Monday, February 18, 2019

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Pesticide Action Network

Scientists publish findings showing that two metabolites of a widely used neonicotinoid insecticide have been found in tap water. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
As the California Camp Fire tragedy fades from the headlines, there is a bigger story about climate change and resilience that isn’t being told. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
A week after the inauguration of Governor Gavin Newsom and a few days into the legislative session, the California Food and Farming Network (CFFN) and the California Food Policy Council (CAFPC) have released the 2018 Food & Farm Scorecard — a report revealing the policy votes of California’s 120 elected state legislators on food and farming issues. Pesticide Action Network is a member of CFFN. Wh
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Service have published findings that two metabolites — or what is left when a chemical is broken down — of a widely used neonicotinoid insecticide have been found in tap water. The findings are sparking public health concerns , as one of the metabolites is 319 times more toxic to mammals than the parent neonicotinoid chemical, imidacloprid. In addition, the sci
Over the winter holidays, I spent a few days with my father and stepmother on the small farm where I grew up in Butte Creek Canyon. The canyon — and their farm — were nearly destroyed in the Camp Fire, the most destructive wildfire in California history. Eighty-six people were killed in the blaze, and thousands of lives were completely upended and forever changed. Stories of individual courage as
This is the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. With no federal food safety inspections, limited access to USDA loan programs for farmers, and climate and environmental research at a standstill, our food system — and all of us — are at risk. Meanwhile, over 800,000 federal workers are expecting a second missed paycheck this week, and the president’s State of the Union address has been ca
Every now and then, someone steps up and becomes a media hero. Today, the hero is Washington Post report Tom Jackman. He's been on the True Crime beat for decades and has a Pulitzer Prize to his credit. He is the only reporter who has dared to report on my work as the serious news event that it is, and for that I will be forever grateful. This isn't about me. This is about his work. He took the
On the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a group of over 60 prominent American citizens is calling upon Congress to reopen the investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Signers of the joint statement include Isaac Newton Farris Jr., nephew of Reverend King and past president of the Southern
The protesters of France certainly have a nerve. The New York Times editorial board grouses that not only do they lack the requisite leader, a set of specific demands, or a detailed political platform, the Yellow Vests "show no signs of ending their weekly invasions of the capital any time soon." The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines "invasion" as: 1) an act of invading, especially incurs
The name of this country is the United States of Oz, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller III has been operating the gears behind his secret curtain for going on two years now. The fate of renegade President Donald Trump, as well as the fate of the whole nation, rests in Mueller's hands, and his hands alone. Or so we are told, day in and day out, by the political-media complex. Absent a competent p
Don't you just hate it when the rich and powerful just can't all get along? The plutes really been blowing it lately. Their standard operating procedure of pitting the hoi polloi against each other in a never-ending orgy of divide-and-conquer, while at the same time craftily plundering the same hoi polloi of every last dollar and drop of sweat-labor they possess, is showing signs of some serious
Caught up in a thorny Russophobic propaganda trap of their own making, Democratic presidential contenders are feebly trying extricate themselves from it without getting too badly scratched in the process. Ignoring, if not outright disowning, designated national hero Robert Mueller is especially hard to do when most of the corporate news "resistance" to Trump in the last two years has revolved aro
I used to have such fun deconstructing Barack Obama's State of the Union speeches, digging under the multiple layers of obfuscation and soaring double-talk and platitudes to finally arrive at the essential neoliberal message of reassurance to the Masters of the Universe. W ith Donald Trump , though, there is no such need to parse. What you hear is what you get. And fact-checking is a wasted effor
The liberal class is all in a tizzy about Virginia Governor and amateur blackface entertainer Ralph Northam and his staunch refusal (as of this writing) to resign. Judging from all the media coverage, the tizzy is not so much about Northam injuring black people because of his racist behavior. It's that the incontrovertible evidence of his racist behavior is coming so close to the next election. It
Layoffs seem to come in waves, and I'm seeing more of them right after the holidays, and there have been some big layoff announcements . If another recession kicks in, we'll see even more. Older employees, along with the disabled and pregnant employees, are the most targeted employees in layoffs. There seems to be an assumption that the "old guys" will be retiring soon anyhow so it doesn't matter.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals says it is not illegal to refuse to hire older employees . They followed the 11th Circuit in this. Fortunately for those of you not living in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia or Alabama, age discrimination in hiring is still illegal under Federal law, until the Supreme Court says otherwise. It's also still illegal here in Florida and other states that
It's that time of year again. With 75% of the country getting hit by the polar vortex , I thought I'd better re-run this ever-popular and necessary piece. Whether you’re entitled to be paid when the office is closed depends on whether you are “exempt” salaried or not. Just being salaried doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t entitled to overtime. It’s possible to be salaried and still non-exempt fro
Honestly, I thought about skipping predictions this year, because what's happening with the president is unpredictable. However, I'll take my best shot. Here are my predictions for employment law in 2019: Florida might be more pro-employee : Although our new governor was a Trump pick, I don't think that's the end of the story. He's already fighting to lift some legislatively-imposed restrictions o
Nationalism, War, and The Future of The Middle East By S. Farah for Syria Comment – January 25, 2019 “Nationalism is a great danger for Europe, for all the European countries. In the history of Europe, nationalism has always meant wars, and the last great war started right in the heart of Europe… The real breakthrough, made at the end of World War II is leaving behind nationalism and national ego
This article was posted by me March 14th/2010......9 years ago...Today, February 13th/2019...Vaughn Palmer finally reported on the crimes the BC Liberals foisted on BC Hydro ratepayer..and wild salmon....the thing is..Where was Vaughn Palmer a decade ago...how come I knew, Norm Farrell....but Vaughn Palmer legislative reporter didn't?...Vaughn knew..so did Bill Good and Keith Baldrey..and Michael
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
I'm a Canadian. Which means I live in a country strongly influenced by British parliamentary traditions and British history. It also means I'm heavily influenced by US-American political and social history. And, obviously, US-American traditions were heavily based on British ones. The long and the short of it is that Canada is an heir to a politics of "gradualism" (at least since the 17th Century
Ah, what the hell. Here we go: I wasn't too aware of the existence of Jody Wilson-Raybould, until Canada's first Indigenous Attorney General was demoted to Veteran's Affairs. This happened right before lying scum-bag Justin Trudeau was going to begin implementing his policy of respectful, nation-to-nation relations with Canada's First Nations, all in the spirit of reconciliation and of honouring
[If only I'd worked harder and gotten this out sooner! The whole Venezuelan Regime-Change farce would have collapsed! Unable to convince myself that blogging isn't a waste of time, I hemmed and hawed and procrastinated for so long that the original shitty article went behind a paywall and what I had was an overly long introduction. But since I don't want the time that I did waste on this to have
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.
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
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
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

[Note: This is the ninth 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 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
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
Poaching losses in the rhino stronghold of the Kruger National Park declined from 504 in 2017 to 421 in 2018, in parallel with ongoing efforts to bring the situation under control. During the course of the year a total of 229 alleged poachers were arrested inside and adjacent to the Kruger National Park, 40 more than in 2017. However, the Kruger has also seen a rise in elephant poaching to 71 kil
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
In the most recent show, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the forces behind Project Blue Book : The TV Show. Auturo Interian is a senior vice present at A&E which owns History and he provided some insight into the way the series has been structured and the thought processes behind the construction of the series. You can listen to the show here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/17035928
Well, I’m in a bit of a pickle here. I confess that I do like History’s Project Blue Book . When I look at it as entertainment with a bit of history thrown in, I find the show to be intriguing. However, when I look at it as a historical document, I see the many flaws in it… not in the story telling, but in the history that it is so loosely based on. I can, of course, point out the flaws in the Lu
While working on something else, I had occasion to revisit the “Hippler Letter.” Hippler was the Air Force lieutenant colonel who supplied the Condon Committee with their instructions concerning what they were supposed to find during their investigation. I’ve looked at this in the past and you can read the letter and the analysis here: http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/03/hippler-letter.html T
Well, 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
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
( Blogger’s Note : For those interested in more information about this, I interviewed James Carrion on my A Different Perspective radio show. You can listen to both hours here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16732614 https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16732644 And for those who wish to read the book, you can find it here: http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Carrion,%20James%20-%20The%20Rosw

A Very Public Sociologist

Is The Independent Group a wind up? We'll pass over Luciana Berger fluffing her lines and introducing herself as the Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree at the launch. TIG is incorporated as a private company to get around donation reporting rules for political parties. This move, which is without precedent as far as the party affiliation of sitting parliamentarians is concerned, is about preventin
Nick Cohen cuts a pathetic figure and his latest rant reads much like his last rant. And the one before that. And the one before that. But after his pitiful wittering on about personality cults, the agonies of the deepest, darkest reds hiding under Labour Party beds and the hounding, the hounding of MPs by legions of far left attack dogs, the thousand word torture finally culminates there in a we
Is something in the water? It's been quite a while since we saw new pluggage for new blogs two months on the trot. It's a trend I hope continues! Enough from me, here are the sites that came my way this last month. 1. LeftGreen70 ( Twitter ) 2. Luis 3. Soma: Optimistic Politics 4. Steve Cooke ( Twitter ) If you know of any new(ish) blogs that haven't featured before then drop me a line via the co
Saturday 16th March. Doing much? If there's nothing penned in and you're in or can get yourself down London town, why not come to the 2019 Media Democracy Festival ? Here's the blurb. "The Media Democracy Festival brings together media democracy campaigners, journalists, researchers and citizens to take part in discussions on a range of issues from challenging bias to confronting Islamophobia and
"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
As part of John McDonnell's tour under the theme of Transform Your Town, he and the shadow treasury team came to Stoke to listen to what we think our local problems and priorities are, as well as talk about Labour's plan for Britain and what strategies we thought were useful for tackling the city's problems. About a hundred people squeezed in to the Hope Centre in Hanley for a series of talks and
wonderful. With bonus introduction by Melania Trump. The windup of this speech actually brought me to tears. MAGA! Amazon Save 20% and more on cold & flu essentials
by blaming Amazon. “I have no problem with my fellow progressives critiquing a deal or wanting more from Amazon — I wanted more from Amazon, too,” de Blasio said. “The bottom line is, this was an example of an abuse of corporate power. They had an agreement with the people of New York City.” source No, Warren - Amazon had a deal with the representatives of the people of New York. Those representa
which didn't appear to happen. The high school boys from the Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, who have been accused of picking on an Indian, have been largely exonerated by the full video of the (IMO) non-event. Here's what's really shocking: Reading the comments at The Hill, Huff and Puff, and Daily Mail further illuminated the hatred the commie/marxist/libtards have for us - the depl
I'm not ashamed of the Diocese of Covington's behavior, but they should be. Donald J. Trump ‏ Verified account @realDonaldTrump 15h 15 hours ago 15 hours ago More Looking like Nick Sandman & Covington Catholic students were treated unfairly with early judgements proving out to be false - smeared by media. Not good, but making big comeback! “New footage shows that media was wrong about teen’s enco
once you argue with a lefty, you've lost. From American Thinker 4 Liberal Arguments against the Wall and How to Beat Them After so many waves of propaganda against the wall, many Americans are forgetting why they originally wanted it. It has therefore become necessary to expose these bad arguments so that the Democrats do not succeed in subverting the great gift President Trump is offering the Am
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
Photojournalist Carl Bad Bear Sampson Photos from Longest Walk 2019
Photos by Photojournalist and Long Walker Western Shoshone Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson Longest Walk 2019 Route schedule https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/02/longest-walk-2019-route-schedule.html?m=1 Longest Walk 2019 -- 11 Point Plan https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/02/longest-walk-2019-11-point-plan.html?m=1 Bad Bear's photos from Longest
Photos copyright Ofelia Rivas . Bradley Angel of Greenpeace introduces Ofelia Rivas, O'odham, founder of O'odham Voice against the Wall. Photo by Neil Garcia. Ward Valley Spiritual Gathering today, honoring the Occupation in the Mojave Desert that halted a radioactive dump. Bird Songs, Prayers, Running, and Good Words Protecting Mother Earth, the Desert
Read article: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/federal-court-dismisses-900-million-pipeline-company-lawsuit-against-greenpeace/?fbclid=IwAR186ykSWRMitlVnyb4vdYo_UPiiNermStlxwiFYDbR3FmRE0tDlwij3NEQ The Federal Court in Bismarck, North Dakota today threw out a RICO lawsuit by Energy Transfer Partners against Greenpeace and Water Protectors, stating in the ruling that posting articles by
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Ideas on interstellar propulsion are legion, from fusion drives to antimatter engines, beamed lightsails and deep space ramjets, not to mention Orion-class fusion-bomb devices. We’re starting to experiment with sails, though beaming energy to a space sail is still an unrealized, though near-term, project. But given the sheer range of concepts out there and the fact that almost all are at the earl
It’s hard to fathom when we look at a globe, but our planet Earth’s substantial covering of ocean is relatively modest. Alternative scenarios involving ‘water worlds’ include rocky planets whose silicate mantle is covered in a deep, global ocean, with no land in sight. Kilometer after kilometer of water covers a layer of ice on the ocean floor in these models, making it unlikely that the processe
Sometimes the way we discover new things is by looking back, as witness the blue haze of Pluto. The image below comes, of course, from New Horizons, taken after the flyby and looking back in the direction of the Sun. Here we’re looking at a mosaic combining black and white LORRI images (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) and enhancing them with lower-resolution color data from the Ralph/Multispect
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
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
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
Last Thursday, presumably hoping to distract from the NDP’s launch of an advertising campaign illuminating the dark side of Jason Kenney, the United Conservative Party leader announced a passel of policy ideas that would include significant changes to how the Legislature operates. Among Mr. Kenney’s ideas were a ban on floor crossing by MLAs, statutory referenda on new taxes that would legally em
Lord knows, Canadians need a February holiday! So thank God for small favours and, come to that, for Don Getty! As favours go, Mr. Getty, 11th premier of Alberta, was a pretty small one. Just the same, this was one for the ages! So, 30 years ago today, with an election looming, Mr. Getty’s Progressive Conservative Government announced in its pre-vote Throne Speech that henceforth and forevermore
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Feb. 10, 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. A Grain of Rice (Young Adult) – Nhung Tran-Davies * 3. The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris 4. Th
One of the enduring myths of our era is that Albertans (or Canadians, or whomever) don’t like negative political advertising, and therefore that political attack ads won’t work here. Now that Alberta’s New Democratic Party has published a website attacking Opposition Leader Jason Kenney’s record as a federal Conservative MP, cabinet minster and lifelong social conservative activist, with digital
Readers whose hearts are breaking at Restaurants Canada’s tale of woe supposedly caused by increases in the minimum wage and other calamities can take some Valentine’s Day comfort from the fact that despite all the tears Albertans have been dining out in record numbers. Last fall’s annual report on the restaurant business in Alberta by ATB Financial took the fact that Albertans had spent record a
Alberta’s perpetually dissatisfied restaurant owners find themselves in such difficult straits they’re investing their hard-earned dollars in a high-profile PR campaign to make sure we all understand just how tough they have it – and while they’re at it, maybe they can get us to elect a right-wing government that will roll back that $15 per hour minimum wage they’re so unhappy about. This morning
From Jenna Orkin Cuts for 9/11 Victims' Compensation Fund - Citizens for the Extension of the James Zadroga Act Well, there are just too many cancers, see? And this is before the incubation period hits for many other forms currently brewing. - JO Forest Garden with 500 Edible Plants - National Geographic There's a cavity underneath Antarctica that's two thirds the size of Manhattan — a sign ice s
From Jenna Orkin New AI Fake Text Generator May Be Too Dangerous to Release, Say Creators What a great advertising tactic. GOP Proposal Could Snatch Your Student Loan Payment From Your Paycheck Facebook, Facing Lawmaker Questions, Says It May Remove Anti-Vaccine Recommendations Why Can’t a Bot Tick the “I’m Not a Robot” Box? Here's what we know about Gary Martin, suspected of killing 5 civilians
From Jenna Orkin US Experimented with Nuclear Fracking - Forbes Oregon Official: Texts Show Police-Extremist Collusion Weedkiller "Raises Risk of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma by 41%" Britain's newest and most powerful warship is heading back to the US to kick off operational training with US F-35 jets US Stealth Jets Conduct Bombing Drill In Philippine And East China Sea Radioactive Fukushima Debris Pi
From Jenna Orkin KKK Imperial "Wizard" Shot Plummeting Insect Numbers Threaten "Collapse of Nature" Insect Decline May See Plague of Pests RUSSIA MILITARY PLANES ARRIVE IN VENEZUELA, IRAN'S WARSHIPS MAY FOLLOW TO SUPPORT U.S. FOE (December) Russia Readies Own Web To Survive Global Internet Shutdown Google Announces $13 Billion Plan To Expand Data Centers, Office Space Across US Congress Will Not
From Jenna Orkin The World Oil Market and U.S. Policy: Background and Select Issues for Congress , updated February 4, 2019 Last 5 Years: World Hotter Than at Any Time in 120,000 Years Trump To Use Executive Order To Allocate More Funds To Wall, Avoiding Shutdown The Renewable Revolution Has A Lithium Problem France's Airstrike In Chad Draws It Deeper Into African "Mission Creep" Insect Apocalyps
From Jenna Orkin Rumsfeld Vs. McGovern Trump Supporter "Violently Attacks" BBC Cameraman after Trump Whips Up Furor Against Media The US dropped more bombs on Afghanistan last year than any time in the last decade As His Regime Falters, Here Is Where Venezuela's Maduro May Seek Asylum Over 1000 'Scientists' Sign "Dissent From Darwinism" Statement "Intelligent design" seeks new look. - JO Why Is T

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An Iloilo-based American friend, Bruce Hall, posted this photo in my fb wall the other day with this note: "Nonoy, as I departed Guimaras yesterday, I saw this sign at the ferry terminal, very prominently displayed. One cannot harvest one's own mangoes without government approval, even if they are damaged from a typhoon! Even with government approval, you are forbidden to harvest your mangoes whe
* This is my column in BusinessWorld yesterday, February 12, 2019. The cronyist “Solar para sa Bayan Corporation” (SPBC) franchise bill (HB 8179) was magically passed by the House of Representatives despite opposition by many groups in the energy sector. Among the oppositors is the Developers of Renewable Energy for AdvanceMent, Inc. (DREAM), the umbrella organization of all RE associations in th
Gullibles (and liars) of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your emotionalism :-) Even the Democrats in the Senate Committee concur with the findings. Now we expect another drama and lies? Like Trump-N. Korea collusion, Trump-Venezuela collusion, Trump-Timbuktu collusion? Among the stories: 1. Senate Russia investigation finds no direct evidence of collusion with Trump as probe nears
To the advocates of #Taxtobaccotothemax -- why not advocate ban tobacco, prohibit tobacco? Like current policies of ban/prohibit prostitution, ban/prohibit illegal drugs, ban/prohibit illegal gambling, ban/prohibit smuggling, ban/prohibit corruption and plunder. You cannot advocate ban tobacco because you want lots of tax money from tobacco? So which is which -- more smoking and more tobacco taxe
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
* 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
(Globalist traitors have put out the welcome mat) Immigration is a privilege, not a right. It has become a right because globalist traitors use it to displace people of European descent in their native lands. Zionists know migration is a form of invasion. Look at Palestine today. by Henry Makow PhD Almost half the world, three billion people subsist on $2.50 a day. 80% of humanity lives on less t
" This version of the "V" salute is a greeting by Rabbis in the Hebrew tradition. The hand split down the centre represents the 2 fingers on each side of the "V" in deVil, as the initials DE and IL represent the fingers." See also Leonard Nimoy's Vulcan sign is I nvocation of the Devil The late T. Stokes was a veteran of British Intelligence who interviewed people close to Churchill. Winston Chur
All wars are orchestrated. Are we witnessing preparations for the next one ? by Henry Makow PhD Albert Pike (1809-1891) was the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction for almost 50 years. In a letter to fellow Satanist Giuseppe Mazzini, dated August 15, 1871, he predicted there will be three world wars contrived to bring about Masonic Jewish banker world government
Since writing this in 2004, I have come to the conclusion that Hitler was an active Rothschild agent. It was common knowledge that the Rothschilds ran both Britain and USSR and there is no way England would allow Germany to conquer Russia. His real mission was to lead Germany to destruction. 21/3/2004 by Henry Makow Ph.D. Hitler didn't want a world war, and had no stomach for fighting England, ac
From Chattel Slavery To Capitalism "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A cliché, and yet so pertinent. So many people think that the struggle against the New World Order is about not becoming their slaves. But we ARE already their slaves! by Anthony Migchels (henrymakow.com) The essence of Slavery is that someone else cont
" The crash will be a quick one; very quick. Action - Reaction - Our solution." Satanists make us morally complicit in our own destruction by our inaction when they reveal their plans. A.J. Fozdyke, a member of Sydney's Alpha Lodge, has been warning us for a decade. Here he confirms that the conspiracy is satanic, the enslavement of mankind indeed is their goal, and the Chinese Communist Party al
Over the weekend, Democratic Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar exposed a long-held open secret when she inferred that the financial influence of AIPAC, a top pro-Israel lobby group, is a significant player in lawmakers’ key policy decisions that support Israel’s interests. Responding to journalist Glenn Greenwald’s about Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s campaign to punish Omar and Rep. Rashid
Wednesday’s overwhelming U.S. House vote (248-177) in favor of a War Powers resolution to end U.S. participation in the Saudi-led war on Yemen was no doubt a win for peace activists. But the victory was partially undercut by a little-noticed amendment introduced by Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.)—passed with support from 57 Democrats—that allows for continued U.S. intelligence sharing with Saudi Arabia.
When Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley left City Hall in May 2011, he was greeted with banners reading, “Chicago … A World Class City … Thank You Mayor Daley.” Many mayors before him had set out to turn Chicago into a world-class city, and with those banners, the city’s political establishment was proudly proclaiming that Daley had accomplished this feat. When Rahm Emanuel succeeded Daley to the May
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
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
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
No comment needed on this story: Abe nominated Trump for the Nobel at behest of Washington THE ASAHI SHIMBUN http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902170021.html Acceding to a request from Washington, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize around autumn for engaging with North Korea, Japanese government sources said Feb. 16. According to the sou
I'm re-printing this essay I wrote in January of this year: 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 Ev
The Mars series by National Geographic is AMAZING and I would highly recommend watching it for the very interesting interviews about the space program and its objectives. But the idea proposed in the series to colonize Mars to save humanity from the inevitable fatal asteroid is a misplaced focus of limited energy and resources. Yes, perhaps space colonization is a survival goal, but there are rea
Nuclear Doesn't Belong in the Green New Deal Because its Non-Sustainable and Highly Risky: Former Head of US Nuclear Safety says there's no space for nuclear in the Green New Deal https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-02-11/finding-room-for-nuclear-energy-in-the-green-new-deal-video See the Union of Concerned Scientists' statement on the decision by the NRC to gut post-Fukushima safety rules
It seems that inadvertent errors were made measuring radiation exposures for residents of Date Japan in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: Radiation doses underestimated in study of city in Fukushima (2019, January 9) THE ASAHI SHIMBUN http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201901090057.html?iref=pc_ss_date A nuclear physicist who has drawn attention for tweeting about fallout
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
The fuse on this issue has been burnning for more than a score of years. While the explosion has yet to occur, aspects of the […]
The Southern border crisis has existed since the early 1990’s. Both political parties have done nothing to gain control of the problem. The following political […]
A President who will act to defend the United States of America, our national sovereignty, and our ability to control our own border! Thank you […]
Do you understand the phrase “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”? When you see that phrase do you get angry or curious? Do you know what it […]
For Donald Trump, we can only deal in superlatives, the negative kind. Rendering no surprise, considering his total lack of principle, his trademark immigration policy […]
Recently, in a conversation with a friend of more than forty years, a man of color, he inferred that our desire for a wall on […]
Donald Trump is out to destroy the American Republic. But, Natalie Nougayrede writes , he's also out to destroy the European Union: The trip by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to Europe last week was episode three of the onslaught, designed to play on east-west divisions within the EU. Episode one was Donald Trump’s 2017 Warsaw speech, infused with nativist nationalism. Episode two was Tr
A short while ago, the Ford government's plans to establish a healthcare superagency -- standard conservative practice for cutting costs -- leaked. There was a firestorm. Robin Sears writes : Of all the many hypocritical hobby horses in political life there are few that can match this dichotomy. The Ford government was badly bruised this month when their somewhat hair-raising ideas of “health car
National Emergencies are supposed to be solemn affairs. But Trump's announcement of a national emergency was a stream of consciousness hodgepodge from a dangerously deluded mind. Dana Milbank writes : With the nation watching, Trump instead delivered a bizarre, 47-minute variant of his campaign speech. He boasted about the economy, military spending and the stock markets (“we have all the records
Donald Trump believes he can get his wall built by declaring a national emergency. There is a national emergency, Eugene Robinson writes . But it's not at the southern border of the United States. It's in the White House: The president’s decision to officially declare an emergency — to pretend to build an unbuildable border wall — is not only an act of constitutional vandalism. It is also an act
When you work through the sound and fury, Alan Freeman writes , the SNC-Lavalin Affair is all about Quebec: SNC-Lavalin is one of those homegrown success stories. Its predecessor firm built the Manic 5 dam for Hydro-Quebec. After merging with Lavalin, it built the James Bay hydro project, Highway 407 near Toronto and Vancouver’s Canada Line plus many big projects abroad. It’s currently building t
Things are still murky. But they're becoming clearer. As Tom Walkom sees it, Both Justin Trudeau and Jody Wilson Raybould are responsible for this state of affairs: First, the prime minister said he didn’t direct Wilson-Raybould to do anything untoward. She said nothing. Instead, she issued a statement arguing that, as a former attorney general, she was bound by the principle of solicitor-client
It has been a while since I filed a full report here at this blog about the continuing situation in Syria... I did mention in yesterday's rant, though, that the criminal US fraud 'ISIS' is now basically defeated in Syria, and with that defeat there should be no reason for the US to stay illegally in Syria.. However, the US/Israel/NATO criminal cabal is now hard at work looking for even more "excus
It is Sunday.. And as usual, here comes my Sunday rant.. Honestly, I am sick and tired of the Global Warming freaks that continue to put out the constant fear mongering that this planet has only "12 years to live".....I have been requesting the majority of them to simply come up here to this part of central Canada and stay for a while to experience the well below normal temperatures of between -3
I am always under attack by those who constantly scream that I am "anti-semitic".... I really have to laugh when I get called that ridiculous statement, for there are a multitude of reasons that clearly show that statement to be wrong from the very start... First and foremost of course, we have the fact that the Jewish criminals that scream that slur are almost entirely NOT even Semitic. The vast
I have come under some fire for the last year at least for my opposition to the introduction (sadly, it is already here..) and the expansion of so called "5G" technology that is presently flooding our planet with electromagnetic radiation in the Terahertz frequency.....There are many out there that will claim that I do not have the 'facts straight' on this latest and greatest technology, and I hav
I am deeply perturbed by what I see happening in America these days.... Yes, the criminals that occupy the US Congress.. aka.. Congress critters, are hell bent on the passage of a new "law" that will absolutely forbid anyone from looking into the evil machinations of the Jewish tribe, and especially the evils concocted on the world by that ghastly abomination called "Israel".... I for one find it
Someone asked me recently what I thought of the fiasco going on right now in the UK with the ever increasing hype about "Brexit", aka Britain's leaving the criminal European Union.... I told him flat out that it did not matter that the British people voted to leave the European Union several years ago, for there is absolutely NO WAY the criminal Rothschild and other evil Jewish controllers of the

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