Tuesday, May 29, 2018

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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
Via a correspondent who asked to remain anonymous and unquoted, I received some screenshots of panels from a brand-new comic called Alt*Hero. Story authorship is "Vox Day", the pen-name of one Theodore Beale. He claims to have a 150-ish IQ and refers to Aristotle regularly. I'm passingly familiar with this guy; he comes up with clever expressions. He used to get held up as an example of
Written by Robin Mathews People like Anna Maria Tremonti of CBC(IA) and Margaret Wente of ‘Canada’s National Newspaper’ (The Globe and Mail) are put in place - more and more people are coming to believe - to write and speak vivaciously, pointedly, colourfully about anything but the most serious issues facing Canada. Experts on “Me Too”, the sexual equality battle, and what Ms. Wente calls “the vi

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Kathleen Wynne isn't that bad a person I don't think. But the Ontario Liberals are corrupt. The gas plant scandal/pay for access/public-private-partnerships ... etc., etc., . This is a party that's been in power too long. As premier, Wynne did put through some decent policies. Just like McGuinty the robot created the Green Belt. But the problem with the Ontario Liberals is the problem with libera
People are probably going: "thwap! When are you going to mention Justin Trudeau?!? You've typed two long posts already [ I & II ] and you haven't mentioned him once!" To which I reply: Hold your horses! I'll get to him in my own good time. It's my blog and nobody reads it anyway. I'm talking to myself. I was thinking the other day about how the Powers That Be like to condemn China for its Great I
The Glib n' Stale endorsed enemy of Canadian democracy is back , making farting and gurgling noises about how maybe he'd like to lead Canada again. Yes, it appears that stephen harper has had enough time crying and shivering, getting drunk and pissing himself whilst raging against his imaginary god almighty, begging for wingnut welfare and masturbating to internet porn in various offices where hi
Today is Memorial Day, which is meant for remembering those who died in military service. It's also a good day to reflect on war in general. Back in May 2017, John Quiggin of Crooked Timber made a good observation about Trump bombing Syria and the pundits this impressed. Quiggin: Blowing things and people up is seen as a demonstration of clarity and resolve, unless someone is doing it to us
April is National Poetry Month. As usual, I'll promote the wonderful Favorite Poem Project. Unfortunately, the associated Summer Poetry Institute for teachers ceased last year, but the site still has resources for teachers or anyone else who wants to host a favorite poem event. This year, I'm going to feature a short piece, whose dark wit always makes me smile. Fire and Ice By Robert

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(By American Zen ’s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari) I n Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York , modern day America was introduced to a new villain who was actually an old villain. Through Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis' epic if highly fictional portrayal, latter-day American audiences became acquainted with Bill "the Butcher" Poole (renamed Cutter for the movie). Bill Poole was a large figure in L
Donald Trump is the Gimp of the GOP, evangelicals and especially Putin's Russia, no doubt about it. And the news coming out of the beltway is, as usual, not very encouraging. Well, after all that superficial, play it fast and loose hoopla about the June 12 Singapore summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un, it looks as if it won't take place, after all. In a masterpiece of projection , Donnie Dumbo,
According to Twitter, it's #EndangeredSpeciesDay . Cool! Let's get guns out of the schools and protect our kids because they're about as endangered a species as you can get. At Santa Fe High School , at least 10 people, presumably mostly students, who were alive this morning are now listed as dead. 10 people who should be looking forward to the prom or the junior prom, looking forward to graduati
Where Comrade Ogilvie is always a war hero in the neverending war against Eurasia Eastasia. Remember a few days ago when Trump set everyone scratching their heads after he announced on Twitter that he was allowing sanctioned Chinese telecom company ZTE to purchase US-made parts (Yes, we actually do make something from time to time)? People thought it was just another hypocritical statement by Tru
He hasn't even been sworn in as NRA President, yet, and Oliver North is already slandering the Parkland shooting survivors by calling them "criminals." Yes, the convicted thug who was at the center of Iran-Contra called Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg and the other teenage survivors of that nightmare "criminals." Projection, thy name is Ollie. C'mon, you didn't think that John Kelly, Trump's Chief of S
(By American Zen ’s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari) " Trump is what he is, a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and not-at-all compensating vanities, which is pathetic. Pence is what he has chosen to be, which is horrifying. " - George Will, 5/9/18 I t's a crowning irony that a man who for over seven decades has desperately yearned to be #1 in everything can no longer hold

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Steven Johnson’s book, The Ghost Map , is a thoroughly researched, very interesting, and well written historical detective story. It describes how Dr. John Snow proved that cholera was a waterborne disease, during an 1854 epidemic in London. In those days, nobody knew that tiny invisible life forms, in a nice cool glass of water, could pull the curtains on your existence in a most unpleasant way.
Sebastian Junger’s bestselling book Tribe is fascinating and perplexing. He’s a journalist who has covered a number of armed conflicts. As a result of these experiences, he’s developed an admiration for war and warriors, because chaos brings out the best in people. It creates an alternate reality in which it is acceptable and desirable to behave like human beings (sort of). During times of helter
“Baby Boomers are bloating the social safety net!” “GenXers are changing the nature of work!” “Millennials are killing the housing market!” The media endlessly feeds us stories about how one generation or another is engaging in some collective act of moral failing that, either explicitly or by implication, harms another generation. It’s a widely-mocked cliché at this point, namely the
Former U.S. government officials are consistent features of cable news punditry. I joined Al Jazeera English's The Listening Post to discuss. *****
A pillar of the community. A straight-A student who dreamed of becoming a doctor. A loving father. Here through no fault of their own. She was hysterical and out of control. He was no angel. The press, both local and national, humanizes some victims of state or corporate violence, while demonizing others. Despite good intentions and seemingly without noticing, the media all too often create
I had the honor of returning to the Radio Dispatch airwaves to discuss the history and potential future of the Iran Deal with the great John Knefel. Listen to it below or download it here. Your browser does not support this audio And be sure to check out John and Molly Knefel's amazing archive of past shows here. And listen to the show from now on. C'mon people. *****
For decades, Canada has been a go-to point of reference for American progressives as a country the United States can and should strive to be. And while there are many parts about Canadian society that are measurably preferable, leftists in Canada find their country's glossy, socialist paradise image to be overblown and often a barrier to meaningful change. This episode examines this tension,
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
Dolphins, whales and porpoises (cetaceans) are fascinating animals that continue to capture the imagination of humans as evidenced by the increasing number of whale watchers taking to the seas in search of a glimpse of these majestic creatures. They are amongst the most intelligent animals on our planet and play a critical role in maintaining marine ecosystem health and therefore human health. Ye
Cartagena, 8 May 2018 - Nina Gualinga, an indigenous woman leader of the Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is the recipient of this year's WWF International President's Youth award. An advocate for climate justice and indigenous rights since the age of eight, the award recognizes Nina's relentless efforts to protect nature and communities in the Amazon at a time when the regi

A Very Public Sociologist

Imagine a hole. Imagine a very deep and very wide hole, a hole so, so wide you can't see the sides. A crater so vast that its inhabitants can convince themselves they don't actually live in a hole. After all, they can see the sky and the horizon is clear. Said hole is the current abode of the Conservative Party. Among the matters to have located them there are internal disunity and their making a
What does misinterpretation mean, particularly in hard-to-follow arguments about the complex and often counter-intuitive ways social dynamics work? Often, it can be an honest mistake, of not approaching a position with sufficient nuance or not having a complete picture about the theoretical project of which it is part. It can be a result of one's own assumptions, that because term x has a certain
This, I suppose, is a fragment on fragments. Those bits and pieces of jottings, letters, notes to self, first drafts and other ephemera that accumulate as the debris of writing. When someone, a novelist, thinker, leader, is canonised careers can be made arranging and debating the detritus deposited in a personal (and oft disorganised) archive. Indeed, the very process of establishing somebody as
This month saw 117,437 votes cast over 63 local authority (tier one and tier two) contests. All percentages are rounded to the nearest single decimal place. 12 council seats changed hands in total. For comparison with April's results, see here . Party Number of Candidates Total Vote % +/- Apr +/- May 17 Average/ Contest +/- Seats Conservative 63 46,074 39.2% +0.3% -1.8% 731 -2 Labour 57 44,326 37
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
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
and Jesus weeps. Ironic that on the weekend we celebrate fallen soldiers, Ireland decides that killing babies is a "right." The pictures of women celebrating posted at Daily Mail are enough to make the gorge rise. What woman celebrates the death of her own child? This comment on the Daily Mail article jumped out at me: Could actually cry at this news. A momentous day for women in history. Why, ye
Newt has a way of cutting to the chase. Newt Gingrich: People like Clapper and the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, all these guys thought they could get away with this… Now you are watching people who I think in every case are in danger of going to jail. If the system works and people are actually tested on, “Did you tell the truth under oath?” Clapper’s a perfect example. Mor
I kid you not. I'm not a football fan and the new ruling by the NFL stating that the players may not "take a knee" during the National Anthem doesn't change my life one way or another. The owners generously said a player was welcome to stay in the locker room during the anthem. Out of curiosity I thought I'd slither over to Huff and Puff and see the reactions. I know, I know - it's an ugly job, b
a day reserved to honor those who have died in armed service to our country. Since the 1970's Memorial Day has been observed on the last Monday of May. The flag is lowered to half-staff until noon. The half-staff position remembers the more than one million men and women who gave their lives in service of their country. At noon, their memory is raised by the living, who resolve not to let their s
may God bless our fallen heroes. Enjoy your day, but don't ever forget who helped make it possible.
Quote of the week: “People understood that when lives are given on their behalf they have received something precious. Ceremonies are a way to give something precious in return.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (2013) Editor’s note: Dan Caldwell is a superb teacher, a prolific author, and a wonderful friend. At this time of …
Quote of the week: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein Thanks to the reporting of Steve Liewer of the Omaha World-Herald, we have learned about the latest effort by House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry to drive a stake into the heart of the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
CHUCKY FACE OF AMERICA Posted on May 27, 2018 Please post & distribute. MNN. May 27, 2018. Chucky, the Killer Doll, was asked, “Why do you kill?” He answered, “It’s a hobby. It helps me to relax”. She asked, “Am I going to be a killer?” Chucky answered, “Of course! It’s been a family tradition for generations.” She asked, “But violence is bad. Isn’t it? We have a problem with killing.”
Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas, O'odham, March 22, 2006, south of Sells on Tohono O'odham Nation. Cages used to imprison migrants and water protectors in the United States Article by Brenda Norrell Photo by Ofelia Rivas Censored News This photo is of The Cage, the sweltering inhumane outside detention center used by the US Border Patrol on the Tohono O'odham Nation in the Sonoran Desert,
. NEW REPORT IS BASED ON THOUSANDS OF GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS OBTAINED THROUGH THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT THAT DETAIL HORRIFIC STORIES MAY 22, 2018 WASHINGTON — BY ACLU Censored News Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union featured in a new report released today show the pervasive abuse and neglect of unaccompanied immigrant children detained by U.S. Customs and Border
An eye witness said Claudia was hiding in the bushes when she was shot in the head and executed by a US Border agent. Aljazeera reports: Immigrant rights groups across the United States have condemned the killing of a young unarmed Guatemalan woman who was shot by a border patrol agent in Texas. The woman, identified as 20-year-old Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzales, was shot in the head by a
Vice.com "Trump's inhumane border policies are tearing families apart and traumatizing children." https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43539q/what-separating-migrant-families-at-the-border-actually-looks-like U.S. lost 1,500 migrant children, repeating horror of stolen Native American children Article by Brenda Norrell Censored News The New York Times reports that the Department of Health
. US Secretary Visit to North Dakota By Lisa DeVille, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Censored News Members of POWER requested to have a meeting with Secretary Zinke while he was here in ND. We also requested that allotted landowners have an opportunity to voice our concerns because of the federal government has stated that they want to work with tribes on rights of way for development.
It’s conceivable that getting humans to an interstellar object may not involve journeying all the way to another star. We’ve learned that wandering asteroids and comets move between stars, as the case of ‘Oumuamua demonstrated, and early research offers the possibility that such objects exist in large numbers. Now we have (514107) 2015 BZ509, which is conceivably an interloper into our system of
I want to be sure to get the first image from TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, into Centauri Dreams , given the importance of the mission and the high hopes riding on it as the next step in exoplanet exploration. Now we move from the Kepler statistical survey methodology to a look at bright, nearby stars, and plenty of them. TESS will cover an area of sky far larger than the amoun
Some of you may have noticed a blip in the comments moderation over the past 24 hours. I think all messages have now come through, but a software upgrade on my server is the culprit. Things seem to have gone back to normal now. On an unrelated matter, I won’t be able to get off a post today or tomorrow. On Tuesday, I’ll have some interesting information about Breakthrough Starshot. [I had origina
How big a role space travel will play in our future is a question with implications for our civilization’s intellectual, economic and philosophical growth. It may even be the hinge upon which swings the survival of the planet. But as Centauri Dreams regular Nick Nielsen points out in the essay below, enthusiasts for spacefaring can overlook historical analogies that show us the many ways humans c
Scaling up our space telescopes calls for new thinking. Consider this: The Hubble telescope has a primary mirror of 2.4 meters. The James Webb Space Telescope takes us to 6.5 meters. But as we begin to get results from missions like TESS and JWST (assuming the latter gets off safely), we’re going to need much more to see our most interesting targets. Imagine what could be done with a 30-meter spa
Ronald Bracewell’s name doesn’t come up as often in these pages as I might like, but today James Jason Wentworth remedies the lack. Bracewell (1921-2007), active in radio astronomy, mathematics and physics for many years at Stanford University, developed the concept of autonomous interstellar probes. Such a craft would be capable not only of taking numerous scientific readings but of communicatin
It was happy to see Yulia alive and looking reasonably well yesterday, if understandably stressed. Notably, and in sharp contrast to Litvinenko, she leveled no accusations at Russia or anybody else for her poisoning. In Russian she spoke quite naturally. Of the Russian Embassy she said very simply “I am not ready, I do not want their help”. Strangely this is again translated in the Reuters subtit
133,612 edits to Wikpedia have been made in the name of “Philip Cross” over 14 years. That’s over 30 edits per day, seven days a week. And I do not use that figuratively: Wikipedia edits are timed, and if you plot them, the timecard for “Philip Cross’s” Wikipedia activity is astonishing is astonishing if it is one individual: The operation runs like clockwork, seven days a week, every waking hour
As I write, with over 75% of all yesterday’s English local election results in, Labour has a net gain of 55 councillors compared to the high water mark of the 2014 result in these wards, while the Tories have a net gain of one seat against a 2014 result which was regarded at the time as disastrous for them, and led the Daily Telegraph to editoralise “David Cameron Must Now Assuage the Voters’ Rag
The right wing bias of BBC Question Time tonight staggers belief, even for the BBC. One Francoist, two Tories, the still more right wing Chukka Umunna, all “balanced” by Akala, who thankfully has more brains, and certainly more compassion, than the rest put together. Esther McVey , Tory. Champion of the rape clause, minister implementing benefit cuts and promoting privatised benefits assessments,
The true face of the organisation calling itself “Labour Friends of Israel” has been revealed today, in truly disgusting victim-blaming tweets reacting to the massacre of over fifty Palestinians – including yet more children – by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza. No Israelis were injured and no “border communities” attacked. This amplification of the worst extreme right wing zionist propaganda b
On the day the Israeli Defence Force massacred dozens of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza and maimed over 400 more, our media has carefully avoided the use of the word massacre. Here is a Google search of News I did five minutes ago on the word “massacre”. A massacre occurred today in which more people were killed than at Glencoe. All of them were unarmed and the majority were well over a hundred yar
I'm still laughing about this . Visitors to DJ! over the past two or so weeks may have been bored to tears by noticed my rather compulsive compilations of apparently religious outfits that appear on the Canada Summer Jobs list of successful employers , i.e. groups that signed the evil abortion clause . My point, of course, was to demonstrate that many, many religious organizations understood perfe
And for the grande finale, Quebec. My French stinks, but I had some help in recognizing key words (thank you, deBeauxOs). Nonetheless the website search was critical. I almost included an orchard. The usual reminders on process: I was going by name only, quite literally. All (known) religious groups got tagged. Others that sounded "churchy" got checked. Caps and quotation marks from original docum
In the "kerfuffle" over the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) attestation, the spin put on by the media and the Conservatives has been astounding. Despite the tons of research done by Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) volunteers, the usual suspects continued to paint it as "ideological coercion" etc. This from today is typical. Waaah! Thousands of jobs lost to "Liberal forced speech" in Saskatchew
A couple of days ago Michael Coren published an article with the numbers on religious applicants to the Canada Summer Jobs program. There were a lot and more than half were accepted. So that kinda puts the lie on media, Church, and Conservative screeching about anti-religion/anti-Christian bias. Official documents show that of the 2,728 faith-based organizations that applied for summer jobs fundin
Here are the religious groups in Nova Scotia that did not succumb to the spin and bad-faith arguments on the Canada Summer Jobs attestation or "abortion clause." I point out again that the attestation could as well be called the "sexuality/gender/gender identification clause" but why bother? The media and the "faith community" (meaning mostly the Catholic Church) chose to see it purely as ABORTION
Newfoundland and Labrador Reminders: I was going by name only, quite literally. All (known) religious groups got tagged. Others that sounded "churchy" got checked. Caps and quotation marks from original document . Where "no website" is noted I could not find a website for that particular group. (Obviously there is a website for "United Church of Canada" but sometimes I couldn't find one specific t
Obviously, we have to destroy the rule of law in order to save it! With Kinder Morgan Inc.’s do-or-drop-it deadline set to arrive on Thursday, that seems to be the idea behind the argument advanced by the increasingly furious Canadian pipeline lobby that the Trans Mountain Expansion project must be approved, finally and irrevocably, right now! Anything less, it is frequently asserted, would be a
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and noir-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended May 20, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. EDMONTON FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. Indian Horse – Richard Wagamese 2. Warlight – Michael Ondaatje 3. Sign for the Migrant Soul – Richard Cumyn * 4. Rumi & the Red Handbag – Shawna Lemay * 5. Kalyna – Pam
Now that he’s sworn to be nice to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Opposition Leader Jason Kenney is running against Bob Rae. Ralph Klein was a high school dropout & TV reporter before becoming Mayor. Bob Rae was a Rhodes scholar & accomplished MP before becoming Premier. Who do you think did a better job? The one who was much less obviously “qualified,” IMHO. — Jason Kenney (@jkenney) May 23, 2018
As the Alberta Government’s fight with British Columbia over the Trans Mountain Pipeline takes on comic opera proportions, Premier Rachel Notley’s New Democratic Party and Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party Opposition appear to be struggling to see which one can come up with the most ridiculous things to say about it. I know, I know … I’m being facetious about The Most Important Economic Is
Guest Post by Regan Boychuk Regan Boychuk is an independent researcher in Calgary and part of ReclaimAlberta.ca, which advocates solutions to the crisis of aging and expired Alberta oil and gas wells. He is the former public policy research manager of the Edmonton-based Parkland Institute. DJC It’s time for Albertans to wake up! Alberta’s Energy Regulator estimates our oilpatch has accumulated $2
Rachel Notley, Alberta’s tough NDP premier who has clearly concluded her government’s survival depends on there being shovels in the ground building a pipeline by the time she asks the lieutenant governor to call an election next year, rolls the dice a lot like Brian Mulroney. Well, not exactly like Mr. Mulroney. She is more disciplined and less garrulous than the old Irish-Canadian baritone from
From Jenna Orkin Trump’s Pick To Head CDC Believes AIDS Was ‘God’s Judgement’ Against Homosexuals - The Intellectualist “Spiderman” Granted French Citizenship After Saving Child From Balcony Ebola Breach: Vomiting Patients "In Active Phase" Smuggled Out Of Quarantine, Die Within Hours Former President Barack Obama Warns - America "May Not Survive” Does he know something we don’t perhaps? Video Sh
From Jenna Orkin Amazon Selling Face-Recognition Tech to Police Robots Fight Weeds in Challenge to Agrochemical Giants Sweden Distributes ‘Be Prepared for War’ Leaflet to All 4.8 Million Homes Inside The "New" Starbucks: Blood-Spattered Walls, Workers Pricked By Needles And More Bill Ryerson - Dealing With The Elephant In The Room: Overpopulation Secretive Russian Surface-To-Air Missile Test Is W
From Jenna Orkin 2 injured, 1 suspect in custody after shooting at middle school in Noblesville, Indiana, authorities say Biggest Lobby No One's Talking About: For Profit Prisons - WaPo(!) What's of note here is the venue: WaPo One Third of Americans Don’t Believe 6 Million Jews Died in Holocaust GOP Candidate is 9/11 Truther, Says Beyonce Has Ties to Illuminati Marines took tanks out of secret c
From Jenna Orkin Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is producing eerie blue flames only visible at night, and could cause deadly explosions Iceland's 41 year old Environmentalist Prime Minister Harley-Davidson workers stunned by plant closure after tax cut 33 Democrats Voted to Deregulate Big Banks. Here's How Much Money Banks Gave Each One. China is not even pretending anymore in the South China Sea — it
From Jenna Orkin North Korea takes foreign journalists to witness the destruction of its nuclear test site Russia displays massive nuclear force with a sub launching 4 missiles with the power of 160 Hiroshimas Philip Roth once explained the 'most terrifying' thing about Trump Hawaii volcano: Lava flowto reachs from Kilauea reach edge of power plant US Worker Suffers Brain Injury After "Abnormal S
From Jenna Orkin Orographic Clouds - FB video . Food Cooked by Corporations - FB video . Russia's 'practically unlimited' -range missile looks like an embarrassment after it reportedly lasted for just 2 minutes and 22 miles An inside look at Goldman's shocking executive shakeup provides major hints about how the firm will be run in the future FBI Informant Stefan Halper Paid Over $1 Million By Ob

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Brief brush with the brutality and totality of Google they would not let me log on manually no they wanted my cell phone real bad and I refused in the end I can log on normally because i expect they decide I was not a threat
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last week, May 24. As incomes rise around the world, they tend to stay within cities, urban hubs, and rural areas on the cusp of urbanization. Congestion follows as a result, even if property developments are done vertically. After searching for an international transportation or mobility index that includes Metro Manila or the Philippines, I found one made by
Good news and bad news. The good news is that world oil prices are declining in recent days, WTI for instance fell from $72 last week to only $67+ yesterday, so we can expect lower domestic oil prices around next week. The bad news is that the $80/barrel Dubai crude threshold may not be reached anymore, so oil tax hikes part 2 by January 2019 under TRAIN will continue, another round of oil price
My second podcast in BusinessWorld was posted last May 17, 2018. I discussed there what I frequently argue in my column -- that government interventions in pricing in a deregulated sector is wrong, that price and fare control is wrong. Government restrictions in number of land transportation franchises and transport network vehicle service (TNVS) like Uber, Grab, new players like Hirna, are wrong
Last May 22, a friend Joe Real , posted this in his fb wall, praising the automakers and attacking Trump about climate change. Carmakers to Trump: 'Climate change is real' BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 05/22/18 08:27 AM EDT http://thehill.com/regulation/energy-environment/388736-carmakers-in-letter-to-trump-climate-change-is-real Cadiz City, Negros Occidental. He is among the bright boys our city has prod
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last Monday, May 21, 2018. The past three decades showed major disruptions in global politics and economics. These include the fall of European socialism with the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the creation of many new countries from the former USSR, the move towards freer trade with the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, and the tr
While looking for an old email from a friend, I rediscovered this email from an American friend though I have not met him. ---------- October 08, 2010 Nonoy, Hi, my name is jim kearney. I hope this finds you and yours well. I ran across your name in a list of people writing sections for the book "Why Liberty". Congratulations on being selected. Your name on that list caught me by surprise which i
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