Australia
Wins The Global Patsy Award 2019 The Brookings Institute released a
report that claims everyone is better off economically by sticking to
Paris, but check out the devastating graphs. Economically, everyone is a
loser, but the three biggest losers are Australia, Russia and OPEC.
Australia is doing more, paying more, suffering more and yet will make
almost no difference to the global emiss
On this week's edition of #PropagandaWatch we examine a case study in
corporate spin as a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented
Reuters report is marginalized with a magic two word phrase. Corporate
stooges and PR lackeys take note!
Jason Bermas of Pulse Change joins us to discuss the recently released
"9/11 papers." What new information is in this release, and does it tell
us anything of value about 9/11? Can the documents be verified?
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Jones’s and get yourself a $2,000 automatic designer cat door that is
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case your cat is intellectually challenged. How many storms will this
cat door prevent? Couple pay $2000 for a cat door to help fight climate
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Everyone from television host Jimmy Kimmel to House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi had a response to President Trump's first Oval Office address, in
which he described undocumented immigrants as murderers and rapists and
made his case for the $5 billion border wall. Hillary Clinton took
things a step further and issued a call to action on Twitter. In her
original post, Clinton characterized Trump's speech
Nothing is more awkward than not knowing when to go for a handshake or a
hug when congratulating someone. One such moment played out right on
stage at the 2019 Golden Globes, when Nicole Kidman presented an award
to Rami Malek and the rest of the cast of Bohemian Rhapsody. As Malek
reached out to thank Kidman for the award, she promptly turned her back
on him and very much left him hanging. On Ji
A
new History Channel series starring Game of Thrones' Aidan Gillen
delves in to the secretive US UFO program. The science-fiction series,
which is ai...
Pound-for-pound,
the Galapagos large ground finch has a bite 320 times stronger than
Tyrannosaurus rex. In a new study, scientists used a supercompute...
Via:
AP: Activists from a French protest movement encouraged supporters
Wednesday to set off a bank run by emptying their accounts, while the
government urged citizens to express their discontent in a national
debate instead of weekly demonstrations disrupting the streets of Paris.
Activists from the yellow vest movement, which started with protests
over fuel […]
Jacline
Mouraud, once the self-appointed spokeswoman of the Yellow Vests, has
announced the creation of a new party. The emerging political force is
described as a "party of common sense," pursuing social and tax reforms.
Mouraud greatly contributed to stirring up the Yellow Vests protests
and has become a highly recognizable figure after posting a video
against fuel tax hikes which has been viewe
What Anita Radini noticed under the microscope was the blue—a brilliant
blue that seemed so unnatural, so out of place in the 1,000-year-old
dental tartar she was gently dissolving in weak acid. It was
ultramarine, she would later learn, a pigment that a millennium ago
could only have come from lapis lazuli originating in a single region of
Afghanistan. This blue was once worth its weight in gold
"Some of them have already quit, and many are considering quitting the federal workforce," Hydrick Thomas says
Video found of James Goddard, part of group who barracked Anna Soubry,
arguing Islam should be banned from west The most prominent of the
protesters who have harassed MPs and journalists outside the Houses of
Parliament in recent weeks argued last year that all Muslims should be
removed from the UK, saying he wanted to “ban Islam from the west”, it
has emerged. In another indication of the far-ri
Trump's Oval Office address Tuesday was mostly a waste of time. He may
not have declared a national emergency to secure funding for the border
wall, but he did manage to rattle off a bunch of his usual false and
misleading immigration lines , all in a bafflingly low-energy monotone.
The only real takeaway from the entire thing is that Trump still can't
read off a teleprompter too well . But there
By himself, Trump would have backed away from this disaster already. But Fox News is holding the nation hostage
The
first direct evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals
has been discovered by astronomers at the University of Warwick, and our
skies are filled with them.
Scientists
seeking to bring the fusion reaction that powers the sun and stars to
Earth must keep the superhot plasma free from disruptions. Now
researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have discovered a process that can help to
control the disruptions thought to be most dangerous.
Calicivirus VP2 forms a portal-like assembly following receptor
engagement Calicivirus VP2 forms a portal-like assembly following
receptor engagement, Published online: 09 January 2019;
doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0852-1 Cryo-electron microscopy structures of
feline calicivirus and its cellular receptor show that twelve copies of
the minor capsid protein VP2 form a portal-like assembly arranged about
The latest film in 2009 Star Trek franchise has reportedly been canceled.
Screenshot: Overwatch (Blizzard) In March 2017, an Overwatch fan wrote
to Jeff Kaplan about the lack of black female characters in the game. To
her surprise, he wrote back a few months later, saying he hoped that
one day diversity would be the norm and promising that there were
multiple black characters in the works. “The most important thing to me
is that those in positions to influence and refl
Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why
Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why,
Published online: 09 January 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00007-1
Erratic motion of north magnetic pole forces experts to update model
that aids global navigation.
By Seth Ferris for Veterans Today and New Eastern Outlook, Moscow In
1979 Joe Clark led his Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to its
first election victory in 16 years. Two years later, in opposition
again, one third, (33.5) per cent of his party members supported a
“review of his leadership”, i.e., a vote on […]
By Joseph Thomas and New Eastern Outlook, Moscow (with permissions)
Fortify Rights is one of several fronts posing as nongovernmental
organisations (NGOs) operating across Asia. Such fronts are in actuality
extensions of US and European “soft power.” Fully funded by the US,
British and various European governments as well as US and European
corporate foundations […]
By Tony Carlucci for New Eastern Outlook, Moscow (with permission)
Claiming that prominent Chinese telecommunications company Huawei had
violated US sanctions on Iran – Canada was requested to arrest and hand
over Huawei Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou, who was transferring
planes in Vancouver. The arrest was described even by the Washington
Post as “unusual” in its article […]
“Trump needs to know his limits. The American occupation of Iraq is
over,” the Washington Post quoted, quoting the AP as the head of one of
the two main coalitions in the Iraqi parliament, Islah, Sabah al-Saidi.
Trump, he said, “slipped” into Iraq, “as if Iraq is one of the states of
the United States.” Iraq should not be […]
The US Navy is paying a lot of attention to countering cyber attack
threats. Recently, work on the protection of weapon systems from the
effects of cyber attacks has been conducted in 36 areas. According to
Bryson Bort, CEO of Scythe, which develops cyber defense systems, this
may be non-advanced research, but it’s about the first […]
RT: The US is experiencing “certain difficulties” with the withdrawal
from Syria, it should be coordinated with Iran and Russia to prevent
“terrorists” from taking up the vacated space, the Turkish foreign
minister said. “The United States [has] been facing certain difficulties
with the process of the troops’ withdrawal from Syria. We want to
coordinate […]
The Alienware Area-51m might be the ultimate portable desktop: a
17-inch laptop that adds interchangeable graphics cards and swappable
desktop processors for the first time in years. This one fits up to an
Nvidia RTX 2080 and an Intel Core i9-9900K, the fastest parts in a
notebook yet. Alienware designed the Area-51m to be easily rebuilt so we
tore it down to see what’s inside. Read more here: ht
Ellen had one last 12 Days surprise for fan Malachi, his "superhero"
mom Michelle and their family, as she shocked them by handing out all
the gifts from this season's giveaways! #TheEllenShow #12Days
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Explorer host, Phil Keoghan going into the heated heart of Nicaragua's
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cable television history, honored with nearly 60 Emm
The iSKN Slate Repaper drawing tablet is geared toward artists and is a
huge improvement from the original Slate in 2016. The original product
was unique in that it let the user fit magnetic rings on their own pens
and pencils, which would work with the magnets in the tablet to convert
strokes on to a companion app in real time. You could place any paper on
the tablet, clip it in place, and start
Jesse Tyler Ferguson chatted with Ellen about his husband Justin’s
super aggressive sleep mask, going to Lady Gaga’s Las Vegas after-party,
seeing Celine Dion in concert, and even doing an uncanny impression of
her. #JesseTylerFerguson #CelineDion #TheEllenShow From: TheEllenShow
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The Corbett Report
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Jason Bermas of Pulse Change joins us to discuss the recently released
"9/11 papers." What new information is in this release, and does it tell
us anything of value about 9/11? Can the documents be verified?
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Dr. Mark Skimore of Michigan State University joins us to discuss his
research with Catherine Austin Fitts into the $21 trillion in
unaccounted transactions on the books of the US Department of Defence
and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. We discuss what
we know and don't know about the subj
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mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode350-lq.mp3"][/audio] Who
gets to write the history textbooks? Where do the history teachers learn
about history? What documents are allowed into the historical record,
and what documents are excluded? These are not merely academic
questions, they go right to the heart of the question of history itself.
Join James Corbett for today's edition of
The Rules of Exposition
At Merriam-Webster: Is Singular 'They' a Better Choice? The awkward
case of 'his or her' "Everyone should do his or her best in whatever
situations he or she happens to find himself or herself in?" That's
awkward. Perhaps everyone should just do their best in the situations
they find themselves in. Even if their best involves they as a singular
pronoun. Awkward, indeed. But singular 'they' is wro
A Different Perspective
For nearly thirty years or more, various researchers and experts have
been trying to read the Ramey Memo, believing that it might hold the key
to the Roswell crash. What can be seen easily in the document held by
Brigadier General Roger Ramey suggests that the text does relate to the
Roswell case. While some words are obvious, others are tantalizing close
to being read, but are open to various in
To fully understand a case, it is necessary to return to the original
source. I had the opportunity to do that just the other day. Andy McGinn
of the Jefferson Herald , which had been the Jefferson Bee , called to
ask about an entry in Crash: When UFOs Fall from the Sky. He was
interested in an entry for April 15, 1897 which Greene County
Courthouse, Jefferson, Iowa discussed a crash near Jeffers
As I was working on the articles about the Jefferson Airship crash, I
wondered what was the difference between that event and the Aurora,
Texas, crash. Both were reported in the newspaper which was supposed to
add some credibility to the stories. But Aurora has been splashed all
over the media since the 1960s including documentaries, magazine
articles and mentions in books, and even a movie about
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
There was some follow up to the Jefferson airship crash. The crash
happened on Saturday night, April 10, but was not reported in the
newspaper until April 15. If it was a real event, with most of the town
aware of it, then the following letters to the editor would have had a
chance to make their way to the newspaper office for publication on
Thursday. That seems to be the case because there were
Our pals over at History (which used to be the History Channel) have
decided to take on Project Blue Book in a series that is based on those
files. This is, of course, the second series to do that. Back in the
1970s, Jack Webb created Project UFO which was based, loosely, on the
Project Blue Book files. I have said in the past The two stars of
Project UFO. that we owed Webb a bit of recognition b
A Way to Live
In Place By Risa Bear View this Author's Spotlight Paperback, 124 Pages
Preview Price: $10.00 Prints in 3-5 business days An old woman, young
in the study of Zen Buddhism, converts an old playhouse as a part-time
hermitage.
By
Denis Rancourt First published here:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/01/stability-and-dynamics-of-individual-personality-in-a-dominance-hierarchy/
In this article, I develop a physics model of the bimodal personality
of the social animal. The model uses free-energy barrier-crossing theory
and provides a new and testable paradigm of individual behaviour and
perception in a dominance
Gilets
jaunes: Investment-predation globalism for the mobile urban elites
versus rural nationalism for the sedentary and threatened middle-classIn
the West, there is a global class conflict, decades in the making,
which is a direct consequence of the globalization of investment
predation. For the good of humankind, and for the good of the planet,
and for social peace and stability, we should
Amused Cynicism
Job Worth has created a flowchart with all the twists and turns Brexit
might take over the coming months. As you can see, it’s rather
complicated:
ArmsControlWonk
Jeffrey
and Aaron return from the holidays to talk about … North Korea. Kim
Jong Un gave his traditional New Year’s Day speech. On the first day of
2017, Kim signaled the ICBM test that was to come. And on the first day
of 2018, he hinted at the diplomatic thaw that would bring “love …
Lyric
of the week: Standing in the middle of nowhere Wondering how to begin
Lost between tomorrow and yesterday Between now and then And now we’re
back where we started Here we go round again Day after day I get up and I
say I better do it again” — The Kinks, “Do It Again” …
Quote
of the week: “We do not yet know surely in what proportion unreasonable
fears and twisted hopes are at the root of the perverted policy now
followed by the Kremlin. Assuming both to be involved, we must disarm
the fears and disappoint the hopes.” — Henry L. Stimson, “The Challenge
to Americans,” Foreign Affairs, …
Quote
of the week: “We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we
have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.” — Henry
James, “The Middle Years” Yes, the hour is late and the cause is
probably hopeless, but it’s still worth trying to …
Lyric
of the week: And the men who spurred us on Sit in judgement of all
wrong They decide and the shotgun sings the song … Pick up my guitar and
play Just like yesterday Then I’ll get on my knees and pray We don’t
get fooled again — The Who, “Don’t Get Fooled Again” …
Quote
of the week: “We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our
hand — and melting like a snowflake.” — Sir Francis Bacon Note to ACW
Readers: With apologies and gratitude to Bob Dylan, whose ten-year old
Tennessee bourbon, Heaven’s Door, is worth sampling. Come gather ‘round
lobbyists Wherever you roam And admit …
Did You Know
There is a lot of information about this product. It is something
everyone world wide should know about. For years we have been told it
was safe. Turns out it is not so safe after all. It is making people
sick. It is doing a great deal of damage to the health of animals and in
many cases they die. Many products have been tested and found to have
Glyphosate in them.Glyphosate is in Round Up. It ki
Fighting Law Enforcement Brutality While Living with Trauma in a World
of Impunity A few months ago, I was asked to do a piece on what it is
like to live with intergenerational trauma, for a special issue of the
Genealogy Journal , on Indigenous peoples and intergenerational trauma.
Here is the essay: Fighting Law Enforcement Brutality While Living with
Trauma in a World of Impunity https://www.m
Greg Mankiw's Blog
I just arrived at the ASSA meetings in Atlanta. Readers of this blog
might be interested in the following public events that I am involved
with. First, I will have a book signing to celebrate the publication of
the 10th edition of my intermediate macro text. It is Saturday at 2:10
pm at the Worth Publishers booth. (I understand that copies are already
going fast, so if you want one, you might sto
Click here to read my review of Trumponomics by Stephen Moore and Arthur Laffer.
Click here to read my column in Sunday's NY Times .
A Christmas message (be sure to check out the mouse-over text).
In
this interview , CEA chair Kevin Hassett (around minute 4:00) dismisses
the adverse impact of the government shutdown on real GDP. It seems to
me that he is more wrong than right. Kevin appears to be assuming that
government workers don't produce anything of value when they are at
work, or that they will make up all the undone work when they return, so
making them stay at home has no significan
Land Destroyer
January 4, 2019 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - Fortify Rights is one of
several fronts posing as nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) operating
across Asia. Such fronts are in actuality extensions of US and European
"soft power." Fully funded by the US, British and various European
governments as well as US and European corporate foundations like
convicted financial criminal George Soros' Open Society
Editor's Note: This article was written just before Israel carried out
attacks on Syria on Christmas day. December 25, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci -
NEO ) - The US suddenly and unexpectedly announced the withdrawal of US
troops from Syria after years of illegally occupying the country. The
US presence aimed at ousting the Syrian government, boosting militant
groups the US and its partners have armed a
December 22, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The latest bid to keep
Washington's desperate Russiagate conspiracy theory alive has energized
distilled segments of the public still convinced of Moscow's global
omniscience and its role in manipulating and undermining virtually every
aspect of their daily lives. But recent "revelations" are simply the
same accusations made against a Russian-based cl
December 15, 2018 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - A particularly scurrilous
op-ed appeared in the pages of the Washington Post accusing the Syrian
government of detaining, torturing, then executing an American citizen,
Layla Shweikani. Considering US attempts to establish various pretexts
to justify its ongoing military occupation of Syria and its attacks on
Syrian forces - such an accusation could dang
December 20, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Rarely is irony and
hypocrisy so thoroughly combined as it was when the US House of
Representatives passed resolution 1035 - " Expressing opposition to the
completion of Nord Stream II" (.pdf) . Bloomberg in its article, " U.S.
House Passes Resolution Opposing Russian Gas Pipeline ," would report:
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a largely s
December 31, 2018 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - In recent months, American,
Commonwealth and European media have taken aim at China. From
fabricated stories of interment camps with "1 million" Uyghir Muslims
being detained in them to a more recent New York Times article claiming
to have "secret plans" revealing the military dimension of its One Belt,
One Road initiative (OBOR), the barrage has been h
Left I on the News
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
time slot. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines for Jan. 4,
2019 *A rare moment of praise to start the show for this headline:
“Trump falsely claims Mexico is paying for wall, demands taxpayer money
for wall ahead of meeting with Democrats” https://www.w
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
time slot. *WORST: After a week of Russian propaganda, I was questioning
everything
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/after-a-week-of-russian-propaganda-i-was-questioning-everything
First of all, isn’t questioning everything a *good thing*, *especially*
if you’
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
Dec. 21, 2018 *Uber driver, 27, 'who tried to attack police with a
Samurai sword outside Buckingham Palace' tells court he became angry
after watching TV channel Russia Today https://www.dailym
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. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines
(WMMFH) for Dec. 14, 2018 George Bush Was George Bailey: It Was a
Wonderful Life https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/07/g
News From Atlantis.
March 25, 2008 Feeding the Obesity Epidemic By David Zinczenko For
decades, Americans have squabbled over the role of a powerful
organization known as the NRA. To supporters, the NRA defends the right
of individuals to enjoy a pastime — and businesses to sell their wares —
free of government interference; to critics, the NRA is a political
organization promoting products that kill tens of thousan
So 2019 is here. Happy New Year to everyone. The first act of 2019 has
been to respect the outcome of the request for the forum to be saved or
closed. Everyone left on the forum was emailed to ask if it should
continue, and a public request was made on here. The response (albeit a
silent one!) was not for it to be continued, (so unlike the UK
government's refusal to respect the wishes of the peop
With
the partial federal shutdown in progress and quickly approaching
record-breaking territory, President Trump recently said that the
shutdown is actually a “strike.” I’ve been […]
On
January 4th, after a meeting with the new Congressional leaders,
President Trump held a spontaneous press conference. (Click to view the
hour long press […]
A
family member, who is on the cutting edge of IT product development and
marketing every year was telling me about his business. He is […]
The
early discussions of pedigreed conservative intellectuals immediately
following Trump’s election reveals some very disappointing things about
the wide cavern between this nation’s conservative intellectuals, […]
Lately,
there have been a rash of retired general officers and admirals who
seem to feel they need to express their disagreement with President
Trump […]
We, this world, is no longer in the Post Cold War era. We are in a new era, as of yet without a name, but […]
Obsidian Wings
by russell I read this piece in the Washington Post with a mix of pride
and affection. Affection for the people portrayed here, who remind me
of my own mother's people, immigrants and plain old American poor people
clawing their way into the middle class in 20th C Brooklyn and Queens
and New Jersey. Affection for the many people I know who left behind
often quite successful lives in other places
by liberal japonicus Not sure if this is something that is being
followed or is even interesting to people here, but the foreign
community here in Japan has been watching the Carlos Ghosn saga closely.
A quick summary. Carlos Ghosn, who was able to revive the fortunes of
Renault, came in when Renault bought a stake in Nissan and turned Nissan
around in a even more spectacular fashion. However (an
by liberal japonicus Well, getting back to it, this article seemed
interesting and a bit strange. Why Trump has spared Pelosi from his
personal vitriol--so far His decision so far not to go after Pelosi
personally, even as his top aides have blamed her for the shutdown,
hasn’t gone unnoticed in the Capitol. Pelosi’s allies have viewed
Trump’s restraint toward the incoming speaker as a sign that h
by liberal japonicus I don't know about y'all, but I've been pounded
into silence by the torrent of news, goverment shutdown, Brexit,
tsunami. It is enough to turn me into a cat picture person. However, I
felt like I needed to post an end of the year post, so there was this
story, about an unlikely friendship that some of you may have seen
https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charle
by wj I find myself repeatedly amazed by what is going on in North
Carolina. First, as we have all noticed, the state legislature has been
in a long effort to combat “voting fraud” – that is people voting who
shouldn’t be. They have been undeterred by a lack of evidence that there
was really a problem. But now we discover that North Carolina (at least
part of it) has a major real problem with ele
Paying attention
Congratulations if you’ve mostly skipped the flood of news reports on
the legislature scandal. It’s been entertaining, if you’re the kind of
person who stops to look at car crashes. But despite all the noise, we
know very little. Here’s the Quick Notes version, and six things you
need to know in order to understand what’s happening. To start with, the
facts. On Nov. 19, Speaker Darryl Plecas call
Pesticide Action Network
Mai Nguyen (they/them) is a grain farmer, the California Organizer with
the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC), and a founding member of
the California Farmer Justice Collaborative (CFJC). PAN’s Farmer Justice
Fellow Moretta Browne recently talked with Mai about co-organizing the
California Farmer Justice Collaborative. How were you involved with
co-founding the California Farmer Justice Col
Christina Perez expands on how farming has changed her way of thinking
and where she looks for solutions with the Social Justice Learning
Institute. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
This post is part of an ongoing project by PAN Farmer Justice Fellows
who are working to uplift the many different voices of farmers in
California. The mission of this work is to broaden the narrative of what
it means to be a farmer participating in the state's agricultural
system by sharing the wide spectrum of relationships that growers have
with land. Christina Perez is a Latinx woman urban fa
This post is part of an ongoing project by PAN Farmer Justice Fellows
who are working to uplift the many different voices of farmers in
California. The mission of this work is to broaden the narrative of what
it means to be a farmer participating in the state ’ s agricultural
system by sharing the wide spectrum of relationships that growers have
with land. Note: This farmer wishes to remain anony
Momentum is building in support of farming models that are regenerative
instead of extractive, that build healthy soil, crop diversity — and
thriving communities. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
I’m feeling unexpectedly hopeful as 2018 winds down. Though the
national political landscape remains tumultuous, we’re seeing some
powerful, energizing trends in the world of food and farming. First,
momentum is building in support of farming models that are regenerative
instead of extractive, that build healthy soil, crop diversity — and
thriving communities. Second, the public and political app
During the coming months, I will publish more personal and professional
accounts of former "no excuses" charter school teachers. Unlike the
anonymous accounts in my 2016 book , the teachers offering their "no
excuses" histories for this upcoming series will be stepping out of the
shadows to let the world see the real faces of educators who have
survived the "no excuses" gauntlet. I invite any for
Schools Matter: The Jessica Marks Story: “Getting fired from KIPP ... :
by Jim Horn On February 19, 2014, former KIPP teacher, Jessica Marks,
wrote to me after searching the web for any kind of confirmation...
Below is a review of Gerald Coles's new book. The review by Eve
Ottenberg was first published at Truthout. Over the past year, the Trump
administration’s science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
educational program garnered $300 million in pledges from big tech
companies. Implicit in this push is the commonly accepted though
questionable notion that millions of cutting-edge STEM jobs awai
A longer school day? Let’s get serious. Sent to the Providence Journal,
Dec. 20, 2018. To the editor: It is inspiring to read that the Central
Falls Superintendent is pushing to lengthen the school day 60 to 90
minutes, in order to increase test scores. But 60-90 minutes is not
enough. Let’s get serious and consider an even longer day. A study
published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results co
by Abigail Shure I would hate to be selfish, but it really galls me
that the AFT president is wasting resources that my colleagues and I
have invested in the union on imposter teachers who chose to upend the
system and the hard-fought-for gains. Public school teachers have to
work with any child who walks in the door whether he arrives on day one,
or any other. He could be homeless, hungry, sick,
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
It's time for your office holiday party. Joy to the world. Too many
folks come to me after the holidays and tell me their holiday bonus was a
firing due to something they did at the party. Here's how to survive
without getting fired. 1. Drinking : The number one way to get fired is
to drink too much. Most of the office party firings I see are
alcohol-related in some way. First of all, if you are
I
predicted that 2018 would not be a good year overall for employees, and
I was right. Here's how my predictions turned out. Sexual harassment : I
predicted that, despite all the brouhaha on #MeToo and sexual
harassment, no new legislation would pass and that there would be
backlash, and lots of it. There was no way I could predict Kavanaugh
though. On the federal level, there was no new legislati
First
Google had a bunch of employees walk out to protest sexual harassment
arbitration, and it rescinded its arbitration policy. Now other
companies are following as employees push back. Facebook, Microsoft,
Uber, Square, Airbnb and eBay have all rescinded or said they will
rescind their forced arbitration agreements for sexual harassment
claims. It isn't just tech firms that are getting pressure
The Duck of Minerva
This is a guest post from Brent Sasley, Associate Professor at the
University of Texas at Arlington and chair of the ISA Online Media
Caucus. ISA 2019 is coming up fast, so it’s time to start thinking about
the Duckies! A lot has happened in the last year, and scholars and
researchers have been more active than ever in trying to help us figure
it all out. Let’s recognize their efforts! The Online
The NY Knicks will be travelling to London in a few weeks for a game
against the Washington Wizards. But center Enes Kanter has announced he
won’t be joining them. Kanter, who is Turkish and a frequent critic of
Turkey’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said he is
worried about his safety if he leaves the United States. This may seem
surprising, but it shouldn’t; Erdogan has launched
One of the basic claims I make as a poli sci professor is that my goal
is to help the next generation become more informed citizens, so that
they understand their interests, and can vote accordingly. So, when I
see a a guy getting upset that his business is hurt by tariffs, I want
to scream. I wish more voters had intro to International Relations.
Trump kept his promise on trade and it has had pr
This is a guest post from Kate Neville , an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Political Science and School of the Environment at the
University of Toronto, and Matthew Hoffmann , a Professor in the
Department of Political Science and Co-Director of the Environmental
Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at
the University of Toronto . [1] Things are not good.
This is a guest post by Lahoma Thomas , a doctoral candidate in the
Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. This piece
on reflexivity and positionality emerged from a panel she organized at
APSA 2016, titled: “Race in the Field: Understanding How Identity Frames
Field Research”and has evolved as one of her primary research agendas.
Follow her on Twitter at @LAHOMAthomas . Th
The United States is the safest country in the world. It has vast ocean
moats to the east and west and weak friendly neighbors to the north and
south. It has sufficient resources to shun global trade should it so
choose. It is also the wealthiest and strongest country the world has
ever seen. The heaviest foreign policy costs it has paid in the 20th and
21st centuries have come from self-inflicte
The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage
I don't feel there is anything of scientific value (other than as
illustration of scientific incompetence of the "experts", and mass
delusion on the part of the public) in the ongoing political climate
debates, but in the interest of informing the many who still do not
understand the most basic underpinnings of the debate (or war), I have
made the following response, on the American Thinker site,
I have submitted the following comment to the American Thinker site, in
response to an article about the degeneration of Scientific American
magazine into a kind of "church organ" of materialistic science and,
now, the Insane Left brought to political correctness by Barack Obama. I
am of course most mindful of the sorry state of science today, not the
political dissolution: First there was Charle
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
thwap's schoolyard
So there are two "progressive" video bloggers in the USA who I've been
following. The first one I encountered is Sam Seder's " Majority Report "
and the second one is Jimmy Dore's " The Jimmy Dore Show ." I've since
discovered that Seder was originally the co-host of the show with
Janeane Garofalo and that it ran on " Air America " and Dore began as
part of an ensemble cast of a show on " The You
Vagabond Scholar
(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
What's
to be done about American conservatives and the Republican Party? For
decades, they've stood for plutocracy and bigotry, and using the latter
to achieve the former. Almost none of their policies help Americans as a
whole; instead, their policies benefit a select few, most often those
who are already rich and powerful. Conservatives and Republicans serve
their donors, not the majority of
Weekly Geo-Political News and Analysis
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
Greetings and warm wishes, Mr. Fulford, First and foremost, thank you
for all you have done and continue to do to inform the public. I do not
work for anyone or anything—I am only inquiring on matters of personal
interest, as you hit on a subject I have been trying to understand for
nearly 6 years. Namely, that you had mentioned about the prophet of
Islam Muhammad possibly having been involved wi
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
Last week Cardinal George Pell was found guilty of sexually abusing
children by an Australian court and was subsequently fired by Pope
Francis because he was “elderly.”
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/12/12/cardinal-pell-top-advisor-pope-francis-found-guilty-historical-sexual-offenses
This is huge news in the secret world of finance, because Pell was the
person in charge of financial m
Many signs and confirmations from highly placed sources indicate that a
reboot of Western civilization is being planned for 2019. The shutdown
of the U.S. government over the holidays, for example, has nothing to do
with building a wall, and everything to do with a financial reboot and
upcoming military tribunals. However, what is coming is about much more
than just rounding up the criminals who
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