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The U.S. Navy Wants to Integrate Its Operations With the Coast Guard and Marines
*CIMSEC* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2006%3Anewsml_PBEAHUNLIEV&share=true] Can they get everyone on board? In December 2019, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael M. Gilday, the released his FRAGO *A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority.* The FRAGO harped on integration with the Marine Corps – mentioning it seven times over the course of the short, eight-page document. This is to be lauded, as General David Berger, the new Marine Commandant, has been pushing for integration as hard or more so from the green si... more »
Why Does Donald Trump And Millions of Americans Think Climate Change Is a Scam?
*Firmin DeBrabander* *Environment, Americas* [image: Reuters] Everything looks and feels fine, for the most part; few people connect extreme weather events with the larger global changes. President Donald Trump took the dramatic step of removing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement – the product of many years of diligent and difficult negotiation among 175 nations around the world. Recent polls reveal that six in 10 Americans oppose Trump’s move. However, a significant portion of climate skeptics remain – especially among Trump’s base and the Republican politicians who cheer... more »
See This Animal? It Helped Create Humanity As We Know It Today
*Nick Longrich* *History, World* For 95% of our species’ history, we didn’t farm, create large settlements or complex political hierarchies. We lived in small, nomadic bands, hunting and gathering. Then, something changed. Why did we take so long to invent civilisation? Modern *Homo sapiens* first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago. But initial steps towards civilisation – harvesting, then domestication of crop plants – began only around 10,000 years ago, with the first civilisations appearing 6,400 years ago. For 95% of our species’ history, we didn’t farm, create larg... more »
How Hitler's Terrifying U-Boats Were Sent To A Watery Grave
*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* A fight to free the Atlantic. *Key point*: United States antisubmarine aircraft played an unsung but vital role in this campaign. Cut off in mid-transmission, this contact report came from a U.S. Navy patrol bomber operating over the Atlantic Ocean some 95 miles north of Cape Peñas, Spain, at 0316 hours on November 12, 1943. Repeated attempts to restore radio communications with the Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator, nicknamed Calvert n’ Coke, all went unanswered. Controllers finally listed the aircraft as overdue—presumed missing. When A... more »
Does Social Security Create Even More Inequality?
*Ryan Bourne* *Economics, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC23EF93O97K&share=true] Here are the numbers. My recent paper with Chris Edwards concluded that studies estimating wealth inequality without accounting for Social Security would both exaggerate the level of inequality and overestimate its increases since the 1980s. We realized that increasing amounts of wealth for the bottom 90 percent had become tied up in Social Security claims over the past three decades. And a host of evidence suggests that redistributive prog... more »
This Video Game Portrays Hitler Winning In World War II
*Warfare History Network, Joseph Luster* *History, Americas* How could that have happened? *Key point: *Despite its ‘90s roots, Wolfenstein: The New Order is a refreshing shooter that doesn’t attempt to squeeze in mediocre multiplayer Despite the franchise’s age, Wolfenstein remains in the category of “new nostalgia” for some. While it has deeper origins—starting with 2D adventure game Castle Wolfenstein, which made its Apple II debut in 1981—the series is well known for its seminal contribution to the first-person shooter genre with 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D. For some of us that do... more »
Did Communist Russia Use Bernie Sanders for 'Information-Propaganda Efforts'?
*Hunter DeRensis* *Politics, * New research seems to suggest so. Since becoming one of the last two competitive presidential candidates in the 2020 Democratic primary, Senator Bernie Sanders has faced increased scrutiny for his past comments related to communism and overseas socialist governments. Just days ago, the *New York Times* published never before seen documents from Soviet archives detailing Sanders’ 1988 trip to the Soviet Union during his tenure as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont. Bernie Sanders has been a democratic socialist since his college days at the University of... more »
Saudi Arabia Starts All-Out Oil War
*Zero Hedge:* *Saudi Arabia Starts All-Out Oil War: MbS Destroys OPEC By Flooding Market, Slashing Oil Prices* With the commodity world still smarting from the Nov 2014 Saudi decision to (temporarily) break apart OPEC, and flood the market with oil in (failed) hopes of crushing US shale producers (who survived thanks to generous banks extending loan terms and even more generous buyers of junk bonds), which nonetheless resulted in a painful manufacturing recession as the price of Brent cratered as low as the mid-$20's in late 2015/early 2016, on Saturday, Saudi Arabia launched its ... more »
A weekend at Bernie’s
Yesterday, I spoke of the value proposition of Joe Biden. While I need not tell this to those “who feel the Bern,” Bernie Sanders value proposition needs more selling to those who may not be so enthralled. But, what is … Continue reading →
Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 66 – 2020
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What CSIRO Forgot To Mention About Bushfires!
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood h/t Petroalbion ? It’s not only the Met Office who selectively omit information when it suits their interest. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have been up to the same tricks this week: March 05, 2020 It’s got to be…
A nervous MbS locks up brother in Saudi palace purge (Video)
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 491. More The post A nervous MbS locks up brother in Saudi palace purge (Video) appeared first on The Duran.
Russia Just Told the World, “No.”
Since peaking after the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani oil prices have been a one-way trade. Down. More The post Russia Just Told the World, “No.” appeared first on The Duran.
The Future of the Afghan “Peace Deal”
The strategic picture in South Asia has shifted dramatically with two linked events, the Afghan “peace deal” and the deal with India. The looming shadow over the peace deal has always been Pakistan. For decades, Pakistan has leveraged their status with the US as a frontline state to extract immensely powerful weapons systems well above […] More The post The Future of the Afghan “Peace Deal” appeared first on The Duran.
Orthodox Christianity versus Socialism, Part III – The history of conflict
Orthodox Christianity suffered great conflict against socialism because socialism holds precisely the opposite religious view. More The post Orthodox Christianity versus Socialism, Part III – The history of conflict appeared first on The Duran.
Endorsing Bernie Sanders And Encouraging The Progressive Wing To Unite Behind Sanders... With An Aside On Trade And Climate
*-by Rachel Ventura* I am sure that it was a gut punch for Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg to get the call from the corner office of the DNC encouraging them to drop out before Super Tuesday. I am sure that both still think that they are the strongest candidate for the general election, but they sucked it up and did it anyway. We still don’t know what these candidates were offered in exchange for their Biden endorsement, but I am sure that whatever was offered made the painful decision easier to make. Right now, the people who worked tirelessly for Elizabeth Warren are also fe... more »
Reading Between the Lines of Afghan Agreements
President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani and U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper announce the U.S.-Afghanistan Joint Declaration in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Feb. 29, 2020. Photo Credit: DoD Photo by U.S. Army SSG Brandy Nicole Mejia via DVIDS *Editor’s Note: One of President Trump’s most significant foreign policy achievements may be the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Whether the U.S.-Taliban deal will hold is an open question, however. Elizabeth Threlkeld of the Stimson Center addresses the deal and the associated U.S.-Afghan joint statement. She finds several areas of ambi... more »
Coronavirus Timeline
This his what is currently being reported in the US: (Source) There have been 20 deaths in the U.S. — 17 in Washington state and one in California, as well as the two in Florida. There are confirmed cases of the virus in 32 states and Washington D.C. This is pretty mild and concentrated … Continue reading "Coronavirus Timeline"
"This Is It!"
*Deputy Wendell:* "It's a mess, ain't it, Sheriff?" *Sheriff Bell:* "If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here." - "No Country For Old Men" Well folks... *"This Is It!"* by Egon von Greyerz "This is it! The party is over. The world is now facing the gravest economic and social downturn in Modern Times (18th century). We are now entering a period of global crisis that will change the world for a very long time to come. This should come as no surprise to the people who have studied history and also read my articles for the last few years. Many others have also warned about the sa... more »
Fire destroys another refugee centre in Greece as migrants flock to Turkish border
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A fire rips through a refugee shelter on the Greek island of Lesbos amid rising tensions in the wake of Turkey's decision to open its border to people wanting to flee into Europe.
Saudi Arabia's Purge Expands To Include Other Royals And Military Officers
*Daily Mail: **Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman arrests 'treasonous' rivals: Saudi Arabia king's brother, an ex-crown prince and a cousin are held by masked black-clad guards for 'coup plot' as MBS tightens his grip on power* * Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al Saud and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef arrested * Over plot to oust king and son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reports suggest * Mohammed bin Nayef had been crown prince before his title was taken away * King Salman put his son - Prince Mohammed bin Salman - first in line for throne The brother and nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Salma... more »
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. - Robert Reich highlights how the long-term costs of failing to invest in a just transition and a healthy society far outweigh the short-term price of providing for basic needs, while Duncan Cameron calls out the deception behind claims that we can't afford social benefits. - Paul Krugman points out that extremely low interest rates further militate in favour of public investment by making it all the more affordable. But Eric Doherty discusses the need for a full climate audit of Canada's infrastructure spending - as a willingness to dole out m... more »
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From Jenna Orkin Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the UniverseChinese hotel being used to quarantine coronavirus patients collapses, trapping 70 people under rubbleNew standards eliminate Tulsi Gabbard from next Democratic debate As the coronavirus spreads, one study predicts that even the best-case scenario is 15 million dead and a $2.4 trillion hit to global GDP How Iran Became a New Epicenter of the Coronavirus Outbreak Bad hombres. Coronavirus-fighting tech is strengthening China's mass surveillance Cancer in US Navy Nuclear Powered Ships Former Acting Inspec... more »
Democrat Howard Dean justifies hating Republicans
I don’t condone this, but “as ye sow, so shall ye reap”. There is no excuse for the note writer or for you. You are a shame to your district and to a democratic United States. https://t.co/k1rQL6rgnA — Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) March 8, 2020 Elise Stefanik's "crime" was pointing out the truth about the corrupt Democratic attempt to impeach Trump. She didn't call anyone a fascist pig nor, more importantly, did she show any desire that even the thoroughly vile Adam Schiff rot in Hell. Dean is playing the usual Democrat game. When a Democrat calls a Republican a Nazi it's speakin... more »
Five key tips to designing an efficient cannabis extraction facility
How efficiently a marijuana extraction facility operates - or doesn't - depends quite a bit on the enterprise's design. Five key tips to designing an efficient cannabis extraction facility is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
NO JAIL for Cop Who Forced Mentally Ill Man to Show Genitals to Film It, Called People N-Word
[image: cop]This cop was charged with multiple felonies and got off with unsupervised probation for force feeding a mentally ill man, forcing another to dance, and filming genitals.
WATCH: Mentally Ill Man Calls 911 for Help, Cops Show Up and Kill Him
[image: help]A mentally-ill man was shot and killed by cops after calling 911 for help and his parents are now seeking civil action against the police.
Celebrate with Lisa Savage in Portland & Belfast
WHO: Lisa for Maine volunteers, staff & the candidate: Refreshments and a chance to share stories from the field plus your ideas for next steps in our campaign to elect a senator for people, planet, and peace. WHERE: Margaritas Mexican Restaurant, 424 St. John St., Portland & Waterfall Arts, 256 High St., Belfast WHEN: Saturday March 14 & Saturday March 28, from 2-4pm on both dates WHY: Celebration of volunteer effort resulting in 9,000+ signatures for ballot access FMI: Call 650-8863 or 607-4255
MI6 & BBC REVEAL OPERATION MINCEPIE – SKRIPAL BLOOD-TESTS AT SALISBURY HOSPITAL FAILED TO SHOW NERVE AGENT UNTIL PORTON DOWN ADDED IT FOR THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO ANNOUNCE
by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with In Operation MINCEMEAT, the brightest and the best of British secret intelligence available in London between January and March 1943, dressed up a corpse as a high-ranking British Army courier. He was dropped into the water off the Spanish coast, so that he would wash up for a German Army patrol […]
"3 Simple Questions That Will Change Your Life"
*"3 Simple Questions That Will Change Your Life"* by Jonathan "I love simple solutions to seemingly complex issues, don’t you? So often we seem to complicate the daylights out of things by over-analyzing, dissecting and brainstorming. I gravitate toward simple solutions whenever possible. Asking yourself the right question is one of the simplest ways to direct your thoughts in a positive direction without jumping through a bunch of mental or emotional hoops. What are the right questions? In particular, those that stimulate your mind to consider new possibilities or interrupt old es... more »
Some People Are Immune
During the federal election, the Conservatives ordered Doug Ford to keep his head low and his mouth shut. But, in the wake of that failed strategy, the old Doug Ford is back. Bob Hepburn writes: You can’t keep the real Doug Ford down. He’s back to bashing the media, snapping earlier this week that “you guys, the media, want to stick in this little downtown Toronto bubble.” His angry outburst came when reporters asked legitimate questions about the province’s controversial new double-blue licence plates. He’s back making gross exaggerations about his supposed accomplishments, for... more »
ICYMI: Losing An Hour Edition (3/8)
Surely it's about time to end this whole Daylight Savings baloney. Because as I sit here this morning, it hardly seems worth it. But here's some reading from the week: *Voucher Programs Undermine Religious Liberty * The Baptist Joint Committee posts this piece in opposition to voucher programs being used to drain public schools and send money to places like Baptist private schools. *Colonists * Uncharted is a blog allegedly operated by a former charter school teacher, and it offers some stark and stunning looks at the inside view of charters. This piece is about the realization ... more »
Right to Repair: Will the European Commission Have the Guts to Stand Up to Apple et al? Details on Wednesday…
European Commission to decide Wednesday whether to adopt a right to repair for smartphones as part of its Circular Economy Action Plan, to match what already exists for household appliances.
Latino Voters, Moderate Democrats and Trump Supporters Will Decide 2020
*Katie A. Cahill, Andrea Kent, Rey Junco* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] While few analysts think that the state is in play for 2020, what insights can the 2020 Super Tuesday results provide about the preferences of those living deep in Trump country? *Editor’s note: From tiny Vermont villages to the tornado-damaged city of Nashville to California’s sprawling suburbs, Democrats on Super Tuesday rewarded candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders with large delegate hauls. The Conversation asked three scholars to analyze the results, which drove Michael Bloomberg from the race... more »
Erwin Rommel: Anti-Hitler Hero or Opportunistic Nazi Zero?
*Blaine Taylor* *History, Europe* [image: Major Alfred Becker, General Edgar Feuchtinger and Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. Riva-Bella, France. 18 May 1944. Bundesarchiv.] Was he bravely standing up to Hitler, or just reading the tea leaves? Even before the end of World War II, German General Erwin Rommel’s fame was such that he was already being elevated into the Valhalla of such legendary warriors as Hannibal against the Roman Empire, Napoleon during his defensive campaigns of 1813-1814, and Robert E. Lee throughout the American Civil War. Despite the fact that all four “Great C... more »
This Picture Should Not Exist: How to Stop Coronavirus Misinformation
*Andy J. Yap* *Public Health, World* [image: Reuters] Can we stop all of the fake news about this virus? The UK has found itself in a panic buying frenzy in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. A very flustered health secretary Matt Hancock urged restraint and attempted to calm fears of shortages on BBC television’s Question Time after being asked about a lack of paracetamol, dry pasta and toilet paper. The UK is not alone. Social media has been flooded with images from across the world of shopping carts lined up at check outs, empty shelves and crazed shoppers carrying ... more »
Biden’s Resurrection from the Dead Was Insanely Unprecedented
*Robert Shrum* *Politics, Americas* [image: Reuters] Biden all-but-swept Super Tuesday states, propelled by a tsunami of late-deciding voters. The dominant question going into Super Tuesday was: Did Joe Biden’s sweeping victory in South Carolina come just in time, or was it too late? The answer is now clear. Biden all-but-swept Super Tuesday states, propelled by a tsunami of late-deciding voters. A week ago, prognosticators speculated that Bernie Sanders could emerge from Super Tuesday’s contests with an insurmountable delegate lead of more than 300 delegates. After that, since ... more »
How Donald Trump Should Handle China's Growing Power
*Joshua Shifrinson* *Security, Asia* [image: Reuters] Ultimately, China is not the threat claimed, and inflators’ prescriptions are a recipe for overstretching and needless risk. It is not too late for the U.S. to soberly address China’s rise. The U.S. military said a Chinese warship recently directed a military-grade laser at a Navy surveillance plane over the Pacific Ocean, risking temporarily blinding the crew. While troubling, this is not surprising given the increased tensions between Washington and Beijing. And this latest incident is likely to stoke fears among the U.S. pu... more »
The Navy Hopes Its Laser-Armed DDG 51 Flight III Destroyers Will Send China Running
*Kris Osborn* *Security, * Weapons of the future are here. (*Washington, D.C.*) Armed with advanced lasers, cruise missiles and ship-defense interceptor weapons, the Navy’s emerging DDG 51 Flight III destroyers are designed to conduct and win major ocean wars against advanced, high-powered enemies. As part of an accelerated effort to prepare these new ships, the Navy has now begun construction of the first new Flight III DDG 51 surface warfare destroyer built at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Maine. Similar to its predecessor ship, the USS Jack Lucas (DDG 125), the BIW-constr... more »
How Nazi Germany Relied On Snipers To Conquer Europe In World War II
*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* Experienced snipers also knew how and when to jump to a predetermined safe position. *Key point: *German snipers took on an even more crucial role in resisting the seemingly ever-growing Red wave. The three Soviet tanks edged forward slowly as the drivers scanned for the concealed Germans that lay ahead. The lead tank suddenly clanked to a stop and swung its long barrel around. It looked much like one of Hannibal’s elephants with its trunk raised, sniffing the air before its planned lunge forward toward the hapless enemy. The Wehrmach... more »
Joe Biden Is Crushing Bernie Sanders in Florida
*Hunter DeRensis* *Politics, * A sign of things to come? Vermont Senator Bernie Sander’s month-long status as frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination came to a sudden halt at the end of February, beginning with former Vice President Joe Biden’s landslide victory in South Carolina. What followed was an assortment of dropouts and endorsements to Biden, and Sander’s underperformance on Super Tuesday. For the seventy-eight-year-old democratic socialist, the future doesn’t look any brighter, especially in usually sunny Florida. A new poll conducted in the state h... more »
This Is Why People Get Offended
*Tahmineh Tayebi* *Security, Americas* People are not necessarily offended when confronted with rude language, and they get offended for a range of different reasons. Most of us have felt offended at a remark made by a close friend or a random comment on our social media. Even worse, the chances are that we have experienced the shock of hearing that others were offended by our comments – despite the fact that we had no intention of hurting them. While no one can deny that certain words and actions can be offensive, the taking of offence is more complicated than that. As research ... more »
D-Day Before D-Day: The Allied Invasion of North Africa
*Michael D. Hull* *History, Africa* Nibbling away at the Nazi empire. Coming after a series of bitter defeats from France to Norway to Crete, news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II was one of the early high points of Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s leadership years. Great Britain now had a powerful ally in the struggle against fascism, and ultimate victory was a certainty. “So, we had won after all!” Churchill exulted. “We had won the war.” But the conduct of war is never simple, and the waging of a coalition war is fraught with chal... more »
Why the WHO Estimate on the Coronavirus Death Rate Is Wrong
*Alan Reynolds* *Public Health, World* [image: Reuters] Not so bad? “Death Toll Hits 9 as Outbreak Spreads,” was the scary *Wall Street Journal *headline in print before it was toned down online. COVID-19 deaths at a nursing home and hospital in Washington state were unrelated to the virus *spreading* “across the U.S.” The facts tell us much more about the exceptionally high risks of fatal infection from COVID-19 (or pneumonia or flu) among elderly people living close together in nursing homes or hospitals, many of them already sick. The ongoing COPD-19 outbreak in Kirkland Wash... more »
Cheap Oil Is the Fuel That Makes Climate Change So Hard To Stop
*Scott L. Montgomery* *Environment, Americas* Burning fossil fuels, the main source of manmade carbon dioxide, is the biggest cause of climate change. In the U.S. and other wealthy countries, oil is the single largest source of these emissions. The relationship between supply and demand, a fundamental economic concept, holds that when the price of something rises, people use less of it. Similarly, when prices fall, they use more. And it may seem logical that low oil prices benefit consumers, countries, even the world. When consumers save money on gas, they can spend it elsewhere... more »
"Let Us Prepare..."
"The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And… the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.” "Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable it... more »
The Poet: Rumi, “The Way Things Should”
*“The Way Things Should”* "What will our children do in the morning? Will they wake with their hearts wanting to play, the way wings should? Will they have dreamed the needed flights and gathered the strength from the planets that all men and women need to balance the wonderful charms of the earth so that her power and beauty does not make us forget our own? I know all about the ways of the heart – how it wants to be alive. Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky’s mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, f... more »
“What Death Taught Me”
*“What Death Taught Me”* by Katie Dreyer “Joan Didion said grief is never how you expect it will be. When I used to think of my mother dying, in the abstract, vague way people do, I imagined myself collapsing in a heap, burying myself in my bed for days. The world would be dark and I would bury myself in that darkness; I'd bury myself with her. I never saw how I would be weeks or months or years later. I was caught in that moment of agony. That is how I thought I would be: Immovable, incapable, ruined. Instead, I moved just fine. All my limbs still worked, and I opened the curtains... more »
Plato and His Enemies
It is impossible to visualize philosophy without the great figure of Plato. But there are three twentieth-century philosophers—Bertrand Russell, Karl Popper, and Ayn Rand—who have tried to destroy Plato by depicting him as the formidable enemy of reason and liberty. Russell refutes Plato in his *A History of Western Philosophy*, but he does not build a thorough case—that is something that Karl Popper does. In his *The Open Society and Its Enemies*, Popper indicts Plato as the father of modern totalitarianism. It is likely that Ayn Rand picked up her notion of Plato from her reading ... more »
X-Zone Broadcast Network - Robert Koford and the Aztec UFO Crash
This week I interviewed Robert Koford who has visited here frequently, commenting on various aspects of the UFO phenomenon. This discussion was inspired by his investigation into the Aztec UFO crash claim from March 25, 1948. This story has Robert Kofordbeen around publicly much longer than the Roswell case but has far fewer witnesses and virtually no documentation to substantiate the crash. In fact, unlike Roswell where everyone agrees that something fell, with Aztec there are many members of the community who deny that anything happened. You can listen to the program here: https... more »
An Undemocratic Democracy?
Pollister Nick Nanos opines in the G&M that perhaps Canada is a 'joyless democracy' and points to the fundamental disconnect between the economic numbers hurled at Canadians and the anxiety we feel about the future. He continues by wondering if there is a fundamental disconnect between democratic sentiment and parliamentary outcome in regard to the results of our last election which returned a minority parliament. He goes on to suggest that this is perhaps because the outcome of the popular vote is not reflected by the various party standings in the HoC, this is hardly a new opinion... more »
Brazilian Rural Producers Fail to Pay R$3.4 Billion in Debts
BRASILIA, BRAZIL - In order to ease the financing of debts to rural producers in Brazil, a "Provisional Measure" is in progress in the National Congress. The first stage has already been successful, with approval by the Chamber of Deputies. The bill's fate now rests on the Federal Senate. Called the "Agro Provisional Measure - […] The post Brazilian Rural Producers Fail to Pay R$3.4 Billion in Debts appeared first on The Rio Times.
Coronavirus: The Case for “Price Gouging”
[image: coronavirus-the-case-for-price-gouging] As with almost everything having to do with the coronavirus outbreak, many of the worst outcomes that could come to pass are not actually attributable to viral biology but to the reaction of government authorities to the pandemic.
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*I’ve Been Fired. If You Value Academic Freedom, That Should Worry You* *Just a whiff of incorrectness is fatal* Bo Winegard Until a week ago, I was a tenure-track assistant professor at a small college. Then I was fired. And although I am but one professor at one small college in one small town, I want to persuade you that, if you care about free speech and free inquiry in academia, you should be alarmed by my termination. My troubles began in October 2019 when I was invited to address an evolutionary group at the University of Alabama. I had decided that I would discuss hum... more »
March 2019–Environment Agency Warn Of Water Shortages In England!
By Paul Homewood A year ago, the head of the Environment Agency was warning us that England would soon be running out of water! (Due, You Guessed It, To Climate Change): Within 25 years England will not have enough water to meet demand, the head of the Environment Agency is warning. The impact … … Continue reading →
What CSIRO Forgot To Mention About Bushfires!
By Paul Homewood h/t Petroalbion It’s not only the Met Office who selectively omit information when it suits their interest. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have been up to the same tricks this week: March 05, 2020 It’s got to be one of the most awkward silences the Senate has ever … … Continue reading →
Sunday morning music
One of the advantages of the so-called "digital age" is that it allows us to recreate sounds and sound effects that had long been lost to history. One can electronically alter what one hears so that it resembles sounds that were made long ago, but which can't be accurately reproduced today for any number of reasons. One of those sounds is the Orthodox liturgical chant used in the Hagia Sophia cathedral in Constantinople, later a Moslem mosque following the fall of that city in 1453, and today a museum. The acoustics of the Hagia Sophia were legendary, and added greatly to the imp... more »
Peasants Being Massacred By Gatling Guns Couldn’t Wait For Gradualism; Bernie Sanders Thought They Could & Oversaw Arrest Of Protesters; Dr. King Warned Of Bernie’s Attitude In Letter From A Birmingham Jail
A Gatling-type gun: “M61A1 20mm Vulcan Cannon at the National Museum of the United States Air Force“. (U.S. Air Force … Continue reading →
UN: Progress On Women’s Rights Has Stalled And Even Been Reversed
1942 During WWII: “Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif“. LOC From VOA News: “At UN, … Continue reading →
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*A conservative Climate Change policy?* *The article below is a proposal that we do not need to confront the Green/Left head-on. There is a hope that conservatives might be better accepted if they acknowledged the need for CO2 reduction and offered some proposals for action in that direction. How well-founded Greenie scares are is not addressed. The proposals are understandable but overlook two things:1) There is no such thing as a happy Greenie. No matter how much we lean in their direction, they will still criticize and reject us. There is no get out of jail card ot... more »
Children in Lombardy should undergo "let's all taste Covid-19"
Societies should reward, exploit the Covid-19 survivors' superpowers One minor aspect of the intentional and deceitful coronavirus hysteria fabricated by the dishonest media is the claim that there are over 100,000 infected people. In reality, those 107,000 that have been Covid-positive include 42,500 active cases (that number began to slowly grow again but it has already touched a local low around 38,000 days ago) and 64,500 or so closed cases, including 3,600 fatalities. Those 61,000 people (mostly in China so far) who have been cured and discharged are extremely interesting – yet... more »
Torn
I thought Andrew Marr had been slightly chastened by the fallout from his disastrous ‘get Boris’ fiasco. (That, and perhaps the conspicuous dearth of A-list politicians whom the Beeb had managed to lure onto the Marr show.) However, the perfect storm of Covid-19, the floods, and internal governmental political mini-eruptions (Sajid and Priti) have led to a kind of wartime spirit. We must come together. Both today’s interviews of Rishi Sunak (on Sky and on the Marr show) were still angling for the same ‘gotcha’ - albeit a minor one - over whether the emergency means Sunak is going t... more »
Kiss My Grits
Note: Our Cathy is serving up a great post this morning. For those of you who are not familiar with the sitcom Alice, Kiss My Grits became a catchphrase spoken by Flo, the lovable, straightforward waitress who predated Flo from... more »
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