The Straight Goods
Justin Trudeau, all Huff, no puff, and more importantly, no political clout..Kinder Morgan Stageplay Unplugged
Written by Grant G Electoral reform, "The last federal election under a
first past the post electoral system" Justin Trudeau said ....I clearly
remember that 2015 Justin Trudeau election promise...oh indeed, once
granted his federal majority that progressive election promise was the
first promise to bite the dust...buried, dead, not even a lackluster
attempt....Justin just blew it off.. Trudeau m
I AM BRAINWASHED. YOU ARE BRAINWASHED. WE ARE BRAINWASHED....Part IV
I AM BRAINWASHED. YOU ARE BRAINWASHED. WE ARE BRAINWASHED. PART FOUR:
The Hosing of History: James Laxer (1941-2018) . Written By Robin
Mathews March 2018 James Laxer was an attractively warm Canadian who
made important Canadian history in the 1960s and 1970s … and then
slipped into the political shadows (relatively) until his death on
February 23, 2018. His large Obituary in the Globe and Mail (
thwap's schoolyard
Movies About Childhood
I'm still working on the next chapter of my "Justin Trudeau vs. Free
Speech" series. (The world awaits the next installment with bated
breath, I know!) But today I feel like typing about three movies about
childhood that really moved me. The first film I'll talk about isn't so
much about childhood as it is about single-parenting. In "The Babadook"
an isolated single-mother begins to receive sinis
Humanity is Doomed: Part LVXII
Of all the things you could be going after that degenerate Trump for,
you choose to go after his "maybe avoiding nuclear war with Russia"
thing. This is why I've given up. Humanity is simply TOO FUCKING STUPID
to survive.
Vagabond Scholar
2017 Film Roundup, Part 1: The Oscars and the Year in Reviews
(The
annual post-Oscar film roundup is a pre-blog tradition, delayed this
round. It comes in four parts – the other three coming later.) 2017 was a
decent year for films, with a solid crop of noteworthy movies. Many of
the best were genre pictures, including the usual superhero flicks, but
also a science fiction film, a western and a monster movie. Jimmy Kimmel
did a good job overall
St. Patrick's Day 2017
I've
posted this song before, but it's one of my favorite picks for the day.
Here's Dead Can Dance (with Lisa Gerrard singing) performing a striking
rendition of the 19th century Irish tune, "The Wind That Shakes the
Barley": My copy of the The Irish Songbook says: This is an excellent
example of many songs that serve both as love lyrics and rebel song. The
scene described refers to the 1783
Weekly Geo-Political News and Analysis
Revolution may start in France as crazy Zionists try yet again to start WW3
The insane religious-fanatic Zionists who have been trying for years to
start Armageddon have failed yet again in their latest attempt, this
time in Syria. They now face serious repercussions, possibly starting
with a revolution in France. Before we get into the details, let’s
remember what it is we’re dealing with here. It is difficult for sane,
reality-based people to understand that the Wester
The world is about to find out just how horrific the Khazarian mafia’s crimes were
The purge at the very tip top of the U.S. secret power structure is
nearly complete, meaning a much larger purge is now about to take place,
according to Pentagon, CIA, and other sources. The top leadership of
the White House, the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the Pentagon, and other U.S.
agencies is now composed almost entirely of white hats. This means that
a systematic purge of the lower ranks is now
The world asks, “Has America gone insane?”
The current leadership of the Anglo-Saxon world is acting in a manner
that can only be described as insane, by issuing one obviously false,
incendiary claim after another in a vain attempt to start World War 3.
They are doing this because the current leadership is literally fighting
to survive as the wheels of justice inevitably grind closer. This is
why recently we have seen that UK Prime Minist
Cabalists plot anti-Trump counterattack in Tokyo
The Japanese Khazarian mafia slave government, desperate to survive, is
plotting the removal of U.S. troops from Japan as well as the end of
the regime of U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Japanese
right-wing sources close to the emperor. That is why former U.S.
President Barack Obama and former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
were here last week, the sources say. The Japanese regi
It’s time to remind China of its place
The start today (March 26, 2018) of oil futures trading in gold-backed
Chinese yuan is being widely seen as a Chinese victory in the ongoing
financial war for control of the planet Earth. It is also a good time to
remind China that the world will NEVER swap Khazarian mafia control for
Chinese mafia control. The West will be eternally grateful for the help
provided by Asian secret societies in its
Medical/pharmaceutical lobby group calls for emergency response to “Age Deficiency Syndrome”
April 1st, 2018, CNN* — The Institute for the Promotion of Cloning
(IPC), a medical/pharmaceutical lobbying group, has issued a report
calling for an emergency response to a crisis of what it calls “Age
Deficiency Syndrome” or ADS. According to the IPC, there are an
estimated 1.9 billion ADS victims worldwide. The IPC defines ADS victims
as anyone who is 5 or more years developmentally or chronol
Welcome Back to Pottersville
Rat #46 Scuttles Off the Listing Ship of State
The self-pitying sanctimoniousness of Paul Ryan's official resignation
announcement was literally sickening. He didn't seek the job as House
Speaker. He wasn't really resigning because of November's Blue Tsunami
getting bigger and bigger on the horizon. And, of course, he wanted to
spend more time with the Koch Brothers his family. And so ends one of
the shortest House Speaker tenures in modern A
Trump is Henry Jekyll's Potion
It's all about Donald Trump (at least in his funhouse mirror
worldview), yet it isn't . Those of us in the reality-based community
find it all too easy to blame Donald Trump for everything that's wrong
with our once-great nation. He's the world's biggest lightning rod and,
yes, we can trace the corruption, the forced deportations of Dreamers
and Wall Street's instability directly to him. Throw a
Interview with Mystery Author Valerie Burns
I know this is a political blog and that whoever comes here generally
does looking for political commentary. Yet, considering the negative
news we've been incessantly hearing since a certain evolutionary dropout
descended an escalator like a bored mall husband and into history, a
change of pace is always welcome. So I decided to reach out to one of my
more interesting Facebook friends, my current
Malice in Wonderland
Look at the Easter Bunny's face. It seems as if he's asking himself,
"Where's Lewis Carrol when you need some common sense?" Donnie Dumbo
becomes Donnie Darko, Sr. This was Donald Trump at the annual White
House Easter Egg Roll last Sunday. There were thousands of children on
the South Lawn with their parents waiting to have fun. Then Trump,
typically, wings it with just the right wing and starts
Gotham City News
When the news breaks, we're the ones holding the hammer. Remember all
tho"se blonde jokes you've been hearing for years? They were all
inspired by Fox "News'" Tomi Lahren. Now granted, Tomi Girl has come out
with some whoppers over the years, going back to before she was fired
by Glenn Beck on the Blaze. Then, in the very personification of the
Peter Principle, Lahren just kept stumble bumbling h
Enough is Not Enough
(By American Zen ’s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari) E mma Gonzalez
stood on the stage before millions after having read the names of her 17
slain classmates, her head bowed for six minutes and 20 seconds, the
time it took for Nikolas Cruz to murder them at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High. Over a million, according to the MarchforourLives crowd estimate,
joined her. Her place in history is as secu
What Is Sustainable
Peak Horse
In the early 1900s, automobiles, trucks, buses, and tractors were
becoming very trendy. The human population was two billion and growing,
while the horse population peaked and declined. Model T Fords did not
require five acres of good grassland to fuel them, an area that could
feed six to eight people. While grassland was, in theory, a renewable
resource, there was not an infinite supply of it. P
The Food Explorer
Cue up the marching band, majorettes, flag-waving veterans, and
cheering crowds. The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone is a proud
celebration of American greatness. The hero of the story is David
Fairchild (1869–1954), a botanist and agricultural explorer. Working for
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, his group was responsible for
sending home seeds and cuttings of thousands of plants from nations
The Food Explorer
Cue up the marching band, majorettes, flag-waving veterans, and
cheering crowds. The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone is a proud
celebration of American greatness. The hero of the story is David
Fairchild (1869–1954), a botanist and agricultural explorer. Working for
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, his group was responsible for
sending home seeds and cuttings of thousands of plants from nations
The Food Explorer
Cue up the marching band, majorettes, flag-waving veterans, and
cheering crowds. The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone is a proud
celebration of American greatness. The hero of the story is David
Fairchild (1869–1954), a botanist and agricultural explorer. Working for
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, his group was responsible for
sending home seeds and cuttings of thousands of plants from nations
Wide Asleep in America
Citations Needed, Episode 32: Attack of the PC College Kids!
Students
at Middlebury College disrupt speaker Charles Murray. The horror
stories are ubiquitous: a theater group at Wesleyan won’t perform The
Vagina Monologues because it’s offensive to trans women! Oberlin is
banning classes featuring white authors! Rich, sheltered college
students, increasingly indoctrinated by radical Marxist professors, are
asking for safe spaces! But how much merit
Citations Needed, Episode 31: Fake ISIS Plots and the Selling of Forever War
We’ve
seen the headlines hundreds of times: "ISIS plot foiled," "ISIS in
Brooklyn," "Woman Stopped At Airport on Way to Join ISIS." These stories
strike fear into the hearts of Americans everywhere, especially in the
build-up to the war effort against ISIS in Summer 2014. The terror group
was everywhere, recruiting our teenagers and attempting to strike in
every major city––seemingly all at
wmtc
reading can make you a better person. here's evidence.
Celebrate #EmpathyDay with a good book. Last year, a prosecutor in the
US state of Virginia asked a judge to hand down an unusual sentence.
Five teens had defaced a historic structure -- a Jim Crow- era
schoolhouse for African-American children -- with swastikas and other
racist graffiti. The judge agreed with the prosecutor -- and she
sentenced the teens to reading . The teens were to choose boo
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #28
With
apologies to my man C. Dickens, it was the worst of customers, it was
the best of customers. Our Children's Department is short-staffed right
now, and although that is stressful in many ways, there is a silver
lining for me: I am needed more on the information desk, and that's my
favourite place to be in the library. One day this week, I experienced a
real study in contrasts. From the desk, I
in which i discover jordan's cereal and need to tell everyone about it
We
used to eat President's Choice Blue Menu granola. The vanilla-almond
flavour was crunchy, delicious, and reasonably healthy. My favourite way
to eat it was with plain Greek yogurt and fruit, but it was very good
with milk or rice milk as well. Then... it changed. It was no longer
crunchy. It was no longer tasty. With a little liquid added, it tasted
like soggy cardboard, or what I imagine soggy
sheraton hotel's "green choice" is really just precarious work
These
days, most hotel rooms contain some sort of green messaging, as
companies are expected to show how eco-friendly they are. Usually guests
have the option of not having their towels changed daily, which is
supposed to yield big energy savings. Last week at the Sheraton Parkway
in Toronto, I learned that Sheraton's green policy is not exactly as
advertised. I don't know if this qualifies as gre
in ontario election, the choice is clear. put down the polls and pick up your vote.
I am very frustrated by progressive reaction to the appointment of Doug
Ford as leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. People
are acting as if Ford has already won an election that is three months
away. I understand there is great -- and well deserved -- anger against
Kathleen Wynne's Liberal party. But are we progressives going to stand
helplessly staring at polls as we are thrown
marching for their lives: the student activism around gun violence gives us reason to hope
In
my continuing (and usually failing) goal of remembering to write about
things here , instead of just posting to Facebook, I feel I should write
something about the student organizing and activism around gun violence
in the US. This movement is the greatest thing to happen in the US in
as long as I can remember. It stands with the Fight for 15 and Black
Lives Matter as the most important movemen
WWF - Latest News
Global Shipping Sector Steps Up, Sets Climate Targets And Bans Use Of Heavy Fuel Oil In Arctic
LONDON , UK ( 13 April 2018 ) - In a landmark step forward for the
goals set out in the Paris Agreement, the International Maritime
Organization (IMO) today agreed to climate targets for the sector, as
part of its first comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reduction
strategy. The global maritime regulator also agreed to ban heavy fuel
oil in the Arctic, a region on the frontline of the im
As Taiwan announces ivory ban, WWF urges governments across Asia to join conservation efforts
Nairobi, 5 April 2018 - WWF welcomes Taiwan's announcement on its plan
to ban domestic ivory trade effective starting 1 January 2020. The
decision comes after the game-changing policy from Mainland China, the
US and Hong Kong SAR, three of the world's largest ivory trade markets,
to proactively shut down their domestic ivory markets. These new
policies demonstrate the political momentum building
Unprecedented collaring effort aims to protect Tanzania's threatened elephants
DAR ES SALAAM – In Tanzania, the government, with support from WWF, has
launched the country's largest ever elephant collaring effort to
protect its dwindling elephant population. With almost 90 per cent of
the elephants lost over the last 40 years in the Selous Game Reserve, a
World Heritage site, enhancing rangers' ability to guard the remaining
ones from poaching is essential to rebuilding the
Earth Hour 2018: Globe unites to celebrate people's connection to our planet
SINGAPORE, 25 March 2018 – Individuals, businesses and organizations in
a record 188 countries and territories worldwide joined WWF's Earth
Hour to spark unprecedented conversation and action on stopping the loss
of nature, a day after 550 scientists warned of a 'dangerous decline'
in global biodiversity . Close to 18,000 landmarks switched off their
lights in solidarity as people across the glob
A Very Public Sociologist
Jeremy Corbyn and the Anti-War Rightwingers
Politics sometimes makes for uncomfortable and uninvited bedfellows.
Take poor old Jeremy Corbyn for instance. Since the left took over the
Labour Party, we've been plagued with stories about cranks, weirds and
racists taking out membership and getting spun by the media, sundry
centrists and the Tories as some how indicative and typical of our
party's transformation. The never-ending difficulty o
Theresa May's Theatrical War
War and politics go hand in hand, which is something Theresa May
certainly understands even if sundry Labour backbenchers do not.
Reminding us of this was a rumour reported on by BBC Washington
correspondent, Jon Sopel. He suggests that while the US led the bombing
of selected targets in and around Damascus, it was actually the French
and the British who were egging on an immediate response. The
A Terrible Stalinist Purge
"A vindictive response from the leadership" opines Angela Smith . "This
is a terrible Stalinist purge!" says Peter Hain . Anyone would think
it's the 1930s and the NKVD are dragging old Bolsheviks from their beds.
But no, it's 2018 and just another round of bellyaching, this time
greeting the sacking of Owen Smith. How do we know this is the usual
griping instead of a principled defence led by La
The Cloying Desperation of the Tory Press
Like many people, I'm a member of some Facebook groups. These include
the recently famous We Support Jeremy Corbyn, a gathering of some 69,000
users and the subject of a double Sunday Times and BBC News splash .
Riddle me this. Because some people have posted on there comments
ranging from the unconscious to the overtly anti-semitic, and despite
their being challenged for doing so , does that mak
10 Points on Russia and British Politics
1. Was Russia set on murdering Sergei Skripal? I don't know. You don't
know. Even Theresa May doesn't know, not that it stopped her from
apportioning blame. As she belatedly acknowledged, there are two
possible explanations for what happened: an action officially sanctioned
by the state, or a poisoning using nerve agent stocks looted from
chemical warfare labs as the Soviet Union crumbled and vas
Corbynism and Anti-Semitism
A picture says a thousand words, so take a look at this one and tell me
what you see. Did you espy the anti-semitic themes? And how did you
arrive at this conclusion - did the caricaturing give the game away? And
how long did you take - a fraction of a second? Or are you like leading
Stop the War activist Yvonne Ridley who, in the Facebook thread below
the now infamous image, couldn't see anythin
Adrienne's Corner
Cory Booker to Mike Pompeo: Do you believe gay sex is a perversion?...
yes or no? Seriously? This elected crackpot wants to discuss homosexual
sex during congressional hearings? Let me answer that for you Cory.
Yes. Clear enough? More: Thomas Lifson: Cory Booker disgraced himself
questioning Pompeo Metal Tape Yesterday I was forced to replace the vent
hose on my dryer. The vent hose had not only a kink in it, but also a
hole. I'm a big believer in duct tape and had
Trying hard to care...
about anything going on now. Every day I'm finding it harder and harder
to come up with anything the least bit interesting to say or think
about the world we inhabit. I was hoping that my Wednesday sojourn at
history club would restore my default buttons to "give a sh*t", but that
hasn't happened. If anything, it's made it worse. Syria? I have no idea
of what's going there. From reports from peop
Missiles Over Syria...
good or bad? It appears people are either violently opposed or just as
violently in favor of lobbing expensive hardware all over Syria. I'm
really neutral on this latest sucking up the air time event. There is a
whole bunch of stuff I don't know - either about foreign policy, Syria,
Assad, or what intel our military has in their possession. In view of
the above, I'll just sit back and see what de
Defending the 2nd Amendment and an AMAZING situation at American Thinker...
astonishing actually. Not only does Mr. Robert Curry do an outstanding
job with his article on the defense of the 2nd amendment,
but..........wait for it - he's actually responding to comments. There
are sites who have developed a camaraderie between commenters like our
beloved MOTUS A.D. and Weasel Zippers . There are other sites whose
commenters are quite bright and don't need much in the way o
Facebook, Facebook, Facebook replaces Russia, Russia, Russia...
or it could morph into Russia hacked Facebook. Who the hell knows - or
cares. If you are one of 100 or so peeps in the world who doesn't
understand that Facebook exists to make money off of you and your
information, then you need to have a brain transplant. Rush did a
masterful job of explaining this newest "crisis" yesterday and WND has a
good summation of what he said - and I thank them. Crisis
Palm Sunday...
Almighty ever-living God, who as an example of humility for the human
race to follow caused our savior to take flesh and submit to the Cross,
graciously grant that we may head his lesson of patient suffering and so
merit a share in his Resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you in the
unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Holy Week Holy
week begins on Palm Sunday and ends at the
Centauri Dreams
Go TESS
“I always get the shakes before a drop,” wrote Robert Heinlein, the
words being those of protagonist Johnny Rico in his novel Starship
Troopers . I thought of them again this morning because while I don’t
tend to get the ‘shakes,’ I do tend to get nervous before a major
launch, and that’s what we have today. The image below comes from the
TESS mission Twitter account @NASA_TESS ( https://twitter.
Disk Imagery from Nearby Young Stars
Here’s an interesting situation: Around a star designated GSC
07396-00759, a member of a multiple star system, astronomers have found
an edge-on disk. Such disks are helpful ways of studying planetary
evolution, as we’re looking at gas, dust and planetesimals that
represent a planetary system in the process of formation. But at GSC
07396-00759, the disk is more evolved than the gas-rich disk arou
The polis of Artemis on the Moon
Can Andy Weir’s Artemis, the setting for his new novel of the same
name, be best described as a city or a town? Or is it better to think of
it, as Ioannis Kokkinidis does in the essay that follows, as a ‘polis’?
The ancient Greek term carries through the centuries to inform Ioannis’
musings on Weir’s creation, as he examines Artemis, a tourist
destination like no other, from a deeply internationa
Breakthrough Discuss Streaming Live
I don’t usually reproduce news releases here, but this one is of
unusual interest given that I am both a strong supporter of Breakthrough
Starshot and a partisan for getting academic conferences available
through live streaming. Breakthrough Discuss begins today and its
sessions will be well worth your time, given the array of distinguished
speakers and the tight attention to matters interstellar
2001: A Space Odyssey – 50 Years Later
Fifty years ago today, 2001: A Space Odyssey was all the buzz, and I
was preparing to see it within days on a spectacular screen at the
Loew’s State Theater in St. Louis. The memory of that first viewing will
always be bright, but now we have seasoned perspective from Centauri
Dreams regular Al Jackson, working with Bob Mahoney and Jon Rogers, to
put the film in perspective. The author of numerou
A Triton Lander Mission
What would be our next step in the exploration of the outer system once
New Horizons has visited one or more Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs)? One
intriguing target with a nearby ice giant to recommend it is Triton,
Neptune’s unusual moon, which was imaged up close only once, by Voyager 2
in 1989. The views were spectacular but at the time of the encounter,
most of Triton’s northern hemisphere remained
Craig Murray
On Believing MI6
Ian Blackford MP, investment banker and now SNP Westminster
parliamentary leader, has received an “intelligence briefing” from the
security services and is satisfied with MI6 assurances that Assad
attacked Douma with chemical weapons. The whirring sound you hear is
Willie Macrae spinning in his grave. The other whirling sound you hear
is Charlie Kennedy spinning in his. Charlie – who was a friend
Robert Fisk Reports Head of Douma Clinic Denies Chemical Weapons Attack
Robert Fisk is one of the very few excellent investigative journalists
still employed in the UK. He is twice winner of the British Press Awards
‘ Journalist of the Year prize, and seven time winner of the British
Press Awards’ Foreign Correspondent of the Year. He is extremely smart
and knows the Middle East very well. He has just made his way – not
accompanied by Russian or Syrian government off
The Four Horsemen Gallop By
The media onslaught has moved past the attack in Salisbury by a “weapon
of mass destruction” (quoting Theresa May) which could only be Russian,
except that was untrue, and was extremely deadly, except that was
untrue too. It now focuses on an attack by chemical weapons in Douma
which “could only be” by the Russian-backed Assad regime, except there
is no evidence of that either, and indeed neutral
Yulia Skripal Is Plainly Under Duress
Only the Russians have allowed us to hear the actual voice of Yulia
Skripal, in that recorded conversation with her cousin. So the one thing
we know for certain is that, at the very first opportunity she had, she
called back to her cousin in Russia to let her know what is going on.
If you can recall, until the Russians released that phone call, the
British authorities were still telling lies that
Just Who’s Pulling the Strings?
March 4 2018 Sergei and Yulia Skripal are attacked with a nerve agent
in Salisbury March 6 2018 Boris Johnson blames Russia and calls Russia
“a malign force” March 7 2018 Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi
Arabia arrives in London for an official visit March 13 2018 Valeri
Gerasimov, Russian Chief of General Staff, states that Russia has
intelligence a fake chemical attack is planned again
The British Government’s Legal Justification for Bombing is Entirely False and Without Merit
Theresa May has issued a long legal justification for UK participation
in an attack on a sovereign state. This is so flawed as to be totally
worthless. It specifically claims as customary international law
practices which are rejected by a large majority of states and therefore
cannot be customary international law. It is therefore secondary and of
no consequence that the facts and interpretation
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
All’s fair in politics and the oil business, but the claim Canada’s facing a constitutional crisis is just politics
The fact the federal and Alberta governments were unable yesterday to
reach an agreement with British Columbia on proceeding with the Trans
Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project does not mean Canada is facing a
constitutional crisis. However, it doesn’t preclude one happening
eventually. Nevertheless, it’s important to state this clearly because
in the next few hours we are likely to hear commentat
Mission accomplished in Syria? Don’t bet more than you can afford to lose on that claim!
Mission Accomplished? Donald Trump’s crowing Tweets prove the wisdom of
Karl Marx’s dictum: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as
farce. This fact is a significant blessing, nonetheless, at least
insofar as Friday night’s tactically and legally dubious missile raid by
U.S. military forces on Syria is concerned. How many Iraqis were
slaughtered after Dubya stood on the flight deck of t
Jennifer Quist’s Apocalypse of Morgan Turner tops Audreys Edmonton Bestseller List
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in
Edmonton for the week ended April 7, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and
provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. EDMONTON
FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner – Jennifer Quist *
2. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle 3. The Marrow Thieves – Cherie
Dimaline 4. This Wound is a World – Billy-Ray
Despite NDP stamp of approval, pipeline rally looked and sounded like UCP event
The situation may have felt normal to the cadre of Opposition United
Conservative Party MLAs there, but I imagine some of the NDP
backbenchers huddled on the steps of the Legislature in Edmonton
yesterday afternoon felt pretty uncomfortable. If not, they darn well
should’ve. I’m not talking about the effects of the icy wind that whips
through the coldest spot in this cold city, but the angry pipe
Despite NDP stamp of approval, pipeline rally on Legislature’s steps looked and sounded like a UCP event
PHOTOS: Part of the pro-pipeline crowd in front of the Alberta
Legislature Thursday afternoon, with a couple of brave Indigenous
counter-protesters visible in the foreground. Below: Federal
Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi endured jeers, and Alberta Trade
Minister Deron Bilous tried to fire up the crowd. The situation may have
felt normal to the cadre of […] The post Despite NDP stamp of app
The Kinder Morgan pipeline brouhaha shows why it’s time for Canada to pull the plug on NAFTA
PHOTOS: Kinder Morgan Inc. headquarters in Houston Tex. (Photo:
H-town-visually.blogspot.ca). Below: Author and journalist Andrew
Nikoforuk, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, and lighter-than-air Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau. We’ve got the chance, thanks be unto Donald J.
Trump. Obviously, it’s time to get the heck out of NAFTA! Why would I
say such a crazy thing? Well, […] The post The Kinder Morg
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin The staggering body count as California newspapers founder, and democracy loses Russia: Swiss lab anal...
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founder, and democracy loses Russia: Swiss lab analysis shows nerve
agent designed in West The interesting aspect of this is, once again,
where it's appearing: The New York Post. Prominent Lawyer in Fight for
Gay Rights Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Prospect Park It’s
interesting to see that like Mike, who killed himself
From Jenna Orkin Radio show on 4th anniversary of Mike Ruppert’s suicide: Interviewer and director Michael Welch, Mark ...
From Jenna Orkin Radio show on 4th anniversary of Mike Ruppert’s
suicide: Interviewer and director Michael Welch, Mark Robinowitz, Mike
Ruppert, Jamey Hecht, Carolyn Baker, Jenna Orkin, Mimi German; with a
comment from Jessy Re. Google loses the 'right to be forgotten' case 'I
am gay' protests as China bans 'homosexual' content on Weibo World
shipping industry agrees to halve carbon emissions by
From Jenna Orkin Tulsi Gabbard on Syrian Strike Cancer-Killing Wasp Venom - FB A looming crisis will force humans to ch...
From Jenna Orkin Tulsi Gabbard on Syrian Strike Cancer-Killing Wasp
Venom - FB A looming crisis will force humans to change how we eat,
build, and power our lives — here are some of the most promising
solutions The word “solutions” is a tad optimistic. Taking it for
granted that we’re not going to change our lifestyle in any fundamental
way, here are the proposed technofixes. We know geoengineeri
From Jenna Orkin Breaking: Russia electronically jams US drones in Syria - Fort Russ Hillary Clinton calls for U.S. to ...
From Jenna Orkin Breaking: Russia electronically jams US drones in
Syria - Fort Russ Hillary Clinton calls for U.S. to bomb Syrian air
fields New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of
'carbon-neutral future' Jeff Bezos uses a tactic called the 'regret
minimization framework' to make seemingly impossible decisions very
easily A Greek fighter pilot found dead after a dogfight wit
From Jenna Orkin Re-Investigating the RFK and MLK Assassinations at 50 Russia is preparing for nuclear war with the U.S...
From Jenna Orkin Re-Investigating the RFK and MLK Assassinations at 50
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buy water and gas masks Paul Ryan is retiring from Congress Riyadh
Rockets Send Oil To 2014 Highs Despite Surprise Crude Build, Record
Production Google's File On You Is 10 Times Bigger Than Facebook's -
Here's How To View It Iranians Panic - "Can't Find
From Jenna Orkin US Navy destroyer is now off Syrian coast with 60 Tomahawk missiles | American Military News Yet Anoth...
From Jenna Orkin US Navy destroyer is now off Syrian coast with 60
Tomahawk missiles | American Military News Yet Another Dead Whale Is
Grave Reminder Of Our Massive Plastic Problem The news here is that the
article is appearing in Forbes. 'Better financially' to kill suspects
than wound them: sheriff The $66 billion Bayer-Monsanto merger just got a
major green light — but farmers are terrified I
GlobaLove Think Tank
Are Punks being Played by Blockchain?
Cyrptos and blockchain are pure cyperpunk thrillers and in the end most
protagonists heads explode with overloaded data chips What I know is
very little so I am describing an Elephant from long distance but
blockchain takes huge amounts of energy to process something that could
be done with a keystroke its like the system exists to make energy
consumption expontential Crypto currency is just fair
Live Interesting, Dead Bored
Everyone can make their life interesting, all they have to do is thinkaboot it
Government and Taxes
Ytd, PH stockmarket is the worst-performer in AsPac
The AsPac stockmarkets: 1. Today: everyone recovered, positive change
except the PH's. 2. Full month: everyone has a bad month except India,
but PH's decline is the biggest, -6.1%; 2nd biggest decline is CN
Shanghai, -3.6%. 3. Year to date (ytd, from Jan 01 till today): PH has
the biggest decline, -7.3%; 2nd biggest decline is JP Topix, -4.7%. Yes,
the PH investment environment is "improving", wo
On Duterte's closure of Boracay for 6 months
"Boracay island is state property. Thus, the state may decide what to
do with it, close it down or take it over." What is wrong, or correct,
with this statement? In the wall of Rotary PDG Jimmy A. Cura who defends
the total closure of Boracay for 6 months, Bobi Tiglao commented there
and posted his paper and asked me if he is correct or wrong in his
arguments, http://www.manilatimes.net/supreme-c
BWorld 203, TRAIN, inflation and PPP
* This is my column in BusinessWorld on April 8, 2018. “It is vain to
talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the
interest of the individual.” — Jeremy Bentham (1748-1834, English
philosopher and economist who pioneered utilitarianism) Among the common
strategies used by an oppressive policy or government is to subsume and
disregard individual concerns and put the com
Clamping vs towing of vehicles in Metro Manila
Towing and clamping of vehicles for various types of "illegal parking"
is a big business for LGUs in Metro Manila, from MMDA to city/municipal
governments. I think there is a silent competition between MMDA and city
governments to get more money from motorists. I took this photo in
Bagtikan St., Makati last March 06. This car has intruded into the
pedestrian lane, Makati City Hall personnel has c
Lion Rock 23, Our “Should” “Must” Society
I am reposting this beautiful article by a friend and Chairman of the
Lion Rock Institute in Hong Kong, Nick Smith. Too many "bright" boys and
girls these days and they think their "bright ideas" should be
legislated and enforced/imposed on everyone else in society. Enjoy.
---------- Our “Should” “Must” Society Nick Sallnow-Smith 2018-01-31
Open any op-ed page of most newspapers (at least the Eng
BWorld 202, Tourism, casinos, and Boracay
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last April 5, 2018. “Every man
has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but
himself.” — John Locke (1632-1704, considered the father of classical
liberalism) The forced closure for several months by the Duterte
government of all resorts, hotels, restaurants and shops in Boracay,
both errant and compliant enterprises, raises the question o
henrymakow.com
Self-Delusion (Lying) a Winning Strategy in Syria
(left, Victim receives a shock when American psychopath decides he has
done something bad.) Donald Trump says the US is "locked and loaded" in
the event Al Assad uses chemical weapons again. Think about that. Al
Assad doesn't have chemical weapons and has never used them .
Nevertheless, Trump will bomb him whenever he imagines Al Assad has
erred, regardless of the facts . We are dealing with peop
Insider: Is Trump Family Cult Behind Coming Armageddon?
Michael Berg, 32, a member of Chabad for four years, believes that this
cult's demented vision of world hegemony is behind the rush to war with
Russia. With Trump and Chabad-members Jered & Ivanka Kushner in the
White House, Chabad is in position to bring about the prophesied
cataclysm that will usher in their Messianic rule. We must consider the
possibility the West has been hijacked by a fanati
World War 3: Cabalists Planning to Cull the Goyim Again?
(Trump has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Satanist
Jewish supremacist cult, Chabad.) Michael Hoffman says the Nazi concept
of Aryan Master Race and Untermenschen (subhumans, Jews, Slavs) mirrors
the Cabalist view of Jews (Master Race) & goyim (subhumans.) Will
the goyim suffer a similar fate as Christians in Bolshevik Russia or
Jews in Nazi Europe? Trump's ties to Cabalism and hi
Wolfgang Eggert: The Cabalist Jewish Plot to Islamize Germany
(Left, At 2008 B'nai B'rith banquet, Angela Merkel uses a Masonic sign
to communicate her loyalty to Masonic Jewish world tyranny.) Jewish
revenge? Their agent, Angela Merkel has used Muslim men to invade
Germany. Historian Wolfgang Eggert believes that if the destabilization
of Germany continues, a civil war will be inevitable. This is a
compilation of information from his recent audiobook in Ge
Bill Gates: Satanist in Sheep's Clothes?
Bill Gates Foundation is affiliated with the Satanist Lucis Trust from
Oct 3 2008 By Henry Makow Ph.D. (We learned today that Bill Gates is
helping to finance a gay activist publishing company. This is consistent
with the message of this article from July, 2006.) When Warren Buffett
gave $31 billion to Bill Gates' Foundation, I assumed it would advance
the New World Order. But when a reader showe
My Generation Fell Victim to PLAYBOY
Pornography as Social Engineering At age 68, I am only starting to
understand the harm I did to myself by my youthful addiction to PLAYBOY.
It wasn't called sex addiction then but it was. PLAYBOY made me see
women in terms of my sexual desire. When you dehumanize them, you cannot
relate to them in human terms. Paradoxically you are less likely to
succeed. Were the Illuminati responsible for sprea
In These Times
Senate Democrats Offer Little-to-No Opposition to Trump’s Expansion of Syria Bombings
Senate Democrats and Independents are registering little opposition to
President Donald Trump’s April 13 airstrikes on Syrian government
targets, with 92 percent declining to strongly oppose the bombings on
principle and just three voicing unequivocal objections to the strikes
before they were carried out. Where objections are raised by Democrats
and Independents, they most frequently take the fo
West Virginia Showed How Necessary—And Difficult—Striking Is
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.VA.—After nine days of arriving at 7 a.m. to the
picket lines, Emily Comer, a Spanish teacher at South Charleston High
School, was “mentally and emotionally and physically exhausted.” Word
came on a Tuesday morning that a deal between the state and the striking
public employees was imminent. Comer—sick in bed with a cold—got
dressed and went to the Capitol atrium, thinking, “I
Trump Doesn’t Care About Civilian Deaths. Just Look at Yemen.
As President Donald Trump threatens to open a dangerous new front in
the war on Syria, citing Bashar al-Assad’s human rights abuses, the
United States is actively supporting Saudi Arabia in unleashing profound
human rights abuses on Yemen. Yemen has been under attack by Saudi
Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and a coalition of various countries
since March 26, 2015. The coalition is supported by
After U of Chicago Cop Shoots Undergrad, Students Say It’s Time to Defund and Disarm Campus Police
A frigid wind cut through the crowd gathered last Friday at the
University of Chicago where nearly 200 people chanted “No Justice, No
Peace! No racist police!” The rally, which made its way across campus,
was organized by UChicago United , a coalition of multicultural student
organizations formed to make the university more inclusive of students
from marginalized backgrounds. The students gathere
Bombs Aren’t the Answer: A Case for Vigorous Diplomacy in Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen
The United States has intervened militarily in civil wars in
Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen to defeat Al Qaeda, associate America with a
democratic “Arab Spring” and support the ambitions of friendly Middle
Eastern governments. Yet little progress towards these objectives has
occurred, partly because American policies were misplaced. Central Al
Qaeda has long been located in Pakistan, not Afghanist
Land Destroyer
US Launches Impotent Attack on Non-existent "Chemical Facilities"
April 14, 2018 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - The US, UK, and France
announced strikes on what they call, "Syria's chemical weapons program."
The use of stand-off weapons such as cruise missiles and air-to-ground
missiles reflects the US and its allies' fear of Syrian and Russia
anti-aircraft defense systems. The Syrian and Russian governments
announced that 71 of over 100 missiles fired were intercept
Syria False Flag: Repeating Baseless Claims is not "Mounting Evidence"
April 12, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - LD) - To date, all supposed evidence
regarding recent allegations of a chemical weapons attack in Douma,
Syria, northeast of the capital Damascus, comes from Western-funded
militants and their auxiliaries including the US-European
government-funded front, the so-called "Syria Civil Defense," better
known at the "White Helmets." Unverified photographs and video o
The War in Syria was a US Intervention Since "Day 1"
April 15, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - In the aftermath of US-led
missile strikes on Syria, the Western media has attempted to continue
building the case for "US intervention." However, before the first
agitators took to the streets in Syria in 2011, the US was already
involved. The New York Times in its 2011 article, " U.S. Groups Helped
Nurture Arab Uprisings ," would admit (emphasis added)
False Flag in Syria Sets Stage for Wider War
April 12, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The US threatened war within
hours of an alleged chemical weapons attack taking place in Douma,
northeast of Damascus. The US rush to conflict attempts to sidestep any
meaningful investigation into the attack, fitting a larger pattern of
Washington and its allies using baseless chemical weapon allegations for
wars of aggression stretching back to the inv
Strikes on Syria: Failed US WMD Lies and the "Israel Approach"
April 9, 2018 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - After failing utterly to produce
public support for a US-led attack on Syria following an alleged
chemical weapons attack in Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus, the
US appears to have immediately circumvented the United Nations and
international law, apparently tasking its proxies in Tel Aviv with
carrying out initial attacks on Syria's T-4 airbase. Im
Trump's Syria "Withdrawal" Was Textbook US Deception
April 8, 2018 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - The US media is now priming the
global public for US intervention in Syria following alleged "chemical
attacks" carried out in the remaining pocket of US-backed militants in
Douma, just northeast of Damascus. Image: Trump isn't going to
"withdraw" from Syria when the special interests he represents still
fully plan on waging war - proxy or otherwise - on Syr
Majia's Blog
"Seven Nations in Five Years"
As the coalition of the willing launches missiles against Syria, led by
the US, I am reminded strongly of a famous whistle-blower's talk about
the neoconservative plan to transform the Middle East through regime
change. Former four-star US general Wesley Clark's 2007 memoir, A Time
to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country (Palgrave Macmillan) describes a
long-term Defense Department policy for aggres
The Instruments of Financial Sovereignty
Michael Hudson, a progressive economist with a keen sense of history,
argues that today the stock market is primarily gamed by hedge-funds. I
recommend watching his video here: Laura Flanders interviews Michael
Hudson (2018, April 4). Monopoly Capitalism at the Breaking Point
https://trofire.com/2018/04/04/monopoly-capitalism-at-the-breaking-point/
Is that true? The growing influence of hedge fun
Framing Americans' Years of Living Lost
A very comprehensive analysis of disease incident rates was just
published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by The US
Burden of Disease Collaborators: The US Burden of Disease Collaborators.
The State of US Health, 1990-2016Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk
Factors Among US States. JAMA. 2018;319(14):1444–1472.
doi:10.1001/jama.2018.0158 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam
Department of Homeland Security Media Monitoring Services
You've probably already read by now the solicitation by the Department
of Homeland Security Services for media monitoring, not simply of
mainstream journalists but also of bloggers and other social
influencers. You can read the specific statement of work for the
proposed media monitoring services at this website here:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=22aa793f75ce05efd160cfa36d
A Hole in the Center
Recently an article by Michael Gerson published in the Washington Post,
argued "American politics are radicalizing. The damage will last
generations." ( link here ): Simply put: If the response to Trump is a
general radicalization of American politics, the damage will last
generations. Somehow, in the midst of so much fanaticism, moderation
must find a passion of its own. Gerson decries so-called
AI: "An Immortal Dictator"
Hat Tip: Douglas and Jonathan Elon Musk recently sounded the alarm
regarding an "immortal dictator" produced by the convergence of new
technologies for rendering visible and controlling dissenting
populations: Peter Holley (2018, April 6). Elon Musk's nightmarish
warning: AI could become 'an immortal dictator from which we would never
escape.' The Washington Post. Available http://www.stltoday.co
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