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Who needs interviews when you know all the answers? Greg Jericho, of
The Guardian, can explain why the government is in “denial” and spends
15 odd paragraphs doing psychoanalysis of himself. Has he met a skeptic?
Not likely. This government is not even pretending to act on climate
change any more Perhaps somewhat surprisingly I have a degree of
sympathy for members of the public who are climate c
It's teamwork, but simpler, more pleasant and more productive.
Did someone say receipts? With the help of Parkland survivor and gun
control activist David Hogg, a GoFundMe raised $9,760 to put Donald
Trump's tweets bashing Ted Cruz up on a billboard in Texas. The
GoFundMe, organized by political group USA Latinx, raised the money in
less than 24 hours. The campaign was a response to Trump endorsing Cruz
through Twitter. On Friday, the president announced a "
Huawei has announced the date for the launch of its new flagship, the
Huawei Mate 20. The company will be unveiling the phone in London,
according to an announcement posted on its official Twitter account. SEE
ALSO: Huawei says its new smartphone chip is faster than Snapdragon in
almost every way In the post, Huawei confirmed that the Mate 20 will be
coming with its new Huawei Kirin 980 smartphon
Our 11th University of Colorado Denver principal licensure cohort for
the Jeffco Public Schools is 31 students strong! We’re off to an amazing
start. Starting this week, we are sharing resources and blogging about
educational leadership issues in addition to our class sessions. Our
first three posts involve school vision and mission statements: How do
we avoid jargon when writing vision and missi
Trump wanted to buy National Enquirer’s safe full of reporting on him "
Owning the Libs " * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and
Eggs , usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics.
He's also on Twitter @PDiddie .
A
revolutionary new regenerative treatment that can extend human life
could begin clinical trials by 2020. Developed by Harvard Professor
David Sincla...
The Museu Nacional houses artefacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and
some of the first fossils found in Brazil Brazil’s oldest and most
important historical and scientific museum has been consumed by fire,
and much of its archive of 20m items is believed to have been destroyed.
The fire at Rio de Janeiro’s 200-year-old National Museum began after
it closed to the public on Sunday and raged into th
With the help of Parkland survivor David Hogg , activists in Texas
managed to raise almost $10,000 to place an anti-Ted Cruz billboard in
the state featuring President Donald Trump’s own words. The GoFundMe
campaign organized by USA Latinx, a political group, raised far more
than the $6,000 goal in less than 24 hours.
The
US dollar is no longer used by Tehran and Baghdad in bilateral trade,
giving way to the euro and local currencies, as well as direct barter of
goods, head of the Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce Yahya Ale-Eshagh has
revealed. "[The] US dollar has been removed from the list of currencies
used by Iran and Iraq in their trade transactions and they are using
Iranian rial, euro and Iraqi dinar for fin
Those who love Trump’s willingness to offend anyone and everyone are upset eulogies for McCain hit the president
The
shocking assassination Friday of Aleksandr Zakharchenko, leader of the
self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, may end the Minsk Agreements
and reignite the Donbass insurgency against Kiev rule. The elimination
of a high-profile Russian ally in Ukraine was almost certainly done with
one eye on the developing 'mother-of-all-stand-offs' between
Russian-Syrian forces and terrorist-F.UK.US forc
Rare punishment was carried out in a courtroom and witnessed by up to
100 people Two women found guilty of attempting to have sex have been
caned in Malaysia’s conservative north-eastern state of Terengganu, in
the first punishment of its kind. The two women, aged 22 and 32, were
caned six times each in the Terengganu sharia high court just after
10am, after the sentence was read out. Continue re
Egypt
said Sunday that archeologists have unearthed one of the oldest
villages ever found in the Nile Delta, with remains dating back to
before the pharaohs.
Like the city itself, oysters contain multitudes. They are survivors. They build anew on what was left behind.
GIF GIF: GTA X Scripting There’s a new mod that lets you be Magneto in
Grand Theft Auto V . As if that game didn’t have enough in it already.
Eagle-eyed Christopher Livingston over at PC Gamer noticed this new mod
from JulioNIB, who has made a lot of interesting mods for GTAV .
Advertisement What I love about the mod is how conceptually simple it
is. What would it be like to be Magneto in a giant
Dave Bautista as Drax. Image: Marvel Studios Well, this is just a right
ol’ mess, isn’t it. In July, Disney fired James Gunn , after
conservative activists resurfaced Gunn’s history of controversial
Tweets. Since then, the Guardians of the Galaxy series that Gunn wrote
and directed has been increasingly in flux, with conflicting reports on
whether or not the film would use Gunn’s script , and now
Cells can reprogram themselves after an injury much more radically than people thought, reverting to a stem cell-like state.
Texting
under the table should be a thing of the past when French children
return to class Monday following a nationwide ban on mobile phones in
schools.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian President Vladimir Putin may discuss
provocations using chemical weapons in Syria at the Russia-Turkey-Iran
summit in Tehran on Friday, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said in an
interview. “This issue, all aspects of the Syrian settlement and
aggravating points will be discussed,” Ushakov told the Izvestiya
newspaper asked whether the issue of provocations with chemical […]
Former secretary of state John Kerry has revealed the Obama
administration’s frustrations with Israeli prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in a new book slated for release this month. According to
excerpts released by a Washington newsletter, Kerry began losing trust
in Netanyahu in 2014 during Israel’s last war on Gaza, when he says
Netanyahu began leaking to the […]
Health Editor’s Note: Air Force One and several other military aircraft
are involved when the president travels, be it to his home in Florida
or on “official” United States business. There will be cargo planes for
the motorcade limos, personnel who do security sweeps of the area before
the president touches down, any guest he […]
Jim W. Dean - While the EU is talking about being independent from the US, actually doing it is another thing.
Health Editor’s Note: A neuron is a nerve cell which transmits,
processes, and receives information through chemical and electrical
signals which cross between synapses or gaps between the neurons.
Neurons make up the central nervous system (spinal cord and brain) and
the peripheral nervous system which is made up of the somatic nervous
system (voluntary […]
Senior military commanders from Iraq, Russia, Iran and Syria have met
in Baghdad and exchanged views on security and intelligence cooperation.
The commanders from the four countries, which have joint operation
rooms to coordinate the fight against the Daesh terror group, attended
the conference on Saturday. The Iraqi Defense Ministry said it had
received delegations led by deputy […]
In the remote Cordillera mountain range of the Philippines, rice
terraces preserve a cultural landscape passed down for 2,000 years. ➡
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Dani Deahl heads to Los Angeles to see how artificial intelligence is
used in music production. Artist and content creator, Taryn Southern, is
recording her debut album which she co-produced with several AI
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Motorola officially announced the Motorola One and Motorola One Power
at IFA 2018, a pair of mid-range Android One phones that offer a sleek,
budget-friendly spin on Apple’s iPhone X design. But they’ll only be
available in Europe, Latin America, and Asia — sorry, U.S. customers.
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It’s back-to-school time, and Kalen Allen schools us on all the dos and
don'ts of college. If you’re a freshman in a new university, you’ll
want these college tips to make your first year successful! From:
TheEllenShow
Brandon Semenuk's 'RAW 100' for 2018. Athlete: Brandon Semenuk Directed
by: Rupert Walker and Brandon Semenuk (Revel Co.) Course Build: Evan
'Intern' Young, Dan Fleury, Will Clifford, Brandon Semenuk DP: Rupert
Walker Producer: Brandon Semenuk Sound Design: Keith White
Editor/Colourist: Rupert Walker VFX: Dan Gaud Photography: Ian Collins
Cast: Revel Co. , Brandon Semenuk , Rupert Walker , Dan Ga
It’s a new century for Nikon imaging, and I’m super honored to be a
part of it. The 101-year-old company has announced what I consider to be
one of the most remarkable imaging devices on the planet, the Nikon Z7.
Along with its companion, the Nikon Z6, these cameras mark Nikon’s
debut in the world of full-frame mirrorless cameras. I was given wide
latitude with the opportunity to create a short f
The Corbett Report
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Today we're joined by Mick Harrison (and David Meiswinkle) of the
Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry to discuss their recent petition to
the U. S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York to convene a
special grand jury into the unprosecuted federal crimes relating to the
destruction of three World Trade
As
The Corbett Report community notes, lemmings jumping from cliffs is a
figment of Walt Disney's imagination, not a real phenomenon. So how else
has our perception of the world been shaped by the media?
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James Corbett joins The Last American Vagabond once again to discuss
what we are seeing today with the proposed regulation of the currently
trending social media outlets.
Today we're joined by Mick Harrison (and David Meiswinkle) of the
Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry to discuss their recent petition to
the U. S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York to convene a
special grand jury into the unprosecuted federal crimes relating to the
destruction of three World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001. We
talk about the committee and its formation, the
[audio
mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode344-lq.mp3"][/audio] Don't
be an idiot! The government is NOT going to be the neutral arbiters of
the internet and the big tech companies are NOT monopolies unless YOU
choose to make them into monopolies. The answers to the social media
crackdown are already here and it is your choice whether the
alternatives that already exist thrive or die. I
The EnvironmentaList
As climate change creates new habitat for mosquitoes, it’s time to protect yourself and your furry friends
Many nations are counting on hydropower to meet growing energy needs even as climate change is likely to increase risks
Bill passed by Assembly would require complete shift to clean energy by 2045
Threat extends beyond Brazilian farmworkers to consumers around the world
With four new mines approved in the Western Desert, the Tjiwarl turn to courts for help
Closures raise questions about viability of nucelar power in a warming world
The Rules of Exposition
"Infinite"
is a practical impossibility. "Endless" happens all the time. Almost 70
years old before I figured out the difference.
A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
I like a good analogy for figuring out complex problems with moral
overtones. I got to thinking about which one might work for
understanding the opioid crisis after I saw the comments from my
Facebook post today linking to the BC government’s announcement of a
class action law suit against the opioid manufacturing industry. How’s
this: Reimagining the issue as if it were the use of pesticides. Li
These are times of calling people on their shit. So I’m going to call
out ageism, and more specifically that insidious kind I think of as
“compliment-based ageism,” which I’m now experiencing in my own life.
Some recent examples: I scrambled up the rock at my favourite Upper
Thetis swimming hole a few days ago and a woman watching me from the top
told me what a good climber I was. When travelling
A.E.Brain
ALL THINGS PAKISTAN
Only 3 Prime Ministers of Pakistan were in office for more than 4
years, seven PM's were in office for less than a year. Zia ul Haq and
Ayub Khan were in power longest, but Nawaz Sharif's cumulative days as
PM outnumber Musharraf's days of power! The post Prime Ministers of
Pakistan: Numbered Days appeared first on ALL THINGS PAKISTAN .
Amused Cynicism
India is thinking about making itself independent of US big tech
companies: For some Indian political leaders, it is as if their nation —
which was ruled by Britain for a century until 1947 — is being
conquered by colonial powers all over again. And they are determined to
stop it. For Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, India’s moves would
curb a lucrative business avenue — especially after so m
Jeremy Corbyn recently suggested creating a state-run alternative to
Facebook : Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has come up with the idea of a
new sister organisation to the BBC called the “British Digital
Corporation”, which might be able to create a new, publicly funded
Facebook-like platform. Despite the large digital footprint of the BBC
already, Corbyn said the new organisation would take on the
The EU is not currently in control of much of its digital
infrastructure.Could it be? And Should it be? Since it is the 2nd
largest economy in the world, controlling over a fifth of the world’s
economy, it clearly has the ability to be in control if it wants to. And
it should want to, to prevent the posibility of hostile outside actors
harming European interests. It could do so by these steps: 1.
The following is taken from the article The Country Does Not Want
Brexit by Reasons2Remain. There is now a significant turning point in UK
attitudes to Brexit, writes Professor Adrian Low. The pollster YouGov
has completed 70 polls since the referendum, asking whether it was the
right or wrong decision to vote to leave the EU. They have also asked
the public eighteen times if there should be a se
Ladybird have launched a new series of 6 books giving practical advice
on how to cope with Brexit and its aftermath: A seventh book is also on
its way, entitled “Practical Cannabalism: 101 Recipes For Cooking With
Humans”. I’ve already pre-ordered my copy.
ArmsControlWonk
Quote
of the week: “Nuclear destruction destroys the meaning of death by
depriving it of its individuality.” — Hans Morgenthau Hans Morganthau
was part of a wave of intellectuals who found refuge in the United
States as Europe was coming apart at the seams with the rise of Nazi
Germany. He is perhaps best known …
As
many of you know, the latest annual China Military Power Report
produced by the U.S. Department of Defense for Congress came out last
week. The reports contains quite a few interesting tidbits, but I
spotted one thing that really stood out against the backdrop of expected
developments and progress in China’s missile programs. In …
The
imprint on public consciousness of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima,
which occurred 73 years ago today, has faded greatly. The hibakusha, or
survivors of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which
killed more than 130,000 and left tens of thousands of others with
horrendous injuries, have been the most ardent proponents of nuclear …
Quote
of the week: “I have nowhere to go and nowhere to go when I get back
from there.” — A.R. Ammons, “Still” Creativity can be a singular
expression or can be nurtured in small groups. The longer the workplace
corridor and the more authorizations required, the more creativity can
be rubbed out. Creativity can …
It’s
a family pod today! Andrea, Aaron, and Jeffrey review July’s new North
Korean developments. They dive into the developments at Sohae Satellite
Launching Grounds, sanctions enforcement, and the repatriation of
POW/KIA remains from the Korean War. Links of Note: Treasury’s press
release of sanctions ordered against the Russian Agrosoyuz Commercial
Bank. Imagery analysis from …
In
today’s podcast, Aaron and Jeffrey discuss the geolocation work that
underpinned Jeffrey’s research for his novel and how open source
investigations can be leveraged to inform analysis. Links of Note:
Previous Arms Control Wonk Podcast episodes on South Korea’s missile
arsenal: South Korea’s Missile Arsenal Expands The Hyunmoo-2C: South
Korea’s 800km Missile Jeffrey’s new …
Craig Murray
On 8 July 2018 a lady named Kirsty Eccles asked what, in its enormous
ramifications, historians may one day see as the most important Freedom
of Information request ever made. The rest of this post requires
extremely close and careful reading, and some thought, for you to
understand that claim. Dear British Broadcasting Corporation, 1: Why did
BBC Newsnight correspondent Mark Urban keep secret fr
Facebook has deleted all of my posts from July 2017 to last week
because I am, apparently, a Russian Bot. For a while I could not add any
new posts either, but we recently found a way around that, at least for
now. To those of you tempted to say “So what?”, I would point out that
over two thirds of visitors to my website arrive via my posting of the
articles to Facebook and Twitter. Social media
The BBC refuses to answer my Skripal questions to Mark Urban on the
grounds they have no legal obligation, instead giving a “statement”.
That correspondence follows below. But I want you first to imagine a
World in which the BBC and Mark Urban were honest and independent, and
imagine these were the answers to my questions: 1) When the Skripals
were first poisoned, it was the largest news story in
This information about planning being carried out in great secrecy came
to me from an FCO source I had no previous contact with, so I do not
know the reliability. It might even be a hoax to make me look foolish.
Therefore I decided to check the story with the FCO Press Department,
but I can’t get any response out of them. Not answering questions
appears to be the standard British state response t
Alex Salmond’s jeopardy has caused me a dreadful shudder of recognition
and empathy. I too was accused of hideous offences under a civil
service disciplinary code and barred from taking any action to defend
myself. I was not allowed to speak to anybody at all about the charges,
and particularly not allowed to know the identity of my accusers, or to
organise witnesses in my defence – which appears
An Ambassador is evidently not as important as a Scottish First
Minister, but there is one interesting similarity. You get to live in a
palatial Residence at public expense, and you host numerous social
events there, from intimate lunches to grand dinners to receptions for
many hundred people. Indeed as a diplomat you do this throughout your
career – as an Ambassador, Deputy High Commissioner, Fi
DAMMIT JANET!
We Need a Law, the astroturf wing of Dominionist group Association for
Reformed Political Action* , has put up its first billboard in
Dartmouth, NS. No doubt to the group's delight, it is causing
controversy. Pattison Outdoor, which rents the space, says it has
received complaints, but will not take it down unless instructed to by
Ad Standards . So, friends of truth and choice, we need to complai
A call out to the current occupant of the White House By Roberto Dr.
Cintli Rodriguez August 16, 2018 After being under relentless assault by
the current president for some 3 years, on August 16th, the nation’s
mainstream media – its opinion writers – are finally striking back. On
this day, some 100 of the nation’s leading newspapers are set to publish
columns in defense of the 1st Amendment, and
after someone in the dev team accidentally uploaded a 3.3-3.6 Roadmap a
couple of weeks ago that was all sortsa wrong, RSI aka CIG aka makers
of both the Star Citizen and Squadron 42 games have finally uploaded THE
PROPER ROADMAP charting the expected progress of the Star Citizen (it's
not a f***ing sandbox) game through to the end of 2019... Most obvious
omission this time, apart from Hurston-sy
while
she appears to be working on the purely INTUITIVE level, Eileen
McKusick is integrating her thesis-research on how a tuning fork can map
the human magnetic field and how it relates to MEMORY into Wal
Thornhill and David Talbott's ELECTRIC UNIVERSE and THUNDERBOLTS OF THE
GODS cosmological model. Sounds like 'those corporations who pushed
wireless broadband and cell phones technology upon us'
Greg Mankiw's Blog
Today's
NY Times has a long but ultimately unconvincing article about
Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs). The headline and tone of the article suggest
something nefarious is going on. But unless you think that future
charitable spending is less admirable than current charitable spending,
nothing of the sort is the case. True, the money managers make some
money from these funds, but they do for every pool
By the second semester of my freshman year at Harvard, I had started
going to classes I wasn’t signed up for, and had pretty much stopped
going to any of the classes I was signed up for – except for an
introduction to economics class called “Ec 10.” I was fascinated by the
subject, and the professor was excellent. Mr. Gates does not say who the
professor was. And since this predates my time at Ha
Great book by UCLA economist Sebastian Edwards about a key moment in
American economic history. Many economists believe that the most
important thing FDR did to help the economy recover from the Great
Depression was to go off the gold standard. As part of that policy, he
pursued laws that rewrote many bond contracts, annulling gold clauses.
It was controversial then (and surely would be again if
Left I on the News
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) --
August 31, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *Democratic
Embrace of Diverse Candidates Collides With Barbed Politics of Trump Era
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/us/politics/race
Trump is in the news today for complaining that Google searches for
“Trump news” turns up only “fake news” from “left-wing” sites (in which
he includes every single “mainstream” news source with the exception of
FOX News!), and charging Google with suppressing news from conservative
sources. Interestingly, moments after he tweeted that I went to Google
and did just that (searched for “Trump news”
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. The segment has been off for two weeks so some of the
headlines below are "old". Worst and Most Misleading Headlines (WAMMH)
-- August 24, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *BY FAR THE
WORST, THIS SEQUENCE OF THREE HEADLINES FROM BBC: I
This week's "Headlines" segment on Sputnik's Loud & Clear was
pre-empted by a Russiagate segment, as Brian, John and I discuss the
latest news about the Steele dossier and the role in played in launching
the investigation. You'll have to content yourself with reading my
notes below about the headlines we would have discussed if we had gone
ahead with the normal segment. Worst and Most Misleading
Coverage of Rick Gates’ testimony at the Paul Manafort trial leads the
news tonight. Almost all of it is about the titillating aspects — tax
evasion, Gates embezzling money from Manafort (!), etc. But the most
*significant* aspect of that testimony is not only being ignored, it’s
being deliberately hidden. See the
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