Middle East Today
Egypt relies on the import of 60% of its wheat. Due to the meager
availability of water, Egypt cultivates only 5 to 6 million feddans, of
acres. Sudan, on the other hand, has regular rain. It was estimated that
the regular annual rain fall in Sudan was estimated to be 1000 billion
cu.m., in addition to rivers water. Hence, both Egypt and Sudan
complement each other regarding cultivation. Egypt po
News From Atlantis.
Killed
With Kindness, by Paul Dutton The scene is set in Fallowfields
Chesterton Cambridge there is an elderly lady in her 90’s her name is
Matilda she used to sell ticket for Cambridge football club, she also
put up a lot of players when they came to Cambridge back in the old days
she also helped dig the holes for the spot lights when they were fitted
she stopped helping Cambridge united football
If governments were doing their jobs, a Skip The Dishes food delivery
driver wouldn’t have to sue for basic employment rights. Charleen
Pokornik, who started driving for the company in Winnipeg two years ago,
says the company is wrongly claiming the drivers are independent
contractors, not employees. Increasingly, jobs have been changing — and
generally for the worse. More part-time work, more pe
Pesticide Action Network
Adam Vega is a community organizer with Californians for Pesticide
Reform. In this blog, he shares his experience living in the
agricultural community of Ventura County, California, where pesticide
use is high, children and farmworkers are at risk, and community members
are stepping up to take action together. I am very fortunate to call
California — Ventura County specifically — home. The Golden
As of Thursday morning, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
has 60 days to finalize its ban of the neurotoxic pesticide
chlorpyrifos. This was the ruling of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on
August 9. The judges determined that EPA broke the law by allowing
continued use of the pesticide despite scientific evidence linking it to
harmful impacts on children’s developing brains. "Child
Victory! Court orders EPA to ban chlorpyrifos. The Agency now has 60
days to finalize its ban of the neurotoxic pesticide. Learn more
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In a historic ruling in the San Francisco Superior Court earlier this
month, a jury found the Monsanto corporation (recently merged with
Bayer) fully liable for health damages caused by its herbicide, Roundup.
The plaintiff, DeWayne Johnson, was awarded $289 million in damages.
This victory is a landmark moment. It signals the beginning of real
change — a loosening of the grip that corporations h
From 2009 to 2012, pesticide use in the U.S. rose on the order of 100
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Another attractive New York Latina is getting lambasted from right,
left and center for not being able to decide if she's a Colombian
immigrant and has the Jewish heritage she claims, and whether, as a
Caucasian woman she can even claim to be "Hispanic." No matter that
she's made a far more (for me) troublesome journey from conservatism to
membership in the Democratic Socialists of America in jus
And entered into his just reward, aka The Void. Insert boilerplate
hagiography here: He made the supreme final sacrifice and clung onto
life until the very end of the Hamptons and Martha's Vineyard's seasons,
so that the well-rested Ruling Establishment can all gather for one of
this year's premier social events - his "full dress" funeral at
Washington's National Cathedral. No need to even waste
Racism, being as all-American as rotten apple pie, has gotten a huge
fertilizing boost thanks to modern technology. The Internet has spawned
acres upon acres of toxic cyber-orchards which are poisoning millions
upon millions of social media users all over this precious Land of the
Free. With homegrown neo-Nazis to the right of us and Kremlin bots to
the right-left of us, how in the world can #Res
You have to hand it to Donald Trump. Not only is he an expert at
controlling the media he only pretends to despise as "fake," he also
knows how to stir up corporate churnalism to a sustained furious boil,
salted liberally with outrage from a can.. It took a Trump to turn
George Bush's torture architect and Barack Obama's drone assassination
guru into Resistance, Inc's latest action hero. John Bre
Have you noticed that more and more corporate media pundits are paying
some positive attention to socialism these days? If they can't beat such
attractive upstarts as Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, they might as well at
least pretend to join them in the pre-midterms interim. There'll be
plenty of time after November to curb both their enthusiasm and ours.
Color me skeptical, but when neoliberal scribe
New York Times reporter Sheera Frenkel certainly feels the precarity
and angst of the average working gal. On a recent morning, she had to
juggle doing the corporate security state's bidding by writing the
blockbuster Microsoft story about more Russian hacking, caring for her
infant daughter, tweeting up a storm, and booking another TV appearance
to plug her Microsoft story. She arrived at MSNBC
ABC affiliate is on the story of how the State of Florida is using a
standardized test to weed out qualified teachers across the state. Two
reports below, the first from July of this year and the second a
follow-up attempt to get a straight answer from Commissioner Pam
Stewart, who is more concerned with losing her lunch break than
providing a sensible answer to a very good question.
Roughly two months ago I discovered Southern New Hampshire University
had become the first academic institution in North America to issue a
diploma credential / education transcript on the Blockchain. It
surprised me. I knew Learning Machine (MIT) was working on this in
Malta, but I had no clue there was a domestic trial underway. I dove in,
did a lot of research, and created the map below. To vi
For many past generations of college bound students, the years of
elementary and high school focused on getting kids ready for a different
kind of learning that focused on breadth and depth, analysis,
synthesis, collaboration, perspective, nuance, and even taste. What
young college aspirant of the past, including me, did not heard how it
would be different "when you get to college." That was befo
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
In
the bad old days, after an employee filed a Charge of Discrimination,
employers would file a position statement and then one of two things
happened: either the investigator would read a summary of the position
statement quickly over the phone, or the investigator would write up a
summary of the position statement. Then the employee would have 10 days
to respond. I say the bad old days, because
In
light of Omarosa's recordings of conversations with her bosses at the
White House, I thought I'd discuss a question I'm asked all the time in
my law practice: Is it legal to record a conversation at work?
Unfortunately, there's no easy answer to this question, and a mistake
can land you in jail. Illegal tape recording can have both criminal and
civil penalties. My advice is almost always: When
60 years after Iraq’s 1958 July 14 Revolution by Christopher Solomon
@Solomon_Chris The black, white, and green tricolor flag emblazoned with
the eight-point red star of Ishtar fluttered amongst the marchers. The
flags waved by members of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) had previously
flown over a period of Iraq that had long been forgotten by the rest of
the world. A distant, but positive memory
The Duck of Minerva
In the run-up to the American Political Science Association Conference
in Boston this week, some political scientists are protesting the award
of the Hubert Humphrey prize to former National Security Advisor
Condoleeza Rice . The award, which includes a cash prize of $1,000, is
given each year “in recognition of notable public service by a political
scientist.” Rice earned her PhD in political sc
The following is a guest post by Andrew Owsiak , Associate Professor at
the University of Georgia and Book Editor for International Studies
Review. The race to push scholarly research into the world carries a few
consequences, perhaps the most notable being that it proves challenging
to stay up-to-date with what is published. To help with this, some
journals, for example International Studies Rev
This is a guest post by Betcy Jose and Peace Media. Betcy Jose is
Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver. She tweets
@betcyj. Peace A. Medie is a Research Fellow in the Legon Centre for
International Affairs and Diplomacy at the University of Ghana. She
tweets @PeaceMedie . Their work on civilian self-protection can be found
here and here . On July 25, 2018, DAESH launched a sur
This is a guest post from Zoe Marks. Zoe Marks is currently Director of
the Global Development Academy at the University of Edinburgh and
Program Director of the MSc in African Studies ; in September 2018, she
will join the faculty at Harvard Kennedy School. Her research focuses on
peace and conflict, gender, and inequality and has been published in
various outlets, including African Affairs and
Tis the season for academic navel gazing so here are some things I’ve
learned the hard way. This is primarily a piece for folks on the tenure
track. I know that I come at this from a position of immense privilege
as a tenured professor at an R1, layered by being a white guy. I know
that some of the advice I’m going to give won’t be all that helpful to
folks in more vulnerable positions as adjunct
This is a guest post by Andreas Pacher who initiated the Observatory of
International Relations (OOIR) , a website which tracks Political
Science and IR journals to continually list their latest papers. Follow
OOIR on Twitter: @ObserveIR. You may have noticed that the Impact
Factors of IR journals are sometimes followed by a statement that it
ranks “nth out of 85 journals in the category ‘Interna
The Straight Goods
Is It ‘Reporting’ or ‘Creative Writing’ in the province of Alberta?
Written by Robin Mathews , August 2018 Looking at the article “ Freedom
and Loathing in Lethbridge” by Tadzio Richards for Alberta Views is a
depressing undertaking. Dressed, apparently, in the clothing of serious
investigation – the reality of its sham nature is disappointing … for
there is no question that clear light needs to
thwap's schoolyard
This piece - "Workers' Power vs. Climate Destroyers: What It Will Take
to Save the Planet," by Bruce Lesnick, is the kind of thing I'm talking
about here: Asking those few with wealth and power to please do the
right thing is not a very effective strategy and it hasn’t gotten us
very far up to now. A much better approach would be to take the power
and wealth into our own hands – into the hands of
You cannot have unlimited growth of anything on a finite planet.
Obvious, right? Not to the geniuses in charge of the world's
political-economic system. Or to humanity in general. The inherent lack
of empathy in our species is evidenced by the continued desires of many
of us for lots and lots of offspring. I once asked "Do you suppose that a
Petri dish of bacteria had individuals in it saying 'Do
In our system the state has a monopoly on the use of violence. The
police and the military are the main tools by which the state exercises
its monopoly on violence. The only message that I want to convey with
this post is that if you have access to members of the police or the
military (or, really, any other enforcement arm of the state that can
cause serious damage to a person's life), that you
George Orwell's 1984 describes how a totalitarian government can
manipulate people into believing the most grotesque, inhuman
absurdities. It can delude people into thinking they're free, even
though they're miserable and trapped in a system they can't control. It
robs them of the words, the capabilities, to even understand what is
wrong, to explain it to themselves. To a great degree WE live in
Sort of. I still think humanity is too stupid to survive. I still think
blogging is a waste of time. But it seems to me that living a lie is
also a complete waste of time. Recently, I've been seeing a lot of
click-bait titles about how to have a better life. You know these sorts
of articles: "Yoga hacks for greater energy." "This Billionaire CEO
Avoids These 5 Bad Habits." "The BEST Way To Respon
Vagabond Scholar
Happy
Labor Day! These videos are repeats, but they're good. Here's Robert
Reich from 2013, about celebrating labor on Labor Day. This a Woody
Guthrie classic, performed at the Pete Seeger 90th birthday concert:
Given the latest pushes from conservatives to further concentrate wealth
and power with the wealthy, to let wages stagnate, and to slash the
social safety net, it's a
What Is Sustainable
God is Red fascinated me. Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2006) was a Yankton
Sioux activist. His great-grandfather was a medicine man. His
grandfather was a chief who became a priest. His father rose to an
executive position in the Episcopal Church. Deloria graduated from a
seminary, but chose not to become a minister, because of his father’s
frustrations. He sought a path that could be of greater benefi
Once upon a time, all humans in Europe were nomadic hunter-gatherers.
Today, we know little about those prehistoric wild folks. Over the
centuries, farming, animal husbandry, ceramics, textiles, and other
technologies from the Middle East slithered westward into Europe.
Eventually, almost all of the wild folks were either absorbed into the
turbulent new culture or eliminated by it. In Europe, the
In
my most recent Listening to Joni post, I said that I write with my
brain, but I listen to music with my heart. A few nights ago in New York
City, my music heart broke in pieces, over and over again. I've seen a
lot of theatre -- and quite a bit of Bruce Springsteen -- but I'd never
experienced anything quite like this. Springsteen on Broadway is one of
the most intensely moving theatrical exper
This
is one of those posts I write only for myself. This blog functions as
my travel diary, and I like that diary to be complete. So here I am.
Feel free to ignore. Which of course you always are, and you don't need
me to tell you that. I was supposed to go to New York by myself to see
Springsteen on Broadway . (Review to follow in separate post.) I had
been trying to get a ticket since they first
We are here ! Staying here . Going to this ! Also here , scene of many
past celebrations. Ah, New York. And Bruce!! That is all.
If you're an app developer for MLB, or if you're with Roku or AppleTV,
skip down to the final paragraphs! Because Allan and I follow a baseball
an out-of-town baseball team, we subscribe to MLB.TV, and have done so
for ages. As much as I dislike pay-per-TV services, being able to watch
any baseball game at any time, with either the home or away feed, is
amazing. Once we were able to do this by st
Once
again, Google has reduced the ease and functionality of Blogger. A
while back, the layout of the Blogger dashboard changed. I used to be
able to see an overview of all my blogs plus my "following" list on one
dashboard page. I found this very useful, and I imagine that other users
who also moderate more than one blog would have agreed. Now I can no
longer check for and moderate comments on al
WWF - Latest News
WWF- Russia would be releasing ten bisons into the wild in North
Ossetia during August. The restoration of bisons in North Ossetia is a
part of a strategy to re-introduce the animals in the country. The first
six bisons arrived in Caucasus from the Oksky nature reserve (Ryazan
region) today, after a 2000 km travel. The new arrivals include purebred
two male and four female bisons. The animals wer
Brazil's protected areas (Pas) such as the Amazon and Caatinga are
known globally for the incredible biodiversity treasures they hold. In
2016, there were approximately 17 million visitors in Brazilian
protected areas and according to a new study published this week,
greater investment in the environmental management of these areas could
help yield even more economic gains for the country. The bo
A Different Perspective
I was watching Treasure Quest when they flashed the document that
supposedly launched several expeditions into the Sacambaya region of
Bolivia. I really wasn’t paying much attention because, well, we’re in
the first couple of episodes where nothing much will happen. On the
document were a couple of symbols. One of them I recognized. Now, we go
back to last year when I was working on a book about
Since we’ve reached a point where evidence has evaporated into opinion,
let’s take a look at what Edwin Easley told me. I don’t believe anyone
else ever talked to him, so while what is read in the cold prose on the
sterile page, I listened to his inflections, his hesitations, and what
he said based on my experience as a military Edwin Easley. intelligence
officer. First, nothing he said takes us
Since I have now annoyed all my friends with my analysis of the Roswell
documentation and how some of it is quite suggestive that nothing alien
fell there, I thought it time to annoy all my skeptical friends. Lining
up against that documentation is the testimony of some people who were
on the scene in 1947. This is based on the documentation we can find
about them and the stories they tell us in
Back in 1988, when Don Schmitt and I began our investigation into the
Roswell case, there were no documents available, other than newspaper
articles and a single report from the FBI. The newspaper reports were
less than accurate with misspellings of names, and descriptions of the
debris. The FBI document, which was based on an interview with Major
Kirton (misspelled as Curtan in the FBI report) s
Over the last several days I have received a number of comments,
privately, about my post, “The Decline of Roswell.” What is disturbing
about it is that many people missed the most important part. They
focused on the statement by Colonel Howard McCoy to The Science Advisory
Board about his wishing one would crash. But, that is not the critical
comment. To recap, briefly. Those who follow this blo
So, we’re off on another great trek, searching for a treasure that is
more myth than reality, worth more than the others we’ve all chased
these last few years. Oak Island is truly a money pit, but only because
of all the money they have been throwing into it. The Treasure of the
Trinity has disappeared into oblivion. Last night (August 24, 2018) they
had the opportunity to let us in on the secret
A Very Public Sociologist
An ignominious end to an ignominious career. Like many Labour Party
members, when I heard the news it was less a question of why and more
one of "why did it take him so long?". And now we know. He was looking
for an excuse, a "principled" reason for his departure that has
absolutely nothing at all to do with the challenges to his erratic
behaviour by his constituency party, culminating in the nea
Sometimes, you've got to marvel at Theresa May. As she visits South
Africa, Nigeria and Kenya to drum up post-Brexit trade agreements (and
signing an agreement to preserve existing EU trade arrangements should
the UK crash and burn without a deal), she can't help looking the fool.
No, not the impromptu awful dancing, which nevertheless impressed some ,
nor her super awkward interview with Michael
This discussion on Novara Media 's TyskySour is well worth a listen regardless of your position on Brexit.
This month saw 20,964 votes cast over 14 local authority (tier one and
tier two) contests. All percentages are rounded to the nearest single
decimal place. Four council seats changed hands in total. For comparison
with July's results, see here . Party Number of Candidates Total Vote %
+/- July +/- Aug 17 Average/ Contest +/- Seats Conservative 14 6,931
33.1% -3.1% -5.4% 495 -1 Labour 13 6,203 30.
What a month, What another fraught, scabby, fractious month. Do the
happenings in politics find themselves reflected in the most read posts
for the month? Let's see: 1. On the Campaign Against Corbyn 2. No One is
Above the Party 3. Labour Democracy Roadshow in Stoke 4. Projecting
Paranoia 5. Frank Field: An Anti-Eulogy In other words, the interminable
factional battles of the Labour Party managed
Here are three scenarios. These all actually happened. 1. At a party
conference not too long ago, Nora Mulready, an activist and Progress
supporter spotted Seumas Milne in the lobby of the hotel. She strode up
to him and started ranting, peppering her invective with a few choice
words that would overfill a swear jar. 2. After a Parliamentary session,
behind the speaker's chair Margaret Hodge butt
Adrienne's Corner
Extraordinary Form of the Mass 25 Since we live by the Spirit, A let us
keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking
and envying each other. 6 Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in
a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently.
But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. 2 Carry each other’s
burdens, and in this way you will fulfill t
just saying. A very vulgar, tasteless, and unwarranted display. Say
what you will about the English, but they know how to behave in public. I
remember well two little princes of the realm walking behind the casket
of their mother and behaving better than Meghan McCain with her endless
attention grabbing sobbing. Enough already! Wake me when it's over.
Thank you.
and they call us stupid? The rise of the penis-less Christine
Hallquist, a guy who thinks he's a girl, wins the Vermont gubernatorial
primary. He thinks Christians are insane and dangerous . Cutting off
one's penis does that to you. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has declared
America "never that great." Crazy eyes Alexandria Ocasio-damaged Cortex,
winning the primary in New York’s 14th Congressional
what am I missing here? Let's see if I'm missing anything: Eleven
starving kids living in filth with no bathroom facilities Remains of
dead 3 year old Training the kids to be school shooters Multiple "wives"
Guns up the wazoo They were released on a "signature bond" meaning that
the muslims don't pay anything unless they violate the conditions of
their release. Judge Sarah Backus said she wasn't
it's about homosexuality. You know - that prideful perversion. If
people can't call it what it what it is, it will never be eradicated.
Yesterday some guy at American Spectator, an opinion outlet that
considers itself top drawer, published an article that used the word "
pedophilia" over, and over, and over concerning the recent report from
the Pennsylvania grand jury. Because the good Lord knows
excellent! I apologize for my silence lately, but the fact is I had
nothing to say. Rather than waste my time, and more importantly - your
time, I refrained from cobbling together posts just to post. We also had
a mini-heat wave reaching a staggering (for us) 107° degrees on August
10th. Even though our portable air conditioner did a magnificent job of
keeping us comfortable the heat, accompanied
.
Dear Friends and Allies, September Women's Assembly For Climate
Justice: Women Leading Solutions On The Frontlines Of Climate Change
(September 11) WECAN International is organizing and hosting the
'Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Women Leading Solutions on the
Frontlines of Climate Change', an extraordinary gathering of
.
Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps with Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte U.S.
Nuclear Industry Responsible for Homicide of Western Shoshone -- says
Ian Zabarte By Brenda Norrell Photo by Beyond Nuclear Censored News The
exposure of Western Shoshone to radiation during atomic bomb blasts, and
later to deadly testing at Yucca Mountain, could have been prevented,
but the United States made no attempt
By
Brenda Norrell Censored News It is hard to believe that so many global
thieves and agents of genocide could be on one board. There is no Genie
in this bottle. Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson joined a crowd of
former CIA, U.S. Treasury, a Louisiana Senator, with Dick Cheney,
Murdoch media, a Rothschild and an Israeli military commander, all on
the board of Genie Energy, for
.
Lakota Elder Regina Brave arrested Feb. 2017 Photo: WPLC Attorney
Andrea Carter and Water Protectors Aubree Peckham,Regina Brave and Leta
Killer-Bailey after the bench trial in Mandan, ND. Court Update: Water
Protector Found Not Guilty on One Charge, Receives Deferred Sentence on
Another Posted on August 22, 2018 By Water Protector Legal Collective
Censored News
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Participation of the Sixth Commission of the EZLN in the Meeting of
Networks of Support to the CIG and its Speaker.(Extended
version)TranslationsFor reasons of time, the Zapatista participation was
not complete. We promised that we would then send them what was
missing: here the original version that includes parts of the transcript
plus what was not mentioned. You're welcome. There is no
Chase
Iron Eyes entered a plea agreement today on charges related to Last
Child Camp at Standing Rock. Prosecutors amended the felony riot charge
and criminal trespass charge, and reduced the charges to a misdemeanor.
Read more:
https://lastrealindians.com/north-dakota-drops-felony-charges-against-chase-iron-eyes/
'We Are Not Terrorists' video just released by Chase Iron Eyes and
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