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Australians
aren’t buying Turnbulls fence-sitting do-everything (do nothing) energy
plan There is a lesson for politicians all over the world. Labor,
Liberal, what’s the difference? In Australia the Labor party is 100%
Gung Ho about controlling the global weather with our power supply.
Despite that Dead-Weight handicap, slightly more Australians think that
the Labor party will be better at managin
Endangered species can thrive in habitats other than forests, paving way for their return
blogger-following
Retired English teacher Yvonne Mason has spent much of her life
correcting students' writing. But it's a letter from the White House,
signed by President Donald Trump, which has proved a pretty noteworthy
correction exercise — and it's attracted plenty of attention. SEE ALSO:
We've become normalized to Trump's tweets. Not this one. "If it had been
written in middle school, I'd give it a C or C-pl
It's surely a stunt out of a Hollywood film. A man's dramatic climb up
the side of a building to rescue a child in Paris earned him widespread
praise, plus a meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron. SEE ALSO:
NASA shares the story of how a SpaceX launch completely melted this poor
camera 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama, an undocumented Malian migrant,
took less than 40 seconds to scale four fl
Veteran
NASA photographer Bill Ingalls lost one of his cameras in a freak
accident earlier this month. Having been assigned the task of
photographing ...
Via:
Sacramento Bee: California’s dramatic new license plate is hitting the
streets — a digital display board that allows changeable messages
controlled by the driver or remotely by fleet managers. The new plates
use the same computer technology as Kindle eBook readers, along with a
wireless communication system. They come with their own computer chips
[…]
Up
to a dozen islands off the far north coast of Queensland have now been
closed to the public. The invasive rodents, which made their way to the
isla...
It was just another day at the office. Pot of beans here. Tray of
granola there. Giant salad. Cheese board! And then, out of nowhere, like
a sunshower or rainbow or unicorn, scones. Scurries from desk toward
snack table. To know me is to know I love scones. I love scones! This
was one of my “reasons” to study abroad in Scotland. Here in the States,
though, they have a tough reputation (dense, dry
The way you learn how to make craft cocktails isn’t by drinking a lot
of them (though that experience doesn’t necessarily hurt). You need to
memorize recipes, learn how different liquors are made, and even
understand a bit of chemistry—that’s why most serious bartenders and
booze connoisseurs are well-read folks, with libraries full of
bartending guides and cocktail books that they still referenc
People run for safety on Boulevard d’Avroy before shooter is shot dead
by police A gunman has killed two police officers and a passerby before
being shot dead in the centre of the Belgian city of Liège, public
broadcaster RTBF has said. La Libre Belgique newspaper quoted a police
source as saying the gunman shouted Allahu Akbar – “God is greatest” in
Arabic – and had taken a woman hostage at some
The
Brazilian was pivotal to Monaco’s Ligue 1 title success and his arrival
at Anfield suggests Jürgen Klopp’s side will put in a stronger
challenge for the title next season “During the transfer window and even
the month after it was a little difficult to live with the situation,”
admitted Fabinho in December. “I had to leave, I did not leave, etc. But
I do not think about it any more, the page i
AP/Getty/Salon As one might expect in the Donald Trump era, instead of a
long Memorial Day weekend of somber presidential ceremonies honoring
the nation's fallen, we got a short wreath-laying ceremony and days of
either self-aggrandizing or angry Trump tweeting and incoherent Rudy
Giuliani blathering. Obviously the president was watching too much TV
again and his lawyer was currying favor by appe
Moscow
is prepared to respond to the expanding NATO infrastructure towards
Russia's borders, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said commenting on
Warsaw's plans to build a US base in Poland. "In general, when we record
gradual expansion of NATO military structure towards our borders, when
NATO infrastructure directly approaches our borders, this certainly does
not contribute to security and stabilit
Researchers
working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) coupled graphene, a monolayer form of carbon,
with thin layers of magnetic materials like cobalt and nickel to produce
exotic behavior in electrons that could be useful for next-generation
computing applications.
Astronaut
Don Peterson, who first trained for a classified space station before
he became one of the first people to spacewalk from the space shuttle,
has died at 84.
Scientists grafted human stem cells onto chicken embryos, but that doesn't mean the researchers are breeding "frankenfowl."
An
international team has developed a model that simulates protein
evolution. Starting from stiff, unfunctional proteins, the computer
model shows how evolving protein components can work together to give
rise to dynamic and efficient molecular machines. Flexibility allows
proteins to change their 3D conformation to bind other molecules: this
property is crucial to their function. Prof. Tsvi Tlust
For a permanent Mars base to survive, we might have to turn humans into Martians.
Facebook
and Google's business models and flaws evoke a Darpa project shuttered
in 2003. Americans didn’t want the government vacuuming up their data
then—so why are we OK with private companies doing it now?
youtube
Ellen sent BTS members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook to
the "Friends" set on the Warner Brothers lot, where they scared some
lucky fans! Find out how the BTS ARMY reacted to the surprise. From:
TheEllenShow
Austin local Patrick met tWitch on Ellen, and enlisted his help to
create the ultimate surprise proposal dance for his girlfriend Johanna,
in Episode 2 of the new series "tWitch, Please... Help Me Dance!" First,
tWitch takes Patrick into a dance studio to learn the choreography.
Then, with the help of a group of professional dancers, an undercover
Warner Brothers Studio tour cart, and an emotiona
How do you cool a building without air conditioning? Using an approach
called biomimicry, see how architect Mick Pearce harnessed the ingenuity
of termites to design a natural cooling system for the largest
commercial building in Zimbabwe. ➡ Subscribe:
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Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration,
and adve
Every spring the summit of Mount Everest draws people from around the
world. But in its shadow live the Sherpa, a resilient, religious people,
who, despite the riches surrounding the highest peak on earth, are
still quite poor and uneducated. A child of the Khumbu, Apa Sherpa
climbed Everest 21 times. Pulled away at the age of 12 to work as a high
altitude porter, like so many others, he would le
What are pangolins? If you’ve never heard of the pangolin, you’re not
alone. This shy creature, as big as your cat or dog, is the world’s most
trafficked mammal -- with more than one million pangolins poached in
the past decade. Learn more about the pangolin, why all eight pangolin
species are at risk of extinction, and the conservation efforts needed
to save them. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatG
Director: Salomon Ligthelm DoP: Stuart Winecoff Producer: Chris Dodds
Production Company: Made By Limbo Productions Talent: Sy Gaskin
Production Designer: Madison Hatch 1st Asst Camera: Aaron Snow, Tsyen
Shen Steadicam: Ryan Toussieng, Brendan Poutier Key Stunt Rigger: Jamie
Northrup Stunt Riggers: Scott Kelly, Anthony Mecca, Ben Rezendes Key
Grip: Richard Auth Grip: Aaron Landucci Electric: Zac
The Corbett Report
Who
would have ever guessed that the creepy spy gadget that's listening to
everything you do is listening to everything you do? Anyone with half a
brain, that's who. Don't buy this garbage, and don't let your friends
buy it, either.
This week on the New World Next Week: Amazon urged not to sell
Rekognition to police; MKUltra victims proceed with class action; and DJ
Stickybuds takes on Crooked Politicians.
[audio
mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode337-lq.mp3"][/audio] There
is in fact a Middle Eastern nation that is in fact in control of a
vast, undeclared stockpile of nuclear weapons. This nation does have the
capability of deploying those weapons anywhere in the region. It is not
a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and its arsenal has
never been inspected by any interna
[audio
mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode338-lq.mp3"][/audio] The
Trojan horse was the earliest recorded military psyop. That psyop
continues to be deployed on unsuspecting populations and it is just as
useful as ever, but today's tricksters have donned the mantle of
philanthropy, and their Trojan horses are not wooden statues but
non-governmental organizations offering "aid" to forei
China has just opened a new railway link with Iran and CNPC is set to
fill the void left by France's Total if and when they leave the South
Pars field. It looks like the US pulling out of the Iran deal is win-win
for China and the BRICS world order...and the engineered destruction of
the west continues apace.
The EnvironmentaList
In Review: Inside Animal Hearts and Minds
The Lummi Nation campaigns to free a once-wild orca from Miami's Seaquarium
To
come to terms with the many dimensions of our ecological crisis we need
to co-create conscious, connected communities, and act together
California
groundskeeper makes history by taking company to trial on claims it
suppressed information about the weedkiller’s toxicity
Animal rights and environmental groups question ethics, efficacy of annual event in Australia's capital
The Rules of Exposition
I have no idea.
A Different Perspective
There is something that writers know about called the “Library Fairy.”
We believe in it but know that it is not a real entity. It is just a
serendipitous discovery of information that makes a story more real,
provides insight into an event or answers a question that needed
explanation. For me it happens frequently. Sure, here is an example that
does not relate to UFOs or the Coyne helicopter sigh
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
(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
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
In an abbreviated version of chasing footnotes, I found some
information that is relevant to the discussion about the Coyne
helicopter case. I took a look at Richard Dolan’s UFOs and the National
Seurity State . He wrote, on page 384 “When he [Coyne] tried UH-1H
helicopters in flight. Photo copyright by Kevin Randle. to confirm the
existence of a craft out of Mansfield, his UHF and VHF frequencie
One of the things that I enjoy is chasing footnotes. Gives us all a
chance to look at the information circulating in the UFO community, and
how some of the myths and legends of the field grow. We see how the
information is slightly changed as one writer or researcher uses it to
prove a point. One of the latest examples of this, published here,
concerned the Coyne helicopter case and whether or no
European
Society for Endocrinology Conference 2018 Symposium S30.3 Abstract :
Brain structure and function in gender dysphoria The concept of gender
identity is uniquely human. Hence we are left with the phenomenon of men
and women suffering from Gender Dysphoria (GD) also known as
transsexualism to study the origins of gender identity in humans. It has
been hypothesized that atypical levels of se
Amused Cynicism
( PHOTO: King, Ida, Marina and Kiilu at Expressions Gallery in 2001,
just months after King's release from Angola. ) A3 Newsletter, May 15,
2018: Paying It Forward Albert and Robert continue on their epic
journey, sharing their stories of solitary and false imprisonment,
bringing attention to yet unreleased prisoners as in Los Angeles where
they met with members of the Committee to Free Leonard P
NDP MP Christine Moore, who alleged improper conduct by a fellow MP, is facing troubling accusations herself -CBC
Shame on you for how MP Erin Weir has been treated. You consider
yourselves the Party of Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton??!!!! Shame!!!
Jagmeet Singh has no clue of how to lead a Canadian Federal Political
Party. The Party has fallen from just over 19% support in the last
Federal Election to about 10% today. Since February 1, 2018 he has
conducted the worst possible investigatory process imaginable concluding
in a character assassination of my elected NDP Member of Parliament,
Erin Weir. As of today, with 37 years of Party member
The Period of American Dominance Has Passed April 29, 2018 |
Categories: Guest Contributions | The Period of American Dominance Has
Passed Russian Missile Tech has Made America’s Trillion Dollar Navy
Obsolete Dmitry Orlov For the past 500 years European nations—Portugal,
the Netherlands, Spain, Britain, France and, briefly, Germany—were able
to plunder much of the planet by projecting their naval
Truthout’s Public Intellectual Page By Robeeto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez The
color of the people of Mexico is one of the things that had a most
profound effect on my psyche when I first visited the place of my birth
in 1976 at the age of 22. The people came in all colors, though
primarily different shades of red-brown, owing to the nation's
Indigenous roots. Having grown up in a white-dominant society
the
facts are simple, Star Citizen's now like an over-reaching corporation
that's diversified behond the point where it can actually deliver. For
me, it'll never come out in its current form. There are many reasons why
but most involve the transition from 2.6 to 3.0 when so many disparate
things went into this game for no real reason. It's now five years in
the making and, unlike any real game com
Remember that game that was a miserable failure when it launched last
year... NO MAN'S SKY... looked shoddy, had less than half the stuff it
should have had in it... look at it now, a year later. I mean, "Wow!"
Love the boolean-geometry exploding asteroids at about the 06:30 mark
... erm, this failed-last-year project is looking like pretty-dam-cool
at this year's E3.
if you live in a(n Ancient Egyptian-era) world where GALACTIC
ELECTRICITY is far more prevalent in the universe, in fact you live on a
far more electrical world than today, then you can TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT
by making all kinds of monuments and gadgets that DON'T MAKE ANY
FUNCTIONAL SENSE AT ALL today. So, anything round about 10,000 BC when
the Earth could have last been subject to these electric
simple and intuitive control sphere basically, I'm fed up with the
convoluted keyboard-mapped speed-control flight-models of space games
like Star Citizen by Cloud Imperium Games. So, I've come up with a
lovely unified control system that can be controlled with the mouse hand
alone. The pointed moves along the surface of a sphere. Shift Key is a
local rotation override for the ship within the thr
According to legend, the Gods have always been the stars and comets and
planets of our recently-revealed SKY. Here David Talbott talks about
the most infamous of all places we regurgitate from mythology or legend,
ATLANTIS. Crackin' archetypical investigation, as always.
because I graze around the alternative fringe of Science all the time, I
sometimes come across things I wouldn't normally have found if I was a
simple researcher within my chosen field. Case in point, THE STONE BALLS
OF COSTA RICA. But they're not. They're everywhere. All over the world.
Some are small, there are lots of them. Some are the size of Olmec
Heads, you know the ones, it's (probably) a
Grass Based Health
I'm
in the midst of a very busy season of travel. I was on my way home
recently when I got a wonderfully encouraging e-mail. I met Betty and
Byron at a talk I'd given recently at the Pharo Cattle Company Spring
Bull Sale in Southwest Missouri. They've begun their own low-carb
journey and are enjoying the results completely predictable benefits.
Still, it's nice to hear of the positive changes that
Greg Mankiw's Blog
Some sign a letter opposing tariffs . Others sign a letter supporting President Trump . You can guess which one I signed.
Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Source: PLANETA UFO (Argentina) and El Diario de Querétaro (México)
Date: 05.08.2018 Mexico: UFO Sighting at Peña de Bernal Unidentified
Flying Object (UFO) reports are emerging from Pueblo Mágico de Bernal as
a consequence of the spring equinox. UFO experts have also detected
them in different parts of Chile. Luis Alfonso Lopez, president of the
Asociación OVNI Querétaro, said in this regard tha
Source: PLANETA UFO and 'Venga la Alegría' (TV show, Canal Azteca,
Mexico) Date: 05.08.2018 Mexico: UFOs Recorded in the Skies over
Coahuila and Monterrey Researcher Yohanan Díaz presented these images on
Tuesday in the 'Venga la Alegría' TV show. The contributor to El
Grafico also made known the material documented by Ross Cantú,
considered a extraterrestrial contactee, on the TV program, broadc
Source: PLANETA UFO and El Tribuno Date: 5.10.2018 An Article by Ivana
Castillo Contacteeism: New UFO Sighting Over Rosario de la Frontera "For
20 days now, there have been five extraterrestrial craft hovering in
the vicinity of Rosario de la Frontera. These are beings of light that
are saying hi to humanity and want some sort of contact with us." These
were the worlds of José Exequiel Alvarez, f
Source: PLANETA UFO and ElPais.com Date: May 8 2018 An Article by
Magdalena Martinez Uruguay : Was it a UFO? National authorities mobilize
the Flying Object Report Reception & Investigation Committee
(CRIDOVNI) after receiving several phone calls. The strange light turned
out to be a commercial flight. The live rebroadcast with which Channel
30 (Punta Cable) of Punta del Este, Uruguay interrupted
Our friend and colleague Alfonso Salazar shares with us some
photographs of the Interjet Airbus A-320 (Registration XA-BIO) that was
struck by an unidentified flying object at 23:00 hours on 15 August
2015. The photos were taken by personnel at Mexico City International
Airport and the case was investigated by Mr. Salazar himself.
Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal history
[The late Dr. Osvaldo Muray was perhaps one of Chile’s most
enterprising researchers, and INEXPLICATA is honored to have featured
his work in past issues. Our friend and colleague Raul Núñez has shared
the latest issue of NOUFA (Noticiero Ufológico Autónomo - #55, May 2018 )
with an article by Dr. Muray that will startle our readers – Scott
Corrales, IHU] Giant Triangular UFO Visited Antofagasta
Land Destroyer
May 25, 2018 ( Gunnar Ulson - NEO ) - Centuries ago, technology like
sailing ships, guns, and steel armor enabled Europeans to appear on
South American shores and appear godlike to the natives. Through a
combination of spreading disease and wielding military, organizational,
economic and of course technological superiority, Europeans subjugated
the native populations and conquered an entire conti
May 9, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The so-called "Iran Nuclear
Deal," officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA) signed on 2015 now under threat by a backtracking US - was
billed at the time of its signing as a historic agreement that provided a
path forward towards peace between the US and Iran. The BBC in an
October 2017 article titled, " Iran nuclear deal: Key deta
May 18, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - After now 2 years of
accusations and constant headlines regarding allegations of still
unproven "Russian influence" in the 2016 US presidential election, it is
difficult to imagine that real political meddling or election
interference anywhere around the globe could go unnoticed. This is
especially true regarding the Western corporate media who has portray
May 12, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Israel has repeatedly struck
Syria with missiles and rockets - the most recent exchange taking place
after Israel claims "Iranian rockets" struck positions the Israeli
military is illegally occupying in Syria's Golan Heights. Headlines like
the UK's Independent's, " Israel and Iran on brink of war after
unprecedented Syria bombardment in response to allege
May 1, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - After well over a year of
accusing the Russian government of interfering in the 2016 US
presidential elections, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has
finally indicted 13 Russians for what it calls "interference operations
targeting the United States." The 13 Russians indicted allegedly
represent the "Internet Research Agency" merely referred to as "
May 22, 2018 ( Ulson Gunnar - NEO ) - A few years ago the story of
former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal allegedly being poisoned with
a deadly nerve agent in the UK supposedly by the Russian state, would
have shook geopolitics and placed immense pressure on Moscow. Today,
while it certainly did shake geopolitics, it was more from the narrative
hitting a brick wall than from its desired impa
Left I on the News
This week's broadcast segment on Loud & Clear radio is here .
CANDIDATES FOR “WORST” or “MOST DISGUSTING”: Anti-Castro militant Posada
Carriles is dead at 90
http://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article211726514.html?__twitter_impression=true
A notorious terrorist, not a “militant”. Even the US considered him a
terrorist. Luis Posada Carriles, Who Waged Quest to Oust C
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
Middle East Today
Since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, Israel’s political
strategy has been consistent, to drive the Palestinians from their land
in order to implement Eretz Israel or greater Israel. More than five
million Palestinians were driven out of their homes and were classified
as refugees. In addition, more than 500 villages were demolished so that
none of those refugees could come back to thei
News From Atlantis.
Ernest Hess, Hitler's WW1 Commanding Officer Stephen Spielberg's work
of Fiction , Schindler's List, is taught in schools as fact - making a
mockery of an already dumbed-down education system. The ridiculous
holocaust propaganda - mobile gas vans, telephone boxes disguised as gas
chambers, electrocution swimming pools, the amazing Auschwitz from
which more people 'survived' than entered! - none o
Following, all four parts of Timothy Fitzpatrick's work, 'Trump
controlled by Mossad. From https://fitzinfo.wordpress.com Trump
controlled by Mossad, part I Donald Trump and Mossad asset Ghislaine
Maxwell out on the town in New York City in 1997. By Timothy Fitzpatrick
October 29, 2016 Anno Domini Part I Any inquisitive person should be
asking themself why a seemingly anti-establishment candidate
Religion
is a man made idea designed to control by preying on the weak and
stupid, it was created to maintain order amongst the masses. More than
one religion exists, it is unclear what the first religion in existence
was though many claim to be the oldest religion. The fact that many
different religions exists only adds to confusion as which do you
believe? Personally i would say none but obvious
NolanChart.com
All the of the focus is on President Trump, and its not hard to understand why, he is doing his job, he is leading America. […]
Fox
News, on Facebook, just covered a news conference live – they
identified this conference this way: Reps. Zeldin, Meadows, Jordan,
DeSantis, Gaetz & other […]
Donald
Trump’s political base, the “Deplorables,” may come more from the
Republican Party than anywhere else, but they are not establishment
Republicans, they are Christian, […]
Democrats
at every level of government have adopted Obama’s anti America Speak,
and more, they do want America to fail. They are supported by the […]
Let’s
see: Economy booming after Trump de-regulation and tax cuts!
Unemployment at its lowest since World War II! Serious negotiations
concerning nuclear North Korea are […]
Obsidian Wings
by russell time for a break from politics? I've been thinking about
what I have learned from drumming. About drumming, about music in
general, about life in general. Maybe it's of interest on its own terms,
maybe it will make you think of what you have learned from the things
you do. I started playing when I was 10, so it's over 50 years now. As
an online friend once observed, "Playing drums is n
by wj As I noted in a comment earlier, one of my political goals would
be 1) equality of opportunity, 2) NOT equality of outcomes, 3) adequate
support for those who are struggling, funded by money from those who
have been most successful. But how do we get there? I think that first
we have to accept the concept of Enough . When you have income, what do
you spend it on? First, you need food on the
by JanieM russell’s post on drumming has reminded me that there are
worlds and worlds that I know nothing about, and sometimes it’s fun to
peek into them. For instance – long ago a carpenter friend who worked in
stained glass as a sideline took me to pick out some glass for a window
he was helping me make. We went to a rundown neighborhood in Boston,
then into a shabby-looking two-story house. In
by Ugh Today in what must be the eleventy-billionth article on the
subject, the WaPo makes the rugged, overland, sometimes I'm sure
dangerous, journey to the restive provinces to find out just why Trump
voters voted for Trump and what Trump voters think of Trump now that
Trump has been Presidenting. Farming, lamb processing, and a John Deere
hoodie make appearances. Also: “I think Trump brought o
by Ugh Back in the day I suggested that perhaps the higher ups at VW
would not run into any trouble for the emissions scandal. Indeed,
informed commentators deemed it "highly unlikely" that gaming the
emissions system was a senior management decision and was "relatively
contained" in VW. Well, it seems my and others' surmisings were wrong:
Volkswagen AG ’s former Chief Executive Officer Martin Wi
by liberal japonicus Not really a great title, but I've been taking in a
little of the discussion about Michelle Wolf's monologue at the WHCD.
And we are in need of an open thread and it's a bummer seeing "What is
racism?" every time in the sidebar (and yes, that is privilege talking,
cause I can step back from it) Anyway, stuff below the fold. Here's
Michelle Wolf's full monologue, if you haven'
Pesticide Action Network
This blog is the third in our Farm Bill series focusing in on key
issues of concern to those in our network. HR 2, the House version of
the 2018 Farm Bill, went to the House floor for a vote last week, and
failed. PAN was one of more than 500 organizations who voiced opposition
to the House bill, including farmer organizations, advocates for rural
communities and hunger and social justice groups.
McDonald’s has a long history of employing business practices that are
devastating to the lives of workers and their communities. Key among
these: the fast food chain continues to source potatoes grown with
drift-prone pesticides that put the health of nearby rural and
Indigenous communities at risk, despite claiming “sustainability
priorities” and “responsible sourcing.” In the weeks leading up
This week, the Hawaiʻi legislature made a momentous decision to pass a
bill that would ban the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. The bill, SB
3095 , includes several other protections from and disclosures around
pesticides that can harm children, including buffer zones around
schools. The bill now heads to Hawaiʻi Governor David Ige — who can sign
or veto the legislation. A collaborative effort
After years of strong scientific evidence and even stronger advocacy,
this week European officials decided to make a temporary ban on three
bee-harming pesticides permanent. This is very, very good news for bees
in Europe. The decision reflects years of hard work by our PAN partners
and many others. It also spotlights just how far behind we are in the
U.S. — not only with our pollinator protectio
This interview with Churdan, Iowa farmer Patti Naylor is the second
blog in our series focusing on key issues of concern in the Farm Bill to
those in our network. In this blog, Patti focuses on her vision for a
Farm Bill process that better serves her farm and community. Many
provisions in the Farm Bill legislation introduced in the House of
Representatives will be harmful to farmers, rural commu
The Hawaiʻi legislature has made a momentous decision to pass a bill
that would ban the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. Now it's on the
Governor's desk. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
Philosophical Comment
I have posted two times ( here and here ) about the deeply misguided
decision by the editorial management team of the Indian Journal of
Medical Ethics not to retract a fraudulent, obviously "antivaxx"
propaganda piece, article . On invitation, I have also summarised my
opinion on this matter at the Daily Nous philosophy blog. In all of
these posts, I have strongly underscored the otherwise very p
Only the other day, I posted about "highly problematic" publication
ethical decisions of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics , and even
more problematic positions taken when challenged. After having raised
the issue in some closed facebook groups in my field, the initial
concerns I had about the direction taken by the journal, have now
deepened considerably. First, the entire managing editorial
It is a recognised challenge of my research field, bioethics, to
include and empower researchers and institutions from low- and
midlle-resource settings. Since a few years, the leading journal of
Bioethics , runs the side journal Developing World Bioethics to address
this issue, and over the past few years a number of journals have
appeared, based at institutions outside of the most affluent part
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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