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Pricking the Filter Bubble
The Corbett Report / 8h
Recommended videos. Tailored newsfeeds. Personalized search results. Know it or not, we are increasingly living in filter bubbles that are being determined by algorithms we know nothing about. Worse than that, we are increasingly retreating into the online echo chamber bubbles of our own making. So where is this all heading and how can we steer ourselves away from this precipice? Join James for t
A Community of Slave Descendants Is Protecting Unique Food Traditions from Rising Seas
The EnvironmentaList / 14h
One chef is raising the profile of Gullah/Geechee cuisine to help maintain the Nation’s cultural identity
Episode 342 – Pricking the Filter Bubble
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode342-lq.mp3"][/audio] Recommended videos. Tailored newsfeeds. Personalized search results. Know it or not, we are increasingly living in filter bubbles that are being determined by algorithms we know nothing about. Worse than that, we are increasingly retreating into the online echo chamber bubbles of our own making. So where is this all heading
As it got hotter in Spain, less people died. Thank air conditioning and electricity.
Cheap energy might save more lives than expensive “climate-changey” energy? Researchers looked at 47 major cities in Spain, from 1980 to 2015 and checked 554,491 deaths. Even though temperatures have risen, less people are dying of heat in Spain. Apparently human ingenuity, energy and air conditioners were more than able to keep up with climate change. The population is older but less vulnerable t
White Helmets Flee, Hacking Elections, NXIVM Case – New World Next Week
The Corbett Report / 1d
This week on the New World Next Week: the White Helmets get rescued by Israel; (s)election hacking is now child's play; and the NXIVM case just keeps getting crazier.
BLOGGER-FOLLOWING
Tom Cruise and James Corden's skydiving trip is 11 minutes of hilarious tension
Tom Cruise and James Corden always seem to have fairly energetic meet-ups. First they acted out Cruise's entire film career in 9 minutes , then they went on a boat trip , and now they're going on their most ambitious day out yet — an actual skydive. SEE ALSO: Dominic Cooper and James Corden test their friendship in the most painful way "The worst problem is, in all of this, if we both die I will
Facebook bans 'InfoWars' founder Alex Jones for 30 days
A mere matter of days after InfoWars founder Alex Jones received yet another YouTube strike — but wasn't banned — he's been hit with a 30-day block on Facebook. Jones received another strike on YouTube this week for violating community guidelines in four videos, which have since been taken down. SEE ALSO: YouTube hits Alex Jones with yet another strike—but he's still not banned A Facebook spokesp
Disney Buys Most of Fox
Via: Los Angeles Times: Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox Inc. shareholders on Friday overwhelmingly approved Disney’s proposed $71.3-billion takeover of much of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox — a milestone in a merger that is expected to dramatically reshape the entertainment industry.
California is Burning, and We All Pay: 'BradCast' 7/27/2018
On today's BradCast , I'm sitting in for Brad and Desi. Nice to be back! Today's news roundup includes this eternal riddle: is the tendency to be loathsome genetic? C.f. Trump, Trump Jr.: a deconstruction of yet another lying tweet, this time about market growth. Hint: again, TrumpCo trumpets financial news that only benefits the very few. More news: Facebook's market drop sets a record – in fact
Republicans Who Pretend to Hate Socialism (But Actually Love It!): 'BradCast' 7/26/2018
On today's BradCast , our week of exploding ridiculous GOP myths continues. On Tuesday , we debunked the absurd notion that they oppose "big government" in favor of state and local control. Yesterday , the decades-long scam that they oppose debt and deficit spending. Today, their opposition to "socialism" is exposed for the lie that it remains. [ Audio link to show follows below. ] But, first up
NEWS
Facebook suspends US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
InfoWars owner found to have violated social network’s community standards Alex Jones, the American conspiracy theorist who runs the InfoWars website, has been suspended from Facebook for bullying and hate speech. The suspension will last for 30 days, and affects only Jones’s personal account on the social network, not the main InfoWars account. His profile will continue to be published, but he w
Trump Family Flees to Moscow
Andy Borowitz jokes that Donald Trump used his Helsinki summit with Vladimir Putin to arrange for his family to defect to Russia.
Trump biographer David Cay Johnston reveals Trump’s been compromised by Russia for 30 years
Pulitzer prize winner Johnston says Russian money is “very important” to Trump
Homeless people make us miss NHS targets, says UK's chief dentist
Many don’t finish treatments - dentists are then penalised by ‘tick-box’ contracts, says Mick Armstrong The British Dental Association’s leader has accused homeless people of being “no-hopers” and suggested it was sometimes acceptable to deny them treatment. In leaked emails seen by the Guardian, Mick Armstrong, who chairs theBDA, said many practitioners were wary of taking on homeless patients.
Trump, Putin and the 'resettlement' of White Helmets
It's late July, 2018. In the Middle East, 800 men and their families are heading for Western Europe, Canada and the US, to be resettled as refugees. The true story behind their evacuation by Israel and their proposed "resettlement" as heroes is one of the most devious and frightening tales of our time. Sources also tell us that among the 800 are top ISIS commanders who will soon be living in Germa
Meteor fireball streaks over Melbourne, Australia
Signs of the Times / 27min
Melbourne motorists have been treated to an astronomic show this morning. Starstruck 3AW Breakfast listeners clogged up the phone lines to tell Ross and John about the blue-green sight that happened shortly after 6am. Many thought they'd seen a shooting star or space junk, but astronomer Brad Tucker, from the Australian National University, told 3AW Breakfast it was likely a meteor about 25-30cm w
SCIENCE
Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years in Siberian Permafrost Wriggle to Life
Imagine getting a wake-up call after being "asleep" for 42,000 years.
Checking phones in lectures can cost students half a grade in exams
Students perform less well in end-of-term exams if they are allowed access to an electronic device, such as a phone or tablet, for non-academic purposes in lectures, a new study in Educational Psychology finds.
Fox Shareholders Have Agreed to the Disney Deal, and the X-Men Are Coming Back to Marvel
Cyclops and Captain America in Avengers Vs. X-Men Image: Marvel Much like any major comic book crossover event, the Disney/Fox merger saga has been exhaustingly drawn out, narratively dubious and marked by a number of dramatic twists and turns, but after the long battle, a decision has been reached. Today, an overwhelming majority of Disney and 21st Century Fox’s shareholders agreed to the $71.3
Study reveals new geometric shape used by nature to pack cells efficiently
As an embryo develops, tissues bend into complex three-dimensional shapes that lead to organs. Epithelial cells are the building blocks of this process forming, for example, the outer layer of skin. They also line the blood vessels and organs of all animals.
4 things to know about fungi ‘climate warriors’
Certain fungi play an important role in how well forests can absorb carbon dioxide. Two researchers, Colin Averill and Jennifer M. Bhatnagar of Boston University, explain below how these fungi fit into forest microbiome and fight climate change, as well as how we can safeguard them for the future. Their paper is published in Global Change Biology . Fungi represent an entire kingdom of life on Ear
Facts About Rainforests
Rainforests are vitally important, producing most of the oxygen we breathe and providing habitat for half of the planet's plants and animals.
YOUTUBE
Mars Season 2 – Trailer | National Geographic
The hardest thing about living on Mars... is us. Mars returns November 12 on National Geographic. ➡ 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 scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter an
Valley of the Boom: Trailer #1 | National Geographic
Valley of the Boom explores the dot-com era during Silicon Valley’s unprecedented tech boom of the 1990s and subsequent bust. The six-part limited series, tells the wildly true stories of the epic browser wars and the companies that shaped the internet. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, explora
Lenovo's Smart Display: the first Google Appliance
This Lenovo Smart Display is the first smart speaker with Google Assistant on a screen. It runs Android Things and is a completely new way to use an intelligent assistant. Our question – is it better than the Amazon Echo? Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLvX Read More:
MacBook Pro 2018 review: can it stand the heat?
The new MacBook Pros are here with modern processors, an updated keyboard, and True Tone displays. In this week’s Processor episode, Dieter explores whether these changes are enough to make professionals trust these machines. After benchmarking the MacBook Pro last week, we retested the core i9 with new software that fixed our thermal throttling issues. But, that question of trust still remains.
Ugly
A broken simulated short film about kindness and coexistence. ugly-film.com ✨ facebook.com/Uglyshortfilm "Ugly" is this week's Staff Pick Premiere! Read more about it here: vimeo.com/blog/post/ugly Direction: Nikita Diakur & Redbear Easterman Music: Enrica Sciandrone, Cédric Dekowski, Felix Reifenberg Recording, Mix, Sound Design: Nicolas Martigne, David Kamp / studiokamp Mastering: Bernd Thurig
Big Surf
San Francisquito Cyn, March 12th, 1928: The sound a horse makes as it's drowning. Minutes before midnight, the St. Francis Dam fails. It takes five and a half hours for the dam water to wash out to sea, taking with it hundreds of souls. picture and direction by Brian Smee sound by Annapurna Kumar painting and text by Isabelle Aspin prayers by Therese Cleary sound mixing by Craig Smith translation
THE CORBETT REPORT
Kia’s Driverless Future! – #PropagandaWatch
In this first installment of the #PropagandaWatch series, James breaks down the latest advertising/conditioning campaign from Kia preparing us for the driverless future. Who will save the residents of Neverland from the perils of traffic jams? Why, Peter, Kia, and driverless technology, of course! Blecch.
Interview 1374 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-07-26%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio] This week on the New World Next Week: the White Helmets get rescued by Israel; (s)election hacking is now child's play; and the NXIVM case just keeps getting crazier.
The Weird DARPA/Facebook “Coincidence” You Never Heard About
Ever hear about "Lifelog?" You know, the DARPA project to create an automatically updated, itemized, organized, electronic list of every interaction you have, every event you attend, every place you go and everything you do? The project that was announced as canceled the very same day Facebook launched? Well, neither had I? In today's Thought for the Day we explore the Lifelog/Facebook "coincidenc
Interview 1370 – James Corbett on the New World Order
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-06-20%20Lior%20Gantz.mp3"][/audio] James Corbett joins Lior Gantz of wealthresearchgroup.com to discuss the New World Order, the deep state and the battle for global control, and how we can slay the beast by simply removing our participation from the beast's system.
PTech and the 9/11 Software
In this classic Corbett Report podcast from 2008, Indira Singh discusses Ptech, the company with numerous investors and managers with direct links to terrorist financing. Ptech's clients included the CIA, FBI, the White House, the Department of Energy, the Air Force, the Navy, the FAA, IBM and Enron...Yet Singh learnt they were a CIA front company and their software could gain control of the most
THE ENVIRONMENTALIST
Going Local: How a Resilient Approach to Wastewater Could Help Communities Prosper
The EnvironmentaList / 2d
As America's pipes and plants age, it's time to re-envision urban water services
Is the Great Indian Bustard About to Go Extinct?
The EnvironmentaList / 3d
Only one male has turned up at the birds’ breeding grounds this year — and he’s too young to breed
Grey on Green: The Quiet Decline of One Tree in Alaska’s Temperate Rainforest
The EnvironmentaList / 4d
Culturally vital, ecologically unique, and economically valuable, the yellow cedar’s fate is closely tied to snow
Why Do We Know So Little About One of the Most Abundant Animals on the Planet?
The EnvironmentaList / 7d
Krill are ecologically and economically important, yet they have long been misunderstood and misrepresented
ACTIVIST TEACHER
Social Animals have Two Modes of Being
Activist Teacher / 25d
By Denis Rancourt, PhD This article was first published on Dissident Voice: https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/07/social-animals-have-two-modes-of-being/ I want to describe what I think is a fundamental truth about the individual bio-psychology of social animals, including humans. Setting for the model The setting for my model is arguably the greatest current scientific revolution: The
Urban landowner rights versus zoning bylaw practice in Old Ottawa East by Denis Rancourt
Activist Teacher / 26d
This article was first published in the July 1, 2018 issue of the Ontario Landowners Association: http://www.ontariolandowners.ca/news/urban-landowner-rights-versus-zoning-bylaw-practice-in-old-ottawa-east-by-denis-rancourt/ Basically, a small neighbourhood in Ottawa is being devastated by large three-storey multi-unit buildings being built next to family homes, sometimes encasing and
WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE
A History of the Swedish People
What Is Sustainable / 10h
Vilhelm Moberg was born in 1898, in a remote village where remnants of the peasant way of life persisted. He wrote A History of the Swedish People , which spanned two volumes: (1) before the Renaissance, and (2) after. Moberg’s writing has been translated into 20 languages, and Swedes have bought six million copies of his books. Most histories focus on the big shots, the decision makers, the conq
Conquest of the Land Through Seven Thousand Years
What Is Sustainable / 22d
Following a severe Chinese famine in 1920-21, Walter Lowdermilk (1888-1974) was hired to study the situation, and provide famine prevention recommendations. He worked there from 1923 to 1927. Floods and famines had been hammering the Yellow River (Hwang Ho) basin for 4,000 years, sweeping away millions of lives. The basin is covered with a deep blanket of yellowish, nutrient-rich loess soil, dump
ANGOLA 3 NEWS
A3 Newsletter: Why Are We Not Surprised?
Angola 3 News / 8h
Why are we not surprised that children are ripped from their immigrant parents' arms? Could it be because this has been happening for decades in U.S. jails and prisons - not to mention, with increasing frequency as the population of women prisoners grows? Please read the article below from the July issue of the Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, entitled "Cries of Children Echo Thru Year
ARMSCONTROLWONK
Recent Activity at Nampo
My colleagues Catherine Dill, Cameron Trainer and I were reminded when looking at satellite imagery of Nampo, taken yesterday morning, that North Korea’s evasive tactics are successfully keeping the country’s coal and iron exporters in business. Prior to being sanctioned by the UN, these export commodities were amongst North Korea’s biggest earners. Information about trade in North Korean coal …
Increasingly Tenuous Strategic Stability
Quote of the week: “Strongman politics are ascendant … whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained—the form of it—but those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.” — Barack Obama’s July 17, 2018 speech in Johannesburg on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth. …
North Korea Expanding Key Missile Site
This post is authored by Jeffrey Lewis and Dave Schmerler Despite the April 27 Panmunjom Declaration, in which North and South Korea “confirmed the common goal of realizing, through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula,” satellite images captured by Planet show that North Korea is completing a major expansion of an important factory for producing solid …
Putin and Trump Meet at Helsinki
Quotes of the week: “When America does not lead malign actors fill the void to the disadvantage of the United States” — Trump administration National Security Strategy, December 2017 “We will compete and lead in multilateral organizations so that American interests and principles are protected.” — Trump administration National Security Strategy, December 2017 “We must upgrade our …
North Korea’s New Old Enrichment Site: Kangson
KANGSON. We have the (probable) location of North Korea’s original enrichment site: Kangson, now called Chollima. This is probably the spot where the DPRK has been enriching uranium since the early 2000’s, which has previously not been openly identified! Jeffrey, Grace Liu, and Dave Schmerler combed over information dropped by friend-of-the-pod Ankit Panda. Jeffrey, Aaron, and …
The Holy Grail of Deterrence Stability
Quotes of the week: “The imminent possibility of nuclear escalation will impose stringent limits on the conduct of conventional conflict. Both sides will be receptive to direct or indirect mediation, due to which the conflict could be quickly concluded… Instead of TNWs [tactical nuclear weapons), the most important factor that can destabilize deterrence is the …
CHERCHEZ LA VERITE
Here, Paul Craig Roberts asks the question of The Two Superpowers: Who Really Controls the Two Countries? by studying what the Washington Post and the New York Times say about that. And They repeat the disproven lies about Russia as if blatant, obvious lies are hard facts. Yet the WaPo reads: “THE REASONS for the tension between the United States and Russia are well-established. Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine, instigated a war in eastern Ukraine, intervened to save the dictatorship of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, interfered in the U.S. presidential election campaign to harm Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump, poisoned a former intelligence officer on British soil and continues to meddle in the elections of other democracies.” But if you can get behind the truth, Russia didn't "seize" Crimea because it belonged to Russia for centurys and they only took it back after a plebiscite wherein about 85 or 90 voted to again be under Russian rule, largely because the Ukraine…
Cherchez la Verite / 19d
The Two Superpowers: Who Really Controls the Two Countries? June 30, 2018 | Categories: Articles & Columns | The Two Superpowers: Who Really Controls the Two Countries? Paul Craig Roberts Among the ruling interests in the US, one interest even more powerful than the Israel Lobby—the Deep State of the military/security complex— there is enormous fear that an uncontrollable President Trump at the u
DR CINTLI
The Border: The 500-Year Open Veins Of The Americas
Dr Cintli / 13h
A few weeks ago, Truthout published a shorter and different version of this story under a different name. Here is the original and longer version, with the original opening. A few of the comments that had been omitted are found here. This is done in the spirit of the many hundreds of children who remain separated and or detained with their families: https://xicanation.com/the-border-500-year-open
Those Impacted by Colonialism Speak Out on the US’s Legacy of Family Separation
Dr Cintli / 16d
Those crying children, separated from their parents and detained for crossing the US border, are part of the original peoples of this continent. They symbolize all of the children that have been ripped away from their mothers’ arms since the era of colonialism. To be sure, Donald Trump is doing what the US has always done best: destroying and dehumanizing nations and peoples; destroying lives and
Tucson Skirts International Law in Refusing to Reinstate Mexican American Studies
Dr Cintli / 25d
The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) school board recently defended its decision to not re-implement the highly successful Mexican American Studies (MAS) program after Arizona’s 2010 HB 2281 legislation essentially banned the subject from the district’s schools. The majority of the board contends that the district’s new “Culturally Relevant Curriculum” (CRC), introduced after 2012, is essent
FREE PLANET
film trailer BLOOD MACHINES please don't be shit
Free Planet / 3d
I know, I know, but I so wanna see this film now.
Hecate - rocking hell - from sunny Finland
Free Planet / 4d
Hecate aka Rachael Kozak , has just been interviewed on SCORE -- click that . A couple of years ago, Hecate and my writing persona Hertzan Chimera nearly wrote a novel together. It was going to be called VENOM if I remember, and would have been as vicious as fuck. Time evaporated. Space folded. The parent branch parted into its child branches. Life went on...
Electric Universe - positions of the invading planets - simulation of arrival
Free Planet / 7d
where they live today... this is an Electric Universe enigma that needs answering, "Based on where the planets are right now, their orbits, orientations, distances from sun and local spins, where did the proto-Saturn cluster come from?" and by this I mean: the pre-Earth-arrival star we now call the sun had Jupiter orbiting it and Mercury Uranus Neptune ... and maybe some other planets we no longe
No Man's SKy - NEXT coming next week - Star Citizen R.I.P.
Free Planet / 7d
I've wasted the last year or so trying to get myself online-involved LOL in the improvement and enhancement of the forthcoming (for six years) record-setting crowd-funded to the tune of $190,000,000 five-studios around the world with 500 employees i.e. Star Citizen.... to no avail. It's like 'they have their (story + sim) plan and they don't give a flying-fuck for lovely creative sandbox input fro
GREG MANKIW'S BLOG
The most important book I've read this year
Larry Ball carefully looks at one aspect of the financial crisis--the collapse of Lehman Brothers--and documents that the conventional narrative, as told by many of the leading policymakers who were there, is false. According to Ball, the Fed failed to act as lender of last resort when it could have, making the financial crisis worse than necessary. In other words, at a crucial moment, Bernanke a
A plea to economics journalists
I was recently reading an article by Greg Ip (one of best economics journalists around, by the way), and he used the following expression: "the trade balance improved" A quick google search finds this expression (and the related "the trade balance deteriorated") used many thousands of times by various writers. I would like to ask everyone to please stop saying things like this. Write instead: "the
WEEKLY GEO-POLITICAL NEWS AND ANALYSIS
Khazarian mafia doomed as a result of Putin/Trump secret agreement
These days, reading The New York Times and other Khazarian mafia corporate propaganda is like reading Pravda just before the fall of the Soviet Union. Nobody believes their lies. Yet even they are being forced to report that the Soviet Socialist European Union is in deep trouble. That’s because U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed their common enemy is the
Earth Alliance Cryptocurrency Report, Q3 2018
Follow us on Twitter: @generalmilan It has been some time since our last reports ( Q1-2018 and Q4-2017 ). That’s okay—we are strong believers in taking a long-term approach to investing. It’s well documented that overactive trading is detrimental to investors’ financial health, let alone their mental health. The best thing to do is often… nothing. Patience is a virtue. Tech entrepreneur Naval Rav
The revolution continues as old regimes collapse in Mexico and the EU, plus secret space program disclosure
The criminal cabal that has been ruling the planet earth is being systematically removed from power, with the latest being regime change in Mexico and soon the EU. Furthermore, the power struggle in Washington D.C. is definitely being won by the good guys. Also, apparently some real disclosure is occurring about both the Roswell “UFO” incident and anti-gravity technology. The two links below were
Will the Jews finally be freed from Khazarian mafia slavery as Israel is liberated?
The world is headed for a new age, not a New World Order. As a part of this, the Jewish people—high-level slaves of satan-worshipping Khazarian gangsters—are about to be freed from thousands of years of Babylonian slavery. That is why the rogue state of Israel is now under full martial law as the Khazarian-controlled government there faces an ultimatum to surrender and free their Jewish and Arab
Arrests in August; 9/11 announcement in September; and Jubilee in October?
The good guys are continuing to win the secret battle for the planet earth in a big way, multiple sources confirm. As things now stand, there will be a new wave of mass arrests in August, official government disclosure about 9/11 in September, and some sort of “major economic announcement in October,” Pentagon sources claim. Behind the scenes, meetings involving the Knights of Malta, Russian FSB
Benjamin Fulford Talks: The Council of Europe Redux. Interview July 4, 2018 with Prepare for Change
Benjamin Fulford Talks: The Council of Europe Redux. Interview July 4, 2018 with Prepare for Change https://prepareforchange.net/2018/07/06/benjamin-fulford-talks-council-of-europe-redux-interview-july-4-2018-prepare-for-change/ The post Benjamin Fulford Talks: The Council of Europe Redux. Interview July 4, 2018 with Prepare for Change appeared first on Weekly Geo-Political News and Analysis .
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
The Atacama Desert Alien
A Different Perspective / 14h
Some time back, when all this broke about the Atacama Desert skeleton, I learned that some seven percent of the DNA had not been identified. The other 93% was human. I didn’t want to draw a conclusion then, about this, because, well, all the evidence wasn’t Dr. Steven Greer Photo copyright by Kevin Randle in. Oh, it was fairly conclusive, but I thought, since additional testing is being scheduled
Thomas DuBose and the Switched Roswell Debris
Let’s chase a footnote or two, something we haven’t done for a while. I was reading a paper that was discussing the debris displayed on the floor in Brigadier General Roger Ramey’s office. Photographs of the debris were found decades ago and some of the Brigadier General Roger Ramey and Thomas DuBose (seated) looking at the material on the floor in Ramey's office. negatives are housed in the Spec
Jesse Marcel's Journal
Jesse Marcel, Sr. As you all know, one of the problems with the Roswell case is that we have been unable to find any letters, diaries, journals, or notes that were written in 1947 that would tell us about the crash. There have been hints about this, but to this point, none of those hints produced anything that is conclusive. Inez Wilcox, wife of the Roswell sheriff, had written a story about her
Donald Keyhoe and Thomas Mantell
For reasons that will become clear later, meaning in the future and not in this post, I have been reviewing some of the Mantell case. I won’t bother telling you that it involved Thomas Mantell who died while chasing an unidentified object. What I want to mention are two things, both relevant to understanding the case, but that have gotten buried in the minutia of the sighting. Donald Keyhoe Donal
Ed Ruppelt and Thomas Mantell
I have said it before and I’ll say it again. Ed Ruppelt did us no favors. And as you all know, I have been reexamining the Mantell case and found a few problems in the way it has been reported in the past. I don’t think there is anything nefarious in those mistakes, it’s just that I have access to information that they might not have had. Donald Keyhoe didn’t have the case file or the accident re
Finding the Ruth Barnett Diary
I recently posted that we had been looking for any documents, diaries, journals, personal letters or anything else from July 1947 that mentioned the Roswell case without luck. That wasn’t exactly the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This doesn’t relate directly to Roswell, but it had been attached to the information about it for decades. Barney Barnett claimed to have seen a cras
THWAP'S SCHOOLYARD
Trump Derangement Syndrome and Russia-gate
thwap's schoolyard / 9d
I've mentioned this before but I'll say it again: Critics of the moronic george dubya bush were often accused of suffering from "bush derangement syndrome" [bDS] by his supporters. To whit; pointing out he was stupid , that his case for the invasion of Iraq was based on lies , that he was a craven servant of the plutocracy , that he stole elections , was " deranged ." But all of those things turn
Two Books I'm Reading
thwap's schoolyard / 25d
I just finished reading Michael Hudson's Killing the Host: how financial parasites and debt bondage destroy the global economy . It's from 2015 so it leaves out some important European developments though it does include the beginnings of Syriza's capitulation to the European troika . My complaints: Hudson says the FIRE sector (finance, insurance, real-estate) produces nothing of real value for t
MIDDLE CLASS POLITICAL ECONOMIST
Shock EU Court Decision Strikes Blow Against Investment Arbitration
With all the dreary news we've seen this week, could you stand some good news? The battle against investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) got a huge boost in March when the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in Slovak Republic v. Achmea B.V. ("Achmea") that ISDS is contrary to EU law. The decision was something of a surprise because the preliminary analysis ("opinion," in EU-spea
Great new Tax Justice Network podcast on how "Bean Counters...Broke Capitalism"
The June 28 Taxcast is out with a focus on the Big Four accounting firms. Richard Brooks is the author of Bean Counters: The triumph of the accountants and how they broke capitalism (order here in the UK and here in the US) which documents accountants' involvement in some of the world's worst financial scandals, not least of which is the promotion of tax havens. The new segment also features U.S.
NOLANCHART.COM
Establishment Republicans turn on the President…again
NolanChart.com / 10d
Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan, along with the usual band of RINO’s have once again come out in opposition to President Donald Trump, and specifically […]
Catch up folks…the world is a changing
NolanChart.com / 11d
Life has been exciting, enjoyable, positive, and looking good for the future of America ever since November, 2016 and the election of an American President! […]
Above the Law, Trump?
NolanChart.com / 12d
For Donald J. Trump, he was doing what he has done his whole life, defy the law. Only this seemingly apparent defiance carries the weight […]
The Trump Rampage
NolanChart.com / 23d
Trump alternate reality grows, stoked with the help of the one-two propaganda punch of Fox News and Sinclair Group. Both help spin and coordinate Trump’s […]
A CLOSER LOOK: JODY PATERSON
A garbage read. No, really
Just be glad you don't live in Kolonnawa, Sri Lanka, where 800 tonnes of garbage is added to this dump every day. I'm reposting a 2002 story of mine on recycling here, and never mind that I quietly roll my eyes at my many photographer friends who trot out their old photos as "new" and repost them on Instagram. But here's the thing: it's such an interesting subject, what we do with our garbage, an
WMTC
what i'm re-reading: the ax by donald westlake and other literary thrillers
wmtc / 5d
I've just re-read one of my all-time favourites: The Ax by Donald Westlake. I'm agog with how much I love this book. But first, the requisite blather. * * * * One of my favourite kind of books -- although I don't read them frequently -- is a mystery, detective story, crime thriller, or spy thriller that transcends its genre and is also a literary novel. The definition of literary is always a bit s
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #29
wmtc / 12d
It's TIHATL, Summer Reading Club edition! Summer Reading Club is in full swing in Canadian libraries. In more than 2,100 libraries around Canada, kids are earning prizes and recognition for reading. Thanks to Toronto Public Library and a certain sponsoring bank, we all have lots of free stuff to give away. The most popular kids' series ever, still going strong after almost 15 years. Our motives ar
in which we do something i thought i'd never do: say goodbye to our vinyl
wmtc / 19d
Through all our years together, and all the different places we have lived, Allan and I have hung on to our large collection of vinyl LPs. Most people I know who are old enough to have lived in the vinyl era stopped listening to LPs with the advent of CDs, and got rid of their LPs some time after that. We never understood this. We couldn't possibly re-buy all these albums on CD, so why would we g
kevin baker in harpers: "the death of a once great city -- the fall of new york and the urban crisis of affluence"
wmtc / 19d
Everyone who cares about cities, about privatization, and frankly, about humans and our ability to live on our planet, should make time to read the July cover story in Harper's magazine. New York writer Kevin Baker unpacks " The Death of a Once Great City -- The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence ". As New York enters the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is in imminent
happy canada day: a wish for a pledge
wmtc / 26d
One unfortunate result of the current ascendancy of white supremacy in the US is the increase in Canadians' nationalism and self-love -- the strengthening of Canadians' conviction that our society is peaceful and democratic, our institutions benevolent, our kindness manifest in law. We pat ourselves on the back while Trudeau spends our money trampling Indigenous rights, poisoning our water, and h
PAYING ATTENTION
A revolution looks different on the streets you once walked
Paying attention / 28d
My latest Tyee column People are dying on the streets I walked to work in Managua just two years ago. Masaya, a smaller town about an hour away by bus, is a battlefield. The streets of Leon, where we also lived, were filled with improvised barriers as neighbours united to keep out police and government supporters. This is what revolutions look like, I suppose, but it is still surreal to see all t
THE DUCK OF MINERVA
Explaining the Academic Job Market To Friends and Family
This topic came up on twitter–how do we get our friends and relatives to understand the academic job market? My first take: don’t bother. It can get really confusing really fast. I consider my family well-educated, yet deep into my career, my mother thought that my appearances on TV and radio would help me get another job. Nope. Given that job market season is approaching (sorry!),* here’s my lis
Remembering Robert Gilpin and His Intellectual Legacy
This is a guest post from Peter Henne , Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont. Robert Gilpin passed away recently. Most of us knew him as the author of War and Change in World Politics . Others knew him primarily from his work on international political economy. But I had another connection with him; Gilpin was a Vermonter, and an alumni of the University of Vermont (where I am a profe
The U.S. Versus China . . . Versus the Rest?
This post comes from Steve Weber , Professor at the I-School and Department of Political Science and Director of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-director of the Bridging the Gap project. It has become common in 2018 to hear that the United States and China are locking themselves into an Artificial Intelligence ‘arms race’ . While global p
Dark Days Ahead: Does Trump Have a Point About Europe?
For the first year of the Trump Administration, the Washington D.C.- based denizens of the U.S. foreign policy establishment assured themselves that although Donald Trump had tipped over the geopolitical apple cart, everything broken could be put back into place without undue difficulty. They were wrong. Taking their cue from the caustic reactions of American allies to Trump’s twin summit debacle
Tackling Climate Change: A Conversation with Josh Busby
Readers of the Duck will be very familiar with Duck editor Josh Busby’s commentary on climate change and security , U.S. foreign policy , and a host of other topics. Earlier this year, Bridging the Gap (BTG) awarded Josh a Policy Engagement Fellowship (PEF). The purpose of this fellowship is to support efforts by scholars to connect their research on international issues to the policy community.
SCREW YOU GUYS, I'M GOING HOME
Can You Be Fired For Taking Vacation? Yep.
I'm on vacation, and so are many Americans. You shouldn’t have to worry about your job while you’re on vacation. Or should you? A recent survey found that 49% of Americans are taking no vacation this summer. Sadly, 52% did not use all their vacation days last year, and 24% have taken no vaction in at least a year. But you're not one of these sad cases. You’ve earned three weeks of vacation, and w
Can You Rescind Your Resignation? Papa John's Former CEO Wants To Know
In light of the recent brouhaha over Papa John's founder/CEO's use of the n-word, subsequent resignation, then statement that he regretted resigning , I thought I'd address this issue I encounter frequently: can you rescind your resignation? The answer, sadly, is probably not. However, it mostly depends on how much your employer wants you to stay. In general, if you quit in a huff, you're gone. Mo
SYRIA COMMENT
Winning in Syria and the Middle East – By David W. Lesch and Kamal Alam
David W. Lesch Winning in Syria and the Middle East By David W. Lesch and Kamal Alam For Syria Comment – July 16, 2018 The common perception today is that Russia has won in Syria, having supported the government of Bashar al-Assad, which is now steadily reasserting its control over previously lost territory. As a result, Russia has inserted itself as the power broker in Syria, if not the entire M
The Think-Tanks Bark and the IRGC Moves On
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Discussions of U.S. policy on Syria mostly revolve around two things: counter-terrorism (i.e. combating the Islamic State and other Sunni jihadist groups) and counter-Iran, the latter of which has gained much more prominence since the Trump administration came to power. Proposals on the counter-Iran angle from many think-tanks largely focus on a policy of containment and
Helsinki Meeting Does Little to Clarify America’s Syria Policy – By Joshua Landis
Helsinki Meeting Does Little to Clarify America’s Syria Policy By Joshua Landis For Syria Comment – July 16, 2018 Washington analysts were fearful that President Trump would declare that the US was withdrawing from Syria at the Helsinki meeting with President Putin. President Trump made no important concessions to or agreements with President Putin on Syria. Although many suggested that some gran
LEFT I ON THE NEWS
Headlines for July 27, 2018
Left I on the News / 13h
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio . Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted 11 minutes. Worst and Most Misleading Headlines (WAMMH) -- July 27, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *MSNBC has done 455 Stormy Daniels segments in the last year — but none on U.S. war in Yemen https://www.salon.com/2018/07/25/msnbc-has-done-455-s
Headlines for July 20, 2018
Left I on the News / 7d
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio . Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted 11 minutes. Worst and Most Misleading Headlines (WAMMH) -- July 20, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *U.S.-Led Coalition or Partners May Have Hit Syrian Area: Spokesman https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/07/13/world/middleeast/13reuters-mideast-
Headlines for July 13, 2018
Left I on the News / 14d
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio . Worst and Most Misleading Headlines (WAMMH) -- July 13, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: Germany Imports Gas From Russia. But Is It a ‘Captive’? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/world/europe/trump-germany-russia-gas.html Really, NYT? You’re going to treat this absurd statement by Trump seriously? Senators criticiz
Headlines for July 6, 2018
Left I on the News / 21d
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio . Worst and Most Misleading Headlines (WAMMH) -- July 6, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: We already gave Syria to Putin, so what’s left for Trump to say? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/both-obama-and-trump-let-putin-have-his-way-in-syria-now-what/2018/07/05/b333c656-807d-11e8-b660-4d0f9f0351f1_story.html?utm
Headlines for June 29, 2018
Left I on the News / 28d
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio . Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted 11 minutes. CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *Trump and Putin: A Love Story https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000005935591/trump-and-putin-a-love-story.html?playlistId=100000005954997 Disgusting homophobia with the NY Times imprimatur. *Fears gr
Headlines for June 22, 2018
Left I on the News / 28d
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio . Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted 11 minutes. CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *Mattis slams Russia, says Putin 'attempts to undermine America's moral authority https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/15/politics/mattis-slams-russia-putin/index.html Or should this be under funniest? “He aims to di
CENTAURI DREAMS
The Dipole Drive: A New Concept for Space Propulsion
One reason we look so often at sail technologies in these pages is that they offer us ways of leaving the propellant behind. But even as we enter the early days of solar sail experimentation in space, we look toward ways of improving them by somehow getting around their need for solar photons. Robert Zubrin’s work with Dana Andrews has helped us see how so-called magnetic sails (magsails) could b
The Apkallu Initiative: A Minilithic Artefact for Rebooting Human Civilization in the Event of Global Cataclysm
Kelvin Long is a familiar face on Centauri Dreams, the author of several previous articles here and many publications in the field of interstellar studies. The creator of Project Icarus, the re-design of the Project Daedalus starship of the 1970s, Long was a co-founder of Icarus Interstellar and went on to head the Initiative for Interstellar Studies . He also served as editor of the Journal of t
Ross 128b: Analyzing a Planet by the Light of its Star
Red dwarfs have a lot of things going for them when it comes to finding possibly habitable planets. A planet of Earth size in the HZ will produce a substantial transit signal because of the small size of the star (‘transit depth’ refers to the amount of the star’s light that is blocked by the planet), and the tight orbit the planet must follow increases the geometric probability of observing a tr
Pluto Maps Inspire Thoughts of Bradbury
Something happens when we start making maps of hitherto unknown terrain. A sense of familiarity begins to settle in, a pre- and post-visit linearity, even when the landscape is billions of miles away. To put a name on a place and put that name on a map is a focusing that turns a bleary imagined place into a surface of mountains and valleys, a place that from now on will carry a human perspective.
Probing Exoplanet Obliquity
It’s always a shock for me when the soft air and fecund smells of spring slam into a parched and baked July, but seasonal change is inevitable. At least it is on Earth. We get such seasonal changes because of Earth’s obliquity, the angle of its spin axis relative to the plane of its orbit. For Earth, the angle has stayed pretty close to 23 degrees for a long time, although the tilt’s direction wo
Occator Crater Up Close
It’s startling to think that the Dawn spacecraft, now orbiting Ceres at its lowest altitude ever, may have fired its ion engine for the last time. The event occurred by way of positioning the spacecraft for the best possible track near Cerealia Facula, which is a prominent deposit of sodium carbonate in the center of the crater called Occator. Data from the spacecraft’s visible and infrared imagi
INEXPLICATA-THE JOURNAL OF HISPANIC UFOLOGY
Argentina: UFO Landing Traces in Cordoba (1986)
Source: El DÃa (newspaper) and Marcelo Metayer Date: 06 February 1986 Argentina: UFO Landing Traces in Cordoba (1986) An unidentified flying object (UFO) has left landing traces in the mountain ranges surrounding Cordoba. The flying saucer, witnessed by a large number of people on the evening of 9 January, allegedly caused a burn mark measuring approximately a hundred meters in diameter and the c
Argentina: UFO Hunters at Work in San Juan
Source: Planeta UFO and www.sanjuan8.com Date: 18 July 2018 Argentina: UFO Hunters at Work in San Juan Images were recorded and shared by a group of amateur ufologists in Pocito. The case involving a UFO in the skies over Pocito keeps racking up hits on Facebook. The images were taken by the amateur UFO group known as Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano (Guardians of the Skies of Cuyo). According to the
Argentina: The Spaceships of Lara
Argentina: The Spaceships of Lara By Luis Burgos (ICOU & FAO) There are times when those of us who have spent years researching the UFOs, having covered thousands of kilometers in search of the phenomenon, having heard countless stories of all sorts, formulated dozens of hypotheses and evidenced over a thousand imprints of alleged landings in our fields, can still be surprised. Every so often the
Argentina: "Trumpet Sounds" Heard Over Mendoza
Source: El Sol (Argentina) / Fundación Argentina de OvnilogÃa Date: 07.11.2018 Argentina: "Trumpet Sounds" Heard Over Mendoza Social media users claim that in the early hours of Tuesday, disquieting sounds were heard for which no explanation can be found. The phenomenon has occurred in other provinces in the past. To some it was noise caused by speakers and trumpets. Others speak of noises simila
1965: "He Saw The Saucers"
Source: Siete Dias Magazine #35 - August 3, 1965 Date: 07.12.2018 Our friend and colleague Marcelo G. Metayer , whose photographic work we have been pleased to feature in Inexplicata, shared the following photograph with us. It appeared in Argentina's Siete Dias magazine (which went on to become Argentina's equivalent of LOOK or Paris Match). "At this point," Marcelo observes, "It was still a sup
Argentina: The Cerro Plateado UFO Video
Source: Canal 13 de San Juan (Argentina) & Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano Date: 07.16.2018 Argentina: The Cerro Plateado UFO Video The Cerro Plateado UFO. This was the name given to an object recorded on Sunday night to the northwest of Pocito. The UFO was headed north at an elevation of 20-25 degrees, according to Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano. The event was witnessed by Ramón Lázaro Flores and Jorge
UNIVERSE TODAY
This is a Photo of Neptune, From the Ground! ESO’s New Adaptive Optics Makes Ground Telescopes Ignore the Earth’s Atmosphere
In 2007, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) completed work on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. This ground-based telescope is the world’s most advanced optical instrument, consisting of four Unit Telescopes with main mirrors (measuring 8.2 meters in diameter) and four movable 1.8-meter diameter Auxiliary Telescopes. Recently, the VLT was upgraded w
Titan Looks Cool in Infrared
The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on September 15th, 2017 , when it crashed into Saturn’s atmosphere, thus preventing any possible contamination of the system’s moons. Nevertheless, the wealth of data the probe collected during the thirteen years it spent orbiting Saturn (of the gas giant, its rings, and its many moons) continues to be analyzed by scientists – with amazing results! Case in
This Stunning Photo Shows the Martian Dust Storm as it was Just Getting Going
The weather patterns on Mars are rather fascinating, owing to their particular similarities and differences with those of Earth. For one, the Red Planet experiences dust storms that are not dissimilar to storms that happen regularly here on Earth. Due to the lower atmospheric pressure, these storms are much less powerful than hurricanes on Earth, but can grow so large that they cover half the pla
Life on Europa Would be Protected by Just a Few Centimeters of Ice
Ever since the Galileo probe provided compelling evidence for the existence of a global ocean beneath the surface of Europa in the 1990s, scientists have wondered when we might be able to send another mission to this icy moon and search for possible signs of life. Most of these mission concepts call for an orbiter or lander than will study Europa’s surface, searching the icy sheet for signs of bi
Was There a Time When the Moon was Habitable?
To put it simply, the Earth’s Moon is a dry, airless place where nothing lives. Aside from concentrations of ice that exist in permanently-shaded craters in the polar regions, the only water on the moon is believed to exist beneath the surface. What little atmosphere there is consists of elements released from the interior (some of which are radioactive) and helium-4 and neon, which are contribut
Underground Liquid Water Found on Mars!
According to evidence gathered by multiple robotic orbiters, rovers, and landers over the course of several decades, scientists understand that Mars was once a warmer, watery place. But between 4.2 and 3.7 billion years ago, this began to
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