SCREW YOU GUYS, I'M GOING HOME
Customer Heaping Racist Abuse On Employees? Employer Must Stop It Or Risk Suit
The video of the guy heaping abuse on a restaurant's employees for speaking Spanish that went viral made me wonder: what did the restaurant do after this? A company's duty to keep the workplace free of national origin and immigration status harassment extends to protecting its employees from customer abuse and discrimination. The most common case comes when a customer demands the company engage in
Senate Democrats Seek To Ban Noncompetes
It won't pass, but a group of Democrats in the U.S. Senate have proposed a bill that would ban noncompete agreements . The Workforce Mobility Act would prohibit the use of non-compete agreements and require employers to notify employees that these agreements are illegal. It would also allow the U.S. Department of Labor to enforce the ban with fines on the employer. Here are the key provisions: 3.
SYRIA COMMENT
Turkey’s Afrin Operation Stokes Syrian Yazidi Fears and Fuels Displacement — by Sylvain Mercadier
Following the Yazidi Genocide that began Aug. 3, 2014 in Sinjar, most awareness of the Yazidis has centered on Iraq’s Yazidi community. Syria also has many Yazidi villages located in Kurdish areas. These homelands have been inhabited by Yazidis for centuries, but their populations have become increasingly vulnerable, first with the Syrian Civil War and now with Turkey’s invasion of Kurdish areas.
The Last Thing the Middle East Needs Now Is Another War – By Robert Rabil
The Last Thing the Middle East Needs Now Is Another War By Robert Rabil – @ robertgrabil For Syria Comment – April 27, 2018 The growing vocal call to punish the Syrian regime for its flagrant violation of human rights, including its recent alleged use of chemical weapons against its own people, has become the peg on which to hang the coordinated efforts to cast the regime as a threat to the natio
Iran in Syria: “Cognitive Empathy” and Interests
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi How should Iran’s intentions in Syria be understood? The question is all the more relevant in light of the recent exchange of missile fire on the border between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syria. Writing in The Intercept back in March 2018 , Robert Wright argued that DC think-tanks “warp our vision” and prevent us from applying “cognitive empathy” when it come
THE DUCK OF MINERVA
No Supply Without Demand: A Response to Stephen Walt
This is a guest post by Sarah Detzner, a Ph.D Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Her research is focused on international security, particularly post-conflict stabilization/reconstruction and security sector reform. In addition, she serves as Director of the Fletcher Graduate Writing Program, as a Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies and the Institute for Human Security,
Seven Reasons We Use Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI)
This is a guest post from Paul Musgrave , Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Sebastian Karcher , Associate Director of the Qualitative Data Repository at Syracuse University. Recently, the Qualitative Data Repository launched “Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI)” as a method to add transparency to scholarly research. ATI is a new approach
The Tyranny of the Big 3? Which Journals Count Most May Be Increasingly Problematic
In recent days, there has been much discussion about the so-called Big3 journals in Political Science: the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. Each is the standard-bearer journal for their respective associations–the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association and the Southern Political Sc
Rumor, Social Media, and the Question of Knowledge
Some time ago, Charli reviewed an article I published in International Organization . In that review, Charli asked how do we know what we ‘know’ about the nature of external states. At the time, I thought the question an important one. In only a few years, the question has gone from important to absolutely critical. As the politics surrounding Trump’s election and administration, including the no
Climate and Security: Bridging the Policy-Academic Gap
In March, I argued that the connections between climate change and security are complex, contingent, and not fully understood. Most of the academic literature has firmly focused on conflict onset with the broader security consequences largely understudied . For policy audiences, the nuance can be frustrating. It is difficult to know what to do with such complexity, other than talk broadly of clim
We are Groot
Today is President Putin’s inauguration day and even Avengers couldn’t stop it, as evidenced by the arrested raccoon in the center of Moscow on Saturday during the unsanctioned rally ““He’s No Tsar to Us.” For Russia watchers, the Saturday protests probably created a sense of déjà vu of May 2012 when much larger protests erupted in Moscow and around Russia. They displayed a high degree of social
WMTC
elect laura kaminker for mississauga centre
wmtc / 6d
Dear friends of wmtc: I have been nominated as the NDP candidate for Mississauga Centre, the riding where I live and work. You can follow my campaign here on the web , on Facebook , and on Twitter . I am very excited to work for the people of Mississauga Centre, to help bring change for the better. Under the leadership of Andrea Horwath, Ontario can recover from the devastating effects of past gov
LEFT I ON THE NEWS
Russia meddled to get Trump elected, right? Let's look at the evidence.
Left I on the News / 12d
Russia meddled in the election to get Trump elected, right? OK, let's examine the evidence. Democrats today released the "3500" FB ads placed by "the Russians" (in reality, placed by a Russian company called the Internet Research Agency, with alleged but totally unproven connection to the Russian government). I downloaded some and painstakingly went through every ad placed in July and September 2
ADRIENNE'S CORNER
Don Lemon: Trump hates me 'cause I'm black. Candace Owens: I refuse to play the "black card"...
Adrienne's Corner / 13h
notice the difference? My feeling is about this President have been known. I’ve said it on the air. You know, I think he has — he is racist. I think his actions show it. I think the facts show it. Does he attack me for that reason? I don’t know. That could be a part of the equation. But I think he does it because he watches every night. He will say he doesn't. He likes hearing about himself from
Will Stefan Halper be the undoing of Obama?...
probably. Halper being uncovered as a planted spy in the Trump campaign does not bode well for Odumbo and the commie/marxist/libtards who are scrambling about trying to cover their trail. H.A.L.P.E.R. Spells Game Up for Obama's Spies and The Slow-Motion Coup and Obama and his minions dealt a blow far worse than Watergate and The Hunter Becomes the Hunted and SPIES LIKE OBAMA? do a credible job of
Crazy Eyes Nancy Pelosi vs Candace Owens and BREAKING: School shooting in Santa Fe, TX...
who makes more sense? When a woman who claims to be Catholic and supports with every fiber of her being the right of women to dismember and destroy the human life growing in their womb says: "When the president of the United States says about undocumented immigrants, 'these are not people, these are animals,' you have to wonder, does he not believe in the spark of divinity? In the dignity and wor
Pentecost Sunday...
Alleluia, alleluia! O God, who this day instructed the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that through the same Holy Spirit we may always be truly wise and rejoice in His consolation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, Who lives and reigns with Thee, in the unity of the same Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever.
Tyranny of Thought...
is the real goal. Are you as tired of hearing about lying criminally subversive Mueller as I am? It's day's like this I seek out that which expands my mind or inspires my creativity, because the chances of these commie/marxist/libtards ever ending up in a jail cell is remote. I'll settle for them just going away and letting Trump do his job without all the distractions. And who needs distractions
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
MAJIA'S BLOG
Japan Plans on Dumping Fukushima's Radiation Contaminated Water
Majia's Blog / 1h
On March 29, 2012 a Japanese professor of nuclear engineering told the New York Times that “Unfortunately, all we can do is keep pumping water inside the reactors” in response to reports that the drywell inside Fukushima Daiichi reactor 2 had radiation levels of 72.0 sieverts an hour: Cited in Hiroko Taubchi “Japan Nuclear Plant May be Worse Off Than Thought,” The New York Times (2012, March 29):
Meanwhile, 80% of Fukushima Prefecture radiation monitors to be removed
Majia's Blog / 1d
because the radiation levels have allegedly stabilized https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/national/fukushima-prefecture-radiation-monitoring-posts-installed-3-11-hit-glitches/#.WwMT5e4vz3g
Geoengineering and Carbon Dioxide: Can We Escape Collective Insanity?
Majia's Blog / 1d
I've been reading about geoengineering as a solution for climate change. I've noticed its introduction as a novel set of strategies for resolving the looming problems of erratic systems disequilibrium in weather produced (or exacerbated by) the industrial revolution and, I would add, atmospheric testing (see articles cited at bottom of this post for examples of geoengineering). [i don't discount
Diluting Tritium and Dumping in the Pacific Ocean
Majia's Blog / 4d
The solution to pollution for polluters is DILUTION, as you can see in the article below, which describes approvingly efforts to discharge tritiated water from the Fukushima Daiichi disaster into the Pacific Ocean: William Steel ( 5/11/2018) Remediating Fukushima—“When everything goes to hell, you go back to basics” ArtsTechnica, https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/remediating-fukushima-when-
Productive Energy or Destructive Energy
Majia's Blog / 5d
Japan has re-started 8 reactors since 2011. Now the LDP government hopes to re-start around 30 more reactors to hit a target goal of 20-22% of the energy share with nuclear power at its core: Shinichi Sekine and Rintaro Sakurai 20-22% share of nuclear power at core of updated energy policy THE ASAHI SHIMBUN http ://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201805140045. html The government is committed to nuc
ARMSCONTROLWONK
“A New and Useful Rocket Apparatus”
Matt Korda, fellow Canuck and master of North Korean missile puns, submitted this piece on publicly available missile patents. It’s wonderfully in the weeds, but then again we are called Arms Control “Wonk” for a reason, right? ______________ When I’m bored, I sometimes like to scroll through the latest patents listed on Google. It’s the …
The Libya Model and North Korean Nukes
What is going on with the Trump-Kim summit following the recent cancellation of a DPRK-ROK meeting? Will Trump and Kim meet? And how does John Bolton fit into all of this? Today, Aaron and Jeffrey discuss the latest twists and turns in the run-up to the Singapore summit, and raise broader questions about denuclearization and …
North Korea, the CTBT, and (maybe?) the end of the nuclear-testing era
Ears pricked up across the nonproliferation world last week when North Korea’s representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva stated that Pyongyang “will join international disarmament efforts for a total ban on nuclear tests.” Does this development mean that North Korea may be prepared to join the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty? The ambassador’s remarks, offered …
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 …
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 …
Netanyahu and the Atomic Archive
Bibi showed off Iran’s bomb. And its pretty crappy. The slide show added some titillating details to what the world already knew about Iran’s nuclear weapons program and, in doing so, made the case for why the JCPOA is so important. The real news was not the documents or their provenance, but what they revealed …
WEEKLY GEO-POLITICAL NEWS AND ANALYSIS
Trump’s universal trade war declaration is bringing events to a head
U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of trade war with just about everybody is really just a case of Trump negotiating a Chapter 11-style bankruptcy for the United States. A kinder way of putting it would be to say that the U.S. is revolting against an international system that has looted its people on behalf of globalist oligarchs. Yet another way of putting it is to say the world is negoti
May 21 report will appear a few hours later than usual
This week’s report will be posted several hours later than usual. The next article will be posted on Monday afternoon U.S. Eastern time. The post May 21 report will appear a few hours later than usual appeared first on Weekly Geo-Political News and Analysis .
Big showdown expected in Middle East as end game approaches for Saudi Israelia
Peace in the Korean Peninsula means the Khazarian mafia is now pulling out all stops in an effort to start World War 3 in the Middle East, multiple sources agree. The result is that there is now a huge battle going on there that is likely to determine the fate of Israel and its ally Saudi Arabia, a collective we will refer to as Saudi Israelia. The battle will also determine who rules the West—sa
Purge at highest levels of secret government spells doom for the satanists
A change of guard and a purge of secret power brokers is breaking the deadlock in the battle for the Earth, say Pentagon, Vatican, agency, and other sources. This is expected to result in the official disclosure of 9/11 and 3/11 truth as well as the removal of several G7 leaders, according to the sources. To kick off this process, Admiral Mike Rogers, the head of the NSA who “resigned” on May 4th
Trump Iran sanctions aimed at forcing Middle East peace, Pentagon sources say
The battle for the planet Earth has heated up again with major movements in the Middle East, Malaysia, Indonesia, Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere as a final showdown approaches between the Zionist fanatics who want World War 3 and the rest of humanity who want world peace and friendship. On this front, the renunciation by U.S. President Donald Trump of the Iran nuclear accord is, on the surface,
Massive satanist offensive runs out of steam and counterattack begins
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
A VERY PUBLIC SOCIOLOGIST
Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa - One Kiss
Got something in the works on Jon Cruddas's polemic against the new left, but it won't see the light of day, um, tonight. Here then is a top summery tune for your consideration.
The Royal Wedding and Indifference
It's nice that a young couple have met, fallen in love, and are due to formalise their commitment to one another. For them, their family and their friends it will (hopefully) be a wonderful day, something they'll live to fondly remember. And as it's wall-to-wall telly and press, you might have heard something about it. Ah yes, the royal wedding, the taxpayer funded jamboree of bowing and scraping
There's the Decency, Kenneth
I'm glad Ken Livingstone has decided to quit the Labour Party because I agree with his resignation statement . He writes "The ongoing issues around my suspension from the Labour Party have become a distraction from the key political issue of our time – which is to replace a Tory government overseeing falling living standards and spiralling poverty ... However any further disciplinary action again
On the Lewisham East Shenanigans
It's going to be a match made in heaven. No, not the Royal wedding , but the solemn and holy contract made between Lewisham East Labour Party and their new Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Janet Daby. Winning 288 votes to Sakina Sheikh's 135 and Claudia Webbe's 35, Janet's win is convincing. Not even a united left or a second preference deal struck beforehand would have been able to see her o
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
FROM THE WILDERNESS' PEAK OIL BLOG
From Jenna Orkin Petrol prices hit record levels on the road to $2.30 a litre Petrol prices hit record levels on the ro...
From Jenna Orkin Petrol prices hit record levels on the road to $2.30 a litre Petrol prices hit record levels on the road to $2.30 a litre Petrol prices hit record levels on the road to $2.30 a litre Russia's first sea-borne nuclear power plant dubbed the 'nuclear Titanic' arrives in the Arctic A bullet was sent to the home of Malaysia's top anti-corruption official investigating a former prime m
From Jenna Orkin Scuba Farming Someone needs to do an EROEI test of this China Releases Footage Of Bombers Landing On D...
From Jenna Orkin Scuba Farming Someone needs to do an EROEI test of this China Releases Footage Of Bombers Landing On Disputed Island For The First Time Drinking Baking Soda Could be an Inexpensive, Safe Way to Combat Autoimmune Disease China Reportedly Holding Thousands of Muslims in Internment Camps U.S. Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low The Future of Border Security: Lie-Detecting Computer Kiosks E
From Jenna Orkin Reconciliation and the National Insecurity State - Mark Robinowitz of Oilempire.us - Audio Russian Sup...
From Jenna Orkin Reconciliation and the National Insecurity State - Mark Robinowitz of Oilempire.us - Audio Russian Supersonic Bombers Head To Arctic Borders, 500 Miles From Alaska IG Horowitz Finds FBI, DOJ Broke Law In Clinton Probe, Refers To Prosecutor For Criminal Charges FBI Spy-Op Exposed, Trump Campaign Infiltrated By Longtime CIA And MI6 Asset All 34 Bishops In Chile Suddenly Resign Over
From Jenna Orkin Bitcoin’s energy use got studied, and you libertarian nerds look even worse than usual Gunfire erupts ...
From Jenna Orkin Bitcoin’s energy use got studied, and you libertarian nerds look even worse than usual Gunfire erupts at Trump resort, police arrest man 'yelling and spewing some information about President Trump’ Suspected gunman 'arrested and secured' after shooting in Texas high school Chinese Firm's Assets Frozen By France Over Alleged Links To Syria's Chemical Weapons Median-Priced Home In
From Jenna Orkin Enlightened Libertarian insights European Leaders Revolt Against US Sanctions In Bid To Preserve Iran ...
From Jenna Orkin Enlightened Libertarian insights European Leaders Revolt Against US Sanctions In Bid To Preserve Iran Deal Sweden In Free Fall Putin Drives Dump Truck Across $3.6 Billion Bridge He Built To Crimea Checkmate: Russia's Hypersonic Missile Ready For War By 2020 Ultrasonic Attacks Can Trigger Alexa & Siri With Hidden Commands, Raise Serious Security Risks Broke Illinois Pension System
From Jenna Orkin Blowback Begins: EU To Ditch Dollar In Payments For Iranian Oil A Wake-Up Call for Dems? 4 Women With ...
From Jenna Orkin Blowback Begins: EU To Ditch Dollar In Payments For Iranian Oil A Wake-Up Call for Dems? 4 Women With Socialist Platforms Win PA Primary to Replace Male Incumbents Feds Raid Apartment of Suspected CIA Leaker, Find 10,000 Images of Child Porn How the Enlightenment Ends - Henry Kissinger An antibiotic-resistant strain of 'super gonorrhea' is spreading around the globe The Senate ju
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
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
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
Aurora, Texas - Again
This probably should be another edition of “Why I’m Beginning to Dislike Ufology,” but I thought I’d just use it as a single example of what is wrong with us today. I had thought we had finally driven the stake through the heart of the Aurora, Texas, UFO crash of 1897. I thought that the overwhelming evidence showed no such event had taken place. It was, in the terminology of today, “Fake News.”
NORTHERNTRUTHSEEKER
Exposing The Evils Of Judaism: Pedophilia - The Talmud's Dirty Secret
Northerntruthseeker / 10h
I have long come under fire from many naysayers that claim that I am way too hard on the Jews and that I should not disrespect them and instead concentrate on only one facet of their "tribe", which of course is "Zionism".... I have said to these naysayers for years now that I first started out trying to associate their evil ways with only "Zionism", but after years of research I have long come to
This Is Insane: Drumpf Administration Puts Out A List Of 12 Impossible "Demands" On Iran For A New "Nuclear Deal"
Northerntruthseeker / 1d
As I stated in my weekend rant and in previous articles, the criminal government of the United States has indeed withdrawn from the "Iranian nuclear deal" as demanded by their masters in Tel Aviv to set the stage for a new war against Iran.... Many people are not even aware of how good the US actually had it with the original "deal" that was signed off in 2015... Under the terms of that "deal" the
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, May 20th, 2018
Northerntruthseeker / 2d
Sunday... And time once again for my weekly rant.. It is "Victoria Day" long weekend here in Canada, and for the life of me I still cannot figure out why this nation continues to celebrate the monarch of a foreign nation as a holiday come tomorrow... Queen Victoria of the British Empire died over a century ago, and yet this nation continues to "honor" that bitch by having "Victoria Day" in her "h
World Is Waking Up To The Evils Of Israel: Quick, Throw Out Another School Shooting To Distract Them Again!
Northerntruthseeker / 3d
*Again, I took yesterday "off" to take care of some personal business and to relax from a most busy and hectic week.... And as usual, when I always take a "day off", something happens that deserves the attention of real truth seekers in the "alternative media".... Well, the world has been abuzz this last week with report after report about the horrendous and horrific massacre of the Palestinians b
Important Health News: Gardasil Vaccine Triggers Immune System To Attack A Woman's Brain!
Northerntruthseeker / 5d
With so much attention being focused in on the ongoing Israeli slaughter of innocent Palestinians (a good thing, for it draws attention to the plight of the Palestinians!), and of course the impending wedding of the son of Captain James Hewitt, Prince Harry, and of course the American actress Meaghan Markle, there has been a lot of overlooked issues that everyone should be paying attention to... A
Is Israel Psychopathic? (Is This A Trick Question?)
Northerntruthseeker / 5d
It has now been almost 3 days since the horrific Israeli slaughter of innocent Palestinians who were peacefully protesting within the confines of the world's largest open air concentration camp known as the "Gaza Strip".... We have all seen the net result with well over 100 (some say as many as 200+) innocent lives snuffed out by the criminal IDF forces who shot unarmed civilians while launching f
GLOBALOVE THINK TANK
Politics Conservative Style
GlobaLove Think Tank / 1d
Govermenting is hard. In a 21st Century democracy its becoming impossible. Life for the majority is not getting better. For the youth Nihilism has replaced religion. No one sees a better tomorrow. The corruption that is human nature is constantly exposed , without any attempt to cover up. Into this void jump the nastiest of the politically power hungry, whose only vision is power. We are living G
NOT PC
QotD: The importance of "I don't know"
Not PC / 1d
We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, 'I don't know.'" ~ Richard Feynman [Hat tip Lisa Van Damme ] . Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with link and attribution.
Qotd: The motive of egalitarianism
Not PC / 2d
"The motive [of egalitarianism]... is not the desire to help the poor, but to destroy the competent." ~ Ayn Rand . [Hat tip Ayn Rand Bot ] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with link and attribution.
QotD: "I think the blind passion of political discussions makes it very clear how desperately uninformed and uneducated most of us are today
Not PC / 5d
"But also, one of my phrases to capture the problem in education today is that children are being taught to look around them and think, 'This is all here, and now our job is just to form opinions about it,' rather than, 'This is all here -- and here is how we got here, and here is where it comes from, and here is what it depends on.' Even just understanding that this world that they know hasn't e
QotD: "A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue."
Not PC / 6d
"A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue." ~ Ayn Rand . Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with link and attribution.
Bonus Quote of the Day: "...the most important weapon in Hamas's arsenal."
Not PC / 6d
"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.
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
GOVERNMENT AND TAXES
BWorld 213, Disruption, inflation and taxation
Government and Taxes / 9h
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last May 17, 2018. Disruptors tend to be successful in three ways: (1) They dramatically lower historic prices through new cost structures…” — Accenture, “Disruption need not be an enigma,” February 2018 “Inflation is taxation without legislation.” — Milton Friedman, 1974 Disruption is good for consumers. It unsettles many incumbent and entrenched players whic
Economic central planners meet ecological central planners
Government and Taxes / 9h
When economic central planners were hoodwinked by, or partner with ecological central planners, one result is lousy economic policy based on crystal-ball predictions. Like this high oil, LPG, coal taxes under TRAIN 1. Dutertenomists believed that world oil prices would never rise high anymore partly because they thought that world demand for oil will flatline or decline soon as more e-cars, e-bik
BWorld 212, Commodities competition and the mining debate
Government and Taxes / 2d
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on May 15, 2018. The chart is added here as it was not accommodated in the column due to space constraints that day. Commodities competition as defined in this piece refers to companies that are producing certain commodities and are competing for investors. Thus, energy companies are those that plan to attract more investors and expand operations when world e
8 years of "Hope and change" vs 1 year of Trump
Government and Taxes / 2d
I see many people still glamorize the 8 years of "hope and change" in the US when it did not have a single year of GDP growth of 3%. Many policies were simply anti-business. From 2009-2016 of "hope and change," these countries achieved growth of 3% or higher: Canada and Germany 2x, UK and Japan once, USA zero. China, it kept humming at 6-10% growth. Last year, the US was estimated to grow at 2.2%
Energy 108, On mandatory solar roof in California
Government and Taxes / 2d
I saw this news from LA Times two weeks ago. California heads toward requiring solar panels on all new houses By ANDREW KHOURI MAY 08, 2018 | 4:55 PM California to force new home owners to buy solar panels Anthony Watts / 9, 2018 https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/09/california-to-force-new-home-owners-to-buy-solar-panels/ What political socialism cannot achieve in America in terms of more comma
BWorld 211, Intellectual property, innovation, and prosperity
Government and Taxes / 3d
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last May 10, 2018. The BusinessWorld Economic Forum 2018 is fast approaching this coming May 18 and it has a timely theme, “Disruptor or Disrupted? The Philippines at the Crossroads.” Focus is on the challenges, risks and potentials of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technological advances. Endless trial and error, research and development, intangible a
UNIVERSE TODAY
Are We Headed Towards Another Deep Solar Minimum?
A (nearly) naked Sol… more the norm than the exception these days. Credit: NASA/SDO AIA 512/1600 imager. Have you been keeping an eye on Sol lately? One of the top astronomy stories for 2018 may be what’s not happening, and how inactive our host star has become. The strange tale of Solar Cycle #24 is ending with an expected whimper: as of May 8 th , the Earthward face of the Sun had been spotless
Weekly Space Hangout: May 23, 2018: Mike Massimino and Nat Geo’s ONE STRANGE ROCK
Hosts: Fraser Cain ( universetoday.com / @fcain ) Dr. Paul M. Sutter ( pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter ) Dr. Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg ( MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg & ChartYourWorld.org ) Special Guests: This week, we are extremely excited to welcome former NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino back to the Weekly Space Hangout in a segment he
Are Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Coming From the Collapse of Strange Star Crusts?
Fast Radio Bursts (FBRs) have fascinated astronomers ever since the first one was detected in 2007. This event was named the “Lorimer Burst” after it discoverer, Duncan Lorimer from West Virginia University. In radio astronomy, this phenomenon refers to transient radio pulses coming from distant cosmological sources, which typically last a few milliseconds on average. Over two dozen events have b
The Pressure Inside Every Proton is 10x That Inside Neutron Stars
Neutron stars are famous for combining a very high-density with a very small radius. As the remnants of massive stars that have undergone gravitational collapse, the interior of a neutron star is compressed to the point where they have similar pressure conditions to atomic nuclei. Basically, they become so dense that they experience the same amount of internal pressure as the equivalent of 2.6 to
Gaia Turns Up 13,928 White Dwarfs Nearby the Sun, Including Several Formed Through Mergers
In 2013, the European Space Agency (ESA) deployed the Gaia mission , a space observatory designed to measure the positions of movements of celestial bodies. For the past four years, Gaia has been studying distant stars, planets, comets, asteroids, quasars and other astronomical objects, and the data it has acquired will be used to construct the largest and most precise 3D space catalog ever made,
NASA Cubesat Takes a Picture of the Earth and Moon
In 1990, the Voyager 1 spaceprobe took a picture of Earth when it was about 6.4 billion km (4 billion mi) away. In this image, known as the “ pale blue dot “, Earth and the Moon appeared as mere points of light because of the sheer distance involved. Nevertheless, it remains an iconic photo that not only showed our world from space, but also set long-distance record. As it turns out, NASA set ano
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Hanging out with the Greens
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Yesterday MB drove me to Augusta for the annual Maine Green Independent Party convention where I was the keynote speaker. Also in attendance was State Representative Ralph Chapman (Brooksville) who left the Democratic Party two years ago and became the highest ranking Green Party elected official in the US. Chapman was a big help to us during our recent General Dynamics corporate welfare bill cam
Global Network 26th annual space conference in England
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Croughton USAF base near Oxford, England being upgraded for surveillance, communication, command and control and the planning and execution of endless wars. The push for global domination relies heavily on military satellites for surveillance, communication, command and control and the planning and execution of exercises and wars. However, military satellites require ground-based stations to send
'We're learning these tactics from Israel - they're the best at population control'
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IRAQ WAR VETERAN IN PALESTINE, new short documentary: "Seeing these Israeli soldiers doing the same, the violence against the people, the hate against the peopl e, it's the same as what we were doing in Iraq and Afghanistan." A film by Chris Smiley featuring Captain Matthew Hoh . Hoh has nearly twelve years experience with America's wars overseas with the United States Marine Corps, Department of
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The Age of Economic Warfare Begins. Will It Lead to a Conventional War?
Valdai Club "In the early hours of May 10, a day after the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Israel launched a missile attack on “Iranian military facilities” in Syria, allegedly to punish the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for having fired 20 missiles at Israeli military positions. This happened in the Golan Heights area, where, to believe the Israelis,
Likud MK Pushes Israel to Recognize Kurdistan as Independent
'Cause when you just wanna get along with your neighbours taking every action to antagonize them makes perfect sense... As US Congressman DeSantis pushes for the recognition of Syria’s Golan as Israeli territory we have and Israeli MK pushing for Israel to recognize Kurdistan as and independent state Can anyone deny that the US and Israel are being intentionally provocative pushing these concepts
Congressman urges US to recognize Syria’s Golan as Israeli territory
Coming hot on the heels of the inflammatory embassy move to Jerusalem this type of recognition would simply 'up the game' in the region. Press TV Arutz Sheva DeSantis Statement of Support For Israel Claim to Golan Heights (PT) A member of Congress has urged the US to recognize Syria’s Golan Heights as an Israeli territory after Washington's relocation of its embassy to Jerusalem al-Quds last week
US To Turn Heat Up on EU as Trump Admin. Hits Iran Central Banker with "Terror" Sanctions
Link and Link The Trump administration designated the head of Iran’s central bank a terrorist Tuesday, slapping on sanctions intended to further isolate Iran from the global financial system. The Treasury Department named Valiollah Seif a “specially designated global terrorist” who is being accused of helping transfer millions of dollars to Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group. Seif is the g
Breaking: Israel Strikes Syria
Coming hot on the heels, and predictably so, of the cancellation by the US of the P5+1 there are reports of Israeli Air Force strikes on Syria. Trump Breaks Nuclear Deal (P5 +1) Risks Increased Middle East Conflict Good- Bye P5+1 + Hello Sanctions = War I'd say Trump and Netanyahu had this planned Fox News Western military sources said the military compound that was hit is located about 10 miles
As Expected, Nikol Pashinyan is the "new" Armenian Leader
The "velvet revolution 2.0" succeeded. The Armenian Velvet Revolution is over: Pashinian voted in as prime minister The Armenian Velvet Revolution - as Pashinian has named the movement, after the 1989 non-violent transition of power that took place in what was then Czechoslovakia - has been brewing for years. We'd have to define how this was brewing.. Since Pashinyan said in 2013 he could lead a
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Mohawk Nation News 'Shotgun Wedding'
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Read article at Mohawk Nation News.http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/05/19/shotgun-wedding/
Russell Means and Angela Davis: U.S. Imperialism, Perpetual War and Global Racism
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By Brenda Norrell Censored News The incredible words of two great revolutionaries are in my mailbox today, dated ten years apart. The first is an interview with Russell Means, at the anti-war march at the Democratic National Convention, speaking out on U.S. perpetual war and imperialism. Thank you Govinda Dalton for preserving and sharing this today. Christine Prat in Paris sends us the
'Perpetual War -- U.S. is a Sham' -- Russell Means Interview on U.S. Imperialism in 2008
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'Perpetual War -- U.S. is a Sham' -- Russell Means 2008 Interview on U.S. Imperialism with Govinda Dalton Russell Means and Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke out against the United States perpetual war and imperialism during the final years of their lives Article by Brenda Norrell Audio by Govinda Dalton, KMEC and Earthcycles Censored News DENVER -- Russell Means, in this interview in
Angela Davis in Paris: Anti-Racism Solidarity with Leonard Peltier and Palestinians
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. Angela Davis in Paris: Anti-Racism Solidarity with Leonard Peltier and Palestinians From Christine Prat in Paris Committee in Solidarity with American Indians, CSIA http://www.csia-nitassinan.org/spip.php?article904 Censored News Transcription/French translation of a speech Angela Davis gave in France at the beginning of this month, in solidarity with Leonard Peltier and the
Mohawk Nation News 'Indian Traitors Signing Death Certificates'
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Read article at Mohawk Nation News .http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/05/18/indian-traitors-signing-death-certificates/
Mohawk Nation News 'Our Mother. Our Home.'
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Read article at Mohawk Nation News.http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/05/17/our-mother-our-home/
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