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How I Did On My 2017 Predictions
Last year my predictions were all gloom and doom. After all, Republicans have control of the Presidency, the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court. Plus they are appointing federal judges in droves after holding up those appointments for years under President Obama. I expected a quick rain of disaster for employees. I was only partially wrong. It's been more like a series of showers. Here's how
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“When the SDF was shocked”- Azaz Opposition Activist’s Analysis of Russian-Turkish Relations, Afrin, & Why US Will Dump Kurds for Turkey
When the SDF was shocked” – An Azaz Opposition Activist’s Analysis of Russian-Turkish Relations, Afrin, & Why US will Dump the Kurds for Turkey Abd al-Qadir Abu Yusuf interviewed by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Syria Comment – Jan 31, 2017 Abd al-Qadir Abu Yusuf of Northern Storm. (On right, leaning on his elbow) Taken by Aymenn while on a visit to Northern Storm in Dec 2014. See Special Report: Northe
US Policy Toward the Levant, Kurds and Turkey – By Joshua Landis
US Policy Toward the Levant, Kurds and Turkey By Joshua Landis January 15, 2018 The State Department has turned the page on Turkey for it no longer views Ankara as a reliable US partner. Many argue that Washington will abandon Syria’s Kurds in order to assuage Turkish anger. I doubt this. Washington expects more anti-US actions from Erdogan. Many in DC believe that Turkey’s rising Islamism, harde
A Sustainable United States Policy for North Syria, the Kurds, Turkey and the Syrian Government – by Landis and Barber
A Sustainable U.S. Policy for North Syria, the Kurds, Turkey and the Syrian Government By Joshua Landis and Matthew Barber Syria Comment – January 24, 2018 This article is a “part-two” to the previous article “ U.S. Policy Toward the Levant, Kurds, and Turkey ,” which warned that the United State’s decision to back Kurdish nationalism in Northern Syria in an uncompromising fashion would provoke n
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My first podcast interview, over at Break Nutrition
Raphi Sirt of Break Nutrition interviewed me last week for a podcast. This was a far-ranging interview that took me to some unexpected places - but was a chance to expand on the big-picture stuff and the unanswered questions around the situational hypercholesterolaemia that marks the lean mass hyper-responder phenotype and the lessons about insulin resistance hidden in statin trials. http://breakn
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Hong Kong Ivory Ban is Now Law: WWF Says it's Time to Close All Asian Illegal Wildlife Markets
WWF - Latest News / 3d
[HONG KONG – 31 January 2018] - A ban on the domestic ivory trade with no compensation by 2021 and an increase in the maximum penalty for wildlife crime offences to 10 years was approved today by the Legislative Council. WWF welcomes the new legislation and would like to thank all the supporters that helped to make this happen. "A ban on ivory sales with heavier penalties in Hong Kong shows a cle
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Mexico: Strange Beings in Analco (1973)
Mexico: Strange Beings in Analco (1973) Article by Samuel Luna Aritama, Photos by Baltazar Torres(*) LA PRENSA Newspaper Two Little Men with "Straw-Like Fur" Reported ANALCO - Puebla, September 23 1973 - Two strange beings whose bodies were coverd with fur "similar to straw" were seen by two shepyherds near a gorge located between the mountans at the foot of this community. These living beings me
Mexico: Enigmatic Object Recorded Over Popocatepetl's Crater
Source: PLANETA UFO (Argentina) and Diario CAMBIO (Mexico) Date: January 15, 2018 Mexico: Enigmatic Object Recorded Over Popocatepetl's Crater Staff/Diario Cambio A new video of an alleged unidentified flying obejct flying over the Popocatepetl Volcano's crater has been shared over the Internet. VIDEO AT: https://www.facebook.com/diario.cambio1/videos/918076715018976/ Inexplicata Podcasts coverin
Argentina: Specialist Analyzes UFO Photograph; Forecasts Nationwide Wave
Source: Info Blanco Sobre Negro (infoblancosobrenegro.com) Date: 01/26/2018 An article by Martin Mazzoleni Argentina: Specialist Analyzes UFO Photograph; Forecasts Nationwide Wave Some days ago, broadcaster Fernando Figoni published a photo of last Tuesday's storm on his Facebook account, showing a luminous flying object. The post had great media impact and the alleged UFO sighting was reproduced
Thoughts on Bell-Shaped UFOs
Some Thoughts on Bell-Shaped UFOs By Scott Corrales The year 2018 has kicked off with a flurry of UFO sightings (CE-1s, in the Hynek classification) in Argentina and Mexico, fanning hopes for a year of intense anomalous activity in both hemispheres. The efforts made by Luis Burgos and his team with the Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía (FAO) are nothing short of heroic; the same can be said of Alf
Mexico: Egg-Shaped UFO Over Mexico City Airport
Source: Alfonso Salazar Date: January 26, 2018 A UFO Over Mexico City Airport Alfonso Salazar writes: "This afternoon, Friday the 26th of January of 2018, the time being 4:50 in the afternoon, several aeronautical engineers working on a teardown of a Boeing 767 in the northern sector of the airport reported seing a black, egg-shaped object that remained in view for 20 mintues before heading off t
Mexico: Dark Object Photographed Over Mexico City Airport
Our friend and colleague Alfonso Salazar reports: "Today, Sunday, January 21, 2018, the time being 7 o'clock in the evening, a black flying object was sighted as it made up-and-down movements. The UFO remained over the Mexico City Airport area at an estimated altitude of 1000 meters." ( Photo credit : Alfonso Salazar. All rights reserved) Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal
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Megalithomania - Howard Crowhurst - Nebra Sky Disc and location data
Nebra Sky Disc I'm surprised I haven't blog'd about this before, since I did read about it a long while ago. Anyway, in this video Howard Crowhurst reveals his numerical/astronomical investigation into the 1,600 BC i.e. 3,600 years old, Nebra Sky Disc artefact. He highlights the functions of the 39 holes punched out around the disc's perimeter which hold the key to what might have been a 20-day m
Electric Universe - charge exchange reaction - outer planets of the solar system
Prior to starting today's blog, I'd like to note that, "Iff electric boundary layers in these star-forming Birkeland Currents exist," then it safely demonstrates how and where planets orbit their star. Layers = orbits, and should become more off-plane as the outer planets are allowed to orbit a 'fatter' orbit potential in the solar polar vector. Q: can large electric fields power Jupiter's super-m
Russia Today - Jesse Ventura - The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Day The Earth Stood Still is about The Electric Universe... of course I hadn't realised this wehn I was a kid, but I saw the 1950s film just the other day and I was mesmerised by it. Especially when they 'turned off the electricity' as Klaatu explains what happened when 'nothing worked' for half an hour, as a demonstration of Gort's ingerited power. Jesse Ventura also loves this film, hence t
Electric Universe - HC Unit - rotating plasmoid found!
you all know I had this dream back in 1985 of water flowing down a constant slope past a spinning engine that (if overloaded) spat out excess water WITH the flow of water or AGAINST it. I always suspected I'd had a Kekule-like revelatory dream about an atomic model for hydrogen... And I could never really come up with a physical model for this 'machine'. I surmised therefore that space was an eth
Wallace Thornhill - The A-Z of Electric Universe - forthcoming new book...
eleven years ago, (American mythologist) David Talbott and (Australian scientist) Wallace Thornhill brought out their seminal and eponymous book on the Electric Universe. The thing about Wal and David's co-authored EU-book is it drew together mythology and science in a totally unique way that (iff valid-ified) will TOTALLY REWRITE how Science looks at fundamental issues like The Age of the Solar
Star Citizen - interview questions - 3D prototype demos
modular 600i for me, please I've been thinking (more and more) that I'd like to go to USA (Austin or L.A. office) and work with the CIG (Cloud Imperium Games) on their still-in-pre-alpha game Star Citizen. And I've thought a lot of how I might approach them, what cunning sort of letter I'd write to entice them, as currently there are no vacancies at the company that might cover the senior level r
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Jenna Orkin 'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth If Workers Slack Off, the Wristb...
Jenna Orkin 'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth If Workers Slack Off, the Wristband Will Know. (And Amazon Has a Patent for It.) Elon Musk's Tesla and SA Labor reach deal to give solar panels and batteries to 50,000 homes Holocaust denier poised to claim GOP nomination in Illinois race for Congress No More Paper Cups : video . Stunning Breakthrough in Comput
Jenna Orkin Post Carbon Sustainability Town Hall - Corvallis Registration is now open for the 2018 Sustainability Town ...
Jenna Orkin Post Carbon Sustainability Town Hall - Corvallis Registration is now open for the 2018 Sustainability Town Hall, to be held on Monday, March 12, from 7 to 9 pm at the CH2MHill Alumni Center on the OSU campus. Save your place by registering HERE . Peaked Energy and Climate Chao Peak Money: a permanent change Peak Electricity was 2007 in the USA What the Frack? Scraping the bottom of th
From Jenna Orkin Doctors select first women to have ‘three-person babies’ Nanoparticle vaccine for universal protection...
From Jenna Orkin Doctors select first women to have ‘three-person babies’ Nanoparticle vaccine for universal protection against influenza The G.O.P. Tax Cut Is Draining the Treasury Even Faster Than Expected Cargill Invests In Facial Recognition...For Cows "One Typhoon Away From Full Breach" - US Nuke-Test Dome Leaking Fatal Radiation Into Pacific Ocean "Visegrad Four" Group Of European Nations S
From Jenna Orkin Fidel Castro's eldest son kills himself: reports CDC to cut global disease outbreak prevention by 80 p...
From Jenna Orkin Fidel Castro's eldest son kills himself: reports CDC to cut global disease outbreak prevention by 80 percent This WaPo article has been removed. Here's a related article from The Hill. CDC to cut back disease work in foreign countries: report China's Steps Towards Saving the Planet video . Loaded Grenade Launcher Found in Goodwill Donations Pile Taiwan Holds Live-Fire War-Drills
From Jenna Orkin 300 Kinds of Vegetables on Small Farm in Middle of Detroit video . New from The Black Vault: A COMPLET...
From Jenna Orkin 300 Kinds of Vegetables on Small Farm in Middle of Detroit video . New from The Black Vault: A COMPLETE INDEX OF JFK DOCUMENTS WITHHELD – 29 JAN., ’18 Second Person Of Interest Identified In Las Vegas Massacre Unknown Group Pays $175 Million For 74,000 Acres In Nevada For Mysterious Ethereum Project Declassified Docs Expose UK's Secret Cold War Plan To Nuke Mid-East Oil Fields Ge
From Jenna Orkin Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science Stephen Hawking and leading doctors t...
From Jenna Orkin Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science Stephen Hawking and leading doctors to take Jeremy Hunt to court over 'back-door privatisation' of NHS Desperate Alaskans Turn To Government For Food, Healthcare As Recession Deepens These Are The 6 Traders Who Were Just Arrested For Manipulating The Gold Market Corrupt Baltimore Cops Admit Planting Guns, Using GPS-
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Is the blogosphere dying?...
to be replaced with Facecrap, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram? I don't think so. William Jacobson, over at Legal Insurrection, posted Surviving the death of the blogosphere, back on Jan. 28th, and it got me to thinking about why we do what we're doing. Over the past few years I've come to rely on my news and opinion from an ever decreasing pool of people. I rarely go to MSM, including Fox The la
Melania...
this is how you wear a pants suit, Hillary. A message for libtards: Tick Tock Amazon: Great deals today in Computers and Accessories
Super Bowl Sunday...
promises to be very, very cold. Tomorrow's temperature in Minneapolis is expected to top out at 6° with a wind of 10 mph. That works out to a wind chill factor of about -10°. Good luck if you have to stand in line to get into the gazillion dollar stadium. Meantime, every little commie dissident group known to man and beast is planning mega protests over absolutely everything. They're really ticke
Trump arrives in Davos...
Hey, feminists, behold an alpha male. Who needs slot machines for a rush when we have Amazon Lightning Deals ? I seriously could spend hours perusing the lightning deals - but I wisely don't, and you shouldn't either. I figure the best deals are on the first few pages. I receive a small commission when you purchase an item through my links at no additional cost to you - and I thank you.
What has been lost is now found. About those recovered text messages: I'll let Hannity speak for me...
because I'm all tapped out. Heading to Costco to decompress. I would suggest that you visit my comment section on this post and watch the videos that commenter TuNeCedeMalisPJS posted. Predictably, the first one, Why Women DESTROY NATIONS * / CIVILIZATIONS - and other UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS, has been flagged by YouTube as being "offensive" to some viewers, and therefore cannot be embedded and comme
The upcoming week...
will it be pivotal in our country's history? One thing that will be pivotal around here is actually turning on our big screen TV to watch President Donald J. Trump give his SOTU on Tuesday. The millionaire low-life celebrities are planning their own state-of-the union. Who cares? I've heard the Grammy's sucked. Was there actually any music presented? No matter how you spin it, a bunch of half nak
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The Grotesque Chaos of Claire Kober’s Haringey
Guest post from David Osland The resignation of a council leader would normally be no biggie. I mean, I’m guessing entirely here, but presumably that happens in towns or cities across Britain several times a year, for one reason or another. These things usually merit a run of front pages in the local press, and perhaps a short mention or two nationally. They are then swiftly forgotten, as just an
Labour Councils and Party Discipline
Some good political news for a change. Council Leader Claire Kober of Haringey has announced her decision to step down as leader and councillor this coming May to take on "new challenges". This, of course, has nothing to do with the rebellion of her own local party and trade unions, the opposition of the local Labour MPs and the unanimous NEC decision to issue advice and offer mediation between h
The Brexit Dream Team Delusion
The Times is probably the most famous newspaper in the world and is regarded by the establishment as their paper of record. How sad it is then to see this pillar of the press become the politics equivalent of Hello magazine. Today's front page, "Brexiteers plot to installs 'dream team' at No 10", is gossipy copy typical of Tim Shipman. Theresa May is facing a coup "Tory MPs claim". A cabinet Brex
Five Most Popular Posts in January
Five takes so hot you need oven gloves to handle them. 1. Toby Young and the Taming of Higher Education 2. The Conservative Party's Eugenics Problem 3. Labour NEC Fallout 4. What is the Brexit Stamp Collection? 5. Tony Blair and the Collapse of Centrist Politics What were you doing to see the New Year in? Speaking personally, I was spitting feathers at the news Toby Young had been appointed to th
The Conservative Party's Eugenics Problem
To find one leading Conservative mouthing off about eugenics is unfortunate, the incid ence of others indicates something else . We know about Toby Young, the self-styled "Toadmeister" and his hanging around with Nazis and paedophile apologists at a eugenics conference. He was joined this week by Ben Bradley, the Tories' new youth supremo for ill-advised blog posts advocating vasectomies for the
Tony Blair and the Collapse of Centrist Politics
Tony and Blair. Two words conjoined guaranteed to draw a sigh of disapproval from, well, nearly everybody. And I regret to record that when it comes to daft things said to the press, he's been at it again . In his interview with the paper of Fleet Street's highest profile editor , Blair doesn't say a great deal. It's all a bit "blah blah New Labour was fine blah blah Corbyn evil blah". Specifical
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Inequality 34, Eric Jurado on the richest 1%
Another good article from a friend, Eric. Reposting this. The idol ofequality February 01, 2018 at 12:01 am By Eric Jurado Aren’t we all supposed to be equal? And yet the gap between rich and poor just keeps growing. We need to maintain equality among people. Isn’t vigorous government action necessary to keep the playing field level—to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking more than their fai
BWorld 182, Asia Liberty Forum 2018 in Jakarta
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last Monday. “There is no evidence that fuel and electricity subsidies benefited the poor. There is no evidence that trade protection benefited the poor. Elimination of subsidies if compensated by reduction of cost doing business (corruption) will help the poor.” — Muhamad Chatib Basri, presentation about Indonesia energy and food subsidies, EFN Asia conferenc
China Watch 25, Benham Rise/ Philippine Rise and Chinese exploration
These were some of the news last January 22-24, 2018. So President Duterte would keep his kow-tow humiliation to China? Last January 24, these are just two of the many news reports on the subject. This irked Prof. Jay Batongbacal of UP College of Law and a friend from UP Sapul student org. So last January 24, Jay posted this in his fb wall, it was shared by 8,000+ people. ------------ FILIPINOS H
BWorld 181, Effects of Supreme Court TRO on RCOA
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last January 18. “The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers… The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.” — Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy Geographical monopolies in electricity distribution are among the last remaining state-created monopolies in the c
WHO must go back to basics
I am reposting this good article by a friend, Philip Stevens, published in BusinessWorld last Thursday, January 18. ------- To maintain relevance, WHO must go back to basics AS one of 34 executive board members of the World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Geneva next week, the Philippines shares a pivotal role in setting the global health agenda for the next year. The WHO’s work has never be
Pictures from UP Diliman, 1985-1987
Mula sa baul ni Fidel Nemenzo at ibang mga friends sa UP, these photos strike nostalgia and happy memories. Below, in one of the group photos of the Independent Student Alliance (ISA) student party during the UP University Student Council (USC) elections. Among the people here: Agnes Camacho, Rowena Alvarez, Alan Ortiz, Marie Sharon Guerrero, Sheila Espine Villaluz, Doby Pineda, Jay Batongbacal,
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Financial Viruses
Canada is doing well on international surveys these days. Alan Freeman writes : Another of those international rankings came out last month, this time courtesy of U.S. News and World Report. It purports to list the Best Countries in the World. Canada did great. We were No. 2, just behind Switzerland. And to top it off, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was viewed as the most respected world leader, a
No Time To Sleep
Robin Sears writes that social media have pioneered four new techniques -- disappearing ads, fake senders, massive targeted volumes and anonymous sponsors. Each represents a clear and present danger to democracies. He illustrates how they work and what their implications are: You ride the streetcar home one spring morning next year, flipping through missed messages after a frantic work day. A twe
Not Very Bright
Walter Shapiro writes that the Nunes memo is a 21st Century version of the Piltdown Man: perhaps the most famous fraud in the history of paleontology [which] combined a 600-year-old skull, an orangutan’s jaw and a chimpanzee’s tooth to feign being the remains of the Missing Link between man and the apes. The memo suggests that, in 2016, when the FBI applied for a FISA warrant to investigate Carte
What They Don't Want But Need
The standoff between Alberta and British Columbia has put Justin Trudeau in a bind. But he put himself in that bind before the governments of the two provinces decided to go to war over the Kinder-Morgan pipeline. Trudeau argued that pipelines could be built if Canadians paid a carbon tax. Tom Walkom writes : Notley brought in a carbon tax. Trudeau approved Kinder Morgan. This was supposed to be
The Time Is Now
Goblaization caused massive dislocation around the world. And, as robots take over the workplace, that dislocation will continue. Larry Elliott writes : In some ways, the debate that was taking place between the tech industry, politicians and academics in Davos last week was similar to that which surrounded globalisation in the early 1990s. Back then, it was accepted that free movement of goods,
Is The BBC Normailizing Roger Stone?
There has been a concerted effort in the United States to normalise Donald Trump. But Jonathan Freedland wonders if that effort is moving beyond that country's shores. He points to a recent interview BBC personality John Humphrys did with Roger Stone, one on Donald Trump's close associates and Paul Manafort's business partner. Freedland writes that Humphrys made no attempt to offer background on
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Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, February 4th, 2018
Northerntruthseeker / 1d
Sunday, and in spite of so many other issues on my plate these days I am here to do my rant! Yes, I have been a busy person these last few days taking care of my sick mother who is of course one heck of a stubborn mule.... She is one that loves to be pandered and especially when she is ill... I was basically at her beck and call over the last while, spending time with her and doing what I could t
The Syrian War To Free Itself From The Evil US/Israel/NATO Scourge: Latest Updates, And US Backed "Rebels" Shot Down Russian Aircraft
Northerntruthseeker / 2d
As I said in my last short article.. I have a lot of catching up to do... And I figure I would start with what in the hell has been happening in Syria... Yes, the good guys, the Syrian government forces (SAA) and their Russian allies have indeed launched a major offensive over the last week to reduce and destroy what is left of the Idlib pocket in northern Syria.... And the SAA is now advancing to
Status of Northerntruthseeker
Northerntruthseeker / 2d
First, I do want to apologize to readers... I was planning to do some significant "catching up" by posting a multitude of articles at this site over the last two days, but family business called me away... I have been spending the last few days with my mother who has been a bit under the weather and of course at her advanced age it has been hard for her to recuperate..... I and the rest of our fam
Important Health News: Vaccines DO NOT WORK! This Year's Flu "Vaccine" Effectiveness Not Significantly Different Than Zero!
Northerntruthseeker / 4d
It has been amazing to see the amount of people in this part of central Canada contract the latest "strain" of Influenza this year... I have seen colleague after colleague at work as well as many who I run into on a daily basis come down so hard with this very potent strain and I always ask many of them the same question... Did you go out and get the flu shot this year? The answer is in about 60%
Baby, Its Cold Outside Part IV: Arctic Cold Returns, And Snow Elsewhere On Planet That Has Not Seen Snow In Hundreds Of Years!
Northerntruthseeker / 4d
Well, that temporary "respite" that I told everyone about last week here in the frozen tundra of central Canada is now over.... And near record cold temperatures have now come back here as another Arctic cold front returns with a vengeance.... It is so freaking cold that this morning for example the temperatures fell to a near record -30C (-22F) with a "wind chill" value of -40C (-40F)...... We ar
Why Is THIS Not In The News Everywhere? Criminal State Of Israel Force Sterilizes Its African Immigrants!
Northerntruthseeker / 5d
I continue to watch my own country, Canada, allow every illegal migrant worker and "refugee" from those shitholes across the planet flood across our southern border and be allowed to come into this nation where they will get free welfare, free food and lodging, free eduation, etc, etc.. While never having to change their tribal and third world ways to conform with Canadian culture... To me, this i
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Making facts everyone knows secret doesn’t protect crime victims, accused persons or democracy … so who benefits?
PHOTO: Nothing to see here, people, please move along … It should be pretty clear by now that Canada’s legal mechanisms to protect victims of crimes and the rights of accused persons haven’t kept up with the digital era in which we live. In case you’re part of the tiny minority of Albertans who have […] The post Making facts everyone knows secret doesn’t protect crime victims, accused persons or
I’m so proud to have known, voted for and written about Dave Barrett
PHOTO: Dave Barrett and the author in February 2008. The death yesterday at 87 of Dave Barrett, premier of British Columbia from 1972 to 1975, is a huge loss to all Canadians. While Mr. Barrett’s government served for a short time, it left Canada and British Columbia with a huge legacy that lives on nearly […] The post I’m so proud to have known, voted for and written about Dave Barrett appeared
Groundhog Day 2018: Liberty Conservative ‘Didsbury Derek’ dispatched into deepest darkness
PHOTOS: Derek Fildebrandt as he hoped to be perceived when he went hunting in rural Alberta (photo grabbed from his Facebook account). It didn’t work out as planned. Below: Mr. Fildebrandt as he appeared around the Alberta Legislature, United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney, and former UCP Caucus member Don MacIntyre (Photo: David Dodge, Green […] The post Groundhog Day 2018: Liberty Conse
Why Alberta’s NDP would likely prefer a Liberal government in Victoria and B.C.’s NDP just might prefer the UCP in Edmonton
PHOTOS: Yoga enthusiasts on the lawn of the B.C. Legislature in Victoria, probably focusing the energy of the cosmos to make Alberta’s bitumen go away. Below: The Alberta Legislature in Edmonton at about the same time of year. There’s nobody on the lawn because it’s too darned cold. Below the lovely architecture, a steely-eyed Alberta […] The post Why Alberta’s NDP would likely prefer a Liberal g
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo tops Audreys Bestseller List
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Jan. 28, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls – Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo 2. The Alice Network – […] The post Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Ca
Forgotten amid pipeline war brouhaha, new study details failure of Oilsands Big Five to control emissions
PHOTOS: There’s no Plan B! And Alberta’s five largest oilsands producers have set no targets let alone taken action to get their emissions in line with the Paris Climate Agreement. (Illustration: Parkland Institute.) Below: Parkland researcher and study author Ian Hussey (Photo: Parkland Institute), Parkland researcher David Janzen (Photo: Facebook), Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and […] The post
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The Age of Envy
Envy was born as the runt of the litter, but he's been slowly killing off his siblings. "Tax The Rich!" "Hang the 1%!" "Pay your fair share!" "Check your privilege!" "Free uni!" "Free housing!" "FREE! FREE! FREE!" Envy-- the hatred of the good for being the good -- is everywhere, and everywhere is its destruction. Today we live in the Age of Envy . But there is a solution... Content is copyright
QotD: On "the wall"
“If the cost of immigrants is the issue, is an 18 billion dollar wall OK? When it reaches that point, the idea of [the alleged cost to] the welfare state as a motivation for stopping immigration seems rather thin.” ~ Steve Rogers [Hat tip Stu Hayashi] . Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with link and attribution.
Victorian artists are too racy for 2018
This Victorian fantasy above is too racy for 2018. John William Waterhouse's 1896 painting of Hylas and the Nymphs, of a young man being lured to his doom by spectral young swimmers, has been removed "temporarily" from the Manchester Galery to create "a conversation." Clare Gannaway, the gallery’s curator of contemporary art, said the aim of the removal was to provoke debate, not to censor. .. “I
Bonus Quote of the Day: On prohibition
"We have to ask ourselves as lawmakers, has the prohibition on cannabis been effective? ... We know from the number of people who are doing it -- from police, including former police officers in this chamber -- that it is a highly ineffective prohibition because so many people are doing it. The objective is to stop people smoking cannabis; the effectiveness is almost zero. The people that want to
QotD: On "how great states may be made feeble and wretched"
"Macaulay advised those who wished ‘to be well-acquainted with the morbid anatomy of governments’ to study the history of Spain in the seventeenth century;1 some modern historians would advise those who wish ‘to know how great states may be made feeble and wretched’ to study the history of modern [twentieth-century] Britain." ~ John Charmley, from his 1999 book ' Chamberlain and the Lost Peace '
QotD: On haranguing dissenters [updated]
"This interview [below] between Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and UK Channel 4 interviewer Cathy Newman] is truly a work of art, and while one could probably write a treatise analysing it, one important [point], which I blogged about recently, is the phenomenon of the conceptual versus the anti-conceptual mind... .... "Newman demonstrates [the] anti-conceptual mentality by refusing to gra
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Super Bowl Weekend Thread of Openness
by Ugh Yes I'm rooting for the Patriots. For some reason I like to see records pushed as high as they can go. Thus, Brady wining a 6th ring in his 8th Super Bowl appeals to me. As does Federer continuing to win grand slams (do we really have to wait until Wimbledon to see him again though? Feh!). Will be interesting to see if Lebron ends up as the NBA's all time leaders in points scored. I burnt
Decoupling of Increased Labor Productivity from Wage Growth
by Ugh One of the selling points of the "tax reform" legislation, now commonly known as the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, or TCJA (or the Corporate Tax Lawyer Full Employment Act), is that it would in time increase wages by a certain amount. The economists' view of how this would happen is by decreasing the marginal cost of new investments - by both introducing full expensing and lowering the business tax
Tsunami Warning
by wj Yesterday, in Wisconsin, there was a special election . Governor Walker had nominated a prominent state senator to be his agriculture secretary, so this was to fill his (safe) seat. It wasn't a big deal . . . except it was. The previous (Republican, obviously) state senator was a popular guy. And the Republican assemblyman running to succeed him was also popular. Nothing resembling a Roy Mo
MLK
by russell One of his last speeches , an address to the Conference on New Politics, entitled The Three Evils of Society. King's three evils were war, racism, and poverty. It's pretty long, about 45 minutes, but worth a listen IMO. This speech represents some of King's later thinking, when he had broadened the scope of his analysis from racism and race-related civil rights issues, to a broader con
Bright the hawk's flight
by Doctor Science Ursula K. LeGuin has died . The SFF community knew she was fading, but we hoped, illogically, that there would be a reprieve, time for more encores. For so many of us, she was our mother, our teacher, our grandmother. An icon of what we might do, and even more of what we might strive to be. She was always aware that SFF is the most political of genres and also the most religious
Ur American Sh1thole Values NFL Open Thread
by Ugh More Trump because why not? Eh. I've seen responses to the latest sharted eruption from POTUS saying that it "does not represent American values," to which my response of late is "Are you sure?" Almost 63 million people voted for this waste. There is a long history of American racism in immigration (and obviously other) matters that continues to this day, apparently. So, who are we kidding
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Who are the Illuminati?
Rabbi Marvin Antelman (193?-2014) deserves credit for revealing that the Illuminati originated in a "heretical" Cabalist Jewish movement -- the Sabbatean Frankists -- named after its progenitors Sabbatai Zvi (1626-1676) and Jacob Frank (1726-1791.) This mostly Jewish movement, which garbs itself in Gentile Freemasonry, assumes the identity of the target population and subverts it from within. A J
Jews Ask Canada to take Israel's African Cast Offs
(left, Beach, Tel Aviv) Organized Jewry only believes in diversity if it's for the goyim. That's why it is asking Canada to integrate more of Israel's 38,000 African migrants. Welcome to the New World Order. The West serves Israel's needs even if they lead to world war . In the West, only Israel is allowed to retain its racial character. Thus, Organized Jewry " combats" antisemitism. This is why
Operation Keelhaul - Allies Sent Anti-Communists to their Deaths
(Masonic Jews Churchill, FDR, and Stalin at Yalta. Missing is their partner, Adolf Hitler) PROOF THAT THE WEST IS DE FACTO COMMUNIST AND OUR WARTIME LEADERS WERE WAR CRIMINALS WITH NO CONCERN FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM. At Yalta, Churchill and FDR agreed to repatriate 2.5 million anti-Communists Russians against their will . About a half had served in the Wehrmacht. Most were exterminated or imprison
Nazis Rescued Leader of Jewish Supremacist Cult. Why?
(Trump, his father, Hitler and Chabad leadership have Masonic hand sign in common) Does Chabad, a satanist Jewish supremacist cult secretly control world events? The fact that both the Nazis and the US State Dept. made an exception for Chabad leader Josef Schneerson suggests it does. Is Chabad the "head of the Illuminati snake?" by Henry Makow Ph.D In January 1940, Gestapo members were bewildered
Taboo Against Anti-Semitism Must be Lifted
(left, Trump is a crypto-Jew who has won power by opposing globalism. Beholden to Mossad, he belongs to the Zionist branch of the Masonic Communist-Zionist dialectical strategy . Orchestrated by George Soros, Communist Jews & their liberal minions appear to oppose him. ) Organized Jewry clearly has a pernicious political agenda. To stigmatize resistance as "bigotry" is a ruse that will no longer
MLK Holiday is Proof the US is Closet Communist
They never quit because subverting you is their religion. (left, the Jewish owned and operated NewYorker portrays paid Communist Party instigator Martin Luther King arm-in-arm with multimillionaire players protesting the plight of Black Americans.) Monday was Martin Luther King Day in the US. Martin Luther King was a fraud. Below, Alan Stang (1932-2009 ) shows that King was literally a Communist
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Major Quake Imminent?
List of tremors from the Central Weather Bureau Hi folks. As of this morning Hualien is still experiencing one tremor after another. This may presage a major quake. I have also heard that the ROCAF in Hualien is quietly preparing its aircraft for a major quake. Please folks, check your quake preparations. The great Tobie Openshaw posted a list to my Facebook: Keep your wallet with ID and money an
Taiwan's Bizarre Import Tax System
Holly Harrington, well known to the expat community here, and someone who has worked hard on behalf of that community and of Taiwan, posted this rant about Taiwan's nutcase import tax system to Facebook: +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ending my Facebook hiatus with a rant. It’s a doozy, and if you live in Taiwan and order things from overseas at all, you’ll want to be paying attention. (希望台灣朋友也會看，雖然有點
The Vatican Capitulates... clock ticking on relations with the Holy See?
The old railroad bridge in Shigang, now a bicycle trail. The news wires were burning up this week with the announcement that the Vatican and the CCP had come to an agreement. WSJ reported ... Pope Francis has decided to accept the legitimacy of seven Catholic bishops appointed by the Chinese government, a concession that the Holy See hopes will lead Beijing to recognize his authority as head of t
Tree Poaching and the Sanyi Wood Carving Industry
A carver at work in Sanyi. Nick Aspinwall turned in a very interesting piece at the News Lens on tree poaching in Taiwan and its relationship to the wood carving industry in Sanyi in Miaoli. The piece is excellent, read it. An excerpt: Lee’s father, who asked not to be named, joined many others in working only with legal imported wood after the Forestry Bureau instituted a nationwide logging ban
Anette Lu Jumps into Taipei Race + Links
Some of my excellent students. This day brought the news that Annette Lu, Chen Shui-bian's Veep and longtime independence activist, announced her candidacy in the upcoming election for mayor of Taipei ( Chinese )( Annette Lu on Wiki ). Lu's political career probably peaked in 1997 when she was elected County chief of Taoyuan, her birthplace. In 2000 she became Chen Shui-bian's Veep and her pencha
Blast from the Past: Ad for Taiwan's first dairy farm =UPDATED=
This ad for Taiwan's first dairy farm, 柊牧場 , dates from 1899. A Japanese man who said his relatives had run it posted it to Facebook, where it was shared around by the awesome Katy Hui-wen Hung, who I need to get up and interview. She said that the farm originally stood on Xinyi Road near what is now the Da-an MRT (Xinyi Rd and Yongkang St, according to this ). This site here says it was moved in
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Egypt Approves 100's of Israeli Air Strikes in Sinai
Times of Israel Keep in mind that there is NO confirmation of Egyptian approval. Nor is their confirmation from Israel. It does appear the Americans and British persons who provided this information are aware of Israeli involvement in Egypt. Be sure to read the original article at NYT's "The attacks over the last two years have been carried out by unmarked Israeli drones, helicopters and jets, so
Reports Claim Russia Has Responded to Plane Shootdown in Syria
Following up on the earlier news regarding the shootdown of a Russian piloted Su-25. Russia Confirms Su-25 Downed in Syria- Repercussions? That was fast. Interesting that we now have two terror groups taking credit for shooting down the plane. Though original video/claim of shoot down was made by Jaysh al Nasr. Their logo featured prominently in the video. RT "Tahrir al-Sham, the extremist group
This Years Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Not Significantly Different Then Zero
I'm obviously ignoring the CBC's misleading headline "The effectiveness of this season's flu shot has been extremely low, with the vaccine preventing only 10 to 20 per cent of infections caused by the dominant H3N2 strain affecting Canadians, researchers have found" Let's talk about that 10 to 20 percent range. I'd think the number should be more specific and they are- a bit closer to the end of
US “extremely concerned” about reports of chlorine gas use in Syria
reuters "extremely concerned" WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is “extremely concerned” about reports that Syrian forces recently used chlorine gas as a weapon in attacks in the eastern Ghouta area of Syria, State Department
spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Thursday. While not ruling out military action, of course. The latest unconfirmed attack came on Thursday, in the rebel-held town o
The U.S. was' extremely concerned' about the supposed use of chlorine gas in Iraq too, so much so that it blocked supplies needed for water treatment. That worked together with sanctions to kill thousands and thousands.
Realpolitik2 At Sochi
Following up on : Realpolitik at Sochi *Talks in Sochi successful: Syrian delegate The congress in Sochi was successful from all points of view. This conference brought about the dialogue that we needed so much,' Safwan al-Qudsi told reporters on Wednesday. 'We have taken the right direction and positive changes can already be seen.' 'We believe that other forums should follow, but it is too earl
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