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As the holidays wrap up, so, too, do the constant deliveries. But not before one Reddit user got quite a surprise: Amazon's picture-proof alert for his delivery captured his package in mid-air, flying toward his front door. That's quite a toss, to be honest, and even better photo-capturing skills. SEE ALSO: UPS delivery driver spots a doorbell camera and busts out a little dance And for those ske
Your stomach is an oil slick of Christmas cookies and tequila, and your skull feels like it's filled with pulsing concrete. Looks like it's 2019, baby! For many, the New Year's Day hangover is as familiar a tradition as the Times Square ball drop—but with less Auld Lang Syne and more watered-down Gatorade. Luckily, Netflix and Hulu are offering tons of phenomenal content to help us fast forward t
A new theory has suggested that the incident was in fact a revenge plot orchestrated by British special forces. It's the UK's best known UFO case and ...
NASA's long-lived space probe has managed to pull off the most distant flyby of an object ever undertaken. There was much to celebrate at NASA's missi...
Via: Russia Today: Blackwater, the controversial US private security firm, has flagged its intent to resume business, taking out a full-page commercial in the latest edition of Recoil magazine with a chilling message declaring “We are coming.” The resurrection within the military contractors’ market of notorious Blackwater, which, after numerous scandals and several rebrandings, is […]
Via: Chaos Computer Club: In this talk, we’re looking at third party tracking on Android. We’ve captured and decrypted data in transit between our own devices and Facebook servers. It turns out that some apps routinely send Facebook information about your device and usage patterns – the second the app is opened. We’ll walk you […]
Mayor uses New Year’s Eve event to send message London remains open to Europeans If the festive season can sometimes involve trolling relatives with different political views, Sadiq Khan has arguably taken the tradition to a grand scale with a New Year’s Eve fireworks display which has prompted apoplexy among Brexiters with its pro-EU message. The mayor hailed the event, in which the London Eye w
Man arrested in Bottrop over what police say appears to have been an intentional attack A man has been arrested in Germany after driving his car into a crowd of people, injuring at least four, in what appears to have been an intentional attack directed at immigrants. Police said the 50-year-old driver of a silver Mercedes first attempted to hit a group of pedestrians in the western city of Bottro
Lawyer representing immigrants says Trump's New Jersey club supplied fake green cards, Social Security numbers
After Pluto was discovered in 1930, astronomers wondered whether the solar system stopped there. For decades, they peered through their best telescopes, searching for hints of more objects in the darkness. In the early 1990s, when telescope technology became powerful enough, they found one . The object was thousands of times fainter than Pluto, but it was there. A few months later, they found ano
The Indonesian volcano that triggered a deadly tsunami when it erupted and collapsed a week ago is now only a quarter of its previous size. Scientists said Anak Krakatau now has a volume of 40-70 cubic metres, having lost up to 180m cubic metres of volume since the eruption on 22 December. The analysis from Indonesia's Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation demonstrates the powe
The window for planting corn and soybeans in South Africa has passed, and with hardly anything planted in western growing ares because of drought, the likelihood of the need for imports increases, a grain farmers' lobby group said. "The probability of a repeat of the 2016 drought is increasing daily" Jannie de Villiers, the chief executive officer of Grain SA, said in an emailed statement Thursday
Only hours from completing a historic flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is on course and ready to gather scientific data on the small object's geology, composition, atmosphere and more. Closest approach takes place in the early morning hours of New Year's Day -- 12:33 a.m. EST -- marking the event as the most distant exploration of worlds
NASA rang in the New Year on Tuesday with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind—a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule—in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape.
Space Visiting the most distant object ever. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which visited Pluto back in 2015, has successfully completed a flyby of 2014 MU69.
The NASA spacecraft that yielded the first close-up views of Pluto opened the new year at an even more distant world, a billion miles beyond.
DIY Turn yourself into a bookworm. Want to kick off the New Year with a new habit? Reading is a great way to relax, strengthen your brain, and improve your health. Here’s how to fit more books into your…
New Horizons spacecraft sends back the first images of Ultima’s shape ahead of its historic flyby. Image: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (NASA) The first day of the new year has already delivered on a historic moment in science. Just hours into 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft was confirmed to have made its flyby of the mysterious Kuiper Belt obj
… from Press TV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: My long denied hope that Iraq and Syria’s (and Russia’s) military forces would have a formal and visible coalition for eliminating the US support ISIS elements in eastern Syrian has some wind in its sails once again. A simple look at the map would show the potential […]
Editor’s note: VT knows for certain that insurers for properties in DC have accessed clear cruise missile videos of the Pentagon attack. We wait to see if this is a hoax. A hacker group known as Dark Overlord threatened on Monday to publicly release internal files regarding the 9/11 attacks unless their ransom demands are […]
“Let’s have no more wars for Israel,” said Mark Dankof. The vast majority of Americans, including this writer and the people at Veterans Today, will agree completely. Perhaps 2019 is the time for the American people to tell the regime in Tel Aviv that "we ain't gonna take it anymore."
This isn’t a detailed review, but I thought I’d round off the year by mentioning some of the highlights, and a few of the lowlights. Overall, it’s not been a bad year for the Good Guys. Not all the Bad Guys will be seeing in 2019 tonight. For us Brits the highlight of course has […]
So...which story do YOU think was the biggest of 2018?

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The Okavango River Basin provides a vital source of water to about one million people and abundant and diverse wildlife populations. However, this once untouched oasis is now at risk as human activity encroaches. Come face to face with lions, hippos, wild dogs, and more in the final episode of The Okavango Experience, as the team returns from this incredible wilderness. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly
On a small island a bunch of exotic creatures run across each other. Directors: Max Mörtl & Robert Löbel Sound: David Kamp stop motion & 2D animation / 2 min 30 sec Funded by FFA Germany Copyright Max Mörtl & Robert Löbel, 2017 maxmoertl.de / robertloebel.com / davidkamp.de ---- AWARDS: Anima Mundi - Best Sound Design Chicago International Children’s Film Festival - Best Production for Young Chil
Facebook is everywhere, whether we like it or not. The sheer size and power of the company has convinced some that it's time to treat the company the same way we treat phone and cable companies: with anti-monopoly suits and heavy regulation. But reining in Mark Zuckerberg's monopoly will be harder than it sounds. Read more here: http://bit.ly/2GJUfoN Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Like The Verge
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Meet Bella Galhos, a human rights activist who fought for Timor-Leste's independence. Now, she tries to create a better, more sustainable future for Asia’s youngest and poorest country. Filmmaker Simon Reichel highlights Galhos' latest project, Leublora Green Village, a women's organic farming cooperative in Mana Bella. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Short Film Showcase: ht
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-12-18%20Mark%20Skidmore.mp3"][/audio] Dr. Mark Skimore of Michigan State University joins us to discuss his research with Catherine Austin Fitts into the $21 trillion in unaccounted transactions on the books of the US Department of Defence and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. We discuss what we know and don't know about the subj
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode350-lq.mp3"][/audio] Who gets to write the history textbooks? Where do the history teachers learn about history? What documents are allowed into the historical record, and what documents are excluded? These are not merely academic questions, they go right to the heart of the question of history itself. Join James Corbett for today's edition of
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-12-03%20Richard%20Grove.mp3"][/audio] Richard Grove of TragedyAndHope.com joins The Corbett Report to discuss his research into the Rothschild dynasty and how it intersects with the story of WWI.
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-12-12%20Gerry%20Docherty.mp3"][/audio] Gerry Docherty, co-author with Jim MacGregor of Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War, joins us for an in-depth discussion about the real origins of WWI. In this wide-ranging discussion, Docherty reveals the machinations of the Secret Elite that ensnared Europe, and, ultimately, the world,
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-12-05%20Derrick%20Broze.mp3"][/audio] Derrick Broze of The Conscious Resistance joins us once again. This time we talk about the latest developments in the Jeffrey Epstein case, as well as Broze's investigation into the decades-old story of The Finders and their links to child trafficking.
At Merriam-Webster: Is Singular 'They' a Better Choice? The awkward case of 'his or her' "Everyone should do his or her best in whatever situations he or she happens to find himself or herself in?" That's awkward. Perhaps everyone should just do their best in the situations they find themselves in. Even if their best involves they as a singular pronoun. Awkward, indeed. But singular 'they' is wro
This is a different post than I had planned. After reading James Carrion’s The Roswell Deception , I was planning to do a short article about one tiny aspect of it. It was something that seemed to undermine his premise, but as I was searching for additional information, the tone changed and I made a discovery or two that I thought important. James Carrion. Photo copyright by Kevin Randle To bring
For those who have been wondering, yes, I chose the name for the articles, “Jefferson Airship,” because the 1960s band, Jefferson Airplane which became Jefferson Starship and the just Starship. What would you have called a story Jefferson Herald and the Airship Crash, 2018 about the Great Airship crashing near Jefferson, Iowa? Just seemed to make sense to me. Andrew McGinn, the editor of the Jeff
For nearly thirty years or more, various researchers and experts have been trying to read the Ramey Memo, believing that it might hold the key to the Roswell crash. What can be seen easily in the document held by Brigadier General Roger Ramey suggests that the text does relate to the Roswell case. While some words are obvious, others are tantalizing close to being read, but are open to various in
Our pals over at History (which used to be the History Channel) have decided to take on Project Blue Book in a series that is based on those files. This is, of course, the second series to do that. Back in the 1970s, Jack Webb created Project UFO which was based, loosely, on the Project Blue Book files. I have said in the past The two stars of Project UFO. that we owed Webb a bit of recognition b
As I was working on the articles about the Jefferson Airship crash, I wondered what was the difference between that event and the Aurora, Texas, crash. Both were reported in the newspaper which was supposed to add some credibility to the stories. But Aurora has been splashed all over the media since the 1960s including documentaries, magazine articles and mentions in books, and even a movie about
There was some follow up to the Jefferson airship crash. The crash happened on Saturday night, April 10, but was not reported in the newspaper until April 15. If it was a real event, with most of the town aware of it, then the following letters to the editor would have had a chance to make their way to the newspaper office for publication on Thursday. That seems to be the case because there were

A Way to Live

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Gilets jaunes: Investment-predation globalism for the mobile urban elites versus rural nationalism for the sedentary and threatened middle-classIn the West, there is a global class conflict, decades in the making, which is a direct consequence of the globalization of investment predation. For the good of humankind, and for the good of the planet, and for social peace and stability, we should
and the commie/marxist/libtards swoon. Daily Mail hails this as "dressing for success." Uh, okay. Last minute deals at Amazon . If you Prime, you'll get them before Christmas.
is ignorance really bliss? For the past week having sketchy internet service has prompted me to discover a few things. The first thing I discovered is when you know that your access may only last for five to fifteen minutes, you eliminate a gazillion sites you usually spend waste time perusing. Take time to enjoy the beauty of the world The second thing I discovered is that the surfing aimlessly
perfect representatives for the party of commie/marxist/libtards. Watching this travesty of a "debate" with Nancy Pelosi waving her hands about and actually making an opening statement referring to the meeting as "coming together to have a prayerful" debate should set your teeth on edge. Pelosi makes it known that she would much rather have a "private" meeting and then maybe go out and spin some
the comments from the left are really stupid. Yesterday, while waiting for my husband at the doctor's office, I had a chance to peruse the entertainment type mags like People. Cue up the brilliant, fashion icon, amazing, and timeless beauty of Michelle Obama plastered in every issue. After suffering 8 years of the most obnoxiously undignified and slovenly first lady who spoke in fake ghetto in th
and we thank him. Ordinarily, I ignore most news about Empty Cortex, but a few days ago she called General John Kelly a coward for not apologizing to congressclown Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) . Empty Cortex accused Kelly of lying about the clown. Did he? No. "The Other Dave Miller posted this comment on a post yesterday and I think we can safely say he speaks for most Americans. Alexandria Ocasio-C
red, white, and blue. Intermittent Internet Access: While our intermittent internet access problem continues, I’m doing posts in Word, and when we have are accorded a 5 minute window of access, perhaps I can copy and paste. In the meantime, now our home phone (land line) is also screwed up. At least when the internet sporadically comes on my emails are downloaded to my computer. Tomorrow when I g

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Job Worth has created a flowchart with all the twists and turns Brexit might take over the coming months. As you can see, it’s rather complicated:
By Tom Scott. If you liked Earworm, you might also like The singularity, ruined by lawyers .
Note to ACW Readers: With apologies and gratitude to Bob Dylan, whose ten-year old Tennessee bourbon, Heaven’s Door, is worth sampling. Come gather ‘round lobbyists Wherever you roam And admit that the brown air Around you has grown The waters keep rising No need to ask why Streets flooded below your perches up high Your …
By now you have probably seen the report by Zach Cohen at CNN citing the some research by the CNS team on a North Korean missile base. Here is a longer version of the analysis. Basic points: We were looking at the Yeongjeo-dong missile base, and Kim Hyong Jik County, because this area would make …
Quote of the week: “We do not yet know surely in what proportion unreasonable fears and twisted hopes are at the root of the perverted policy now followed by the Kremlin. Assuming both to be involved, we must disarm the fears and disappoint the hopes.” — Henry L. Stimson, “The Challenge to Americans,” Foreign Affairs, …
Lyric of the week: “Maybe time running out is a gift I’ll work hard ’til the end of my shift And give you every second I can find And hope it isn’t me who’s left behind It’s knowing that this can’t go on forever Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone …
Quote of the week: “We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.” — Henry James, “The Middle Years” Yes, the hour is late and the cause is probably hopeless, but it’s still worth trying to …
Lyric of the week: And the men who spurred us on Sit in judgement of all wrong They decide and the shotgun sings the song … Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I’ll get on my knees and pray We don’t get fooled again — The Who, “Don’t Get Fooled Again” …
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By Lisa DeVille, Ft. Berthold POWER President Censored News New Source Performance Standards Weakened EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler and the Trump administration announced their plans to weaken common-sense air protections, known as New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), which limit methane and other toxic pollutants from being released into the air. These current
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Ofelia Rivas and Cynthia Piestewa By Ofelia Rivas, O'odham Censored News CABORCA, Sonora -- The women were busy cooking and baking bread and cupcakes while O'odham photographer Cynthia Piestewa and I shopped for candy and stayed up into the night bagging 150 holiday bags of candy. The event started with a registration of all the
Fighting Law Enforcement Brutality While Living with Trauma in a World of Impunity A few months ago, I was asked to do a piece on what it is like to live with intergenerational trauma, for a special issue of the Genealogy Journal , on Indigenous peoples and intergenerational trauma. Here is the essay: Fighting Law Enforcement Brutality While Living with Trauma in a World of Impunity https://www.m
FIRST vs THIRD THINKY vs MANUAL SURPLUS vs FASHION SQUADRON vs CITIZEN I've done one of these recently, but I wanted to go even further, "I want to strip back every tacked-on feature this game has suffered from over the six years of its twisting turning production roadmap," and see what is actually left or worth incorporating into a multiplayer online space-sim experience. What is Star Citizen tr
...and why should we care? Modern archaeology still asserts that the Trojan War (if it happened at all) took place around 1300-1200 BC, then a mysterious 500-year Dark Ages fell upon Europe where no-one died and no-one was born and nothing was built or commissioned. If we eradicate these imaginary Europe-wide 'dark ages' and just cram the recorded dates back together, we have a date of 638 BC for
ugly unreadable insulting Star Citizen is a pre-alpha multiplayer online game in development LIVE right now from Cloud Imperium and as you can see from the image above has a hideous primary-colour 1990s fighter-type HUD or basic graphical overlay named Heads Up Display. This is a personal campaign to get CI to drop such visual garbage and adopt a HUD-less interface maybe something more like the f
This might be a remnant from the work of radical cosmologist Immanuel Velikovski 1895-1979, who also correctly predicted the current 800°C surface-temperature of Venus, but new evidence* suggests that THE OCEANS OF THE E ARTH and THE RINGS OF S ATURN are MADE OF THE SAME W ATER ; watch, listen, learn. Mytho-historical cosmology strongly suggests that the Earth and Saturn had a much more intimate r
THE NEXT BIT IS PURE SPECULATION and I haven't looked into the scientific application of using electricity to wipe a person's brain, let alone wipe the collective memory of an era of people, but I'm going to progress with my word-salad. What if... ...all around the world monuments made using technology that seems VERY CONTEMPORARY like perfectly symmetrical quartz-laden marble sculptures with tool
Click here to read my column in Sunday's NY Times .
A Christmas message (be sure to check out the mouse-over text).
Click here to read my review of Trumponomics by Stephen Moore and Arthur Laffer.
In this interview , CEA chair Kevin Hassett (around minute 4:00) dismisses the adverse impact of the government shutdown on real GDP. It seems to me that he is more wrong than right. Kevin appears to be assuming that government workers don't produce anything of value when they are at work, or that they will make up all the undone work when they return, so making them stay at home has no significan

Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology

Argentina: Corroboration for the 1984 UFO Flotilla Sighting GENERAL INFORMATION / SUMMER Page 27 Swift Transit of UFO Flotilla Observed The transit of a flotilla of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) over Capital Federal and Greater Buenos Aires was witnessed at 0250 hours yesterday by several people in various locations, despite the fact that the radar units at Ezeiza International Airport did n
Argentina: The First Live Broadcast of a UFO Fleet By Gustavo Fernández, Al Filo de la Realidad December 11, 2018 Translation by Scott Corrales, IHU It is quite possible that many readers will consider this article to be merely anecdotal, and they could be entirely right. But if one (the author) believes that one has gained any right, it would be the one to right freely about a subject and when a
Argentina: A "Triangle" in the Western Corridor By Luis Burgos - Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía BREAKING NEWS Report No. 204 of the spectacular and forecasted 2018 UFO Wave emanates from the section of Argentina that has the **most apparitions of triangular flying objects** - The Western Buenos Aires Corridor, the name I bestowed upon that virtual strip of land around 2008 due to the constant c
Source: Planeta UFO and Canal 13 San Juan (Argentina) Date: December 21, 2018 Argentina: Strange New UFO Recorded over San Juan (Argentina) Once again, the Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano, a group whose members describe themselves as amateur UFO hunters, detected a strange object once again in the skies over San Juan. The incident occurred on December 17. It happened at 22:57 hours in the locality of
November brought us an unexpected gift in the form of ALIEN BLOOD LUST from Inner Light Publications. This anthology consists of the collected efforts of Timothy Green Beckley, Sean Casteel, Nigel Watson, Hercules Invictus and Scott Corrales in delving into the grisly world of non-human (ultraterrestrial, paraterrestrial, metaterrestrial) entities often associated with the UFO phenomenon since it
Source: Planeta UFO Date: 12.02.2018 Cuba: A UFO in 1952 Veteran Cuban UFO researcher Orestes Girbau has shared the image of an article from the El IMPARCIAL newspaper with the first known photo of a UFO over Cuba. In a note for Planeta UFO he writes: "First photo of a UFO in Cuba, taken in the city of Matanzas on 17 July 1952 while the worldwide UFO flap was in full swing. It was taken by young
Editor's Note: This article was written just before Israel carried out attacks on Syria on Christmas day. December 25, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The US suddenly and unexpectedly announced the withdrawal of US troops from Syria after years of illegally occupying the country. The US presence aimed at ousting the Syrian government, boosting militant groups the US and its partners have armed a
December 29, 2018 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - Any productive relationship between two nations must include mutual benefits for both. A proposed alliance that includes no incentive for a partner nation cannot otherwise move forward save for threats and coercion. The United States and its "pivot toward Asia" is an ongoing demonstration of this simple reality. The US seeks primacy over Asia-Pacific (n
December 22, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The latest bid to keep Washington's desperate Russiagate conspiracy theory alive has energized distilled segments of the public still convinced of Moscow's global omniscience and its role in manipulating and undermining virtually every aspect of their daily lives. But recent "revelations" are simply the same accusations made against a Russian-based cl
December 15, 2018 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - A particularly scurrilous op-ed appeared in the pages of the Washington Post accusing the Syrian government of detaining, torturing, then executing an American citizen, Layla Shweikani. Considering US attempts to establish various pretexts to justify its ongoing military occupation of Syria and its attacks on Syrian forces - such an accusation could dang
December 20, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Rarely is irony and hypocrisy so thoroughly combined as it was when the US House of Representatives passed resolution 1035 - " Expressing opposition to the completion of Nord Stream II" (.pdf) . Bloomberg in its article, " U.S. House Passes Resolution Opposing Russian Gas Pipeline ," would report: The U.S. House of Representatives approved a largely s
December 7, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The recent Kerch Strait incident marks a new low amid the US-led expansion of NATO eastward. The intentional provocation executed by Kiev saw three Ukrainian naval vessels seized by Russia. The vessels were intentionally violating protocol for passing through the Strait - protocol previously agreed upon by Kiev and previously observed by Ukrainian nava
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 time slot. *WORST: After a week of Russian propaganda, I was questioning everything https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/after-a-week-of-russian-propaganda-i-was-questioning-everything First of all, isn’t questioning everything a *good thing*, *especially* if you’
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) for Dec. 21, 2018 *Uber driver, 27, 'who tried to attack police with a Samurai sword outside Buckingham Palace' tells court he became angry after watching TV channel Russia Today https://www.dailym
Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) for Dec. 7, 2018 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) for Dec. 14, 2018 George Bush Was George Bailey: It Was a Wonderful Life https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/07/g
Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) for Dec. 7, 2018 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. *Russia is trying to undermine Americans’ confidence in the justice system, security experts warn https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2018/12
So 2019 is here. Happy New Year to everyone. The first act of 2019 has been to respect the outcome of the request for the forum to be saved or closed. Everyone left on the forum was emailed to ask if it should continue, and a public request was made on here. The response (albeit a silent one!) was not for it to be continued, (so unlike the UK government's refusal to respect the wishes of the peop
The early discussions of pedigreed conservative intellectuals immediately following Trump’s election reveals some very disappointing things about the wide cavern between this nation’s conservative intellectuals, […]
Lately, there have been a rash of retired general officers and admirals who seem to feel they need to express their disagreement with President Trump […]
We, this world, is no longer in the Post Cold War era. We are in a new era, as of yet without a name, but […]
The Republicans stand for? The Republicans had the majority in both Houses, but their “big tent” electoral strategy gave them a majority that could not […]
An almost vicious cruelty sweeping America is most visible through the actions of Donald J. Trump. But the recent action by a Texan district judge, […]
Behind the growing Republican toxicity of government rule and its Trump mutation is the creed of the Koch brothers. That creed represents the ideological engine […]
by liberal japonicus I don't know about y'all, but I've been pounded into silence by the torrent of news, goverment shutdown, Brexit, tsunami. It is enough to turn me into a cat picture person. However, I felt like I needed to post an end of the year post, so there was this story, about an unlikely friendship that some of you may have seen https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charle
by wj I find myself repeatedly amazed by what is going on in North Carolina. First, as we have all noticed, the state legislature has been in a long effort to combat “voting fraud” – that is people voting who shouldn’t be. They have been undeterred by a lack of evidence that there was really a problem. But now we discover that North Carolina (at least part of it) has a major real problem with ele
by liberal japonicus Don't really have a lot, so two things that crossed my desktop. Kevin Drum offers a commonsensical view on dealing with the deaths of public figures . (Doing the above was) considered common courtesy, and does not mean that (a) nobody is ever allowed to say anything bad about the establishment, or (b) everyone has forgotten what a bad person this was. It just means that out o
by liberal japonicus Laura mentioned that she had a new book , proceeds of which would go to fund animal rescue, so I asked her to give us some more details. I'm sure that other folks have interesting things that are hopefully coming to fruition for this holiday season, either for themselves or for others, so put them in the comments or send them to me and I'll append them to the post. Don't hide
by JanieM When I was a kid I went through a phase when I wanted to be an astronomer, using the word loosely. What I probably really meant was cosmologist. Odd, then, that I went to a college without an astronomy department. But I thought I could solve the deficiency by majoring in physics and eventually concentrating on astrophysics in grad school. I took what was essentially a half-credit course
Congratulations if you’ve mostly skipped the flood of news reports on the legislature scandal. It’s been entertaining, if you’re the kind of person who stops to look at car crashes. But despite all the noise, we know very little. Here’s the Quick Notes version, and six things you need to know in order to understand what’s happening. To start with, the facts. On Nov. 19, Speaker Darryl Plecas call

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Each year on December 3, PAN International marks the anniversary of the Bhopal tragedy, both to lift up the ongoing struggle of the affected families, and to remind the world that there is another way. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
This post is part of an ongoing project by PAN Farmer Justice Fellows who are working to uplift the many different voices of farmers in California. The mission of this work is to broaden the narrative of what it means to be a farmer participating in the state's agricultural system by sharing the wide spectrum of relationships that growers have with land. Christina Perez is a Latinx woman urban fa
Momentum is building in support of farming models that are regenerative instead of extractive, that build healthy soil, crop diversity — and thriving communities. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
I’m feeling unexpectedly hopeful as 2018 winds down. Though the national political landscape remains tumultuous, we’re seeing some powerful, energizing trends in the world of food and farming. First, momentum is building in support of farming models that are regenerative instead of extractive, that build healthy soil, crop diversity — and thriving communities. Second, the public and political app
After months of negotiations, the 2018 Farm Bill was just passed by Congress. While still flawed, the final bill is in stark contrast to the widely criticized original House version. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
It’s hard to imagine how terrifying it must have been. Thirty-four years ago, families in Bhopal, India woke to toxic gas pouring over their city from a catastrophic leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant. Somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 people died, and community activists have been fightin

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