AMUSED CYNICISM
I think I’ll take that last option
Amused Cynicism / 23d
Thursday’s newspaper front pages have Theresa may saying it’s my deal or no Brexit: That last option is looking ever more attractive!
Tatchell on What’s Wrong with the Left
Amused Cynicism / 30d
Peter Tatchell gave a talk earlier this year on what’s wrong with the left:
ANGOLA 3 NEWS
A3 Newsletter: Going to Amsterdam, Widows, Non-Unanimous Juries and more
Angola 3 News / 8d
A3 Newsletter, November 30, 2018: Another Years Draws to a Close Albert and King are ending their year with a short trip to Holland to support the Dutch branch of Amnesty International's " Write for Rights Campaign" which kicks off on December 10, International Human Rights Day. The Dutch section of Amnesty has now existed for 50 years and is one of the world's largest Amnesty sections. Amnesty f
FREE PLANET
Electric Universe - traumatic energy - can the human mind be made to forget?
Free Planet / 4d
THE NEXT BIT IS PURE SPECULATION and I haven't looked into the scientific application of using electricity to wipe a person's brain, let alone wipe the collective memory of an era of people, but I'm going to progress with my word-salad. What if... ...all around the world monuments made using technology that seems VERY CONTEMPORARY like perfectly symmetrical quartz-laden marble sculptures with tool
Star Citizen - four years on - the grand re-build
Free Planet / 28d
As 2019 approaches, Cloud Imperium Games still haven't released details of, or even a flowchart of, their plans to accommodate multi-system gaming into their multi-player game Star Citizen. If game giants like Sega, Konami or Nintendo were making the Star Citizen demo, internally away from the prying eyes of non-game-makers, at this four-year point in its development they would GUT THE WHOLE THIN
GREG MANKIW'S BLOG
LAND DESTROYER
NATO's Aggression Reaches for Russian Waters
December 7, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The recent Kerch Strait incident marks a new low amid the US-led expansion of NATO eastward. The intentional provocation executed by Kiev saw three Ukrainian naval vessels seized by Russia. The vessels were intentionally violating protocol for passing through the Strait - protocol previously agreed upon by Kiev and previously observed by Ukrainian nava
Who is Winning the US-Chinese AI Arms Race?
December 2, 2018 ( Gunnar Ulson - NEO ) - Information technology has already transformed virtually every aspect of modern civilization. The rise of artificial intelligence and the ability of systems to train themselves rather than be programmed, allowing them to perform tasks no human could, is expected to have as much, if not more an impact than the proliferation of computers and the Internet. T
Ukraine Provokes Russia to What End?
November 27, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Russia has seized three Ukrainian military vessels violating its territory near Russia's newly completed Crimean Bridge. The incident is a clear provocation carried out by Kiev and possibly engineered by Kiev's Western sponsors - particularly those in Washington and London. Ukrainian military vessels are in fact permitted to pass from the Black Sea in
Western Media "Discovers" Saudi Atrocities in Wake of Khashoggi Fallout
November 12, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Nothing illustrates the cynical and deceitful nature of Western "journalism" better than the recent, apparent US-Saudi fallout in the wake of the alleged death of Washington Post Saudi correspondent, Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi allegedly disappeared and has been reported killed at the hands of Saudi consulate staff in Istanbul, Turkey. Of course, the U
Washington's Dirty Fight Against China's OBOR
November 21, 2018 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - Five years into China's ambitious One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative sees analysts and political circles around the globe taking stock of Beijing's progress. This includes the Wall Street Journal in its article, " U.S. Fights China for Influence, One Project at a Time: Washington prods private sector and focuses on financing as Beijing’s ‘Belt and Roa
Syria: Alleged Chemical Attack Elicits 180 Degree Response from West
November 29, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - On the heels of another alleged chemical attack in Syria - the Western media has responded with skepticism - even silence. This acutely different response to its regular "chemical weapons" hysteria is because unlike previous incidents, it appears this most recent attack was blatantly carried out by Western-backed militants operating in Idlib, Syria. W
LEFT I ON THE NEWS
Headlines for Dec. 7, 2018
Left I on the News / 22h
Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) for Dec. 7, 2018 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. *Russia is trying to undermine Americans’ confidence in the justice system, security experts warn https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2018/12
Headlines for Nov. 30, 2018
Left I on the News / 8d
Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) for Nov. 30, 2018 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”: *Video Fact Check: 8 Putin Claims Regarding the Kerch Strait Incident https://www.polygraph.info/a/eight-putin-claims-regarding-kerch-str
Headlines for Nov. 23, 2018
Left I on the News / 15d
Clickhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/worst-and-most-misleading-headlines-of-t_28 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, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) for Nov. 23, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *Black Friday is the official start of the holiday
Headlines for Nov. 16, 2018
Left I on the News / 21d
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, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) for Nov. 16, 2018 Correction from last week: I said the “Amazon Cuomo” and “Amazon River” stories were a way of covering up government giving “millions” to Amazon. Actual number? $1.5 BILLON. And t
Headlines for Nov. 9, 2018
Left I on the News / 29d
Click here [not active yet] 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, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) for Nov. 9, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *New York's governor jokes he'll change his name to 'Amazon Cuomo' to win the HQ2 bid, and it reveals just how desperate
MIDDLE CLASS POLITICAL ECONOMIST
Amazon Wins!!!
Well, what did you expect? With 238 entrants and 20 finalists, the Amazon HQ2 location tournament resulted in a resounding victory for Amazon: Billions of dollars in subsidies and binders full of detailed information on the contestants. Plus, we got a surprise twist at the end, when Amazon announced it would choose two "headquarters" instead of one. Of course, I never thought that having two headq
NOLANCHART.COM
Class as an element of the U. S. presidency
NolanChart.com / 5d
The passing of George H.W. Bush seems almost providential in terms of its timing, the beginning of Advent, the season of the coming of Christ. […]
Rudy Giuliani Hypocritical Regarding Robert Mueller
NolanChart.com / 6d
John Bowden at The Hill, in an article entitled, “Giuliani trashes Mueller probe over ‘unethical’ tactics after Cohen guilty plea,” reported that Rudy Giuliani, President […]
Proud to be a Christian and a conservative!
NolanChart.com / 7d
Rush Limbaugh did it again. I love this guy, I really do. His leadership on the radio, over decades, is the heart of the America […]
What’s the place of the social conservative?
NolanChart.com / 10d
While in the age of Trump pro-lifers have seen some advancements, abortion is not a social issue. It’s a justice issue. The progress of feminism, […]
Did the election of President Trump force the hand of the globalists?
NolanChart.com / 10d
Before President Trump a giant conspiracy, that includes the Ruling Elite, the Swamp, the major media, and academia were working towards the end of the […]
Billionaire Class Driving America
NolanChart.com / 11d
The fundamental controlling movement behind America is not the Russians, not the government, not the media, but the well-heeled corporate forces. It is they who […]
OBSIDIAN WINGS
Tossing two foxes in the henhouse
Obsidian Wings / 21h
by liberal japonicus Don't really have a lot, so two things that crossed my desktop. Kevin Drum offers a commonsensical view on dealing with the deaths of public figures . (Doing the above was) considered common courtesy, and does not mean that (a) nobody is ever allowed to say anything bad about the establishment, or (b) everyone has forgotten what a bad person this was. It just means that out o
Just in time for the holidays!
Obsidian Wings / 3d
by liberal japonicus Laura mentioned that she had a new book , proceeds of which would go to fund animal rescue, so I asked her to give us some more details. I'm sure that other folks have interesting things that are hopefully coming to fruition for this holiday season, either for themselves or for others, so put them in the comments or send them to me and I'll append them to the post. Don't hide
Darkness
Obsidian Wings / 5d
by JanieM When I was a kid I went through a phase when I wanted to be an astronomer, using the word loosely. What I probably really meant was cosmologist. Odd, then, that I went to a college without an astronomy department. But I thought I could solve the deficiency by majoring in physics and eventually concentrating on astrophysics in grad school. I took what was essentially a half-credit course
But Will They Be Named Dolly?
Obsidian Wings / 8d
by wj Buried (at least for me) in the flood of political news these past weeks was something potentially far more important. It appears that a researcher in China has made the first human embryo gene edit. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/12/01/a-maverick-researcher-claims-to-have-created-gm-children It is perhaps not surprising that the guy who did it is not actually trained
And now for something...
Obsidian Wings / 10d
by JanieM When I go to Cambridge on the bus or train, I make sure to take some light reading. Literally light: paperback, nothing that will add too much weight to my luggables. But most of the time it's figuratively light too: mysteries, mostly. This past time I decided to wake myself up a bit. I gazed across my shelves the night before and made a little stack of options: Faulkner's Absalom, Absa
Thanks and Giving Open Thread
Obsidian Wings / 17d
by Ugh One wonders if Saudi Arabia had just "oopsied" a JDAM on Khashoggi if there would have been any fuss. Whatever. It appears that my 3.5 month 7 month basement project is nearing completion such that the kids can finally go down there and annihilate one another with Nerf guns (wearing the appropriate eye protection, of course). The "big" cousins are coming so they are excited. Also the 7YO w
PAYING ATTENTION
Why I voted for proportional representation
I spent 10 years in the legislative press gallery, a front-row seat for the spectacle of B.C. politics. It was mostly — not always — horrifying. Cynical, dishonest and hyper-partisan, an unending election campaign. Collaboration was not impossible, but the system made it really difficult. MLAs, mostly good people, behaved badly. It was sad and infuriating, and demeaning for everyone involved. Tha
Will Ottawa’s news fund be wasted keeping Postmedia afloat?
Paying attention / 7d
I wrote about the federal government's plan to support news media in The Tyee today. "I can swallow my scruples and accept direct government funding for journalism. Desperate times, desperate measures and all that. But the federal government’s new plan looks like it could easily do more harm than good. The government’s recent economic update announced it would spend about $120 million a year for f
PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK
Bhopal: 34 years later
Each year on December 3, PAN International marks the anniversary of the Bhopal tragedy, both to lift up the ongoing struggle of the affected families, and to remind the world that there is another way. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
Agroecology: for climate and justice
Without doubt, these are challenging times. Stepping back from the political turmoil that we see here and in the world around us, we are simultaneously confronted with evidence that climate change is fast unravelling the systems of the natural world that have evolved over millennia to create a habitable planet. Last week’s Climate Science report of the United States’ 4th National Climate Assessme
Bhopal: 34 years later
It’s hard to imagine how terrifying it must have been. Thirty-four years ago, families in Bhopal, India woke to toxic gas pouring over their city from a catastrophic leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant. Somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 people died, and community activists have been fighting for justice ever since. Each year on December 3, PAN International marks the anniversary of the Bhop
The 2018 Midterms: Outcomes and impacts on sustainable agriculture
This is an edited version of a blog post by our partners at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. See the full post here . With 435 House and 35 Senate races on the ballot last week, the 2018 midterms were closely watched across the nation – not least of all by advocates of sustainable agriculture. Before heading off to the campaign trail, Congress left two major ag agenda items danglin
How to help in the face of fire
For the second year in a row, California is experiencing unprecedented devastation and loss brought about by fires, ripping through communities in both the northern and southern regions of the state. However, in the midst of destruction and hardship, people have been stepping up for each other in inspiring ways. Numerous online donation platforms have been set up, businesses and organizations are
EPA re-registers drift-prone dicamba. Really?
EPA decides to continue its registration of Monsanto’s (now merged with Bayer) highly controversial dicamba-based herbicide, Xtendimax. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
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