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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
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?
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: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National 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.
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
( 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
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
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
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
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 […]
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
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
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.
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
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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