Wednesday, January 09, 2019

9 January - My Feedly! 2 of 2

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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
That's just horribly wrong. For the business boys. As for the children and the poor . . . . The horror! Steve, Gary: Couldn’t you just put a new tax on food stamps or check-cashing? You’re killin’ us. This could not possibly get worse, except if you hadn’t just engaged in the biggest transfer of wealth in the wrong direction in human history. Whaaaa, it can? Under the new tax law,

What Is Sustainable

[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.
[Note: This is the fifth 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.]

A Very Public Sociologist

Full solidarity to Novara Media's Aaron Bastani. In the last fortnight he was piled on by the last people you'd want to turn your back to. Jolyon QC did some digging into Novara's funding , because the concept of a small media operation funded by donations and powered by volunteers is alien to him. Others, whose concern with anti-semitism coincided with it becoming something to attack the left wi
Actual fascists and Nazis calling Anna Soubry a fascist and a Nazi. You've got to admire the chutzpah of some people, even when they're the bottom feeders of British political life. Of course, letting fascists hang around the gates of Parliament intimidating all and sundry is unacceptable. Other noted targets have been Owen Jones and Dawn Foster . I don't know, it's almost as if these self-appoin
The New Year came and went, and now sat in the Presidential Palace in Brasilia we find Jair Bolsonaro. Misogynist, racist and, some might say, fascist. His convincing victory in Autumn's presidential election is a disaster for Brazil and for the whole world. Bolsonaro is sure to inspire others of his ilk (and not a few "mainstream" politicians willing to do anything for power's sake), while his d
It's worthwhile thinking about the concepts that emerge from the analysis of politics, particularly when it is fraught and strained as per, well, now. And, after all, if commentators are doing their job properly they should be thinking about how to describe and explain what's going on. First up is weak Bonapartism, which is something used here loads of times to describe the situation in the Tory
No time for blogging tonight, but in case you missed it here's a little something about Fat Cat Friday I wrote for elsewhere. Check it out! Also worth a recommendation is this installment of Suite 212 on Oli Mould's intriguing-sounding book, Against Creativity . Anyway, we know 2019's going to be something of a year so here's an apposite track to finish off this first week.
Back in September, yours truly was privileged enough to speak at the Derby Transformed event. This is the audio of the rally at the end featuring Chris Williamson, Derby City Labour Group leader Lisa Eldret, Lauren Mitchell, a Labour councillor in Hucknall in Ashfield, Paul Mason and, um, me. Please find below the recording - I start sounding off at 44.50. Also, keep an eye out for further record
in my opinion the answer is yes. The fact that the major networks had to mull over whether to cover his address should tell you everything you need to know about the commie/marxist/libtards who rule the airwaves. This is when I'm grateful to be living in the Pacific time zone so I can watch his address at 6 pm instead of 9 pm. Onward Ever since the Christmas season I've been very disturbed about
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
the fact is Nancy Pelosi actually said this . However, it's my supposition that it's the major thinking of the majority of the left. A supposition is not a fact - it's a guess, notion, suspicion, or a hunch. But, if the left can pick and choose what they wish to believe as a fact, I suppose we can too. Look at any meme a commie/marxist/libtard posts on Facecrap. It's never based on facts or, God f
and the commie/marxist/libtards swoon. Daily Mail hails this as "dressing for success." Uh, okay. Last minute deals at Amazon . If you Prime, you'll get them before Christmas.
is ignorance really bliss? For the past week having sketchy internet service has prompted me to discover a few things. The first thing I discovered is when you know that your access may only last for five to fifteen minutes, you eliminate a gazillion sites you usually spend waste time perusing. Take time to enjoy the beauty of the world The second thing I discovered is that the surfing aimlessly
perfect representatives for the party of commie/marxist/libtards. Watching this travesty of a "debate" with Nancy Pelosi waving her hands about and actually making an opening statement referring to the meeting as "coming together to have a prayerful" debate should set your teeth on edge. Pelosi makes it known that she would much rather have a "private" meeting and then maybe go out and spin some
by Common Dreams 'Shameful Day for Canada': First Nations Encampment Violently Raided, Land Protectors Arrested "Is this a normal way to respond to Indigenous people who are peacefully protecting their drinking water from fracking pipelines?" by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Common Dreams 21
Arrests at Gidumt'en Checkpoint, RCMP Raid Anticipated at Unist'ot'en Camp Arrests at Gidumt'en Checkpoint, RCMP Raid Anticipated at Unist'ot'en Camp January 7, 2019, at approximately 2:51pm, RCMP and military forcefully breached a peaceful checkpoint on unceded Wet'suwet'en territory. Indigenous people were ripped from their homes by militarized police. There
Read article at Mohawk Nation News http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2019/01/09/we-are-nature/
Read article at Mohawk Nation News http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2019/01/07/canadas-crime-against-nature/
https://m.facebook.com/DigitalSmokeSignals/ Paiute Shoshone News Producer Myron Dewey, of Digital Smoke Signals, was handcuffed and interrogated at the El Paso Border for nine hours. Myron asked that no messages be sent since his iPhone was confiscated. Watch his interview on Facebook .https://m.facebook.com/DigitalSmokeSignals/
Dear Friends and supporters, At our legal visit yesterday, Leonard told us that his case manager had submitted his request for a transfer on Wed, 1-2 Dear Friends and supporters, At our legal visit yesterday, Leonard told us that his case manager had submitted his request for a transfer on Wed, 1-2-19. He was cautiously excited and felt his
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
The advantages of neutral particle beam propulsion seem clear: Whereas a laser’s photon beams can exchange momentum with the sail, neutral particle beams transfer energy and are considerably more efficient. In fact, as we saw in the first part of this essay, that efficiency can approach 100 percent. A mission concept emerges, one that reaches a nearby star in a matter of decades. But what about t
Voyager 2 has now gone interstellar, making it not only NASA’s single longest-running mission but one of only two spacecraft that have crossed over from the heliosphere to true interstellar space, what scientists call the Local Interstellar Medium (LISM). On that note, it’s interesting to put the Solar System in context. Depending on how you define the term, the Solar System takes in a great deal
“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
We are entering the greatest era of discovery in human history, an age of exploration that the thousands of Kepler planets, both confirmed and candidate, only hint at. Today Ashley Baldwin looks at what lies ahead, in the form of several space-based observatories, including designs that can find and image Earth-class worlds in the habitable zones of their stars. A consultant psychiatrist at the 5
I think of Apollo 8 in terms of transformation. As Al Jackson explains so well in the essay that follows, a lunar mission in December of 1968 seemed impossible for NASA and pushed technologies and procedures not yet tested into immediate action. But if Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders got Apollo back on its arbitrary and highly dangerous schedule, they did something as well for a college
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
The British state can maintain its spies’ cover stories for centuries. Look up Eldred Pottinger, who for 180 years appears in scores of British history books – right up to and including William Dalrymple’s Return of the King – as a British officer who chanced to be passing Herat on holiday when it came under siege from a partly Russian-officered Persian army, and helped to organise the defences.
It is worth starting by noting that a high percentage of the Integrity Initiative archive has been authenticated. The scheme has been admitted by the FCO and defended as legitimate government activity. Individual items like the minutes of the meeting with David Leask are authenticated . Not one of the documents has so far been disproven, or even denied. Which tends to obscure some of the difficul
London’s Supreme Court, sitting in judgement on its Scottish colony, has ruled that parts of the Scottish Government’s UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill exceed the powers of the Scottish Parliament. The judgement is absolutely specific that the Scottish Bill breaches both the Scotland Act, the original devolution settlement, and the Tory/DUP government’s rec
I have only ever been able to discern two underlying motivations in Theresa May’s career; a love of office and a hatred of immigrants. It is possible to love office without loving power; loving power means you want to do something with it, whereas loving office is just for prestige and personal economic opportunity. I do not imagine May’s hatred of immigrants is driven by actual racism, easy thou
There will be no province-wide social media gender reveal party for Brian Jean’s and Kimberly Michelutti’s expected baby. True, this would have given all Albertans the opportunity to continue to take part in the fascinating Jean Family story. But not having a baby-gender-reveal party avoids the risk and disappointment associated with setting off pink or blue smoke bombs to inform folks of the exp
The death Sunday of Gene Zwozdesky – first elected as a Liberal but for many years afterward a Conservative, a cabinet minister who could be counted on to smooth over messes made by others, and eventually Speaker of the Legislature – can be said to mark the symbolic end of the Progressive Conservative Era in Alberta. There are lots of old PCs still around, of course, some of them not so old. But
A new “think tank” with close connections to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation received $50,000 last year from the Donner Canadian Foundation, a prominent funder of right-wing ideological organizations in Canada. SecondStreet.org describes itself on its website as “a new think tank that will be launching in early 2019.” The organization’s mission, the single-page website now says, will be “to tel
With a federal election looming this fall, mainstream pundits have already written off the federal New Democratic Party and its leader, Jagmeet Singh, relegating Mr. Singh to history’s discard bin and declaring the party to have already returned to perpetual third-party status. Maybe they shouldn’t, suggests long-time NDP political strategist and former federal leadership contender Brian Topp in
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Dec. 30, 2018. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. EDMONTON FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. Washington Black – Esi Edugyan 2. Wake for the Dreamland – Laurel Deedrick-Mayne* 3. Less – Andrew Sean Greer 4. Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan 5. My Ye
Considering his scandal-ridden administration, a shaky economy, and his disagreeable public presence, it’s easy for progressives to assume that Tovarishch Trump will be a one-term president. But here’s the bad news: There’s a very real chance that Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, will be re-elected. For one thing, incumbency has an advantage. Four of the past five presidents
anything like this (hideous 2D info-overlay) flattens the 3D in the game. It's how the brain works. It's concentrating so hard on the FOREGROUND text it has no time to register the depth of the 3D imagery. It's like closing one of your eyes, "Do it," see how it murders 'the illusion' of 3D in your head. You should need nothing but the information from the three-dimensional World of Items 2.0 and
MILs or CIVs - not a fashion question.... I could never work out how Star Citizen would aim to assign you a Home Planet. When you first boot up the game. How to choose from 100+ star systems? From what experience base? Could you try before you 'buy in' so to speak then reset at no cost? But then I realised there's a cunning way to assign you a point of narrative origin, and it involves your Dog T
solo player becomes multiplayer? I'm not sure this is the correct way to develop such a thing... you can't turn a single-player single-objective story-driven gaming experience into a multithread multiplayer NPC-driven universe or 'verse. You need all the multiplayer issues and interface to be worked out, I think I'm right about this, before you can branch off that thing into a STORY SEGMENT or th
you got your gun you got your armour you are who/whom? ...for the past six years of its pre-alpha phase, SC or Star Citizen has been a single-system game. It features a central (unlandable) planet called Crusader which acts like a surrogate sun to a selection of moons on which you can land. You spawn all your ships and weapons/armour loadouts from a centralised geosynchronous space-station above
take it all back back to how it used to be back to more innocent times of 2.6 Knee-jerk reaction, make Star Citizen a third person game. I know Chris says it's supposed to be a first-person game but there are so many reasons why... sorry, the only thing that makes sense to me is to have this game as a third-person 70/30 first-person gaming experience. When you're third person you see your shadow,
The Humble Retail Helper, where is that? What did CI or Cloud Imperium do with it? Oh, yeah, automated delivery machines, they only dropped those in very recently. It's like how real retail went though (cough) Amazon (cough) self-serve (cough) customer satisfaction reaches an all-time low and many retail workers OUT OF A JOB . It's probably something to do with overhead, in CI's case the overhead
From Jenna Orkin Global warming of oceans equivalent to an atomic bomb per second MIT Just Created Living Plants That Glow Like A Lamp, And Could Grow Glowing Trees To Replace Streetlights US to Extract Minerals From Afghanistan to ‘Defray Cost of US Assistance’ https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-to-extract-minerals-from-afghanistan-to-defray-cost-of-us-assistance/232333/?fbclid=IwAR1IlpScFxHS8UwvQ
From Jenna Orkin China Turns to Russia in Search to Replace U.S. Soybeans “The Morass of Middle East Studies: Title VI of the Higher Education Act and Federally Funded Area Studies” China: A Dog Meets His Own Clone Trump Planning to Pull 7,000 Troops from Afghanistan, Reducing Force by Half Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a plan to tax the wealthiest Americans 60% to 70%, and it highlights a detail
From Jenna Orkin Judean Date Palm Methuselah This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed. Once considered outlandish, the idea that plants help their relatives is taking root 'This isn't a done deal': New York City Council speaker Corey Johnson lays out his plan to avoid being 'played' by Amazon Record Numbers Of Women And Poor Americans Want To Le
From Jenna Orkin Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 This graphic shows how much more diverse the House of Representatives is getting And they can all be blamed for collapse. President Xi Orders Chinese Army To "Prepare For War" Visualizing The Military Imbalance In The Taiwan Strait Russia Demands US Justify Arrest Of Suspected Arms Dealer After Introducing Mass Migration To Europe, Germany
From Jenna Orkin "...we were all convinced that we had to speak, write, and publish as quickly as possible and as much as possible and that this was necessary for the good of mankind. Thousands of us published and wrote in an effort to teach others, all the while disclaiming and abusing one another. Without taking note of the fact that we knew nothing, that we did not know the answer to the simpl
From Jenna Orkin Researchers develop artificial fingerprints, claiming they could hack into a third of smartphones Hacked 9/11 Docs Weren't Stolen From Husch Blackwell, Firm Says Drive for Renewables in China Mysterious Ancient Mysteries And The Problems With Archaeology Made For TV 'Flash crash’ rips through Asia's currency markets sending the yen into orbit and the Aussie dollar crashing to Ear

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* This is my article in BusinessWorld last December 18, 2018. A report in BusinessWorld yesterday, Dec. 17, said that the country’s foreign debt grew 5.6% to $76.4 billion as of end-September 2018. The Bureau of the Treasury data of the Philippines’ outstanding debt showed P7.167-trillion total as of October 2018, composed of P4.62-trillion domestic debt and P2.546-trillion external debt. These a
The Economic Freedom Network (EFN) South East Asia has officially been renamed and launched as ASEAN Prosperity Inititive (API) last December 11, 2018 at a half-day conference at Intercontinental Singapore Robertson Quay, organized by IDEAS (Malaysia). I was there. Below, IDEAS CEO Ali Salman giving the welcome message. Audience came from multilaterals, bilaterals, governments (Indonesia, Singapo
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on December 14, 2018. To have cheaper, stable energy sources, especially in electricity generation, there should be maximum competition and minimum taxation, distortion and government favoritism among players using different technologies and energy sources. So if an energy or environment tax should be imposed, it should apply to all energy technologies and so
This is my letter to MMDA last January when I was called during further investigation of my case, I forgot to post this earlier. See background, BWorld 174, MMDA towed my car even with my kids inside , December 31, 2017 BWorld 177, On MMDA car towing and impounding , January 07, 2018 -------------- January 30, 2018 MMDA Legal Department MMDA Compound, Guadalope, Makati City Sir, Related to the in
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last December 11, 2018. Singapore — Freedom means mobility and more mobility means more freedom. The modern symbols of mobility are comfortable and fast cars, buses, motorcycles, airplanes, fast crafts and roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ships. I am attending here the official launching of the ASEAN Prosperity Initiative (API) today at Intercontinental Singapore. API
A good analysis of the GreenPeace (GP) business model was made by five scientist-authors including GP co-founder Patrick Moore. They noted that "Although Greenpeace relies heavily on marketing, advertising, and free market principles, they promote socialist and anti-capitalist ideals in their messaging." They further observed, "Greenpeace is a very successful business. Their business model can be
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
Pat Condell says we need to take seriously the threat to political freedom seen in the suppression of free speech by universities and Big Tech. "The quickest way to create a captive society is to educate children to hate their own freedom. Nobody's feelings were consulted during the making of my video, The Anti-American Dream (left.) Anyone who has a problem with that can drop dead." (This is a m
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently came out as Jew Have Jews found a way to swell their numbers and their power? With 200 million people with Jewish roots, is a 'Latino-Jewish' USA in the works? by Brabantian (henrymakow.com) Israelis and Jewish leaders have begun a bold new approach embracing people of partial Jewish ancestry. And this has big political implications, given that half of the world'
(Left, the Hermit card from 2017 Economist Cover. Yellow vests say no to EU and TTIP fuel tax.) The Yellow Vest revolt may be genuine but French citizen Jean L raises some red flags. There is evidence the bankers initiated it as false opposition but may have lost control. by Jean L (henrymakow.com) Last week my grandson informed me of two curious facts about the current movement of the Yellow Jac
Vicomte Leon de Poncins (1897-1976) a traditional Catholic French intellectual, was the author of 30 books that exposed the Masonic Jewish (Illuminati) conspiracy which today holds mankind in its thrall. Most Jews (and Christians) are not aware that Judaism is defined by the Talmud & Cabala, not the Old Testament. They are unaware that Judaism is a satanic cult which uses them to politically and
If we don't create our own reality, society will do it for us. When I say, "it's all in your head," I do not mean that there is no objective reality. I mean that we largely determine our experience by virtue of the thoughts we entertain. Our minds have been hijacked, programmed by society and our personal demons. We want to feel good but are driving ourselves crazy instead. We feel helpless but f
This piece is a response to "PAYGO Is Based on a Fallacy" and "The Best Way to Argue Against PAYGO." The rising popularity of modern monetary theory (MMT) has inevitably brought misconceptions. Critics across the political spectrum often claim that MMTers want sovereign governments to “just print money” with no concern for the national debt or, as Max B. Sawicky suggests , inflation. Some, especi
Glenda wrapped her arm around mine and pulled me closer. I was part of a group of attorneys and legal observers who, in mid-November, were accompanying Glenda and six other children from Tijuana to the San Ysidro Port of Entry, which leads to San Diego. As we walked, I racked my brain for mundane conversation topics to distract us both. I could tell from her tight grip that she was nervous. What'
After her June 2018 victory over incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in New York’s Democratic primary, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) floated the idea of organizing a left caucus within the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). “If you can carve out a sub-portion, a sub-caucus of the Progressive Caucus … but one that operates as a bloc, then you could generate real power,” said Ocasio-Cortez on Jacob
Lob any insult at a Republican politician—fascist, war hawk, religious zealot, racist ideologue, misogynist bigot—and they’re unlikely to flinch. Yet for mainstream Democrats, the slight they can’t abide is “tax-and-spend liberal.” Democrats have a long-standing aversion to the charge that they’re willing to run higher deficits to fulfill policy objectives. Yet again, they have codified this trep
There is nothing more crippling to a bold policy agenda than the myth that the government can run out of money. This myth is behind every But how will you pay for it? objection to proposals such as a Green New Deal and Medicare for All. New House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has even proposed instituting self-defeating PAYGO (pay as you go) rules, which would require all new government
The first bill to be considered by the 2019 U.S. Senate defends Israel by giving American state and local governments the legal authority to punish U.S. companies that are participating in the Palestinian-led boycott against Israel. According to the legal advocacy organization Palestine Legal, 26 states have adopted anti-boycott measures. The federal bill strengthens the legal basis to defend tho

Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology

Source: PLANETA UFO and El Tribuno Date: 30 December 2018 Article by Daniel Diaz Argentina: UFO Reportedly Appeared During Cerrillos Windstorm Strong gusts of wind were recorded this afternoon in the community of Cerrillos. Some claim that a strange object was flying in a southeasterly direction just in front of the storm. Reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the skies over Salta had
Source: Orbita Cero (Mendoza, Argentina) Date: 01.05.2019 An Article by Luis Emilio Annino Argentina: UFO Sighting in the Mountains of Mendoza On January 5, 2019, we became aware of an unidentified flying object (UFO) sighting in the locality of Punta de Vacas (Department of Las Heras) in the high mountain area of Mendoza, thanks to Ing. Ariel Godoy, memeber of the Café Ufologico de Mendoza and a
Argentina: 2018 UFO Wave Records 207th Case By Luis Burgos - FAO / ICOU The 207th report of the 2018 UFO Flap has been recieved from no less than the locality where the world record of UFO landing imprints occurred in 1985 (150 ground marks of all sorts): the town of Atalaya, at the very heart of "The Nest". "My UFO experience took place on Sunday, 9 December [2018] in the locality of Atalaya, di
Argentina: The First Live Broadcast of a UFO Fleet By Gustavo Fernández, Al Filo de la Realidad December 11, 2018 Translation by Scott Corrales, IHU It is quite possible that many readers will consider this article to be merely anecdotal, and they could be entirely right. But if one (the author) believes that one has gained any right, it would be the one to right freely about a subject and when a
Argentina: Corroboration for the 1984 UFO Flotilla Sighting GENERAL INFORMATION / SUMMER Page 27 Swift Transit of UFO Flotilla Observed The transit of a flotilla of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) over Capital Federal and Greater Buenos Aires was witnessed at 0250 hours yesterday by several people in various locations, despite the fact that the radar units at Ezeiza International Airport did n
Source: Planeta UFO (Argentina) and El Universal (Mexico) Date: 15 December 2018 Mexico: Three UFOs Reported Over Tijuana Since December 1st there have been more reports of UFOs in the northern and central regions of our country. These are strange spherical flying objects with a silvery, metallic appearance - if seen by daylight - or highly luminous with hues ranging from white to orange, if at n
President Trump's threat to declare a national emergency surrounding immigration and border walls is described here: Matthew Choi (2019, January 9). Trump says he has an 'absolute right' to declare a national emergency for his border wall. Politico, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/09/trump-national-emergency-border-wall-1092147 Every declaration of a national emergency presents the terrify
In 1935 PUHCA - the US Public Utilities Holding Company Act - was signed by FDR, launching a battle between energy owners and government over the control of vital energy resources and infrastructures. In 2005 PUHCA was eliminated, culminating decades of efforts to void legislation regulating utility ownership, as explained approvingly by this account offered by a legal firm: The Energy Policy Act
Vaccine safety has captured the public imagination. Although I strongly agree that vaccine safety must be carefully regulated and continuously re-evaluated because of the possibilities for harmful effects, I also believe vaccines can prevent the spread of terrible diseases, such as smallpox. So, I believe that vaccination is valuable but that it must be carefully studied and regulated to avoid va
Not too long ago Michael Klare published an essay describing the new cold war as much more frightening than the old, in significant part because of the multiplicity of forces of power: here . Symptoms of the evolving and energized disorder can be found in fraying international alliances, as illustrated by escalating tensions between Japan and South Korea: Makino, Y. (2019, January 4). Seoul relea
Perhaps you've read that although individuals are being exhorted to "save the planet," corporations are the biggest polluters: Suzanne Goldenberg (2013, November 20) Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/20/90-companies-man-made-global-warming-emissions-climate-change Chevron, Exxon and BP among comp
I've mentioned that I believe the film Children of Men is most prescient in predicting the future. It imagines a dystopian world where vital fetuses have become an impossibility. In the 1950s, many scientists studying the biological effects of radiation anticipated a future where too many radiation-induced errors in the human genome would impede healthy human reproduction. Today, autism's de novo

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It's more than ironic that Jerry Falwell Jr. is one of Donald Trump's strongest supporters. Christine Emba writes in The Washington Post : On New Year’s Day, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. defended his unwavering support of President Trump with a thoroughly confused reading of the Gospel. Speaking to The Post, the evangelical leader claimed that it was a distortion of Christ’s tea
Art Cullen is from Iowa. That's Steve King country. And, even though King proudly waves his white nationalist credentials, Trump's war on Mexican migrants isn't playing well there: In Storm Lake, we have come to understand what our neighbors have been through and appreciate that they are here, buoying a rural community that otherwise would wither with the rest. But the main narrative is that refu
We like to think that we put an end to slavery one hundred and fifty years ago. But it's alive and well -- all over the world. Crawford Killian writes : Slavery doesn’t include just forced labour. According to the Global Slavery Index, “modern slavery covers a set of specific legal concepts including forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, slavery and slavery-like practices, and human traff
It looks like 2019 will be the worst year of Donald Trump's life. As Lawrence Martin sees it, there could be six possible outcomes: We’ll start with his worst, a public hanging. It foresees the Democrats having enough ammunition with the findings of the Robert Mueller probe to launch impeachment proceedings. To succeed, they would need a two-thirds majority in the Senate. That would require about
We're having an election this year. And Leyland Cecco writes in The Guardian that the environment will be -- among all the issues -- front and centre: When Canadians cast their votes next October, they will do so amid standard electoral issues: jobs, the economy and foreign policy. But in a country largely dependent on resource extraction, a pair of politically fractious additions have risen to t
David Leonhardt writes , in this morning's New York Times , that the number one story of the year has been climate change. It's been a year where the evidence of climate change has been everywhere: I’ll start with the alarming parts of the story. The past year is on pace to be the earth’s fourth warmest on record, and the five warmest years have all occurred since 2010. This warming is now starti
This is indeed the year that the criminals behind our telecommunications industry as well as the Jewish "elite" roll out the "new and improved" 5G Cellular Phone technology that is supposed to do wonders for our usage of smart phones... But as I have already shown over the last 2 years, this "5G" technology is a detriment to human beings, and its implementation will only harm our bodies! I have be
As I said in my weekend rant, I was actually hoping that the US would be withdrawing from Syria, for they were indeed invaders of that sovereign nation and have since long overstayed their "welcome".... It is a fact that the US went illegally into Syria some 5 years back to back their "proxies" and bullshit "terrorists" and to put in place the forces necessary for either the outright invasion of S
Well it is the first Sunday in the new year, and here comes my usual weekend rant.. I have been a bit delayed today in getting this rant published, for this morning I had to go to the local hospital to pick up a friend of my better half who was in the emergency room this morning suffering from severe abdominal pains... I had to wait and take her home and she is presently recovering but has to go
It is indeed "flu" season up here in Canada... And as usual when I have been out and about this week, I noticed at the local pharmacy the usual group of idiotic people lining up like dumb ass sheep wanting to get their "seasonal flu shots"..... I can only shake my head in disgust and I have gotten to the point now that I do not even bother trying to tell some of those fools lined up like cattle th
OK... I will state clearly that when I said last week that the US "withdrawing" from Syria would only happen when swine were able to achieve some sense of aerodynamics was more than a hunch and a gut feeling by myself... I looked at the facts that the US was demanded by their Jewish masters to go into Syria and have it wrecked for their glorious hell hole called 'Israel' for starters, and I also l
I have been stating in every weekend rant for the last few months that our nations must end the migrant issue immediately by taking every single last one of those sewer rats and ship them back to the hell holes they originated from.... For if we do not stem the flood, these illegal migrants will destroy our societies, turning our nations into third world nations within a decade.....We have already
'The Welsh Labour politician who was suspended from her party, after the JC published leaked audio of her saying her local Jewish community's security fears could be "in their own heads", has been been allowed to return just seven weeks later. Jenny Rathbone, who sits on the Welsh Assembly, was "readmitted to the group at the start of the spring term" after being suspended on November 20, seven d
Does anyone believe Speaker Bercow? Read Guido Fawkes here https://order-order.com/2019/01/09/leadsom-challenges-furious-bercow-publish-clerk-advice/ don't believe Speaker Bercow or the BBC.
The BBC are so happy to report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46803112 that: 'Twenty Conservative MPs rebelled against the government, including former cabinet ministers Michael Fallon, Justine Greening, Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke and Oliver Letwin.' I always said that the UK would not be allowed to leave the EU, back in 2016. Meanwhile the Quislings of the BBC and enough MPs to side up a
https://youtu.be/uB4o5n2EGyA One positive word said about Adolf Hitler and the BBC would vilify the person for ever. But anything questionable said about the mass murderer Mao is matter for discussion on the BBC. Does anyone else also find the likes of Diane Abbott vile?
https://youtu.be/2KMh_WlrZT0 Diane Abbott's interviews are continuously seriously poor and yet she keeps her senior Labour Party job, why?
'A TV licence email scam has led to more than 5,000 complaints over the past three months. Cyber crime monitor Action Fraud said fake TV licence emails regarding payment issues had been sent out to try to collect bank details. The number of reports has increased in each of the past three months, with 1,805 complaints in December alone. Action Fraud told the BBC the

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