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A “Brazen Giveaway” GOP HEALS Act is a $30 Billion Bonanza for the Pentagon
Alan Macleod, MintPress News - 11 hours ago
The new $1 trillion GOP HEALS act includes billions for F-35 fighters, Apache Helicopters, and other welfare programs for the Pentagon. The post A “Brazen Giveaway” GOP HEALS Act is a $30 Billion Bonanza for the Pentagon appeared first on MintPress News.
Abolish the Term “Student-Athlete”
cmaadmin, Diverse - 11 hours ago
As higher education embraces social justice and abandons oppressive language and symbols, universities should banish one more offensive term.
NAIA Postpones Most Fall National Championships, To Decide Football on Friday
cmaadmin, Diverse - 13 hours ago
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, or NAIA, announced it is postponing national championships in cross country, men’s soccer, women’s soccer and women’s volleyball to spring of next year on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. A decision on the date of the football national championship is expected Friday. NAIA conferences will still be allowed to […]
Many HBCUs Are Recipients of Gift From Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
cmaadmin, Diverse - 13 hours ago
Many historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as well as the United Negro College Fund have received a donation from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, who announced the gift in a blog post on Medium on Tuesday. Diverse reported on Tuesday that Howard University and the Thurgood Marshall Fund also received a donation from Scott. The other […]
American Southwest Conference Delays Fall Sports to Spring
cmaadmin, Diverse - 13 hours ago
The American Southwest Conference has decided to delay fall sporting events “with anticipation of resuming” competition and tournaments in spring 2021 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The delay includes the fall sports of cross country, football, soccer and volleyball. Individual institutions can engage in athletics-related activities, including non-conference competition, as long as they follow […]
"Our Slide into Social Psychosis and Breakdown"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*"Our Slide into Social Psychosis and Breakdown"* by Charles Hugh Smith "Yesterday I mentioned our collective inability to make sense of the contradictory messages of the status quo and our own experience. This inability to reconcile completely contradictory messages generates psychosis, an internal breakdown that manifests as a disconnect from reality. To take one example: we're constantly bombarded with the message that a four-year college diploma is the essential key to a secure middle-class lifestyle, yet our experience is that millions of college grads are living precariously,...
Free Download: R.D. Laing, "The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*"The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness"* by R.D. Laing "Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptom...
The Boston Globe Is Right-- Send Ed Markey Back To The Senate
DownWithTyranny, DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago
As I've said many times, Joe Kennedy III doesn't take a sip of water or tie a shoelace before considering how it will impact his eventual run for the presidency. Largely on the romanticism of his name, he was elected to an open House seat in 2012, where he hasn't been an especially impressive member. He's certainly no AOC-- not on any level. A member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, he's barely a progressive. His lifetime ProgressivePunch score is B+ (that high once he decided to challenge Markey and start voting more progressively to run the score up). [image: Goal Thermo...
Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance May Be Expanded To Include Japan And Be Focused On China
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 9 hours ago
*The Guardian*: *Five Eyes alliance could expand in scope to counteract China* *Plans mooted to pool strategic resources and lessen west’s dependency on China* The Five Eyes intelligence alliance could be expanded to include Japan and broadened into a strategic economic relationship that pools key strategic reserves such as critical minerals and medical supplies, according to centre-right MPs working internationally to decouple the west from China. The coronavirus crisis has revealed the west’s key strategic dependencies on China, and plans will be announced shortly under Five Eye...
Economics and investment gurus abandoning the GOP... and John Roberts's agenda... and again with this "Fourth Turning" voodoo?
David Brin, CONTRARY BRIN - 9 hours ago
Starting with economics: How are my investment-pundit friends reacting to these insane times? Here's one denouncing a second round of ripoffs. *"$1,000,000,000,000. Or a TRILLION dollars. That's enough to give all 1,000 Billionaires in the World another Billion. Wait, we did that already. Well it's enough to give a Million Millionaires another Million. We did that too? Well it's enough to buy 3,000 masks for each American so we wouldn't need to spend Trillions propping up the economy or to accelerate money velocity by giving $600 to 30M people for a year."* *"ROFL!!! Who are we kidd...
Joe Biden May Have Accidentally Revealed Kamala Harris As His Vice Presidential Pick
Rachel Bucchino, The National Interest - 9 hours ago
*Rachel Bucchino* *Politics, * Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden was photographed on Tuesday, clutching handwritten notes with California Sen. Kamala Harris’ name written across the top of the page, followed by critical attributes describing his potential running mate. Does that mean he has made his choice? Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden was photographed on Tuesday, clutching handwritten notes with California Sen. Kamala Harris’ name written across the top of the page, followed by critical attributes describing his potential running mate. “Do not hold grudges....
Despite Record Sales, Remington Arms Co. Filed for Bankruptcy
Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 9 hours ago
*Peter Suciu* *Security, Americas* This is the second time since 2018 that the company has sought to restructure amidst its ongoing legal and financial challenges. Sales never sufficiently rebounded after the company emerged from that first bankruptcy. It has been said that times of uncertainty are a gun seller’s best friend, and 2020 has been a year of uncertainty like never before and the firearms industry has seen the sales to match it. The FBI had conducted 3.9 million background checks in June—a key indicator of sales—and that eclipsed the previous record in March of 3.7 mil...
TCL 8-Series TV Mega-Sale Is On Again: 75-Inch Mini-LED for $1499
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 9 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Technology, * This is a good time to act. That incredible mega-sale for TCL’s highly regarded 8-Series HDTVs is happening right now at your local Best Buy. The advice is to jump on this quick before it ends. Just over this weekend, Best Buy, without warning, pulled the plug on these deals for a day, but fortunately for bargain hunters they are now back online. How big is this mega-sale? It’s basically 50% off for both the 65- and 75-inch models—so you’ll only end up paying $1,000 and $1,500, respectively. If you’re unfamiliar with TCL’s HDTV offerings, know ...
The Great Paradox of Donald Trump’s Plan to Combat China
Kishore Mahbubani, The National Interest - 9 hours ago
*Kishore Mahbubani* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] The most telling word Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used to describe the CCP was “Frankenstein.” This word implies that a monster was now threatening America. It would be reasonable for an American to feel scared after hearing the speech. The great paradox about the Trump administration’s response to the challenge from China is that it is both overestimating and underestimating this challenge. The overestimation is clear; the underestimation, which is more dangerous, less so. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spelled out c...
Sony Just Revealed Which TVs Are Ready for PS5
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 9 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Technology, World* [image: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps5/] Gamers of the world, get ready for the next era. With the TVs that were released this year, a major consideration for many TV buyers has been which ones will make their video games look the best, especially when the latest generation of video game systems arrive later this year. Both Microsoft’s Xbox One X and Sony’s PlayStation 5 are set to hit stores in time for the holidays. Sony, which makes both TVs and video game systems, on Wednesday announced that it has designated some of its TVs “Ready...
Will China's J-20 Fighter Jet Surpass The F-35?
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 9 hours ago
America’s high-tech F-35 Lightning stealth fighter has often been referred to as a flying computer, because of its AI capabilities. Credit: Lockheed Martin. *Asia Times:* *Can China’s next-gen stealth fighter surpass the F-35?* China's designer of the J-20, Yang Wei, says future jet fighter will have advanced Artificial Intelligence capabilities In its ever-expanding push for military superiority, China has set its sights on a next-generation stealth fighter on par or greater than America’s F-35, that it hopes to field by 2035, says the chief designer of the Chengdu J-20. Accord...
Militias' warning of excessive federal power comes true – but where are they?
Amy Cooter, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Politics + Society – The Conversation - 9 hours ago
Some militia members see political unrest as an opportunity to wrest power from an overbearing federal government. But others support strict enforcement of law and order.
The Heart Of Darkness In Portland
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 10 hours ago
The chant: “All Cops Are Bastards,” is becoming much louder since the Feds started kidnapping protesters off the street in unmarked vans, with police not identifying themselves. It has been swift and terrifying for those who have been arrested in this black ops fascist mentality. It is against the law, as people are being stolen without probable cause, which is a nice way of saying it is a crime being committed by people who took an oath not to do these kinds of things. But, then again, when I was in Viet Nam, the U.S. Government had absolutely no rules in warfare. Geneva Convent...
Calls For Video Related To John Neville’s Death Persist
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 10 hours ago
Protesters made new demands of Forsyth County elected officials Tuesday, calling for a general increase in transparency from county leaders, and specifically, the release of video pertaining to the death of an inmate at the Forsyth County Detention Center. "We're fighting for truth, justice, dignity, humanity, economic justice, social justice," said Tony Ndege, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Winston-Salem. "We stand against state violence, but we also stand for social and economic justice." Demonstrations began in Winston-Salem weeks ago and groups like Black Lives Matter Winst...
Land-Based Ethics And Settler Solidarity In A Time Of Corona And Revolution
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 10 hours ago
Settler colonialism has been defined as a structure, not an event, meaning that settler societies like the U.S., Canada, and Australia endure over time through racist laws and ideologies that naturalize the dispossession of Indigenous populations.1 One of the most effective strategies that settler states rely on to eliminate Indigenous peoples and their power is the idea that their knowledge is primitive and superstitious, examples of failed epistemology.2 This view is rooted in an Enlightenment-born materialism that asserts that legitimate knowledge can only be produced through n...
Video: NYPD Officers Throwing Protest Leader Into Unmarked Van
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 10 hours ago
NYPD officers dragged a protest leader into an unmarked minivan van and doused onlookers with pepper spray during an anti-police brutality march in Manhattan on Tuesday night. The individual, who friends identified as an 18-year-old trans woman named Nicki, was grabbed from the group by plainclothes officers at 25th Street and Second Avenue. Video shows a man in an orange shirt marked "Warrant Squad" helping to push the woman into a silver KIA minivan before driving away. Witnesses said the arrest came as roughly 200 people were leaving a small plaza on 26th Street where they had...
Bolivia: Stop State Repression And Violence, For Free And Fair Elections
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 10 hours ago
Four days after the Interim Bolivian Government suspended elections again, Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic and the University Network for Human Rights (UNHR) released a report on the gross human rights abuses carried out under Bolivia’s interim President, Jeanine Áñez. The report documents one of the deadliest and most repressive periods in the past several decades in Bolivia as well as the growing fear of indigenous peoples and government critics that their lives and safety are in danger. “We have identified very troubling patterns of human rights violation...
Imperialist Economic War Costs US Almost $200 Billion
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 10 hours ago
Quantifying each and every one of the effects of the war that imperialism has declared on the Venezuelan people is impossible. The attacks that Venezuelans have experienced since 1999 have not only been economic, they have also been psychological. There is no way to measure the consequences of the hatred that the undemocratic opposition has sown with its anti-socialist propaganda, to the point of burning people alive if they are suspected Chavistas. The resentment that the Venezuelan people have towards those who claim to be Venezuelans, but who have sold out their homeland, is al...
Presumptuous Pompeo Pushes Preposterous ‘Peking’ Policy
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 10 hours ago
Quick. Somebody tell Mike Pompeo. The secretary of state is not supposed to play the role of court jester — the laughing stock to the world. There was no sign that any of those listening to his “major China policy statement” last Thursday at the Nixon Library turned to their neighbor and said, “He’s kidding, right? Richard Nixon meant well but failed miserably to change China’s behavior? And now Pompeo is going to put them in their place?” Over the weekend an informal colloquium-by-email took pace, spurred initially by an op-ed article by Richard Haass critiquing Pompeo’s speech. H...
WHO Now Claims COVID ‘Not Seasonal’ and Will Be One Constant ‘Big Wave’
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 11 hours ago
By now we all know that every revision of the ‘pandemic’ narrative is always followed by new policies. So after months of promoting the idea that the public should be living in fear of a “Second Wave” of COVID19, public health officials are attempting to revise the old script in order to keep the public on edge, and willing to accept rolling lockdowns and a supposed ‘cure’ in the form of a vaccine.
US gap in oversight became more urgent problem in 2015 when China unveiled “Made in China 2025” strategy
Bob Dinn, balance10 - 10 hours ago
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Energy_Technology_Transfer_to_China/ahdipYOsna4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=sending+us+tech+to+china&pg=PA51&printsec=frontcover ………….............................................................................................. As a senior official at the Treasury Department*, which oversees CFIUS, put it: “Any time we see a company that has lots of data on Americans — health care, personal financial data — that’s a vulnerability.” When CFIUS was formed in the 1970s the companies safeguarding important technology were so large that any takeover attempt b...
Did Rutgers University Declare Grammar ‘Racist’?
Dan MacGuill, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago
Several articles rushed to condemn the New Jersey university's English department in response to an open letter published in June 2020.
Did USPS Tell Americans to Send Mail-In Ballots 2 Weeks in Advance?
Bethania Palma, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago
A viral meme shared widely falsely claimed the information came directly from the U.S. Postal Service.
Politicians Versus Police: Pittsburgh
Dennis Behreandt, rss - 10 hours ago
[image: politicians-versus-police-pittsburgh] Pittsburgh is now joining the ranks of cities that are overhauling police operations following nationwide riots and protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Being fed a huge amount of lies
sue, Is the BBC biased? - 11 hours ago
Did you know that all pro-Israel advocacy from the mouth of a non-Jew (Col Richard Kemp) is worth a million times more than the very same thing from a Jew? Obviously, the theory is that a Jew has *skin in the game* or *a dog in the fight*, whereas a non-Jew is trustworthy and less likely to lie. No sooner had I digested that sad-but-true observation (in the Stand With Us video) than I was invited to digest a proposal with a similar concept; inversely. And pretty indigestible it is too. The theory is, of course, that when an actual Jew defames Israel, his defamation is worth a thou...
Two Thousand Toxic Superfund Sites At Risk From Coastal Flooding
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 11 hours ago
About 2,000 official and potential Superfund sites—sites contaminated by extremely hazardous chemicals—are located within 25 miles of the East or Gulf Coast. As sea levels rise, many of these toxic sites are at risk of flooding. Millions of people live near these sites, and flooding could bring them into contact with hazardous chemicals. The areas near Superfund sites are disproportionately populated by communities of color and low-income communities. Yet the Trump administration in 2017 rescinded an executive order requiring consideration of flooding at these sites and canceled ...
Battered Souls #012 – Alcoholism, Iboga & Soul Connection
WakingTimes, Waking Times - 11 hours ago
Artist and iboga provider Jenny Kolb joins Dylan.
Teenagers among first arrested under new Hong Kong national security law
Just In - 11 hours ago
Hong Kong police make their first major arrests under the new national security law, detaining four people aged between 16 and 21 for inciting secession and calling for Hong Kong to be free of Chinese rule.
Preparing For A November Surprise
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 11 hours ago
Nationwide protests against police brutality following George Floyd’s murder are the broadest and most persistent in US history. They have laid bare the racism that pervades American society—and demonstrated the willingness of Americans to take to the streets and resist oppression, even in the midst of a pandemic. Americans must continue demanding an end to white supremacy and follow the lead of Black organizers to galvanize a similar flexing of civic muscle to help ensure democratic continuity come November. With elections four months away and the rule of law under steady attack,...
Climatic Paradox
GCD, ClimateCite Corp - 11 hours ago
G.V. Chilingar, et al., adapted from “The Evolution of the Earth’s Climate”, 2018, Scrivener Publishing, John Wiley & Sons Download PDF This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it.
US was provoking military response from Iran over interception: official
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 11 hours ago
[image: US was provoking military response from Iran over interception: official] BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:30 P.M.) – On Wednesday, Tehran accused the U.S. of attempting to provoke a military response from Iran by intercepting the civilian aircraft over Syria last week. According to the Iranian Young Journalist Club (YJC), who quoted the director of the Iranian Presidential Office, Mahmoud Wadhi, as saying: “The recent hostile action by the United States towards the civil Mahan aircraft is ridiculous and stems from a great weakness.” He continued, “These irrational and very bizarre measu...
Understanding Trump’s Plan In Portland Could Be Key To Preventing A Coup
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 11 hours ago
One key to a winning strategy is to figure out what the opponent’s strategy is and refuse to be manipulated — in Portland and in the other cities on Trump’s target list. Federal intervention in Portland has turned the previous hundreds of late-night protesters into thousands. Nonviolent tactics include dancing, a “Wall of Moms,” and orange-clad dads with leaf-blowers, who blow away tear gas. Other activists have escalated violent tactics in response to the escalation by the feds. According to The New York Times, some of the protesters used lasers while federal officers fired proj...
Should we root for second best policies?
Scott Sumner, Econlib - 11 hours ago
The Fed is currently contemplating a set of monetary policy changes that might be viewed as “second best”. These include yield curve control and average inflation targeting. With yield curve control the central bank would peg the yield on longer-term Treasury bonds. This was Fed policy during the 1940s. Under average inflation targeting the central […] The post Should we root for second best policies? appeared first on Econlib.
SARS Cross-Immunity from T-cells
Ron Clutz, Science Matters - 11 hours ago
The breaking news is in an accelerated preview article at Nature SARS-CoV-2-reactive T cells in healthy donors and patients with COVID-19. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the rapidly unfolding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic1,2 . Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 vary, ranging from asymptomatic infection […]
Russia warns EU against carbon border tax plan, citing WTO rules
Paul Homewood, NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 11 hours ago
By Paul Homewood h/t Robin Guenier Problems looming for the EU’s mooted carbon border tax: As Brussels gets serious about imposing levies on imports from polluting countries, Moscow argues such measures create unfair barriers to trade Russia’s economic development minister warned last week that the EU’s plans to deploy a carbon tax at the […]
New Rafale fighters arrive in India: video
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 11 hours ago
[image: New Rafale fighters arrive in India: video] India bought 36 Rafale fighter jets from France in 2016 under an $8.7 billion deal. The delivery is expected to be completed by the first half of 2021. Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has posted a video on his Twitter feed capturing the moment when one of the Rafale fighter jets from France lands at Ambala Airbase in Haryana, India. In the video, the aircraft is seen successfully touching down on the airstrip. Continue reading New Rafale fighters arrive in India: video at AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز.
Syrian President meets with high-level Russian delegation
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 12 hours ago
[image: Syrian President meets with high-level Russian delegation] BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 P.M.) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received the special envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Vershinin, and the accompanying delegation. Lavrentiev conveyed to President Assad, and through him to the Syrian people, President Putin’s congratulations on the success of the recent elections of the Syrian People’s Assembly, “which confirms the support of the Syrian people to the state’s approach to achieving stabil...
Watch: Iranian warplanes attack enemy targets near Strait of Hormuz
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 12 hours ago
[image: Watch: Iranian warplanes attack enemy targets near Strait of Hormuz] BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:45 P.M.) – The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran conducted several air operations from their warplanes on Wednesday, as they demonstrated their aerial capabilities during the Great Prophet 14 exercises. In particular, the IRGC’s warplanes were filmed attacking hypothetical enemy targets near the Strait of Hormuz, while receiving support from their missile units. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday launched the second day of the final stage of a military...
US bases in Middle East were on high alert over Iranian missile fire: report
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 12 hours ago
[image: US bases in Middle East were on high alert over Iranian missile fire: report] The first batch of Rafale fighter jets are set to arrive in India’s Ambala Air Base on Wednesday afternoon after covering the 7,000 kilometers from France. The jets were stationed overnight at the Al Dhafra Air Base in the UAE. The same air base houses US and French troops and aircraft. An alert was sounded at the Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) late Tuesday after intelligence indicators hinted at an incoming “Iranian missile possibly headed that way”. Continue reading US base...
US sanctions Bashar Al-Assad’s son and 1st Armored Division
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 13 hours ago
[image: US sanctions Bashar Al-Assad’s son and 1st Armored Division] On 17 June, the sanctions against Syria were expanded, a total of 14 additional people were affected, including the spouse of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Asma Al-Assad, and his sister Bushra Al-Assad, as well as 21 organisations. The US has imposed new sanctions on Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad’s son Hafez, three individuals, and 10 entities, the Treasury Department said in a statement. Washington has also sanctioned the First Division of the Syrian Arab Army, according to the Treasury. Continue reading ...
LOUIE GOHMERT TESTED POSITIVE. YOUR RIGHT-WING RELATIVES WILL BE UNIMPRESSED. (updated)
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog - 9 hours ago
You'd think this would inspire right-wingers to take the coronavirus seriously: Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican who has frequently walked around the Capitol without wearing a face mask or maintaining social distance from others, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to a person familiar with the results. Gohmert had been scheduled to travel with President Trump aboard Air Force One to Texas on Wednesday but tested positive at the White House and did not join the trip.... It won't matter to them. Right-wingers continue to treat this virus as if it's no big...
This Day In Iraqi History - Jul 29
Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 10 hours ago
1933 Assyrian leader Mar Shimun wrote letter to Interior Minister saying he was being detained He would help settle Assyrians but if govt did nothing he would go to League of Nations and advocate for Assyrians to leave Iraq Letter sent to ambassadors in Iraq embarrassing govt (Musings On Iraq review *The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq*) (Musings On Iraq review *State and Society in Iraq*) 1968 Baath had Def Min Daud visit Jordan so that party could take control of military while he was gone Daud arrested when he arrived in Jordan Sent into exile as ambassador to Saudi Ar...
Review ISIS The State of Terror
Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 11 hours ago
*Stern, Jessica and Berger, J.M., **ISIS The State of Terror**, New York: Harper Collins, 2015* The rise of the Islamic State to international prominence in 2014 with its seizure of Mosul, Iraq and the declaration of its caliphate led to a cottage industry of western books on the group. *ISIS The State of Terror* by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger was one example coming out in 2015. It tried to compare the Islamic State to the larger jihadist movement, highlighting the differences between IS and Al Qaeda. It also talked about its unique use of violence and the Internet. Overall, the ...
The Daily "Near You?"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
Wandsworth, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by!
Rubio Tries to Give Stimulus to Illegal-alien Households. GOP Shuts Him Down
Luis Miguel, rss - 11 hours ago
[image: rubio-tries-to-give-stimulus-to-illegal-alien-households-gop-shuts-him-down] Senate Republicans rejected Marco Rubio's proposal to send retroactive and future COVID-19 stimulus checks to the spouses of illegal aliens.
Supreme Court Justices as Leakers
Gerard N. Magliocca, Balkinization - 11 hours ago
Sir Humphrey Appleby once explained that "the ship of state is the only ship that leaks from the top." The same is true in the Supreme Court. Joan Biskupic's "inside" stories on CNN about the recently completed Term probably came from one or more of the Justices. This is not unprecedented. There were Justices who talked to Bob Woodward for *The Brethren*. There were Justices who leaked in the 1940s during the *Jewell Ridge *controversy. And so on. I don't have a strong view on this practice. I suppose that I'm less keen about leaks that are intended to make a particular Justice look...
"Once And For All And At Last..."
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
"There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last." - Edward Abbey
"This Very Moment..."
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
"Hope is always about the future. And it isn't always good news. Sometimes, hope can imprison us with belief or expectation that something will happen in the future to change our lives. Similarly hopelessness isn't always about despair. Hopelessness can bring us right into this very moment and answer all of life's most difficult questions. Who am I? Where am I? What does this mean? And what now?" - Daniel Gottlieb
Three Nevada marijuana retailers accused of selling contaminated flower
Bart Schaneman, Marijuana Business Daily - 11 hours ago
Nevada regulators are investigating three recreational cannabis stores for selling tainted flower, part of a larger, ongoing problem for the state regarding testing of marijuana products. The state’s Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) and the Department of Taxation told all Nevada cannabis retailers in March to stop selling Cherry OG F3 because the flower failed lab […] Three Nevada marijuana retailers accused of selling contaminated flower is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
The Neuroscience Reason Some Can Identify Smells Precisely And Others Have A Harder Time
News Staff, Science 2.0 blogs - 11 hours ago
When we talk about sight or hearing, the mechanisms that lead us to distinguish two colors or two notes have been well-established and translated into practical use. For example, we know which wavelength will appear red and which frequency will make us hear a G note. We have not made similar progress with smell; we are not able to say how a molecule smells just by looking at its chemical structure. A new paper examines the brain processes involved in the continuous flow of information arriving from our sense of smell. read more
That Music Training Makes Kids Smarter Might Be Spurious Correlation
News Staff, Science 2.0 blogs - 11 hours ago
Music training can make us well-rounded, it may change the way we think, and music is fun, but claims that it makes kids smarter may have hit a sour note. Smart people often play musical instruments as well, so that has led to research trials seeking a causal link between music training and improved cognitive and academic performance, but they have reached conflicting conclusions. Some did suggest - a lot of bad epidemiology happens with that word so caution is warranted - that there may be a link between music training and better cognitive and academic performance. Others found no...
Coronavirus Has Given Telemedicine New Life - But We Should Stop Penalizing Specialists Who Do It
News Staff, Science 2.0 blogs - 11 hours ago
In a COVID-19 world, you may not want to visit a doctor but that doesn't mean you have to avoid seeing one. A new RAND evaluation recommends that clinics even hire a telemedicine coordinator to head their efforts and that they consider offering telemedicine services to patients from their homes. It can happen with with modest investments in new staff and technology and can even help expand patients' access to specialized medical care. read more
While U.S. Pipelines Are Under Siege, China Streamlines Its Oil and Gas Network
IER, IER - 12 hours ago
While pipelines in the United States face increasingly hostile legal challenges, China is seeing the importance of a national oil… The post While U.S. Pipelines Are Under Siege, China Streamlines Its Oil and Gas Network appeared first on IER.
Americans Are Consuming Less Sugar Than In Decades
News Staff, Science 2.0 blogs - 12 hours ago
Though the world is facing on obesity crisis, at least in the U.S. the culprit is not sugar, it's too many calories of other kinds. Americans are actually eating less sugar than two decades ago, partially thanks to non-nutritive sweeteners. The analysis used a nationally representative dataset on household purchases at the barcode level (Nielsen Homescan) in 2002 and 2018 linked with Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP) data and ingredient information using commercial nutrition databases that are updated regularly to capture reformulations. Keyword searches were performed on ingredient lists...
U.S. Exports Jump 14 Percent in June, Adding to GDP & Reflecting Economic Recovery
Bob Adelmann, rss - 12 hours ago
[image: u-s-exports-jump-14-percent-in-june-adding-to-gdp-reflecting-economic-recovery] Exports of goods from the United States jumped from $90 billion in May to more than $102 billion in June, an eye-popping 14-percent gain, reducing the trade deficit by six percent.
Syrian Army launches powerful attacks across northwestern Syria
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago
[image: Syrian Army launches powerful attacks across northwestern Syria] BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:00 P.M.) – For the fifth day in a row, the Syrian Armed Forces have unleashed a powerful barrage of artillery and missiles towards the positions of the jihadist rebels in northwestern Syria. According to a field report from the Latakia Governorate, the Syrian Arab Army, alongside the Republican Guard, began the day by heavily targeting the strategic hilltops around the town of Kabani in the Jabal Al-Akrad region. The Syrian Army would follow up this attack on Kabani by striking several sites...
Iran releases satellite photos of largest US base in the Middle East
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago
[image: Iran releases satellite photos of largest US base in the Middle East] BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:45 P.M.) – The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Aerospace Force on Wednesday released images of the Al-Udeid Base in Qatar, which hosts thousands of U.S. troops, taken by Iran’s newly-launched satellite, Nour-1. The images taken through the mosaicing method by the Nour-1 satellite, which was launched successfully on April 22, are high resolution and show the largest U.S. airbase in the Middle-East in Qatar, which hosts nearly 13,000 American forces. Continue reading Iran relea...
US, Turkey conduct naval drills in eastern Mediterranean
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago
[image: US, Turkey conduct naval drills in eastern Mediterranean] BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:40 P.M.) – On Wednesday, the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that it has conducted naval exercises with the American forces in the Mediterranean Sea. The Turkish Defense Ministry said, in a statement via Twitter that the frigate Kemalreis of the Turkish Navy participated alongside the American aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower in the exercises. The Turkish Defense Ministry also released pictures of the exercises. !function(w,d,a){if(!w[a]){var s=d.createElement('script'), x=d.getEle...
Several Russian air defense personnel spotted in Syria’s Homs
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago
[image: Several Russian air defense personnel spotted in Syria’s Homs] BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:20 P.M.) – A number of Russian air defense personnel were spotted in Syria’s Homs Governorate, as reported by Avia.Pro, who cited a Telegram channel’s new video. “Russian air defense systems are deployed not only at military facilities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, but also in a number of other regions of the Arab Republic. As it turned out, on the territory of the Syrian province of Homs, at least one air defense division of the RF Armed Forces was deployed, which is armed wit...
Jordan summons Azerbaijani ambassador in tit-for-tat move
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago
[image: Jordan summons Azerbaijani ambassador in tit-for-tat move] BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:00 P.M.) – On Tuesday, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Azeri Ambassador, Rasim Radaev, against the backdrop of a statement issued by his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which included reference to the summons of the Jordanian Ambassador in Baku on Monday. The Jordanian News Agency, Petra, reported that the ministry conveyed to the Azerbaijani Ambassador its surprise at the issuance of such a statement and the implication of calling the ambassador at the time that the ...
Albuquerque Indigenous organizations rise against fascism: Call to action on July, 31, 2020
Unknown, CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Photo by The Red Nation OCCUPIED TIWA TERRITORY, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO.CALL TO ACTION! Indigenous Organizations Rise Against FascismWHOThe Red Nation Albuquerque Freedom Council, Indigenous Women Rising, Pueblo Action Alliance, YUCCA Action WHATCALL TO ACTION! No Fash! No Feds! No Cops! No ICE! LANDBACK! Thirty-five federal agents have been deployed to Albuquerque as a part of
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/29/2020
Lambert Strether, naked capitalism - 11 hours ago
~ Today's Water Cooler ~
"U.S. GDP Number Tomorrow Expected to Be Worst on Record"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
*"U.S. GDP Number Tomorrow Expected to Be Worst on Record"* By Pam Martens and Russ Martens "The very reliable GDPNow forecasting model provided by researchers at the Atlanta Fed was just updated this morning and currently predicts that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States contracted by a jaw-dropping -32.1 percent on a seasonally-adjusted, annualized rate in the second quarter. The public will get the official number from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) at the U.S. Department of Commerce at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow morning. It’s expected that the second quarter GDP n...
"Is This 'Peak Gold'”?
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
*"Is This 'Peak Gold'”?* By Bill Bonner SAN MARTIN, ARGENTINA – "Here’s a Bloomberg headline from yesterday: “As Gold Smashes Records, Forecasters Ask Whether Peak Is Near”. You have to wonder: Who are these forecasters? Where have they been? Do they have any idea what is going on? Gold has its nose in the air. Like a deer in a dry forest, it smells the smoke. It knows it’s time to get out of town. On Monday, the Republicans threw another $1 trillion worth of tinder on the fire. The so-called HEALS Act would bring the deficit for the calendar year (the feds operate on a different “...
Did Pelosi Decry Trump’s Police Tactics While Funding Them?
Jessica Lee, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
Top Democrats were quick to criticize the president's "law and order" approach to policing on Twitter. But do their budget decisions say otherwise?
Why Did They Censor 'America's Frontline Doctors'?
Daniel McAdams, Peace and Prosperity - 11 hours ago
A viral video made by medical professionals opposing the prevailing mainstream view of how to manage the coronavirus outbreak was nearly sent down the memory hole in an effort seemingly coordinated by all social media outlets. Why are alternate scientific views held by bona fide scientists not allowed in the United States? Also in today's Liberty Report: Suicides versus Covid; Vietnam versus Sweden; Senate comes to the rescue? Tune in to today's Liberty Report... [image: undefined]
Planetary Savior – What could possibly go wrong?
Robert, Ice Age Now - 11 hours ago
“I’m not certain if global warming or COVID-19 is the current greatest threat mankind has ever faced – but fortunately we have the same savior for both,” says Tony Heller. 27 July 2020 . “Bill Gates is going to save the planet by polluting the atmosphere.” . “Bill Gates is going to save the planet ... Read more Planetary Savior – What could possibly go wrong? The post Planetary Savior – What could possibly go wrong? appeared first on Ice Age Now.
Big Tech Giants are Forcing Their Way into America’s Public Health System
Raul Diego, MintPress News - 12 hours ago
A consortium of the most powerful tech players like IBM, Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up with hospital networks with links to the Vatican and tech lobbying groups to shape the conversation about the future role of technology in the public sphere. The post Big Tech Giants are Forcing Their Way into America’s Public Health System appeared first on MintPress News.
Cannabis company Aphria reports quarterly EBITDA growth, net loss in Q4
Solomon Israel, Marijuana Business Daily - 12 hours ago
Major Canadian cannabis producer Aphria on Wednesday reported strong quarterly EBITDA growth, despite coronavirus-related impairment charges from its international operations that contributed to a net loss. The Leamington, Ontario-based company reported adjusted EBITDA of 8.6 million Canadian dollars ($6.4 million) for the quarter ended May 31, up 49% from the third quarter. Net revenue grew […] Cannabis company Aphria reports quarterly EBITDA growth, net loss in Q4 is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
Rep. Gohmert Tests Positive for COVID-19, Cancels Trump Trip
AP News, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
An eight-term lawmaker, Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas is often seen without wearing a mask.
Climate change has been a permanent feature of human existence
Robert, Ice Age Now - 12 hours ago
The fall of Rome corresponds with the Late Antique Little Ice Age. ______ Climate change has been a permanent feature of human existence tom0mason I have borrowed heavily from an Aeon piece written in 2017 called ‘How climate change and disease helped the fall of Rome’ that the Smithsonian magazine (smithsonianmag.com) says has now been republished ... Read more Climate change has been a permanent feature of human existence The post Climate change has been a permanent feature of human existence appeared first on Ice Age Now.
Incorrect Phone Number for Mental Health Helpline Spreads on Social Media
Dan Evon, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
The correct phone number for the UK mental health charity Mind is 0300-123-3393.
A stupid, pointless death. Darwin must be laughing...
Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 12 hours ago
I'm afraid this man is a very good candidate for a Darwin award for 2020. A Chesterfield County man who died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound last week was spinning a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol on his finger when it discharged, fatally injuring him, police said. The man, Kenneth Dickerson, 57, was standing outside his home in the 8300 block of Hull Street Road “twirling or spinning the firearm on his finger” when it went off about 6:30 p.m. July 14, said Chesterfield police Lt. Brad Conner. Dickerson died of his injuries after being taken to a hospital. “It looks like he...
Halifax committee denies licence appeal for taxi driver accused of sexual assault
Zane Woodford, Halifax Examiner - 12 hours ago
A Halifax-area taxi driver will remain off the job pending a sexual assault charge after council’s appeals standing committee denied his licence suspension appeal on Wednesday. Navneet Jaggi, 57, was charged with sexual assault on June 25 and the municipality’s licensing authority suspended his taxi driver’s and owner’s licences the same day. He appealed the […]
Massachusetts recreational cannabis social equity-boosting measures fail
Jeff Smith, Marijuana Business Daily - 12 hours ago
Efforts to increase social equity funding for adult-use marijuana applicants in Massachusetts and diversify the industry have stalled in this year’s state legislative session. Massachusetts lawmakers declined to endorse a number of last-minute amendments designed to bolster the state’s retail cannabis social equity programs, the Boston Business Journal reported. Massachusetts’s adult-use cannabis program includes social […] Massachusetts recreational cannabis social equity-boosting measures fail is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for ca...
101 st
Larry-Lambert, Virtual Mirage - 13 hours ago
On this 29th day of July in 1965, the first 4,000 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division arrived in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. They made a demonstration jump immediately after arriving, observed by Gen. William Westmoreland and outgoing Ambassador (formerly General) Maxwell Taylor. Taylor and Westmoreland were both former commanders of the […] The post 101 st appeared first on Virtual Mirage.
Too Young to Be Believed: The White Sands Sightings
KRandle, A Different Perspective - 13 hours ago
Here’s something else that really annoys me. I’ve been doing some research into the Levelland case after Robert Sheaffer mentioned that four of the witnesses had been discredited. I’m not sure discredited is the correct word, but I have discovered some problems with three of these testimonies, but that’s a discussion for another time. This led me to the sightings at White Sands Missile Range that took place some two or three hours after the sightings in Levelland. The witnesses were military police on routine patrol and reported an object that descended onto the range and accordin...
Justin Trudeau Sings “Speaking Moistly”
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau premiered his new single “Speaking Moistly” at a press conference, much to everyone’s cringy delight. anonymotif Apr 8, 2020 via Justin Trudeau Sings “Speaking Moistly” – YouTube
Celebrating the inquiry: ‘This was because of the families, our determination, our drive, and the Nova Scotians, the Bluenosers’
Yvette d'Entremont, Halifax Examiner - 13 hours ago
Tuesday’s announcement that there will be a full public inquiry into April’s mass shooting had nothing to do with politicians and everything to do with the victims’ families and Nova Scotians. That was the message Nick Beaton delivered to reporters during a celebration event in downtown Halifax on Wednesday morning. Initially planned as a protest […]
Australia ‘decouples’ from US China policy
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 13 hours ago
The Asian chancelleries have a great deal to mull over after the extraordinary joint press conference by the US and Australia following the AUSMIN meeting of their foreign and defence ministers in Washington, DC, on July 28. It is improbable that the Ministry of External Affairs in South Block missed out on the event.
Study Finds Dogs Able to Sniff Coronavirus in Human Saliva
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Public Health, Europe* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_MT1USATODAY13418380&share=true] That is an impressive feat, but is it scalable? With only a week of training, dogs were capable of pinpointing individuals infected with the novel coronavirus at a success rate of 94%, according to a new German study. The study, conducted by the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in cooperation with the German Armed Forces, discovered that with proper training, dogs can detect the presence of the coronavirus in human s...
Power Projection: The U.S. Navy Just Got Another Expeditionary Sea Base
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Security, Americas* [image: By Official U.S. Navy Page from United States of AmericaBill Mesta/U.S. Navy - SNS Lewis B. Puller departs Naval Station Norfolk., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60842476] These ships can bring new air support, logistics, and special forces support to overseas operations. Helicopters, inflatable boats, surface attack drones and Special Ops teams can all launch from the U.S. Navy’s growing fleet of Expeditionary Sea Base Ships (ESB). The Navy’s second ESB, the Hershel “Woody” Williams, has set sail for the...
Charlie Brown, Ant-Man and Wolverine: The Best of What's Coming to Disney+ in August 2020
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Technology, * Here is what you should be watching if you stuck at home or in quarantine. The "big one" on Disney+ this summer, "Hamilton," arrived on the service in early July, but there's plenty of significant new stuff coming to the service in the month of August, including some titles that bring the service's classic Disney and MCU libraries closer to completion, as well as the additions of some movies that Disney acquired as part of its 20th Century Fox purchase. But the first big arrival is a documentary tribute to a departed Disney legend. "Howard" (8/7....
What’s Keeping Thousands In Prison During COVID-19?
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
In U.S. prisons there have been over 55,000 known cases of Covid-19 and over 600 deaths (including corrections officers) since the pandemic started, a predictable situation that advocates have been warning about from the start. A recent study shows that people in prison are over five times more likely to contract Covid-19, and three times more likely to die from the disease if they contract it. Due to poor access to basic hygiene products and close quarters, prisons have long been hotbeds of disease outbreaks, and prisons across the country have housed some of the worst clusters o...
Nearly 2 500 people evacuate as record rainfall hits northern Japan, triggering floods and landslides
The Watchers » Latest articles - 12 hours ago
Almost 2 500 people have been evacuated as record-high rainfall poured over northern Japan into Wednesday, July 29, 2020, causing damaging floods and landslides, including in the Yamagata Prefecture, where the Mogami River burst its banks and a mudslide left 540...... Read more »
President Trump Impromptu Remarks Departing The White House – Video and Transcript…
sundance, The Last Refuge - 12 hours ago
Chopper pressers are the best pressers. On his way to Texas, President Trump stopped for a brief press conference with the media prior to departure. [Video and Transcript] [Transcript] THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. We have a lot of things going … Continue reading →
Feds Fight Ghislaine Maxwell’s Attempt to Release Names of Epstein Victims
Luis Miguel, rss - 12 hours ago
[image: feds-fight-ghislaine-maxwell-s-attempt-to-release-names-of-epstein-victims] Prosecutors seek to block Maxwell’s defense team from making public the names of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims in court documents.
A Meme About Mount Rushmore’s Racist Past Went Viral. Here’s What We Know.
Nur Ibrahim, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago
The meme, which even claimed KKK ties to the beloved monument, took off amid anti-racism protests in the U.S. in the summer of 2020.
US Agents To Pull Back in Portland but Will Stay on Standby
AP News, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said that the agents will begin leaving the city's downtown area on July 30.
Margolis: 10 COVID-19 Charts You Need To See
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago
by Tyler Durden Tue, 07/28/2020 Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, If you listen to the mainstream media (and I don’t recommend it) it’s safe to say you’re probably not getting a balanced picture of the USA’s coronavirus situation. They go for the headlines, the stuff that looks bad, in the hopes they can pin … Continue reading Margolis: 10 COVID-19 Charts You Need To See →
“I Thought I Was Supposed To Be Heard”: Full Highlights From Barr ‘Hearing’
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago
by Tyler Durden Wed, 07/29/2020 Today’s ‘testimony’ by Attorney General William Barr in front of the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee was, as the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross puts it, an unmitigated shit show. That was an unmitigated shit show — Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) July 28, 2020 The session consisted of Democratic lawmakers shouting hyperbolic questions … Continue reading “I Thought I Was Supposed To Be Heard”: Full Highlights From Barr ‘Hearing’ →
Islamophilia, Not Islamophobia, is the Problem
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago
The uncritical, uninformed, absolute defense of Islam has to end. July 29, 2020 Bosch Fawstin Editors’ note: The following is artist Bosch Fawstin’s introduction to his new book on Islamophiles, which he has titled Islam Bitches, “as they deserve no respect and full mockery for aiding and abetting an enemy ideology in wartime.” Click … Continue reading Islamophilia, Not Islamophobia, is the Problem →
“Terrorist level”: China’s imprisonment of Canada’s #TwoMichaels
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago
Rebel News Jul 28, 2020 The Epoch Times senior investigative journalist Joshua Philipp joined Ezra to discuss the tit-for-tat embassy closure battle between the US and China, plus China’s nefarious activities across the globe, including the imprisonment of the two Michael’s. FULL REPORT: https://www.rebelnews.com/terrorist_l… via “Terrorist level”: China’s imprisonment of Canada’s #TwoMichaels | Joshua Philipp, … Continue reading “Terrorist level”: China’s imprisonment of Canada’s #TwoMichaels →
“I will do another terrorist attack”: Toronto ISIS attacker tells parole officer
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago
In 2019, Rehab Dughmosh entered a Canadian Tire in Scarborough, with the intention to “hurt and kill people” for ISIS. by True North Wire July 28, 2020 An ISIS terrorist who plotted to attack a Toronto Canadian Tire store wrote to her parole officer in February that if she’s released, she intends on perpetrating … Continue reading “I will do another terrorist attack”: Toronto ISIS attacker tells parole officer →
China can’t be trusted to act fairly, new poll shows
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago
Most Canadians of Chinese descent agree that China can’t be trusted when it comes to disputes. by True North Wire July 28, 2020 Most Canadians of Chinese descent agree that China can’t be trusted when it comes to disputes, a new poll by the Innovative Research Group (IRG) shows. Out of 579 people polled, … Continue reading China can’t be trusted to act fairly, new poll shows →
DROVER: Parliament should invoke Notwithstanding Clause to reverse judicial overreach
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago
Last week, a federal court ruled that the law underpinning the Safe Third Country Act is a violation of our Charter-protected guarantee of life, liberty and security of the person. by True North Wire July 28, 2020 Judicial activism in Canada has continued to be on the rise in the last decade. Our … Continue reading DROVER: Parliament should invoke Notwithstanding Clause to reverse judicial overreach →
Protest Songs Of The Week: ‘This Walk’ and ‘Orgone’ By Jyoti
CJ Baker, Shadowproof - 14 hours ago
Jyoti is the one-woman jazz ensemble moniker of experimental soul artist, Georgia Anne Muldrow and it is the nickname given to her by a family friend, the legendary Alice Coltrane. Muldrow's forthcoming studio album "Mama, You Can Bet!" is out August 28, and she released two socially conscious singles from the album "This Walk" (which includes the B-side "The Cowrie Waltz") and "Orgone." The post Protest Songs Of The Week: ‘This Walk’ and ‘Orgone’ By Jyoti appeared first on Shadowproof.
WE Charity co-founders testify before finance committee over ethics scandal
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 14 hours ago
The Kielburgers were questioned by CPC MP Michael Cooper regarding complementary trips to Ecuador and Kenya given to Bill Morneau in 2017. by True North Wire July 28, 2020 WE Charity co-founders Marc and Krieg Kielburger testified before the Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday afternoon regarding the $900 million Canada student service … Continue reading WE Charity co-founders testify before finance committee over ethics scandal →
ESKENASI: Trudeau’s approval rating is still at 44%
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 14 hours ago
True North’s Sam Eskenasi takes an in-depth look at the Angus Reid poll. by Sam Eskenasi July 28, 2020 44% of Canadians still approve of Justin Trudeau despite his involvement in the WE Charity scandal, according to a recent poll by Angus Reid. Who are these Canadians? Why do they still support the … Continue reading ESKENASI: Trudeau’s approval rating is still at 44% →
Chinese consular missions in US secured against U.S. counterintelligence monitoring
Bob Dinn, balance10 - 12 hours ago
Chinese consular missions in the United States, in sharp contrast, have been secured against U.S. counterintelligence monitoring, said China expert Mr. Tkacik…. “At least since the 1980s, counterintelligence professionals and other national security experts have realized that the large number of Chinese intelligence officers operating in the United States under diplomatic cover simply overwhelms our relatively modest counterintelligence capabilities,” Mr. deGraffenreid said…. China has been using its diplomatic outposts to conduct illegal operations that employ what the FBI ca...
Wednesday Morning Links
Unknown, Accidental Deliberations - 12 hours ago
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Donald McNeil discusses how inconsistency in state-level policies and a lack of federal leadership have combined to result in the coronavirus epidemic manifesting in radically different ways across the U.S. And Karen Wang points out the ticking clock facing Canadian students, parents and teachers as schools are set to resume operations with far too few precautions. And CBC News reports on Alberta's excuse for a forum to answer questions about its plan (which stands to be mirrored by Saskatchewan) - though it omits the justified dis...
Soon New Blockbuster Movies Could Be in Your Home in Just 17 Days
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Technology, * Universal and AMC Theatres came to a big agreement Tuesday that lifts AMC's ban on Universal films and potentially has big ramifications for the future of movie-going. In April, shortly after the start of the coronavirus shutdown, Universal, the movie studio owned by Comcast, announced that it was releasing “Trolls World Tour,” its animated musical movie, via premium video-on-demand, in addition to in a small amount of theaters that were still open at the time. This move, which reportedly was hugely successful, led Universal to announce that it w...
'Turkey should aim for free trade deal with US'
bilaterals.org - 12 hours ago
29-Jul-2020 Ankara should seek a free trade agreement with the US, the head of Turkey's Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) said on Wednesday.
COVID-19 is an existential threat to SADC
bilaterals.org - 12 hours ago
29-Jul-2020 Back in April 2020, just a month after the reality of COVID-19 arrived on our continent, the Southern African Development Community published a document on how best the bloc could confront the pandemic in its nascent stage.
Free trade deal with China finally finalised
bilaterals.org - 12 hours ago
29-Jul-2020 Cambodia has listed around 340 more commodities to export to China under the Cambodia-China bilateral free-trade agreement (FTA), bringing the total to more than 10,000. Most of the products are in agriculture and agro-processing and are in addition to what Cambodia has received from the Asean-China FTA, according to a senior official of the Ministry of Commerce.
Statue Smashing – Heroes, Values and Racism
Global Issues News Headlines - 12 hours ago
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jul 29 (IPS) - On Friday the 24th of June, President Trump announced he was skipping a weekend at his New Jersey golf resort to "ensure law and order in Washington", tweeting: I just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues – and combatting recent Criminal Violence. Long prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country! Read the full story, “Statue Smashing – Heroes, Values and Racism”, on globalissues.org →
Coronavirus - Urban Areas Face the Brunt of the Pandemic
Global Issues News Headlines - 12 hours ago
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 29 (IPS) - The effect of the coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent global lockdown might have a graver effect on cities and urban areas than on rural areas, possibly making women more susceptible to violence. Read the full story, “Coronavirus - Urban Areas Face the Brunt of the Pandemic”, on globalissues.org →
Reflections on the Charter of the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary
Global Issues News Headlines - 12 hours ago
NEW YORK, Jul 29 (IPS) - This year we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Charter of the United Nations, written and signed during a period of great global change. Today, the world is again shifting beneath our feet. Yet, the Charter remains a firm foundation for our joint efforts. Read the full story, “Reflections on the Charter of the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary”, on globalissues.org →
Iran Posts High-Resolution Satellite Images Of US Base In Qatar
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 13 hours ago
*Iran Front Page:* *Iran’s Military Satellite Takes High-Resolution Images of US Base in Qatar* The military satellite Noor, sent into orbit by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has taken clear mosaic images of Al-Udeid Air Base, the forward headquarters of the US military’s Central Command in Qatar. Photos released by IRGC-affiliated news agencies show that the satellite has taken high-resolution mosaic images of Al-Udeid Air Base. Earlier, the US military had said that ballistic missile fire detected from the IRGC‘s ongoing war games in the Persian Gulf and the Stra...
Coronavirus update: Multiple Sydney schools shut after positive and suspected COVID-19 cases
Just In - 13 hours ago
Several schools in Sydney have closed after a number of confirmed and suspected coronavirus cases, while Madrid's plans for a COVID-19 immunity passport have been placed on ice.
Just Like With Healthcare, Democrats Offer Half-Hearted Measures to Impending Eviction Crisis
Alan Macleod, MintPress News - 13 hours ago
The federal moratorium on evictions expired this week, leaving 12 million renters at risk of losing their homes, and much as they did with healthcare, Democrats are offering little more than token non-solutions. The post Just Like With Healthcare, Democrats Offer Half-Hearted Measures to Impending Eviction Crisis appeared first on MintPress News.
Dr. Yan Li-Meng on her virus drama
Bob Dinn, balance10 - 13 hours ago
7-10-20 Yan had an extensive network of professional contacts in various medical facilities in mainland China, having grown up and completed much of her studies there. She says that is the precise reason she was asked to conduct this kind of research, especially at a time when she says her team knew they weren’t getting the whole truth from the government. One friend, a scientist at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China had firsthand knowledge of the cases and purportedly told Yan on Dec. 31 about human-to-human transmission well before China or the WHO admitted...
The Book Nook: Diversity, Violence, and Recognition
Bridging the Gap, Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago
This entry in the Bridging the Gap Book Nook series comes from Elisabeth King and Cyrus Samii of New York University. In their new book, Diversity, Violence, and Recognition (Oxford, 2020), they address key questions for peace-building in multi-ethnic societies: Under what conditions do governments manage internal violent conflicts by formally recognizing different ethnic identities? […]
Pedophile Councilman, Who Worked at a Children’s Home, Walks Free Despite Videos of Child Rape
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 13 hours ago
[image: child]A city councilman caught with over one million images and videos of child rape was allowed to walk out of the courtroom a free man and will do no jail time.
Comments on Siegel’s Fewer, Richer, Greener
Bryan Caplan, Econlib - 13 hours ago
Last week, I was part of the Cato Institute’s book forum on Laurence Siegel’s Fewer, Richer, Greener: Prospects for Humanity in an Age of Abundance. Here’s my commentary on the book. 1. Vast areas of agreement: a. Until March, the world was getting richer at a marvelous pace. Absolute poverty has been disappearing before our […] The post Comments on Siegel’s Fewer, Richer, Greener appeared first on Econlib.
Litigating the Federal Government's Conduct in Portland Protests
sfry, Lawfare - 14 hours ago
Protesters march in a line in Portland, Oregon on June 4, 2020 in the wake of George Floyd's death. (Matthew Roth, https://flic.kr/p/2j8SY8K; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) Editor’s Note: It’s possible there is some litigation missing from this roundup. Please email the editors or the author at sfry@jd20.law.harvard.edu with any relevant litigation missing from this summary. This page was last updated on July 28, 2020. On June 26, President Trump announced an Executive Order instructing the Attorney General to prioritize investigations and prosecuti...
Paper called “unscholarly, overtly racist” earns an editor’s note
Adam Marcus, Retraction Watch - 14 hours ago
The journal that recently ran a controversial essay on poverty and race has flagged it with an editor’s note letting readers know about an investigation into the work. As we reported last week, Society, a Springer Nature title, published a paper by Lawrence Mead, of New York University, who argued that poor Blacks and Hispanics … Continue reading Paper called “unscholarly, overtly racist” earns an editor’s note
German imports of cannabis flower up in first half of 2020 versus 2019
Alfredo Pascual, Marijuana Business Daily - 14 hours ago
Germany imported 4,126 kilograms (9,096 pounds) of medical cannabis flower for pharmacy dispensing during the first half of 2020, an increase of more than 60% compared to the same period last year, new government data shows. A small part of the imported flower could’ve been re-exported to other European countries, including the Czech Republic, Italy, […] German imports of cannabis flower up in first half of 2020 versus 2019 is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
Challenge Trials - The Ethics of Human Trials for a COVID-19 Vaccine
A Political Junkie, Viable Opposition - 14 hours ago
While it received almost no coverage in the mainstream media, a publication by the World Health Organization dated May 2020 is particularly frightening given the unprecedented rush to create a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Here are quotes from an article that appeared on the Financial Times website on May 9, 2020: "*Francis Collins, director of National Institutes of Health, has asked the NIH vaccines working group to “write a perspective on the scientific and practical considerations for a Covid-19 human challenge model”.* *The group, which includes senior vaccine developers fr...
Vice President Susan Rice: Could This Be Joe Biden's Pick for VP Next Week?
Rachel Bucchino, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Rachel Bucchino* *Politics, * Compared to Rice’s vice-presidential rivals, she doesn’t bring elected office experience or a remarkable group of voters -- but she does have significant experience in foreign policy and has a special relationship with Biden, as the two worked together in the West Wing during Obama’s second presidential term. Is that enough for Biden to pick her? Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden expects to select his running mate by the end of the first week of August -- a suspenseful announcement that’s made Democrats anxious to see the team set to tackle ...
How Modern Jihadism Became Co-Invented by the U.S. and Saudi Governments
Eric Zuesse, The Duran - 13 hours ago
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture Modern jihadism was co-invented in 1979 by Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan al Saud, and U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, working together, and here is the background for it, and the way — and the reasons — that it was done: Back in the later Middle Ages, […]
Like Anyone Doubted This Was Going To Happen? COVID-Deaths Are Killing The Trump Campaign
DownWithTyranny, DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago
This may well be the Lincoln Project's best-- meaning most raw and brutal-- yet... and most of their ads are homers to begin with! I posted it again because it so perfectly sets up the Lynn Vavreck and Christopher Warshaw *NY Times* story that correlates the Trump reelection campaign's disintegration so perfectly with his failed response to the pandemic. The topic is How Local Covid Deaths Are Affecting Vote Choice and the one sentence version is "A rise in coronavirus-related deaths in a given community tends to reduce support for Republicans." That should surprise no one. But l...
U.S. Bases Go On Alert After Iran Launched Underground Ballistic Missiles At A Mock U.S. Navy Vessel In The Strait Of Hormuz
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 13 hours ago
*CNBC:* *Iran fires missiles at mock U.S. Navy ship in drill, American bases go on alert* * Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been conducting military drills this week as part of annual war games held in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway through which 30% of the world’s seaborne oil is shipped. * The drills on Tuesday led two of the region’s American military bases — Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates and Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar — to temporarily go on heightened alert. Iran launched underground ballistic missiles at a mock U.S. Navy vessel in the Strait of Ho...
US switches to air piracy in the Middle East
InfoBrics, The Duran - 13 hours ago
Recent incident against Iranian civilian plane may reveal a new military strategy that violates international law
U.S. is pushing for a new provocation against Serbia over the Kosovo issue
InfoBrics, The Duran - 13 hours ago
Delivery of armored vehicles to Kosovo could destabilize the Balkans
Italy on the brink of economic collapse & with it goes the EU (Video)
Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 13 hours ago
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 612.
Some workers now have paid pandemic leave, could you be next?
Jordan Hayne, Just In - 13 hours ago
The prospect of giving paid pandemic leave to people who need to self-isolate due to COVID-19 will be discussed by the Federal Government, unions and employers, after the entitlement was granted to aged care workers this week.
The Baltic States and sold freedom
TheBalticWord, The Duran - 14 hours ago
Via The Baltic Word… Military personnel from Latvia and Lithuania are participating in joint exercise with the U.S. Northern Strike2020. Northern Strike 20 is held July 19-31 at Michigan’s National All-Domain Warfighting Center, encompassing Camp Grayling Maneuver Training Center and Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center. More than 2,300 personnel participate, including Army and Air National […]
Will Crimea be recognized?
Timoschuk, The Duran - 14 hours ago
This question can be asked when certain facts become known. In June 2020,an Internet conference “The Legacy of Kirill and Methodius at the Crossroads of Cultures: Russia, Ukraine,Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia” was held in Crimea. This event was held within the framework of the “One World of the Cyrillic”project, which has been implemented on the territory of […]
Mediterranean Sea was 2 degrees hotter during Roman Empire
GCD, ClimateCite Corp - 14 hours ago
Archaeology News Network 7/23/20 The greatest time of the Roman Empire coincided with the warmest period of the last 2,000 years in the Mediterranean, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. The climate conditions derived progressively towards arid conditions and later colder ones coinciding with the historical fall of the empire, as stated in the new study, …
AG Bill Barr’s hearing reveals Democrat racism, hysteria and utter insanity [Video]
Seraphim Hanisch, The Duran - 14 hours ago
[image: Representative Cedric Richmond acts like the racist he is in grilling AG William Barr on nothing sensible.]This was an interesting hearing. One of the most amazing things that happened in this hearing was that everyone in it remained alive. This is because the nature of the Democrat hit-and-run cowardice, considered by them to be “questioning” was childish, vindictive, and quite frankly, expressions of purely demonic evil. Doubtlessly, Attorney General Barr did […]
Projection and the Inner-Outer Conundrum
WTStaff, Waking Times - 14 hours ago
*Patrick Herbert* - When we know that we are projecting ourselves onto others, a radical change occurs.
COVID Advances New World Order – The Empire of Billionaires
WTStaff, Waking Times - 14 hours ago
*Dr. Mercola* - Mass COVID-19 vaccination poses health dangers and even vaccine advocate Bill Gates predicts adverse reactions to the vaccine will claim 700,000 victims.
Vaccine Execs Rake In $1 Billion In Stock Sales As Positive Headlines Boost Shares
WTStaff, Waking Times - 14 hours ago
*Tyler Durden* - The race to develop a global vaccine is the biggest business opportunity on the planet right now. Never forget.
Does China's Mars mission mark the beginning of a 21st century space race?
Bill Birtles, Just In - 14 hours ago
NASA is set to launch its fourth Mars rover mission today, while China launched their own Mars mission last week. But with two global superpowers looking to explore other planets, does this mark the beginning of a new space race?
Chinese participation in 5G auction could save Brazilian economy
InfoBrics, The Duran - 14 hours ago
Pro-Washington stance in US-China trade war might destroy Brazilian agribusiness
Climate change is cause of bushfire disasters and fossil fuel industry must pay, report recommends
Philippa McDonald, Just In - 15 hours ago
The Emergency Leaders for Climate Action group is releasing a report with 165 recommendations it hopes the Government will adopt to improve bushfire readiness, response and recovery.
FDA Recalls Dozens of Toxic Hand Sanitizers
WTStaff, Waking Times - 15 hours ago
*Jordan Davidson* - The great hand sanitizer deception is here.
Escaping Paternalism Book Club: Rizzo and Whitman Response, Part 1
Bryan Caplan, Econlib - 15 hours ago
This is the first of a series of responses by Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman, authors of Escaping Paternalism, for my Book Club on their treatise. Present Bias and Time Preference We should begin by thanking Bryan for his many kind words about our book, and also for hosting this book club. We appreciate his critiques […] The post Escaping Paternalism Book Club: Rizzo and Whitman Response, Part 1 appeared first on Econlib.
"The Tyranny of The Maskists" - An Op-Ed from Regular Contributor FreakedOut
greencrow, Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 5 hours ago
*FreakedOut - Op-Ed* *With some excellent strategies to defeat* *"The Tyranny of the Maskists"* *You don't think it's a Tyranny? * *Watch this Video!* *Greencrow says: * Just yesterday I had to make two important appointments--both with businesses that insisted that I wear a mask while on their premises. In both cases, I informed the receptionist that I would *not* be wearing a mask [*ever*] for *human rights reasons *and asked for an alternative. In the first case, I picked up the order from the "back door" and in the second instance, I will be having the appointment by phone. In...
Post-Viral Syndrome - Covid-19 Sequela
Majia's Blog, Majia's Blog - 11 hours ago
Direct Excerpt: Louise Hall (2020, July 28). Women who survived coronavirus angry after persistent symptoms dismissed as ‘anxiety’ by doctors. The Independent https://www.yahoo.com/news/women-survived-coronavirus-angry-persistent-224358983.html Dr Anthony Fauci, recognised the possibility that the disease could cause “a post-viral syndrome” in a news conference. “If you look anecdotally, there is no question that there are a considerable number of individuals who have a post-viral syndrome that in many respects incapacitates them for weeks and weeks following so-called recovery,”...
U.S. To Withdraw About 12,000 Soldiers From Germany But Half Will Stay In Europe
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 13 hours ago
© Global Look Press / dpa-Zentralbild / Jens Büttner *Reuters:* *U.S. to withdraw about 12,000 troops from Germany but nearly half to stay in Europe* WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Wednesday unveiled plans to withdraw about 12,000 troops from Germany following a decision by President Donald Trump, but said it will keep nearly half of them in Europe to address tension with Russia. Trump announced his intention last month to cut the 36,000-strong U.S. troop contingent in Germany to 25,000, faulting the close U.S. ally for failing to meet NATO’s defense spending target ...
How peaceful, how violent. has it been out in Portland?
bob somerby, the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2020Do you feel that you're being told?:* As our nation has evolved into two warring tribes, then, at least to some extent, so has our upper-end press corps. To what extent might we now have two tribalized press corps, neither of which is devoted to telling us "the whole truth?" On Sunday morning, we began to wonder about that, specifically with respect to events in Portland and Seattle. That first glimmer went down like this: First, we read Mike Baker's report in the New York Times about events in Seattle. He seemed to describe a lot of violent conduct on th...
Bye, Bye Bixby? Samsung in Talks to Give Its Phones' Search Control Over to Google Assistant
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Technology, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_RC15A933EEE0&share=true] No one likes Bixby, but this doesn't necessarily mean Samsung is getting rid of it. Bixby, the virtual assistant on Samsung phones and other devices, is far from a popular feature, and hasn’t been since it was introduced as part of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ in 2017. Users on social media have complained about Bixby being too prominent and getting in users’ way, especially on some models in which the “Bixby Button” is way too close ...
48-Inch HDTV Death Match: Can Sony’s A9 OLED Top LG’s CX?
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Technology, World* These dueling TV sets are both really good options. The 48-inch OLED market just got a bit more crowded with Sony’s A9 offering. Like LG’s recently released 48-inch CX Series, this particular model takes aim at consumers who desire more modest-size panels but don’t want to miss out on all of the picture goodness that OLEDs can provide. Currently only available in the European market for about $1,800, there is a real possibility that this 48-inch OLED stud will cross the Atlantic at some point later this year or early 2021. Like the highly r...
Here’s What the U.S. Army Wants From Its Next Generation Combat Vehicle
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2011%3Anewsml_GM1E7330UVF01&share=true] They’ll be fast, deadly, and networked. But they might not be able to replace the tank. Racing over bridges, supporting advancing infantry with suppressive fire, shooting vehicle-launched counter-drone missiles and engaging enemy tanks from safe standoff ranges are all operations the Army anticipates for its new fleet of armored combat vehicles. A decided emphasis for the U.S. Army’s family of Next-Generation Combat Vehicles (NGCV) is spe...
Meet the U.S. Air Force's New Nuclear Cruise Missile
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Technology, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2003%3Anewsml_PBEAHUONYEM&share=true] Will it arrive on schedule or even early? The U.S. Air Force might deploy a new generation of air-launched, nuclear-armed cruise missiles earlier than planned due to successful design work, prototyping and conceptual development for the weapon. By choosing Raytheon’s design as a “sole source contractor,” the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center expressed confidence that the weapon will arrive “on-schedule,” according to a report in Air Force M...
Henry Repeating Arms Big Boy All-Weather: Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin
Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Peter Suciu* *Security, * While there is no actual connection to the Benjamin Tyler Henry, the inventor who patented the first repeating rifle, or any linage to New Haven Arms, this company, which is headquartered in Bayonne, New Jersey, maintains the tradition of the frontier rifles from about as far back east as one can get. There are some mighty fine products made in Wisconsin—and the state is certainly known for its cheese, but it is also the top producer of cranberries, while Trek Bicycles still calls the Badger State its home. What isn*’*t often thought about is Wisconsin...
Mumbai records wettest July since records began, India
The Watchers » Latest articles - 13 hours ago
With 1 474.4 mm (58 inches) of rain recorded between July 1 to 28, India's state of Maharashtra capital Mumbai saw the city's highest rainfall for this month in 76 years. The previous record was set in 2014 with 1 468.5 mm (57.8 inches) of rain. On Tuesday,...... Read more »
WATCH: Plainclothes NYPD Officers “Kidnap” Protester, Douse Bystanders With Pepper Spray
The Free Thought Project, The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago
The NYPD is now using the same authoritarian tactics seen in Portland snatching a protester off the street and attacking other protesters in the process.
Taking back the Constitution in an era of high polarization
JB, Balkinization - 14 hours ago
For the Symposium on Mark Tushnet, Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law (Yale University Press 2020). Mark Tushnet's *Taking Back the Constitution*is one of his very best books (and he has written a fair number of them.) Among the most remarkable things about the book is its ability to discuss complex theoretical and legal issues in an easy, relaxed style. The closest analogy I can think of is John Hart Ely's writing—and that is high praise indeed. There is considerable agreement between Tushnet's arguments and the arguments I make in my ow...
WHO Now Claims COVID ‘Not Seasonal’ and Will Be One Constant ‘Big Wave’
21wire, 21st Century Wire - 14 hours ago
*21WIRE* | Since no real 'second wave' has arrived as hoped, health officials are revising their script.
You Can't Trust Volcanoes
News Staff, Science 2.0 blogs - 15 hours ago
Don't be fooled by those tourist volcanoes that reliably produce small basaltic lava eruptions. A new study shows they hide the same chemically diverse magmas in their underground plumbing systems as volcanoes that generate explosive activity. Some volcanoes in Iceland, Hawai'i and the Galápagos Islands consistently produce lava flows of molten basaltic rock which form long rivers of fire down their flanks. They are so slow, you can outwalk them, and therefore so predictable you can visit them but unless you build a house in front of one, they are safe. Yet they share chemistry in...
Online debate Wednesday: Food Security in a Post-Covid World
Paul Driessen, CFACT - 15 hours ago
Please tune in: Wednesday * July 29 * 10:00 am ET / 4pm CET. The post Online debate Wednesday: Food Security in a Post-Covid World appeared first on CFACT.
Walmart, Home Depot, and Others Will Not Stop Mask-Free Patrons from Shopping
Delish, Need To Know - 16 hours ago
Most stores want to avoid conflict and do not believe it is their responsibility to enforce masks.
Reawakening the Moral Fitness To Survive
adam, LaRouchePAC Feed - 16 hours ago
[image: Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche address Pasadena, CA Schiller Institute conf, "Developing the Pacific anjd Ending the Grip of Empire." November 2, 2013 (Schiller Institute Photo)] The multiple strategic crises before us, each and all created by the onslaught of the systemic breakdown of the entire trans-Atlantic system now underway, should remind us of Lyndon LaRouche’s frequent warning about “the catastrophic persistence of oligarchical forms of society... which, although more or less long-dominant, are best characterized as cultures ultimately self-doomed by their ...
Driven Mad By Russiagate; Democrats Rail At AG Barr
adam, LaRouchePAC Feed - 17 hours ago
[image: CSPAN.org Screengrab https://www.c-span.org/video/?473384-1/attorney-general-barr-testifies-justice-department-mission-programs] Anyone who does not believe that every member of the current Democratic contingent assigned to the House Judiciary Committee has not lost his or her mind and reason and become an angry, violent, and raving Jacobin bully should watch the hearing conducted Tuesday by that Committee with Attorney General William Barr. Reference to the Mad Queen in Alice in Wonderland might also serve as an aid to understanding the proceedings. Enraged questions were h...
Psy-Op Campaign Underway to Prepare Americans for War with China
Alicia, LaRouchePAC Feed - 17 hours ago
Psy-Op Campaign Underway to Prepare Americans for War with China Video of Psy-Op Campaign Underway to Prepare Americans for War with China The Russiagate campaign was the first phase of an effort to break President Trump from his commitment to "end the endless wars"—"We are not the policemen of the world," he told West Point graduates two months ago. Yet, dangerous lunacy is afoot in the ongoing efforts of the War Hawks to prepare Americans for more wars. Why are they doing this? To defend the failed globalist model, which Trump campaigned against in 2016. That model must be junke...
"Our House Of Cards"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
*"Our House Of Cards"* by The Zman "Adolf Hitler once said, “There is nothing new under the sun. There are just new ways of expressing the same ideas.” There is some truth to this, which is why we have so many ways of saying that history repeats itself. At least we like to think it repeats itself, as that’s a comforting thought. It means the answers to today’s problems, no matter how vexing, exist in the past. All we have to do is rummage around in the past for a similar time and take a look at the solutions from that period. There are exceptions. The French Revolution is one of t...
Political Legitimacy Dies in 2020
James Bovard, Peace and Prosperity - 14 hours ago
[image: undefined] The American political system may be on the eve of its worst legitimacy crisis since the Civil War. Early warning signals indicate that many states could suffer catastrophic failures in counting votes in November. The election will occur amidst the vast economic devastation inflicted by a political class that responded to COVID by seizing almost unlimited power. And Deep State federal agencies have already proven that they will trample the law to sabotage election results. America could soon see a hundred-times worse replay of the Florida presidential balloting ...
The Ultimate Divide and Conquer
Russ Bangs, Peace and Prosperity - 14 hours ago
[image: undefined] It has frequently been observed that terror can rule absolutely only over people who are isolated against each other and that therefore one of the primary concerns of tyrannical government is to bring this isolation about. Isolation may be the beginning of terror; it certainly is its most fertile ground; it always is its result. This isolation is, as it were, pretotalitarian; its hallmark is impotence insofar as power always comes from people acting together, acting in concert; isolated people are powerless by definition.” -Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitari...
Lebanon Now Experiencing Hyperinflation
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
The Lebanese pound has lost about 80% of its value over the past 10 months *ABC News:** Lebanon becomes 1st country in Middle East and North Africa to enter hyperinflation* *Food prices in the country are rising. * PARIS -- Lebanon could face its biggest crisis since its Civil War, economists are warning as the country's currency hits new lows. Lebanon is now the first country in the Middle East and North Africa to see its inflation rate exceed 50% for 30 consecutive days, according to Steve H. Hanke, a professor of applied economics at the Johns Hopkins University. The sharp ri...
Operation Warp Speed, Explained: Is a Coronavirus Vaccine In Sight?
Kevin Pham, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Kevin Pham* *Politics, Americas* [image: A June 24, 2020 handout photo received from biotech company IDT Biologika in Dessau-Rosslau, Germany, on July 28, 2020, shows an individual dose of the filled SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate. Hartmut Boesener/IDT Biologika/Handout via Reuter] Two pharmaceutical companies, AstraZeneca and Moderna, this month begin the final phase of clinical trials before approval and distribution. The United States has been grappling with a response to the COVID-19 pandemic for more than six months, but now, a series of published results from vaccine develo...
Is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ a Sequel to ‘Inception’? Not Likely
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Technology, * That's very disappointing, but it should still be a good movie. Last week, Christopher Nolan’s spy-thriller “Tenet” changed its August 12 premiere amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. It was surely disappointing news for fans of the highly acclaimed director, but the film’s release recently got new dates to work with—opening internationally first on August 26, with a U.S. release in select cities to follow over Labor Day weekend. Even with a month or so before the premiere, there have been plenty of interest in figuring out what exactly “Tenet...
This Democratic-Republican Duo Wants To Solve the Korean War Once and For All
Matthew Petti, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Matthew Petti* *Security, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC2LEE9GVZ01&share=true] Ro Khanna and Andy Biggs were planning a bipartisan meeting with South Korea’s president before coronavirus got in the way. South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in was planning to meet with a Democratic and Republican representative to discuss Korean peace negotiations, but the coronavirus pandemic prevented the meeting, it was recently revealed. President Donald Trump has attempted to achieve a diplomatic breakthrough in Korea for years, even mee...
The Howa 1500 May Be the Most Underrated Rifle You’ve Never Heard Of
Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Peter Suciu* *Security, Americas* Clearly a lot of shooters know something that the rest of us don’t! Name some of the top-selling bolt action rifles of 2020 so far and companies such as Remington, Ruger, Mossberg, Winchester and even CZ-USA are likely to be expected. So what is the Howa 1500 doing on the NRA's American Hunter list of top sellers? Clearly a lot of shooters know something that the rest of us don’t! The Japanese-made Howa doesn’t have the name recognition of the larger American (or Czech) brands—to the point that some gun writers have called the Howa 1500 the m...
The Media Should Stop Calling Rioters "Protesters"
Cal Thomas, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Cal Thomas* *Politics, Americas* [image: A federal law enforcement official points to demonstrators before firing tear gas during a protest against racial inequality in Portland, Oregon, U.S., July 19, 2020. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs] These protesters, who appear to be mostly spoiled, mostly white, and mostly young, have likely been radicalized in their universities and on social media. The violence perpetrated in the streets of cities across America continues because state and local elected officials (all Democrats) refuse to do what is necessary to stop it. These acts no longer fit...
5 U.S. Weapons of War Russia Can Only Dream About
Robert Farley, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Robert Farley* *Security, Eurasia* Today, even though the Russian military remains formidable, it continues to have key deficiencies relative to the United States. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Nevertheless, there’s every reason to believe that the Russians understand their military deficiencies, and are working hard to remedy the problems. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States struggled to match each other’s best weapons. The MiG-25 informed the F-15; the Tu-95 “Backfire” resembled the B-52; submarines and tanks were designed with their competitors ...
Think Your Food Bill Is Going Up? This 1 Chart Proves You Aren't Crazy.
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *economy, * Have groceries gotten more expensive during the pandemic? The USDA says yes. Do you get the sense that groceries have gotten more expensive in recent months? The U.S. government says you're right. A report from the United States Department of Agriculture, most recently updated on July 27, found that "retail prices for nearly all food-at-home categories [were] up in June 2020 compared with June 2019." According to the USDA chart, of all of the categories of foods listed, only "fresh fruits" saw an average price decrease year-over-year. Prices of beef ...
What If the U.S. Navy Both Got Bigger and Had High-Tech Drones?
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC2F0I9K9NBQ&share=true] That would be a killer-combo to deter any adversary. The U.S. Navy’s quest for 355 ships raises questions about the extent to which sheer numbers of platforms can offer new dimensions of combat power. Would a high number of warships be enough or could fewer high-tech ships controlling unmanned systems have an equivalent or even superior impact? Some have maintained that the technology woven into modern and emerging future vessels is so soph...
Japan's Submarines Have a Secret 'Weapon'
Sebastien Roblin, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Sebastien Roblin* *Security, Asia* Japan’s apparent deployment of reliable submarine lithium-ion battery technology marks a second major leap forward in the capabilities of affordable conventional submarines in the last twenty years. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *Japan, therefore, has thrown a lot of money and years of effort into building greater safety and reliability into its sub-based lithium-ion batteries by implementing improved battery-cell matrices with hardened dividers, stabilized chemicals and automatic fire extinguishers, and has reportedly tested the configura...
Watch as a B-2 Stealth Bomber Drops a Massive "Bunker-Buster" Warhead
Mark Episkopos, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Mark Episkopos* *Security, Americas* The video must be seen to be believed. *Key Point*: The GBU-57 is arguably the most destructive weapon of its kind, hailing from a long line of smaller cousins and air blast variants. The B-2 Spirit is the most advanced strategic bomber in the US Air Force (USAF) roster, occupying a vital role in the American nuclear triad for its blend of deep penetration and heavy ordnance delivery capabilities. There has been no shortage of B-2 *footage *over the past several decades, extensively capturing its takeoff and maintenance routines as well as a ...
Patriot Ordnance Factory: The American Spirit Lives On
Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Peter Suciu* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] In less than two decades in operation, the POF-USA automatic rifles have rightfully earned a reputation for being among some of the very best on the market. The designs have been widely recognized as well. This past June the firearms world lost one of its own when Patriot Ordnance Factory (POF-USA) founder, owner and President Frank DeSomma died from injuries sustained in a traffic accident in the company’s hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. He was a passionate firearms enthusiast, supporter of the Second Amendment and a true patrio...
Russia's "4++ " MiG-35 Fighter: An F-35 Killer?
Mark Episkopos, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Mark Episkopos* *Security, * More than a fourth-generation jet. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *Given the considerable improvements that it inherits from prior variants, it is difficult to see how the MiG-35 revolutionizes Russia’s aircraft roster. It is, however, shaping up to the culmination of decades’ worth of Russian aerospace engineering experience, and Russia’s most capable multi-role fighter to date. With Russia’s MiG-29 nearing the end of its shelf life as Russia’s staple multirole fighter, the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) are taking an increasing interest in its...
A Lone Russian Submarine Captain Stopped The Cuban Missile Crisis From Destroying The World
Mark Episkopos, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Mark Episkopos* *History, Americas* Operation Anadyr was, down to the name itself, designed around a series of clever diplomatic, military, and logistical ruses that successfully concealed the cross-continental movement of tons of Soviet military hardware in Washington’s backyard. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *There is, admittedly, little comfort in the notion that one man’s chance intervention was all that stood in the way of a conflagration that could have spiraled into a global nuclear war. And yet, the world bears a debt of gratitude for his stubborn refusal to succum...
Is Racism Responsible for Today’s Black Problems?
Walter E. Williams, rss - 15 hours ago
[image: is-racism-responsible-for-today-s-black-problems] Crime is a major problem for many black communities, but how much of it can be attributed to causes such as institutional racism, systemic racism and white privilege?
Technology transforms opium farming - and shows the pointlessness of the US presence in Afghanistan
Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 15 hours ago
The BBC reports that solar power technology is revolutionizing opium poppy farming and heroin production in Afghanistan. Mr Brittan is a former British soldier whose company, Alcis, specialises in satellite analysis of what he calls "complex environments". That's a euphemism for dangerous places. Among other things, Mr Brittan is an expert on the drugs industry in Afghanistan. He zooms in on an area way out in the deserts of Helmand. A few years ago there was nothing here. Now there is a farm surrounded by fields. Zoom in a bit more and you can clearly see an array of solar panels...
US Representative Louis Gohmert Proposed Ban on Democrat Party for Supporting Slavery
Louis Gohmert and Tyler paper, Need To Know - 16 hours ago
US Representative Louie Gohmert, a Republican from Texas, gave a speech on the House floor, calling on Congress to ban any political organization or party that has ever held a public position supporting slavery or the Confederate States of America, namely, the Democrat party.
Former Kremlin Insider Explains How Putin Remains In Power
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 15 hours ago
Sergei Pugachev is seen during an interview with Reuters in Paris, France, September 22, 2015. REUTERS/John Schults/File Photo *Reuters: **Exclusive: Former Kremlin insider recounts Putin’s moves to retain power* LONDON (Reuters) - When Russian President Vladimir Putin was preparing for last month’s nationwide vote on potentially extending his rule until 2036, he let the veil slip on part of the calculation behind the constitutional change. “If this doesn’t happen, then in about two years – and I know this from personal experience – the normal rhythm of work of many parts of gove...
The Daily Brief 2020-07-28
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago
[image: The Daily Brief 2020-07-28] This is a summary of *19* AMN articles on the following subjects: *Iran, Russia, Iraq, ISIS, Syria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, US, Nasrallah, Netanyahu, Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestine, Greece, Libya, IRGC, Aleppo, Hama, Salaheddine, Taji*. Categories covered in this brief: Iran, World-News, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Middleeast, Palestine, North-Africa, Iraq Let us know how you like this brief in the comments below. — The AMN Live Team Table of Contents - Iran simulates battle with US Navy in Strait of Hormuz: video - Watch: R...
Watch: Iranian ballistic missiles fired from underground sites
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago
[image: Watch: Iranian ballistic missiles fired from underground sites] BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:45 P.M.) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fired ballistic missiles from underground platforms during the second day of the massive ‘Great Prophet-14’ military drills in the southwestern part of the country on Wednesday. The successful firing of ballistic missiles fully hidden in camouflage deep under the ground is an important achievement that could pose serious challenges to enemy intelligence agencies, the Fars News Agency reported. In the final stage of the IRGC’s drills, which ...
Reed Timmer records roar of Hurricane "Hanna" eyewall
The Watchers » Latest articles - 15 hours ago
Category 1 Hurricane "Hanna" made landfall on Padre Island, Texas, at around 22:00 UTC on July 25, 2020, as the first rapidly-intensifying named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. As it made landfall, extreme meteorologist Reed Timmer was in Port...... Read more »
Befuddled Biden is Bernie's ventriloquist dummy
trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 15 hours ago
Joe Bide, you know the alleged moderate, has just signed on to Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez's radical agenda. In fact if you actually examine what Joe is standing up for you'll find that he's taking on most of the lunatic, socialist, anti-freedom policies of the extremists on the left. Joe Biden is supporting AOC's Green New Deal which means he's for stopping you from eating beef as well as keeping you from flying in airplanes. Joe Biden is supporting Obama's radical agenda to make the suburbs into densely packed cities without private houses and with lots of subsidized housing...
Defund Doctors; some of them kill patients
trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 15 hours ago
People who generally break the law, like Democrats and Antifa, are calling for an abolition of the police. I guess it's also good for getting out the felon vote for Democrats. These left wing loons, who all live in safe areas where they never need the police, don't really have a rational plan for dealing with actual crime. That's amazingly racist of course since Blacks are far more likely to be the victims of crime than whites. The reason for eliminating the police is, allegedly, because some cops kill innocent people. Well there are a lot of doctors who have killed innocent peopl...
Politico Announces Kamala Harris as Biden’s VP Pick, Then Scrubs Story With Apology
Bob Adelmann, rss - 15 hours ago
[image: politico-announces-kamala-harris-as-biden-s-vp-pick-then-scrubs-story-with-apology] It's all speculation of course. but a Kamala Harris presidency would be Hillary Clinton's, on steroids. by Bob Adelman
Yanis Varoufakis: Why Bitcoin Is Not a Socialist’s Ally – Reply to Ben Arc
Yves Smith, naked capitalism - 15 hours ago
Debunking some major misperceptions about potential roles for Bitcoin and blockchain.
More Censorship: America’s Frontline Doctors Website Gets Shut Down
Luis Miguel, rss - 15 hours ago
[image: more-censorship-america-s-frontline-doctors-website-gets-shut-down] Hosting provider Squarespace took down the website of America’s Frontline Doctors for allegedly sharing “false” and “misleading” COVID-19 information.
Iraq: New photos show significant damage to military aircraft after rocket attack
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago
[image: Iraq: New photos show significant damage to military aircraft after rocket attack] BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:25 P.M.) – On Tuesday, the Iraqi media released photos that were said to show a severely damaged Iraqi military plane, after three Katyusha rockets hit the Taji Airbase north of Baghdad on Monday. The images circulated show that the aircraft was severely damaged, including large holes in the structure of the aircraft as a result of the rocket strikes. طائرة طيران الجيش #العراقي التي تضررت ليلة امس نتيجة قصف معسكر التاجي بصواريخ #الكاتيوشا #بابليون_ميديا #التاجي pic.twitter....
Libyan Army restores 2 Soviet-era air defense systems
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago
[image: Libyan Army restores 2 Soviet-era air defense systems] BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:15 P.M.) – A local Facebook page in Libya announced that the Libyan National Army (LNA) had succeeded in rehabilitating two S-200 (SA-5) air defense systems. In this context, it was reported that the two air defense systems were brought into service and that they were “stored in the air defense camp south of the city of Al-Abyar, and they are in excellent condition.” During the Qaddafi era, Libya purchased in 1986 the Soviet-made S-200 air defense systems against the backdrop of the severe tension with...
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