Monday, February 11, 2019

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THE STRAIGHT GOODS

Craig James...You are now a marked man, watch your back!
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

Hooz Kidding Hoo? We Suk
It's simply a goddamned fact that stephen ["OMG! Where's the Closet?!?"] harper desecrated every single basic foundational principle of our Westminster System of Parliamentary Government. He committed election fraud to steal a majority. He sabotaged the work of parliamentary committees. He used public resources, such as the Canada Revenue Agency, as weapons to attack his ideological adversaries.
Humanity Is Doomed: December 2018 [January 2019] Edition
Donald Trump is disgusting. He's a racist, misogynist, hypocritical, spoiled, stupid grifter. His tax policy, his health care "policy," his environmental policies, his immigration policies, ... they're destructive, murderous, cold, evil. He's scum. But the majority of the US political class is scum. Psychopaths. Corrupt. Representatives of, or mere servants to, a psychopathic, insanely entitled c
Bernie Sanders n' Misogyny
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

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Over at Crooks and Liars, I linked two pieces. First, at the Conversation, "The 1938 Kindertransport saved 10,000 children but it’s hard to describe it as purely a success": One of the UK’s most significant child rescue efforts began on December 1, 1938: the Kindertransport. Following the November pogrom of the same year – when SA paramilitary
MLK Day 2019
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

WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE

Wild Free and Happy Sample 07
[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
Wild Free and Happy Sample 08
[Note: This is the eighth 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
Deep Adaptation
Jem Bendell, Professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria, U.K., wrote a paper titled “Deep Adaptation.” Previously, he had been involved in the standard corporate-oriented stuff — Sustainable Development™, Sustainable Growth™, and so on. He eventually realized that these have little relationship to genuine ecological sustainability. He also came to realize that climate cha

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On One-Year Anniversary of China's Ivory Ban, New Campaign Targets Travelers Abroad
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

Project Blue Book - Paul Hynek's Words
I was more than a little disturbed by the latest episode of Project Blue Book . The case, based loosely, and I do mean loosely, on the Flatwoods, West Virginia, landing of September 12, 1952, was barely recognizable. They portrayed it as a crash and left out many of the witnesses, focusing on three… a mother and her two boys. Dr. J. Allen Hynek What disturbed me was the first interaction between
X-Zone Broadcast Network - James Carrion
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
History's Project Blue Book - The Lubbock Lights
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
Moon Dust, Robert Hippler and Project Blue BookBG
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
History's Project Blue Book - Chiles-Whitted
Well, they’ve finally done it. Slipped completely off the rails. The latest episode bears almost no relation to the sighting on which it was based. I mean (SPOILERS) that it opens with Hynek either reviewing what was the Chiles-Whitted sighting in The Chiles-Whitted Illustrations. 1948, or having been on the aircraft to see it himself. It’s not overly clear which it was, but I would guess Hynek w
X-Zone Broadcast Network - Paul Hynek
In a change of pace, rather than interview, I chatted with Paul Hynek about History’s Project Blue Book . This all came about, as I have mentioned, because I wondered how the Hynek family was reacting to the program. Many of us thought that J. Allen Hynek would be upset by the way he was presented. Paul thought his father would sit there, a big bowl of popcorn in his lap, and enjoy what he was wa

A VERY PUBLIC SOCIOLOGIST

Introducing The Brexit Party
What's that coming over the hill, is it a monster? No, it's Nigel Farage's newest vanity vehicle, The Brexit Party. Launched on Friday and causing a media flap for all of five minutes, Farage has warned it fully intends to contest the European elections in the event of Article 50 being extended. "I sincerely hope that this prospect is recognised by both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party
A Special Place in Hell
Unwise his comments may be from the standpoint of diplomatic protocol, it's difficult to disagree with Donald Tusk. There should be a special place for Brexiteers who lied, peddled racist politics, and hitched themselves to the Leave bandwagon for entirely selfish reasons . Space must also be reserved on the damnation list for the former Prime Minister for failing to order any contingency plannin
Review - The Thatcherite Offensive
Tentatively writing off to the SWP a long, long time ago asking for more information about their organisation they sent me back a letter, a copy of Socialist Worker , Lindsey German's short pamphlet on the revolutionary party and Paul Foot's Why You Should Be a Socialist . What struck me about the latter was the cogency and simplicity of his potted class struggle history of the post-war period. H
The Politics of Tory Time Wasting
Of Rory Stewart, my significant other often says he doesn't look like a politician. He looks like an actor playing a politician. It's not just our Rory, though. Consider the Prime Minister. On Friday she tweeted "I'm clear that I am going to deliver Brexit, I'm going to deliver it on time, that's what I'm going to do for the British public - I'll be negotiating hard in the coming days to do just
Filling the Void
It's a funny old game. The problem with politics these days, at least for some, is there's too much of it. Just ask Brenda. But it wasn't very long ago, less than half a decade in fact, that the best political brains and some MPs were worried there was too little . From approximately the late 1990s, large numbers of political scientists fretted about the erosion of liberal democracy because peopl
Heidi Allen's Poverty Porn Tour
"I've absolutely had enough" says Heidi Allen of the Conservative Party's vindictive attitude to social security. Unlike her reptilian colleagues on the government benches, since entering the Commons she has talked about poverty and how the system her party has presided over makes the situation of the poorest and most vulnerable worse. Though not to the point of voting against the very legislatio

ADRIENNE'S CORNER

46th Annual March for Life, January 18, 2019 search results almost 100% negative...
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
The real shocker about those high school boys picking on an Indian...
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
Another take on the Gillette ad...
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
A Catholic Perspective: The Covington Catholic Diocese hides; Trump speaks out...
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
High dungeon over the SOTU address...
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
Are the commie/marxist/libtards really a flock of starlings?...
birds of feather it would seem. And a lesson to be learned. Starlings are the pests of the bird world. We have quite a few around here, but since I live on 5 acres they don't really cause too much of a problem. Growing up in St. Paul, MN, they would come home to roost every evening in some neighborhoods causing quite a mess. The bird poo would get so bad in the streets that cars were sliding in i

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Urgent Alert Leonard Peltier
, Greetings Friends, Family and Supporters; The National Office and Board of Directors, are asking that you e-mail the following Bureau of Prison offic From International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Greetings Friends, Family and Supporters; The National Office and Board of Directors, are asking that you e-mail the following Bureau
Alert -- Native Burial Places and Butterflies in Imminent Danger as Trump's Border Wall Crews Move In
. Native Burial Places in Danger Read article: https://www.themonitor.com/2019/02/04/members-carrizocomecrudo-tribe-march-protest-border-wall/?fbclid=IwAR1aLUmzeUsmNfLtk34yhEeyvvniytolAgFivriUc8Bfurm7FkCwBhp5NGE Photo today at Texas border More https://m.facebook.com/natbutterflies/?ref=bookmarks
Longest Walk 2019 -- 11 point plan
Women's Walk to Sand Creek, Longest Walk Northern Route 2008. Photo Brenda Norrell 11 Point Plan Longest Walk 2019 Also see news release at .https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/02/longest-walk-2019-join-us-at-alcatraz.html?m=1 1) Support Indian Children: The Indian Child Welfare Act is supposed to protect Indian children from being taken away from their Nations. It was
White Earth Band enacts Rights of Nature
February 6, 2019 White Earth Band Enacts First-of-its-Kind Rights of Nature Law First law securing the rights of a plant species to exist and flourish CONTACT: Nicolette Slagle Honor the Earth nicolette@honorearth.org Mari Margil Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund mmargil@celdf.org The White Earth Band of Ojibwe - part of the
Zapatistas 25th Anniversary- - 'Make the Impossible Possible'
On the 25th Anniversary, Zapatistas spoke of rising up to make the impossible possible, the current trickster in chief, and the autonomy and resistance that sprang from themselves -- as people of the land. Read more--.http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2019/01/09/words-of-the-ezlns-ccri-cg-to-the-zapatista-peoples-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-the-beginning-of-the-war-against-oblivion/

CENTAURI DREAMS

SETI’s Charismatic Megafauna
The search for technosignatures that could flag the presence of extraterrestrial cultures has accelerated in recent times with projects like Glimpsing Heat from Alien Technologies at Penn State and numerous papers. Or is the better term not ‘cultures’ but ‘societies,’ or ‘civilizations’? SETI’s funding challenges, at least from government agencies, point to the need for defining its terms in ways
Perspectives Beyond the Moon
Today we re-enter the realm of perspective-altering photographs, images that open new vistas in our early reconnaissance of the Solar System. Before October 7, 1959, we had little knowledge of the far side of the Moon, even though librations allowed the occasional glimpse at extremely low angles of a small part of it. The Soviet moon probe Luna 3 took the first photographs of the far side, and wa
Refining the Shape of the Milky Way
Figuring out the shape of things — where to place what we see in the sky in a 3-D representation — has always been challenging. We’re looking out at a disk of stars from well within it, and it wasn’t until the 1920s and the work of Edwin Hubble that we began to see there were other such disks, not nebulae at all but galaxies in their own right, some bigger than ours. Interestingly, Immanuel Kant
In Wildness is the Preservation of the World: ‘Silent Running’ and Our Choice of Futures
Centauri Dreams’ resident film critic Larry Klaes continues his in-depth look at science fiction movies with 1972’s Silent Running, whose protagonist is faced with a stark choice far from home. The film rode the era’s surging interest in environmentalism, and while overshadowed in the memory of many of us by 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (and what SF film isn’t?), it has interesting connections wi
Artificial Intelligence and the Starship
The imperative of developing artificial intelligence (AI) could not be more clear when it comes to exploring space beyond the Solar System. Even today, when working with unmanned probes like New Horizons and the Voyagers that preceded it, we are dealing with long communication times, making probes that can adapt to situations without assistance from controllers a necessity. Increasing autonomy pr
Future AI: The Explorer and the Philosopher
Robert Bradbury had interesting thoughts about how humans would one day travel to the stars, although whether we could at this point call them human remains a moot point. Bradbury, who died in 2011 at the age of 54, reacted at one point to an article I wrote about Ben Finney and Eric Jones’ book Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience (1985). In a comment to that post , the theorist on SE

CRAIG MURRAY

Craig is in Jacobabad
Just a quick note to say that Craig has been in contact and he is fine but currently in Jacobabad, Pakistan with no reliable internet access. He knows some people have been wondering if all is okay, so this post is just to confirm all’s well and he’ll be back online when he can. Site Admin. The post Craig is in Jacobabad appeared first on Craig Murray .
The Coup in Venezuela Must Be Resisted
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 Vultures of Caracas
We are frequently told that people in Venezuela have no food, clothing or toilet paper, and that popular discontent with the left wing government is driven by real hunger. There are elements of truth in this story, though the causes of economic dislocation are far more complex than the media would have us believe. But I ask you to look at this photo of supporters of CIA poster-boy, the West’s pup
Why Leslie Evans Must Resign
Scotland’s retention of its own legal system, based on an entirely different legal inheritance to the Anglo-Saxon one, is an important part of its national heritage. Senior judiciary and lawyers held a unique social status in national life for many centuries, as joint custodians with the Church of the residual national autonomy. The lawyers of Edinburgh are still a formidable, and broadly conserv
Machiavellianism and Brexit
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
Why Does the State Hate Alex Salmond?
The post Why Does the State Hate Alex Salmond? appeared first on Craig Murray .

DAVID CLIMENHAGA'S ALBERTA DIARY

What was John Carpay’s goal when he in effect withdrew his apology for comparing Pride flags to swastikas?
John Carpay is a clever man. The high-profile Alberta social conservative leader puts careful thought into what he says and how he says it. A lawyer by profession, he constructs his sentences precisely and deliberately. He knows exactly what he is saying when he says something. So one has to wonder what the founder and president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms aimed to achieve S
Former CBC journalist John Archer acclaimed as NDP candidate in Edmonton-South West
Former CBC journalist John Archer was acclaimed as the NDP candidate in the Edmonton-South West riding last night. Mr. Archer may not have surprised everyone, but he certainly surprised me in 2015 when he left what had been a very successful career with the national broadcaster to work for Premier Rachel Notley’s government as a communications specialist. His most recent assignment with the gover
Mr. Mandel Regrets: Political drama, Alberta Party style … this may be theatre, but it ain’t no masterpiece!
Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel now says he regrets missing the deadline for filing his nomination candidate expense paperwork, but nevertheless expects the courts to make the problem go away! Well, good luck with that. He blames a retired party financial functionary for the filing fiasco that resulted in six Alberta Party candidates, including his own wonderful self, being banned from runnin
Paperwork SNAFU! Elections Alberta says Stephen Mandel can’t run! Alberta Party lawyers say he can! Stand by for video!
This just in! Elections Alberta’s updated list of candidates ineligible to run as candidates or serve as chief elections officers includes at least one name most Albertans will recognize. To wit: Stephen Mandel. Yes, that Stephen Mandel. That is, the Stephen Mandel who leads the Alberta Party. The former Edmonton mayor and Progressive Conservative Party cabinet minister appears not to have filed
Has anyone thought about the impact regime change in Venezuela will have on Alberta’s oilpatch? It won’t be pretty!
In the stampede by Canadian politicians of all ideological stripes to support Venezuela’s self-declared “interim president,” has anyone given even a nanosecond’s thought to the impact the handover of the troubled South American petrostate’s government to Juan Guaido would have on Alberta’s oilpatch? It won’t be pretty. The federal government’s headlong rush to facilitate regime change in Venezuel
Eye of the Beholder, a mystery by Edmonton’s Janice MacDonald, returns to top of Audreys Books Edmonton Fiction Bestseller List
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Feb. 3, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. EDMONTON FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. The Eye of the Beholder – Janice MacDonald * 2. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 3. The Changeling –

FREE PLANET

Star Citizen: twenty short stories
clean HUD with Free Look QETing Not really happy with the way CIG are treating their multiplayer game Star Citizen, so I decided to write my own shor stories, twenty of them, to illustrate how delicious I think Star Citizen could be - if only they were making an interactive sandbox... so, I've just resurrected at Levski, and I've left my skanky hab, and I'm running down the corridors... I'm never
Electric Universe - mainstream cosmology starting to accept - electricity pervades space
this is great news: looks like mainstream cosmology and physics publications are now publishing more and more articles PROVING that this is an Electric Universe. It's taking a while to get concensus, but I think we'll get there. The explosion-gravity model is dead. Long live the Electric Universe.
Star Citizen - MobiGlass App - Fleet Manager on a wrist
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
Free Planet - the 2019 manifesto - paying for a system that hurts
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
Star Citizen - cockpit lighting issue - inside cockpit too dark
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
Star Citizen - piracy interdiction routing - accretion disc gameplay
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

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GOVERNMENT AND TAXES

Green New Deal and ecological socialism
If people have doubts that Ocasio-Cortez and the new group of 'democratic socialists' (an oxymoron) in the US are not gunning for large-scale dictatorship, see their advocacies. The Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is really dangerous, it can make otherwise rational people to become irrational. Consider proposals like: “Build out highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary
BWorld 292, Inflation and the Transportation sector
* This is my column today in BusinessWorld . The Philippines registered a 4.4% inflation rate for January 2019. The good news is that it is a lot lower than the past four months’ average of 6.1%, but the bad news is that compared to our neighbors with January 2019 data, it is the highest. In the ASEAN-6, three have near-zero inflation while Indonesia and Vietnam have below 3% (see Table 1). Since
SOTU 2019 and reaffirmation of capitalism
The US President's State of the Union (SOTU) address yesterday was good and for me, the most important part there is the reaffirmation by President Trump, "Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country." Some news reports after the SOTU: 1. WATCH: President Trump Slams Socialism: 'America Was Founded on Liberty And Independence' Beth Baumann |Posted: Feb 05, 2019 10
BWorld 291, Mining, tobacco tax hikes, MACR and PSA liberalization
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last Monday, February 4, 2019. The Senate is once again the battleground of public debates on many issues. This is because it is still deliberating its own versions of House Bills (HBs) passed on third reading, and the official campaign period will already start on February 12 — which means all congressional activities and meetings will cease and resume only
NCDs focus, measles outbreak and public health
This is one of the news reports yesterday, DOH: 55 children dead in Metro Manila measles outbreak San Lazaro Hospital had admitted over 1,500 patients since start of the year By: Jovic Yee - Reporter / 05:20 AM February 07, 2019 https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1082532/doh-55-children-dead-in-metro-manila-measles-outbreak For many years now, we have been bombarded by the DOH, WHO, many health NGOs a
BWorld 290, Universal charges and Solar sa Bayan franchise bill
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 01, 2019. It is a web version only and not published in the print edition due to space constraints that day. The Philippines’ expensive electricity is largely caused by 9-10 different charges slapped on our monthly electricity bill. As mentioned in an earlier paper in this column, “Walang forever, universal charge in electricity and PSALM” (Janu

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NYC Hasidic Jews: Den of Thieves?
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The Plot to Dispossess White Males (in Five Images)
Illuminati Weaponize Blacks to Dispossess Whites Western Men! The Illuminati are taking your women and you are sitting on your hands. by Henry Makow PhD 1)The importance of this scene, left, from Gillette's toxic masculinity commercial cannot be overstated. A white guy sees a hot white woman and is about to speak to her. He is restrained by a black guy implying that any white heterosexual overtur
Don't Succumb to Illuminati Death Wish
(In 1984, KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov described the Communist program of "Demoralization") Crunch time: Demoralization is Death by Henry Makow PhD How do articles like the following make you feel? Russian media threatens US with 100 Megaton Doomsday Device After INF Debacle One Step closer to nuclear oblivion as US Sabotages INF Agreement US, Russia, and France all Launch Nuclear-Capable Missiles
Is "Racism" a Bad Thing?
(Beach scene in Tel Aviv) "We will destroy every collective force but our own," say the Protocols of Zion. 16.4 "Collective force" = Nation, Religion (God), Family (gender) & Race They deny other races altogether. This is why only Jews are allowed to have a racist ethnostate. I support the right of ethnic majorities, including Israel and Palestine, to have their own countries. The problem is that
Report from Moscow - Russia is not the Christian Paradise RT and Russia Insider Want You to Believe it Is by Alexander ...
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Mike Stone Challenges You to Join the GOP
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Tax the Hell Out of the Rich, When They’re Alive and When They’re Dead
An incredible thing has happened in 2019: We’re actually talking seriously about taxing the rich. And the debate is not over whether to do it, but how. Within the month of January, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders proposed separate measures that would, respectively, increase top marginal tax rates on income, levy a direct tax on wealth and interrupt inte
Why Is the Political Establishment So Afraid of Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal?
At a time of widespread environmental devastation, much of the U.S. political establishment appears allergic to large-scale public projects that would solve the climate crisis through directly challenging the economic status quo. This attitude was perhaps best encapsulated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s glib mockery of the Green New Deal plan laid out Thursday morning by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-C
Volunteers Convicted for Leaving Water Out for Migrants
TUCSON, ARIZ.—In a crowded courtroom January 15, defense lawyer Chris Dupont asked Michael West, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer at the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in the Arizona desert, if he was aware that border crossers were dying in the refuge. Had he found bodies himself? “Yes,” West affirmed. Pressed for an exact number, West said he didn’t know. Madeline Huse, a volunteer with
Chicago’s Political Revolution
On March 15, 2016, Chicago’s criminal justice system was flipped on its head. Four months after Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez was defeated in the Democratic primary by Kim Foxx, an upstart reformer who campaigned on decarceration, transparency and police accountability. At Foxx’s victory party, Ja’Mal Green took the stage
How Capitalism Turned Women Into Witches
The Italian socialist feminist Silvia Federici is mandatory reading to understand gender politics in 2019. The opening sentences of her 1975 pamphlet “Wages Against Housework”—“They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work”—will stick in your head and change your whole concept of family. Caliban and the Witch , her titanic 1998 work on witch trials as a tool of early capitalism, will take your h
Where Are Democratic 2020 Hopefuls on the Trump-Backed Coup Attempt in Venezuela?
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

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Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk: Update
Too often, everyday people shoulder the burden of risk in the wake of catastrophic crises, such as the Fukushima Nuclear crisis, as illustrated in this news article: EDITORIAL: TEPCO firmly at fault for balking at payouts to disaster victims February 9, 2019. The Asahi Shimbun, http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902090021.html TEPCO says it cannot offer an “across-the-board increase” in the a
Public Domain Photos of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Crisis
Greetings Readers! I need your help finding public domain photos of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. I've searched online sites such as Adobe stock images and can find NO photographic images of the disaster. Isn't that interesting that all readily found images of the crisis are proprietary? Please share with me any sites you are aware of that have verifiable "public domain" images of the dis
Thanks TEPCO: Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 Area Looking Better
The area around Fukushima Daiichi unit 1 was looking pretty steamy recently, as illustrated in this screenshot from 2/6/2019: Later that same day I saw TEPCO lower a device into unit 1, as seen in the screenshot below. I've seen TEPCO lower devices such as this one into this unit many times and the result is consistently lower emissions afterwards. I don't know if the device is injecting water or
Fukushima Daiichi February 5 2019
From the TEPCO Cam 1 trained on Units 1 and 2 at Daiichi: Unusually high level of emissions from around unit 1.
Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk: More Evidence of the Same
In 2013 I published a book titled Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk, describing how risks from the disaster were "privatized" as individuals and communities had to assume responsibilities for monitoring and reducing health and environmental hazards produced by the high levels of contamination from the 3/11 disaster at Daiichi, involving 3 nuclear meltdowns. In 2016, I wrote a book that comp
Global Disorder Rising
Watching the COUP in Venezuela, the unraveling of US-Russian nuclear accords, the escalation of covert war with China, and the growing numbers of dispossessed people everywhere has shaken my faith in the possibility of a sustainable future. I was asked to comment upon the dissolution of arms control between Russia and the US. Here is my response: The New Cold War, whose contours are being chisele

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Socialism For The Rich
Donald Trump has declared that he's the enemy of socialism. But, Robert Reich writes that what he stands for is socialism for the rich. Capitalism is for everyone else: In the conservative mind, socialism means getting something for doing nothing. That pretty much describes the $21bn saved by the nation’s largest banks last year thanks to Trump’s tax cuts, some of which went into massive bonuses
Debate Or Influence Peddling?
Don Lenihan writes that things are getting Kafkaesque in Ottawa: Franz Kafa couldn’t script it better. The Trudeau PMO stands accused of interfering in a legal process and the former Attorney General is the only one who can clear the air; but she refuses to do so, citing solicitor/client privilege. Meanwhile, the prime minister, her client, twists in the wind yet, inexplicably, fails to waive his
The Death Of the Dollar
Under Donald Trump, the global financial system is being realigned. Chris Hedges writes : The inept and corrupt presidency of Donald Trump has unwittingly triggered the fatal blow to the American empire—the abandonment of the dollar as the world’s principal reserve currency. Nations around the globe, especially in Europe, have lost confidence in the United States to act rationally, much less lead
Maybe They're Not Really Economists
In his State of the Union speech, Donald Trump resurrected an old menace -- socialism: “Here in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” the president said, adding, “Tonight, we resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” And he points to Venezuela as the bogeyman, But what, Paul Krugman asks, do conservatives mean when they use the word "soc
Paul Dewar
Just a brief comment today about Paul Dewar. He was a rare politician. He stood firmly for what he believed. But he could also rise above the fray. We used to call such people statesmen -- or stateswomen. Politics was in his blood. He inherited the gene from his mother. But he made his own way and met what awaits us all with gentleness, dignity and grace. May he rest in peace. Image: PressFrom
Behind The Crisis
Tom Firedman writes an interesting column on what s behind the migration -- and immigration -- crisis around the world: In the early 21st century, climate-driven extreme weather — floods, droughts, record-setting heat and cold — on top of man-made deforestation began to hammer many countries, especially their small-scale farmers. Developing-world populations exploded thanks to improved health car

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Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, February 10th, 2019
Sunday... And another frigid day in the Great White North aka Canada, and here comes my weekend rant.. Yes, I do not really like to put out these "weather reports" about what it is like here in Central Canada (Yes, the REAL central Canada, and not the centre of the universe aka Toronto) but it is imperative for readers to understand that the bone chilling conditions here show clear evidence that
Madness In America: The Real Democratic Agenda Unveiled - Murder The Babies, Demolish All Buildings, Block The Sun, Kill Free Speech, Ban All Airplanes, And Declare A New Utopia!
I have been reading over the last few days the absolute lunacy coming out of the mouth of that "Democrat" in the United States named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and at first I had to laugh, but later realized that this mentally deranged individual is actually serious by what she says should be done in the United States.... I figure that I would have at least one article up at this blog to cover this
Crisis In Venezuela: An Open Letter From The Honorable President Of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, To The American People
I have been keeping close tabs on what has been happening in Venezuela over these last few days, and honestly, there has been a lot of mixed messages... I have seen many so called "reports" coming over the Jew spew media that have been claiming that the criminal Juan Guaido has the "upper hand" in Venezuela and is ready to depose the sitting President, Nicolas Maduro, and that he will assume full
Status Of Monika Schaefer: She Is Alive And Well And Has Her Own Website!
I figure I would put up a short article here, just to let everyone know the present status of Monika Schaefer.... Well... After her release from that German gulag of a prison late last year after being incarcerated in the ludicrous German prison system for the crime of attending the kangaroo court trial of her friend, Sylvia Stolz, back in January where the criminal German courts identified her in
Crisis In Venezuela: Insane US Secretary Of State, Mike Pompeo, Is Now Claiming That Hezbollah Is Operating In Venezuela (Yes, The Man Said It And Is Indeed A Moron!)
I had wanted to take today off and not write any articles at this blog..... But someone sent me an email earlier this evening with the tag "Hey, NTS, you have to see this one!"... And after reading the context of the link that he sent, I knew that when I got back on my computer this evening, I had to write an article about it for the fact that it is so ridiculous and one for the ages.... With the
President Donald Drumpf's 2019 State Of The Union Address - Full Transcript And My Tearing This Speech To Shreds!
Well... Yesterday was US President Donald Drumpf's annual "State Of The Union Address", and it was indeed packed full of the usual wishful thinking rhetoric and filled with nothing but lies.... I listened to the whole thing and did not throw up during the "address" (Afterwards is another matter..).. It was indeed full of such bullshit and lies as usual, and I was not impressed... I have for the la

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Labour frontbenchers warn of opposition to second referendum per The Guardian
'More than a dozen Labour frontbenchers have been to see the chief whip, Nick Brown, to issue a warning about the scale of opposition to the idea of a second Brexit referendum. The shadow housing minister, Melanie Onn, and the shadow justice minister, Gloria De Piero, both of whom represent constituencies that voted leave in 2016, were among a delegation who went to urge Brown not to whip Labour
Irish PM Privately Telling Opposition Leaders Hard Border Will Be in Calais per Euro Guido
'Irish PM Leo Varadkar and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney are expected to offer to meet a DUP delegation this week. The penny is dropping in Dublin that despite Tony Blair's assurances the British could be about to leave the EU on WTO terms. Despite all the public bluster the reality of the situation is shifting and the Irish government is getting more flexible and creative. To avoid the
Rachel Riley lists the anti-Semitic insults she's received form 'Labour' trolls per Mirror Online
'"In the name of Labour I've been called a hypocrite, lying propagandist, tits, teeth and ass clothes horse dolly bird, weaponiser of anti-Semitism, fascist, right-wing extremist, Nazi sympathiser, Twitter cancer, thick Tory, brainwashed, an anti-Semite, white supremacist, hate preacher, Zio political trollster, not a real Jew, a child bully, conspiracy theorist, a paedo-protector minion puppet w
We could wreck natural world, David Attenborough tells Prince William per BBC News
The BBC report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46957085 on their hero David Attenborough speaking at Davos: 'Sir David Attenborough has told Prince William that people have never been more "out of touch" with the natural world than they are today. In an interview with the prince at the World Economic Forum, the naturalist warned: "We can wreck it with ease, we can wreck it without even noticing." S
Record private jet flights into Davos as leaders arrive for climate talk per The Guardian
'David Attenborough might have urged world leaders at Davos to take urgent action on climate change, but it appears no one was listening. As he spoke, experts predicted up to 1,500 individual private jets will fly to and from airfields serving the Swiss ski resort this week. Political and business leaders and lobbyists are opting for bigger, more expensive aircrafts, according to analysis by the
"Gerard Batten: This Is A Coup D'Etat Against The British People" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/LWLoTaC21cQ He's right regarding the coup and so the institutionally pro-EU will vilify people such as Gerard Batten.

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