Thursday, February 13, 2020

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How U.S. Sanctions Affect Europe’s Leverage in the Iran Deal Dispute Resolution Mechanism

ddolzikova at Lawfare - 15 hours ago
Officials from the states party to the JCPOA announce the deal, Lausanne, Switzerland on 2 April 2015 (State Department photo, https://www.flickr.com/photos/statephotos/16389773974; Public Domain, https://www.usa.gov/government-works) The American withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in May 2018 has not prevented Washington from influencing the future of the agreement. Quite the opposite. The impact of U.S. sanctions measures reimposed after the U.S.’s withdrawal from the deal has been key to the current dispute between Iran and the European parties to th... more »

Sick Instagram Pranksters Dressed In Hazmat Suits Cause Havoc On New York Subway Train

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 16 hours ago
View this post on Instagram Corona Virus in the train protect yourself @worldstar #coronavirus #explorepage #2020 #viral #subway #virus #prank #funny #skits #manhattan #daquan #newyork #suit #protection #funnyvideo #worldstar #box A post shared by @ soy.floeres on Jan 31, 2020 at 4:52pm PST *Daily Mail: **Sick Instagram pranksters dressed in hazmat suits cause havoc on New York subway train by pretending to spill coronavirus (which was actually Kool-Aid)* * David Flores and Morris Cordewell donned hazmat suits for their subway prank * Cordewell, holding a bucket with biohazard ... more »

More Victims Discovered After Cop Caught on Video Planting Meth on Innocent Grandma

Matt Agorist at The Free Thought Project - 16 hours ago
[image: planting]More innocent people have had their charges dropped after a corrupt cop was caught on video planting drugs on innocent people.

Infant Mortality Rate Can Be 23 Times Higher in São Paulo’s Suburbs

Xiu Ying at The Rio Times - 16 hours ago
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - The neighborhood of Perdizes, in the west zone of the capital of São Paulo, records 1.1 deaths per thousand live births. In Marsilac, a rural district in the far south of the city, the rate is approximately 23 times higher: 24.6 children die before completing one year of age in each […] The post Infant Mortality Rate Can Be 23 Times Higher in São Paulo’s Suburbs appeared first on The Rio Times.

Discoscapa Apicula: Oldest Record Of Primitive Bee With Pollen Dates Back 100 Million Years

News Staff at Science 2.0 blogs - 16 hours ago
A primitive bee from 100 million years ago has two things in common with bees of today; pollen and a parasite that caused its demise, much like varroa mites cause periodic colony collapse disorder today. The mid-Cretaceous fossil from Myanmar provides the first record of a primitive bee with pollen and also the first record of the beetle parasites, which continue to show up on modern bees today. Beetle parasites may have caused the flight error that was deadly for the insect. The *Discoscapa apicula* specimen became stuck in tree resin and thus preserved in amber, and has now been... more »

How More Grocery Stores Could Reduce Food Waste

News Staff at Science 2.0 blogs - 16 hours ago
An article in *Manufacturing&Service Operations Management *says that an increase in the number of stores directly *decreases* consumer waste. The reason is improved access to groceries which would men better distribution of inventory and price competition. Food waste is a big problem in all developed countries; Europe became a joke in the previous decade when they set out to ban sales of 'ugly' food. In the U.S., the Department of Agriculture estimates food waste at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. read more

Chinese Eugenics Upside: It Reduced The Education Gap Among Women

News Staff at Science 2.0 blogs - 16 hours ago
Much has been made of Chinese student achievement test scores, but inconvenient confounders are often ignored, such as that Chinese learn by rote. No teach in America wants to do that. Teachers are poorly paid and clean their own toilets. And only elite kids take the tests. The non-elites were overwhelmingly decimated by China's one-child policy, a totalitarian government mandate enacted in 1979 to reduce the population until agriculture could catch up. However, it closed the education gap, at least for those not born illegally. And for those women who weren't aborted by government ... more »

Endocrine Disruption From Cosmetics Your Mom Used Made You Fat, Not Calories, Claims New Paper

Hank Campbell at Science 2.0 blogs - 16 hours ago
A new paper by epidemiologists in Europe will overturn centuries of diet and health thinking; the thinking that eating too much makes people gain weight. Instead, the new statistical correlation argues, the weight gain is due to pregnant women who used cosmetics containing parabens, which triggered epigenetic changes in the babies, who then grew up to be fat. It is yet another thing you can blame on your mother. read more

Galentine's Day Is A Thing But Malentine's Day Is Not - Why?

The Conversation at Science 2.0 blogs - 16 hours ago
Today, women will celebrate Galentine’s Day, a holiday trumpeting the joys of female friendships. The holiday can trace its origins to a 2010 episode of “Parks and Rec,” in which the main character, Leslie Knope, decides that the day before Valentine’s Day should be an opportunity to celebrate the platonic love among women, ideally with booze and breakfast food. In the years since the episode aired, the fictional holiday has caught on in the real world. read more

Trade deal ignore human rights violations

bilaterals.org - 16 hours ago
13-Feb-2020 Indonesia is currently a major perpetrator of human rights abuses against its own minority groups, specifically their LGBTQI community, which makes this partnership questionable in view of Australia's signature on the UN Human Rights Charter.

EU puts riches over rights in Vietnam trade deal

bilaterals.org - 16 hours ago
13-Feb-2020 The EU - Vietnam trade deal has simultaneously been criticized for rewarding a one-party state that is among Asia's serial human rights abusers while making virtually no demands on Hanoi to improve its record.

Economic diplomacy: Indonesian trade deals and real deals

bilaterals.org - 16 hours ago
13-Feb-2020 Bilateral trade deal sceptics have criticised the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) as more of a strategic public relations document than genuine economic reform.

US refuses to restore trade deal for India

bilaterals.org - 16 hours ago
13-Feb-2020 While US President Donald Trump is expected to visit India, trade ties between the two countries remain frosty. India's hope of reclaiming the benefits under the US Generalized System of Preferences scheme has been quashed.

South Korea to sign RCEP with or without India

bilaterals.org - 16 hours ago
13-Feb-2020 South Korea will sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) pact with ASEAN countries, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand in November 2020, irrespective of India's participation, claims a media report.

UK keen on digital economy partnership with Singapore

bilaterals.org - 16 hours ago
13-Feb-2020 Britain is looking at the digital economy as an area to strengthen its relationship with Singapore as both sides negotiate a new post-Brexit trade deal.

Los Canadienses no deben inmovilizarse sobre la ratificación de un NAFTA "nuevo"

bilaterals.org - 16 hours ago
13-Feb-2020 El acuerdo comercial es defectuoso: la desigualdad crecería y el medio ambiente se deterioraría aún más.

Increasing Chaos

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
The chaos surrounding the natural gas pipeline in British Columbia is spreading across the country. And Linda McQuaig is struck by the difference between how the Trudeau government treats Jason Kenney and Canada's native people: I admit to being against further oilsands development, making me a person of interest to the sleuths in Kenney’s $30-million “war-room” who are tasked with vilifying oilsands critics. Of course, they’re really hoping to unmask “foreign-funded special interests,” and I don’t have a single dollar of foreign backing. Still I do what I can! The war room is ju... more »

Chancellor quits in record time amid rift with Johnson aide

Jack Hawke at Just In - 16 hours ago
Boris Johnson's senior adviser Dominic Cummings is being blamed for forcing Sajid Javid to quit after less than a year in charge of the British Government's purse strings.

ANNOY THE MEDIA -- VOTE SANDERS?

Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog - 16 hours ago
This clip is going viral in certain circles: .@AriMelber talks to a voter who voted for Sanders "because of @MSNBC": "It is completely cynical to say that he's lost 50% of his vote from the last time... "the kind of 'stop Bernie' cynicism that I heard... made me angry enough [to say] '[he's] got my vote.'" pic.twitter.com/5LpQtv4RQz — TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) February 11, 2020 A New Hampshire voter who says she liked several candidates across the spectrum (Michael Bennet, Elizabeth Warren) tells MSNBC's Ari Melber that his channel, which she watches "constantly," moti... more »

Bandwagons and virtue-signals

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 16 hours ago
Another thing that has been doing the rounds, (anyone know if it’s been on the BBC?) occurred during the Labour Party’s deputy leadership hustings, in which freshly deposed MP Ruth Smeeth had a good go at the panel for doing zilch about antisemitism, and for staying silent while her female Jewish former colleagues were being attacked, trolled and insulted. Absolute hero @RuthSmeeth calling out those who left Jewish women to fight alone, and the candidate(s) who shouted at her when she talked about antisemitismpic.twitter.com/U8O3IwfZad — Luisa Attfield (@l_attfield) February 11, 202... more »

"1 in 3 American Workers Run Out of Money Before Payday"

CoyotePrime at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
“You go up to a man, and you say, “How are things going, Joe?” and he says, “Oh fine, fine... couldn’t be better.” And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.” - Kurt Vonnegut *"1 in 3 American Workers Run Out of Money Before Payday"* by Megan Leonhardt "Going extra light at the grocery store. Cutting down on medical supplies. Buying clothing and household supplies secondhand. These are just some of... more »

The long march through the institutions

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 16 hours ago
The biggest disadvantage of having a two-man blog is that if both of us are out of office for more than a couple of days the ‘above the line’ content lags behind the cutting edge of broadcasting-related commentary. Developments and issues that have been discussed on other blogs have turned into yesteryear’s chip paper before you’ve had time to log on. The current episode of The Moral Maze - the one about the Beeb - is one such. I listened to it on iPlayer (BBC Sounds) and it struck me that the programme could have gone on a lot longer if it were to have any kind of meaningful outco... more »

"Economic Market Snapshot AM 2/13/20"

CoyotePrime at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
*2/13/20, Updated frequently as available.* ◆ "Markets Hit By 'Perfect Storm' As Stocks Slide On Surge In New Coronavirus Cases, Deaths" ◆ Gregory Mannarino, AM 2/13/20 “The MSM Is 'ALL IN' On The Virus. Remember To Stay Afraid” - https://www.traderschoice.net/ ◆ *MarketWatch Market Summary, Live Updates* - https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/marketsummary *CNN Market Data:* - http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/ *CNN Fear And Greed Index:* - http://money.cnn.com/data/fear-and-greed/ ◆ *Buffett Indicator: Where Are We With Market Valuations?* "*As of 2/13/20* (updates daily): The Stock Mar... more »

"Today Is Mine..."

CoyotePrime at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
“Today is mine. It is unique. Nobody in the world has one exactly like it. It holds the sum of all my past experiences and all my future potential. I can fill it with joyous moments or ruin it with fruitless worry. If painful recollections of the past come into my mind, or frightening thoughts of the future, I can put them away. They cannot spoil today for me.” - Alcoholics Anonymous

AEP’s Latest Fossil Fuel Rant

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 17 hours ago
By Paul Homewood AEP is off on one of his usual rants again: We know what a stranded fossil state looks like. It took five years for the halving of oil prices to defund Venezuela’s rentier petro-regime and reduce what used to be Latin America’s richest country to a humanitarian basket case. Once […]

Mortal Terror And Wisdom

Unknown at The Verma Report - 17 hours ago
The mortal terror inspired by the arrival of barbarian destroyers is the beginning of wisdom. People become aware of the seriousness of reality, and they acknowledge the value of their way of life, at the time when everything that they hold dear is on verge of being wiped out by an implacable enemy. In times of peace and prosperity, people become unserious; their politicians and intellectuals take the world for granted, they waste their energy in squabbling over petty issues and debating utopian theories. The best works of philosophy in the last 2500 years have been created in place... more »

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Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 17 hours ago
From Jenna Orkin The Cow Dung Cure for Coronavirus Temporal Association of Certain Neuropsychiatric Disorders Following Vaccination of Children and Adolescents: A Pilot Case–Control StudyFilmmaker who wouldn’t sign Georgia’s Israel oath sues state U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom NetworksPuppet Pete Says Revolution & Status Quo Aren’t Mutually Exclusive Bernie Sanders wins New Hampshire primary, making him the new national frontrunner Underdog Amy Klobuchar rockets ahead of Warren and Biden, poised to win delegates in New Hampshire primary Prosecutors withdraw from... more »

Disappointment in Amazonia Over Pope’s Decision Not to Ordain Married Clergy

Arkady Petrov at The Rio Times - 17 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Catholic Bishops' proposal to ordain as priests men of indigenous origin,to serve in remote villages in Amazonia, even if they are married, will not be set aside or placed in a drawer, according to the bishops of Brazil, despite the Pope's recent decisions not to diminish the celibacy requirement […] The post Disappointment in Amazonia Over Pope’s Decision Not to Ordain Married Clergy appeared first on The Rio Times.

São Paulo Nightlife Guide for Thursday, February 13, 2020

Beatriz Miranda at The Rio Times - 17 hours ago
[image: São Paulo nightlife guide, Rua Augusta, party, Blitz Haus] We have the top three picks for this Thursday, and below is a list of bars and lounges that are always a good option. MÚSICA BRASILEIRA: Lela Simões (Bixiga) – Tonight, Casa Barbosa presents singer Lela Simões. Simões and band will pay homage to the "Afro-Sambas" of Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes, two legends […] The post São Paulo Nightlife Guide for Thursday, February 13, 2020 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Bioweapons - Coming Soon to a War Near You

A Political Junkie at Viable Opposition - 17 hours ago
The world's latest iteration of a deadly virus has led to much conjecture about its source, whether it is a human-made pathogen and whether it escaped from a BSL-4 highly secure laboratory in China. While we are highly unlikely to ever know the entire story behind 2019 nCov, there is some interesting information about the use of bioweapons that can be gleaned from a document that formed an important foundation for the neoconservative mindset in Washington. Back in 1997, a Washington-based neoconservative think tank was established as a non-profit by Robert Kagan and William Kristol... more »

Gotham City Digest

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Gotham City - 17 hours ago
(We only join the right parties.) ------------------------------ This is a pretty good analysis of the furtive rat fuckery that happened in NH last Tuesday night that more than merely suggests electoral fraud for the second time in a row. ------------------------------ Last Tuesday's NH primary was a quasi-successful rat-fuck. Buttigieg lost but split 18 delegates with Bernie by the DNC kinking the hose on him and stealing his votes to further ensure a brokered convention. As usual, even when Bernie wins, he loses. ------------------------------ He won by just 2%. The l... more »

Who Will Save The Grotesquely Corrupt Democratic Party Establishment From Bernie's Zeal For Reform And Fair Play?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago
Votes have finally still dribbling in from the New Hampshire primary when I was finishing up on this post. 100% of the votes have now been counted and all the candidates-- except Status Quo Joe, who was in South Carolina-- were already off to Nevada. The New Hampshire numbers were catastrophic for Biden but didn't cause him to drop out the way they did for Andrew Yang, Michael Bennet and Deval Patrick. These were the numbers available (with all 100% in): *•* Bernie- 76,324 (25.7%) *•* Mayo Pete- 72,457 (24.4%) *•* Klobuchar- 58,796 (19.8%) *•* Elizabeth- 27,387 (9.2%) *•* Status Q... more »

Roger Stone Sentencing Controversy Raises Doubts About DOJ Independence From Political Influence 

miningawareness at Mining Awareness + - 17 hours ago
The decades, referred to below, that “the U.S Justice Department has aspired to serve as a model law enforcement agency … Continue reading →

The FBI, US Overseas Intel Agency, British Intel Agents All Thought That Robert Maxwell was a Soviet-Russian Agent

miningawareness at Mining Awareness + - 17 hours ago
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + : The FBI, a US intelligence agency with jurisdiction abroad – probably the CIA, and British Intelligence…

“A Shocking Threat to the World”: Biographer Wayne Barrett on Donald Trump (July 2016)

miningawareness at Mining Awareness + - 17 hours ago
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + : http://youtu.be/YsaUeyg_oAA Link: http://youtu.be/YsaUeyg_oAA By DemocracyNow.org: “A Shocking Threat to the World”: Biographer Wayne Barrett on Donald…

High Radiation Levels Recorded in Moscow, Russia

miningawareness at Mining Awareness + - 17 hours ago
As Reported by BelSat: https://belsat.eu/en/news/excess-radiation-level-recorded-in-moscow/ “Excess radiation level recorded in Moscow 2020.02.12 16:12 A sensor of the Russian state enterprise … Continue reading →

Jared Kushner By Day: Mideast Peace. Kushner Companies By Night: Donating to a West Bank Settlement

miningawareness at Mining Awareness + - 17 hours ago
From ProPublica.org: “Jared Kushner By Day: Mideast Peace. Kushner Companies By Night: Donating to a West Bank Settlement. While Jared … Continue reading →

HOW DARE HE! United States Led Entire World In Reducing CO₂ Emissions In 2019

Jamie Spry at Climatism - 17 hours ago
“Action must be powerful and wide-ranging. After all, the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all.” –– GretaThunberg™️ *** CLIMATISM has reported (here, […]

Worms - Part of the Blame Game

LL at Virtual Mirage - 17 hours ago
*Got Worms?* (link) This rambling piece in *The Atlantic* might interest you. Then again it might not. Are earthworms partially to blame for global warming? The article hints that they may be part of the problem - if there is a problem - but since it's settled science, I'm sure there's a problem. Unless the climate gets colder and then global warming has to do with climate change, which can be fixed by massive taxation and income redistribution. No the article doesn't go that far - except by implication. And earthworms are partly to blame for whatever. Sometimes it's easier to just... more »

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 17 hours ago
*Bank Reverses Decision, Picks Schoolkids Over LGBT Activists* Seven hundred kids. That’s how many students would have lost their scholarships—and a chance at a better life—if Fifth Third Bank hadn’t come to its senses. Instead, after a week of uncertainty, the company sat down with Florida parents and pastors and decided not to listen to Florida’s cultural bullies. It’s one thing for a company to support LGBT extremism. It’s quite another, the bank agreed, to hurt needy children in the process. Most kids had already left school for the weekend when they got the good news: One of... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 17 hours ago
*Giant iceberg three times the size of PARIS calves off one of Antarctica's fastest-shrinking glaciers* *Nothing to see here. West Antarctica is well-known for subsurface vulcanism. Volcanoes put out a LOT of heat* A shocking video reveals how a huge chunk of ice more than three times the size of Paris has broken off one of Earth's most critical ice shelves, Pine Island Glacier (PIG). This enormous frozen river, along with its famed neighbour Thwaites, connects the ocean to mainland Antarctica and is rapidly retreating. Warmer temperatures are taking their toll on the vulnerabl... more »

The truncated Daniel—what a loss for Protestants

Norma at Collecting My Thoughts - 18 hours ago
This morning in my devotions I was reading the Prayer of Azariah in the book of Daniel. It is so lovely. What a shame that Protestants don’t know it except in excerpts of songs and liturgy. It’s beautiful passage and devotion to read when in the furnace of fire of suffering. The Orthodox Wiki explains how it is interpreted and used by Orthodox Christians: “The song constitutes a hymn of thanksgiving to God for deliverence from the fiery furnace into which the three young men, Ananias, Azarias and Misael (also known as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego) had been cast by the Persian... more »

He's going to need more than a defroster . . .

Peter at Bayou Renaissance Man - 18 hours ago
Being from Alaska, Miss D. gets more than a little angry when she sees people driving around in cars from which they've not swept the snow and ice, so that it flies off at speed and hits the vehicles around them. Apparently, in the frozen north, the cops ticket drivers who do that - which sounds like a good idea to me. I thought about it after finding this picture on MeWe: Look at that compressed rear suspension! I'd love to know what all that snow weighs . . . Peter

History lesson: Come together

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 18 hours ago
In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party formed alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including Latino group the Young Lords and the southern whites of the Young Patriots. Banding together in one of the most segregated cities in postwar America to confront issues like police brutality and substandard housing, they called themselves the Rainbow Coalition.

The Latest Autism Gene Study: NIH Director Collins Hails Deliberate Waste of Time, Money and Lives...

Age of Autism at AGE OF AUTISM - 18 hours ago
By John Stone In a short article in Southern Maryland Chronicle a few days ago the Head of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, hailed the latest autism gene study under the title 'Largest-Ever Genetic Study of Autism Yields... more »

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Fourth retraction for Haruko Obokata, focus of STAP cell scandal, after Harvard investigation

Adam Marcus at Retraction Watch - 18 hours ago
More than five years after Nature retracted two highly suspect papers about what had been described as a major breakthrough in stem cell research, another journal has pulled a paper about the work. The scandal over so-called STAP stem cells took down more than just a few articles. The case centered on Haruko Obokata, a … Continue reading Fourth retraction for Haruko Obokata, focus of STAP cell scandal, after Harvard investigation

Rio Nightlife Guide for Thursday, February 13, 2020

Beatriz Miranda at The Rio Times - 18 hours ago
We have the top three picks for this Thursday, and below is a list of bars and pubs that are always a good option. PARTY: Bombastic (Lapa) - The Bombastic party will make everyone dance like there is no tomorrow in Lapa. DJs will spin the hottest from funk, hip-hop, and reggaeton music. There will […] The post Rio Nightlife Guide for Thursday, February 13, 2020 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Links 2/13/2020

Jerri-Lynn Scofield at naked capitalism - 18 hours ago

Russia & EU on Path to Cut Out the Dollar by Boosting Settlements in National Currencies

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 18 hours ago
Russia & EU on Path to Cut Out the Dollar by Boosting Settlements in National Currencies by https://www.rt.com/ With the number of non-dollar deals rising, Moscow and Brussels are discussing ways to boost the volume of settlements in euros or rubles, says Russia’s envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov. – The talks about the switch-over …

Sudden Militarization Of Wuhan’s P4 Lab Raises New Questions About The Origin Of The Deadly Covid-19 Virus

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 18 hours ago
Was it an accidental release or a deliberate bio-weapon attack by the western Illuminati, as per the video above, you decide. Lots of coincidences for it to be accidental, IMO – Sudden Militarization Of Wuhan’s P4 Lab Raises New Questions About The Origin Of The Deadly Covid-19 Virus by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/ The reported militarization of …

Plugged In Podcast #43: David T. Stevenson, of CRI, on the Transportation & Climate Initiative

IER at IER - 18 hours ago
David T. Stevenson, of the Caesar Rodney Institute, joins the show to discuss the Transportation and Climate Initiative and what… The post Plugged In Podcast #43: David T. Stevenson, of CRI, on the Transportation & Climate Initiative appeared first on IER.

Taxes a big factor behind the financial woes of California marijuana companies

John Schroyer at Marijuana Business Daily - 18 hours ago
The tax man is not popular in business circles, but that’s even more true in the cannabis industry. Particularly in California. Federal and state tax bills have become a major factor in the widening cash crunch that’s been developing in the California marijuana market for months, a trend that’s gotten so dire that many in […] Taxes a big factor behind the financial woes of California marijuana companies is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs

Expert details the high-security measures taken to preserve crucial Claremont DNA evidence

Andrea Mayes at Just In - 18 hours ago
Former PathWest scientist Laurie Webb tells the WA Supreme Court how secure, tamper-proof envelopes were used to deliver evidence that changed the course of the Claremont serial killer investigation.

How America's B-1B Bomber Become More Missile Carrier Than Aircraft

Kyle Mizokami at The National Interest - 19 hours ago
*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, Americas* The B-1B may have lost its cluster-munitions capability, but it still has plenty of other weapons at its disposal. *Key point: *The B-1B’s large fuselage could conceal a huge amount of weaponry, up to seventy-five thousand pounds of ordnance tucked within three weapons bays. Like many warplanes since the end of the Cold War, the B-1B bomber’s role in American airpower has changed to embrace new missions. Unlike other planes, the B-1’s mission changed even before the first aircraft took off. What started as a high-altitude, high-speed nuclear-... more »

China And Japan Have Powerful Navies, But Only One Can Dominate Asia's Seas

Kyle Mizokami at The National Interest - 19 hours ago
*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, Asia* Japan is looking to modestly expand its surface warfare capabilities. *Key point:* Japan has more experience building modern capital ships. The People’s Republic of China Army Navy (PLAN) is experiencing an unprecedented rise in ships and capabilities. China is building virtually every class of warship, from aircraft carriers to corvettes simultaneously, and in some cases, by the dozen. Of particular note is the Luyang III or Type 052D–class destroyer. Designed to provide anti-air area defense to a carrier battle group or amphibious ready group, ... more »

No One Is Prepared For China's H-20 Stealth Bomber

Sebastien Roblin at The National Interest - 19 hours ago
*Sebastien Roblin* *Security, Asia* It could be a game-changer. *Key Point:* The PLAAF elected to pursue a more ambitious approach: a slower but far stealthier flying wing like the U.S. B-2 and forthcoming B-21 Raider. In October 2018, Chinese media announced that the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) would publicly unveil its new H-20 stealth bomber during a parade celebrating the air arm’s seventieth anniversary in 2019. Prior news of the H-20’s development had been teased using techniques pioneered by viral marketing campaigns for Hollywood movies. For example, the ... more »

America's Ballistic Missile Submarines Are The U.S. Military's Ace In The Hole

Sebastien Roblin at The National Interest - 19 hours ago
*Sebastien Roblin* *Security, Americas* The Trident-armed Ohio-class submarines will have succeeded in their mission if they never fire their weapons in anger. *Key Point:* The Ohio class will serve on until the end of the 2020s, and may even receive some additional acoustic stealth upgrades until they are replaced by a successor. Nine years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Ishirō Honda’s *Godzilla *depicted a monster awakened from the depths of the ocean to wreak havoc on Japanese cities. A giant fire-breathing reptile, however, was *less* horrifying than wh... more »

America Has More To Worry About Than Iran's Military If War Breaks Out

Zachary Keck at The National Interest - 19 hours ago
*Zachary Keck* *Security, * Hezbollah’s utility to Iran has increasingly gone beyond traditional terrorist attacks. *Key Point:* With the benefit of hindsight, the decision to infiltrate Lebanon seems like pure strategic genius, as Hezbollah has been the gift that just keeps giving for Iran. With the possible exception of North Korea, no country in the post–Cold War era has sought to challenge the United States as much as Iran. From the Middle East to Central Asia to Latin America, Tehran has never missed an opportunity to antagonize the U.S. and limit its influence. This is an... more »

Trump Drops Antitrust Probe of Four Automakers Which Adopted Tougher Cal Tailpipe Emissions Standards

Jerri-Lynn Scofield at naked capitalism - 19 hours ago
Trump drops antitrust investigation of emissions agreeemt between four automakers and state California.

Brazil Becomes Heineken’s Largest Market

Richard Mann at The Rio Times - 19 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil has become the largest market for the Heineken beer brand, the company said on Wednesday, February 12th. The Dutch beverage company reported 4.1 percent growth in global sales volume in Q4, with the strongest increases in Brazil, Vietnam, and Cambodia. "Brazil is now Heineken's largest world market . . […] The post Brazil Becomes Heineken’s Largest Market appeared first on The Rio Times.

Climate Crisis Update–England As Warm As 1736 Last Month!

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 19 hours ago
By Paul Homewood https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html It’s been a mild start to the year here in England. In fact, according to the CET, it’s been the 14th warmest January since the start of records in 1659. No doubt fingers will be pointed at global warming, but as the above chart shows, we have simply […]

FISC chooses people to revise the FISA process but …

Uriel at 'Nox & Friends - 19 hours ago
… can those chosen or FISC itself be trusted to revise the process? Answer — probably not. Both David Nunes and President Trump blasted the court for choosing David Kris on January 12, 2020 to spearhead the revision. According to more than one media source like the Union Journal, Gabriel Sanz-Rexach and Dana Boente as of February 11, 2020 have been added to the list of people appointed to revise the FISA court process. All three men are people we have rarely heard of in the public sector. All three are Obama holdovers. All three have long careers in intelligence, … Continue reading →

CRISPR biotech made easy: Who am I kidding?

Dr. Jay Lehr at CFACT - 19 hours ago
Medical applications are confined to research labs, but as scientists remove potential problems and the debate over the ethics of human engineering is settled we are bound to see human applications. The post CRISPR biotech made easy: Who am I kidding? appeared first on CFACT .

Looking back at Thailand’s Constitutional Court: Somchai Preechasinlapakun

New Mandala and Prachatai at New Mandala - 19 hours ago
Thoughts from a legal expert as the Constitutional Court prepares to rule on the dissolution of the Future Forward Party. The post Looking back at Thailand’s Constitutional Court: Somchai Preechasinlapakun appeared first on New Mandala.

Matildas saved at the death by brilliant Van Egmond goal

Just In - 19 hours ago
The Matildas draw 1-1 with a tenacious China side in their Tokyo Olympics qualifier at Western Sydney Stadium, thanks to a brilliant injury-time goal from midfielder Emily van Egmond. The result means Australia will take on Vietnam in a play-off.

Harley Quinn film gets a rare post-release name change in search engine optimisation bid

Sophie Meixner at Just In - 19 hours ago
Warner Brothers has changed the name of its latest DC superhero movie, starring and co-produced by Australia's Margot Robbie, to Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey.

WA mining billionaire dismisses allegations she cheated brother out of family company profits

Joanna Menagh at Just In - 19 hours ago
A decades-long family rift is playing out in court over allegations one of Australia's richest women, Angela Bennett, misled her younger sibling about the true value of her family's multi-billion-dollar mining company.

Man who died after being hit by car had previously struck and killed friend, inquest hears

Loretta Lohberger at Just In - 19 hours ago
The partner of a man who died when he was struck by a car says she does not believe his death could have been a suicide, saying he was "tortured" after he accidentally killed his friend in a similar incident and would never have done "that to another person".

Auditor-General 'blows out of the water' PM's sports grants evidence, Labor says

Dan Conifer at Just In - 19 hours ago
Prime Minister Scott Morrison's office was involved in suggesting which projects should be approved under a controversial sport grants scheme, a Senate inquiry hears.

Veteran detectives split over what Nicola Gobbo told them

Sarah Farnsworth at Just In - 19 hours ago
Veteran detectives Ron Iddles and Steve Waddell are at odds over whether criminal barrister Nicola Gobbo told them a suspect confessed to planning a 2003 gangland murder.

Israel says man funnelled Australian aid money to Hamas, but Australia can't find any evidence

Eric Tlozek at Just In - 19 hours ago
More than three years after he was arrested, Israeli prosecutors are yet to prove allegations against a man accused of funnelling millions of dollars of Australian aid to a terrorist group.

Australia's first mine to be powered by wind turbines to save millions

Jarrod Lucas at Just In - 19 hours ago
Australia's largest hybrid renewable energy microgrid is nearly complete, with gigantic wind turbines installed this week at WA's Agnew gold mine.

Defence Minister warns France over local work on $80b subs program

Andrew Greene at Just In - 19 hours ago
Relations between the Federal Government and the French company designing Australia's future submarines have hit a new low, with the Defence Minister declaring she will hold the group to account on their commitments to use Australian companies.

Tongan jersey waiting for Folau if he cuts out 'crazy posts', Fifita says

Just In - 19 hours ago
Tonga star Andrew Fifita knows a thing or two about being forgiven for past indiscretions and says he welcomes the prospect of Israel Folau forcing his way into the rising rugby league powerhouse, with some conditions.

First case of coronavirus linked to Bali after report Chinese tourist returned positive test

Eliza Laschon at Just In - 19 hours ago
The WA Government says there is no reason for tourists to avoid travelling to Bali, despite reports of the first case of coronavirus being linked to the popular holiday island.

Australia extends China travel ban another week amid coronavirus threat

Just In - 19 hours ago
A ban on tourists travelling from China to Australia is extended for another week amid ongoing concerns about the coronavirus outbreak.

SKRIPAL IN PRISON – THE FIRST BOOK TO REPORT THE TRUTH

Editor at Dances With Bears - 19 hours ago
It is exactly two years since the case of two Russians, Sergei and Yulia Skripal, began with their collapse on a park bench in the middle of England on the afternoon of March 4, 2018. On their anniversary it is necessary to tell this story. But it isn’t the story of what happened. This is […]

The Most Widely Used Cooking Oil In The US Found To Cause Genetic Changes In The Brain

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 20 hours ago
Here we go again. The meta stats cited are misapplied as usual and we do not have comparables for all those other oils. This type of junk drove butter almost out of the market for decades to our serious detriment. There is scientific information here we can now measure. What it all means is hopelessly premature unless you want to promote soy oil out of the market to make room for your dodgy product. Let us wait to see what else they produce as we do need to see information from other oils as well. .. *The Most Widely Used Cooking Oil In The US Found To Cause Genetic Ch... more »

!0,000 plus Eye witness reports on Sasquatch

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 20 hours ago
How to hunt is a website that showcases a professional guide from British Columbia. What is important is that he is a class AA observer in terms of what he sees in the wild and in terms of understanding eye witnesses. Better yet he has taken it upon himself to collect independent stories which he then he reads them on his you tube posts. This is very important as he is clearly above reproach and must be listened too. His information cannot be dismissed. This means that the Sasquatch MEME will finally become publicly accepted. This only took a century or so.

Fears UK's new 5G network could 'lower sperm counts and sterilise young men'

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 20 hours ago
This concern does go on and on and we are lacking a clear signal in the data that diverges from normal. The power level is now ramped up and a better understanding is needed. Yet by now we should have human results as well. Throw in that the sperm drop signal which has been a problem going back to the introduction of Round up and also tends to reflect Round up application levels the whole EM argument disappears into the noise. Again protection also needs to be better understood. Simple fixes can be plausible and possible at no expense during the manufacturing cycle. *Fears... more »

Tree-Hopping 'Laughing Humanoid' Terrifies Eyewitness in Planada, California

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 20 hours ago
As i have posted many times, the Giant Sloth is Arboreal. Those unexpected leaps between poles and trees are again expected, though the apparent scale is way larger than i expected. throw in a separate report regarding speed on the ground and we have an incredibly formidable creature long before Yet the sheer strength of these leaps is completly impressive and certainly makes even an open forest an easy traverse. I had hoped that vertical bipedal mobility would be constrained. That is not true. Nor here is tree to tree mobility and four footed mobility is as scary. It is our g... more »

The FBI Corruption is Far Worse Than We Currently Imagine – President Trump Authorized His Own Surveillance…

sundance at The Last Refuge - 20 hours ago
Last month the DOJ admitted to the FISA court that two of the four FISA warrants used against Carter Page were fraudulently obtained. The “DOJ assesses that with respect to the applications in [April and June 2017] “if not earlier, … Continue reading →

Feeling Their Irrelevance, Squinty & Meat Puppet Claim DJT Wants To Jail Them

Diogenes Sarcastica™ at Diogenes' Middle Finger - 20 hours ago
Becoming increasingly butthurt that even after all this time, DJT will not take a shot at Squinty Joe Scarborough and his peroxide overdosed makeup test dummy Mika and their little morning MSBNC Trump-bashing show, Joe gave his viewer Wednesday morning a dish of hyperbole smothered in self-importance. In denial they are really just network time-filler and believing they are of any relevance in today's media, Joe claimed that if he could, *Trump would arrest* Mika and him, along with every other journalist he didn't like, and *throw them in jail to silence them*. Scarborough began hi... more »

What Macron Can Learn From Putin

The Duran at The Duran - 20 hours ago
The limits of power are not known if they are not tested. Macron is must consider all legislative levers and policies at its disposal to implement its own policy, as does Putin when necessary. More The post What Macron Can Learn From Putin appeared first on The Duran.

Update: (Virginia Becomes 19th State to Award Electoral Votes to Popular Vote Winner)The National Popular Vote is Gaining Momentum

James Cheef at The Duran - 20 hours ago
Update As part of Virginia’s quest to undermine the rights of its citizens and the Constitution, along with a Red Flag law and HB. NO. 1627 Threats and harassment of certain officials and prosperity, a law that would make it illegal to publicly criticize a public official, Virginia has now joined 18 other states that […] More The post Update: (Virginia Becomes 19th State to Award Electoral Votes to Popular Vote Winner)The National Popular Vote is Gaining Momentum appeared first on The Duran.

Baltic republics’ “De-Russification” Sees Increased Poverty and Depopulation

InfoBrics at The Duran - 20 hours ago
EU Has Not Improved Baltic Living Standards More The post Baltic republics’ “De-Russification” Sees Increased Poverty and Depopulation appeared first on The Duran.

Devastating natural disasters did occur when carbon dioxide was low

drinkingwateradvisor at The Drinking Water Advisor - 20 hours ago
This list was compiled by T. Heller at Real Climate Science: In 1931 foods in China killed millions of people. An 1780 Great Atlantic Hurricane killed more than 20,000 people. Winds over 200 MPH destroyed every structure in Barbados. On September … Continue reading →

EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas

Jerri-Lynn Scofield at naked capitalism - 20 hours ago
With climate impacts comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study methane reductions emission, with implications for fracked gas US producers.

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