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Russia confirms proposed Syria cooperation with United States
Russia’s Defence Ministry confirmed on Saturday that it had proposed cooperating with the United States on Syrian refugees and de-mining in a letter sent to the top U.S. general in July. The proposals on refugees concerned a refugee camp in Rukban, the ministry said in a statement. In the letter, Valery Gerasimov, chief of the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Venezuela: Nicolas Maduro survives ‘assassination attempt’ (video)
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:00 A.M.) – Seven National Guard soldiers were injured after explosions interrupted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro mid-speech during a military event in Caracas, Saturday. The Venezuelan government has confirmed that the explosions were an ‘assassination attempt’ on Maduro. Maduro was speaking to mark the 81st anniversary of the Bolivarian National Guard of Venezuela, when […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
“Reflections of Self: We Are All Mirrors for Each Other”
*“Reflections of Self: We Are All Mirrors for Each Other”* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOm “People you feel drawn to reflect your inner self back at you, and you act as a mirror for them as well. When we look at other people, we see many of their qualities in innumerable and seemingly random combinations. However, the qualities that we see in the people around us are directly related to the traits that exist in us. “Like attracts like” is one of the spiritual laws of the universe. We attract individuals into our lives that mirror who we are. Those you feel drawn to reflect your inner... more »
Musical Interlude: Art Garfunkel, "All I Know"
Art Garfunkel, "All I Know" Written By Jimmy Webb And Recorded By Art In 1973 At Grace Cathedral, New York. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaBjY-zm0sI
Yes, Elizabeth Warren In Running-- But Not For President
Gideon Resnick is wrong. The *Daily Beast* is wrong. Must be a slow news day, so they made up a story about Elizabeth Warren running for president. She isn't. It wasn't made up out of the blue; it was made up out of a badly misinterpreted keynote address she made at Netroots Nation Friday. Does this sound like a declaration of candidacy? Isn't this exactly what she says everyday? We believe that in America every family deserves a fighting chance, and we’re ready to fight as hard as it takes, as long as it takes, to deliver on that promise. It won’t be easy. We’re going to have t... more »
Will North Korea Give Us Anything for a Peace Treaty?
*Robert E. Kelly* *Security, Asia* [image: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 27, 2018. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THI] This peace treaty is not about peace; it's about recognition. The latest rumor this summer about the inter-Korean détente process is that a peace treaty is under clandestine discussion. The four main players—the two Koreas, China, and the United States—are apparently considering how to... more »
How to Build a Better Balkans
*James Jay Carafano* *Security, Europe* [image: Macedonian soldiers fire an anti-aircraft missile with the Russian-made Igla ground-to-air launcher, supervised by a Slovenian military instructor, during a live fire exercise on September 12, 2008 at the Krivolak training ground, some 120 km (75 miles) s] Why has America overlooked the geopolitical opportunities made possible by forging a stronger relationship with the Western Balkans? “The flag was raised in 1918 to mark the fourth year of the Great War. And President Woodrow Wilson had chosen the Serbian flag to honor the great ... more »
Musical Interlude: Simon & Garfunkel, “The Sound of Silence” (Original Version from 1964)
Simon & Garfunkel, “The Sound of Silence” (Original Version from 1964) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4
"A Look to the Heavens"
"A broad expanse of glowing gas and dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting its popular moniker - The Seagull Nebula. This portrait of the cosmic bird covers a 1.6 degree wide swath across the plane of the Milky Way, near the direction of Sirius, alpha star of the constellation Canis Major. * Click image for larger size.* Of course, the region includes objects with other catalog designations: notably NGC 2327, a compact, dusty emission region with an embedded massive star that forms the bird's head (aka the Parrot Nebula, above center). IC 2177 ... more »
"That's What It's All About..."
"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ◆
“Being A Human in This World, A Personal Credo”
*“Being A Human in This World, A Personal Credo” * by John Robbins “I am someone who works and prays for world peace. Perhaps you are, too. But our society is spending a billion dollars a day preparing for war. I believe that inner peace is found when you love the world as it is, rather than faulting it for not living up to your expectations. I believe in forgiveness. I believe in accepting others for who they are. But I am part of a society that is spending far more on weapons of mass destruction and producing far more toxic waste than any other in the history of the world. I b... more »
The Poet: Kuroda Saburo, "I Am Completely Different"
*"I Am Completely Different"* "I am completely different. Though I am wearing the same tie as yesterday, am as poor as yesterday, as good for nothing as yesterday, today I am completely different. Though I am wearing the same clothes, am as drunk as yesterday, living as clumsily as yesterday, nevertheless today I am completely different. Ah... I patiently close my eyes on all the grins and smirks, on all the twisted smiles and horse laughs- and glimpse then, inside me one beautiful white butterfly fluttering towards tomorrow." - Kuroda Saburo
Pleistocene Polar Model
The mainstream explanation for ice ages is simplistic and involves the Milankovitch astronomical cycle from which the Earth periodically cools and warms, cooling corresponding to ice ages, and warming to periods of polar glacial retreats, in which we presently are in, the holocene interglacial. Slow cooling does not result in ice ages because to form … Continue reading "Pleistocene Polar Model"
BREAKING NEWS: Attempted Assassination attempt on Venezuela President Maduro
Venezuelan President Maduro at moment of attack https://www.rt.com/news/435133-maduro-venezuela-explosion-address/ There was an assassination attempt made on the life of Venezuelan President Maduro today. He was in some reviewing stands watching a military parade and then giving a speech to a large military gathering in Caracas. He, his wife, and some of his government ministers were in a covered stand. Maduro said that there was an explosion in the sky directly in front of him. Reports right after the event indicated that the assassination attempt was made by way of drones tha... more »
Fossiliferous Sediments
Uniformitarian geology, the present day scientific paradigm which informs most of the earth sciences, ignores past catastrophes for a very good scientific reason – the scientific method is restricted to explaining observations with existing processes or ideas; hence invoking impossibilities, … Continue reading →
Soros-funded HRW Defends Terrorists, Accomplices in Thailand
*August 5, 2018* (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - In 2010, Thailand was the scene of a smaller-scale foreign-backed destabilisation similar to those carried out by the United States and Europe against nations like Libya, Syria, Yemen and Ukraine from 2011 onward. Between April and May of that year, nearly 100 would die and many more injured when US-backed former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra attempted to seize back power through violent street protests, armed insurrection, terrorism and nationwide arson. Just as has been done in nations like Libya, Syria, Yemen and Ukraine, Human Rights... more »
Human CO2 emissions not responsible for increase in atmospheric CO2. Therefore climate change is natural.
By Dr Ed Berry *Ph.D., Physics* *“The simple model shows how inflow affects level, how level affects outflow, and how balance occurs when outflow equals inflow. Nothing in the world outside the atmosphere changes these conclusions. But these conclusions change entirely the dominant worldview of how human emissions change the level of CO2 in our atmosphere.”* This post expands upon my last post. If you don’t understand the math, just skip the math and read the text. For scientific details, see my preprint. – Ed According to the scientific method, it is impossible to prove a theory i... more »
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“Do Americans Live In A False Reality Created By Orchestrated Events?”
*“Do Americans Live In A False Reality * *Created By Orchestrated Events?”* by Paul Craig Roberts "Most people who are aware and capable of thought have given up on what is called the “mainstream media.” The presstitutes have destroyed their credibility by helping Washington to lie—“Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction,” “Iranian nukes,” “Assad’s use of chemical weapons,” “Russian invasion of Ukraine,” and so forth. The “mainstream media” has also destroyed its credibility by its complete acceptance of whatever government authorities say about alleged “terrorist events,” suc... more »
"We Like To Think..."
"We like to think that we are rational beings; humane, conscientious, civilized, thoughtful. But when things fall apart, even just a little, it becomes clear we are not better than animals. We have opposable thumbs, we think, we walk erect, we speak, we dream, but deep down we are still routing around in the primordial ooze; biting, clawing, scratching out an existence in the cold, dark world like the rest of the tree-toads and sloths." - "Grey's Anatomy"
QotD: "What most differentiates religion from philosophy, however, is how religion arrives at its answers...."
*"What most differentiates religion from philosophy, however, is how religion arrives at its answers. A philosophy seeks evidence and logical arguments for its conclusions. A religion, no matter how much theologians may argue back and forth about points of dogma, remains just that: dogma. A religion advocates its basic tenets on faith, which means in the absence of evidence and logical argument, and even in the face of counter-evidence and counter-arguments. This is why a synonym for a religion is a faith..."* ~ Onkar Ghate, from his article 'Finding Morality and Happiness Without G... more »
A penetrating analysis by William S. Lind
William S. Lind is a well-known conservative commenter on US military affairs and geopolitics. In a recent article titled "Paradigm Shift", he analyzes the almost hysterical reaction to President Trump's meeting in Helsinki with Russian President Putin, and offers a thoughtful analysis of what's behind it. Here's an excerpt, with its layout (but not its content) slightly edited for clarity. The Establishment’s hysterical reaction to President Trump’s successful summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin is driven not by outrage but by fear. The Establishment knows how to succe... more »
Russian General Staff Chief has informed US side about situation in Syria in a letter
Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed the information that Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov had submitted a letter to Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, regarding the situation in Syria in July. Earlier several news outlets reported that Gerasimov had informed the US’ top command authorities in a letter about […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Syrian scientist assassinated in west Hama, Israel believed behind attack
BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:30 A.M.) – A Syrian scientist was assassinated in the western countryside of the Hama Governorate this week, a military communique said on Saturday evening. According to the communique, Dr. Aziz Isbir, the Director of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center, was assassinated by an IED inside the city of Masyaf in […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Kushner allegedly asks Jordan to end refugee status for 2 million Palestinians
Jared Kushner, a senior advisor to US President Donald Trump — and the US leader’s son-in-law — has reportedly been pushing Amman to strip 2 million Palestinians in Jordan of their refugee status, according to Foreign Policy. Kushner raised the issue during a June visit to Jordan, in which he was accompanied by Trump’s personal Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt. According to Palestinian officials, Kushner pressed […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Turning The Deficits Hysteria Table On The GOP
I was speaking to a congressional campaign manager yesterday who had just finished a poll of which issues were resonating in his rural district. Some of the issues were what you'd expect: Medicare expansion and Social Security being the top two. But two I didn't see coming-- at least so high up on the list: the trade deficit and the budget deficit. Both have been growing exponentially under Trump's steerage of the ship of state. These are traditionally Republican concerns that have neem weaponized against Democrats in elections. It looks like the GOP is about to get a taste of its... more »
Understanding the Climate and History of California Fires
From Watts Up With That / August 4, 2018 Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball There is no hope for the truth when world leaders like Governor Brown of California (he runs the 19th largest economy in the world) can present such utterly false information in pursuit of a political agenda. “Since civilization emerged 10,000 years […]
THE OLD REPUBLICAN BAIT-AND-SWITCH
I'm not impressed by this: First lady Melania Trump voiced support for LeBron James on Saturday after President Trump went after the NBA star on Twitter, questioning his intelligence.... “It looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation and just as she always has, the First Lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today," first lady spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement obtained by The Hill. Her comment came hours after the president jabbed James on Twitter and questioned his intelligence, pr... more »
Acoma Pueblo Maurus Chino Anti-War Statement: From Conquistador Butchers to ROTC
Greed, violence and entitlement have scarred this sacred land Censored News publishes this great work of Acoma Pueblo Maurus Chino again, as Santa Fe ends celebration of Conquistador and apologizes to Pueblos Statement by Maurus Chino, for the March 19, 2011 rally commemorating the Iraqi War, Albuquerque, NM (Moment of silence for the brave ones alive and dead who stand and stood for the
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"Here's Why Rip-Roaring Inflation Is Inevitable"
*"Here's Why Rip-Roaring Inflation Is Inevitable"* by Charles Hugh Smith "One of the enduring mysteries of the past decade is why inflation has remained tame while the central bank and government have pumped trillions of dollars of newly created money into the economy. Millions of words have been written about this, and so some shortcuts will have to be taken to make sense of it in one essay. Let's start with the basics. *1.* Adding newly created money but not generating new goods and services of the same value reduces the purchasing power of existing money. To keep it simple: say ... more »
Projecting Paranoia
A *WACO* week, geddit?? Corbyn supporters getting a hashtag trending is suddenly akin to apocalyptic cultists dying in a fire. At least according to Marina Hyde, one of the self-appointed political hygiene inspectors who make a living from saying a great deal about very little. In her 'A WACO week, as Corbynistas do politics in paranoid style' we learn two things. That she doesn't know what she's talking about ('Corbynista', in 2018, seriously?), and that all Corbyn supporters are suffering delusions. Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party have not suffered the most vicious press and b... more »
Facebook Censoring Getting Out of Control
Facebook has been crowing about finding 32 "Russian-backed" accounts seeking to "sow division" among Americans. Only despite their over-confidence in sussing out these Kremlin-backed miscreants, they got it wrong. They shut down a page managed by real Americans who were organizing a counter-protest against a white nationalist group. Who does Facebook rely on to clean its pages of foreign government influence? An organization that itself is backed by foreign governments! RPI's Daniel McAdams is interviewed:
There Will Be No American-Russian Alliance Against China
[image: undefined] Since 1991 and the formal end of the first Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the world has experienced an American “unipolar moment” as the bipartisan US policy establishment sought to consolidate and perpetuate its hegemonic control over the entire plant. Doomed to fail even before it received its fullest articulation in 1996 by neoconservative ideologists William Kristol and Robert Kagan (misleadingly billed as “Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy”), that misbegotten moment thankfully is coming to an end. The main question today is whet... more »
Conway, Arkansas August Daily Maximum Temperatures
August afternoon temperatures at Conway, Arkansas peaked in 1936, and have dropped three degrees since the 19th century. Similar story at Newport, Arkansas. August temperatures there peaked in 1930, and have fallen almost five degrees since the 19th century. These … Continue reading →
The Battle of the Rapido River: One of the Greatest Military Tragedies of World War II
*Daniel L. Davis* *Security, Europe* [image: By Benjamín Núñez González - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44898248] Part one of a three-part series. *Editor's Note: You can read Part II here. Part three will be posted tomorrow. * When most Americans think of World War II they think of stirring victories on the beaches of Normandy, rousing triumphs on the sands of Iwo Jima, or brilliant naval conquests at the Battle of Midway. The valor, courage, and sometimes tactical brilliance shown by U.S. troops and generals in those battles were pivo... more »
Who Needs Borderless Nations If You Have Borderless People?
By Joe Jarvis The market thrives on competition. And governments are inherent monopolies. By its nature, a government monopolizes certain powers within particular borders. But... more »
A Critique of Pure Metaphysics (grin).
Many people need a fenced mind because they are ill equipped to deal with what resides in the dark unknown.
ISIS fully expelled from Syria-Iraq border
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:35 P.M.) – The Islamic State (ISIS) suffered another major setback in Syria this week after a string of losses in the southern part of the country. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) dealt a lethal blow to the so-called ‘caliphate’ on Saturday, when their troops seized the last border points that were […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Iran reveals terms of its withdrawal from Syria
Iran might decrease its military presence in Syria and even leave altogether after the situation in the war-torn country normalizes and the fight against terrorism there brings significant results, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said. “As soon as we see that Syria is close to certain stability, and the fight against terrorism is close to its end, and […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Rebel forces fail to advance in northern Hama after launching powerful assault
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:15 P.M.) – The rebel forces attempted to advance in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate, today, following a fierce exchange of hostilities with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) this morning. Led by Jaysh Al-Izza, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and their allies launched a powerful assault on the Syrian Arab Army’s […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Erdogan to impose tit-for-tat sanctions on two US officials (video)
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 P.M.) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he will freeze the assets of two American officials in response to the US Treasury imposing sanctions on Turkey, while speaking in Ankara on Saturday. Erdogan said Turkey has shown ‘patience’, but ‘cannot be disciplined with this understanding and approach.’ “The whole thing is […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Syrian Army’s elite unit heads to Sweida to finish off ISIS
BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:45 P.M.) – One of the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) elite units has received orders to redeploy from the Daraa Governorate to Al-Sweida this week. According to a military source in Damascus, the Syrian Arab Army’s elite 42nd Brigade (Ghiath Forces) of the 4th Armored Division has left the Daraa Governorate for the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
HTS not disbanding in Idlib, they prepare to fight
Militants from Al-Nusra Front* have rejected Turkey’s demand for dissolution of the terrorist group’s units in Idlib province in Syria’s northwest, according to the Syrian newspaper Al-Watan. The developments came after Ankara demanded that al-Nusra Front militants join the so-called “Northern Syrian Army,” which is being formed by the Turkish military. Also, Turkey urged al-Nusra Front’s foreign mercenaries to return to the countries from which they arrived and […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Breaking: Houthi forces bomb Saudi airport
BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:30 P.M.) – The Houthi forces announced this evening that their rocket battalion had targeted a Saudi military airport in the southern part of the Gulf kingdom. According to the official media wing of the Houthi forces, their rocket battalion used a Qasef-1 armed drone to bomb the Saudi military’s King Khaled Airport […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
BOOM! International Army Games tank biathlon (video)
BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:00 P.M.) – The tank biathlon was full speed ahead on day six of the 2018 International Army Games in Alabino on Saturday. Teams from Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyztan, Myanmar, Syria, Tajikistan and Vietnam competed on the sixth day of the games. Altogether teams from 32 countries will participate in this year’’ edition of the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Seeking solutions - Sci & Tech
Veering away from the putsch against democracy, let's have a look at cool science! And reasons why it should engender optimism, not riled-up resentment. Here's your roundup of cool (and maybe some chilling) reasons to pump up your morale about being a member of a wonderful civilization. *== Okay it's (well-supported) propaganda... that we need ==* Bill Gates is presenting 4 million collage graduates with a free download of Hans Rosling's important nonfiction title, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things are Better Than You Think - which argues that o... more »
Misleading Article Title Claims Cell Phones Don’t Cause Brain Cancer — Study Clearly Shows More Tumors in Those Exposed to RF Radiation and EMF
By B.N. Frank People believe what they want to believe. This has never not been true. There has recently been much BAD press reported by... more »
Swedish Boat to Gaza -- Passengers Seized, Now in Israeli Prison
Swedish boat in Freedom Flotilla to Gaza overtaken by Israeli military. Passengers onboard taken to Israeli prison. Those onboard are from Sweden, Britian, France, Spain, Germany and Canada. Captain John Turnbull is from Vancouver, Canada.
Tennessee Shows That GOP Zombies Won't Vote For Anyone Unless Trump Explicitly Endorses
*These 2 probably hurt Black's chances* According to the Trump Affinity tracker House Budget Committee chair and far right extremist Diane Black (R-TN) scores a 93.2%. The times she didn't vote with Trump it because she supported a position that was more right-wing and more extreme than his, like when she opposed raising the debt limit to extend government funding for victims of Hurricane Harvey last year. She's real monster. And Thursday, her bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination tanked. She had started as the clear front-runner... and came in third. Of Tennessee's 95 cou... more »
The Communists Behind the “Abolish ICE,” “Occupy ICE” Agitation
[image: the-communists-behind-the-abolish-ice-occupy-ice-agitation] The Fake News thought cartel is hiding the truth about the communist organizers and lawyers leading the open borders attacks, and the foundations funding them.
Death of a Nation Movie Exposes History Embarrassing to American Left
[image: death-of-a-nation-movie-exposes-history-embarrassing-to-american-left] Dinesh D'Souza has produced another cinematic assault upon the Democratic Party, this time providing some important history neglected by the Left's history books.
Toxic Silence: Public Officials, Monsanto and the Media
CounterPunch, RINF, Dissident Voice, Global Research, Countercurrents Are you being lied to or misled? Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason certainly thinks so and has provided much supporting evidence. She has been campaigning against the agrochemical industry for many years (all her work can be accessed here) and has borne witness to the destruction of her own nature reserve in South Wales, which she argues is due to the widespread spraying of glyphosate in the area. In 2016, she wrote an open letter to journalists at The Guardian newspaper in the UK outlining how the media is fail... more »
Expropriation without compensation? Ask the British.
bilaterals.org - 9 hours ago
04-Aug-2018 29 July 2018 https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/expropriation-without-compensation-ask-the-british/ One hundred years ago, it was the British Empire doing all the expropriating. On 29 July 1918, the Judicial Committee of the UK's Privy Council handed down its infamous ruling, In Re Southern Rhodesia. Lord Sumner took the occasion to offer Britain's most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. He declared that the “natives” could not (...)
One Hundred Years of Expropriation without Compensation
bilaterals.org - 9 hours ago
04-Aug-2018 On 29 July 1918, the British judiciary proffered the Empire's most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. Today, an ICSID tribunal continues that mission. No matter which way Zimbabwean's turn at the polls, they're still paying for their invasion and occupation by Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa company...
Air Force "Hardens" Satellites to Prepare for Space War
*Kris Osborn* *Security, * Larger numbers of smaller, more dispersed or dis-aggregated satellites and components enabled by technical advances are a key component of the Air Force’s space strategy. Air Force space technology and weapons developers are working quickly to prepare for major space war by accelerating new weapons programs and fast-tracking satellite protections or "hardening" systems. Part of this challenge not only involves defending laser attacks or "jamming" weapons in space, but also hinges upon reconciling the advantages of using smaller form factors for space a... more »
This Day in Iraqi History - Aug 4
1933 French deported 600 Assyrians who fled to Syria in July back to Ninewa Assyrians then clashed with Iraqi army and were driven back to Syria 1963 Govt troops captured Barzan and Mazna in offensive against KDP in Kurdistan 1970 Saddam visited Soviet Union and asked for debt relief Also for Moscow to stop aiding Kurds Soviets agreed 1986 VP Bush used Egyptian Pres Mubarak to pass message to Iraq that it should expand air campaign against Iran (Musings On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War) (Musings On Iraq review *... more »
UK’s Hot Summer Linked To Cold Atlantic
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood I reported last week that many experts believe this summers persistently anti cyclonic, and therefore hot, weather in the UK is inextricably tied in with a large pool of abnormally cood water in the mid Atlantic. Step forward Joe Bastardi to show…
Nobel Laureate Dr. Kary Mullis: Climatology is a “Joke”
Posted on 3 August 2018 by E.M.Smith Looks like he’s giving a guest lecture somewhere or speaking to a small group in a classroom. 14 minutes. Then a Nobel in Physics, Dr. Giaever, calls it a pseudoscience (32 minutes): Nice style and pretty good humor in it. So much for the “Scientific Consensus”…
Ocean Air Temps Tepid in July
Originally posted on Science Matters: Presently sea surface temperatures (SST) are the best available indicator of heat content gained or lost from earth’s climate system. Enthalpy is the thermodynamic term for total heat content in a system, and humidity differences in air parcels affect enthalpy. Measuring water temperature directly avoids distorted impressions from air measurements. …
New Study Shows Some Corals Might Adapt to Climate Changes
From WUWT: Anthony Watts / August 4, 2018 UM Rosenstiel School-led study exposes two threatened corals to future climate change conditions MIAMI—New research shows that not all corals respond the same to changes in climate. The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science-led study looked at the sensitivity of two types […]
Ocean Air Temps Tepid in July
Presently sea surface temperatures (SST) are the best available indicator of heat content gained or lost from earth’s climate system. Enthalpy is the thermodynamic term for total heat content in a system, and humidity differences in air parcels affect enthalpy. Measuring water temperature directly avoids distorted impressions from air measurements. In addition, ocean covers 71% […]
The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid
By Paul Homewood H/t Dave Ward This article is reposted from MIT Energy Review: The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid James Temple 8-10 minutes A pair of 500-foot smokestacks rise from a natural-gas power plant on the harbor of Moss Landing, California, casting an industrial […]
Should Republican Billionaires Be Picking Democratic Candidates The Way They Already Pick GOP Candidates?
Let's start with some news: Last week, Fox News' James Rupert Murdoch, a British billionaire, put half a million dollars into one of Nancy Jacobson's shady No Labels SuperPACs that aims to fill Congress with candidates from the Republican Wing of the Democratic Party. Their current goal is a smear campaign against Alan Grayson. Most recently, Jacobson pulled off the same filth against Marie Newman in Illinois’ 3rd District House primary, spending $931,600 to spread absolute lies against Newman while bolstering anti-Choice Blue Dog Dan Lipinski. Jacobson, widely considered one of t... more »
Out and about on the peninsula
Shopped at Walmart this morning. Noticed the hiring banner at the door. $11.50 starting wage. I've also noticed at various Walmarts that their employees resemble all God's people-- black, white, brown, tattoos, nose rings, obese, anorexic, burka, autistic, disabled, well spoken or not so much, and most are helpful and well informed in their department or will find help if they don't know. I’ve never understood why people want to ridicule. I read at a trombone website that some people use WD40 for slide lubrication. So I bought a small container.
Democrats Who Smear WikiLeaks Are Assisting Trump’s War On The Press
You can’t throw a rock in establishment media circles these days without hitting a hand-wringing empire loyalist who is in the middle of an existential crisis about the US president hurting Jim Acosta’s feelings. They act like Trump saying mean words about mainstream media outlets […]
WATCH: Cop Walks Up to Unarmed Man, Shoots Him in the Face then Plants a Weapon on Him
[image: face] A cop tried to claim an unarmed man tried to rob him but video shows the cop shoot the victim in the face and then plant a weapon on him. The post WATCH: Cop Walks Up to Unarmed Man, Shoots Him in the Face then Plants a Weapon on Him appeared first on The Free Thought Project.
Trump Rips LeBron James’ Smarts Hours Before Rally in Ohio
Trump tweeted that James was interviewed "by the dumbest man on television," CNN anchor Don Lemon, but that he "made Lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do."
Should You Feed ‘Starving Bees’ Sugar Water?
Experts urge that no one other than trained beekeepers maintaining colonies during a dearth of nectar should provide bees with sugar water.
Did Bank of America Freeze a Customer’s Account to Demand Proof of Citizenship?
A Kansas City news photographer said his account was suspended until he told a bank representative he was a U.S. citizen.
Election Crackdown Runs Into Speed-Tweeting Human ‘Bots’
Twitter and other sites have targeted automated or robot-like accounts known as bots, which authorities say were used to cloak efforts by foreign governments and political bad actors in the 2016 elections.
Best of frenz
Ha! By pure coincidence, Rod Liddle has produced a perfect analysis of Ahed Tamimi’s conversation with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on yesterday’s Channel 4 news. “The present crisis within the Labour party reminds me of the time when I was filming a television documentary in Palestine a few years back. One after another the interviewees lined up in that flyblown, arid landscape. Grizzled old thugs from Al-Fatah. Sinister bespectacled little Hamas factotums. Peasant farmers, middle-class teachers, landowners and scruffy teenagers in Barcelona shirts. In front of the camera they all said ... more »
Magic Mushrooms: New Research on Psilocybin and Its Benefits
There was a powerful decades-long misleading campaign against psilocybin mushrooms which caused a deep-rooted fear and a subsequent public rejection of this substance.
Doctors Issue Warning To Parents About Risks Of Consuming Processed Meats
Should packages of hot dogs and lunch meat come with a cancer warning in the same way that cigarettes do in order to raise awareness?
What Doctors Say Are CBD Benefits Observed in Actual People, Not Mice
There’s definitely no lack of anecdotal stories about the benefits of cannabidiol (CBD), a chemical compound in the cannabis plant.
Health Dept Shuts Down 7-Year-Old Boy’s Lemonade Stand After Snitches Reported Unlicensed Lemonade
Multiple vendors at a state fair in Ballston Spa, New York called government officials last month to have a nearby lemonade stand—run by a 7-year-old boy—shut down.
Alice Embree : Fight Like a Girl
How women’s activism shapes history. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | August 4, 2018 “Fight Like a Girl: How Women’s Activism Shapes History” appears as a feature article in the Summer 2018 edition of Life & Letters, a … finish reading Alice Embree : Fight Like a Girl
Video: First Nation Larry Commodore Home after Being Injured and Imprisoned by Israeli Forces -- Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Attacked
Watch video interview at Real News: https://therealnews.com/stories/israeli-commandos-brutally-attack-freedom-flotilla-activists-in-international-waters
Mises on Hegel and Comte
Here’s an excerpt from Ludwig von Mises’s *Human Action: A Treatise on Economics*, (Part I; Chapter 3: “Economics and The Revolt Against Reason”): There was Hegel. He was a profound thinker and his writings are a treasury of stimulating ideas. But he was laboring under the delusion that Geist, the Absolute, revealed itself through his words. There was nothing in the universe that was hidden to Hegel. It was a pity that his language was so ambiguous that it could be interpreted in various ways. The right-wing Hegelians interpreted it as an endorsement of the Prussian system of autoc... more »
Pakistan Needs a Strong New Leader
[image: undefined] The words "hope" and "Pakistan" do not often appear together. Pakistan, a sprawling nation of 205 million, is hard to govern, even harder to finance, and seething with tribal or religious violence and discord. But Pakistan, which for me is one of the most interesting and important nations on earth, is by far the leading nation of the Muslim world and a redoubtable military power. Created in 1947 from former British India as a haven for oppressed Muslims, Pakistan has been ruled ever since by military juntas or by slippery and often corrupt civilian politicians. ... more »
3M gets a legal slap on the wrist - but still makes millions
If this report doesn't infuriate you, it should! A contractor has agreed to pay $9.1 million to the U.S. government for selling defective earplugs issued to thousands of servicemembers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan from 2003 to 2015. Known as “selective attenuation earplugs,” 3M’s Combat Arms earplugs would “loosen in the wearers ear, imperceptibly to the wearer and even trained audiologists visually observing a wearer, thereby permitting damaging sounds to enter the ear canal by traveling around outside of the earplug,” according to the whistleblower lawsuit complaint, which wa... more »
Class #7: Wages and Population
7. Wages and Population (August 3/4) Video of 7. Wages and Population (August 3/4) If the economy is not expanding anti-entropically, the reduction in wages leads necessarily to cuts in the quality of life of pre-school leaving age and retirement-age segments of the population including cutbacks in quantity and quality of medical services. One critical cutback is a reduction in the fecundity of households. What begins as a cut in the birth rate leads towards euthanasia. Thus, acceptance of post-industrialism and limits to growth, the invisible hand of the market place, usury, etc.... more »
Killing Yamamoto: How America Killed the Japanese Admiral Who Masterminded the Pearl Harbor Attack
*Warfare History Network, Robert F. Dorr* *Security, Asia* [image: By Taken from the Air Force web page at [1]. The link followed was the Air Force Museum's P-38 page at [2]., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=362123] P-38 pilot Roger Ames, an American eyewitness, tells of the shooting down of Japan’s most important admiral. When American air ace Major John Mitchell led 16 Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters on the longest combat mission yet flown (420 miles) on April 18, 1943, Mitchell’s target was the Japanese admiral considered the architect of the P... more »
Yes, the Russian Military Stole A Bunch Of U.S. Marine Corps Humvees
*Task and Purpose, Jared Keller* *Security, Europe* [image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/marine_corps/3815428500/sizes/l] Following the military invasion of Georgia in August 2008 to “liberate” the self-proclaimed independent republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russian forces turned up an unexpected prize: five U.S. Marine Corps Humvees. Call it Grand Theft Auto: Abkhazia Following the military invasion of Georgia in August 2008 to “liberate” the self-proclaimed independent republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russian forces turned up an unexpected prize: five U.S. Mar... more »
The Most Heroic and Horrific World War II Battle You’ve Never Heard Of
*Daniel L. Davis* *History, Europe* [image: This African-American combat patrol advanced three miles north of Lucca (furthermost point occupied by American troops) to contact an enemy machine gun nest. Here a bazooka-man cuts loose at the target some 300 yards distant. Wikimedia Commons] Part two of a three-part series. With Hitler’s Germany in possession of most of continental Europe, Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill pressed his American allies to increase the pressure on the Germans occupying Italy. Churchill had convinced the Allied Command to conduct a beach landing... more »
BREAKING: The Manafort trial, round and flat!
*SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2018Dumbnification is powerful:* Dumbnification is powerful. It's also semi-ubiquitous. Dumbnification seems to be an essential part of our so-called human nature, a fact the modern mainstream press corps has worked to make quite clear. We marveled at the dumbnification as we watched Chris Hayes last night. (He was assisted in part of the dumbnification by NBC's Julia Ainsley.) In today's hard-copy Washington Post, Alexandra Petri's op-ed column is a monument to dumbnification. All these acts of dumbnification involve the Manafort trial. Within the workings... more »
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