The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage
I have posted the following comment to an article on the Conservative
Treehouse site, in response to another comment about Islam, and its
incorrect, and entirely wrong-headed, description as "the religion of
peace". I post it here only because the new/old science I have
uncovered, and which will be the next paradigm in both science and
religion, is particularly and critically needed now: We are l
( A cursory and prejudiced view of Islam and Muslims is essential to effectively demonizing what is essentially a brother faith to Judaism and Christianity honouring Jesus as a prophet ; as being intolerant ! Oh, to cure the beam in one's own eye ! Beware the deviant - but first you have to find him !
Page 482 starts one's appreciation of institutional prejudice at work )
The Ergosphere
Comedian
Owen Benjamin has decided that the USA never put men on the moon. (Why?
Well... he's a comedian, not an aerospace engineer. There's a lot
that's common knowledge in the field that someone so far from it just
isn't going to know, and may have great difficulty understanding.) So I
have issued him this challenge (in the comments of the video, though
said comment does not appear to be
Dear
Dell Computer, We used to have a good relationship. I've purchased Dell
laptops several times, as well as one well-loved monitor which met an
ugly end in a moving accident. My main machine 2 computers ago was a
Dell laptop on which I installed some flavor of Linux I've long since
forgotten. It installed from an ISO I downloaded and ran like a dream
for years until it experienced some
The High-fat Hep C Diet
It was good to see this well-researched burst of sunscreen scepticism
doing the rounds this (southern) summer - Is Sunscreen the New
Margarine? * I was particularly struck by the unintentionally ironic
title, because margarine's role in this story goes well beyond that of a
handy analogy for a misguided public health initiative. When I first
read the Nanji and French research - countless rat expe
The Straight Goods
Strange times have descended upon the earth, we now live in a world
where the "Greed Monsters" rule and children, seniors, workers are but
disposable impediments...... In the UK, now Ireland, spain, Greece, the
US and coming to our country very very soon, we hear the continual drone
of messaging from Conservative neo-cons in all corners of the world, we
are living too long, we expect too many und
thwap's schoolyard
I think Bernie Sanders is too old to run again. I'm on record as saying
that I want Elizabeth Warren and Tulsi Gabbard to run. [Neither of them
are perfect but Warren with power will be great on economic policy and
Gabbard's commitment to not wasting military lives for the petro-state
will be an improvement on foreign policy. They would be a big step in
the right direction. And, it's most likely
Vagabond Scholar
For
the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., I have King: A Filmed
Record... Montgomery to Memphis on in the background. It's a 1970
documentary, just over three hours, that originally showed in movie
theaters as a one-day special event. One of the local TV stations has
broadcast it occasionally. It's a great collection of footage and audio
recordings. The local PBS station has sometimes rerun
(The
Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves) (A Jon Swift
lolcat.) Welcome to the 2018 edition! I hope this year ends on a
hopeful note. This tradition was started by the late Jon Swift/Al
Weisel, who left behind some excellent satire, but was also a nice guy
and a strong supporter of small blogs. As usual, I'll quote Lance
Mannion, who nicely explains: Our late and much
Weekly Geo-Political News and Analysis
The removal of Fuhrer George Bush Sr. has exposed a new layer of
mass-murdering fascists in the U.S. and Japan to arrest or sudden death
as the war against the satanic Khazarian mafia rages on. In Japan,
fascist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his regime are headed for war
crimes tribunals. As a start, French police have charged Tsunekazu
Takeda, head of the Japan Olympic Committee, with corruption
Dear Ben: The war against the cabal will lead us either to survival or
ruin, and therefore we have to fight on all fronts. That is why I invite
you and your readers to participate in the RETURN OF LIGHT mass
meditation on January 21st at 12:11 AM EST in New York. There are occult
reasons behind Cabal’s rituals, and now we have an opportunity to
anchor more positive energy onto the surface of this
The Bundy Ranch villain and traitor, former Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid, is going to join John McCain and George Bush Sr. and be
executed for treason, Pentagon sources say. Like McCain, Reid will
officially die of cancer and be allowed, as condemned men are, the right
to a few last words, the sources say. Reid chose to badmouth U.S.
President Donald Trump. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2
Many signs indicate that 2019 will be a breakthrough year in the battle
against the satan-worshiping Khazarian mafia. Not only have mass
arrests begun, but the mass-murdering part of the pharmacidical/medical
establishment is finally being taken out as well. Another obvious sign
it is no longer business as usual comes from the fact that the U.S.
military is being withdrawn from Syria, Afghanistan
Now that top-level satanic Khazarian cabalists have fallen, second-rank
officials like Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, World Bank
chief Jim Yong Kim, and Serena Rothschild (widow of Jacob Rothschild)
are being removed as the war to liberate humanity continues. Ginsburg
“has gone missing and may be dead or still in NY hospital, missing two
weeks of oral arguments at the Supreme Court, o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCq8_HKbad8&feature=youtu.be On The
GoldFish Report No. 323, Louisa hosts a special Dragon Interview with
the Red Dragon Ambassador and the spokesperson for the White Dragon
Society, Benjamin Fulford. Joining her to co-host is YouTuber Tim Emslie
in Australia. This report focuses on the world financial system and the
geopolitical and financial changes that are pres
Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!)
The
"New York Times," having run out of countries to find WMD in, has now
determined that Bernie Sanders is the most likely target this election?
Sad. NO NO NO PAYGO!!!!!!!!! In a wealthy first-world nation, no one
thinks hard about some of the employees making off with a few bucks now
and then. Today's situation, trillions missing, unaccounted for, and
unlooked for, is straining the
What Is Sustainable
[Note: This is the seventh 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 199 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 subjec
[Note: This is the sixth 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 199 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.
WWF - Latest News
In the new public awareness campaign, popular Chinese actor Huang Xuan,
dressed as a Customs officer, informs travelers that purchasing
wildlife products is driving certain species toward extinction and
reminds them that it is illegal to bring ivory into China, even as
souvenirs. The campaign comes as part of a three-year initiative by
China Customs to tighten security at borders and halt imports
A Different Perspective
Well, I’m in a bit of a pickle here. I confess that I do like History’s
Project Blue Book . When I look at it as entertainment with a bit of
history thrown in, I find the show to be intriguing. However, when I
look at it as a historical document, I see the many flaws in it… not in
the story telling, but in the history that it is so loosely based on. I
can, of course, point out the flaws in the Lu
While working on something else, I had occasion to revisit the “Hippler
Letter.” Hippler was the Air Force lieutenant colonel who supplied the
Condon Committee with their instructions concerning what they were
supposed to find during their investigation. I’ve looked at this in the
past and you can read the letter and the analysis here:
http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/03/hippler-letter.html T
Well, I have posted a review of the second episode of Project Blue Book
from the point of view of someone who is watching the show for its
entertainment value. Now, I’ll look at it from the other side of the
fence and that is as a glimpse of history. This episode is about the
Flatwoods, West Virginia, landing of September 12, 1952, and it bears
little resemblance to the actual case. It was not a
Back in the 1970s, Jack Webb of Dragnet fame created something he
called Project UFO . It was based on the files of Project Blue Book and
it was difficult to recognize the cases presented. The attitude of the
program, if I remember it correctly, was to Jack Webb examine a case
that might have been inexplicable and find a rational and reasonable
answer before the hour expired. Although I was excit
This is a different post than I had planned. After reading James
Carrion’s The Roswell Deception , I was planning to do a short article
about one tiny aspect of it. It was something that seemed to undermine
his premise, but as I was searching for additional information, the tone
changed and I made a discovery or two that I thought important. James
Carrion. Photo copyright by Kevin Randle To bring
In a two-hour special edition of the radio version of A Different
Perspective , I talked with James Carrion, author of The Roswell
Deception . This is the theory that the “Saucer Summer of 1947,” as he
calls it, was a deception created by American military forces as a way
of convincing the Soviets that we had a spectacular aircraft that could
deliver atomic weapons deep into the Soviet Union. You
A Very Public Sociologist
" This story is not true. The figures are completely made up ." A wise
rule of thumb for every story to feature in The Mail , but today's
splash that Labour are haemorrhaging members come amid media assurances
that the party is hopelessly split and faces untold damage unless Jeremy
Corbyn "gets off the fence". When you've heard the same line from
multiple pundits and papers supposedly at ideologi
It's not true that Theresa May's latest performance in the Commons was
entirely pointless. As we saw at the end of last week, she was properly
stuck with no pain-free exit in sight. But for once she has made a
decision. We know what her game is, what she plans to do to get over her
historic defeat . What that might be? Brace yourselves, hold on to your
hats, take a seat because she's resolved ...
Politics is weird. After surviving her no confidence vote last week by
the skin of her teeth, and with a general election seemingly off the
agenda for the foreseeable everyone's gone election crayzay. More than
one report over the weekend talked about preparations being made by CCHQ
for a snap contest, and Tory MPs and commentators have mused aloud
about its possibility. If that wasn't peculiar e
Not feeling the writing tonight. Instead, let's go back to the old school. Enjoy!
Once again, it's been a while since I last did one of these. But I'm
always happy to welcome new left blogs/pod casts and other contributions
to the socialist firmament. Here's what the fates have supplied me
these last couple of months: 1. Samantha Asumadu ( Twitter ) 2, Stats
for Lefties ( Twitter ) 3. The Social Review ( Twitter ) 4. Wendy Liu (
Twitter ) If you know of any new(ish) blogs that
"Desperate Theresa May caves in on workers' rights to save Brexit
deal". Well done The Mirror for getting the scoop, but what does it
mean? Since losing her majority, May's approach to Brexit has proceeded
more with an eye to Tory party management than actually getting her deal
through the Commons. Then, during last Autumn's party conference season
the penny belatedly dropped and the PM realised
Adrienne's Corner
which didn't appear to happen. The high school boys from the Covington
Catholic High School in Kentucky, who have been accused of picking on an
Indian, have been largely exonerated by the full video of the (IMO)
non-event. Here's what's really shocking: Reading the comments at The
Hill, Huff and Puff, and Daily Mail further illuminated the hatred the
commie/marxist/libtards have for us - the depl
I'm not ashamed of the Diocese of Covington's behavior, but they should
be. Donald J. Trump Verified account @realDonaldTrump 15h 15 hours
ago 15 hours ago More Looking like Nick Sandman & Covington Catholic
students were treated unfairly with early judgements proving out to be
false - smeared by media. Not good, but making big comeback! “New
footage shows that media was wrong about teen’s enco
and does anyone really care? I would guess that 95% of the peeps in the
country have little or no idea of what's going on and couldn't care
less. Nancy Pelosi is waving her little gavel around and thinking she's
put one over on Trump. She hasn't. Meanwhile, the Covington High School
kids continue to be savaged while the Indian is shown to be a liar. And
New York lit up the World Trade Center's sp
and he didn't refer to anyone as a m***erf**cker even once. After being
sworn in, Jew hater Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), attended a raucous reception
by ultra-left wing advocacy group MoveOn.org. Her closing remarks at the
function were, “We’re gonna impeach the motherfucker.” Funny, m uslim
Tlaib doesn't find it necessary to wrap her head in a rag, while Jew
hater Minnesota muslim Ilhan Omar demanded t
if it's reported at all. Year after year hundreds of thousands of
people gather in D.C. to march for the end to the slaughter of babies in
the womb by their mothers. The MSM covers it in a most perfunctory
manner - unlike the odious pink pussy hat wearing harridans who will
gather tomorrow in objection to a myriad of complaints. Unfortunately,
we'll be bombarded with mega coverage of these vile w
now this is a real eye opener. I was briefly considering Dollar Shave
Club (who is now owned by UniLever.) Not anymore. And I have something
to say about feminist women backing Gillette's rabidly racist stupid ad.
Notice all the good guys are black and the bad guys are white? Head
over to Daily Mail and check out the massive number of pics of half or
completely naked women (with delicate areas sm
Rumble
on PBS By Brenda Norrell Censored News The underground music that kept
the spirits alive, Rumble, The Indians who Rocked the World, is now on
PBS. Buffy Saint Marie explained in an interview at Dine' College how
Presidents Johnson and Reagan put her out of the music business in the
U.S. because of Universal Soldier, and her protest of the Vietnam war.
That interview, my article as
By
Brenda Norrell Censored News PASCUA YAQUI -- A two-day Tribal Border
Summit begins Thursday with a closed meeting between Tribal Leaders and
U.S. Homeland Security, according to the agenda. NCAI is among the hosts
of the summit. Along with Pascua Yaqui and Tohono O'odham tribal
leaders in southern Arizona, St. Regis Mohawk, Puyallup and Pauma will
be in the closed meeting.
I
just saw the incident taking place in Washington, DC in which a
demonstration between the white Make America Great Again (MAGA)
representatives and Omaha Elder Nathan Phillips I just saw the incident
taking place in Washington, DC in which a demonstration between the
white Make America Great Again (MAGA) representatives and a Native
http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2019/01/20/canada-sells-stolen-resources-buyers-beware/
https://naturalresources.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-grijalva-sen-sanders-introduce-bills-to-prevent-mining-activities-on-sacred-apache-tribal-land-given-away-in-2015-defense-bill
01.17.19 Chairman Grijalva, Sen. Sanders Introduce Bills to Prevent
Mining Activities on Sacred Apache Tribal Land Given Away in 2015
Defense Bill Washington, D.C. – Chairman Raúl M.
http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2019/01/12/no-trespassing-trespassers-beware/
Centauri Dreams
Most of my research for Centauri Dreams involves looking at papers and
presentations on matters involving deep space, whether propulsion
systems, closed loop life support, or even possible destinations. That’s
why it’s a huge help to get an article like the one below, giving us an
overview of current thinking and an analysis of what is either in the
pipeline or under consideration for the near-te
One of the more important things about the interstellar object called
‘Oumuamua is the nature of the debate it has engendered. Harvard
astronomer Avi Loeb’s paper examining it as a possible technology has
provoked comment throughout the scientific community, as witness Jason
Wright’s essay below. Dr. Wright (Penn State) heads the Glimpsing Heat
from Alien Techologies (G-HAT) project, which he des
The exuberance of images like the one below captures the drama of Solar
System exploration. Scenes like this are emblematic of the early
reconnaissance of the Solar System. We saw similar enthusiasm with
missions near and far — I’m thinking back, for example, not just to
Voyager, but the Viking landings on Mars, and I’m sure Russian
controllers were equally jubilant when their Venera craft touche
Beamed propulsion has clear advantages when it comes to pushing a
payload up to interstellar flight speeds, which is why Breakthrough
Starshot is looking at laser strategies. But what about a neutral
particle beam in conjunction with a magnetic sail? We’ve discussed the
possibilities before (see Interstellar Probe: The 1 KG Mission ), where I
wrote about Alan Mole’s paper in JBIS, followed by a c
“We think we are looking at the most primitive object ever imaged by a
spacecraft,” said Jeff Moore (NASA Ames) at today’s Ultima Thule press
conference. Moore, New Horizons geology and geophysics lead, went on to
describe the process of innumerable particles growing into nodes amidst
growing low velocity collision and interaction. We are truly looking at
primordial materials with Ultima Thule, w
‘Oumuamua continues to inspire questions and provoke media attention,
not only because of its unusual characteristics, but because of the
discussion that has emerged on whether it may be a derelict (or active)
technology. Harvard’s Avi Loeb examined the interstellar object in these
terms in a paper with Shmuel Bialy, one we talked about at length in
these pages (see ‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Ligh
Craig Murray
As Robert Burns lay dying, he was plagued by his debts and creditors
and worried about the future of his family. He wrote an anguished letter
to Montrose to his first cousin James Burnes, begging him to send £20
to pay off, among other things, the tailor for Robert’s customs officer
uniform. James, not for the first time, sent the money uncomplainingly
to his beloved cousin. Robert (who was chris
Venezuela has elections. Juan Guaido has never even been a Presidential
candidate. Despite massive CIA opposition funding and interference over
years as Big Oil tries to regain control of the World’s largest oil
reserves, Nicolas Maduro was democratically re-elected in 2018 as
President of Venezuela. The coup now under way is illegitimate. I
opposed Maduro’s move to replace the elected National A
The post Why Does the State Hate Alex Salmond? appeared first on Craig Murray .
I want to give you a concrete example of how the UK government
deliberately sets out to manufacture false sexual allegations against
people it considers a threat. I do so to educate those who view this
concept as an unthinkable “conspiracy theory”. I write of a case of
which I have expert knowledge; it is my own case. I became an “enemy of
the state” when, as British Ambassador, I protested again
Judith Mackinnon joined the Scottish government in 2017. She was
slotted into the highly remunerated non-job of Head of People Advice .
That really is her title. I saw it in the Record and did not believe it,
but just phoned the Scottish Government and they confirmed it. Judith
Mackinnon is Head of People Advice at the Scottish Government. She was
previously Head of Human Resource Governance at P
A Cabinet Office source tells me today No. 10 is considering agreeing a
second referendum with three choices: No Deal Brexit, May’s Deal or No
Brexit. It would be by alternative vote, ie you rate your preferences 1,
2. The thinking is that the first round might go No Deal 23, May’s Deal
37, No Brexit 40. The second round would then go May’s Deal 60, No
Brexit 40. They claim there is opinion poll
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
Just when you thought it was about to fade away over the coming
weekend, the saga of Jason Kenney’s dubious House of Commons housing
expense claims got a new lease on life yesterday thanks to a Liberal
Member of Parliament from Ontario. Jennifer O’Connell, MP for
Pickering-Uxbridge, breathed new life into the story with a formal
request for an investigation into “the possible misuse of the Travel
Public anger at politicians who bill taxpayers for their living
expenses when in reality they live close to their work is nothing new in
Alberta. Abusive attacks on their critics, up to and including death
threats, are new. Back in April 1992, Progressive Conservative municipal
affairs minster Dick Fowler, who was then the MLA for St. Albert,
economic development minister Peter Elzinga, MLA for S
Scream as they might about the idea of a ban on handgun ownership by
Canadians, it is interesting to note that the tactics used by advocates
of wide-open ownership of firearms against the so-called long-gun
registry combined with the legislative strategy pursued by their allies
in the Conservative federal government during its decade in power opened
the political space that now makes it possible
Members of the Canadian Parliament like Jason Kenney in the days he was
MP for Calgary Midnapore are permitted to charge expenses for a
secondary residence, either in the National Capital Region or within 100
kilometres of the riding they represent. To avail themselves of this
benefit, MPs like Mr. Kenney, who is now leader of Alberta’s Opposition
United Conservative Party, must declare either th
Allegations about United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney’s
Calgary domestic and travel arrangements during the years he was the
Conservative MP for Calgary Midnapore circulating on social media over
the weekend had turned into a full-blown Internet tempest by last night.
Parliamentary expenditure reports and flight records as well as Calgary
land titles unearthed by rural-Alberta-born Otta
The $6,000 administrative penalty levied against the Canadian Taxpayers
Federation for failing to register as a third-party advertiser under
Alberta’s election financing law is a long-overdue official recognition
of the true role the self-described “tax watchdog” plays in Canadian
politics. The CTF has been disproportionately influential in Canadian
political discourse for many years, mainly beca
Add caption so, I've just resurrected at Levski, and I've left my
skanky hab, and I'm running down the corridors.... and I voice-actived
my, "MobiGlas," and the wrist-phone showed me my Fleet Manager App as an
obvious first option, while still running I scrolled through the ship I
could OfA or Order for Arrival. I made it to the surface, once I'd gone
up and down, and round and around, and took a
what is the moral of this idyllic setting? ...it's a test. The image is
a test, Mike? Well, that's open to personal interpretation, surely.
Some will see it for its artistic qualities of light and shade, some
will see it for its political isolationism overlay of impending Brexit,
some will just see food or land to acquire or a poisoned chalice of a
stream parked bext to a lead foundry. But it's n
this is the only way to arrive in Lorville, comm'ing for landing
permissions surrounded by massive skyscrapers and.... oh, wait a minute,
that's not what this post's about. Bright strong daylight outside, yet
inside the cockpit is almost SILHOUETTED against the city scene. It's
like there's no light inside the cockpit when it's clearly supposed to
be streaming through the glass. It's certainly fl
this is the kinda gameplay I want... ...and by 'gameplay' I mean
'sandbox features that allow for multiplayer fun '. "Mike, what's fun
about restrictive stellar accretion disc gameplay?" where the play area
is basically a two-dimensional plane and the lanes between static
trading planets are easy-pickings from pirate interdictions and taxes
from corporations. Well, look at this schematic of the S
How
many times is the Star Citizen player going to be confused by the
following in-game logic puzzles? it's a ladder it's a chair it's a
console I've seen it on countless occassions, let's get in a
single-seater ship. Everybody treats these things in the same way. Like
unlocked doors. You've already locomoted on foot up to it. You F-click
on ship canopy, in case there's some function you can use.
Dev takes a scenic breather whilst surveying his work... ...so, "What
kind of a game are CI or Cloud Imperium making?" We know the genre, it's
science fiction. We know the year, it's 2949. We know (instinctively)
that that's as far as they've got. The original KickStarter pitch kinda
set the design flavour as 'world war 2 dog-fighting in space' but even
films like Star Wars have g-dampeners becau
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin Google, Facebook and Microsoft Sponsored Conference
that Promoted Climate Change Denial Federal Judge: Government Employees
Can't Refuse to Work Unpaid During Shutdown Gannett Lays Off Journalists
Across the Country Germany has picked new officers for a Baltic Sea
force — another sign Europe is preparing for a potential clash with
Russia Maduro Kicks Out US Diplomats As Video Of
From Jenna Orkin Greenwald: Beyond Buzzfeed: The 10 Worst, Most
Embarrassing Media Failures in the Trump-Russia Saga Sinkhole Opens Up
Block Away From the White House Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women -
Canada(!) Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, launches 2020
presidential bid "Social Death" In Denmark Moonwalking With Theresa May:
Unboxing Brexit 'Plan C' France And Germany Take
From Jenna Orkin Lack of Topsoil Could Lead to Extinction of Farming
NSW minister gives himself power to approve illegal water works in
Murray-Darling basin Continuous US Just Lost Its Last Wild Caribou Weird
Weather I'm a little troubled by the source's use of the word
"conspiracy." Europe's mightiest river is drying up, causing a recession
in Germany. Yes, really. Satellite Images Reveal China
From Jenna Orkin Hackers Broke Into an SEC Database and Made Millions
from Inside Information The Martin Luther King You Don't See On TV
Scientists and Doctors Warn of Potential Serious Health Effects of 5G
Tulsi Gabbard Says U.S. Government Arming, Funding ISIS and Al Qaeda The
Super-Secure Quantum Cable Hiding in the Holland Tunnel Joe Lieberman
Listening to U.S. National Security Concerns for
From Jenna Orkin Government Criminalizes Off Grid Living: Tiny Homes
Banned In US At Increasing Rate 15 people have been charged in the Flint
water scandal "Seven people have pleaded no contest in plea deals which
will leave them with no criminal record." Queen’s Driver Dies After
Admitting to Raping Children in Buckingham Palace 100% Pure? New
Zealand’s Deteriorating Water Raises a Stink THE OTH
From Jenna Orkin Supreme Court declines to hear case about toxic burn
pits on military bases overseas Arizona: Four women convicted after
leaving food and water in desert for migrants Special counsel issues
rare statement disputing explosive Cohen report Army Struggles To Reach
Generation Z, Tries Recruiting At Video Game Tournaments US Oil Rig
Count Plummets Most In 3 Years After Production Hits
GlobaLove Think Tank
Government and Taxes
* This is my third article in Asia Times , published last December 5,
2018. Beijing has stalled in delivering $24 billion in promised aid and
investment to Manila. Considering the terms and conditions of the
funding that may not be such a bad thing By BIENVENIDO S OPLAS JR
MANILA, DECEMBER 5, 2018 7:08 PM (UTC+8) 3,014 17 When Chinese President
Xi Jinping made a landmark visit to the Philippines
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last Monday, January 21, 2019.
“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.” — Plato Until about the
1960s and 70s, Philippine business was dominated by the land-based and a
few real estate wealthy families like the Zobel-Ayalas. Things changed
in the 1980s in both politics and business and when the Marcos
dictatorship collapsed along with its huge cronies.
There is a move in Congress to lower the minimum age of criminal
responsibility (MACR) from the current 15 years old to 9 years old. As
in nine years old, wow. MACR means that if the person or child is within
or below that age, he/she cannot be jailed for crimes commited. It is
true that many children are used by criminal syndicates and gangs,
thousands of children. If this is the case, then gove
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last January 18, 2019. The
Philippines has a huge and increasing economic potential mainly because
of its big population, estimated at 108 million as of mid-2018 and the
13th largest in the world. Which means more entrepreneurs and workers,
more producers and consumers. We are also an archipelago with more than
7,500 islands and islets, lots of white sand bea
I attended the Stratbase-Albert del Rosario Institute (ADRi) "Pilipinas
Conference 2018" last December 07, 2018 at Manila Peninsula Hotel.
Below, among the slides shown by Gregory Polling. Horrible China
communist government. Stealing of territory by other states is the norm
because they have the armaments and instruments of deception. One of the
slides shown by Dr. Raul Fabella, my former teache
The Asia Liberty Forum (ALF) 2019 will be held in a month in Sri Lanka.
ALF is mainly sponsored by the Atlas Network and co-sponsored by a
local free market think tank. This year, the local sponsor will be the
Advocata Institute, based in Colombo. Some good speakers, below. I know
Razeen Sally since nearly a decade ago, in past Economic Freedom Network
(EFN) Asia conferences. Other speakers are f
henrymakow.com
Traditional sexual assumptions turned out to be right. In the 1950-60s ,
a young woman would only have sex with a man she loved. "Making love"
(sex) was literally an expression of love. A man would have to gain a
woman's love before he could have her body. Today we have put the
carriage before the horse. People seek sex not love even though
emotional intimacy is what they really want. The decline
MARION MARECHAL (AUQUE) UNMASKED Marion Jeanne Caroline Maréchal, 29,
is the granddaughter of National Front (FN) founder Jean-Marie Le Pen
and niece of FN Leader Marine Le Pen. Many hoped she would one day
succeed her aunt. However, our hopes are dampened by the realization
that for some reason, there are no true nationalists. They all genuflect
to Zionism. " The right wing I aspire is at the cr
The "antisemitism" smear diverts attention from the grim reality - the
hate actually emanates from Cabalist Jews and their Freemason agents in
the form of a simultaneous attack on our gender, racial, religious and
national identity. Jew or not, if you are not an "antisemite" in the
sense of opposing this diabolical agenda, you are a dupe who will pay
dearly for your conformity & ignorance. by Hen
Ann Diamond hung out with Leonard Cohen and penned articles about his
Illuminati connections. He never mentioned a son but the resemblance is
uncanny. by Ann Diamond (henrymakow.com) Anthony Bourdain, who died last
year, has been called the "Leonard Cohen of Food." (Cohen mural doesn't
bother to hide hand) There's an obvious physical resemblance. In fact,
tourists to Montreal have mistaken the gi
(Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. Is this hand gesture the explanation of
German generals' docility?) In August 1938, the German General Staff
informed the British that they were ready to oust Hitler. All the
British had to do was resist Hitler's demands. Instead, at Munich, they
handed Czechoslovakia to him, further proof that Hitler was an
Illuminati agent. "Overall, no man has done more harm to the pr
Should Whites Retreat to Countryside? by Wise Man I think there will be
no mass awakening of the population. The average Canadian is a
candy-ass. There is no fight in them. I'm past sick of hearing the term
"wake-up" or "waking up" the population. They don't want to be woken.
You ever stop and watch a flock of Jets fans walking downtown in their
jerseys during a home game? Small groups of highly
Every major Democrat or progressive who has declared—or is expected to
declare—his or her candidacy for U.S. president has been silent in the
wake of Wednesday’s announcement that President Donald Trump will
recognize Venezuela’s National Assembly president Juan Guaidó as the
interim president. In These Times requested comment from Kamala Harris
(D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Kirsten Gillibr
Venezuela is facing its most serious political crisis in years. The
United States and Brazil—both headed by far-right presidents—are helping
to push the country to the brink. On Wednesday, the head of Venezuela’s
National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, declared himself the country’s interim
president before thousands of supporters. In a clear sign of coordinated
action, U.S. president Donald Trump quickl
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released a new autobiography in January,
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey , to coincide with her
presidential bid. It opens with an awestruck account of her first day as
a summer intern with the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.
That experience during her final year of law school confirmed her desire
to be a prosecutor and propelled her successful cam
On December 10, International Human Rights Day, I was peering through
the window of my isolation cell at the Imperial Beach Border Patrol
Substation. I could see past a highly secured heavy metal door to a
holding cell that contained over a dozen children who ranged in age from
five to 15, by themselves without any adult caregivers. Another cell
contained women with their infants and toddlers. An
In April 2017, my 84-year-old mother suffered a severe stroke. For my
mother, who moved to the United States from her native Philippines in
the 1950s when she was just 25, held a job for four decades, took care
of my dying father for three years and then lived independently for five
years afterward, the stroke was a cruel and devastating transition into
elderly dependent care—and it came with a s
wealth tax noun 1. A policy to break up the enormous, unearned assets
of super-rich families “It is a win-win idea for the American people, an
idea no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward.”
—Donald Trump, proposing a one-time tax on wealth in 1999 Can’t we just
raise the income tax? As bad as income inequal
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