The High-fat Hep C Diet
An intriguing new study looked at 2 different types of enteral feeding
in 60 critically ill patients for 7 days. The fat-based formula was 37%E
glucose, so this was not a test of a low carb diet, and predictably the
differences in glucose and insulin AUC, though trending in the right
direction, were not significant.[1] The significant finding was higher
resting energy expenditure (REE) in the hig
The Straight Goods
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
thwap's schoolyard
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
Vagabond Scholar
(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
Weekly Geo-Political News and Analysis
The satan-worshipping elite who hijacked power in the West, fighting
for their very lives, have staged a massive counteroffensive in Syria
and against U.S. President Donald Trump. This offensive has now run out
of steam and is backfiring on them big time as their lies about Syria
and many other things are being exposed. And, although no word has been
given about when the 25,500 sealed indictments
Shalom Benjamin, I have been receiving your newsletters from friends
and associates for a few years now. I must admit I was amazed that you
had the chance to interview David Rockefeller, a man who rarely if ever
speaks with any person outside the world he lives in. Obviously you have
something going on and many, as you know, were very suspicious when you
got that talk, and felt that you are simpl
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
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
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 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
Welcome Back to Pottersville
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
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
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
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
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
What Is Sustainable
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
Wide Asleep in America
Jeffrey
Goldberg, Leon Wieseltier, and James Bennet The unlikely rise of Trump
in the past three years has created a chasm in the Republican party:
those who embrace the President’s wild, unorthodox, nativist style and
those who––with much posturing and self congratulation––reject his brand
of conservatism. The latter group, generally called “NeverTrump”
Republicans occupies a special,
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
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
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
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
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
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
WWF - Latest News
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 23, 2018 – After decades of seemingly
irreversible decline, results from a WWF and Government of Cambodia
census released today show that the population of critically endangered
river dolphins in the Mekong has risen from 80 to 92 in the past two
years – the first increase since records began more than twenty years
ago. Effective river patrolling by teams of river guar
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
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
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
Is the BBC biased?
As I said in the previous post, it's us who claim that the BBC is
biased against Brexit who have the evidence . And here's some more...
****** Using TV Eyes, I've tracked every mention of Brexit on BBC One
over the past week (Monday-Friday). As TV Eyes uses the London version
of BBC One, the following includes BBC London news programmes too. 65
results came up. And here's what BBC One has been up
The BBC has been prominently covering the anti-Brexit 'People's vote'
campaign today. This morning's Andrew Marr Show featured an interview
with Locutus of Borg, leader of one anti-Brexit campaign. And
'Campaigners demand 'people's' Brexit vote' has been the second story on
the BBC News website for most of the day. And this afternoon the BBC
News Channel, reporting from the London anti-Brexit ral
“So this isn’t scientific,” said Laura Kuenssberg” It’s just a slice of
conversations going on around the country about Brexit” (not verbatim)
“I don’t want you to think too hard, but I want you to put down the
first three words that come into your mind when you think about Brexit”
said the lady in the green dress in a patronising tone as she handed out
pieces of paper. Like a party game. “Lies?”
The BBC hasn't exactly done its reputation for reporting much good over
its coverage of the Hungarian election. Firstly, there was the
misinterpretation of the meaning of a high turnout: BBC One's early
evening news bulletin was still reporting that "the high turnout could
benefit opposition parties" as the polls closed last night. I follow a
Twitter feed called Europe Elects, which provided upda
For those who have yet to savour in full the delight's of Lord Adonis's
onslaught against the BBC over their 'pro-Brexit' coverage, here's a
compendium from the past couple of weeks (starting from the earliest and
going through to this morning). His Lordship seems to have well and
truly gone Through the Looking Glass. His main points are that: The BBC
was taken over by Brexiteers in c.2014 The BB
“ ‘Great’ March of Return”. For a robust defence of Israel’s side of
the story, see here . Of course, as pro-Israel critics of the BBC will
often say, “You won’t seen anything like this on the BBC” and for once,
that is particularly apt. Well, maybe not just for once . Here’s another
piece , this time by a Harry’s Place regular and former IDF soldier
Marc Goldberg. By no means an “Israel firster”
A Very Public Sociologist
It was January 1994 when my A-Level Sociology class got to grips with
the media. I can remember learning about the discredited hypodermic
model of media/audience interaction, the pluralist argument that
whatever was transmitted or made it into print was there because the
audience wanted it, as well as the bits and bobs of Marx and Weber
around the edges manifesting as the manipulation and hegemon
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
You don't need me to tell you what a disgrace Theresa May is. She can't
be accused of mishandling the Windrush scandal, because the pain and
misery caused to surviving family members is by design, not by accident.
As Diane Abbott puts it , "Tory MPs and commentators who have always
supported the government’s policy of creating a ‘hostile environment’
for migrants express astonishment that there i
Not more centre party rumours . Perhaps it's just churnalism . After
all, it's not like British politics is gripped by a major scandal or
anything. Touring the debris of recent weeks, Andrew Grice riffs off
anti-semitism, Syria , and the Skripals to argue that relations between
Labour's "two tribes" are breaking down and that a parting is
inevitable. The only chance of salvaging the situation is,
Very sad news. 28 is no age.
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
Adrienne's Corner
to more important things. I wonder what has happened to us all when we
awake on Monday morning to face the day with no real earth shattering
news and it bums us out. A normal person would be pleased, but a
blogger's first thought is, "Darn - what the hell am I going to write
about?" Oh, sure - we have some naked crazy running around Nashville
shooting people, but if it wasn't for the media no one
ya think? There's something very unmanly about a guy who travels about
the country whining and declaring his own superior morality. My interest
in the Comey affair is at zero. I'll show some interest when he and
McCabe are arrested. And now, in desperation, the DNC is suing the Trump
campaign: The Democratic Party on Friday sued President Donald Trump's
presidential campaign, the Russian governme
a Muslim tenured professor of English at Fresno State who said:
"Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along
with her husband, raised a war criminal. F**k outta here with your nice
words." "PSA: either you are against these pieces of shit and their
genocidal ways or you're part of the problem. that's actually how simple
this is. I'm happy the witch is dead. can't wait for
because we all need a break. We all have sites we visit that lift us
up, inform us, and generally make life better. While I think we all
spend too much time on the internet, there is no getting away from the
fact it has given us a world of information at our fingertips. A good
example is Project Gutenberg which has made over 56K ebooks available
for free . I'm interested in where you hang out whe
in 60 seconds? Yesterday at history club a gentleman informed me he was
the token liberal in the group. He and his wife had been traveling for
the past seven months so it was my first encounter with him. After
declaring his liberalism he was quick to add that he was anti-abortion
and pro 2nd amendment. Um, okay. My suspicion is always aroused when
someone is so hasty to declare themselves in an a
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
Centauri Dreams
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has been featured often
in these pages, usually in terms of brown dwarfs and the possibility of
uncovering a small star or brown dwarf closer than Proxima Centauri. But
while we still have no evidence of such, we do have abundant data on
brown dwarfs, as well as a useful compendium of objects that come close
to the Earth. For WISE, launched in 2009 a
My doctor is a long-time friend who always stops during my annual
physical to ask about what’s going on in the hunt for exoplanets. Last
week he surprised me when, after I had described ways of analyzing a
transiting planet’s atmosphere, he asked whether planets could give rise
to civilizations in different epochs. Why just one, in other words,
given that homo sapiens has only been around for sev
One of the reasons I described Greg Matloff as the ‘renaissance man of
interstellar studies’ in my Centauri Dreams book is the continuing
stream of ingenious ideas that he develops and delivers through papers
and conference presentations. I found the holographic sail concept below
fascinating, and would have referenced Bob Forward myself if Greg
hadn’t already done it in the text. These two must
With TESS going into a 60-day period of calibration and testing, I’ll
turn this morning to a different kind of survey. GALAH is an acronym for
Galactic Archaeology, a term I’ve generally associated with so-called
Dysonian SETI, where data is mined in a search for signs of advanced
engineering or any anomalies that could signify an extraterrestrial
civilization at work. But GALAH has a different o
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
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
Craig Murray
I am hopeful that the commendable discovery process involved in US
litigation will bring to light further details of the genesis of
Christopher Steele’s ludicrous dossier on Trump/Russia, and may even
give some clues as to whether Sergei Skripal and/or his handler Pablo
Miller were involved in its contents. The decision by the Democratic
National Committee to sue the Russian Government, Wikileaks
A significant proportion of Labour MPs are actively seeking to cause
their own party to do badly in forthcoming local elections, with the aim
of damaging the leader of that party. To that end they have attacked
Jeremy Corbyn relentlessly in a six week crescendo, in parliament and in
the entirely neo-liberal owned corporate media, over the Skripal case,
over Syria, and over crazy allegations of an
The second half of my life has been a continual process of
disillusionment with the institutions I used to respect. I suppose it
started with the FCO, where I went from being Britain’s youngest
ambassador to being sacked for opposing the use of intelligence from
torture, at the same time having an insider view of the knowing lies
about Iraqi WMD being used as a pretext for invasion and resource g
Well-placed FCO sources tell me it remains the case that senior civil
servants in both the FCO and Home Office remain very sceptical of
Russian guilt in the Skripal case. It remains the case that Porton Down
scientists have identified the chemical as a “novichok-style” nerve
agent but still cannot tie its production to Russia – there are many
other possibilities. The effort to identify the actual
This transcript of an Israeli General on an Israeli radio station
(begins 6.52 in) defending the latest killing by Israeli army snipers of
a 14 year old boy who posed no threat of any kind, is much more
powerful if you just read it than any analysis I can give.
Brigadier-General (Res.) Zvika Fogel interviewed on the Yoman Hashevua
program of Israel’s Kan radio, 21 April 2018. Ron Nesiel : Greetin
An interesting facet of Theresa May’s “hostile environment” policy, aka
institutionalised racism, is that Yulia Skripal will have to pay for
her NHS emergency treatment because she was admitted to hospital. When
the government announced its clampdown on use of the NHS by foreigners,
including migrants and overseas students, it ended the provision of free
emergency treatment for non-citizens in th
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
Where is the Globe and Mail, the National Post, federal Opposition
leader Andrew Scheer? After all, they were all such convincing defenders
of intellectual freedom on campus when the barbs were being directed at
Jordan Peterson, the University of Toronto professor who is “the Darth
Maul of tenured campus bad boys,” as one wag deconstructed the Youtube
phenomenon so beloved by the right for his “t
The University of Alberta’s dean of engineering believes his faculty
faces “the worst crisis, a crisis of trust, that we’ve faced in more
than three decades.” The immediate cause of this perceived looming
disaster for the U of A’s most favoured faculty? “The conferral of a
single honorary degree,” wrote Fraser Forbes yesterday in an
extraordinary open letter to what he terms “our Engineering Comm
There are a few Albertans who happily imagine this place is Texas
North. Alas for those who do, and notwithstanding the media
stereotypists who encourage this nonsense, we are as Canadian around
here as folks in any other Western province. Maybe more so, since so
many people from other parts of Canada keep moving here. Sure, lots of
us who would never actually get up on a horse own a nice pair of
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in
Edmonton for the week ended April 15, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books
and provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. EDMONTON
FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. Sweetland – Michael Crummey 2. Jesus on the
Dashboard – Lisa Murphy-Lamb * + 3. The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline
4. Edge of Wild – DK Stone * + 5. Encountering Rie
Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kennedy’s now famous “Canada is broken”
Tweet a week ago may turn out to have been the symbolic starting point
of the 2019 federal election campaign. Canada is broken.
https://t.co/7tVwbAKPmc — Jason Kenney (@jkenney) April 15, 2018 Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau and his federal Liberals were quick to jump on
the opportunity they were handed by the former federal Co
The Green Party of Alberta has chosen Coral Bliss Taylor, not so long
ago a candidate for city council in Calgary civic election, to serve as
its interim leader while it figures out what to do after the sudden
resignation of its last permanent leader in March. Ms. Bliss Taylor, an
engineer and urban planner, finished in a respectable second place in
the race to represent Ward 1 in the city’s nort
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin Starbucks is closing all stores nationwide for racial
bias training — and baristas say the problem runs deeper than many
customers realize The latest Snapchat Discover channel promises to get
inside your head using Japanese psychology The Waffle House shooting
suspect was arrested near the White House in 2017, had 4 guns
confiscated then returned to him Deutsche: Another $5 Rise
From Jenna Orkin World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years
Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist The United States Used
Depleted Uranium in Syria Colin Kaepernick Wins Amnesty International's
Highest Honor Why More Than A Million Teachers Can't Use Social Security
British to block probe into Saudi war crimes at UN to protect trade
Nude gunman kills 4, injures 3 at Nashville Waffle Ho
From Jenna Orkin Can Dirt Save the Earth? - NY Times(!) Police have
reportedly identified suspects believed to be behind the Sergei Skripal
poisoning Israel has defeated drought for decades, and it could be a
great example for Cape Town Nassim Taleb Warns Americans Should "Fear
The 2% - The Intellectuals & Politicians" Turkey Will Repatriate All
Gold From The US In Attempt To Ditch The Dollar Fac
From Jenna Orkin Dubai is getting these stunning $23 million floating
villas that can withstand flooding Democratic Party files lawsuit
against Trump campaign, Russia, and WikiLeaks — and it mirrors a move
from the Nixon era One Student Injured In Florida High School Shooting;
Suspect In Custody The Skripal Case: 20 New Questions That Journalists
Might Like To Start Asking Over 95% Of World's Pop
From Jenna Orkin Earthquake strikes near Iranian nuclear plant The
wrong kind of oil is flooding the US market — but that could be great
news for a handful of producers The 3 bestselling books of 2018 so far
have one thing in common: the Trump administration New York's governor
is restoring voting rights to some 35,000 parolees Russian Aluminum
Giant Seeks Rescue From US Sanctions In China HR McM
From Jenna Orkin White House staffers say Sean Hannity is Trump's
'shadow' chief of staff Icelandic bitcoin heist suspect escapes jail and
flees the country — on the same plane as the Prime Minister 5 Fast
Facts About The Federal Judge In Michael Cohen's Case (And Why Trump
Should Be Worried) Trump confirms CIA head Pompeo went to North Korea to
meet Kim Jong Un, says it went 'very smoothly' The
GlobaLove Think Tank
The medium is the message and the message is you we own you and you
click okay because the bell ringing says time to get fed If the veneer
and virtual reality creation of your existence is stripped away you will
still eat soylent green because its know to be nutritious and there are
no other choices expect becoming the product Everyone is cooking with
GAS ever done a personality test and been ama
My daughter could easily have been a victim as just a day before she
walked that sidewalk My feelings and hopes that somehow the people
robbed by the deaths of their love ones can find a way to carry on.
Incidents like this are a failure of society. When we marginalize and
ignore peoples anguish they strike out.This guy was not insane he was
mad because he could not get laid. What gave him permis
History of lysergic acid diethylamide
Government and Taxes
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
"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
* 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
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
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
* 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
When a foreign power can commit an atrocity like 9-11 with the
complicity of America's Masonic colonial ruling class, you know that the
United States is not an empire . Although I cannot vouch for the claims
made here, they are plausible and expose 9-11 as a bald-faced hoax .
Because they got away with 9-11, these false flags have continued on a
regular basis. "NOT ONE single supposed passenger p
(Porn king relied on gay porn) Think of heterosexuality as monogamous
and dedicated to rearing children; homosexuality as promiscuous and
concerned with sex for its own sake. Porn is creating new generations of
heterosexuals who behave like homosexuals. (Updated from Feb. 2006) By
Henry Makow Ph.D. In 2004, a woman revealed details of Hugh Hefner's sex
life . If the Playboy founder is any indicat
(left, Prime Minister Castro and wife at Toronto Gay Pride Parade 2017)
Because of the Masonic control of government and media, society is
stupidly oblivious to the hate-filled attack on our heterosexual
identity, an attack most vicious, insidious, and pervasive. Do you
remember any public debate and vote on this subject? The article below
documents the real agenda behind "gay rights" i.e. destro
by Henry Makow Ph.D. (Updated Nov 27, 2008) Although 97% of the
population is not gay, there is relatively little cultural support for
heterosexual institutions (family, motherhood, fatherhood); roles
(masculinity and femininity); and life events (courtship, marriage,
birth and child rearing.) Although building a strong family is probably
the purpose of life and key to happiness for most, this kn
(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
"I would never have imagined that while I am writing a book about
ultrasonic irradiation and the damage it is wreaking on the genetic,
immunologic, and reproductive health of our children, that I would
succumb myself to microwave radiation poisoning." EVERYWHERE ELSE that I
drove -- every store I entered into, every parking lot -- ALL OF THESE
PLACES HAD EXCEEDINGLY HIGH LEVELS OF RADIATION/EMF.
DES MOINES, IOWA—Hugh Espey, executive director of Iowa Citizens for
Community Improvement (CCI), is wearing gray sweats and a hoodie and has
the sleeves-rolled-up mix of grit and weariness of a man who’s been
doing social justice work in Iowa since the 1970s. He pounds the table
as he talks about how the Democrats have talked a great game for
decades, but done little. “I am sick and tired,” he s
There’s something about Mars. It tickles the imagination like no other
planet; in our stories about it, fact and fiction tend to blur.
Nineteenth-century astronomers believed they saw canals on Mars, proof
of intelligent life. In 1938, an Orson Welles radio play convinced some
listeners that a Martian invasion had kicked off a war of the worlds.
NASA and its robots feed us tantalizing tidbits sug
ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C.—Yazmin Garcia was on her way to Guilford College
in Greensboro in 2011, her car packed with belongings to start her final
semester, when she was pulled over on Interstate 40. Garcia was scared.
She had come to North Carolina as an undocumented child in 2002, and
she knew the local sheriff’s office was aggressively deporting people.
The officer let her go—because, she surmise
Despite the law-and-order offensive of President Donald Trump and
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the momentum for decarceration and
ending cash bail continues to grow. This is cause for optimism. However,
decarceration may not ultimately mean freedom. In many cases, welcoming
arms are waiting for those coming out of prison gates, ready to strap
plastic GPS shackles around their ankles. The numbe
About 252 million years ago, the Permian-Triassic extinction event
killed “90 percent of the planet’s species,” according to National
Geographic , and exterminated 96 percent of marine species. The culprit?
Some scientists say runaway climate change played a role. Today, we
once again stand on the brink of climate catastrophe, and it may pose a
similar existential threat. “Runaway” climate change
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