behavioral sciences, declaring that "our minds tend to f
Source: Chilango Times (https://chilangotimes.com/) Date: 12.16.17
Mexico: Hundreds Witness UFO Sighting in Tlalpan Dozens of people
claimed having seen several unidentified flying objects on Friday
afternoon from the borough of Tlalpan, in the vicinity of Mexico City's
Portales Metro Station. According to a report in the El Gráfico
newspaper, a significant number of people stood outside the Metr
Source: Noticias Vespertinas (Mexico) Date: 03.13. 2017 Mexico: UFOs
Over León The city of León, aside from being considered the capital city
of the footwear industry, has also distinguished itself for multiple
UFO sightings. The date of 10 April 1987, however, is engraved into the
minds of the people of León, when hundreds or thousands were witnesses
to strange lights and shapes the combed the s
Mexico: The 1973 UFO Wave By Alfonso Salazar (Aviation Technician)
Reporte OVNI No. 58, Year 3, October 1995 The year 1973 was a generous
one when it came to major cases and UFO landings in different parts of
the world, but Mexico in particular, where even the city’s airport
managed to pick up these unidentified flying objects. One of the first
sightings of this year became known in the El Siglo
Source: I.P.U Santander and Mundo Desconocido Date: Mundo Desconocido
Issue 19 (January 1978) Spain: The Puente San Miguel Humanoid An
extraterrestrial wandered through a Santander town at night. Several
local residents witnessed the strange visit by a humanoid to the town of
Puente San Miguel in Santander, not long ago the locale for repeated
UFO sightings. Upon learning of this, our colleagues
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February 11, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - A Russian ground-attack
aircraft - a Sukhoi-25 - was shot down using an anti-aircraft missile
over the northern Syrian province of Idlib by Al Qaeda affiliates. The
pilot was reportedly killed by militants according to the Russian
Ministry of Defense. The BBC in its article, "Russian jet shot down in
Syria's Idlib province," would report: Hayat Tahrir
February 12, 2018 ( Ulson Gunnar - NEO ) - The US recently included
India in its shifting Asia Pacific policy, as part of its Quadrilateral
Security Dialogue (often referred to as the "Quad"). The Quad also
includes Australia and Japan along with the United States itself. The
nascent alliance is openly arrayed against China, with member states
openly declaring their intent to contribute toward co
January 20, 2018 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - The United States has pursued a
decades-long policy of encircling, containing and if possible,
undermining China as part of a larger strategy of achieving and
maintaining what US policy papers call "primacy" over Asia. US policy
has led to deeply-rooted networks operating within China's borders and
along China's geopolitical peripheries to divide and destab
January 16, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - After a nearly year-long
marathon of daily, acrimonious accusations against Moscow for alleged,
yet-to-be proven interference in the 2016 US presidential elections,
Washington finds itself increasingly mired in its own hypocrisy - openly
and eagerly pursing the very sort of interference abroad in multiple
nations regarding elections and internal politi
February 4, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Turkey's recent incursion
into northern Syria is poised to finally establish the long-sought after
"buffer zone" or "safe haven" called for by US policymakers since as
early as 2012. While the US and Turkey are currently feigning a
diplomatic row over the incursion - with Turkey's targeting and
displacement of Kurds allegedly backed by the United State
January 26, 2018 ( Martin Berger - NEO ) - One would be mistaken to
believe the recent aggravation of the Syrian crisis triggered by the
launch of Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch along Syria’s northern border,
which has already resulted in military casualties suffered by both the
Turkish and Kurdish sides, came as a surprise for those following the
conflict carefully. There’s also no denying the
New in Majia's Blog
The Executive Summary of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review is available
here: Office of the Secretary of Defense (2018, February) US Nuclear
posture review
https://media.defense.gov/2018/Feb/02/2001872877/-1/-1/1/EXECUTIVE-SUMMARY.PDF
This rapid deterioration of the threat environment since the 2010 NPR
must now shape our thinking as we formulate policy and strategy, and
initiate the sustainment an
Fukushima Daiichi looks unchanged with the cams showing visible
atmospheric emissions: Precipitation is only 40% today, while humidity
is 86%. TEPCO - Its time to inject water or nitrogen or whatever to calm
down the emissions!
Over the last 10 days Fukushima Daiichi has been looking progressively
"steamy." Today it looks to be belching. I do check the weather
conditions to try and account for the roles of precipitation and
humidity in shaping increased visibility of emissions from the ruined
reactors. High humidity and low temperatures are of course going to make
the emissions more visible. It was 39 degrees Fahrenheit
Fukushima Daiichi and Daiini are located approximately 6 kilometers
apart. This week a fire was reported as breaking out at Fukushima
Daiini: Small fire breaks out at Fukushima No. 2 nuke plant (2018, Feb
8), The Mainichi, https
://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180208/p2a/00m/0na/ 019000c FUKUSHIMA
-- A minor fire set off an alarm in a building at the Fukushima No. 2
Nuclear Power Plant on Feb.
I've been studying censorship on the web after my blog ranking was
reduced notably by Google's PageRank system, along with many other left
leaning sites, such as CounterPunch, approximately halving my pageviews.
See my posts here:
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-crisis-of-digital-commons-and.html
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/dear-google-please-tell-me-why.html
Apparently thes
Wall Street financial firms have it made, reaping profits from all
forms of market volatility, as observed in the mainstream press:
Colchester, Max, Strassburg, Jenny, and Hoffman, Liz (2018, February 7).
For Bank Trading Desks, Wild Swings Bring Opportunity, B14. "...the
boost in trading revenue could generate hundreds of millions of dollars
for banks if the market volatility continues through t
New in Northern Reflections
All three candidates for the leadership of Ontario's Progressive
Conservative Party have declared their opposition to a carbon tax.
Andrew Coyne writes : When the Great Platform Revolt began, I had
thought that their position would be just to default to the status quo,
i.e. cap and trade, since a) this would not require them to do anything,
b) the feds have said they would accept this in lieu of
It seems that the Trump Administration loses -- or fires -- someone
every week. Last week, it lost two staff members because of accusations
of domestic abuse. Ezra Klein writes that there are three reasons what
was once a trickle has now become and flood: 1. Trump’s volatility
creates fear, confusion, and frustration: No one knows quite what he
will do or say or want, and so staffers spend their
The recent roller coaster ride on the stock market is a reminder, Tom
Walkom writes , that the economy is fundamentally unsound. There are
several reasons for the shakes and quakes: First, income inequality
persists. It affects not only the developing world but so-called
advanced economies, such as Canada and the U.S. As economist Andrew
Jackson has pointed out in the Globe and Mail, census data
Over the weekend, Canadians gathered in several cities to protest the
Colten Boushie decision. Tim Harper writes : I cannot possibly suggest
the jurors in this case were racist. I don’t know any of them and I
wasn’t in the courtroom. But I do know they live in a white world, as do
I, and we would all be incapable of knowledge of an Indigenous
upbringing in this country, something that carries wit
Ontario's Progressive Conservatives should be worried. Doug Ford -- a
Regressive Conservative -- wants to ditch the carbon tax. Caroline
Mulroney and Christine Elliot are troding the path he is blazing. Martin
Regg Cohn writes : A mere eight weeks ago, the provincial Tories
proclaimed themselves ready to win power with a plan, a carefully
crafted election platform two years in the making. Two mon
Canadians are polarized between the economy and the environment. Justin
Trudeau says we can have both. And, to that end, Catherine McKenna has
introduced a new set of rules which she says will put the economy and
the environment in harmony. Tim Harper writes : In unveiling a new
environmental regulatory process McKenna was dealing with one of the
defining dilemmas of this Liberal mandate, the cro
New in Northerntruthseeker
Yes,
today is "Valentine's Day" and a day for everyone to celebrate the true
meaning of love and happiness.... I first want to express my feelings
for the woman, aka my "better half" that has put up with me all these
years and continues to do so.... Considering what a "radical thinker"
and a "conspiracy theorist" that I have been called all these years, I
wonder why she stays with a "nutcase" like
I
am indeed doing some catching up as usual.... I have been watching the
reports come in via websites such as Southfront (www.southfront.org)
about the ongoing situation in Syria, and especially how the psychotic
state of Israel is ramping up its lust for a new war against not only
Syria but against Lebanon and IRAN as well... It is so disgusting to see
how these bastards are absolutely pushing th
* One quick note.. I took yesterday as another of those "me days" to go
and get a lot of personal and family business done... I therefore as
usual have some catching up to do and have some interesting articles to
post at this blog..... Thanks for your patience. It is hard to believe
that it has now been 73 years as of today when the criminals in the
Allied "leadership" during World War II ordered
In
between all the Olympic coverage being overplayed on the Talmudvision, I
have been watching to see if the Jew spew media up here in Canada would
at least have one or two reports on the recent incidents in the Middle
East caused by the US and Israel to try to get a full blown war going
against Syria (and Iran)... And guess what? There has been almost ZERO
COVERAGE! This means that the "news" sta
Sunday... One cold day in heck here in the frozen tundra of central
Canada... And time once again for my weekly rant... I will not go off on
a tirade this week about how fucking cold it is here... Everyone by now
is getting the clear picture that the scam of Global Warming has to die
a miserable death, and I need not prove my point on this... However I
am still very disgusted that the Canadian pe
I
honestly have had it with these idiots in the "flat earth" group ....
.Being a man of real science, I look at them all as nothing more than a
bunch of brain damaged bone heads that either are too stupid for their
own good, or have the gullibility to fall for the crap that has been
spoon fed them by idiots who are making a profit from their
ignorance..... I figure it was time once again to put up
New in Not PC
"Why read books and know a lot about one thing, when you can be on
social media and know extremely little about everything?" ~ Lalo Dagach
REF: ' 28% of American adults say they haven’t read a book in whole or
in part in the past year ' ' Survey finds 400,000 New Zealand adults
didn't read a book in 2016 ' UPDATE : From Russ Roberts's '12 Rules for
Life': 5. Read Read Read Videos and television a
"The Government knows Maori and Pacific achievement is abysmal, a stain
on the promise of opportunity for all, but they are so focused on
helping the unions they have forgotten about the 1500 kids whose lives
are being turned around by Partnership Schools. ... Today’s announcement
on Partnership Schools shows the juvenile and callous nature of a
Government led by ex-student politicians." ~ David
I had no intention of writing anything about Bill English. What has he
even done that deserves thirty minutes of my time? I did search the
archives here, for anything at all to say, and I confess I nearly fell
asleep while reading them . They reveal him to be a punter, not a man of
principle -- a man who finds a way to take a problem off the political
table, but never in fact to solve it. 28 year
Adam Mossoff reminds us it's a good time to raise a glass to the great
inventor whose new ideas changed lives: Today is Thomas Edison's
birthday! With his patented innovations, he contributed to massive
transformation in human life. Celebrate by turning on a light, listen to
recorded music, watch a movie, talk on telephone; just a few of the
technologies he invented or perfected. . Content is cop
Politicians are rarely explicit in advance about how they plan to
fleece the public; if you want a heads-up then you have to read their
tea leaves. New finance minister Grant Robertson has just dribbled out
one of these tea stains in the same way that John Key once did, one that
shows what he really plans for at least the next three years. You'll
perhaps remember that before being elected in 2008
"This interview [below] between Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson
and UK Channel 4 interviewer Cathy Newman] is truly a work of art, and
while one could probably write a treatise analysing it, one important
[point], which I blogged about recently, is the phenomenon of the
conceptual versus the anti-conceptual mind... .... "Newman demonstrates
[the] anti-conceptual mentality by refusing to gra
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