Saturday, September 02, 2017

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Free Speech for Fascists?
Quick thoughts: Should people we disagree with have free speech and other rights? More precisely: Should fascists have freedom of speech and freedom of assembly and the right to hold their views and not be fired for them? Some will argue that leftists would be chumps to stand up for the free speech rights of fascists. First of all, they wouldn't do so for us. (With the right-wing's perpetual amaz
Ezra Levant Had Always Been an Idiot
So, it appears that third-rate huckster/shitty lawyer/anti-Arab, anti-Roma racist/obnoxious asswipe Ezra Levant has been done-in by his own stupidity and sleaze. Conservative Party politicians (who had done so much to fill his coffers, both recently with his hate-site "The Rebel" and formerly with his attempt at a "FoxNews North" called the "Sun News Network") are disavowing him like the proverbi
CounterPunch Needs To Get a Grip When It Comes to Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin Johnstone is an online blogger with a journalism degree. She's mainly concerned with the Defeat-o-crats' and the MSM's attempt to gin-up conflict with Russia, and potentially start a nuclear war. She was a Bernie Sanders supporter. (Supporting from afar since she's Australian.) She has, occasionally, advocated sharing some stories from right-wingers that are critical of the MSM. (I, for i
Canadian Racism
I've worked with at least three people in three different places who were quite vocal about how they hated Blacks. Back in the 1970's I remember an inordinate hatred of South Asians amongst some WASPY-type friends and acquaintances. (To hear them tell it, "Pakis" were the dirtiest, sleaziest people who ever existed.) Among fellow white people, French Canadians and Maritimers were derided as peopl
Humanity Is Too Stupid To Survive - Part Infinity
Further evidence that humanity is just too stupid to survive: All the people simultaneously shitting in their pants about con-man Trump's blustering buffoonery with North Korea while also saying we should have voted for Hillary Clinton. You remember Hillary Clinton don't you? The psychopath who wanted to shoot Russian fighter-jets out of the Syrian skies? So, please, tell me, ... if you're one of

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Six Things to Know about the BC Liberal Leadership Race
Here are six things you need to know about the race to replace Christy Clark, based on the rules the BC Liberal Party released Tuesday. First, you better have money or some rich supporters if you even want to try for the job. It will cost you $50,000, payable to the party, to become a candidate. (Plus $10,000 that you’ll get back if the party doesn’t levy any fines for bad behaviour during the ca
Where are those Public Accounts? Delay should worry Liberals
The Liberals should be getting nervous about the long delay in releasing the Public Accounts and the Auditor General's review of government finances. As part of the Liberals'W self-destructive bid to hang on to power, then finance minister Mike de Jong broke precedent by releasing unofficial results for the fiscal year ending March 31. He claimed a $2.8 billion surplus, $1.3 billion higher than bu

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Increasing Critical Questions Amid Mexican Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy Experiment
Mitchondrial Replacement Therapy (MRT) – sometimes referred with the headline formulation "Three Parent Babies" – is an innovative, in humans yet unproven, reproductive genetic technology, by which it is hoped that a more effective avoidance of having children with severe mitochondrial hereditary disease (as a rule extremely severe, untreatable and lethal). MRT is controversial both as assisted r

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Misreading the lessons of the Great Blackout
The dog can't believe that move either. Lawrence Chung over at SCMP gives us the anti-DPP take on the recent blackout fiasco. The officials’ resignations and Tsai’s apology, however, have failed to address public concerns over whether the government is able to keep its promise that there would be no power shortages as result of the government’s plans to scrap nuclear power. Tsai has promised a nu
Nelson Report: Randall Schriver in the Administration at last?
The Chih Kan Lou in Tainan From The Nelson Report this week: As long as we're retailing informed gossip from down on Chincoteague (sunny today but showers all weekend, dammit!!) two items for the Asia side: first, a senior Administration source says that with Victor Cha firmly expected to be announced soon for Amb to S. Korea (as we reported last night in #2), we can also expect "any minute" the
Blast from the Past: Carter Derecognition Memo
A friend dug this up and passed it around ( link ) one of the email groups... +++++++++++++++ Jimmy Carter: Memorandum From the President on United States Relations With the People on Taiwan DECEMBER 30, 1978 Memorandum for All Departments and Agencies Subject: Relations with the People on Taiwan As President of the United States, I have constitutional responsibility for the conduct of the foreig
Taiwan's low wage slow motion economic disaster
Locks hung by lovers to symbolize relationships never broken at a truly silly lovers' corner behind the big temple in Beimen, Tainan. Thanks for all the kind thoughts for speedy healing, dear readers. I really appreciate that you took a moment to say that. News Lens ran an excellent piece on the low wage + low productivity trap that is stifling Taiwan's economy. I'm excerpting it here but read th
Surgery
In this temple scene the artist has included people with cellphones taking photos *Creaks open door, turns on light* Well... back in business. I took the last two weeks off because I had surgery. In July I went to a favorite swimming hole in Miaoli on my bike. You have to climb down to the creek. After lolling about in the water for a while, we climbed back up to the road. As I was climbing, pull
Playing Catch Up
In the summer I always feel it is strange to see junior high and high school kids out and about. Usually they are suffering in some kind of summer school. One hardly sees them by day, only when crowding the trains late at night. Thus are Taiwanese socialized into the brutal, exploitative work schedules Taiwan bosses routinely employ. I took a couple of weeks off from this blog to reduce post-surg

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Rest in Peace Merv Adey
I miss you already... Merv Adey.....The warrior spirit lived within Merv....and so did civility... Merv's last posting.. _____________________ Bye for now It’s with great regret that after two months not posting to this blog, I’m now announcing what I hope is a temporary retirement from blogging. I’ve been dealing with a health issue, and need to restrict my activities to give as much energy as I
Canada's Not So Soft Racist Underbelly
Written by Grant G Hard to imagine there were any "good" Alt-Right participants in Charlottesville, yes the rally was in part was over a Robert E Lee statue coming down but anyone attending that event for that one line item, once Neo-Nazis, Klu Klux Klan and white Supremacists show up and you decide to stay and participate.... Nazis want racial purity, millions they deemed inferior were eradicate
Michael Smyth and Postmedia....Actually, Shitty Smitty and Corporate Pom Pom Girls
Written by Grant G Michael Smyth...he's not a writer, he's a childmind, .....the only one(s) giving Gordon Wilson the time of day is Keith Baldrey and especially Michael Smyth(shitty Smitty).... Why....because Postmedia is desperate to tarnish John Horgan.... The problem for Balderdash and bit writer Shitty Smitty is.....BC Public, including BC Liberal voters, they know Gordon Wilson is a public

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Your Moment of Zinn
We're in a self-congratulatory orgy of sacred cow-tipping these days, equating our anti-racism with how many Confederate statues we can protest or even topple in the dead of night. It's gotten so intense that White House economic adviser Gary Cohn had even drafted a resignation letter over Boss Trump's Charlottesville remarks praising white supremacy. But then, of course, Cohn's financial patriot
GOP Stupidly Asks People If They Want Socialized Healthcare
Republicans are so clueless that they think mass citizen outrage against universal health care will rake in the big bucks from millions of sick, struggling, uninsured and underinsured voters. For some unknown reason, the National Republican Congressional Committee sent me a "flash poll" the other day asking "Do You Want a Government Takeover of Healthcare, Yes or No?" (They obviously don't read t
notes
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex "One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior : in the United States a 'poor white' from the South can console himself for not being a 'dirty nigger'; and more prosperous whites cleverly exploit this pride. Likewise, the most mediocre of males believes himself a demigod next to women." For all those
Taken At the Flood
The waters in Texas were still rising, and thousands of people were still stranded or worse, but it's never too soon for the disaster capitalists of the plutonomy to begin licking their chops over all the potential windfall profits they can taken from the thousand-year storm known as Harvey. If New Orleans could privatize its entire public school system after Hurricane Katrina, just imagine the p
Trump Takes a Dump
Sorely lacking in both cajones and intellectual stamina, Donald Trump had to hide behind a hurricane to embrace a bigot after his own heart. Only when safely esconced in his Camp David retreat on a Friday night - when every professional scold worth his or her oversize paycheck was off the air - did Trump officially pardon notorious Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. We knew this was coming. The presiden
Thoughts on Charlottesville
The only thing scarier than the alt-right hate groups who caused so much mayhem, death and destruction in Charlottesville over the weekend is the liberal center's castigation of what they derisively call their "alt-left" counterparts. White supremacists shouting anti-black, anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic slogans had converged to protest the imminent removal of a statue of confederate General Rob

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Time to end the racist triumvirate of Tuck, Huppenthal, and Horne
It’s a tale of white fragility and fear, really.— Imani Gandy These two racist State Superintendents finally got what they deserved for shuttering ethnic studies in Arizona. However, right here in California, we have a candidate for State Superintendent that enacted the same policies in Los Angeles—shuttering ethnic studies, closing dual language programs, and killing heritage language programs.
ED and Blackwater Share Same Goal
Just as her murderous brother, Erik Prince , has a scheme to privatize the U. S. military, the criminally-ignorant crone, Betsy DeVos , is out to do the same for schooling from pre-K through college: “I think that there’s been an outsized footprint in the last couple, three decades on the part of the federal government in education,” she said. “And it’s my goal to extract us from a lot of those s
The Private Company Behind the Muncie School Bus Fiasco
by Doug Martin As the Muncie, Indiana, privatized school bus fiasco deepens, parents protest at bus stops, kids get lost on buses on the way home, 911 calls are made, buses never show up or are late, school gets cancelled for days because of the chaos, and the Indiana Department of Education steps in to help clean up the mess, the local community needs to know there were many red flags before Mun
Charter Industry Demands Access to TN Student Data: Parents Say No
Under the misdirection of Commissioner Candice McQueen, the TN state legislature recently passed a sweeping new charter law that is aimed to expand the footprint and to give more public money to the charter industry's corporate welfare reform schools. And money is not the only thing that Dr. McQueen is offering charter corporations like Green Dot and KIPP. With the passage of the new state law th
NEA: "We're not opposed to charter schools."
Jeff Bryant, who remains a primary enabler of the corporate unions, NEA and AFT, recently interviewed NEA VP Becky Pringle at NetRoots. JB: Does that mean NEA is anti-charter? BP: We're not opposed to charter schools. We have started charter schools, and we have members in charter schools. But charters need to have specific criteria. They need to be accountable, controlled by democratically elect

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Will You Let Your Employer Microchip You? Just Say No!
And so it begins. A Wisconsin company is implementing a "voluntary" program where employees can be microchipped. They swear that they aren't using GPS technology to follow the employees. However, they say it is a convenience to the employees, allowing them to pay for things and get in and out of the building quickly. What's the worst that could happen? While this foray into treating employees like
If Your Prospective Employer Has Lots Of Turnover, Think Twice
All the craziness and turnover at the White House has many Americans wondering what anyone joining the Administration is thinking. But I see it all the time. Folks either desperate for a job or getting an offer that's off the charts decide they can handle whatever a difficult employer throws at them. They're wrong. First of all, let's look at that off-the-charts offer. It sounds too good to be tru
Can You Be Fired For Being A Racist A**hole? Yes. Well, Maybe. Probably.
So, a Twitter campaign has been outing folks who attended the Nazi/white supremacy/alt right rally outside the University of Virginia in which a Nazi murdered a protester and injured many others by plowing into them with a car. Some of those who have been outed were promptly fired. I've been asked whether firing someone for attending a racist rally is legal. The answer is yes. Well, maybe. Probabl

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Judge suspends Brazil government's decision to open up a national reserve for mining
The substitute judge of the 21st Regional Federal Court of the Federal District (TRF1), Rolando Valcir Spanholo, granted on Tuesday, Aug. 29, an injunction that suspends the decree of the Brazilian government that abolishes the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca). The request stemmed from a Public Civil Action that argues that the decree signed by President Temer puts protected area
381 new species discovered in the Amazon
New report reveals that, between 2014-2015, a new plant or animal species was discovered in the Amazon every 2 days - the fastest rate this century; New species include a fire-tailed titi monkey, honeycomb patterned stingray, pink river dolphin, a yellow-moustached lizard and a bird named after former US president Barack Obama; WWF is calling for urgent action to protect the forest, following a r
Nepal leads the way in snow leopard conservation at global summit
Bishkek, 23 August 2017 - Nepal has made conservation history by becoming the first country to launch its climate-smart snow leopard landscape management plan, leading the way in safeguarding the species and its habitat. Nepal's conservation plan launched today ahead of the International Snow Leopard Summit and Ecosystem Forum in Kyrgyzstan, addresses key current and emerging threats to snow leop
Global leaders head critical summit to save the snow leopard and its habitat, on which hundreds of millions depend
International Snow Leopard Summit and Ecosystem Forum, 23- 25 August, Bishkek Kyrgyzstan : World leaders will begin critical talks over the future of the snow leopard and its habitat; the headwaters for rivers on which hundreds of millions directly depend as a source of freshwater. WWF urges snow leopard range countries * , which include political powerhouses China, Russia and India, to bolster p
Belize moratorium on offshore oil activity landmark step forward for marine conservation
Belmopan, Belize, 18 August 2017– The Belize government's decision today to introduce critical legislation to establish a permanent moratorium on offshore oil activity in and around the Belize Barrier Reef has been welcomed by WWF, Oceana and other members of the Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage as a landmark step forward for the World Heritage site and marine conservation globally.
WWF deeply concerned over imminent certification of Mexican tuna fishery
Gland, Switzerland, 5 August 2017 – WWF has expressed its deep concern at the likely Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of the Northeastern Tropical Pacific tuna dolphin-set purse seine fishery. WWF had previously objected to this certification proposal due to its belief that impacts of the fishery on depleted dolphin populations have not been sufficiently examined and addressed, ther

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Pathetic performance of tidal power station lauded as "world record"
In a "record month" at the MeyGen tidal power project in the Pentland Firth... I'll just quote them: A tidal power station in the Pentland Firth between mainland Scotland and Orkney has broken the world record for electricity generation.... In an update on the progress of the MeyGen project, by Atlantis Resources, the company said it had generated 700 megawatt-hours of electricity in August, a

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Law and the Post-Conflict Protection of Women from Violence
The following is a guest post by Dr. Jillienne Haglund , Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Haglund is a contributor to a forthcoming special issue in Conflict Management and Peace Science on gender and political violence. All of the articles in the special issue are now available on Online First and several are currently available to download for free. In
Fall of Giants
Footage of toppled Confederate statues all over cities in the US reminded me of the events my homeland went through a couple of decades ago and might go through again in some years. Some experts already compared the toppling of Confederate statues with “Leninopad” – razing of Lenin statues in Ukraine, but renaming streets and bringing down monuments was a la mode in newly independent Russia as we
Minding Climate Change: Presidential Power and the US National Interest
This is a guest post by Manjana Milkoreit , Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University. Her research integrates international relations scholarship and cognitive theory to study actor motivations and policy design in global climate change politics. She is the author of Mindmade Politics: the Cognitive Roots of International Climate Governance (The MIT Press 20
Welcome to New Guest Ducks!
We are pleased to welcome some new guest Ducks, including an exciting new partnership. We also are pleased that guest bloggers, Lisa Gaufman , Jeff Stacey , Jeremy Youde , and Will Winecoff will continue to blog for the Duck. We wanted to thank all the guest bloggers who contributed last year including Maryam Deloffre , Alexis Henshaw , Charles Martel , Raul Pacheco-Vega , and Mira Sucharov. Our
On Race, Nationalism and “White Pride” in America
This is a guest post (begun as a set of hasty scribbles on Facebook in the wake of Charlottesville) by Sean Parson , Assistant Professor in the Departments of Politics and International Affairs and the MA program in Sustainable Communities at Northern Arizona University. He is the author o f Cooking up a Revolution: Food Not Bombs, Anarchist Homeless Activism and the Politics of Space (forthcomin
Preparing Files for Reappointment and Tenure: Some Sharp Guidance
This is a guest post by James Goldgeier , Professor of International Relations and former Dean at the School of International Service at American University, building on a twitter thread that addressed tenure and reappointment and the narratives people write that go into their packages. At many universities, the end of summer marks the beginning of the internal review process for faculty on the t

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The Total Solar Eclipse and Global Warming
The tallbloke site has a post on "Collecting Data Unique to a Solar Eclipse", apparently data of concern in climate and atmospheric science, but limited to the effect of a total solar eclipse upon that part of the outer atmosphere known as the ionosphere, not to the lower atmosphere--the troposphere--or the global mean surface temperature (the one measurement of interest to "global warming" clima

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John Kelly's Mission Impossible: You Can't Fix Stupid
By Manifesto Joe In a previous blog post, I made the mistake of overestimating Resident Donald Rump. I wrote that he isn't stupid in the classic sense. I absolutely take it back. He is not only batshit crazy like Nixon, he lacks Nixon's intelligence. He's quite possibly dumber than Il Doofus (Bush 43), and that's saying plenty. We've had crazy presidents before, and we've had profoundly stupid one

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Economic News , Data & views......August 31 , 2017....Quick hits for Thursday -1) Markets : Asia - Economic Calendar For Friday , Market Moving News & Data ; US - Stocks End Month On Positive Note , Major Indexes ( US & Europe Survive Turmoil Of August To End In The Green For August ) , Oil Patch News. 2) Tropical Storm Harvey Updates For Thursday. 3 Hurricane Irma Barreling Toward US - Now A Major Storm. 4) ) US Political Round Up - Non Hurricane Related News For Today. 5) Europe Financial News For Thursday. 6) Odds & Ends !
Markets.... fred walton ‏ @fredwalton216 39s 40 seconds ago fred walton Retweeted ForexLive Calendar for Friday.... fred walton added, ForexLive @ForexLive Economic data due from Asia today http:// news.forexlive.com/!/economic-dat a-due-from-asia-today-01-20170831 … LiveSquawk ‏ @LiveSquawk 4m 4 minutes ago BoJ: Reserve Balance Stands At JPY 322.3 Tln (prev JPY 322.4 Tln) BoJ: Current Account Ba
Economic News , Data & Views.....August 29 , 2017.....Quick Hits for Tuesday-1) Markets : Asia - Economic Calendar For Wednesday , UNSC Meeting On North Korea , Market Moving News & Data ; US - Stock Indexes Reverse Early Losses due To Harvey Flooding & North Korea Tensions To Finish Greece Today , Gasoline Still Powering Higher While US Crude Drops Again , Additional Items To Consider. 2) Tropical Storm Harvey Updates For Tuesday - Recent Key News For Texas & Louisiana. 3) US Politics - Non Harvey Related News. 4) Europe - Financial News Items To Consider Today. 5) Odds & Ends.
Markets.... fred walton ‏ @fredwalton216 21s 22 seconds ago fred walton Retweeted ForexLive Australia in focus later this evening... fred walton added, ForexLive @ForexLive Australian data releases today likely to impact FX - previews http:// news.forexlive.com/!/australian-d ata-releases-today-likely-to-impact-fx-previews-20170829 … fred walton ‏ @fredwalton216 44s 45 seconds ago fred walton Ret
Economic news , Data & Views....August 28 , 2017..... Quick Hits For Monday-1) Markets : Asia - Economic Calendar For Tuesday , North Korea Launches Three Ballistic Missiles Over Japan ; US - Stocks Have So-So Day ( Nasdaq Outshines S&P And Dow) , Oil Smacked Down & Gasoline Best Performer Among Energy Sector , Gold & Treasuries Also Shine Today. 2) Hurricane/ Tropical Storm Harvey Updates - News & Updates From Noon , Today's Notable Developments. 3) US Politics - Non "Harvey" Related US Political News. 4) Europe News For Monday - UK , Greece , Germany , France & Spain. 5) Odds & Ends - Primarily MENA Related News.
Markets.... fred walton ‏ @fredwalton216 36s 36 seconds ago fred walton Retweeted ForexLive Here's what's on tap... fred walton added, ForexLive @ForexLive Economic data due from Asia today http:// news.forexlive.com/!/economic-dat a-due-from-asia-today-01-20170828 … fred walton ‏ @fredwalton216 1m 1 minute ago fred walton Retweeted ForexLive North Korea launches three missiles over Japan on Tues

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Harvey Has Morphed into a Multi-Pronged Environmental Disaster ~Emily Atkin, New Republic Huge and mildly terrifying li...
Harvey Has Morphed into a Multi-Pronged Environmental Disaster ~Emily Atkin, New Republic Huge and mildly terrifying list of issues so far reported at petrochemical facilities after # Harvey , via @SierraClub *
Calculating Harvey’s Aftermath ~Leah Binkovitz, Urban Edge ~The disaster is shaping up to be one of the costliest yet, ...
Calculating Harvey’s Aftermath ~Leah Binkovitz, Urban Edge ~The disaster is shaping up to be one of the costliest yet, after hitting the fourth largest city with the second busiest port in the country. It also hit the Coastal Bend area particularly hard, including Port Aransas, caused flooding in Beaumont and Port Arthur and made landfall again in Louisiana. Read more. Louisiana shelters hundreds
Harvey makes landfall again, Texas death toll mounts from record floods ~Reuters Why Ordinary Citizens Are Acting as Fi...
Harvey makes landfall again, Texas death toll mounts from record floods ~Reuters Why Ordinary Citizens Are Acting as First Responders in Houston ~ The Atlantic Photo: Jon Bridgers, Houston Chronicle ~The ethos behind these efforts is straightforward and admirable: Some people are in trouble, and other people have the tools to help them. Why wouldn’t they? Clyde Cain, who runs a Cajun Navy Faceboo
Harvey Moves Back Over Water; Historic Rainfall Will Continue ~Dr. Jeff Masters, Weather Underground ~When we first saw...
Harvey Moves Back Over Water; Historic Rainfall Will Continue ~Dr. Jeff Masters, Weather Underground ~When we first saw the model predictions last week of widespread rain amounts for Houston of 15 – 25 inches, with some amounts as high as 40 inches, we issued the required “Catastrophic rains coming” forecast, but our view of the forecast was tinged with a sense of unreality. Could the models be w
Harvey's 2-day rain in Houston is 3 times floodwater pumped from New Orleans after Katrina ~ Nola.com ~For the 48 hours...
Harvey's 2-day rain in Houston is 3 times floodwater pumped from New Orleans after Katrina ~ Nola.com ~For the 48 hours ending at 11 a.m. Monday (Aug. 28), Harris County, Texas, which includes Houston, measured an average 23.7 inches of rain, which represents 732 billion gallons of water, said Jeff Lindner, a Harris County Flood Control District official. While sort of an apples to oranges compar
Flood Calamity Continues In Houston and Beyond; Harvey Edges Toward Coast ~Bob Henson, Weather Underground ~The nation’...
Flood Calamity Continues In Houston and Beyond; Harvey Edges Toward Coast ~Bob Henson, Weather Underground ~The nation’s worst flood disaster since Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy continued to unfold late Sunday across Houston and nearby parts of southeast Texas, as Tropical Storm Harvey punished the area with record-shredding rainfall. As of 6:00 pm CDT Sunday, Harvey was centered about 10 miles nort

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Using Resistance to benefit the middle class
Where will the tax cuts for the rich come from? You can bet that politicians won’t look for more progressivity in taxes, which means that […]
Is China setting the stage for war – or international intimidation?
A big question. A bad question. But what else is an American to think? China has been the strategic key to North Korea since the […]
Swamp heat rises on Trump as Seth Rich murder plot details explode on scene
The Alt. Left, main stream media, the Progressives, the Clintons, and the Swamp are all working together to keep America distracted from what could be […]
Liberals, establishment in shock on Confederate monument support!
A Poll paid for by NPR and PBS NewsHour, and conducted by Marist Poll, (none of the entities being anywhere near conservative) astonished the liberal […]
Corporate Chiefs abandoning Trump makes sense !!
It makes sense that corporate chiefs would abandon President Trump. T Hey did npt support him for office. Let’s talk about how corporations are owned […]
Legalizing Prostitution And HIV
My very own friend Jeni (name changed) is very upset from her life. She told me her story about the need and support her family […]

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It Pays To Have A Plan
Hurricane Harvey has laid bare the truth about Houston. Doug Saunders writes : It is one of the most racially segregated cities in the United States: Its north, east and south are at least 90 per cent non-white, while its centre and west are mostly white. These non-white neighbourhoods are home to 81 per cent of the city's open drainage ditches, 78 per cent of closed landfills, 84 per cent of car
It Won't Be Long
Houstonians are wading in waist deep water. Chemical plants are exploding. Devastation is the order of the day. Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan write : Houston, the Petro Metro, is home to one-quarter of the petroleum refining capacity in the United States. Include the entire Gulf Coast, and the percentage increases to half. In the midst of this massive storm, sprawling petrochemical facilities we
He Cannot Be Coddled
After Charlottesville, Michael Harris writes , Donald Trump becomes the touchstone by which we judge our own politicians: The Trump White House isn’t the only North American political institution that has lost touch with the real world. The Conservative Party of Canada must now confront a hard fact: Their current leader lacks the nerve to pull the party back to the centre of what might be called
Soft Power Works
While Donald Trump was threatening North Korea with "fire and fury," Canada secured the release of one of its citizens -- Hyeon Soo Lim -- from the Hermit Kingdom. Michael Harris writes that Justin Trudeau could have torn a page out of Donald Trump's playbook: Trudeau could have jabbed back. He could have said that North Korea was being run by a dictator in training pants, a misguided, vicious ch
Leaving All Of Us In Poverty
In this weekend's Globe and Mail , Amira Elghawaby asks , "Where has all our empathy gone?" That's a question a lot of us are asking after Charlottesville. Here in Canada, Elghawaby writes, we have no reason to look down our noses at out neighbours to the South: The events in Charlottesville, Va., are only the most recent to explode on our screens – and while this is happening more apparently in
On The Edge Of The Abyss
From the chair he occupies at McMaster University, Henry Giroux comments on what is happening in the United States. As Donald Trump edges closer to a confrontation with North Korea, Giroux's take on Trump rings truer than ever: Ignorance is a terrible wound when it is self-inflicted, but it becomes a dangerous plague when the active refusal to know combines with power. President Trump’s lies, lac

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Sunday Rant May Be Delayed (Again)
It is Labour Day weekend here in Canada (as well as the US..), and for this weekend I have been spending a lot of time with my family and relatives... I have so much on my plate over the next few days that I will probably be delayed in getting tomorrow's rant out.... I will do my best, and there is indeed a lot to talk about from my own personal perspective... But again, family does take priority
The Syrian War To Free Itself From The Evil US/Israel/NATO Criminal Cabal: Updates On Present Situation, And I Was Right About The Kurds And US Committing Genocide In Raqqa!
It has been about a week since my last report on the situation in Syria... But once again the news could not be any better for the good guys in that war aka the Syrian Government Forces (SAA) and their Allies.... I figure I would cover some of the major issues in that continuing war for the Syrians freeing themselves from the evil cabal here.. First, we have the situation in eastern Hama province,
Twenty Years Ago Today, Princess Diana Murdered
Yes, with all of the terrible news still coming in today about the situation in Texas and Louisiana with Hurricane Harvey doing its damage... And of course new reports coming out about a more deadly monsoon hitting the Indian Ocean area around Bangladesh.... It is hard to believe that some 20 years have now passed with the murder of Princess Diana in that motorcade "accident" in that tunnel in Par
Important Health News: As I Have Long Suspected, Your Cellular Phone Is Making You Sick!
Many that are regular readers to this blog remember how just over a year ago I got involved with the local community in this city that I live in, in their fight against the local Telecommunications company that wanted to erect a large Cellular phone service tower directly in a residential area.... I gave many of the local "activists" that were against this cell tower as much information that I cou
Google Censorship At It Again: I Have Been Given "Warnings" About The Content At This Site!
I was wondering when the Jews behind Google would eventually get around to this site and try to shut me down..... I am informing my readers that I have received several "warnings" from the criminals behind "Google" that I have been in "violation" of their "set standards" for some of the articles at this blog...They have also given me warning that if I continue with some of the material here, I wil
While America Teeters On Economic Collapse, And Houston Is In Ruins From Hurricane Harvey: US Government Gives Criminal State Of Israel A Gift Of 17 Additional F35 POS Fighters!
Some people have been wondering why I have not touched on the massive Hurricane Harvey that has destroyed so much of the Texas Gulf Coast.... I cover a lot of articles here at this blog with the focus primarily being the LIES of our history and the criminals that want to have our nations destroyed.... However, my thoughts are with my friends in the United States and about the devastation from Hurr

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Electric Universe - Mars - Maven
marineris, yes I know... :) seriously, this post has NOTHING TO DO with the NASA project MAVEN and everything to do with 'what might have actually happened' (electrically) to the planet Mars, no more than 13,000 years ago as the proto-Saturnian system entered the Solar System...
Electric Universe - Bob Johnson - revisiting the Electric Sun
Real Science aka that place where outlandish theories are rigourously tested by unforgiving physical observation, is respectable only when it allows its pristine to be shattered by a new beak.... The Electric Universe or EU-community is currently a big fan of the Anode Sun: a place where a localised sphere of positive charge is balanced by flows of negative charge much like how an electrical capac
Electric Universe - Astrotas 2014 presentation - Thornhill and Talbott deserve a Nobel Prize
here's Wal Thornhill's 2014 presentation to the attendees of the Astrotas (Alternative Science and Technology Research Organisation of Tasmania) Conference in October of that year. I'm not sure if I've seen this before but if you want to understand the Electric Universe from its inception to its current iteration there's no better introductory video to watch than this. Concise, informative and to
Star Citizen - Gamescom 2017 - pre-3.0 alpha footage is not encouraging
oh dear... well, they did it, they released (at least visually demonstrated) the dying duck that is Star Citizen's pre-3.0 release. It's full of bugs. And don't get me wrong, I've demo'd early software at E3, namely Ghostmaster from Empire Games, so I know dev's never easy. But this Gamescom demo seems loads buggier than last year's excellent demo . And it looks like there's STILL no door-based g
Electric Universe - axial tilt families - whatever happened to Neptune?
the image above shows the axial tilt angles of the planets in the (current) arrangement of the Solar System, from Mercury out to Pluto. The EU or Electric Universe contends that brown-dwarf star proto-Saturn brought with it Mars and Earth and plasmatically spawned Venus as it entered the Solar System some 10-12,000 years ago. But EU-theory doesn't mention Neptune... it's only three more degrees o
Electric Universe -- Cookie-cutter world-building Robert Yeahright -- increased gravity during Saturn-Sun transition....
in 2000, Neal Adams came out with this Expanding Earth claim, and I loved it. With its regions of mid-Atlantic crustal expansion, it gave (me) convincing evidence that 'the Earth got too heavy to support Dinosaurs' and that's why they went extinct. However, there's a problem - TIME. It would take 'too long' for Adams-like i.e. millennia-long non-source, Earth expansion to have an effect. And we a

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Q: Is Houston flooding a sign of global warming?
Q: Is Houston flooding a sign of global warming – or what the fellow travellers now call “climate change”? A: No. No, it’s not. To explain why not, here’s climate scientist Roy Spencer : The flood disaster unfolding in Houston is certainly very unusual. But so are other natural weather disasters, which have always occurred and always will occur.… His first point: “ Floods aren’t due to weather .”
You can’t fix poverty with loot-and-plunder economics
Anti-poverty campaigners in general exhibit little understanding of what it would take to actually relieve poverty. They claim, for example, that high taxes and a so-called “living wage” will alleviate poverty and raise general wealth, without realising that it is the goods and services those wages buy (that must first be produced) that constitute the real wage by which everyone is finally paid –
Every party’s policy this election
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Quote of the Day: Politics itself is the cursed paw …
“And then election policy announcements started getting a little strange… [like they often do when politicians start talking policy. It’s like the] old folk tale: A couple asked the monkey paw for £200; their son was killed in an industrial accident and the company paid them £200 compensation. They then wished their son’s return but thought better of it on hearing something shambling in the darkn
Quote of the Day: On taxing the rich (and the semi-rich)
“In view of what they hear from the experts, the people cannot be blamed for their ignorance and their helpless confusion. If an average housewife struggles with her incomprehensibly shrinking budget and sees a tycoon in a resplendent limousine, she might well think that just one of his diamond cuff links would solve all her problems. She has no way of knowing that if all the personal luxuries of
Quote of the Day: On Al Gore’s predictions
“Ten years after Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ and its guilt- and fear-producing predictions, examine just how ‘accurate’ his ‘junk science’ proved to be on his way to the bank: Rising Sea Levels – inaccurate and misleading. Al was even discovered purchasing a beachfront mansion! Increased Tornadoes – declining for decades. New Ice Age in Europe – they’ve been spared; it never happened. South Sa

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Pardon?
by wj I had been under the impression that the President's pardon power was pretty much absolute. But once again IANAL raises its interesting head. After his Presidential pardon, Joe Arpaio's lawyers naturally filed a petition with the court to have his conviction vacated. But the Arizona Republic reports that, rather than just doing so, the judge has decided to hear oral arguments before acting
Bridge and Troubled Waters
by Doctor Science I drove back to NJ from New England on Saturday, and unexpectedly found myself one of the first 100,000 or so people to cross the new Tappan Zee Bridge. Right now, only the westbound lanes are open; eastbound is scheduled to open in June 2018. My report: As bridges go , not bad![1] I was already used to the Old TZB, and the new bridge is only a few feet higher. It actually sets
They didn't have magic markers in the Bronze Age!
by liberal japonicus Hope I'm not stepping on wj's excellently titled previous post (I do love me a good post title), but I thought I would open one about Houston, flooding and how it is ridiculous that these pointy headed squints are pointing at climate as being a possible cause when Houston has a lesbian mayor. Anyway, what provides my title is this Meanwhile, North of Beaumont, Tyler County Ju
Houston, Flint, New Orleans -- Libertarian Heaven?
by wj The Count said in the previous thread: Watch local Texas municipalities try to implement more rational land use and building code policies and then see how vermin libertarian republican right wing crypto christian fascists in the Governor's Manse and in the State House deprive their local rights and thwart all improvement. And then, moments after I read that, I came across this from the Eco
Will no one think of the poor racists?
by Ugh It's 2017, do you know where your neo-Nazis are America? Meanwhile, the NYTimes is showing us their terrific editorial balance on the issue by letting Erick Fncking Erickson write an op-ed on yesterday's events. Erick. Fncking. Erickson. Not gonna link. Both sides, people, both sides. U! S! A! Jesus. Open Thread.
E Day
by Doctor Science I'm spending E-Day in Connecticut, where there weather is decent but the eclipse only so-so. I am so consumed with envy for totality-watchers (including Mr Dr Science, who's road-tripping to NC) I've been dreaming I was one of you. The other night I dreamed I was trying to map the totality path through Block Island – because it was a dream the path was very wiggly, though even d

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From Jenna Orkin Explosions at Houston chemical plant after it was flooded by Harvey If Korean War Breaks Out, Seoul Wi...
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Understanding Mr. Big's Domination Program
I first heard Thomas Barnett (then an instructor at the Naval War College) do a version of this talk called Pentagon's New Map around 2002. I watched the three hour version on CSPAN one evening. He was on that occasion introduced as the "strategy guy" for George W. Bush's Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld. Barnett's arrogant presentation was ultimately about how the US's job under corporate global
Don't Let This Story Die
One of the best anti-war documentaries of all time!
Loukie Lofchie Presente!
Climate Change Alert!
The Coming Storm
It's sadly ironic that one of the strongest regions of climate change deniers is the south/southwest of the US - with Texas being one of the top denier states. One can't help but wonder what folks there are now thinking about Hurricane Harvey's relationship to climate change? Nobody is arguing that climate change caused the storm, but it is likely to have made it much worse. We've been hearing fo

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For What its Worth
America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. Barak Obama handed a surveillance state and war machine to a maniac.
hackers
Hack the Planet !
Harry Truman - A Democrat
"If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances."