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Guys. Queen is performing at the Oscars this year. With Adult
Goth/possible vampire Adam Lambert at its helm, Queen is set to dazzle
us all during the awards show, which controversially tried to cut four
categories from its broadcast in hopes of saving time. SEE ALSO: Never
mind, the Oscars will air all the categories live after all The Academy
tweeted a teaser on Sunday, with a mash-up of "Bohem
Marvel's The Punisher and Jessica Jones are getting axed. Don’t freak
out, Jessica Jones fans — the third season of the show will still be
streamed. But the relationship between Netflix and Marvel looks like
it’s over. The two struck a deal in 2013 that involved four series based
on Marvel characters, as well as The Defenders . SEE ALSO: 'Punisher'
deserves so much better than where Season 2 leav
Fossil
spiders discovered in South Korea still have glowing eyes despite being
over 110 million years old. Unearthed in the Jinju Formation
geological...
Conspiracy
theory videos on YouTube may be playing a significant role in
convincing people that the Earth is flat. In the age of orbiting
satellites, ...
Via:
National Post: This week, the United States national debt ticked above
US$22 trillion for the first time, an amount equivalent to $67,000 per
U.S. citizen. The U.S. federal government owes more money than any other
institution in the history of human civilization. And it’s just getting
worse. According to the Congressional Budget Office, in […]
Via:
StudyFinds: Don’t want your child to have a cellphone? One recent study
gives you good reason to make kids wait as long as possible for their
first mobile device: it appears that radiation from phones can hurt a
teenager’s memory. A research team at the Swiss Tropical and Public
Health Institute says that radio […]
Venezuelan
Health Minister Carlos Humberto Alvarado González reported that
humanitarian aid made up of drugs from the Allied countries reached
Venezuela. "Despite the blockade, the Bolivarian government through
agreements with Cuba, China, Russia, Palestine, Turkey, and cooperation
with multilateral organizations of the UN, Pan American Health
Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, Populati
Labour deputy leader says party could face even bigger split after
seven MPs quit Today’s latest political developments - live updates In
their own words: why seven MPs are quitting Labour Tom Watson, the
deputy Labour leader, has said his party faces an even more severe split
if it denounces the seven MPs who quit as traitors instead of
addressing the reasons for their departure. In an emotional
A
new report on US policy toward China launched by the Asia Society in
New York is another example of how supposedly bipartisan US intellectual
elites, instead of offering impartial advice, do little more than
parrot Washington's talking points, failing to admit they know nothing
of substance about the existential "threats" posed by Russia and China.
The report 'Course Correction: Toward an Effect
In the last three decades, grassland conservationists and scientists
have been playing the long game, and their efforts are paying off.
The
Vatican confirmed, apparently for the first time, that it has general
guidelines for what to do when clerics break celibacy vows and father
children.
These viral clips of Pence’s speeches illustrate Trump’s unpopularity.
Two cringeworthy, viral video clips from Vice President Mike Pence’s
recent trip to Europe illustrate how unpopular the Trump administration
has become with the United States’ European allies. During a speech at a
conference in Poland about Middle East policy last Thursday, Pence
called on America’s allies to follow the Trump
Rutgers
and other physicists have discovered an exotic form of electrons that
spin like planets and could lead to advances in lighting, solar cells,
lasers and electronic displays.
In
a major scientific step to understand the biology of this iconic apex
predator and sharks in general, the entire genome of the white shark has
now been decoded in detail.
Frank Castle might still be stuck in the war zone of his mind, but
Netflix’s The Punisher has come to an end after two seasons. His Marvel
compatriot, Jessica Jones, will also see her story end—but it’ll be
after the third season of Jessica Jones airs. This news comes courtesy
of Deadline today. Read more...
Researchers
at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have
invented an innovative way for different types of quantum technology to
"talk" to each other using sound. The study, published Feb. 11 in Nature
Physics, is an important step in bringing quantum technology closer to
reality.
If you’re watching newsreel footage of an eruption, and don’t live near
a volcano yourself, you may find yourself wondering, “Why would anyone
choose to live there?” Read more...
Remarkably little is known about the fundamentals of how a woman
carries a baby inside her. Two Columbia University researchers aim to
change that, to reduce the number of kids born too soon. (Image credit:
Adrienne Grunwald for NPR)
Veterans Today
Now
that President Trump finished the State of the Union, how about a
little Executive Time? When a White House source leaked Trump’s daily
private schedules to Axios, you could see that around 60% of his
schedule was devoted to “executive time.” This is time when the
president is in the White House residence, watching […]
Health Editor’s Note: VITAL is an acronym for VITamin D and OmegA-3
TriaL (VITAL) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We often read how
supplements such as Vitamin D and Omega-3 are beneficial to health. One
of the previous claims is that they can prevent cancer and chronic
diseases. This easy to read and understand study of 26,000 […]
Earlier this year, the country’s space program already made space
exploration history by achieving humanity’s first-ever successful soft
landing on the far side of the Moon. China has ambitious plans to
construct a series of space-based solar farms, The Sydney Morning Herald
has reported, citing China’s Science & Technology Daily newspaper.
The fantastical-sounding solar farms, expected to be […]
Facebook deliberately broke privacy and competition law and should
urgently be subject to statutory regulation, according to a devastating
parliamentary report denouncing the company and its executives as
“digital gangsters”. The final report of the Digital, Culture, Media and
Sport select committee’s 18-month investigation into disinformation and
fake news accused Facebook of purposefully obstru
Why an Outlaw Was Stabbed and Buried Face-Down in Medieval Sicily By
Yasemin Saplakoglu Staff Writer for Live Science In medieval Sicily, a
man was stabbed multiple times in the back, buried in a really weird way
and ostensibly lost to history. Now, hundreds of years later,
archaeologists have excavated evidence of this ancient crime […]
It is Time to Stand Up Against Anti-vaxxers by Scott Ratzan, MD and
Kenneth Rabin, PhD In a world where so many things need to be set right,
perhaps the most frustrating is the loss of consensus over public
policy that we once thought was written indelibly in the social
contract. The alarming global rise in […]
Ellen has been asking viewers to send videos of them dancing on the job
for the "Watch Me Work It at Work" challenge, and she found two
finalists who have what it takes to win a VIP seat in the bubly Skybox.
Brought to you by: bubly #TheEllenShow #Ellen #bubly From: TheEllenShow
Instead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and
nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one
seemingly wild setting. This type of agroforestry mimics natural
ecosystems and uses the space available in a sustainable way. UK-based
Martin Crawford is one of the pioneers of forest gardening. Starting out
with a flat field in 1994, his land has been tr
In a special Valentine's Day edition of "Speak the Lyrics," Ellen sent
her writers Lauren and Bente to a local supermarket to speak the lyrics
to popular love songs... in this hilarious hidden camera piece!
#TheEllenShow #Ellen #EllenDeGeneres From: TheEllenShow
Why do elephants have wrinkled skin? The intricate web of cracks and
crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive look is, in
fact, an essential adaptation. Their ability to stay cool in hot African
temperatures is thanks to these "wrinkles," which aren't actually
wrinkles at all, but millions of microscopic cracks in their epidermis. ➡
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"They had forgotten that the earth was their mother" - Black Elk
wolakota (pron: woh - lah - koh - dah) means the Lakota people’s sacred
way of life. It stands for peace, harmony, good relationship and respect
between human beings and all forms of life. A film by Wanbli Omani and
Tim Sessler. Shot on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, at Devils
Tower, WY and in NYC. Featuring the voice of Ji
Natalie Labarre, Hornet's own 2D staff animator, directed this
powerfully moving and relevant film in collaboration with the 'me too'
movement and the Deutsch agency. This film was one of four PSAs released
by the #MeToo movement, created by Tarana Burke in 2006 to support
survivors and end sexual violence. Through the message “We hear you. We
see you. We believe you.,” the PSAs aim to rally surv
The Corbett Report
Fresh
off the heels of pimping for Amazon, Harrison Ford is back at it, this
time lending his face and voice to climate change buffoonery for the
World Government Summit taking place in the United Arab Emirates. I wish
I was making this up. Today, I break down the World Government Summit
and the real nature of these globalist institutions that seemingly
sprout out of nowhere.
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Corbett and Ochelli discuss the ebb and flow of the information
superhighways and the nature of the artificial information and organic
awareness lost and found on the many off ramps and interchanges of the
roads rarely traveled by honest presenters.
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This week on the New World Next Week: the government figures out how to
tax the rain; Big Pharma doesn't want you to know that HPV has been
cured; and government by emergency continues under Trump.
This week on the New World Next Week: the government figures out how to
tax the rain; Big Pharma doesn't want you to know that HPV has been
cured; and government by emergency continues under Trump.
[audio
mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode352-lq.mp3"][/audio] In
1961, a psychologist conducted an experiment demonstrating how ordinary
men and women could be induced to inflict torture on complete strangers
merely because an authority figure had ordered them to do so. In 2001,
the United States government formed the Transportation Security
Administration to subject hundreds of milli
A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
Apart
from the sunshine, heat, nice people and good food down here in
Honduras, where we are vacationing until March 10, I am mad for the
snorkelling. Utila is a small, rustic island (think Hornby Island, if
you're from BC) on the Caribbean coast. It's the remarkably less
touristy sister island to Roatan, and one of my favourite places in the
world for chilling out for a few weeks in the dead of w
Here's a must-read from the New Yorker on the strange and unsettling
ways that social media and mainstream media interact in the modern world
to take a thin story involving almost nobody and turn it into a viral
phenomenon that actually looks like something big happened. The example
of the moment: the uproar over those Covington Catholic High School
students. With one side crying racism and the o
Listening to the conversations of sex workers talking about their work
is a privilege for me that lifts me up no matter how low the ways of the
world have left me. The dream of capturing those voices for the world
to hear started a couple of years ago for me when I did a series of
communications workshops for Peers Victoria with indoor workers and was
completely captivated by their conversations.
I'm in a heated Facebook exchange at this very moment with one of those
people don't want to be thought of as a climate-change denier, choosing
to position themselves instead as brave challengers of fear-mongering
and political correctness. Oh, please. Anyway, I've just been thinking
that I'm blogging in my Facebook messages rather than here on my blog.
While part of me likes the transitory natur
Activist Teacher
Denis
Rancourt in front of his office door at the University of Ottawa in
2006. I'm happy to report that all the matters in dispute between the
University of Ottawa and me have been amicably resolved, through
voluntary mediation that occurred on January 16, 2019, with the help of
expert mediator William Kaplan. The terms of the agreement are
confidential. The protracted litigation started
Angola 3 News
A3 Newsletter, January 20, 2019: An Invitation from King and Kenyatta
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Robert King left New Orleans
and settled in Austin, Texas. After more than a decade of living in
Austin, King and his partner, Kenyatta have returned to Louisiana and
they want to share their new home and their new life with the many
Angola 3 supporters and comrades fighting for social j
ArmsControlWonk
Andrea
hosts one last KCN-eh? before heading off to the Great White North.
Jeffrey joins in to talk about North Korea’s other developments from
January, including the site of the second Trump-Kim summit, U.S. Special
Representative Stephen Beigun’s speech at Stanford, and how to mimic
denuclearization without denuclearizing. Support us over at
Patreon.com/acwpodcast!
Many
observers have noted that North Korea’s external propaganda shifted
over the course of 2018 as nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles were
replaced with an emphasis on economic development. Notably, North
Korea’s military parade on September 9 to commemorate the 70th
anniversary of the founding of the DPRK did not include any long-range
missiles associated with the …
Quote
of the week: “Is this pattern of disruption a force for good or not?
I’d argue this disruption is a positive development.” — Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo, speaking long distance to the Davos gathering,
January 22, 2019 Another in the continuing ‘Cry, the Beloved Country’
series: After just a few months after Donald …
Russia
tested a hypersonic missile, or at least they claimed to. As of now,
Putin and Russian media have told us a lot, but what do we really know
about Avangard? Aaron and Jeffrey are joined by James Acton from the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to discuss hypersonics,
missile defense, and what Russia’s Avangard may …
The
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW, or “Ban Treaty”),
negotiated and opened for signature in 2017, is a divisive document. It
was conceived at the initiative of over one hundred non-nuclear weapon
states eager to highlight the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of
any nuclear use, stigmatize the current behavior of the nuclear-armed
states …
Verse
of the week: Long, too long America, Traveling roads all even and
peaceful you learn’d from joys and prosperity only, But now, ah now, to
learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and
recoiling not, And now to conceive and show to the world what your
children en-masse really are — …
Craig Murray
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
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
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
The post Why Does the State Hate Alex Salmond? appeared first on Craig Murray .
As Robert Burns lay dying, he was plagued by his debts and creditors
and worried about the future of his family. He wrote an anguished letter
to Montrose to his first cousin James Burnes, begging him to send £20
to pay off, among other things, the tailor for Robert’s customs officer
uniform. James, not for the first time, sent the money uncomplainingly
to his beloved cousin. Robert (who was chris
I am finding Karachi an interesting place from which to view the world.
Four US Presidents have visited Pakistan – Eisenhower, Nixon, Clinton
and Bush Jr. Each of them visited a military dictator, in the
friendliest of terms. No American President has ever visited a civilian
government of Pakistan. The Americans have always been far too busy
plotting the next coup. More recent neo-con practice ha
this
is the best question Don Scott of the Electric Universe 'natural
philosophers' Group has ever asked, "Where do these people go to
school?" and by 'these people' he means the imbeciles who religiously
chant the same old cosmological collision/gravity sermon. Well, I'll
tell you where they, they go to CIS or CORPORATE INDOCTRINATION SCHOOL,
"Science is a religion," now. Nothing more. Nothing le
slave up, bitches six years down the terminal development road, "Still
can't work out what Star Citizen's supposed to be?" Is it a team game?
Is it a slave renderer? Is it a racing, flying, swimming, stamina sport?
Is it a way to spend a few hours with friends you like? Is it a
never-ending ever-expanding second-life simulator with all the essential
life-values and implications of simulated reali
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
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.
Add caption so, I've just resurrected at Levski, and I've left my
skanky hab, and I'm running down the corridors.... and I voice-actived
my, "MobiGlas," and the wrist-phone showed me my Fleet Manager App as an
obvious first option, while still running I scrolled through the ship I
could OfA or Order for Arrival. I made it to the surface, once I'd gone
up and down, and round and around, and took a
what is the moral of this idyllic setting? ...it's a test. The image is
a test, Mike? Well, that's open to personal interpretation, surely.
Some will see it for its artistic qualities of light and shade, some
will see it for its political isolationism overlay of impending Brexit,
some will just see food or land to acquire or a poisoned chalice of a
stream parked bext to a lead foundry. But it's n
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Grass Based Health
Thank you, Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt for posting (and for all you're doing
throught Diet Doctor !) and thanks to Dr. Bret Scher for the interview.
That was fun! A transcript has been prepared and posted here. If you're
interested in the Low Carb or Ketongenic diets, I recommend Dr.
Eenfeldt's excellent website. Great information is available for free,
with more available by subscription. Sodfather app
Greg Mankiw's Blog
Users of my principles textbook might enjoy reading this critique of
the ten principles in my first chapter. The authors are members of the
steering committee of the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE). I
don't find their arguments persuasive. In many cases, they are
responding to things I did not say but they think I am suggesting. (How
else can someone complain about the statement "Peo
I
recommend this op-ed by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman . Not because I
agree with its recommendation of super high tax rates on the rich, but
because it makes clear the perspectives and motives of the Left. In the
standard economic approach to optimal redistribution (such as Okun and
Mirrlees), the case for progressive taxation is based on diminishing
marginal utility. But that is not the esse
With
sadness, I note the passing of economist Campbell McConnell . I never
met him, but it is hard not to be impressed. He wrote the first edition
his introductory textbook around 1960, and it has been one of the
best-sellers ever since. Even today, about 60 years later in its 21st
edition, it is the main competitor of my favorite textbook . Here is an
old NY Times article about his book, when its
Here are the guest lecturers for ec 10 this semester. How many do you recognize? (Click on image to enlarge.)
Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Source: Planeta UFO (Argentina) and www.nuevecuatrouno.com (Spain)
Date: 02.15.2019 Spain: Two New UFOs Recorded at La Rioja's "ET Base It
was only a few weeks ago that the paranormal world was rocked by images
recorded by a drone at La Rioja. An unidentified flying object suddenly
appeared on the scene, and theories concerning its nature spread like
wildfire. To the "Verdad Oculta" (Hidden Truth
Source: Planeta UFO and NoticiasCyl.com (Valladolid, Spain) Date:
02.12.2019 Spain: UFOs Soar Over Tordesillas Yet Again On his Cuarto
Milenio television program, researcher Iker Jimenez brought to mind the
episode of the "Boy of Tordesillas", which occurred in October 1977,
when a youngster witnessed how a beam of light, issuing from an
unidentified object, pierced his chest. This resulted in nu
CE3K: A Humanoid Encounter in Shadow of the Eclipse By Luis Burgos
(FAO-ICOU) Introduction Within the phenomenology of strictly physical
humanoid encounters we find two types of close encounters: Related
entities, with a UFO sighting, and Unrelated entities, in which no
object whatsoever is readily visible. It is obvious that the first are
the juiciest for research and analysis, but even so, reco
Argentina: Official State Commission (CEFA) Rejects 22 UFO Cases The
Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (Aerospace Phenomena
Study Commission, or CEFAE) has released an 80-page report covering
their analysis of UFO photographs for the year 2018, effectively
dismissing twenty-two (22) covering the past five years. The report also
includes a stunning rejection of the landmark Caso Bari
Source: OVNIHOJE.COM (Brazil) and Planeta UFO (Argentina) Date:
05.015.2017 Argentinean Navy Releases Documents Regarding Necochea UFO
The Argentinean navy released a series of documents related to the UFO
sighting of Necochea in 1962. The documents present the story told by a
motorist who was chased by a flying disc around La Dulce. CEFORA
recently published an article disclosing details of an i
Source: GEIFO Date:02.05.2019 Angel Rodriguez of Spain's Grupo GEIFO
writes : "I had a shocking experience last night. Around 10:45 pm I
heard the noise or the sound of what I took to be a cargo plane. I
raised my eyes to see, above me, a very large rhomboid with four lights,
one in each corner and an intermittent light at its center. It was
flying so low that I could make out its belly perfectly
Land Destroyer
February 15, 2019 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - US weapons are once again
falling into the hands of militants fighting in one of Washington's
many proxy wars - this time in Yemen - the militants being fighters of
local Al Qaeda affiliates. CNN in its article, " Sold to an ally, lost
to an enemy ," would admit: Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners have
transferred American-made weapons to al Qaed
January 25, 2019 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - The Latin American nation of
Venezuela faces dangerous destabilization with the United States and its
allies having recognized opposition figure Juan Guaido as "president"
and declaring actual Venezuelan president - Nicolas Maduro - no longer
recognized. In response, President Maduro has demanded US diplomatic
personnel to leave the country. Protests and
January 20, 2019 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Alleged discussions
between US President Donald Trump and his aides about a US withdrawal
from NATO have been making headlines recently. The New York Times in an
article titled, " Trump Discussed Pulling U.S. From NATO, Aides Say Amid
New Concerns Over Russia ," would claim: There are few things that
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia desires more t
February 1, 2019 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - Recent headlines across
American and European news agencies have focused on the rise of a
so-called Chinese "police state," specifically in regards to security
infrastructure put in place in China's western region of Xinjiang.
Articles like Bloomberg's " Inside the Vast Police State at the Heart of
China’s Belt and Road " and the Economist's " China has
February 7, 2019 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - At face value - the notion
that the US occupation of Syria is key to preventing the return of the
so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS) to Syrian territory is unconvincing.
Regions west of the Euphrates River where ISIS had previously thrived
have since been permanently taken back by the Syrian Arab Army and its
Russian and Iranian allies - quite obviously
January 28, 2019 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - Just as the US has done
across the Arab World and in Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia faces
political subversion aimed at transforming the region to serve
Washington's interests. Thailand is a pivotal Southeast Asian state of
nearly 70 million people, with the region's second largest economy, a
formidable military and able to boast as the only nation in So
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 Feb. 15,
2019 U.S. Sanctions Are Aimed at Venezuela’s Oil. Its Citizens May
Suffer First.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/world/americas/venezuela-sanctions-maduro.html
There’s no “may” about it, and
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 Feb. 8,
2019 Who’s Afraid of Socialism? The new Democratic agenda sure looks
like government control over the means of production.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/whos-afraid-of-socialism-11549498364 [WSJ
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 Feb. 1,
2019 Donald Trump’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Pompeo, Bolton & Abrams
https://www.mintpressnews.com/venezuela-donald-trump-axis-of-evil-pompeo-bolton-abrams/254289/
Headline of the week The GOP has become
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. 25,
2019 *Outraged Maduro Cuts Ties with U.S. After Opposition Leader
Declares Himself Venezuela’s President
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/world/americas/venezuela-protests-guaido-maduro.html
Middle Class Political Economist
In
the biggest ever defeat for a subsidized project in history, Amazon
announced yesterday that it was canceling its planned half of HQ2 for
New York City, which was to receive subsidies worth at least $3.133
billion . After facing months of public opposition, the company provided
a Valentine's Day present in the form of capitulation. Amazon showed
that, like Electrolux, its efforts to extract max
On
January 31, Electrolux announced (h/t Alan Freeman, ipolitics.ca ) that
it would be closing its new (2012) factory in Memphis, Tennessee, by
the end of 2020. This facility, you may recall, was a subsidized
relocation from L'Assomption, Quebec (a Montreal suburb) that had an aid
intensity of at least 99%! Yes, Tennessee state and local governments
gave Electrolux a free factory ($188.3 million a
In
what may end up as the biggest economic development failure in U.S.
history, Foxconn announced Wednesday that its $10 billion Wisconsin
factory will not be a factory. Instead, the company says, it will still
create 13,000 jobs, but these will be research jobs rather than
manufacturing ones. I'll believe it when I see it. Accompanied by an
almost $4.8 billion subsidy package as estimated by Good
Middle East Today
Recently the Arab World Council on Water met in Cairo on February 8,
2019 to discuss the present water shortage in Arab countries. Egypt
which is the most populated country in the Arab world, is classified as
water poverty stricken. Most of its water, 95%, come from the Nile River
which starts beyond its national borders. The other two major rivers in
the Arab world, the Euphrates and Tigers rive
'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 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
'"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
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
'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
https://youtu.be/LWLoTaC21cQ He's right regarding the coup and so the
institutionally pro-EU will vilify people such as Gerard Batten.
Not Quite Unhinged
Done
with Social Media. Done with all of it. It was fun at the beginning,
but it's not anymore. I will miss many of you, but this is Goodbye.
Obsidian Wings
by wj These musings about the American approach to security are not
actually motivated by this week’s activities around Trump’s fantasy wall
and its supporters. Although there are some obvious implications.
Rather, they stem from the trip I took last week to Brussels.
Specifically, about my observations concerning airport security in
Europe, as opposed to at US airports. One obvious difference is
by Doctor Science If you're going to do horse race journalism , at
least do it right. I'm writing as a long-time member of the Democratic
Party base, a rank-and-file voter and regular volunteer. There are
certain factors that come up when I and other Democrats talk about 2020,
talk that began months ago. Now we're entering the invisible primary,
with more discussion to sort out which candidates w
by JanieM The summer after my sophomore year in high school I bought
the junior math textbook, taught myself Algebra II and Trig, and asked
if I could take senior math that year. The principal – let’s call him
Father S – was reluctant to allow it, but my math teacher, Mrs. W, was
supportive. In the face of Father S’s reluctance, Mrs. W gave me a test,
which I aced, after which she told Father S t
by liberal japonicus Via this Vox article , an interesting New Yorker
article about Dan Mallory. Wondering about the takeaway of the Vox
article: does the personal deception done by Mallory stand as evidence
of the rot in the publishing industry? Be interested to hear what
everything thinks.
by JanieM Unlike Doctor Science, I’m not back from outer space. But
here's something to snack on. 1. Foreign Affairs has a series of essays
responding to a Francis Fukuyama piece about identity politics. The
Stacey Abrams essay includes this sentence: The marginalized did not
create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by
dominant groups, and politics is the most effective
by wj We are all familiar with the phenomena of a figure in public life
who seemed to promise one thing but then failed to live up to
expectations. But there are also those for whom we have expectations,
who go on to fulfill them (in whole or in part). Today, we have one of
the latter:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-allows-trump-restrictions-on-transgender-troops
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