We are Groot
Today is President Putin’s inauguration day and even Avengers couldn’t
stop it, as evidenced by the arrested raccoon in the center of Moscow on
Saturday during the unsanctioned rally ““He’s No Tsar to Us.” For
Russia watchers, the Saturday protests probably created a sense of déjà
vu of May 2012 when much larger protests erupted in Moscow and around
Russia. They displayed a high degree of social
The Ergosphere
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
The Straight Goods
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
thwap's schoolyard
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
Vagabond Scholar
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
Welcome Back to Pottersville
(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
What Is Sustainable
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
Wide Asleep in America
“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
Adrienne's Corner
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.
ArmsControlWonk
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 …
CENSORED NEWS
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,
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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.
Centauri Dreams
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
Craig Murray
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
DAMMIT JANET!
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
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
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 the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
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
GlobaLove Think Tank
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
Government and Taxes
* 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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