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FavoRITES
Watching Over Washington’s Whistle Pig
The EnvironmentaList / 10h
Citizen scientists are bolstering our understanding of the Olympic Peninsula's endemic marmot
Let us choose: If the public really thinks ABC is “priceless” they will be happy to pay for it
Australia’s public broadcaster is under public fire. It’s about time. The rank and file of the Liberal Party voted to sell it off which sparked off a national debate about the value of subsidizing the largest media outlet in the country in an era when the average Australian can broadcast their opinion for free from their own phone. We don’t need a government funded voice, we just need free speech
NGOs and the Deep State – James Corbett on Radio Fault Lines
The Corbett Report / 23h
James Corbett appears on Radio Fault Lines to discuss his work on NGOs and deep state operations.
BLOGGER-FOLLOWING
Ivanka Trump gets destroyed after she thanked Daddy T for fixing the immigration crisis he created
She speaks, finally! After remaining silent for days during the raging debate over the separation of migrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border, Ivanka Trump finally decided it time to weigh in — but only after her father, the president, had signed an order to end the policy. And the Internet was pissed. SEE ALSO: We read Ivanka Trump's insufferable new book so you don't have
Don't let Trump's executive order fool you — family detention is also inhumane
Donald Trump finally yielded to public outrage Tuesday and signed an executive order to halt the separation of migrant parents and children crossing the border. It ended one chapter of a crisis created by his own administration and began another phase that should elicit the same level of public fury. SEE ALSO: How to stop feeling helpless when you hear about immigrant children taken from their pa
Optimists aren't the ingrate betrayers.
I just finished 9 weeks of relentless speechifying around the globe, from the Arctic and Russia to South China to LA, to a dozen events in DC. More than 25 talks! Culminating in last week’s commencement at UC Santa Cruz (Crown College.) Time to get back to writing. == But first… Two minutes. Watch this, you Americans. Two minutes for your country. (And you others, learn from this!) As for those c
Synthetic Biology Raises Risk of New Bioweapons
When “it” finally happens, my complete lack of surprise will coincide with a sense of wonder that “it” didn’t happen sooner. U.S. Researchers Trying to Create Pandemic Avian Flu Baxter International “Unintentionally” Sent Flu Samples to Companies that Contained H5N1 Avian Flu Scientist Makes H5N1 Highly Contagious New Bird Flu ‘Has Unique Traits’ Bird Flu […]
Severe Obesity Rates Surging in Rural America
Via: Reuters: Severe obesity rates have been on the rise nationwide since the turn of the century, disproportionately affecting children and adults in rural communities, two U.S. studies suggest. Researchers examined data on height and weight collected from 2001 to 2016 for adults 20 and older and for youth ages 2 to 19. Severe obesity […]
NEWS
Donald Trump to end his family separation policy – live updates
President says he will sign an executive order to end family separations, in announcement at the White House Why are families being separated at the US border? ‘If they try to take my daughter, I’ll turn back’: impossible border choices Rachel Maddow breaks down during report on ‘tender age’ shelters – video 5.45pm BST An immediate concern for families, attorneys and advocates will be whether or
Ron Paul: Russia and Assad defeated ISIS, not US
The multisided conflict in Syria has drawn in numerous foreign powers, with some deploying forces to fight terrorism, while others have attempted to prop up local proxies to serve their interests. Discussing the US' military role in Syria on Monday, American ex-Congressman Ron Paul identified which parties had played the largest role in defeating terrorist groups throughout the Arab Republic, and
Why won’t the mainstream media tell the truth about racist ghoul Stephen Miller?
Stephen Miller is a white supremacist with a long record of racist words and deeds. Ignoring that is negligence
Because Israel: Nikki Haley proudly announces US leaves 'hypocritical and self-serving' UN Human Rights Council
Washington has decided to walk out of the UN Human Rights Council, accusing the body of hypocrisy. The US has long cited concerns about the body's "anti-Israel bias." Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley announced the decision at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. "The US is officially withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council," Haley said, calling it a "hypocrit
The executive order Trump claims will end family separation, explained
The new order replaces family separation with family detention. For weeks, President Donald Trump and his administration claimed that they would prefer to keep families together in immigration detention — but had no choice but to separate them at the US-Mexico border so parents could be prosecuted for illegal entry. Now, Trump’s executive order — which some in the press are reporting as a “revers
Bruce Springsteen Speaks Out About the “Disgracefully Inhumane and Un-American” Scenes at the Border
David Remnick writes about Bruce Springsteen’s heartfelt statement, in the middle of a performance of his Broadway show, about the scenes at the Texas-Mexico border.
"Un-American ?'" Au contraire, mon ami. Rather, it is far too much a continuation of what has gone before. Ask any 'native', many of whom supposedly have treaty rights to ignore that border.
SCIENCE
Researchers find last of universe's missing ordinary matter
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped to find the last reservoir of ordinary matter hiding in the universe.
T. Rex couldn't stick out its tongue, new research shows
Dinosaurs are often depicted as fierce creatures, baring their teeth, with tongues wildly stretching from their mouths like giant, deranged lizards. But new research reveals a major problem with this classic image: Dinosaurs couldn't stick out their tongues like lizards. Instead, their tongues were probably rooted to the bottoms of their mouths in a manner akin to alligators.
Dogs understand what's written all over your face
Dogs are capable of understanding the emotions behind an expression on a human face. This study is the latest to reveal just how connected dogs are with people. The research also provides evidence that dogs use different parts of their brains to process human emotions.
Report: The Star Wars Story Films Are Being Put On Hold
Sounds like we won’t be seeing an Obi-Wan movie anytime soon. After the disappointing box office of Solo: A Star Wars Story , a new report says Lucasfilm has put all future Star Wars Story standalone movies on hold. That means, at least for now, no Boba Fett movie, no Obi-Wan movie, and no Solo spinoffs. io9 has contacted Disney and Lucasfilm for comment and will update if they respond. Advertise
Last of universe's missing ordinary matter
Researchers have helped to find the last reservoir of ordinary matter hiding in the universe.
This Is NASA's New Plan to Detect and Destroy Asteroids Before They Hit Earth
NASA has updated its plans to deflect potentially hazardous Earth-bound asteroids — and none of them involve Bruce Willis.
YOUTUBE
al imam
Despite controversy and threats, a Muslim woman takes a stand for justice through a progressive practice of Islam. Website: al-imam-doc.com OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Big Sky Film Festival Cleveland International Film Festival Dances with Films Film Festival United Nations Association Film Festival Calgary Documentary Film Festival American Cinematheque Shorts prog
Astronaut Brielle Shares Fun Facts on Aliens and Space
Ellen's favorite 6-year-old science expert, Brielle, explores the galaxy with a trip to outer space at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Watch as Brielle shares fun facts about the planets in our solar system, spacecrafts, and aliens! From: TheEllenShow
6 must-have Mac utilities
One of the perks of using a laptop or desktop, instead of a tablet, is that you can customize your workflow. Utilities make your computer less annoying and customized to you. In this episode of Processor, Dieter demos some of his favorite MacOS utilities. All the links to download the utilities are here: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17481054/mac-menubar-utilities-taylorism-is-bad Subscribe:
It's Ellen's Gorillathon Sale!
If companies can make up fake holidays, Ellen decided to get in on the action by announcing her first ever Ellen Shop Gorillathon sale benefiting The Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund. From: TheEllenShow
How Surfing Lead One NatGeo Explorer to The Depths of The Ocean | National Geographic
In an interview during National Geographic Explorers Festival, David Gruber talked about how his connection to the ocean started and how it lead to his current explorations in the depths of the the ocean. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class sc
THE ENVIRONMENTALIST
30 Years Ago Global Warming Became Front-Page News
The EnvironmentaList / 1d
Back then, before massive a disinformation campaign by corporate interests, both Democrats and Republicans took the issue seriously
Unseen Plastics in Our Water
The EnvironmentaList / 2d
How citizen science informed a new study that revealed the extent of microplastic and microfiber pollution in marine ecosystems
Hawai’i First US State to Ban Use of Neurotoxic Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
The EnvironmentaList / 6d
As the EPA refuses to take action on a known public health hazard, the island state shows the way forward
Basking on the Brink
The EnvironmentaList / 8d
An "unholy" river in India may be the last, best hope for one of the world's largest and most imperiled crocodilians
Kinder Morgan Pipeline is Never Going to be Built, Vow Activists
The EnvironmentaList / 20d
Deal to buy Trans Mountain project flies in face of Trudeau’s promise to uphold the Paris Accord and rights of First Nations
THE CORBETT REPORT
I Ran A Yanny/Laurel Experiment And You Won’t Believe The Results!
So I found a bunch of Yanny/Laurel-type audio illusions on the online dictionary. Who knew? Can you find any others? Leave your suggestions in the comments below!
Interview 1366 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-06-14%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio] This week on the New World Next Week: pity the poor MIC as the NK boogeyman retreats; politicians are scared as cave-dwellers threaten to punch the wall; and the Flynn effect may be reversing...or maybe not.
Interview 1367 – Fault Lines on NGOs and the Deep State
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-06-18%20Fault%20Lines.mp3"][/audio] James Corbett appears on Radio Fault Lines to discuss his work on NGOs and deep state operations.
Don’t Be An Idiot! Get Rid of Alexa!
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.
WWF - LATEST NEWS
Southeast Asia's high appetite for pet otters supplied online
WWF - Latest News / 12d
The online pet trade has emerged as a pressing threat to otters in Southeast Asia with a new TRAFFIC-IUCN Otter Specialist Group (OSG) study revealing hundreds of the animals for sale on Facebook and other websites over a four-month period. The Illegal Otter Trade in Southeast Asia, released today, revealed a high demand for juvenile live otters in the region, with over 70% of the animals offered
Multi-stakeholder platform to drive excellence in sustainable finance across Asia
WWF - Latest News / 12d
5 JUNE 2018, SINGAPORE – To shift Asia's financial flows towards sustainable economic, social and environmental outcomes, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has announced the launch of the Asia Sustainable Finance Initiative (ASFI). Based in Singapore, this multi-stakeholder platform will bring together industry, government, civil society and academia to develop and coordinate science based bes
Mountain gorilla numbers climb upwards
WWF - Latest News / 15d
Results from a two-year survey in the transboundary Virunga Massif, one of the two remaining habitats of the mountain gorilla, show numbers of the critically endangered species are on the rise. Released last week, the latest estimates from the Virunga Massif put mountain gorilla numbers at 604 from an estimated 480 in 2010, including 41 social groups, along with 14 solitary males in the transboun
Mountain gorilla numbers surpass 1,000 despite challenges
WWF - Latest News / 20d
Rubavu, Rwanda, 31 May 2018 - Numbers of critically endangered mountain gorillas are on the up, following conservation efforts in the transboundary Virunga Massif, one of the two remaining areas where the great ape is still found. Survey results released today reveal that numbers have increased to 604 from an estimated 480 in 2010, including 41 social groups, along with 14 solitary males in the t
WEEKLY GEO-POLITICAL NEWS AND ANALYSIS
Rebirth of Manchuria plotted as Europe faces summer of discontent
Once again the world faces a long hot summer of discontent, with the major action likely to be in Europe and East Asia this year. The EU is likely to experience regime change due to popular anger as warm weather brings in yet another massive wave of mostly male Muslim immigrants. In the Far East, the summit meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un has led
New financial crisis likely as Western civil war intensifies in Washington D.C., Europe, Brazil and elsewhere
The undeclared civil war inside the ranks of the Western elite is continuing to rage, with both sides carrying out major offensives. Ultimately, this battle is between the old aristocratic bloodlines, strongest in Europe, and the anti-bloodline Gnostic Illuminati, now prevalent inside the U.S. The biggest battleground continues to be Washington, D.C., where the old establishment is fighting for i
The Kim/Trump summit, the Rothschilds and the financial war are all linked
The summit meeting this week between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un was preceded by a tidal wave of high-level public and secret diplomacy, because this is no ordinary meeting, multiple sources agree. The summit will not only discuss peace in the Korean Peninsula, but also the future of the financial system and thus the future of the world, according to North K
Takedown of Israel may be imminent as NATO withdraws protection
Tectonic shifts in the geopolitical landscape continue at a dizzying pace around the world as the satanic Khazarian mob is being systematically removed from all world power centers, multiple sources agree. The situation has proceeded so far that the Khazarian big Kahuna, Israel, may soon be liberated from the satanists, Pentagon sources say. In Europe the changes of government last week in Italy,
William Twofeather found not guilty
The following email arrived from William Twofeather: AHO! Finally, the truth as seen by 12 jurors who saw all the evidence. The jury leader said to the lawyers, “This is an embarrassment to the Houston Police Department,” …and rightfully so. They also said, “This should never, never have gone to trial.” Thanks for your prayers and support. AHO! Two Feather The post William Twofeather found not gu
Interview with Prepare for Change, June 7, 2018
Benjamin Fulford Talks: Interview June 7, 2018 with Prepare for Change Topic: The Rise of India and New Global Alliances https://prepareforchange.net/2018/06/08/benjamin-fulford-talks-the-rise-of-india-and-new-global-alliances-interview-june-7-2018-with-prepare-for-change The post Interview with Prepare for Change, June 7, 2018 appeared first on Weekly Geo-Political News and Analysis .
A.E.BRAIN
The State of the Art - Gender Identity and the Brain
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
ACTIVIST TEACHER
That is freedom of speech
Comment by Denis Rancourt Vehemently arguing that someone should not utter certain words or express certain views does not violate freedom of speech. It presumes freedom of speech. Campaigning and arguing in favour of censorship does not violate freedom of speech. It presumes freedom of speech. Demonstrating to an institution or corporation that a speaker should be deplatformed does not
"Call the Zionists what they are: Nazi criminals" -- Auschwitz survivor
Activist Teacher / 3d
Auschwitz survivor, Dutch theoretical physicist and human rights activist HAJO MEYER (died at 90 in 2014, both his parents were killed at Auschwitz): < “If we want to stay really human beings, we must get up and call the Zionists what they are: Nazi criminals,” Meyer said. The hate of the Jews by the Germans “was less deeply rooted than the hate of the Palestinians by the Israeli Jews,” he
Amnesty International Report - June 2018: Undeniable USA mass war crime in Raqqa - Syria
The Amnesty International report of June 5, 2018, Syria: “War of annihilation”: Devastating toll on civilians, Raqqa – Syria 5 June 2018, Index number: MDE 24/8367/2018 https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE2483672018ENGLISH.PDF presents undeniable evidence of USA criminal disregard for civilian life, on a mass scale, in a populated city, and calls for official
Racism And Israel And Yemen
By Denis Rancourt, PhD RACISM. The Western middle-class ethos has been infected by a disproportionate taboo-like hyper-aversion to attitudinal and opinion racism. This is a socially engineered and recent pathology that is not checked by humour and satire. People are now routinely prosecuted and jailed for victimless "hate speech" that is inferred to signal blasphemous beliefs and
Message from The Man
Activist Teacher / 16d
Dissidents: If you are too threatening, actually threatening and not protected, then you will be murdered. If you are too popular, then you will be character assassinated. If you confine yourself to properly "academic" expression and the pretext to fire you is too costly or risky, then you will not be censored. Only your web venues will be very very very s..l..o..o..o..w.
Jordan Peterson and the Threat of Working-class Intellectual and Attitudinal Liberation
Activist Teacher / 17d
By Denis Rancourt, PhD [This article was first published at Dissident Voice: LINK.] SUMMARY: Why the industry of glib and vehement mainstream character assassinations of clinical and research psychologist Jordan Peterson? My examination of Peterson’s “Rule 1: Stand Up Straight with Your Shoulders Back” suggests that it is a seminal work anchored in a prestigious body of scientific
VIVA BOLIVIA
Fake News From America
Viva Bolivia / 19d
Fake news is used often against leaders; Evo Morales has to contend with it in Bolivia and from other nations' journalists. Donald Trump is also a victim of fake news. The monster that the press had made Trump out to be has been so scary that it impeeds relations and damages international cooperation. Which is the aim of certain intel agencies: divide and conquer. Making a mess by deception. Last
VAGABOND SCHOLAR
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Blowing Things Up
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
The Capitals Win the Stanley Cup
Vagabond Scholar / 7d
The Washington Capitals have finally won their first championship, in their forty-third season! It's also the first championship for DC in one of the four major sports since 1992 (although soccer team DC United has won four times in that span). I do most of my sports posting and commenting on fan blogs and social media, and I'm not going to post the 50 plus links I've collected, but I felt
AMUSED CYNICISM
ANGOLA 3 NEWS
A3 Newsletter June 11, 2018: Keep on Keeping On
Angola 3 News / 9d
Working for social justice frequently seems to be a glacially slow endeavor. This last week brought a summer thaw and more than a few things have changed. We celebrate and honor the work of Professor Angela A. Bell and the students in her Law and Minorities classes at Southern University for their remarkable efforts in seeing the long delayed parole of John Cluchette through to his release. Pleas
BREAKING: 'Soledad Brother' John Clutchette has been released!
Angola 3 News / 14d
Watch a short video interview with John Clutchette following his release, here . ( PHOTO : John Clutchette in the 1980s. ) Today 'Soledad Brother' John Clutchette walked out of the prison gates a free man, following Governor Jerry Brown's final approval of a January 12, 2018 decision by the California Parole Board to grant parole to Clutchette. On January 18, we published an interview with Southe
TOWN CALLED DOBSON
THWAP'S SCHOOLYARD
A Small Story
thwap's schoolyard / 1d
It's a small thing in this world, but it was a fairly big thing for the Canadian political blogosphere a few years ago. In this story, a prominent lefty blogger attracted an adversary from the rightward side of the intertubes and said right-wing adversary made it his mission to expose the man behind the blogging pseudonym and then (stupidly) accuse him of pedophilia. Eventually, the targeted blog
Ten Million Dead
thwap's schoolyard / 2d
The human catastrophe going on in Yemen at this present moment shames us all. Thanks to a bloody conflict between sectarian imbeciles and geo-political assholes, at least TEN MILLION PEOPLE are at risk of starving to death before the end of this year. EIGHT MILLION have already begun to suffer the ill effects of severe malnutrition. From CBC : The United Nations aid chief urged the Saudi-led mili
Response to "Evil Brad"
thwap's schoolyard / 7d
This is a continuation of a conversation taking place in the comments here . ("Blogger" limitations won't let me post it as a comment.) "Exactly" like a Trump supporter? Given everything that I said I hardly think that's likely. What's semi-interesting is that elements of your tone had me thinking you were a right-wing, Trumpian critic of Bolivarian Venezuela, a few of whom I've been contending w
Dismal
thwap's schoolyard / 11d
Ah! "Democracy"! Well, we don't have a democracy in Canada. We elect representatives to negotiate from a position of weakness with the oligarchy. At the best of times. Then, here in Ontario, there are times like this, when less than 60% of the electorate votes and almost half vote out of ignorance, delusion, greed, stupidity or bigotry. (Or some combination of these.) And in so doing, elect a par
Ontario Election 2018
thwap's schoolyard / 12d
It's a good thing that I've long give up hope for this country and its people. Otherwise the victory of the Stupid, Ignorant, Greedy Party of Ontario would have come as quite a blow. Hegemony. The hegemony of a certain set of values, beliefs and prejudices is what allows something like Doug Ford and his Gang of Idiots, with their corruption, incompetence, lying, evasion, boorishness, sleaze, etc.
Stupid Justin Trudeau Sucks Ass On Venezuela
thwap's schoolyard / 21d
Liberal, Tory, Same old story! Linda McQuaig in the Toronto Star provides the analysis: In terms of foreign policy damage, whatever harm Justin Trudeau did by parading around India in colourful outfits is a nothing-burger compared to the severe hardship he is inflicting on Venezuela. And yet media commentators have been full-throttle in denouncing the prime minister’s alleged wardrobe malfunction
CHERCHEZ LA VERITE
The neoconservatives have seized the opportunity and replaced diplomacy with threat and coercion. Our government tells weaker countries to "do as you are told or we will impose sanctions." Sanctions are an assertion of hegemony of one country over another. And once the constraint on Washington’s unilateralism was removed, sanctions became an instrument of US foreign policy and replaced diplomacy.
Cherchez la Verite / 14d
The Absence of Diplomacy Is Isolating Washington — Paul Craig Roberts June 5, 2018 | Categories: Articles & Columns The Absence of Diplomacy Is Isolating Washington Paul Craig Roberts The dissolution of the Soviet Union removed the constraint on Washington’s unilateralism. The neoconservatives, who had just risen to power, seized the opportunity and replaced diplomacy with threat and coercion. On
THE STRAIGHT GOODS
Robyn Allen...Kinder Morgan horror story will be told
The Straight Goods / 1d
Glen type guy @canadianglen Early thanks to @robynallan for the interview recorded today for tomorrow night's #TheViewUpHere 6pm PDT/9pm EDT Who's (Not) Afraid Of Facts On Kinder Morgan? http://www. blogtalkradio.com/canadianglen/2 018/06/21/whos-not-afraid-of-facts-on-kinder-morgan-with-robyn-allan … http://www. theviewuphere.ca 2:24 PM - 19 Jun 2018 _____________________________ Tune in, turn
Justin Harper, Stephen Trudeau … at the Helm
The Straight Goods / 12d
Justin Harper, Stephen Trudeau … at the Helm Written by Robin Mathews , June 2018 Those of us who said (2016) that the Paris Climate Accords were grossly insufficient and a Public Relations Sham … have been proved correct. Justin Trudeau’s enthusiasm for eco-justice - churned into froth among his make-believe ‘middle class’ supporters - burned to a crisp in a matter of weeks. His real policies ar
The Brainwash Machine: We’Re All In It.
The Straight Goods / 25d
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
DAMMIT JANET!
Canada Summer Jobs: The Round-Up (for now)
Dammit Janet! / 28d
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
Quebec Religious Groups That Will Get Canada Summer Jobs Grants
Dammit Janet! / 28d
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
THE HIGH-FAT HEP C DIET
Never attribute to pathology what can be adequately explained by adaptive physiology
When this paper stumbled across my desk the other day my first thought was of course "Aha! Linoleic acid not so hot, this explains lack of benefit in RCTs as analysed by Steve Hamley".[1] Unsaturated Fatty Acids Inhibit Cholesterol Efflux from Macrophages by Increasing Degradation of ATP-binding Cassette Transporter A1.[2] http://www.jbc.org/content/277/7/5692.full I still think, maybe it does -
DR CINTLI
Brown Journeys Through Mexico Profundo
Dr Cintli / 19d
BROWN JOURNEYS THROUGH MEXICO PROFUNDO: https://xicanation.com/brown-journeys-through-mexico-profundo/ (posted by XicaMedia) The above is the longer version of a recent piece I wrote for Truthout's Public Intellectual Page. The piece was shortened and given a different title. The first part is pretty much the same and the second part expands on the relationship between law enforcement violence, r
Mexico's Color Line and the Cultural Imperialism of Light-Skin Preference
Dr Cintli / 24d
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
FREE PLANET
Wales - the Land of Kings - full version...
Free Planet / 2d
thanks to Richard D Hall of Rich Planet for putting together this excellent re-working of the historical British timeline... Coelbren Alphabet, coming via Egypt and the Mediterranean A List of British Kings, coming via Wales not Germany Did we all used to speak Khumric, or ancient Assyrian?
E3 Scorn - gameplay trailer - gigertastic nonsense
Free Planet / 8d
...and because I save a small dark corner of my heart for anything this blatantly Giger-ish, here's a recent gameplay trailer for October-due game SCORN
E3 Hidea Kojima = Death Stranding - Lyndsay Wagner
Free Planet / 8d
...and suddenly I'm interested in video games all over again + Lyndsay Wagner as she looked in her Bionic Woman role: hint hint...
Star Citizen - so much wasted potential - couldn't have said it better myself
Free Planet / 25d
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
THE ERGOSPHERE
Quote without comment
The Ergosphere / 3d
"Our case is based on science, while the opposition is based on political philosophy. When a nation whose welfare is highly dependent on technology makes vital technological decisions on the basis of political philosophy rather than on the basis of science, it is in mortal danger." — Bernard L. Cohen
Shredding misconceptions about electricity and motor fuel
The Ergosphere / 4d
And there are one hell of a lot of them out there; few things are so ubiquitous yet opaque to the layman. Reposting some blog comments in case they are of more general interest: Ominous Cowherd: Using Pierre's numbers, 1 gallon of diesel equals 10kWh, so the overnight charge would be 7kWh equals about three quarts.The EIA says a gallon of diesel is 137452 BTU, or just over 40 kWH(th).
Another owner tries to kill The Energy Collective
The Ergosphere / 4d
It was announced some time ago that The Energy Collective was being taken over by the Power Industry Network (energycentral.com). Perhaps associated with this, the site had some major slowdowns and technical problems for a week or two. Then all of a sudden it just went dark, with a message that maintenance was going on. Now all blog entry links redirect to a page about re-hosting. Those
When physics is on the line, face-palm edition
The Ergosphere / 26d
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
NOLANCHART.COM
Illegal immigration is now a top national security issue!
NolanChart.com / 1d
President Trump should call for a Western Hemisphere Summit on national sovereignty and border integrity. The ongoing border – illegal immigration invasion crisis has now […]
America’s enemies within, copying Hitler’s actions in 1945 towards his Third Reich!
NolanChart.com / 1d
Students of World War II history are well aware of Adolph Hitler’s madness once he realized he had lost the war…he decided to savage his […]
State of Disunion
NolanChart.com / 9d
The crony capitalist plan is nearly complete with the cancerous boil that has erupted on the hide of our nation. Now if that boil can […]
The Lesser of Two Evils… Yup, Still Evil! But is there a choice?
NolanChart.com / 15d
As any reader here who has looked over my profile can tell, I am a staunch Libertarian with a bit of a conservative stripe. So, […]
A man of integrity investigates a man of corruption
NolanChart.com / 15d
After reading “The Untold Story of Robert Mueller’s Time in Combat” in Wired Magazine, I got a feel for the great gulf between the characters […]
Sarah Palin is plowing the fields…
NolanChart.com / 23d
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. […]
THE DUCK OF MINERVA
Pressing politics: #metoo and UK Universities
This is a guest post from Katharine A. M. Wright , a Lecturer in International Politics at Newcastle University. Her research focuses on gender and international security institutions, including NATO. In this blog posts she reflects on the issues raised by #metoo in relation to UK Universities. Follow her on Twitter @KAMWright . This is the third post in a series on # metooacademia . Sexual viole
Pressing Politics: The #Metoo movement and the IR Discipline
This is guest post from Nina Hall , an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS (tweets @ninawth ) and Sarah von Billerbeck is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading (tweets @SvBillerbeck ). The authors would like to thank the other Pressing Politics panel co-organizers: Christine Cheng ( @cheng_christine ), J. Andrew Grant ( @j
Pressing Politics Panel on the #Metoo Movement
This is a guest post from Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, F. Wendell Miller Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa. This is the second in the series on # metooacademia . Like many female academics, I have experienced #Metoo moments. As a graduate student, I was invited to a visiting faculty member’s apartment expecting multiple people to be there. I found myself alon
Babies R Us
While in the US children are being separated from their parents seeking political asylum and taken to a Walmart prison, some Russian lawmakers are concerned that illegal aliens can enter the country through its citizens’ vaginas during the FIFA World Cup that starts today. Ms Pletnyova, the chairperson of the State Duma’s Family Affairs Committee, is warning Russian women against having sex with
What We Learned at the Future Strategy Forum
This post in the Bridging the Gap series come from Sara Plana and Rachel Tecott, doctoral candidates in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Sara is also an alumna of BtG’s New Era Workshop .) They are the founders of the Future Strategy Forum and co-organized the Future of Force conference held in May 2018. Follow them on Twitter @saracplana and @rac
GREG MANKIW'S BLOG
On Tariffs, Blame Congress Too
The tariffs just imposed by President Trump are, of course, terrible policy. Mr. Trump deserves the first line of blame for making decisions that no sensible economist would advocate. But let's not let Congress off the hook. Over many years, Congress has passed the laws that give the President a lot of discretion over international trade policy. The assumption is that the President could be counte
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
A New Roswell Solution?
Well, we have a new solution to the Roswell case. No, it’s not a weather balloon as the Army Air Forces claimed in 1947 and no, it’s not a Project Mogul balloon that many skeptics and the Air Force have claimed, starting with Robert Todd in the early 1990s (or late 1980s) but something called a satelloon. This was, is, a huge polyethylene balloon that had been covered with a thin layer of aluminu
MJ-12 and Cognitive Dissonance
In the world of the UFO, we frequently talk about cognitive dissonance, which is defined, simply as “ the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or value.” It means believing in two things that seem to mutually exclusive. We run into this, I believe, when we begin to talk about the Eisenhower Briefing Doc
Another Roswell Witness - Sort Of
Nearly thirty years ago John Keel, one of those self-styled UFO researchers that Ken Macdonald complained about in his June 2, 2018 AOL Newsribol article about Roswell, said that by the turn of the century (meaning in 2000), there would be hundreds of new witnesses clamoring for their place in the Roswell mythology. Turns out he was right (not about the mythology but about the new witnesses). Peo
Vetting Information or Another Way to Chase Footnotes
Here’s something that relates to my “Chasing Footnotes,” posts. Over the weekend (June 1 and 2), I ran into an article that was related to Roswell told by Raymond Szymanski (which I commented on here a few days ago). As I was working on that article, I had a number of questions that weren’t answered by any of the sources that I could readily access. I was worried about the claim that Raymond Szym
Important Administration Notes
A Different Perspective / 13d
Rich Reynolds over at UFO Conjectures alerted me yesterday to a Blogger problem. Seems that all the comments posted to our blogs are not sent to us via email as they are supposed to be. Some are dumped into an area that tells us they are waiting for us to monitor them. I’m not sure why this is happening because there is no reason for it. Comments by those who visit here regularly are there and wh
How the US Influences other Countries Policies on UFOs
A Different Perspective / 20d
For years, decades actually, the skeptical community has wondered how the US has been able to suppress information about UFOs in foreign lands. Why would foreign governments submit to a US demand that UFO sightings and UFO reports remain hidden behind a curtain of secrecy? The answer is probably a little more complex than I can attack here, on this blog. However… First, let me point out that duri
SYRIA COMMENT
Israel’s Secret war for Syria’s Independence by Meir Zamir
Israel’s Secret war for Syria’s Independence By Meir Zamir (First published in Haaretz newspaper, June 15, 2018) At the end of the War of Independence, Israel faced a policy dilemma with regard to Syria. The armed confrontation on the border around the demilitarized zones and over the draining of Lake Hula was continuing, and Syria still claimed the waters of Lake Kinneret. At the same time, Isra
It Would Have Been Preferable Not to Militarily Intervene in Syria – By Ambassador @nikolaosvandam
It Would Have Been Preferable Not to Militarily Intervene in Syria; It Has Turned Out to Be a Disaster By Ambassador Dr. Nikolaos van Dam @ nikolaosvandam Interviewed by Mohsen Abdelmoumen Originally published June 03, 2018 on American Herald Tribune Mohsen Abdelmoumen: You are a diplomat and you know very well the Middle East region where you have been Ambassador of the Netherlands in several co
Juliette El-Mir Saadeh: Gender politics and women in armed conflict in Syria
Juliette El-Mir Saadeh: Gender politics and women in armed conflict By Christopher Solomon June 9, 2018 – For Syria Comment Juliette El-Mir Saadeh, the wife of Syrian Social Nationalist Party founder Antoun Saadeh, set a trend for the political and social norms for gender politics in the Levant. The red five-pointed star on the yellow flag of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) evokes the
U.S. Involves itself Ever Deeper in Middle East with No Clear Strategic Interest – By Sam Farah
U.S. Involves itself Ever Deeper in Middle East with No Clear Strategic Interest By Sam Farah For Syria Comment – June 6, 2018 On May 8, President Trump announced that he was pulling the U.S. out of the Iran deal. On May 12,
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