Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
With
Republicans threatening to cut Social Security benefits, retirement
savings has become a national issue. Some states (not anti-employee
Florida, of course) have tackled this issue by implementing retirement
plans for private-sector employees. The latest state to implement a
private-sector retirement plan is Connecticut . They join California,
Illinois, Maryland and Oregon in implementing auto
So
I received this email: Ms. Ballman; I happened to come across your
article from 2011 regarding 10 Workplace Rights You Think you Have – But
Don’t. As both an attorney and a HR/Payroll consultant, your article is
either outdated, specific to Florida, or just completely inaccurate. I
would urge you to do your research and correct the artcle. If you would
be open to discuss the areas of your artic
People
come to me and say, “I was forced to quit.” Huh? How did the employer
do that? Gun to head? Torture devices? Kidnapped loved one? Because your
employer can’t make you quit. Quitting is entirely, 100%, up to you.
Just because your boss or HR comes to you and says you have to resign,
doesn’t mean you should. My usual advice is never, ever submit your
resignation, no matter how much they deman
Florida
has a real chance to turn the governorship and some legislative seats
blue this year. Because Florida is one of the worst states for employees
in the nation, a change in leadership means an opportunity to change
some of the worst anti-employee laws. And in my opinion the worst of the
anti-employee Florida laws is our noncompete law. Massachusetts, after
years of wrangling, finally passed a
Stranger in a Strange Land
Creative intelligence is something quite different from a false image
created to look intelligent. © 2018 M.N. Hopkins Note: This quotation
was thought of today, the 26th of October 2018. These words came to mind
while seeing the picture of a famous and wealthy man who is a creation
of the controllers of media. Chosen for their lack of intelligence and
corruptibility to actively deceive the masse
Dtube link: https://d.tube/#!/v/elainefaye/zdrbb2cw It's better when
they purr.... Mike Quite a talent. First learned of her today. Best
wishes for continued and enjoyable howls. To learn more about this
widely overlooked talent, please click on the links below:
https://www.popdust.com/ee-beyond-too-high-premiere-2591758908.html or
https://eebeyond.com or Dtube link: https://d.tube/#!/v/elainefay
Only humanity can augment humanity. AI can never and will never be up to the task. © 2018 M.N. Hopkins
Please click on the image to enlarge it for easier reading. © 2018 Magnus Ericsson
Being a medium - the precautions to take "You sometimes meet very
sensitive people and highly sensitive mediums who are in a deplorable
state because they have no means of defending themselves against astral
entities. It is good to be sensitive to the invisible world, provided
you first exercise judgment and will-power. To make contact with the
invisible world, you must abandon yourself, one way
By Michael Gerini Residing in the north of Lebanon, Mouin Merhebi is a
member of Saad Hariri’s Future Movement. A staunch opponent of Hezbollah
and the Assad government, he currently serves as Minister of Refugee
Affairs (officially “Minister of State for Displaced Affairs”) in the
Hariri government, a position he has held since December of 2016. Though
coming into the position with little experi
The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage
I have posted the following comment to an American Thinker article on
"Being Human and the Abuse of Science", which sets belief in God above
science: The problem is, all of our religions grew out of previous
history, which personalized God, and thus put God in a too-small box of
man's own making. The most obvious problem with this, of course, is the
proliferation of man-made "Gods", which led to
I have submitted the following comment to the fabius maximus site, in
response to an article on alienation: Large-scale, or mass, alienation
is due to a general incompetence on the part of the "experts",
particularly in science and religion. Or to make a long story short, too
long nurturing of false dogmas in the underlying assumptions of a
civilization or society. The primary false dogma of mode
The Ergosphere
Over
at Green Car Congress, "Scottish Scientist" gushes about P2G: Power to
Gas (P2G) is best for (solar, wind etc.) farm-scale energy storage for
most farms where there is no possibility of farm-scale pumped hydro. P2G
is excellent for mopping up all the surplus farm power because any
energy which P2G can store is an efficiency gain compared to the 100%
loss of all curtailed generation. Grid
The High-fat Hep C Diet
An RCT paper claiming to show harmful effects of a low-carb diet passed
briefly over the internet on the weekend before being shot down in
flames. The title is: Long‐term health effects of the three major diets
under self‐management with advice, yields high adherence and equal
weight loss, but very different long‐term cardiovascular health effects
as measured by myocardial perfusion imaging and s
The Straight Goods
Donald J Trump......Coward in Chief Written by grant G It's gone almost
as predicted in a post I wrote November 8th, 2016..the night the US
elected Donald J Trump president election here's the last few paragraphs
in a post titled.... Donald Trump, King Lizard ______ I feel very sad
for the 50% of Americans who voted for Hillary, I feel just as bad for
the 50% that voted for Trump because they bel
The Emma Jackson Story Written by Grant G Something going on around
here...... Emma Jackson , who is she, I don't know but boy oh boy is she
needed, especially the message she voices.. Ten Years .....according to
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) that's how much
time citizens of planet earth have to stop using the worst of the worst
fossils fuels, that includes fracking and tars
Kogas, one of the 5 corporations involved in LNG Canada's Kitimat
project.... Kogas has a 5% stake in the project......Kogas revealed
today how much their 5% stake is going to cost them.. The number
is.....$660 million dollars....that's 5% of the terminal cost.... 5% is
1/20th of 100%...... 5% times 20 equals...... $13.2 Billion dollars....
__________ SEOUL, Oct 12 (Reuters) - South Korea’s state
Written by Grant G Time for a Straight Goods look at the LNG Canada
deal.... Justin Trudeau and the stranger known as John Horgan were quick
to plant their faces in as many smiling photo-ops possible...all taking
credit for "Canada's largest ever private sector investment" .. Funny
stuff indeed....The project itself got federal approval many years ago
under Stephen Harper, the project received ta
thwap's schoolyard
So, plodding dullard, pants-pissing coward, anti-democratic doofus,
brazen hypocrite, overall incompetent, stephen harper has (in a
desperate attempt to appear relevant) farted out a book of sorts. It's
called I'm Really Stupid Now (or something). In it, he apparently says
that something he calls the global free-market economy has produced
winners and losers and that these fucking losers are turn
I once watched a documentary about Berlin in the interwar period. "City
of Sex" was the title I believe. I was interested because Weimar Berlin
was also a hot-spot of artistic creativity: Dada (brought in by the
German ex-pats who created it in Zurich during WWI, Expressionism,
Bauhaus, Brecht, Gross, the cabarets, etc., etc .,). Also, I was
interested in just how those stodgy old-folks from the
So, yeah. Easy answers. Achievement without effort. This desire for
maximum output with minimum input is hard-wired into us. Being able to
figure out the simplest way to achieve one's goals is a survival
mechanism. But sometime's evolutionary traits can backfire. Especially
when one lives within a self-reinforcing protective bubble of
information. The climate change deniers, the anti-vaxxers, rig
What Is Sustainable
I was intrigued when our book group selected Dancing in the Streets by
Barbara Ehrenreich. It’s a history of collective joy and ecstatic ritual
— stuff that’s pretty rare in the land of the glowing screen people.
Studying humankind’s long transition from wild and free to
robo-consumers, it’s easy to perceive gradually advancing emotional
decay. Cultures slid further away from intimate connections
[Note: This is the second sample from my rough draft of a far from
finished new book, Wild Free & Happy . I don’t plan on reviewing
more books for a while. My blog is home to reviews of 196 books, and you
are very welcome to explore them. The Search field on the right side
will find words in the full contents of all rants and reviews, if you
are interested in specific authors, titles, or subjects
[Note: I’m going to be posting a series of rough draft sections from
the book I’m working on. The plan is two per month. My blog is also home
to reviews of 196 books, and more than a dozen of my rants. Feel free
to wander.] Introduction I’ve been waking up with the ravens lately,
around 5:30. They celebrate each new day with enthusiasm, jabbering
joyfully in the treetops. Then they take wing and
WWF - Latest News
LONDON, 12 October 2018 - Global leaders have acknowledged the need to
take urgent collective action to combat the illegal wildlife trade (IWT)
at the the fourth global conference on IWT. This now needs to be
matched by action. Hosted by the UK government in London, the conference
emphasised the need to tackle IWT as a serious organised crime, work
collaboratively with new partners, and redouble
LONDON, 12 October - Global leaders have acknowledged the need to take
urgent collective action to combat the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) at
the the fourth global conference on IWT. This now needs to be matched by
action. Hosted by the UK government in London, the conference
emphasised the need to tackle IWT as a serious organised crime, work
collaboratively with new partners, and redouble effor
5 October 2018, Rosa Khutor, Russian Federation: The 70 th meeting of
the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) concluded today. The
global spotlight now turns to the 18 th meeting of the Conference of
Parties in Colombo, Sri Lanka in May 2019, where the bulk of the
decisions and outcomes of this meeting will be confirmed
02 October 2018, Rosa Khutor, Russian Federation : Parties to the
Standing Committee to the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES), have clearly and
firmly stated that Japan is in violation of the convention. Japan has
been catching sei whales, allegedly for purposes of scientific research,
and selling the meat and blubber in domestic retail market
Today's decision allowing countries complicit in the illegal ivory
trade to withdraw from the National Ivory Action Plans (NIAPs) process
deals a severe blow to international elephant conservation efforts 01
October 2018, Rosa Khutor, Russian Federation : The 70th meeting of the
Standing Committee to the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) got o
Governments, International Organisations and Civil Society meet in
Russia to make key decisions on wildlife trade 01 October 2018, Rosa
Khutor, Russian Federation : The Standing Committee of the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora
(CITES) today opened for the 70th time in Rosa Khutor in the Russian
Federation. The five-day meeting of the delegated gover
A Very Public Sociologist
This old thread on Twitter was brought to my attention. An excellent
and brief dissection of Slobodan Milošević's career and what he means
today: I'm reminded of last night's discussion of modulation . Milošević
and his contemporary imitators can never be properly pinned down. They
are simultaneously in the thick of things and at a remove from them,
racist but non-racist. A sort of Schrodinger's
This month saw 34,915 votes cast over 21 local authority (tier one and
tier two) contests. All percentages are rounded to the nearest single
decimal place. Six council seats changed hands in total. For comparison
with September's results, see here . Party Number of Candidates Total
Vote % +/- Sept +/- Oct 17 Average/ Contest +/- Seats Conservative 20
11,437 32.9% -0.5% +2.6% 572 -1 Labour 19 9,70
We don't spend much time praising John McTernan round these parts, but
oh boy what a service he has rendered. In discussion with Grace Blakeley
and Michael Walker on TyskySour, his centrism was put under the
spotlight. And, for his pains, his politics were shown up as an empty
posture, drawing in equal measure from wishful thinking and bad faith.
Arguments this place, among many others, have made
Despite its claims to freedom, neoliberalism from the outset was an
authoritarian project. It took root in tandem with or on the heels of
state violence. The slaughter of the "other September 11th" in Chile,
the physical breaking of Britain's labour movement by Margaret Thatcher,
and the incredible levels of social murder visited on Russia by Yeltsin
and the shock therapy of the neoliberal "radic
Can anything more be said about the so-called People's Vote march in
London that hasn't already been noted elsewhere? According to the
organisers, there was anywhere between half a million and 750,000 on the
streets. Not content with nicking A to B marches off the left, they've
half-inched the revolutionary inflation as well. And what's more, some
of Britain's wealthiest reached into their pocket
They call it the fish hook theory of politics. Imagine if you will a
line. On the left is, well, the left. Travel in an easterly direction,
going past the centre, at some point on the right the line bends and
curves back to the point where the so-called far right hangs poised back
above the centre. Self-indulgent nonsense by lefties taking jabs at
their centrist rivals? Well, it would be if the e
Adrienne's Corner
in the extraordinary form of the liturgical calendar and Mass. The
feast of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI with his
encyclical Quas Primas (11 December 1925). The Holy Father states
clearly his purpose for instituting such a universal feast day. I
suggest that everyone take a few moment to read Quas Primas and ponder
the wisdom it contains. The opening paragraph sums up the ills a
inquiring minds want to know. Not a bomb Meantime, the "bombs" are
providing a deflection from the fat and sassy "refugees" trooping across
Mexico. It appears a bunch of them have decided to go back home. Little
Bobby de Niro haz a sad 'cause he wanted to be in the newz too, so they
arranged for him to get a fake bomb too. How thoughtful of the perps.
Amazon Deals in bomb making stuff Electronics
oh, yeah, sorry - "Native American." And why do they keep calling
non-functioning pieces of PVC pipes with fake timers "bombs?" Let me
make sure I understand this: This wack job lived and drove around in a
van with custom made signage (those are not "stickers" ) obscuring his
windows and not one police officer cited him for this? And not one
equally deranged Florida peep keyed, kicked, or otherwi
do you think she learned anything? I doubt it. Disclosure: I'm not a
Kelly fan and never have been. I find her confrontational modus operandi
to be off putting. Having said that, I find what happened to her to
actually be quite sad. I don't think she's a racist (whatever the hell
that is in today's world), and seeing the usual race baiters and
hyper-sensitive grievance whores pushing each other o
is this Trump's fault too? But, of course it is. /snark I'm not making
light of this horrible tragedy. I will offer tomorrow's Mass for the
repose of the souls of these decent people who were killed while
praying. Suddenly, Bowers' Facecrap page has disappeared, but not before
I got a good look. So if the story suddenly changes to he was a Trump
supporter - do. not. believe. it. Who do we blame f
so says some punk over at the Wall Street Journal. I would have never
read Why the Left Hates Trump if Pamela Geller hadn't posted it since
the WSJ hides it's crap behind a paywall. So this punk, in an article in
support of Trump, manages to say a bunch of bad stuff about him and
that most Americans are just like him - except they're just not quite so
in-your-face about their proclivities to be v
CENSORED NEWS
Photo
by R. Salcido, copyright. Meeting at Wo'osan O'odham traditional route
of O'odham leaders and community members. Another successful food
delivery to O'odham on the south side of the border. Toy Drive for
O'odham communities in southern O'odham lands in Mexico By Ophelia Rivas
Censored News Toys for 200 children ages, up to ten years old are
needed. Also needed are money
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By
Christine Prat in Paris Censored News Speech by Nataanii Means in
Paris, October 13, 2018, at the 38th Annual Day of Solidarity of the
CSIA-nitassinan. Recorded by Pascal Gregis and Christine Prat from CSIA,
transcribed by Christine Prat Nataanii Means, Paris October 13, 2018
Nataanii presented himself in the traditional way and further explained:
http://
Breaking
News By Brenda Norrell Censored News Updating now Standing Rock Water
Protectors filed a class action civil rights lawsuit against Morton
County, North Dakota Governors, TigerSwan, and others, demanding a jury
trial. The lawsuit, Thunderhawk vs. Morton County, was filed by Cissy
Thunderhawk, Waste Win Young, and Rev. John Floberg, on behalf of water
protectors. Morton County
JEAN
ROACH, LAKOTA, IN PARIS, TALKS ABOUT THE ROLE OF WOMEN, LEONARD PELTIER
AND WATER PROTECTION By Christine Prat Censored News Recorded on
October 13, 2018 Published on October 22, 2018 The 38th Annual Day of
Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples, organized in Paris by the French
Committee for Solidarity with Indians of the Americas, CSIA, celebrated
over five centuries
.
Video link UzpfSTEwMDAwNDAzMDQ4MzgyNjoxNDUwODIyMjA1MDYyMTE1 Mashpee
Wampanoag Tribe This Indigenous Peoples Day we ask you to
#StandWithMashpee and help us Protect the Mashpee Reservation and pass
HR 5244 THE MASHPEE WAMPANOAG TRIBE RESERVATION REAFFIRMATION ACT.
Congress has the ability to stop this now, and with our voices we can
join together to stop this injustice. It
Centauri Dreams
To say that the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest
Research Institute has been busy of late is quite an understatement.
Alan Stern, principal investigator for New Horizons, has been leading an
SwRI study examining just how we might operate an orbiter at
Pluto/Charon, with results that are surprising and encouraging for the
future of such a project. Working with spaceflight engine
One of the youngest surface features on Europa draws attention because
of its possible connection with what lies beneath the Jovian moon’s ice.
The dark center of Pwyll crater, visible in the image below, is some 40
kilometers across, with a central peak reaching about 600 meters. At
issue is the terrain resulting from the impact causing the crater. An
impact perhaps 20 million years ago seems to
With two rovers and a lander already deployed on the asteroid 162173
Ryugu, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) must be basking in
the glow of an unusually successful venture. Now we turn to a key part
of the Hayabusa2 mission, the retrieval of a surface sample. Two
touchdown rehearsals have gone well, providing detailed views of the
asteroid’s surface. The plan is to return samples to
Europa stays in this news this morning as we continue to correlate
recent observations with the invaluable results of the Galileo mission.
Hubble data have played a role in this, with researchers identifying
plume activity in 2013 that recalled the geysers of Enceladus, a
possible indication of venting from the subsurface ocean. But analysis
of Cassini data from its 2001 Jupiter flyby enroute to
As we continue to track the Voyagers into interstellar space, the
spacecraft have become the subject of a new documentary. Associate
editor Larry Klaes, a long-time Centauri Dreams essayist and
commentator, here looks at The Farthest: Voyager in Space, a compelling
film released last year. Larry’s deep knowledge of the Voyager mission
helps him spot the occasional omission (why no mention of seri
8,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, the star
designated Kepler 1625 may be harboring a planet with a moon. The
planet, Kepler 1625b, is a gas giant several times the mass of Jupiter.
What David Kipping (Columbia University) and graduate student Alex
Teachey have found is compelling though not definitive evidence of a
moon orbiting the confirmed planet. If we do indeed have a
Craig Murray
The Turkish account of the murder of Khashoggi given by President
Erdogan is true, in every detail. Audio and video evidence exists and
has been widely shared with world intelligence agencies, including the
US, UK, Russia and Germany, and others which have a relationship with
Turkey or are seen as influential. That is why, despite their desperate
desire to do so, no Western country has been able
I expect you are all familiar with the maps showing the radical
shrinking of Palestinian land over 70 years due to the expansion of
colonial Israeli settlement. Startling and appalling, yes, but to me
they bring back strong memories of other maps, in a precisely analogous
situation, which goes to the heart of why Israel is an apartheid state.
The original apartheid state of South Africa created “
Of the three flats on the corridor where I rent my current Edinburgh
home, just off the Canongate, two were lived in and one a holiday let.
As of this month, only we are resident and there are two holiday lets.
Before this I lived in the Holyrood Park apartment block. Of the 14
flats on the stair we lived on, only 3 were inhabited. Eleven were
holiday lets and holiday homes. Our rent was raised e
This video has been on all the major news networks, but I would like
you to turn up the sound, watch the twitches and pay close attention to
the very definite problems that the Crown Prince is having with his
nose. Here – apart from sniffing and a runny nose – from a treatment
website is a list of some of the mental symptoms of cocaine abuse. An
interesting take on the reckless Khashoggi assassin
The draconian sentencing to jail of anti-fracking activists for
non-violent direct action has received insufficient attention. It is a
confident state that can undertake to bring back a level of repression
not seen for decades – eight decades, in fact, since environmental
activists received this kind of lengthy jail sentence, despite
generations of tree climbing and road blocking. Non violent dir
The radical road up Salisbury Crags got its name because pro-democracy
labourers building it held meetings there to avoid bans within the city
of Edinburgh, back in the era of Peterloo. This is precisely where
Historic Environment Scotland are banning tomorrow’s Independence rally,
and if we accept it we are turning our back on our heritage. As
somebody who has addressed half a million people in
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
Two well-heeled older men who never wanted for anything during their
upbringings and now live comfortable, privileged lives will be getting
together in Calgary this evening to talk about just how very, very angry
they are. The idea of a $15-per-hour minimum wage makes them very, very
angry. The idea that someone would remove a statue to a 19th Century
colonial-era politician in belated acknowledg
They crashed the party, did they? But I wonder why they picked a United
Conservative Party affair to crash? I speak, of course, of the
“Soldiers of Odin,” the unsavoury anti-immigrant group founded by a
Finnish white supremacist whose Edmonton chapter’s members dress like
bikers and have been making a nuisance of themselves by claiming to be
the Edmonton Police Service’s little helpers. On Friday
Give Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party their due: They got
a large and enthusiastic crowd out last night to their rally in Calgary
against taking action on climate change. Leastways, I’d say 1,500 warm
bodies at a rally on any topic should concern the government they came
out to yell at, no matter what the issue, which in this case was
technically the Trudeau Government’s policy of p
“Putting a price on carbon” was always going to be unpopular with
people who use fossil fuels out of necessity and for fun – viz., a large
portion of the population in a well-off northern country that, climate
change notwithstanding, still gets pretty cold in the winter. In other
words, Canadians, with their furnaces, SUVs and snowmobiles. After 40
years of neoliberal conditioning to the idea all
After a difficult weekend doing damage control about how members of an
anti-immigration group with white supremacist links were welcomed to a
United Conservative Party beer-and-selfies night last Friday by an
Edmonton constituency association, expect the right-wing Opposition
party to dip into its strategic playbook to try to change the channel.
UCP Channel-Changing Strategy No. 1, of course, is:
A lot of Canada’s Conservatives were wearing long faces yesterday about
the impact of the freshly inked United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
on this country’s dairy industry. As political sins go, this small
hypocrisy is a minor one. Why not let the sitting government take the
rap for a treaty with our big,
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