Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
So
I received this email: Ms. Ballman; I happened to come across your
article from 2011 regarding 10 Workplace Rights You Think you Have – But
Don’t. As both an attorney and a HR/Payroll consultant, your article is
either outdated, specific to Florida, or just completely inaccurate. I
would urge you to do your research and correct the artcle. If you would
be open to discuss the areas of your artic
People
come to me and say, “I was forced to quit.” Huh? How did the employer
do that? Gun to head? Torture devices? Kidnapped loved one? Because your
employer can’t make you quit. Quitting is entirely, 100%, up to you.
Just because your boss or HR comes to you and says you have to resign,
doesn’t mean you should. My usual advice is never, ever submit your
resignation, no matter how much they deman
With
Republicans threatening to cut Social Security benefits, retirement
savings has become a national issue. Some states (not anti-employee
Florida, of course) have tackled this issue by implementing retirement
plans for private-sector employees. The latest state to implement a
private-sector retirement plan is Connecticut . They join California,
Illinois, Maryland and Oregon in implementing auto
Saudi Arabia, Shi’ism and the Illusion of Reform by Robert G. Rabil – @
robertgrabil October 30, 2019 The emergence of the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia is inextricably associated with the Wahhabi school of Islam. The
Saudi-Wahhabi pact goes back to the eighteenth century when Sheikh
Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792), the founder of the
Wahhabi-Salafi school of Islam traveled to Diriya, the stron
By Michael Gerini Residing in the north of Lebanon, Mouin Merhebi is a
member of Saad Hariri’s Future Movement. A staunch opponent of Hezbollah
and the Assad government, he currently serves as Minister of Refugee
Affairs (officially “Minister of State for Displaced Affairs”) in the
Hariri government, a position he has held since December of 2016. Though
coming into the position with little experi
The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage
I have posted the following comment to an American Thinker article on
"Being Human and the Abuse of Science", which sets belief in God above
science: The problem is, all of our religions grew out of previous
history, which personalized God, and thus put God in a too-small box of
man's own making. The most obvious problem with this, of course, is the
proliferation of man-made "Gods", which led to
I have submitted the following comment to the fabius maximus site, in
response to an article on alienation: Large-scale, or mass, alienation
is due to a general incompetence on the part of the "experts",
particularly in science and religion. Or to make a long story short, too
long nurturing of false dogmas in the underlying assumptions of a
civilization or society. The primary false dogma of mode
The Ergosphere
Over
at Green Car Congress, "Scottish Scientist" gushes about P2G: Power to
Gas (P2G) is best for (solar, wind etc.) farm-scale energy storage for
most farms where there is no possibility of farm-scale pumped hydro. P2G
is excellent for mopping up all the surplus farm power because any
energy which P2G can store is an efficiency gain compared to the 100%
loss of all curtailed generation. Grid
The Straight Goods
Donald J Trump......Coward in Chief Written by grant G It's gone almost
as predicted in a post I wrote November 8th, 2016..the night the US
elected Donald J Trump president election here's the last few paragraphs
in a post titled.... Donald Trump, King Lizard ______ I feel very sad
for the 50% of Americans who voted for Hillary, I feel just as bad for
the 50% that voted for Trump because they bel
The Emma Jackson Story Written by Grant G Something going on around
here...... Emma Jackson , who is she, I don't know but boy oh boy is she
needed, especially the message she voices.. Ten Years .....according to
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) that's how much
time citizens of planet earth have to stop using the worst of the worst
fossils fuels, that includes fracking and tars
Kogas, one of the 5 corporations involved in LNG Canada's Kitimat
project.... Kogas has a 5% stake in the project......Kogas revealed
today how much their 5% stake is going to cost them.. The number
is.....$660 million dollars....that's 5% of the terminal cost.... 5% is
1/20th of 100%...... 5% times 20 equals...... $13.2 Billion dollars....
__________ SEOUL, Oct 12 (Reuters) - South Korea’s state
thwap's schoolyard
So, plodding dullard, pants-pissing coward, anti-democratic doofus,
brazen hypocrite, overall incompetent, stephen harper has (in a
desperate attempt to appear relevant) farted out a book of sorts. It's
called I'm Really Stupid Now (or something). In it, he apparently says
that something he calls the global free-market economy has produced
winners and losers and that these fucking losers are turn
I once watched a documentary about Berlin in the interwar period. "City
of Sex" was the title I believe. I was interested because Weimar Berlin
was also a hot-spot of artistic creativity: Dada (brought in by the
German ex-pats who created it in Zurich during WWI, Expressionism,
Bauhaus, Brecht, Gross, the cabarets, etc., etc .,). Also, I was
interested in just how those stodgy old-folks from the
So, yeah. Easy answers. Achievement without effort. This desire for
maximum output with minimum input is hard-wired into us. Being able to
figure out the simplest way to achieve one's goals is a survival
mechanism. But sometime's evolutionary traits can backfire. Especially
when one lives within a self-reinforcing protective bubble of
information. The climate change deniers, the anti-vaxxers, rig
Vagabond Scholar
Get
out and vote on Tuesday, if you haven't already! This post will collate
some California and Los Angeles County resources. California voters
should already have received the official voter information guide in the
mail, but it's also online and available in multiple languages.
Unfortunately, some candidates don't include statements, but the guide
is particularly useful for seeing who's
What Is Sustainable
The Rise of Homo Sapiens , by Frederick Coolidge (psychologist) and
Thomas Wynn (anthropologist), is a book about the evolution of human
cognition. It describes the seven million year voyage that resulted in
the magnificent mind that’s throbbing between your ears right now. This
voyage began with the first hominins — bipedal (two legged) apes who
were either our direct ancestors, or our long lost
I was intrigued when our book group selected Dancing in the Streets by
Barbara Ehrenreich. It’s a history of collective joy and ecstatic ritual
— stuff that’s pretty rare in the land of the glowing screen people.
Studying humankind’s long transition from wild and free to
robo-consumers, it’s easy to perceive gradually advancing emotional
decay. Cultures slid further away from intimate connections
[Note: This is the second sample from my rough draft of a far from
finished new book, Wild Free & Happy . I don’t plan on reviewing
more books for a while. My blog is home to reviews of 196 books, and you
are very welcome to explore them. The Search field on the right side
will find words in the full contents of all rants and reviews, if you
are interested in specific authors, titles, or subjects
WWF - Latest News
LONDON, 12 October 2018 - Global leaders have acknowledged the need to
take urgent collective action to combat the illegal wildlife trade (IWT)
at the the fourth global conference on IWT. This now needs to be
matched by action. Hosted by the UK government in London, the conference
emphasised the need to tackle IWT as a serious organised crime, work
collaboratively with new partners, and redouble
LONDON, 12 October - Global leaders have acknowledged the need to take
urgent collective action to combat the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) at
the the fourth global conference on IWT. This now needs to be matched by
action. Hosted by the UK government in London, the conference
emphasised the need to tackle IWT as a serious organised crime, work
collaboratively with new partners, and redouble effor
A Very Public Sociologist
Jeremy Corbyn saved the Labour Party. This feat was accomplished by
winning the leadership election in 2015, recruiting hundreds of
thousands of new members, registered and affiliated supporters, and
building a new coalition of voters uniting the comparatively better off
with those at the sharp end . In so doing, Labour in England and Wales
avoided the fates of the Socialists in France, Labour in
A question to everyone who thinks Jeremy Corbyn and the current Labour
leadership aren't much cop. Can you imagine a Tory chancellor, a noted
fiscal hawk, proclaiming the end of austerity if Labour wasn't an
effective opposition and hadn't made the running against the cuts? And
the honest answer, of course, is no. It says something about the growing
hegemony of the left that the likes of Philip H
Pity the fate of front-line politicians. Masters of all that they
survey, they go from the centre of the universe to last night's chip
wrappings. Imagine it. Your views matter. Your hobby horses matter. And
your decisions are among the few that only, truly matter. Then, it might
be sudden but is often drawn out, all this is revoked and you are
bumped down to observer status. If you're lucky you m
There's a lot of banging on about immaterial labour around these parts,
but can we speak of an (antagonistic) counterpart, immaterial capital ?
According to Capitalism Without Capital by Jonathan Haskel and Stian
Westlake, we can. However, before we proceed our authors use capital in
the mainstream economics sense, and not the Marxist one we're used to in
this parish. That is to say we treat capi
I saw a call for papers for a collection under the working title of
Lenin 2020. And so, as if there wasn't a thousand and one other projects
demanding my attention on top of the self-replenishing work pile, I
decided to submit this abstract. Beyond Leninism: Obsolescence,
Multitudes, and the Place of the Party In their influential and
groundbreaking work, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri have repeate
Hallowe'en is now over, but the horrors October unleashed are just
beginning. Here are the five most popular posts last month: 1. The
Bourgeois Politics of the People's Vote March 2. When Centrism Tanks 3.
Ten Points about Brazilian Politics 4. David Davis's Brexit Fantasy 5.
Theresa May's Pitch to Labour MPs If you want to understand politics, a
class analysis is part of the basic kit. Though be
Adrienne's Corner
and it only cost us $1500.00 Arrrrrrrrgh! My doggie, Frankie, erupted
in screams of pain yesterday about 5pm. He'd been acting off for a few
days, and I had been watching him closely. He was rushed to the vet,
x-rayed, and it was determined that somehow he swallowed a rock. Frankie
is a 12 lb dog and after emergency surgery, the vets office was
surprised he could have even swallowed such a large
but hey, like, you know, it's like okay 'cause like borders are stupid
and like no one is "illegal" like we shouldn't have borders, like - you
know? These born again socialists are as ugly in their personal
appearance and behavior (like let's lie around on the filthy floor
'cause it's cool - or something) as their virtue signalling warped
little anti-American, a nti-constitution, anti-capitalism,
campaign has “to appeal to white guilt.” Andres Gillum, running for
governor of Florida, sure has a mighty dark looking bunch of staffers.
Where's the diversity, Gillum? Oh, right - they're nothing but a bunch
of crazy conservative crackers suffused with "white guilt." Pay
attention to who the real racists are. Amazon Today Early Black Friday
Deals
cast off imminent? Word is that President Trump will make an attempt by
executive order to get rid of the travesty of anchor babies - you know,
those babies born here who automatically become citizens and worthy of
all the benefits of real citizens. We can expect the
commie/marxist/libtards to haul this into court and cause us militant
normals untold months of grief and more gridlock. Knowing how
inquiring minds want to know. Not a bomb Meantime, the "bombs" are
providing a deflection from the fat and sassy "refugees" trooping across
Mexico. It appears a bunch of them have decided to go back home. Little
Bobby de Niro haz a sad 'cause he wanted to be in the newz too, so they
arranged for him to get a fake bomb too. How thoughtful of the perps.
Amazon Deals in bomb making stuff Electronics
oh, yeah, sorry - "Native American." And why do they keep calling
non-functioning pieces of PVC pipes with fake timers "bombs?" Let me
make sure I understand this: This wack job lived and drove around in a
van with custom made signage (those are not "stickers" ) obscuring his
windows and not one police officer cited him for this? And not one
equally deranged Florida peep keyed, kicked, or otherwi
CENSORED NEWS
Mohawks
ready to greet asylum seekers at border, and walk with them across
borders. Mohawks live in New York State and Canada. Read more at Mohawk
Nation News.
.http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/11/04/whos-the-migrant/?fbclid=IwAR2xgdBdOqTJ2RmwQ90kovLrHD3cwB6ZdQmGKlCa-d7Cijzb0ZKYalRmWyU
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2018 Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation members outside of the
White House in Washington D.C. - Photo via Teena Pugliese Dear Friends
and Allies, A fourth Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation has
recently returned from New York City and Washington D.C. - where women
leaders took action and engaged in high-level meetings with major credit
rating agency, Morgan
GRAND
OSWEGO UNITY GATHERING NOV. 19-23/18 Posted on November 3, 2018 Please
post & distribute. MNN. Nov. 3, 2018. te-ka-ri-wa-iena-wakon.
Calling all onkwehonweh, brothers, sisters, friends, allies, our
families, young people and elders. Come and learn. Let’s talk about the
kaianerekowa, great peace and the tekeni teohateh [two row]. Let us open
our minds so that together we can
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StrongHearts Native Helpline Receives Its 1,000th Call from Those
Affected by Domestic Violence and Dating Violence Across Indian Country
and Alaska Media Contact: Mallory Black (512) 766-7947;
media@strongheartshelpline.org Calls received at helpline paint a
picture of Native victims’ experience and critical need for
culturally-based supportive
Read article at MNN http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/11/02/no-borders/
Yakama
Tribal Council Chairman JoDe Goudy was denied entrance to the U.S.
Supreme Court on Tuesday, because he refused to remove his headdress.
The court case concerning the sale of wholesale gasoline directly
impacts the Yakama Nation. Read more at Yakama Herald:
https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/yakama-nation-chairman-denied-access-to-u-s-supreme-court/
Centauri Dreams
The interstellar object called ‘Oumuamua continues to inspire analysis
and speculation. And no wonder. We had limited time to observe it and
were unable to obtain a resolved image to find out exactly what it looks
like. This morning I want to go through a new paper from Shmuel Bialy
and Abraham Loeb (Harvard University) considering the role radiation
pressure from the Sun could play on this deep
The Kepler spacecraft has been with us long enough (it launched in
2009) and has revealed so much about the stars in our galaxy that its
retirement — Kepler lacks the fuel for further science operations — is
cause for reflection. The end of great missions always gives us pause as
we consider their goals and their accomplishments, and offer up our
gratitude to the many people who made the mission
It seems to be a week for endings. Following the retirement of the
wildly successful Kepler spacecraft, we now say goodbye to Dawn
following an extraordinary eleven years that took us not only to orbital
operations around Vesta but then on to detailed exploration of Ceres.
The spacecraft ran out of hydrazine, with the signal being lost by the
Deep Space Network during a tracking pass on Wednesday
Usually when we talk about outer planet moons with oceans, we’re
looking at Jupiter’s Europa, and Saturn’s Enceladus. But evidence
continues to mount for oceans elsewhere. In the Jupiter system alone,
Callisto and Ganymede are likewise strong candidates, while Saturn’s
Titan probably has a layer of liquid water. Pluto’s moon Charon may
possess an ocean of water and ammonia, to judge from what app
As we continue to track the Voyagers into interstellar space, the
spacecraft have become the subject of a new documentary. Associate
editor Larry Klaes, a long-time Centauri Dreams essayist and
commentator, here looks at The Farthest: Voyager in Space, a compelling
film released last year. Larry’s deep knowledge of the Voyager mission
helps him spot the occasional omission (why no mention of seri
To say that the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest
Research Institute has been busy of late is quite an understatement.
Alan Stern, principal investigator for New Horizons, has been leading an
SwRI study examining just how we might operate an orbiter at
Pluto/Charon, with results that are surprising and encouraging for the
future of such a project. Working with spaceflight engine
Craig Murray
I am in Ghana and had some Ghanaian friends in the apartment here while
I was watching the budget. I was ashamed, and they were incredulous, at
the sheer crassness of the entire event. Hammond’s manner and delivery
were beyond embarrassing. The constant stream of infantile jokes, of
which the lengthy stream of toilet humour was just one part, was beyond
childish. The worst thing about it is that
The Turkish account of the murder of Khashoggi given by President
Erdogan is true, in every detail. Audio and video evidence exists and
has been widely shared with world intelligence agencies, including the
US, UK, Russia and Germany, and others which have a relationship with
Turkey or are seen as influential. That is why, despite their desperate
desire to do so, no Western country has been able
I expect you are all familiar with the maps showing the radical
shrinking of Palestinian land over 70 years due to the expansion of
colonial Israeli settlement. Startling and appalling, yes, but to me
they bring back strong memories of other maps, in a precisely analogous
situation, which goes to the heart of why Israel is an apartheid state.
The original apartheid state of South Africa created “
On the face of it, the Unexplained Wealth Order against Zamira Hajiyeva
shows the UK cracking down on the torrent of corrupt money that gushes
in to the City of London every single second. But dig deeper. Hajiyev’s
husband had fallen out of favour with the appallingly kleptocratic Aliev
regime in Azerbaijan – a dictatorship whose corruption can be measured
by the infallible indicator that Tony Bl
Of the three flats on the corridor where I rent my current Edinburgh
home, just off the Canongate, two were lived in and one a holiday let.
As of this month, only we are resident and there are two holiday lets.
Before this I lived in the Holyrood Park apartment block. Of the 14
flats on the stair we lived on, only 3 were inhabited. Eleven were
holiday lets and holiday homes. Our rent was raised e
I have been gently chided for not giving my reactions to the SNP
conference, which I attended as a delegate. Nicola’s major speech was
very good. The media universally attempted to characterise it as kicking
a new Independence referendum into the long grass. I did not hear it
that way at all. I think they are clutching at the straw of her single
mention of patience and perseverance, against the f
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
When Alberta Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt was tossed out
of the Legislature Wednesday morning for supposedly insulting an
Opposition MLA, the kerfuffle that resulted obviously came as welcome
relief to United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney. In recent
weeks, Mr. Kenney has often been on the run, sometimes almost literally,
from questions by journalists about the views some of
For what was supposed to be a fresh news story, an old report from the
Beaverton circulating on social media yesterday actually came closest to
accurately describing what went on in the so-called debate last night
between alt-right U.S. political agitator Stephen Bannon and the
neoliberal propagandist David Frum. The Beaverton is Canadian a
news-satire website. But what’s funny about two powerful
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in
Edmonton for the week ended Oct. 28, 2018. The lists are compiled by
Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers Association of
Alberta. EDMONTON FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. For the Changing Moon (poetry) –
Anna Marie Sewell * 2. Want – Barbara Langhorst 3. The Flame – Leonard
Cohen 4. The Boy Who Walked Backwards – Ben Sure
After a difficult weekend doing damage control about how members of an
anti-immigration group with white supremacist links were welcomed to a
United Conservative Party beer-and-selfies night last Friday by an
Edmonton constituency association, expect the right-wing Opposition
party to dip into its strategic playbook to try to change the channel.
UCP Channel-Changing Strategy No. 1, of course, is:
Give Lance Coulter credit: The guy seems to be a very hard worker.
Leastways, the United Conservative Party nomination candidate in the
Edmonton-Henday West Riding certainly had to work extremely hard to get
himself kicked out of the party’s nomination process. Finally, late
yesterday morning, the UCP – oh, so reluctantly – instructed Mr. Coulter
to take a hike. The former assistant to the Edmont
Last observed pursuing a claim against Alberta’s Chief Electoral
Officer alleging abuse of process, colourful former MLA Joe Anglin has
found a new way to tilt at Alberta’s perpetually swirling political
windmill. Mr. Anglin, 63, who is both the former Wildrose Party MLA for
Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre and the former leader of Alberta’s
Greens, announced yesterday he would seek the nominat
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin Private Equity Controls Gatekeepers of American
Democracy - Bloomberg(!) NSA Has Top Secret Documents on Seth Rich
Department of Homeland Security Ran Safety Drills at Tree of Life
Synagogue Britain Knew of Khashoggi Kidnapping Plot and Begged Saudi
Arabia to Abort Plans Saudi Arabia Answers Pompeo's Call For Yemen
Ceasefire By Ramping Up Airstrikes 9 Senate races that are shapin
From Jenna Orkin 4900 Migrants to Europe Go Missing LA Typhus Zone The
Pentagon reportedly has a secret plan to launch a cyberattack on Russia
if it messes with the midterms Sneaky devils. Russia And China Are
Apparently Both Under The Impression That War With The US Is Coming...
DoD Official Urges Taiwan To Buy More Weapons In Fear Of "Cross-Strait
Invasion" By China Russia, India And Iran To Co
From Jenna Orkin Billionaire George Soros Earmarks $500 Million For
Migrants And Refugees 'Treasurer' for 9/11 attackers returns to Morocco
to 'hero's welcome' after release from prison Instagram Belatedly Cracks
Down on Anti-Semitism After Attacks in Pittsburgh Trump is sending
thousands of troops to the border with Mexico — here's where they're
going and what they're doing Trump Bumps Border Tr
From Jenna Orkin Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit
Him Denmark Accuses Iran Of Assassination Attempt On Its Territory,
Will Push For EU-Wide Sanctions Mueller Accused Of Sexual Assault; Says
Women Were "Offered Money" To Make "False Claims" A 'mind-boggling'
telescope observation has revealed the point of no return for our
galaxy's monster black hole The creepiest and most bi
From Jenna Orkin 60% of World's Wildlife Has Been Wiped Out Since 1970
Autocracy App Four Shots Fired Into Florida GOP Headquarters Here's what
the law says about Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship We ran 2
fake ads pretending to be Cambridge Analytica — and Facebook failed to
catch that they were frauds UK Begins Confiscating Wealth Without
Criminal Charges Comment: Although the present
From Jenna Orkin 9/11-NSA Stand Down Georgia Election Server Wiped
After Suit Filed UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It's Actually Worse
Than That Angela Merkel is standing down as leader of her party after a
devastating string of defeats — but will stay on as Chancellor of
Germany Regime Change In Riyadh? The CIA Has Just Publicly Dumped MbS
U.S. Completes Largest Ammo Shipment To Europe Sinc
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