What Is Sustainable
Tribe
Sebastian Junger’s bestselling book Tribe is fascinating and
perplexing. He’s a journalist who has covered a number of armed
conflicts. As a result of these experiences, he’s developed an
admiration for war and warriors, because chaos brings out the best in
people. It creates an alternate reality in which it is acceptable and
desirable to behave like human beings (sort of). During times of helter
The Biggest Estate on Earth
The British colonization of Australia began in 1788. Historian Bill
Gammage, a white fella, spent ten years studying the writings of early
observers, as well as paintings, drawings, and maps from the era. The
landscape in 1788 looked radically different from today. Much of what is
now dense forest or scrub used to be grasslands. Early eyewitnesses
frequently commented that large regions looked li
Wide Asleep in America
Citations Needed, Episode 35: The Total Blackout of the Korean Left
Police
officers surround anti-THAAD protesters in Seongju, South Korea, April
23, 2018. (Credit: Yonhap) When Americans read about the Korean
"conflict" in the Western press, the articles are populated almost
entirely with Serious Western Talking Heads, weapons contractor-funded
think tank "fellows," and former and current U.S. military brass. Who's
never consulted, much less heeded, are
Citations Needed, Episode 34: What the Hell is Wrong with MSNBC?
MSNBC
is by far the most influential mainstream media outlet on the American
left. It sets the tone and defines the boundary for what is acceptable
discourse among American liberals. But major issues the left is
generally thought to care about - imperial war, worker strikes,
Palestine, climate change - are almost entirely absent from coverage, as
the network increasingly looks like a 24-hour
Citations Needed, Episode 33: Liberals' Obsession with the Phantom Reasonable Republican
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,
WWF - Latest News
Environmental and indigenous rights activist to receive WWF's top youth conservation award
Cartagena, 8 May 2018 - Nina Gualinga, an indigenous woman leader of
the Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is the
recipient of this year's WWF International President's Youth award. An
advocate for climate justice and indigenous rights since the age of
eight, the award recognizes Nina's relentless efforts to protect nature
and communities in the Amazon at a time when the regi
'Business unusual' must be the mantra in Bonn as UN climate talks resume next week
BERLIN, Germany (25 April 2018) - As the 2018 climate talks kick off
under the auspices of the UN next week, 'business unusual' must be the
mantra delegations need heard resoundingly in Bonn, says WWF. Speaking
ahead of the start of the meeting, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, WWF's global
climate and energy programme leader , said the window of opportunity to
keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C if fas
Hope for critically endangered Mekong river dolphins as population increases for first time
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
A Different Perspective
John Greenewald's Take on AATIP - Updated
(Blogger’s note: My pal, John Greenewald, had attempted to post this to
the comment section of the last column, but it is too long to be
accepted there. Rather than breaking it into several pieces, I decided
to just add it as a new post. It clarifies some of the issues that have
been raised about the AATIP and the like. You can find additional
information about a wide variety of topics at www.the
The Coyne Helicopter Encounter - Explained?
For the last several days I have been engaged in a conversation with
someone who identifies himself as Parabunk. He analyzed the Coyne
helicopter encounter and provided what he believed to be a terrestrial
solution for the case. You can read his long report here:
https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-1973-coynemansfield-helicopter-ufo.html
You can read my original post which inspired his (wel
Anatomy of an Investigation
Once again, going through older material looking for nothing specific, I
have stumbled over something that might be of some significance. It all
began when, scanning a document created by the Air Force that listed 49
UFO organizations in the United States that investigated UFOs, I
spotted Karl Pflock’s name. He was listed as the director of something
called the National Committee for Karl Pflock
Why I'm Beginning to Dislike the UFO Field - Part Four
I was going through old files with an eye to weeding out the nonsense,
the useless, the outdated and the duplications. As I was doing that, I
turned over a newsletter from December 1996 and on the back found a note
that I hadn’t seen before. It explained that I hadn’t been invited to
participate in the Roswell 1997 celebration because I had libeled
someone. My first reaction was that is a strange
Brad Steiger Has Died
My friend, Brad Steiger, has passed away, after what I believe was a
long illness. You can read the obituary here:
http://funeralinnovations.com/obituary/257658/Brad-Steiger/ I first
learned of Brad while I was still in high school. As I have mentioned in
the past, I read Strangers in the Skies , while sitting in study hall,
and while that didn’t spark my interest in UFOs, it certainly set me on
Moon Dust and the 4602nd AISS
For years, decades really, there has been this idea that Project Moon
Dust began with the creation of the 4602 nd Air Intelligence Squadron
(AISS) in early 1953. Ed Ruppelt, one time chief of Project Blue Book,
had complained to his superiors after the massive UFO sighting wave of
the summer 1952, that he needed help in the investigations. He was
surprised when it was suggested, and later put int
A Very Public Sociologist
Suspend Labour Friends of Israel
This, from Emily Thornberry , is a powerful statement. “We condemn
unreservedly the Israeli government for their brutal, lethal and utterly
unjustified actions on the Gaza border, and our thoughts are with all
those Palestinians in Gaza whose loved ones have been killed or injured
as a result. “These actions are made all the worse because they come not
as the result of a disproportionate over-rea
Enemies to the Left
At the end of this month, the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, the
RMT, will be debating at a special conference whether to affiliate to
the Labour Party. Readers who've been around the block will remember the
union was expelled in 2004 for backing candidates that offered left
challenges to Blair's programme of war, cuts, and privatisation. Fast
forward 14 years and the situation in the Labour
The Tory Politics of the Windrush Scandal
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
Understanding the Local Election Logjam
About a year ago, I was invited to write on the local elections and
what they meant for the General Election. My argument was things were
looking bad because the council results were pretty bad. This wasn't
what said august publication wanted to publish so it never appeared,
which is just as well as I got it completely wrong. Having learned my
lesson I kept my counsel this year, but my gut feelin
Owen Jones vs the British Media Establishment
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
Len McCluskey on Labour Anti-Semitism
Len McCluskey has played a blinder. Read his article for yourself. He
doesn't give the impression, which he has in the past, that Labour
anti-semitism is a put up job. He explicitly addresses it. Rightly, he
contextualises it as an excrescence, a minority pursuit to be dug out
and thrown out using the enhanced powers the party has adopted. And what
he does is to give voice to the frustrations and
Adrienne's Corner
Kurt Schlichter agrees with me: *Sigh* No, Being A Christian Does Not Require You Meekly Submit To Leftist Tyranny...
because Christians aren't wimps - no matter what someone has tried to
make you believe. It amazes me how often I see pagan/commie/libtards
posting memes on Facebook touting what a Christian should act like, or
how Trump isn't a real Christian. Trust me when I tell you this:
commie/libtards hate Christians with a passion that is blistering hot.
They idolize the profane and ugly. They're like vicio
Help! Internet Intervention Needed...
stat! Yesterday our internet connection was down. Ordinarily, that
doesn't bother me too much. I view it as a good excuse for not being
online. Not yesterday. I was beside myself. I knew I was in deep doo
when at one point I actually sat in front of my monitor, stared at my
modem, and was willing the "internet" light to spring to life. It
didn't. By late evening I was in a mini-rage at Frontier C
Trump and Jerusalem...
as expected the pagan/commie/marxist/muslim/libtards are outraged and
declaring death to America. Are we surprised? This is like expecting the
yellow jackets buzzing around my back deck to suddenly become peace
loving honey bees. You don't negotiate with yellow jackets - you kill
them. President William J. Clinton, President George W. Bush, President
Barack H. Obama kicked the embassy can down th
North and South Korea officially end war while the commie/libtards of the U.S. remove the statue of Stephen Foster...
two things I never thought to see. It occurred to me that most people
alive today have no memory of the Korean War. Even though I was very
young I remember it well. At the same time I remember the songs of
Stephen Foster , all of which I sang around campfires. Stephen Collins
Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as "the father of
American music", was an American songwriter known primar
Melania shows her knees and wears a hat...
a great hat and great knees. Thank you, Melania. Amazon Today: I
received my AstroAI Digital Tire Pressure Gauge 150 PSI 4 Settings for
Car Truck Bicycle with Backlit LCD and Non-Slip Grip, Silver and it is
super nifty! Still only $8.87 Great Deals in Women's Fashion and As a
public service announcement: Ticked off at Yeti for dumping the NRA?
Walmart sells the Ozark Trail 40 oz Vacuum Insulated
Things I don't understand: Alfie Evans, Kanye West, Joy Reid, and James Comey...
of course, aside from Alfie Evans, there's a ton of other much more
important stuff I don't understand. Alfie Evans: Alfie is a sick little
boy with some unexplained neurological problem who has been on life
support in the UK for quite a long time. His life support was removed by
court order against the wishes of his parents. So far he's breathing on
his own. Italy granted him citizenship and wil
ArmsControlWonk
A Note on China’s Implementation of UNSCR 2375
My
colleagues Andrea Berger, Cameron Trainer, Shea Cotton, and I have
published a CNS occasional paper on North Korea’s IT networks. Part of
this research involved looking into Chinese companies in the network and
sifting through business registration documents provided by the China
Administration for Industry and Commerce (AIC). During the course of the
investigation, …
On the Objectives of Arms Control
Quote
of the week: “If arms control were killed, it would have to be
reinvented.” – Paul Warnke The canonical objectives of Cold War-era arms
control were laid out in the seminal book by Thomas Schelling and Mort
Halperin, Strategy and Arms Control (1961): the avoidance of a war that
neither side wants, minimizing the …
Snooping on Denuclearization
This
post is co-authored with David Schmerler. We read a lot of newspaper
stories, some of which seem … unreliable. NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR TEST
MOUNTAIN COLLAPSED. NORTH KOREA WILL ABANDON ITS ICBMS. FRANCE GETS ALL
THE BOMBS. One of the reason we like OSINT, especially satellite images,
is that we can actually see things that …
North Korean Nuclear Tunnels
Kim
Jong Un said he is closing the nuclear test site at Punggye-ri. But if
outside inspectors and exports aren’t allowed in, it could just be a PR
stunt with no substantive contribution to “denuclearization.” Jeffrey
and Aaron talk about what this means for North Korea, why inspectors and
outside experts need to be allowed …
The Logic of Nuclear Superiority
Quotes
of the week: “You show me a Secretary of Defense who’s planning not to
prevail [in a nuclear war] and I’ll show you a Secretary of Defense who
ought to be impeached.” — Caspar Weinberger, New York Times, August 24,
1982 “Strategic flexibility, unless wedded to a plausible theory of how
to win a war …
Whiffs of Grapeshot
Quote
of the week: “Angels and ministers of grace defend us!” – William
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV The master of self-inflicted wounds
has done it again. This time, President Donald Trump is walking away
from meaningful, verifiable limits on Iran’s bomb program. The
constraints on Iran’s nuclear program embedded in the 2015 Joint …
Centauri Dreams
Perspective on the View from Out There
Although we’ve seen spectacular images from deep space with the help of
Voyager, New Horizons and numerous other spacecraft, the view from 1
million kilometers out can still put our world in perspective. Below is
what a CubeSat called Mars Cube One (MarCO-B), one of a pair of such
diminutive spacecraft, saw from that distance as it turned its camera
back toward Earth. At the sides of the image yo
SETI: An Alternate Strategy
How would an advanced society communicate its history and values to the
stars? Bill St. Arnaud argues that just as we can uncover our own
history through careful analysis of archaeological sites, so SETI might
uncover traces of ETI cultures in the form of signals that take
advantage of natural astrophysical processes. Read on for more on an
idea Bill first broached in a Centauri Dreams post calle
The Habitable Zone: The Impact of Methane
The definition of a habitable zone is under constant refinement, an
important line of research as we choose which exoplanets to focus on in
our search for life. Centauri Dreams regular Alex Tolley today looks at
the question as it involves the presence of methane. With planetary
warming already known to vary depending on the spectral type of the host
star, we now learn that the presence of methan
The Seasons of Exoplanetary Life
Looking for biological products in planetary atmospheres is how we’ll
first study exoplanetary life, assuming it exists. The tools for
characterizing atmospheres have already developed to the point that we
are examining the gases surrounding some ‘hot Jupiters,’ and even
talking about the movement of clouds — exoplanet meteorology — on giant
worlds. The hope is that TESS will find targets that we
Galileo Evidence for Plumes on Europa
Once again we take advantage of older databanks to tease out new
information. Europa is the case in point this morning, with Galileo data
— magnetic field and plasma wave observations from 1997 — being brought
in as evidence for a water vapor plume rising from the surface. The
Galileo flyby took the craft closer than 400 kilometers, where a brief
spike in plasma density was detected along with a
Civilization Before Homo Sapiens?
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
Craig Murray
The Guardian Rejoices in the Silencing of Assange
The Guardian has today published a whole series of attack piece
articles on Julian Assange which plainly exult in the fact he has now
been silenced by the cutting of his communication with the outside
world. They also include outright lies such as this one by Dan Collyns:
In fact Julian Assange was questioned for two days solid in the Embassy
by Swedish procurators and police in November 2016. Th
The Stomach-Churning Victim Blaming by “Labour Friends of Israel”
The true face of the organisation calling itself “Labour Friends of
Israel” has been revealed today, in truly disgusting victim-blaming
tweets reacting to the massacre of over fifty Palestinians – including
yet more children – by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza. No Israelis
were injured and no “border communities” attacked. This amplification of
the worst extreme right wing zionist propaganda b
When Is a Massacre Not a Massacre?
On the day the Israeli Defence Force massacred dozens of unarmed
Palestinians in Gaza and maimed over 400 more, our media has carefully
avoided the use of the word massacre. Here is a Google search of News I
did five minutes ago on the word “massacre”. A massacre occurred today
in which more people were killed than at Glencoe. All of them were
unarmed and the majority were well over a hundred yar
The Incredible Bias of the BBC
The right wing bias of BBC Question Time tonight staggers belief, even
for the BBC. One Francoist, two Tories, the still more right wing Chukka
Umunna, all “balanced” by Akala, who thankfully has more brains, and
certainly more compassion, than the rest put together. Esther McVey ,
Tory. Champion of the rape clause, minister implementing benefit cuts
and promoting privatised benefits assessments,
Half a Million Pounds of Taxpayers’ Money Bails Out Criminals Jack Straw and Sir Mark Allen
So the Belhaj family have accepted an apology and half a million pounds
of our tax money to drop their legal action against HMG and against
Jack Straw personally over their extraordinary rendition to torture in
Libya. The British establishment, whichever party is in power, continues
to do everything possible to cover up the shameful history of its
complicity in torture and extraordinary rendition
Not Forgetting the Rohingyas
The news cycle moves on, and having had their fifteen minutes of
Western compassion, whole peoples are left to struggle on with the wreck
of their lives. Today the media suddenly recall again the terrible
dispossession and oppression of the Palestinian people. In a couple of
weeks time, they will be back to claiming that anybody who recalls that
is an anti-semite. The fashion for worrying about t
DAMMIT JANET!
Nova Scotia Religious Groups That Will Get Canada Summer Jobs Grants
Here
are the religious groups in Nova Scotia that did not succumb to the
spin and bad-faith arguments on the Canada Summer Jobs attestation or
"abortion clause." I point out again that the attestation could as well
be called the "sexuality/gender/gender identification clause" but why
bother? The media and the "faith community" (meaning mostly the Catholic
Church) chose to see it purely as ABORTION
Newfoundland and Labrador Religious Groups Get Canada Summer Jobs Grants
Newfoundland
and Labrador Reminders: I was going by name only, quite literally. All
(known) religious groups got tagged. Others that sounded "churchy" got
checked. Caps and quotation marks from original document . Where "no
website" is noted I could not find a website for that particular group.
(Obviously there is a website for "United Church of Canada" but
sometimes I couldn't find one specific t
Manitoba Religious Groups That Will Get Canada Summer Jobs Funding
Chugging
along here. Manitoba here. Not as many different groups as BC or
Ontario, but still diverse. Also, still no identified anti-choice groups
have slipped by. The Canada Summer Jobs attestation seems to be working
as intended. Reminders: I was going by name only, quite literally. All
(known) religious groups got tagged. Others that sounded "churchy" got
checked. Caps and quotation marks from
Religious Groups That Will Get Canada Summer Jobs Grants: PEI and Territories
A
few more. Prince Edward Island Cardigan MP Lawrence MacAulay, Lib
Murray Harbour United Baptist Church
https://peibaptist.com/murray-river-baptist-church/ Charlottetown MP
Sean Casey, Lib Trinity United Church http://trinityclifton.org/ St.
Peter's Cathedral http://www.stpeter.org/cathedral/ Egmont MP Bobby
Morrissey, Lib. Bideford Pastoral Charge
http://www.peipresbytery.net/bideford-pc.html We
British Columbia Religious Groups Successful in Canada Summer Jobs Applications.
Many
more religious groups from British Columbia, again of all sorts.
Reminders: I was going by name only. All (known) religious groups got
tagged. Others that sounded "churchy" got checked. Caps and quotation
marks from original document. Where "no website" is noted I could not
find a website for that particular group. (Obviously there is a website
for "United Church of Canada" but sometimes I co
Religious Groups in Saskatchewan Who Respect Charter Rights
In
the "kerfuffle" over the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) attestation, the spin
put on by the media and the Conservatives has been astounding. Despite
the tons of research done by Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC)
volunteers, the usual suspects continued to paint it as "ideological
coercion" etc. This from today is typical. Waaah! Thousands of jobs lost
to "Liberal forced speech" in Saskatchew
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
Prominent labour activist, plus well-known chanteuse and LGBTQ+ activist, named to Alberta Order of Excellence
What a pleasure it was yesterday to see Reg Basken’s name on the 2018
list of eight new members of the Alberta Order of Excellence. There was a
day I wasn’t at all sure it was even possible for someone associated
with a trade union to be honoured in this way. But, for sure, Mr. Basken
was and is a union guy. He joined the union at the Saskatchewan Power
Corp.’s operation in Estevan in about 1957
Call it what it is, says labour minister: successive Conservative governments denied Alberta working people their rights
CALGARY – For many years, Alberta working people were routinely denied
rights other Canadians take for granted, Alberta Labour Minister
Christina Gray said last weekend in a bluntly worded speech on labour
relations policy in Alberta. The speech provided insights into the
direction the NDP government of Premier Rachel Notley will take in its
campaign for re-election in 2019, and as such it deserv
The United Conservative campaign strategy after Red Deer: Tom Olsen and the Wreckage offer hints
I think I’ve figured out the United Conservative Party election
strategy for 2019. In light of the embarrassingly revealing policy
resolutions passed at the UCP’s founding convention in Red Deer over the
weekend and the party leadership’s subsequent effort at damage control,
not to mention the emerging behaviour of candidates seeking UCP
nominations, the strategy is becoming clear. They’re going
Admirably true to their Iron Age code, UCP delegates defy their leaders and the zeitgeist
Modern Conservatives indeed! The Wildrose Party base – by which I mean
the United Conservative Party base, they are the same people – is a wild
horse that cannot be ridden safely or broken easily for reasons of mere
political expedience. This is partly because it contains many people of
genuine principle, even if their principles are those of a previous
epoch – to wit, the Iron Age when the Old T
Alberta then and now: Marking the third anniversary of the unexpected victory of Rachel Notley and the NDP
CALGARY Three years ago today, Albertans did the unexpected in the
province’s 29th general election and elected a majority New Democratic
Party government. In truth, despite Albertans having been instructed for
generations by those who are supposed to know better that they lived in
the most conservative province in Canada, what voters did was not
completely unexpected. From a macro point of view,
Just get over it, WestJet! It’s time to negotiate like grownups with your pilots’ union
Message to WestJet: It’s time to negotiate with your pilots like
grownups. After all, this is Canada and they’ve got a constitutional
right to bargain collectively, so you need to just get over it. At this
point, you’ll do more harm to your business by fighting them than you
will by making an effort to have a mature business relationship. The
recent call for a strike vote by WestJet pilots, who a
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin A former Facebook and Google exec explains why Amazon is a 'silent assassin' that could one day threat...
From Jenna Orkin A former Facebook and Google exec explains why Amazon
is a 'silent assassin' that could one day threaten Facebook Russia looks
like it's about to make it illegal for its own people to observe US
sanctions Erdogan: Cyprus Oil Drilling Is A Security Threat To East
Mediterranean WHO Prepares For "Worst Case" As Congo Ebola Outbreak
Spreads US, Sweden, And Finland Boost Military Coop
From Jenna Orkin Trump's embassy move intensifies America's immoral support for Israel's alt-right government | Opinion...
From Jenna Orkin Trump's embassy move intensifies America's immoral
support for Israel's alt-right government | Opinion What's notable here
is the source for the article: Haaretz MH370 investigators say captain
deliberately crashed the plane in murder-suicide It's official: NASA is
sending a helicopter to Mars for the first time in 2020 HOT weather
forecast: Summer 2018 SCORCHER as Britain to be
From Jenna Orkin An "Audible Gasp" Was Heard When The Chicago Fed Unveiled Its "Solution" To The Pension Problem German...
From Jenna Orkin An "Audible Gasp" Was Heard When The Chicago Fed
Unveiled Its "Solution" To The Pension Problem German Bank Allows Users
To Transfer Loans Anywhere In The World Using Bitcoin "We Are Telling
People To Plan For The Worst": Hawaii Braces For Explosive New Eruptions
Army's New Weapon: Special Goggles Allow Soldiers To Shoot Around
Corners Kansas Police No Longer Allowed To Have Sex
From Jenna Orkin A new fissure from the Hawaii volcano is spattering lava — and it's just east of a geothermal energy p...
From Jenna Orkin A new fissure from the Hawaii volcano is spattering
lava — and it's just east of a geothermal energy plant All the companies
that hired Michael Cohen have an Enron problem Bank of America says oil
could surge back to $100 next year, and lays out exactly how it could
get there It seems like chimpanzees have specific calls for 'snake' and
other words — and it could teach us how hum
From Jenna Orkin All 3519 Ads Russia Used to Troll US Election Great Green Wall of Africa News that's a little more enc...
From Jenna Orkin All 3519 Ads Russia Used to Troll US Election Great
Green Wall of Africa News that's a little more encouraging than banning
plastic straws Trump's legal team thinks unlikely developments in Paul
Manafort's case could flip Mueller's investigation on its head Elon Musk
Releases Video Of First Completed "Loop" Tunnel Under Los Angeles UK
Proposes Prison Time For Offensive Online Pos
From Jenna Orkin Israel launched a barrage of airstrikes on 50 Iranian targets in Syria — a massive escalation that cou...
From Jenna Orkin Israel launched a barrage of airstrikes on 50 Iranian
targets in Syria — a massive escalation that could lead to all-out war
Putin may have given Israeli PM Netanyahu the green light to wipe out
Iran in Syria in a massive air war Vintage video of Kim Jong Un and Xi
Jinping's dads on a diplomatic trip in 1983 shows their deep family bond
Another Step Towards Collapse Of The Petrod
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BWorld 210, Electricity competition, EPIRA, and WESM
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last week, May 09, 2018. Last
Monday, I discussed business competition in general and the role of the
Philippine Competition Commission (PCC). The theme will be continued in
this piece and it will discuss electricity competition in particular,
especially after I was able to interview PCC Chairman Arsenio Balisacan,
the CEO of the Philippine Electricity Market
TRAIN, DOF and AER
The DOF/Dutertenomics and what I think is its front-NGO, Action for
Economic Reforms (AER). Very vocal and noisy in tax-tax-tax (oil, lpg,
cars, coal, sugar, cigarettes, etc; expanded VAT), saying that TRAIN
will not be inflationary and any inflationary impact is just bogeyman
(panakot lang) and not real. Now vocal in supporting TRAIN 2 and
defending TRAIN 1. If you guys are noisy at raising oil
BWorld 209, Is the PCC a facilitator or a hindrance to business competition?
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last May 07, 2018. Even before the
various competition bills in Congress ultimately became the Philippine
Competition Act (PCA) of 2015 or RA 10667, I have been asking myself
this question. After all, I have observed that the main creator of
monopolies and oligopolies is the government itself through
constitutional restrictions on public utilities and creation
China Watch 28, Duterte sailing to PH Rise in the east when dispute is in the west
Dear Armed Forces of the Philippines, As your naval units steam
eastward at Benham Rise covered by your air assets and away from the
main operational area of the West Philippine Sea towards the general
direction of the United States of America, while led by your deranged
commander in chief, let me just say that is the best example of an
advance in the opposite direction. Rest assured this masterf
BWorld 208, Consumer choice in electricity supply and prices
* This is my column in BusinessWorld on April 30, 2018. In several
statistics comparing electricity prices in Asia, the Philippines often
ranks as the third most expensive in Asia next to Japan, Singapore, or
Hong Kong. Here are numbers from three different sources: (1) The Lantau
Group (TLG), “Global Benchmark Study of Residential Electricity
Tariffs,” May 2013. The study prepared for the Energy
Malaysia elections, Mahathir back in power but my friend Wan Saiful lost
Last Wednesday, May 09, Malaysia held its 14th General Elections
(GE14). My good friend Wan Saiful Wan Jan, co-founder and former CEO of
Malaysia's first free market think tank IDEAS, resigned from the
institute in February and became a politician by March to help challenge
the political hegemony of Najib and BN Party, the ruling party for six
decades. Of course I hoped that Najib and party would
henrymakow.com
Chuck Baldwin: Israel Has Been a Disaster for Mankind
Almost everything about Organized Jewry is a fraud. Start with the
Talmud, the original tirade of hate against the goyim. Move on to the
Cabala where they claim to be God. Next, their banking system which
charges our government for the use of its own credit. Add their
fraudulent claim to the state of Israel. (The Khazars bought the
"Jewish" franchise in the Eighth Century.) What the Khazars did t
Freemasonry Conceals Its Diabolical Secret from Members
Freemasonry is the Church of Satan. Of course, the uninitiated "Blue"
ranks aren't told they worship Lucifer. Satanism is the inversion of all
values, the normalization of sickness and the denial of reality. Albert
Pike: "Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism,
and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages,
or the Elect, and uses false explanation
My Mother -- Love is Self Sacrifice
(left. My mother feeding my brother in 1958) My annual Mother's Day
article slightly revised By her example, my mother, Helen Iskowicz Makow
(1919-1983), taught me by example that love is selfless devotion to
family. But I didn't learn to show her my love before she died. "I grew
up in an era when the media taught us that homemakers were not cool.
Women like my mother who nurtured and loved their
America's Only Choices: Jewish Communism or Jewish Zionism
Reminder - George Soros was Behind Iran Deal American politics today
are defined by two versions of the Jew World Order, Zionism
(nationalism) on the Right and Communism (globalism) on the Left. The
article below is a reminder that when George Soros pushed through the
Iran nuclear deal to the consternation of Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump rode
to his rescue. Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015
Karl Marx Was Rothschilds' Third Cousin
(Rothschild agent Chaim Mordecai makes Masonic sign. Freemasonry is
Jewish Cabalism. Cabalism is Satanism.) May 5 is the 200th anniversary
of Karl Marx's birth. "In order that the true meaning of things may not
strike the goyim before the proper time, we shall mask it under an
alleged ardent desire to serve the working classes..." Protocols of Zion
VI Latest - Top Ten Marxian Objectives Accomplis
"The China Hustle" Exposes Mega Scam
Next to Madoff, this was the biggest financial swindle in history and
no one has heard of it. The film, "The China Hustle" is an eye-opening
view of how the quick-witted shear the innocent sheep in the stock
market. After the credit crunch in 2008, hundreds of two-bit Chinese
companies listed in the US and lied about their revenues and growth. US
banks, accountants, and lawyers were happy to keep
In These Times
Socialists and Progressives Just Trounced the Democratic Establishment
If members of the Democratic Party establishment weren’t already
worried, after Tuesday night, they should be. In primaries across the
country, at least eight candidates running on explicitly progressive
platforms won out, including open socialists and political newcomers who
took out longtime incumbents. These victories are proof that the recent
successes of left challengers are no fluke. Rather
Watch This Palestinian-American Woman Crush Every Media Trope About the Gaza Protests
Since Palestinians in Gaza launched the Great Return March on March 30,
Israel has killed at least 109 Palestinian protesters and wounded
12,300 others, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Instead of probing
the Israeli government and its U.S. backers about this mass atrocity,
American media outlets are far-too-often implying that Palestinian
protesters are responsible for their own deaths—false
Palestinians Are Forcing the World to See Their Humanity
We watch a split screen. On one side: celebrations of the new U.S.
embassy opening in Jerusalem. The president's daughter, son-in-law,
cabinet officials, Congress members, all smiling, proud. The U.S.
ambassador, longtime settlement financier David Friedman, joins Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu, his family, cabinet officials, Knesset
members—all waiting for President Trump to join their festivi
As Israel Kills Dozens, Gazans Continue to Protest. A Palestinian Woman Explains Why.
For almost seven weeks, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have gone to
the “Great Return March” protest encampment to raise their voices and
call attention to the plight of the 1.8 million people living in the
coastal enclave. Israeli soldiers have responded to the protests with
deadly force, killing at least 90 Palestinians and wounding more than
10,000 since March 30, according to Gaza's Minist
These Statistics Show Why Gazans Are Risking Their Lives To Protest Israel
Since March 30, mass protests have engulfed the areas along the
Israel-Gaza security barrier. Ten thousand or more Palestinian
protesters have gathered each Friday to call for an end to the 11-year
blockade by Israel and Egypt. The protests, dubbed the Great March of
Return, are scheduled to last until May 15, to mark the 70th anniversary
of Israel’s Independence Day. Palestinians refer to the da
This Mother’s Day, Mexican Moms Marched for Their Disappeared Children
It’s been two months since Margarita Castillo Fuentes has hugged her
son. She’s joining, for the first time, the hundreds of mothers marching
in Mexico City on Mother’s Day to demand the return of their missing
children. Twenty minutes before 10:00 a.m., Margarita lines up holding a
banner with an image of her son, Ángel de Jesús González Castillo, with
a big question on top: “Have you seen him?”
Majia's Blog
"Autistic" Children Everywhere
Yesterday while waiting at a car dealership for an oil change I
overheard a woman on the phone who was stating that she had two
grandchildren under 3 with autism. When she got off the phone another
woman of the same age range approached the first and said that she too
had a grandchild with autism. Since I have published in this area ( see
here ) and had a child diagnosed with autism almost two de
Michael Klare: The Road to Hell in the Middle East
Energy historian Michael Klare, whose work I follow closely, has a new
essay at Tomdispatch where he analyzes the dyanmics of an imminent war
in the Middle East. Unlike the first two Gulf wars, which were all about
oil (and oil pipelines), Klare argues the current tensions are
organized by a battle between Iran and Saudi Arabia for dominance in the
region and control over all the region's treasur
A Regime of Heedless Extraction and the Hope for a Better Tomorrow
The Trump administration represents a regime of heedless extraction.
His administration is heedlessly unleashing the extractive industries. I
cannot understand the RISK-BLIND logic that drives decision-making to
deregulate finance, big oil, nuclear, big ag, etc (even education under
deVos) (see De-Regulating the Would-Be Masters of the Universe.. .)
There will be no hopeful tomorrow if we discoun
Truth and Sophistry and the Crisis of Communication
The ancient Athenians both elevated and suspected a democratic ideal of
citizens’ full participation in the polis through that form of
communication known as rhetoric (note that citizens were a privileged
few in Athenian society). Simultaneously, many citizens and philosophers
doubted the capacity for public reason, fearing that the polis would be
corrupted by sophistry as rhetoric was suborned t
Greenpeace Japan Alleges Lack of Disclosure Regarding Fukushima Daiichi Radiation Risk
Patrick Knox (2018, April 19). Japan ‘covering up’ Fukushima nuclear
danger-zone radiation levels and blackmailing evacuees to return to
radiated areas swarming with radioactive pigs and monkeys. The Sun,
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6092789/fukishima-cover-up-radiation-japan-campaigners-nuclear-residents-scared/
...senior nuclear specialist Shaun Burnie, from Greenpeace Japan, said
the nuclear
Northern Reflections
Hell Hath No Fury
Lately, Stephen Harper has been showing his true colours -- he's a
nasty conservative who is equal parts bully and bile. Andrew Cohen
writes : In February, he was elected chairman of the International
Democratic Union (IDU), an organization of ”centre-right” parties. In
April, he saluted the re-election of Prime Minister Viktor Orban of
Hungary, the most authoritarian of them. This month, he appl
A Very Select Few
The Conservative Party of Ontario prefers cult to policy. That's
increasingly obvious in the Ontario election. Martin Regg Cohn writes :
At a Doug Ford rally, the leader is always late, leaving extra time for
his populist anthem to penetrate your being. A throbbing earworm that
burrows deep inside your consciousness. “Bring us hope, bring us
change,” the theme song exhorts. The crowd is warmed up
Nobels Are For Noble People
Residents of the Right Wing Looney Bin -- like Nigel Farage -- are
trumpeting the suggestion that Donald Trump should receive the Nobel
Peace Prize. Michael Harris writes : You know Farage. He’s the
bloviating bigot who served as “the racist shitetrump” of the United
Kingdom Independence Party, according to one Twitter wit. Of course,
UKIP is the political party that led Britain out of the Europe
Despair Won't Get Us To Where We Want To Be
For some people, politics is all about finding a Messiah. Chris Hedges
believes that approach leads to a dead end. Real political change begins
with community: No leader, no matter how talented and visionary,
effectively defies power without a disciplined organizational
foundation. The civil rights movement was no more embodied in Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. than the socialist movement was embodie
He's A Fraud
Efficiencies. That's the word Doug Ford is using instead of "cuts."
That's because he -- or his party -- have learned something from the
last time around. Linda McQuaig writes : Former Conservative leader Tim
Hudak went into the last Ontario election humming the familiar
right-wing refrain about government waste and inefficiency. But he made
things specific: he said he'd eliminate 100,000 public
His Nose In His Navel
Jason Kenny has coined a new phrase and is milking it for all its
worth. The enemy, Kenny declares, is "the green left." The reason for
his bombast, Michael Harris writes , is that Kenny has been out toried
by Rachel Notley: Almost as soon as she rocked the nation by winning a
majority government, Rachel Notley underwent a political sea change. She
quickly morphed into someone the president of Su
Northerntruthseeker
Murder
In Palestine: US Makes Ludicrous Attempt To Justify Israeli Actions At
Gaza Border, Having The Nerve To Call Them "Restrained"!
I
have been sick to my stomach after I spent the last day and a half
pouring over so many of the articles and pictures of the immense
slaughter of innocent people conducted by those psychotic freaks in
Israel against the innocent people of Palestine.... As of this morning,
the last reports have stated that some "100" Palestinians are now dead
while over 3000+ have been "injured"... Considering the
The Global Warming Fraud: What Can You And Yours Expect In A Grand Solar Minimum
Well...
Apparently most of the provincial governments here in Jew controlled
Canada have finally agreed on how to split the enormous amount of new
tax revenues they are going to collect when this once free country
imposes its fraud 'Carbon Tax' on the gullible Canadian people... This
tax..errr..swindle will bilk the average Canadian out of at least
another $500 to $1000 a year out of their hard ea
Psychotic State Of Israel Slaughters Palestinians, While Ivanka The Ghoul Goes To Sick State To Unveil New US Embassy!
I
decided to take yesterday as one of those "me days" and do a lot of
catching up on personal and family business... I also find that I need
to take a break from blogging once in a while to "clear my head" and to
get re-energized to write new material here for all to see.... And of
course it always seems that when I take a day 'off', hell breaks loose
somewhere on the planet, and lo and behold we
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, May 13th, 2018
It is Sunday, and better late than never here comes my weekly weekend
rant.. First, I do want to once again wish all of the important mothers
out there a Happy Mother's Day... I just spent the day with that most
important lady in my life and of course the mother of my son... As well I
spent part of the afternoon visiting my mother that is still in
recovery from her broken hip kerfuffle.... I want
Happy Mother's Day To All Those Very Important And Hard Working Mothers Out There!
I
want to wish all of the great mothers out there a very heart felt Happy
Mother's Day for tomorrow.. I will of course be spending the day
tomorrow with my own mother and of course the woman who has put up with
me all of these years.. And therefore I will indeed be very late in
getting tomorrow's rant off... I will do my best at the end of tomorrow
in trying to sit down and type it out, but it may
Important
Interview With Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad: States Facts About
Fraud Chemical Attacks, And About Present Situation In Syria
With
all of these recent moves by the criminal and psychotic state of Israel
that is hell bent on having Syria destroyed and to see the US fighting
in a war against Iran, I have been wondering what the Syrian President,
Bashar al-Assad has to say about what has been happening in his nation
as his armies continue to march towards victory against the US/Israel
backed and supported so called "rebels"
Not PC
Bonus Quote of the Day: "...the most important weapon in Hamas's arsenal."
"Hamas understood early that the civilian death toll was driving
international outrage not at Hamas but at Israel, and that this, not
I.E.D.s or ambushes, was the most important weapon in its arsenal." ~
Matti Friedman, from his New York Times op-ed ' Falling for Hamas's
Split-Screen Fallacy ' . Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com ©
Permission to republish is granted, with link and attribution.
QotD: Budget-Day Edition
An election is an advance auction of stolen goods. Budget Day is the
auction itself, when the formal announcement is made of which goods and
their owners are to be parted. So here, especially for Budget Day, are
some thoughts on the nature of taxation by both taxers and tax-victims:
“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the
largest possible amount of feathers with th
Some background to Hamas's riots
Elan Journo, author of the upcoming book What Justice Demands: America
& the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , offers some relevant background
to understand what you see in the news from the Gaza border . Israeli
citizens, he argues, have a legitimate right to self-defence, which the
Israeli Defence force is protecting. Just like us, acknowledges Journo,
"Israel has flaws and shortcomings. Yet, also
Tweet
of the day: "Seeing Jews & Muslims fighting over the shittiest
piece of land on Earth makes me realize how privileged I am here in
Canada."
"Seeing Jews & Muslims fighting over the shittiest piece of land on
Earth makes me realize how privileged I am here in Canada. When you
don’t have a hard-on for divinely sanctioned real estate allotment, the
world is so much more beautiful. Burn your holy books & open your
eyes." ~ Ali A. Rizvi , author of The Atheist Muslim: A Journey From
Religion to Reason Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Co
Megan Woods is a thief and a liar
No-Energy Minister Megan Woods claims "the petrol market is not working
for motorists" and remains convinced "that people are quite possibly
paying over the odds for their petrol when they go to the pump." This is
proof that it is possible to get a true conclusion from wildly idiotic
premises. Because motorists are paying well over the odds for their
petrol -- but it's not because the oil compani
On the death of silence
“…the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the
incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity
of the soul.” ~ Josef Pieper "Man is not even aware of the loss of
silence: so much is the space formerly occupied by the silence so full
of things that nothing seems to be missing. But where formerly the
silence lay on a thing, now one thing lies on another. Whe
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