Tuesday, July 14, 2020

12 July - Blogs I'm Following - 4 of 6

Served Up to the Mob? Gov’t Seizes Guns From Besieged McCloskeys

Selwyn Duke at rss - 13 hours ago
[image: served-up-to-the-mob-gov-t-seizes-guns-from-besieged-mccloskeys] Is self-defense now a crime? Some are concluding it is — that is, if you’re the wrong kind of person. Inspiring this opinion is that Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who late last month brandished firearms to defend their home from a menacing mob, have now had their weapons seized by police in a move that smacks of declawing a cat and then throwing him to the wolves.

"Raise Positive Vibration: 528Hz Positive Energy, Self-Healing, Healing Miracle Music."

CoyotePrime at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
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"How It Really Is"

CoyotePrime at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." - Yogi Berra

"The New Deal Is A Bad Old Deal"

CoyotePrime at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
*"The New Deal Is A Bad Old Deal"* by Alasdair Macleod "So far, the current economic situation, together with the response by major governments, compares with the run-in to the depression of the 1930s. Yet to come in the repetitious credit cycle is the collapse in financial asset values and a banking crisis. When the scale of the banking crisis is known the scale of monetary inflation involved will become more obvious. But in the politics of it, Trump is being set up as the equivalent of Herbert Hoover, and presumably Joe Biden, if he is well advised, will soon campaign as a latte... more »

Coup traitors PANIC as Trump commutes Roger Stone’s sentence (Video)

Alex Christoforou at The Duran - 13 hours ago
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 591. More The post Coup traitors PANIC as Trump commutes Roger Stone’s sentence (Video) appeared first on The Duran.

Picture Of The Day

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 13 hours ago
Donald Trump on Saturday wore a face mask to visit the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland *WNU Editor*: The above picture is from this photo-gallery .... Finally, The Donald dons a mask: Trump covers his face in public for the first time on visit to Walter Reed to visit troops after 'pressure from aides amid surging COVID-19 cases nationwide' (Daily Mail).

Costa Rica: An Unusual Luminous Object over Poas

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 13 hours ago
*Source: CIAL Observación Ovni CR* *Date: July 9, 2020* *Costa Rica: An Unusual Luminous Object over Poas* The photos have the accompanying text: "Object captured in Poás de Alajuela. Five lights that stand out in the prevailing light." Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal history in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean

Argentina: New Cattle Mutilations in Argentina

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 13 hours ago
*Source: Reconquista Noticias and Luis Burgos (FAO/ICOU) (Argentina)* *Date: 07.12.2020* *Argentina: New Cattle Mutilations in Argentina* Our friend and colleague Luis Burgos draws our attention to an article posted to Reconquista Noticias involving mutilated cattle in the pastrues of Paraje Las Amintas, Berna, El Arazá and Colonia San Roque. It goes on to say that on July 10th of this month, cattle rancher Rodrigo Faccioli was surveying his property and came across a stray cow, discovering to his shock that the animal was missing its tongue, eye and jaw tissue. A similar discover... more »

Coronavirus Quarantine: The Online Nightlife Guide for Sunday, July 12, 2020

Beatriz Miranda at The Rio Times - 13 hours ago
With Brazil stepping up precautionary measures against COVID 19, the entertainment sector in Rio and São Paulo has suspended its activities for an undetermined period of time. ONLINE SHOW: Diogo Nogueira (online) – Singer Diogo Nogueira is back with another live samba session this Sunday. Nogueira and his band will start performing at 12 PM, […] The post Coronavirus Quarantine: The Online Nightlife Guide for Sunday, July 12, 2020 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Hubbards residents cite ‘dangerously close calls’ along Highway 3, call for safer streets

Yvette d'Entremont at Halifax Examiner - 13 hours ago
Hubbards residents concerned by the frequent “dangerously close calls” between pedestrians and vehicles are advocating for safer streets via a newly formed community group. Melanie McIvor created the Hubbards Streetscape Project Facebook group on June 12 with a stated mission of advocating, planning and delivering on a safer community. Within one week, the group’s membership […]

Does Stephen McNeil believe in workers’ rights? Next question

Stephen Kimber at Halifax Examiner - 13 hours ago
Quick question. Does Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil believe in Section 2(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is to say freedom of association, or, more precisely, the right of workers to freely organize and be meaningfully represented by the union of their choice? Next question. Let us begin from the latest […]

Propaganda Brainwashing, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Caitlin Johnstone at Caitlin Johnstone - 13 hours ago
Propaganda is so advanced that rank-and-file members of the public will openly cheerlead their government’s imprisonment of Assange so that their government can continue to lie to them. ~ The focus shouldn’t just be on bad things done by individual plutocrats – Gates did X, […]

Why Did China's Navy Cancel Two of Its New Super Aircraft Carriers?

Sebastien Roblin at The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Sebastien Roblin* *Security, Asia* Here's the story. *Key Point*: For over a decade, China has been steadily building up plans to deploy six aircraft carriers of progressively greater capability. China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy takes many of its cues from the U.S. Navy as it develops its carrier aviation branch. It is seeking similar flat-deck carriers to its U.S. counterpart, and has developed airborne early warning planes and electronic attack jets comparable to American E-2D Hawkeyes and EA-18 Growlers. But that tendency may have backfired for once. That’s because the ... more »

Cooper, Weir discuss deaths in the U.S., Brazil!

<b>bob somerby</b> at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
*SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2020Lack of elementary journalistic/analytical skill:* In yesterday's post, we should have mentioned the difference between the dueling front-page headlines. We mentioned the struggles in the New York Times. We didn't mention the Washington Post. Below, you see the dueling front-page headlines from the two major newspapers: *New York Times headlines (online):* Daily Virus Death Toll Rises in Some States In several states where the virus has surged in recent weeks, the death toll is edging up. That may end a long period in which the national toll has steadily decl... more »

Watch: Russian military choppers fly at low altitude over militant stronghold in east Aleppo

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago
[image: Watch: Russian military choppers fly at low altitude over militant stronghold in east Aleppo] BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:30 P.M.) – Russian military choppers were filmed this past week, flying over positions of the Turkish-backed militants in the eastern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate. According to reports, the Russian military choppers were seen flying over the city of Al-Bab, which is currently the main stronghold for the Turkish-backed militants in eastern Aleppo. While the reasoning for this overflight was not stated, it likely had to do with their ongoing patrols along ... more »

Turkey stifled Haftar’s plans to capture Libyan capital: Erdogan

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago
[image: Turkey stifled Haftar’s plans to capture Libyan capital: Erdogan] BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:20 P.M.) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Ankara’s stance in Libya foiled the plans of the Libyan National Army’s commander, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. According to Erdogan, Turkey’s intervention saved the city of Tripoli from falling to the Libyan National Army and their commander. Erdogan continued in his interview with the Turkish magazine that “the Government of National Accord managed to get the revolutionaries out of Tripoli in a short time and these fiel... more »

Unknown assailants attacked US military convoy in southern Iraq: report

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago
[image: Unknown assailants attacked US military convoy in southern Iraq: report] BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:00 P.M.) – A supply convoy heading to a U.S. military base in Iraq came under attack last night, an Iraqi security source said. “Four trucks were attacked in the Najme region between Diwaniyah and As-Samawah”, the source said. According to the security source, the trucks were carrying supplies from Basra to one of the US bases in Iraq. Unknown assailants on pickup trucks attacked the supply convoy, forcing it to stop, got the drivers out of the vehicles, and set the convoy trucks on ... more »

Israeli warplanes, warships violated Lebanese sovereignty several times in past 24 hours: army

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago
[image: Israeli warplanes, warships violated Lebanese sovereignty several times in past 24 hours: army] BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:20 P.M.) – On Saturday, the Lebanese army announced that Israeli warplanes and warships violated Lebanon’s airspace and territorial waters several times. A statement issued by the Lebanese Army last night said that an Israeli reconnaissance plane violated at 8:30 A.M. on Saturday morning, “Lebanese airspace over the sea west of the town of Naqqoura, up to and including Adloun. The statement indicated that the Israeli plane “carried out a circular flight over ... more »

Federal Judge Nixes Part of Glyphosate Settlement That Would Allow a Panel of Scientific “Experts”, Rather Than Juries, to Decide Whether the Chemical is Carcinogenic for Future Claims

Jerri-Lynn Scofield at naked capitalism - 14 hours ago
Judge skeptical over Bayer's proposal to replace a jury decision on whether glyphosate causes cancer with that of a scientific panel.

ICYMI: Hell Of A Week Edition (7/12)

Peter Greene at CURMUDGUCATION - 14 hours ago
Well, that was a hell of a week, between administration backflips and dictates over covid policy and the general rising tide of panic. Here at the Institute, I've decided to skip the 642 pieces I've read about reopening schools this week, because chances are you didn't miss any of them. But in the meantime, a few other things have dropped that are worth your attention. *The Seven Habits of Highly Affective Teachers * This ASCD piece by Rick Wormeli is five years old, but I have the feeling that the mental health of a school is going to be a trending topic for a while, and while thi... more »

"Covid-19 Pandemic Updates AM 7/12/20"

CoyotePrime at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
*"Covid-19 Pandemic **Updates AM 7/12/20" * *- Frequently **Updated* Please visit these sites often for the very latest Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic news and information. ○ *7/12/20* By Remy Tumin and Elijah Walker *"1.* Coronavirus cases in the U.S. are shattering records nearly every day. Cases in the U.S. soared to more than 68,000 on Friday - and set a single-day record for the seventh time in 11 days, according to a Times database. More than 60,000 new coronavirus cases were announced in the U.S. on Saturday. North Carolina, Oregon, Arkansas, Hawaii and Alaska all recorded si... more »

One Change Could Get the U.S. Navy's New Aircraft Carrier Program Back on Track

Peter Suciu at The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Peter Suciu* *Security, * This leadership change could bring some fresh blood to a program that has certainly had some issues. It hasn't exactly been smooth sailing for the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers in recent months—and the problem-prone USS *Gerald R. Ford* (CVN 78) had another shakeup this week. Capt. Ron Rutan, who served as the ship’s program manager, has been reassigned to the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) staff while Capt. Brian Metcalf has been named as his replacement. Metcalf had previously served as the USS *San Antonio* (LPD 17) program manager and executiv... more »

Is America Good or Evil?

Neil Patel at The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Neil Patel* *Politics, * Is America good? That’s the real question we have been debating these past few weeks. The answer, of course, is obvious to all but a few true radicals. Is America good? That’s the real question we have been debating these past few weeks. The answer, of course, is obvious to all but a few true radicals. Yes, America is good. That doesn’t mean America is perfect, and it doesn’t mean we should not strive to make America better, but the criticisms we make should have some grounding in facts, in history, and in comparison with the rest of the world. The most... more »

Forget the F-22 and F-35: A 6th Generation Stealth Fighter Is Already Being Dreamed Up

Michael Peck at The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2000%3Anewsml_RP2DRHYQOQAB&amp;share=true] And we know what challenges it needs to take on. *Key Point: *These warplanes are good on their own terms. But what if you had the advanced stealth of a newer F-22 and the electronic warfare capabilities of the EA-18G? The scenario goes like this: In 2030, Russia invades the Baltic States. As the U.S. sends forces to Europe, China seizes the opportunity to seize disputed islands in the South China Sea. American airpower flies to the rescu... more »

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Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 14 hours ago
From Jenna Orkin “I Could Live With That”: How the CIA Made Afghanistan Safe for the Opium Trade Kentucky Slashes 95% of Polling Places Ahead of Primary ElectionHere’s What 75 Preppers Learned During the LockdownLockdown and social distancing could make our immune system weaker, says scientist Study links fermented vegetable consumption to low COVID-19 mortality Trump says he'll sign order with 'road to citizenship' for DACA recipients If it’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture is it? Pathologist found blood clots in 'almost every organ' during autopsies on Covid-19 patients Jew... more »

Parents Seek Reparations After Special Needs Students Punished by Gov’t Funded Electric Shock

Matt Agorist at The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago
[image: electric shock]After countless special needs children were tortured with electric shocks as punishment in school, parents are saying the FDA 2020 ban on it is not enough.

How the Real Deep State is Using Divide So that We Can Be Conquered

Matt Agorist at The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago
[image: divide]No matter who wins the presidential election come November, it’s a sure bet that the losers will be the American people.

The White Slave Trade of Africa

Hardnox at 'Nox & Friends - 14 hours ago
In case you didn’t know. Of course, none of this is taught in schools.

Finding A Way Forward

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Jim Stanford writes that Canada's recent employment numbers are good. But we have a long way to go: The headline growth in jobs (almost one million more Canadians were working in June, compared to May) was very encouraging, much better than expected. By that measure, Canada's labour market has climbed almost halfway back out of the hole we fell into from February through April. But the next steps of job recovery will be much harder to achieve. The share of remaining unemployed Canadians expecting to go back to their former jobs has fallen substantially (just one-third now). We ar... more »

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 15 hours ago
*Restoring Racial Preferences Will Harm Many Who Are Supposed to Be Helped* California’s 1996 constitutional amendment that prohibits public institutions from preferentially discriminating by race, sex, and ethnicity may be reversed later this year to restore explicit affirmative-action policies. Some social-justice groups and state legislators argue that opportunities, incomes, and college admissions of people of color and women are significantly depressed by significant racial, ethnic, and gender biases. According to these groups, the road to equal opportunity for women and peo... more »

Iran blames bad communication and missile misalignment for shooting down passenger plane

Just In - 15 hours ago
Iranian investigators blame a misaligned missile battery and miscommunication between soldiers and their commanders for the Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing 176 people.

Lebanon a country in crisis

Fra Hughes at The Duran - 15 hours ago
The losers in all this state incompetence greed and avarice are the people of Lebanon. More The post Lebanon a country in crisis appeared first on The Duran.

Jacob Rothschild is Guilty for the Conspiracy Against Humankind

Aleksandar Sarovic at The Duran - 15 hours ago
My interest in conspiracies arose when I found out that they exist in the case of the destruction of my homeland Yugoslavia. World media presented the dissolution of Yugoslavia as an internal conflict amongst the Yugoslav people; this depiction was just a facade. The essence of the breakup of Yugoslavia was rooted in the […] More The post Jacob Rothschild is Guilty for the Conspiracy Against Humankind appeared first on The Duran.

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 15 hours ago
*Mines, minerals, and "green" energy: A reality check * EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As policymakers have shifted focus from pandemic challenges to economic recovery, infrastructure plans are once more being actively discussed, including those relating to energy. Green energy advocates are doubling down on pressure to continue, or even increase, the use of wind, solar power, and electric cars. Left out of the discussion is any serious consideration of the broad environmental and supply-chain implications of renewable energy. This paper turns to a different reality: all energy-producing mach... more »

Can America's F-35 Dogfight The World's Best Fighter Jets And Win?

David Axe at The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*David Axe* *Security, Americas* It won't be easy. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *What if the government’s rosy projections turn out to be even slightly off-target? What if something doesn’t work perfectly and F-35 pilots find themselves in dogfights with aerodynamically superior Sukhois or MiGs or Chinese-made planes? What if we send a fighter that can’t turn into battle with fighters that can? The aerial dogfight was not supposed to happen. On May 20, 1967, eight U.S. Air Force F-4C fighters were patrolling over North Vietnam when they spotted as many as 15 enemy MiG-17 f... more »

Joe Biden's Top 5 Choices for Vice President

Rachel Bucchino at The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Rachel Bucchino* *Politics, * Biden’s self-proclaimed due date to pick his vice-presidential candidate is now 20 days away - Aug. 1. The moment he does announce it, Trump will train the political guns of August on Biden’s nominee. Who will Biden select? The one element of surprise that Joe Biden has is his pick for vice-president. He’s likely to string it out as long as possible for maximum effect. *Biden’s* self-proclaimed due date to pick his vice-presidential candidate is now 20 days away - Aug. 1. The moment he does announce it, President Donald Trump will train the poli... more »

Want to Join the Delta Force? Your Chances Are Almost Zero.

Sebastien Roblin at The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Sebastien Roblin* *Security, * Do you have what it takes? *Key Point*: It takes a rare individual to muster the physical endurance, mental adaptability and sheer ambition to qualify. Just how much torture is a person willing to undergo to get a prestigious job? Given that an average of 250 resumes are submitted for every job position in the United States, one would assume quite a lot. But there’s writing endless resumes—and then there’s running forty miles at night on an uneven forest trail while lugging a fifty-pound rucksack—with more weight added upon achieving each waypoint... more »

Super Sniper: Are These Five Marksman Rifles the Finest on the Market?

Charlie Gao at The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Charlie Gao* *Security, World* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC2H8E9PTY0G&amp;share=true] These are some amazing weapons. *Key Point:* These rifles certainly stand out from the competition. But they take lots of training to use skillfully. The designated marksman rifle is becoming increasingly popular in recent years. The United States is purchasing more of them through the Army’s Compact Semi-Automatic Sniper System (CSASS) program. Also, in a recent reform of infantry equipment, the British Army announced that it would be ditchi... more »

Highest U.S. Temperatures on Record by State

Cap Allon at Electroverse - 15 hours ago
The raw data speaks for itself -- the United States was hotter in the past. "They" can fudge the charts, but they can't alter the record books -- AGW is a lie. The post Highest U.S. Temperatures on Record by State appeared first on Electroverse.

Mystery is Vital for a Platonic Atlantis

Unknown at The Conservative Socrates - 15 hours ago
Plato says that the republic of the children of the mind lies “beyond the last peaks and all the seas of the world.” To the republic of the children of the mind, Plato gives the name “Atlantis,” which is not modeled after any existing society and represents a new spirit of humanity, a venturing into a higher level of civilization. But an Atlantis cannot be founded in a known continent which is filled with the madding crowd of humanity—it needs a new place, which, as Plato puts it, lies “beyond the last peaks and all the seas of the world,” or is shrouded in mystery.

The networks and hidden procedures that keep discrimination alive in academia

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 15 hours ago
This is the third post in our series on Race&amp;IR. This is a guest post from Carla Norrlöf and Cheng Xu. Carla Norrlöf is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. Her research is in international relations and international political economy with a focus on US hegemony, great power politics and liberal international order. […]

Japanese art and a free spirit from the eighteenth century

Lee Jay at Modern Tokyo Times - 15 hours ago
Japanese art and a free spirit from the eighteenth century Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Japanese artist Soga Shōhaku (1730-1781) went against the grain in the eighteenth century because he was greatly influenced by the Muromachi Period. This period, dated 1336 to 1573, but officially coming into existence in 1338, intrigued Shōhaku greatly. […]

Decadal Climate Prediction? Might As Well Throw A Dice!

Hifast at Climate Collections - 16 hours ago
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? h/t jelorenzo ? ? https://hadleyserver.metoffice.gov.uk/wmolc/ The WMO has collated global temperature projections from twelve different organisations, covering this year and the next five years. They were produced in 2019. First, the forecasts for this year, shown as anomalies from 1981-2010: ?…

Shutting Roger Stone Up With A Commutation Of His Sentence-- Few Republican Elected Officials Seem To Mind

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
"The most corrupt act in recent history," is what Trump detractors are calling the big Roger Stone commutation. Legal author and CNN contributor Jeffrey Toobin said, specifically, that it was "the most corrupt and cronyistic act in perhaps all of recent history." After all, just hours before Trump announced it, Stone had admitted to Howard Fineman that he has the goods on Trump. Will it matter? The mask-free young woman in this Facebook video is a very typical Trump fan-- something she proudly admits. [Basically she is ALL Trump supporters rolled up into one-- the absolute essen... more »

More Details Emerge On the Plandemic and Medical Martial Law FEMA Camps — Celeste Solum and Dave Hodges

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 16 hours ago
Guillotines coming out by 2021!! More Details Emerge On the Plandemic and Medical Martial Law FEMA Camps –Celeste Solum and Dave Hodges by Dave Hodges, https://thecommonsenseshow.com/home I recently appeared on the Celeste Solum show called Celestial Wonders. It was such an honor to be on her show. – In the interview, Celeste and myself discussed …

Sunday song

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 16 hours ago

Fear of the Known

Age of Autism at AGE OF AUTISM - 16 hours ago
"Daddy!! PEOPLE!!!" By Cathy Jameson Right before we began our walk on a hiking trail, my daughter and I noticed a young family had the same idea. The parents were in their late 20s and carried what looked like a... more »

USMCA: Cleaning up the Tijuana River

Duggan Flanakin at CFACT - 16 hours ago
The Tijuana River project, which involves actions by the city of San Diego, the International Boundary and Water Commission, and Mexico’s National Water Commission, is expected to reduce sewage spill frequency from the current 138 days per year to 12 days per year, a reduction of 91 percent. The post USMCA: Cleaning up the Tijuana River appeared first on CFACT.

The Great ‘Reset’ (of Capitalism)

barovsky at The New Dark Age - 16 hours ago
Why can’t I shake the feeling that the Virus is really the back story, a story that diverts us from something far deeper and much more threatening than the much-maligned Virus? The social distancing; the masks; the lockdown; the shutdown; all designed to distract? And the glue that cements it all together? Fear.

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