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Who feels the pain of science research budget cuts?
Bruce Weinberg, Professor of Economics, The Ohio State University at Science + Technology – The Conversation - 18 minutes ago
Not much science will get done without the money to fund people and equipment. Michael Pereckas, CC BY Science funding is intended to support the production of new knowledge and ideas that develop new technologies, improve medical treatments and strengthen the economy. The idea goes back to influential engineer Vannevar Bush, who headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II. And the evidence is that science funding does have these effects. But, at a practical level, science funding from all sources supports research projects, the people who work... more »
To really help US workers, we should invest in robots
Nikolaus Correll, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Science + Technology – The Conversation - 18 minutes ago
University students experiment with human-robot interaction and autonomous manipulation, two elements of manufacturing's future. Nikolaus Correll, CC BY-ND America’s manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization. Despite what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin might think, the National Bureau of Economic Research and Silicon Valley executives, among many others, know it’s already happening. And a new report from PwC estimates that 38 percent of American jobs are at “high risk” of being replaced by technology within the next 15 years. But how soon ... more »
If at First You Don't Succeed, Get Back on the 'Repeal and Replace' Horse
[image: if-at-first-you-don-t-succeed-get-back-on-the-repeal-and-replace-horse] After last week's Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill debacle, President Donald Trump and the House Republican leadership seemed ready to throw in the towel and give up on health care reform. Thankfully, a few days later, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that Republicans are "not going to just all of a sudden abandon health care."
Trump’s Fog Machine
Robert Reich - 53 minutes ago
Trump’s technique for dealing with bad news is to create enough confusion and partisanship to... more »
Your money, his friends
So much for any talk of economic diversification, shared sacrifice or responsible budgeting - the Saskatchewan Party is on another corporate giveaway binge, and no amount of public money is off the table if it'll buy a photo op with a CEO. Shorter Brad Wall today: PLZ MR. OIL BARONS TAKE ALL OF OUR MONEYZ!!!! Meanwhile, Trevor Tombe notes that Saskatchewan already hands more free money to corporations than any other province in Canada: SK Premier Wall to subsidies HQ relocation https://t.co/1WrpEAgoHC Their subsidies to private firms already highest in Canada #skpoli #ableg pic.... more »
A Right Wing Fifth Column In Brighton Beach? West Hollywood? Bustleton?
Growing up in Brooklyn I had never met a Republican. And they didn't run for office where I lived either. Republicans were sleaze-ball used car salesmen like Nixon. They were in other parts of the country, not anywhere near Kings Highway. When Senator John Kennedy needed to demonstrate the enthusiasm hard core liberal communities had for him-- he was a kind of conservative senator for a Democrat-- he showed up during the 1960 campaign at Dubrow's on Kings Highway, a couple blocks from my house on 17th Street and Avenue P. My mother took me to see him. The crowd was adulatory. (Just... more »
Solar and wind causing blackouts?
90,000 homes in Australia experienced major blackouts five times over the last six months. Thousands left in the dark in Belgium and placed on high security after the electric grid went down. Who's next? WATCH NOW
“People’s Climate March” organizer calls for violence
March organizer calls out “greedy” billionaires and the fallacies of capitalism, then threatens violence against those who get in the way of creating a new order. WATCH NOW
Constitutional Q&A: The Legality of Stop and ID Procedures
[image: undefined] We are not supposed to be living in a “show me your papers” society. Despite this, the US government has recently introduced measures allowing police and other law enforcement officials to stop individuals (citizens and noncitizens alike), demand they identify themselves, and subject them to pat-downs, warrantless searches, and interrogations. These actions fly in the face of longstanding constitutional safeguards forbidding such police state tactics. In 2017, for example, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents boarded a plane at New York’s JFK Airport and de... more »
Is There Now A Russia - China - U.S. Space Arms Race?
*CNBC:* *Space arms race as Russia, China emerge as 'rapidly growing threats' to US* U.S. satellites may be vulnerable to attacks that could make our whole way of fighting war riskier, according to experts. "Every major space-faring nation that can track a satellite and launch into outer space has the means to mess up a satellite," said Michael Krepon, a space security expert and co-founder of the Stimson Center think tank in Washington, D.C. The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces is scheduled Wednesday afternoon to hold a hearing looking at the role space-based... more »
Little Girls All Over The World Shown Paralyzed and Convulsing After HPV Vaccine
Published on Mar 29, 2017 Standing proudly as she clutched a microphone and belted out a tune, 12-year-old Mia Blesky dreamed of being a pop star. However, just days after being videoed she found herself unable to move and just weeks later she was left paralyzed from the neck down and in hospital. Mia’s family […]
UK Curbing Academic Free Speech on Israel: Jewish Scholar
UK Curbing Academic Free Speech on Israel: Jewish Scholar by http://www.presstv.com/, 2 March 2017 The British government is helping universities across the UK suppress the right to criticize Israel over its human rights violations in Palestine, says a Jewish professor, vowing to never give in to the pressure. – “They are trying to stop us talking […]
While American’s Were Sleeping The Surveillance State Is Almost Complete
Published on Mar 29, 2017 Obama defense deputy admits that the administration was spying. Judge Napilatano returns to tv and said he is not going to back away from this statement. States are going to fight Session with removing sanctuary money. Congress wants to allow corporations to sell our private information on the internet. The […]
NATO Wants to Bring Us ‘as Close as Humanly Possible’ to War – Ron Paul Institute
Published on Mar 29, 2017 The US Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of admitting Montenegro to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday. Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) dismissed the debate as “a punching session about Russia.” But when the Center for Democracy and Human Rights polled Montenegrins they found that a slight majority of […]
CrowdStrike EXPOSED: Cybersecurity Firm in Damage-Control Mode. Fraudulent Claim that Russia Hacked the DNC
Published on Mar 29, 2017 CrowdStrike, the cyber-security firm that initially claimed Russia hacked the DNC and tilted the 2016 election in Donald Trump’s favor, is being accused of misattribution of quotes in a December report. They have since walked back key claims in said report, calling their credibility into serious question. RT America’s Alexey […]
‘War Crimes’ by US in Mosul: Former Pentagon Official
Published on Mar 29, 2017 Hundreds of Mosul residents were killed by airstrikes in their homes following repeated instructions from Iraqi authorities not to leave, Amnesty International says. It adds that coalition forces should have known the directives were likely to result in civilian deaths. RT’s Murad Gazdiev reports from Iraq. Later, former Pentagon official […]
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Aims to Connect Human Brain with AI
Published on Mar 29, 2017 The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, is backing a new company that seeks to explore the possibility of merging the human brain with artificial intelligence (AI) to help humans keep up with machines. – Who is controlling who? Is the human controlling the AI computer or the AI […]
The Transformation Of Our Nation Into A Surveillance State Is Almost Complete
Who is in charge of the Beast ‘666’ Network, Global Surveillance Militarized-Police State? No Such Agency! – The Transformation Of Our Nation Into A Surveillance State Is Almost Complete by Jeremiah Johnson, SHTFplan.com The headlines are awash with the recent tensions with North Korea, and most are focused intently upon this act of the play that has […]
US Missile Systems Can Lead to Nuclear Attack: Top Russian Commander
Published on Mar 28, 2017 Russia has lashed out at the United State over its military build-up around the world. The Russian Defense Ministry has warned that America’s global deployment of missile systems is posing a threat to world security. The ministry says such installments would trigger a new arms race. It also says the […]
CrowdStrike Revises and Retracts Parts of Explosive Russian Hacking Report
CrowdStrike Revises and Retracts Parts of Explosive Russian Hacking Report by Michael Krieger, https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/ Last week, I published two posts on cyber security firm CrowdStrike after becoming aware of inaccuracies in one of its key reports used to bolster the claim that operatives of the Russian government had hacked into the DNC. This is extremely important since the […]
Realist News: 7 Big COMEX Shorts — Dead Men Walking! – Ted Butler
Published on Mar 29, 2017 http://www.silverdoctors.com/silver/s… – 7 Big COMEX Shorts: Dead Men Walking! – Ted Butler by Ted Butler, via http://www.silverdoctors.com/ The narrative thus far – after decades of allowing themselves to be led in and out of COMEX silver futures contracts by their commercial counterparties, several managed money traders appear to have woken up […]
Did Obama’s Defense Deputy Just Admit Spying on Trump?
Did Obama’s Defense Deputy Just Admit Spying on Trump? by Paul Joseph Watson | http://www.Infowars.com To gather “intelligence” for political use. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Evelyn Farkas has caused controversy after she appeared to admit during an appearance on MSNBC that the Obama administration spied on Donald Trump’s transition team in order to gather […]
X22 Report: “While Americans Were Sleeping The Surveillance State Is Almost Complete”
*X22 Report: * *“While Americans Were Sleeping The Surveillance State Is Almost Complete”* - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oFN07UBuI4
Is Brexit the beginning of the end for international cooperation?
William Magnuson, Associate Professor of Law, Texas A&M University at Politics + Society – The Conversation - 3 hours ago
It’s official: Britain is done with Europe. Prime Minister Theresa May has formally triggered the process for withdrawing from the European Union, ensuring that the United Kingdom, one of the largest and most prosperous countries in the EU, will soon leave the 28-member bloc. While the process could drag on for two years or more, the Brexit decision serves as a historic and stinging rebuke to proponents of a unified Europe. Perhaps more importantly, it calls into question the very future of the EU. Pro-Europe commentators, on both sides of the Atlantic, have argued that Brexit ... more »
Poll: Most Americas Believe Traditional Media Are Publishing Fake News Reports
*Politico:* *Poll: 6 in 10 Americans think traditional news outlets report fake news* A majority of Americans believe traditional media outlets publish fake news reports, and Republicans are more likely to believe that fake news is being pushed to advance an agenda, according to a Monmouth University poll released Wednesday. The poll, which was conducted by phone during the first week of March, found that 80 percent of respondents believed online news sources reported fake news either regularly or occasionally. Fifty-four percent of respondents, including a majority of Republicans... more »
Musical Interlude: "Improvisation at the train station in Paris!"
"Improvisation at the train station in Paris!" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I_NYya-WWg
"A Look to the Heavens"
“What will become of these galaxies? Spiral galaxies NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 are passing dangerously close to each other, but each is likely to survive this collision. Typically when galaxies collide, a large galaxy eats a much smaller galaxy. In this case, however, the two galaxies are quite similar, each being a sprawling spiral with expansive arms and a compact core. As the galaxies advance over the next tens of millions of years, their component stars are unlikely to collide, although new stars will form in the bunching of gas caused by gravitational tides. *Click image for larger... more »
Chet Raymo, “Les Matins Du Monde”
* “Les Matins Du Monde”* by Chet Raymo "Thirteen billion years ago it was morning in the universe." So began a story in the New York Times about new studies of the earliest galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope and the giant Subaru and Keck Telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii are turning back the curtain on the birthing room of the first stars- colossal spheres of primeval hydrogen and helium, hundreds of times as massive as the Sun, that lived and died in violence, forging heavy elements, seeding creation with the stuff of planets and life. Tous les matins du monde sont sans retour:... more »
Where Is President Obama?
Yes, this is a real photo, but it’s not on Tetiaroa. Barack Obama smiles as he looks out at Turtle Beach on a visit to Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Midway Atoll, U.S., September 1, 2016. JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERS *Hufington Post:* *Obama Is Holed Up Writing His Book On The South Pacific Island Of Tetiaroa* Marlon Brando used to own it. After a brief layover in Hawaii, former President Barack Obama is hanging out on a South Pacific island for a month to write his White House memoir, according to the Washington Post. The island, called Tetiaroa, is an atoll located i... more »
Russia-Gate News Updates -- March 29, 2017
*Reuters*:* Russia probe should focus on Trump financial ties: senator* A U.S. Senate investigation into Russia's meddling during the U.S. election should include a thorough review of any financial ties between Russia and President Donald Trump and his associates, Democratic senator Ron Wyden said Wednesday. In a formal written request made to the leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, Wyden said financial relationships between Trump, a real estate developer with properties around the world, and Russia are deserving of scrutiny because of resistance by Trump and some i... more »
Someone's Got To Jettison The Great Wall of Trump-- Might As Be The GOP
Did you always have the feeling that Trump's campaign ploy-- his absurdly expensive ($20 billion) and ineffective, beautiful wall-- would be a non-starter? If so you were probably correct. Democrats won't vote for anything that includes funds for the nonsense and more and more Republican congressman-- many who oppose the whole idea to begin with-- are not ready for a shut-down-the-government fight over the wall. Yesterday Burgess Everett and Rachel Bade reported for *Politico* that even though the Regime knows the only way to get funding for the wall would be to tie it in to a bil... more »
Mann-made Global Cooling
Originally posted on Science Matters: The usual suspects are sounding alarms about the ocean “conveyor belt” AMOC slowing down, and predicting that global warming will result in global cooling. The Ocean’s Conveyor Belt Is Slowing Down: What You Need to Know About AMOC, Greenland and ‘Unprecedented’ Sea Level Rise Using data gathered from ice cores,…
Breaking Hockey Sticks: Antarctic Ice Core Edition
Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest post by David Middleton Source: NASA https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/ Graphic: The relentless rise of carbon dioxide Ancient air bubbles trapped in ice enable us to step back in time and see what Earth’s atmosphere, and climate, were like in the distant past. They tell us that levels of carbon dioxide…
The Daily "Near You?"
High Springs, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
The Poet: May Sarton, "Now I Become Myself"
*"Now I Become Myself"* “Now I become myself. It's taken Time, many years and places, I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying a warning, "hurry, you will be dead before -----" (What? Before you reach the morning? or the end of the poem, is clear? Or love safe in the walled city?) Now to stand still, to be here, Feel my own weight and density! Now there is time and Time is young. O, in this single hour I live All of myself and do not move, I, the pursued, who madly ran, Stand still, stand still, and stop the Sun!”... more »
Economic Effects of a Universal ESA Program in Texas
Content Multimedia - 5 hours ago
By Vance Ginn, Marty Lueken
BWorld 118, Regulate this, prohibit that: bureaucracies in transportation
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last March 14, 2017. Traffic congestion is an engineering problem with engineering solutions, not bureaucratic solutions involving increased prohibitions. The recent plan of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to extend the car ban on EDSA to certain hours five days a week is very idiotic and arbitrary. Its plan is (a) the existing one day a week, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., based on the last digit of the car plate, AND (b) on certain hours of the other four days involving an odd-even ban every two hours. If there are problems, the first impuls... more »
Climate Tricks 61, Obama's $1B transfer to the UN climate fund
This is a delayed post. I gathered these news reports in mid-January 2017, about 1-2 weeks before Donald Trump would be officially inaugurated as the next US President. There was a debate in the US then, whether the US' commitment to the Paris Agreement in 2015 was a treaty (would necessitate Senate ratification) or an Executive agreement. The White House under the previous administration argued that it was the latter and hence, did not require Senate vote to ratify or not. Thus, the White House just freely dispensed and released $1B to the UN Green Climate Fund. $500M in late 2016... more »
First Voices Radio: Sacred Ground, Standing Rock, O'odham Border
/ This Week on “First Voices Radio” Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota—Listen Thursday, March 30, 9 to 10 a.m. EDT on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City By Liz Hill, Red Lake Ojibwe, Producer, “First Voices Radio” Censored News Ofelia Rivas, elder and activist from Tohono O’odham Nation, was a featured guest on this week’s edition of “First Voices Radio,” which aired on Tuesday, March
Ohio Prisoner On Hunger Strike Against Punishment For Netflix Documentary Enters Infirmary
Ohio prisoner Siddique Abdullah Hasan entered the infirmary at the Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) on March 24, “presumably due to failing health,” nearly one month into his hunger strike against a 90-day phone and email restriction he received as punishment for appearing in the Netflix documentary series, “Captive.” One episode of the series The post Ohio Prisoner On Hunger Strike Against Punishment For Netflix Documentary Enters Infirmary appeared first on Shadowproof.
The Roots of United States Immigration Policy
Anti-immigration policy hardliners evolved cheek by jowl with pro-eugenics and conservation groups.
Is Devin Nunes Invested in a Wine Company That Does Business in Russia?
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee owns stock in a California winery that says they sold 22 cases of wine to a Russian distributor in 2013.
Is a Maine Crematorium Offering Free Cremations?
Downeast Direct Cremations has offered the service for free to contest winners, attracting the attention of meme groups.
Great White Sharks Spotted in Mississippi River?
A photograph purporting to show two great white sharks swimming in the Mississippi River depicts bull sharks, not great whites, and was taken in Costa Rica.
Chair of House Science Committee Says the Journal ‘Science’ Is Not Objective
Chairman Lamar Smith dismissed commentary presented during testimony on climate change because it came from the journal Science — one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific publications in existence.
Did the Trump Administration Remove LBGT Categories from the 2020 Census?
LGBT data were not previously included in any U.S. census, but an altered report suggested the Census Bureau was considering the topic for inclusion for 2020.
"Things We Don’t Want to Do: Outside the Comfort Zone"
*"Things We Don’t Want to Do: Outside the Comfort Zone"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "Doing things we don't want to do, or that scare us, creates flow in our lives and allows us to grow. Most of us have had the experience of tackling some dreaded task only to come out the other side feeling invigorated, filled with a new sense of confidence and strength. The funny thing is, most of the time when we do them, we come out on the other side changed and often wondering what we were so worried about or why it took us so long. We may even begin to look for other tasks we've been avoidin... more »
"We Are Dead Stars"
*"We Are Dead Stars:* *Every Cell In Your Body Is Infused With The Collapse Of A Star“* by Cate Matthews “Living shoulder-to-shoulder on a small blue planet zooming through an ever-expanding universe, it's easy to feel very, very small. But what we are is actually pretty incredible. "We are dead stars looking back up at the sky," Dr. Michelle Thaller, astronomer and science communicator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, says in a recent video posted by "The Atlantic": Every single cell in our bodies contains elements created in the burning center of a collapsing star- from the... more »
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 29, 2017
British Prime Minister Theresa May in the cabinet, sitting below a painting of Britain's first Prime Minister Robert Walpole, signs the official letter to European Council President Donald Tusk invoking Article 50 and the United Kingdom's intention to leave the EU on March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Christopher Furlong/Pool *Peter Apps, Reuters*: *For Britain, the real work on Brexit starts now* On March 29 British Prime Minister Theresa May will begin Britain’s exit from the European Union by invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. It will start a two-year process of departure – and for ... more »
Calif. Attorney General Files Charges Against Pro-life Activist Daleiden
[image: calif-attorney-general-files-charges-against-pro-life-activist-daleiden] California’s Attorney General has filed charges against pro-life activist David Daleiden, charging that he filmed undercover videos of Planned Parenthood personnel.
SHARIA LAW (EEK!), BUT FOR NON-MUSLIMS
*The New York Times* reports on a war between two kosher pizzerias in Brooklyn, which has now gone to a religious court: Two pizza restaurant owners, both Orthodox Jews, have become entangled in an only-in-Brooklyn lawsuit, not in an august courthouse, but in an obscure hall of justice known as the Rabbinical Court of Borough Park, which hears cases in a simple room above a synagogue on a residential block. At the center of the battle are not prices or sauce recipes, but cryptic interpretations of holy law set down in ancient Aramaic thousands of years ago. Both sides have invoked r... more »
Veteran journalist slams the government’s ‘double standard’ over UK involvement in Yemen
As MPs debated the current situation in Yemen on 28 March, one veteran journalist slammed the Conservative government’s “double standard” over British support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. And he strongly suggested that it lacked the “moral courage” to act. MPs debate the UK’s “moral duty” On 28 March, a parliamentary debate resolved to push the Conservative […] The post Veteran journalist slams the government’s ‘double standard’ over UK involvement in Yemen appeared first on The Canary.
Dear mainstream media: Corbyn is the real ‘anti-establishment’ candidate, and he’s nothing like Trump
Enemies of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have been making comparisons between him and Donald Trump since before Trump became US President. Comparisons say they’re both ‘anti-establishment’ candidates; and one poll this week even said they were as unpopular as each other. But for everyone out there who believes comparisons are fair, here are just five reasons why […] The post Dear mainstream media: Corbyn is the real ‘anti-establishment’ candidate, and he’s nothing like Trump appeared first on The Canary.
Conspiracy Theory No More, Harvard Reveals Big Oil-Approved ‘Stratospheric Injection’ Geoengineering
[image: geoengineering]Harvard scientists have now received the go-ahead to experiment with geoengineering outside the lab but there are potentially devastating consequences.
World News Briefs -- March 29, 2017 (Evening Edition)
*BBC:** 'No turning back' on Brexit as Article 50 triggered* Britain's departure from the EU is "an historic moment from which there can be no turning back", Theresa May has said. She was speaking after Britain's EU ambassador formally triggered the two year exit process by handing a letter to EU Council President Donald Tusk. A sombre-looking Mr Tusk said it was not a "happy day" for him or the EU. The European Parliament warned security cooperation was not on the table as it fired its opening salvo in what are expected to be tough negotiations. *Read more *.... *MIDDLE EAST* I... more »
UK breaks with EU at U.N., changes stance on Israel, adopts UN Watch statistics per UN Watch
The institutionally anti Israel BBC will not be happy... 'In an unprecedented move, Prime Minister Theresa May's government changed the UK's vote on Friday at the U.N. Human Rights Council on what it rightly called a "perverse" resolution condemning Israel for allegedly maltreating the Druze residents of the Golan Heights — and London warned that it would oppose all UNHRC resolutions on Israel if the UNHRC's bias does not stop. In past votes on the same text — introduced annually by Syria's Assad regime, and more recently by the Islamic group acting as a surrogate — the UK had ab... more »
Trump’s “strategy” for destroying ISIS
Immoral plans rely on complicity for mutual benefit which inherently implies a willingness to be silent. Or cooperation by and for the greater good of the corporations, military industrial complex, banks, global construction companies etc., *In yesterday’s post*,* Double Standards and Lies: Splitting Syria for Greater Kurdistan,* *I stated:* “Actually the plan is to destroy 4 countries for Greater Kurdistan aka Israel 2.0. Donald Trump is playing right along with this plan- Israel just can’t wait for it to all fall in place. I’ll talk that up tomorrow.” *So here we are, tomorrow ... more »
Quote of the Day: On multiculturalism
*“The reason multiculturalism exists is to pretend that inferior cultures aren’t inferior and that superior cultures aren’t superior. It’s a way to tell nice lies about rotten cultures and rotten lies about great cultures.”* ~ Bosch Fawstin . Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with attribution.
Crash of Trumpcare Opens Door to Full Medicare for All by Ralph Nader + 2 Video Reports
Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page March 29, 2017 You can thank House Speaker Ryan and President Trump for pushing their cruel health insurance boondoggle. This debacle has created a big opening to put Single Payer or full Medicare for all prominently front and center. Single Payer means everybody in, nobody out, with […]
The Battle For The Iraqi City Of Mosul -- News Updates March 29, 2017
*Reuters:** Iraqi forces battle toward landmark Mosul mosque* Iraqi special forces and police fought Islamic State militants to edge closer to the al-Nuri mosque in western Mosul on Wednesday, tightening their control around the landmark site in the battle to recapture Iraq's second city. The close-quarters fighting is focused on the Old City surrounding the mosque, where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed a caliphate nearly three years ago across territory controlled by the group in both Iraq and Syria. Thousands of residents have fled from IS-held areas inside... more »
Did Republicans Just Sell Our Internet Privacy Off To Their Big Corporate Campaign Donors? Yep!
Yesterday, Republicans in the House voted-- pretty narrowly-- to approve Jeff Flake's Joint Resolution, overturning the protection of privacy rights on the Internet. Flake, an unpopular Arizona Republican, is up for reelection in 2018, as is unpopular Nevada Republican, Dean Heller, who co-sponsored the bill in the Senate. The House passed it 215-205, with 15 Republicans crossing the aisle and voting NO with every single Democrat. Earlier in the day, one reactionary Blue Dog, Jim Costa (CA), voted with the Republicans on a piece of enabling legislation for the bill, but by the time... more »
The Unbalanced Budget Amendment
[image: the-unbalanced-budget-amendment] A careful analysis of the various previously proposed balanced budget amendments reveals a number of problems or loopholes, making it more appropriate to call them the unbalanced budget amendments (or UBAs).
Why We Must Abolish the U.S. Department of Education
[image: alex-newman-must-abolish-us-deptartment-education]VIDEO - In this video, The New American's correspondent Alex Newman, an educator and the co-author of a book on education, explains why it is essential that the unconstitutional and highly damaging U.S. Department of Education be shut down.
I need some serious mid-week input from you...
*and I thank you in advance.* I'm tired. Writing this blog has become tiring and somewhat of a burden. It's darned hard to come up with new rants, upsets, and outrages day after day. And I highly doubt it's healthy - mentally or physically. Much of the goings on are starting to bore me. It's an effort to write convincingly about a subject someone finds boring without boring the reader. Most of my days start around 5am (except now with daylight saving it's all screwed up which I'll save for a future rant), and by the time something piques my interest it's often noon or later. Th... more »
House Science Committee Hearing
Originally posted on Climate Etc.: by Judith Curry My testimony at the House Science Committee Hearing on Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications and the Scientific Method. The text of my written testimony is here [Curry house science testimony mar 17]. I really enjoyed preparing this testimony, it provided me an opportunity to reflect on my…
Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 87 – 2017
Originally posted on sunshine hours: The first graph is a reminder about why I am not worry about the Antarctic. The up and down oscillation from high to to low is normal. It would be interesting if their had been satellites in the 60s/70s. ? South / North
Florida: The Sun State with Hardly Any Household Solar
Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Snow “sheets” above some solar panels; pushed by the rain, they are sloping down folding themselves like real sheets. By Syrio (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian has published a revealing piece about how Florida has low household solar…
Late winter polar bear habitat 2017 vs. 2006 and 2011 shows no trend
Originally posted on polarbearscience: Here is a bit of historical perspective for rational readers trying to make sense of the doom-mongering of others that current sea ice conditions spell trouble for polar bears, given that the winter maximum extent for 2017 reached a new seasonal low (keeping in mind that NSIDC does not publish error…
Another fat bear onshore in late winter, along Gulf of St. Lawrence north coast
Originally posted on polarbearscience: Another fat bear onshore in late winter, this time along the Quebec shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (22 March 2017) – and this time, one of the witnesses to the sighting took some great photos. Courtesy CBC News (Polar bear makes rare appearance on Quebec’s Lower North Shore 24…
What Labour Can Do About Brexit
"These are Labour's six tough conditions!" thunders Keir Starmer, shadow Brexit minister. They've been waved about on this, the day Article 50 was finally triggered. Are they going to give the Prime Minister sleepless nights alongside Scottish independence and alleged electoral fraud? Just what are these conditions the party leadership have set the Prime Minister? They are: 1. Does it ensure a strong and collaborative future relationship with the EU? 2. Does it deliver the "exact same benefits as we currently have as members of the single market and customs union? 3. Does it ensure... more »
Russian And American Troops Are Within 'Hand-Grenade Range' Of Each Other In Syria
Recently US and Russian forces 'have converged literally within hand-grenade range of one another'. Pictured above, Russian soldiers gather as rebel fighters and their families evacuate the besieged Waer district in the central Syrian city of Homs, after an agreement reached between rebels and Syria's army *Daily Mail:* *Russian and American troops are within 'hand-grenade range' of each other in Syria as they overlap while fighting ISIS, warn US commanders* * Russian and US troops are working with Kurdish YPG fighters to combat ISIS * A defense expert warns that 'escalation is bou... more »
Making the Real: The Interplay of Reasons, Rhetoric, Evidence, and Action
This guest post is by Joseph O’Mahoney, currently a Stanton Fellow at MIT and an Assistant Professor in Seton Hall’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations. In the US, support for President Donald Trump’s executive order, which restricts travel to the US by citizens of seven Muslim majority countries, has been mixed. Perhaps surprisingly, the […]
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Disbarred for Misconduct?
Hyperpartisan web sites spread the false claim that Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be disbarred thanks to a letter of complaint signed by 2,000 U.S. lawyers.
Crime In Sweden, Part I: Is Sweden the ‘Rape Capital’ of Europe?
Not according to the data.
Bill To Audit The FED Passes House Committee, Could Become Law
[image: audit]For years brave lawmakers have attempted to force transparency by an audit of the FED to no avail. However, that could soon change.
5-Year-Old Girl Suspended from School for Holding a Stick that “Looked Like a Gun”
[image: stick]A five-year-old kindergartner has been suspended from school for playing with a stick — because it looked like a gun.
J Scott Armstrong: Fewer Than 1 Percent Of Papers in Scientific Journals Follow Scientific Method per Breitbart
'Fewer than 1 percent of papers published in scientific journals follow the scientific method, according to research by Wharton School professor and forecasting expert J. Scott Armstrong. Professor Armstrong, who co-founded the peer-reviewed Journal of Forecasting in 1982 and the International Journal of Forecasting in 1985, made the claim in a presentation about what he considers to be "alarmism" from forecasters over man-made climate change.' More here at Breitbart http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/03/29/j-scott-armstrong-fraction-1-papers-scientific-journals-follow-scientific-... more »
The Arctic - The Canary in the Climate Change Coal Mine
With President Trump signing an executive order that rolls back the Obama Administration's climate change policies, recent data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center is particularly interesting. The Energy Independence Executive Order puts an end to the "war on coal" by curtailing the Environmental Protection Agency's regulations restricting greenhouse gas emissions sourced from coal-fired power plants. The EPA has been directed to formally consider repealing the Clean Power Plan, the centrepiece of the Obama Administration's 2015 plan to cut the power sector's 2005 level car... more »
“A Course In Deception:” Scientist’s novel takes on research misconduct
Jana Rieger is a researcher in Edmonton, Alberta. And now, she’s also a novelist. Her new book, “A Course in Deception,” draws on her experiences in science, and weaves a tale of how greed and pressures to publish can lead to even worse outcomes than the sort we write about at Retraction Watch. We interviewed Rieger […] The post “A Course In Deception:” Scientist’s novel takes on research misconduct appeared first on Retraction Watch.
Sorry Lib Dems. It’s too late to take the moral high ground now. [OPINION]
The 2016 Brexit vote polarised Britain. And the Liberal Democrats have sought to use the event to turn themselves into a ‘party of opposition’. But it’s way too late for them to take the moral high ground. Simultaneously fighting for the left and right. Wait, what? Writing in The Guardian on 14 March, Lib Dem leader […] The post Sorry Lib Dems. It’s too late to take the moral high ground now. [OPINION] appeared first on The Canary.
Theresa May conveniently dismisses the rock-shaped disaster that’s about to hit Brexit
During the discussion about Prime Minister Theresa May’s letter to EU President Donald Tusk in the Commons chamber, the SNP’s George Kerevan MP pointed out that something was missing: Asked PM why no mention of Gibraltar in Brexit letter to @eucopresident ? Out of sight, out of mind? @GibChronicle @RadioGibraltar — George Kerevan MP (@GeorgeKerevan) March […] The post Theresa May conveniently dismisses the rock-shaped disaster that’s about to hit Brexit appeared first on The Canary.
The BBC’s new ad campaign is humiliating Britain in front of the entire world [VIDEO]
The BBC‘s new ad campaign is humiliating Britain on the global stage. As the BBC expands, the campaign boasts the self-proclaimed impartiality of the news service. But the facts show such a claim is nothing short of embarrassing. “Covered the story from every angle” The advert claims the BBC covers the story from “every angle”. […] The post The BBC’s new ad campaign is humiliating Britain in front of the entire world [VIDEO] appeared first on The Canary.
The Way I See It
Where by "It" I really mean the Future of mankind. The human race is facing huge new challenges in the XXI century, and we are only starting to get equipped to face them. The biggest drama of the past century was arguably caused by the two world conflicts and the subsequent transition to nuclear warfare: humanity had to learn to coexist with the impending threat of global annihilation by thermonuclear war. But today, in addition to that dreadful scenario there are now others we have to cope with. read more
TPPF Announces School Choice Radio Ads Featuring Sen. Cruz and Former Sen. Gramm
Content Multimedia - 9 hours ago
The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) today announced statewide radio ads on school choice featuring Senator Ted Cruz and former Senator Phil Gramm. Senators Cruz and Gramm lend their voices in support of Senate Bill 3, which provides Texas families with education choice achieved through education savings accounts (ESAs).
TOMORROW: TPPF's Vance Ginn to Testify in Favor of Eliminating Margins Tax
Content Multimedia - 9 hours ago
By Vance Ginn Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Economist Dr. Vance Ginn will testify before the Texas House Ways & Means Committee TOMORROW, March 29, at 8:00 a.m. CDT in room E2.012 at the Texas State Capitol. Dr. Ginn will testify in favor of House Bill 28, relating to the use of certain surplus state revenue to phase out the franchise tax, commonly called the margins tax.
TOMORROW: TPPF's Bryan Mathew to Testify Against Linkage Fees
Content Multimedia - 9 hours ago
By Bryan Mathew Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Bryan Mathew, policy analyst with the Center for Local Governance, will testify in support of House Bill 1449, a bill that prohibits local governments from imposing linkage fees on new construction. Mathew will testify before the House Committee on Ways & Means on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 8:00 a.m. CDT in room E2.012 of the Texas State Capitol.
TPPF's Chip Roy Applauds Article V Resolutions from Arizona and North Dakota
Content Multimedia - 9 hours ago
By Chip Roy Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Tenth Amendment Action Director Chip Roy issued the following statement on the passage of Article V resolutions by the Arizona and North Dakota state Legislatures. These pieces of legislation request that Congress call a convention of states for proposing amendments to the Constitution, limited to imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government, reducing the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and establishing term limits for federal officials and members of Congress.
TPPF Applauds the Texas Senate's Passage of the State Budget
Content Multimedia - 9 hours ago
By Talmadge Heflin Today, the Texas Senate passed SB 1, which is the state government’s budget for the upcoming 2018-19 biennium. With the SB 1 amounts of $145.2 billion in state funds and $217.8 billion in all funds, they are below the Conservative Texas Budget (CTB) limits of $147.5 billion in state funds and $218.5 billion in all funds. The CTB limits are based on an increase in population growth plus inflation of 4.5 percent above 2016-17 appropriations. The Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy Director Talmadge Heflin issued the following statement:
TPPF Experts Available to Discuss Clean Power Plan Repeal
Content Multimedia - 9 hours ago
By Kathleen Hartnett White, Robert Henneke, Brad Zarin, Ted Hadzi-Antich Texas Public Policy Foundation’s (TPPF) Kathleen Hartnett White, Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment at TPPF; Robert Henneke, General Counsel and Director of the Center for the American Future at TPPF; Brad Zarin, Director of the Fueling Freedom Project at TPPF; and Ted Hadzi-Antich, Senior Attorney at the Center for American Future at TPPF, are available to comment on the Executive Order repealing the Clean Power Plan, which the President... more »
Escalation Everywhere: Will Trump's Foreign Policy Succeed?
Across the globe, there is not a single "hot spot" where the Trump Administration is not escalating conflict. Drone strikes are up over 400 percent. Civilian deaths are skyrocketing in Iraq and Syria after stepped-up US bombardment. The Pentagon says it needs thousands more troops for Afghanistan and more military participation in the horrible war on Yemen. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in South Korea that "all options are on the table" with regards to North Korea, which suggests even a first-strike nuclear weapon is "on the table." More artillery is being moved to Russia's ... more »
Syria War News Updates -- March 29, 2017
*Daily Mail:* *The city of human shields: 300,000 civilians trapped in ISIS 'capital' Raqqa forced to dress as militants and dig trenches so enemies cannot pick them apart from terrorists* * Landmines and checkpoints around the northern Syrian city prevent escape * US-backed forces are bearing down on Raqqa, the capital of ISIS's caliphate * Spies are living among the population, and two people have been executed for alleged collusion with outsiders * Civilians are made to dress as ISIS militants so they cannot be distinguished ISIS is using 300,000 civilians as human shields as en... more »
Bank of America Fined Again; Board Likely to Laugh It Off
[image: bank-of-america-fined-again-board-likely-to-laugh-it-off] The $45 million fine is likely to be treated by the board as just another cost of doing business their way.
Major professor crashes and burns!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017Gitlin emulates Trump:* Almost surely, Donald J. Trump is our least articulate modern president—and you can start the "modern" era pretty much wherever you please. Briefly, let's be fair. In part, the problem stems from the fact that Donald J. Trump rarely knows what he's talking about. During the campaign, he promised "something terrific" in health care, full stop. Almost surely, Donald J. Trump was holding back no details. Donald J. Trump rarely seems to know what he's talking about. For whatever reason, Donald J. Trump is highly inarticulate. At Bill M... more »
March 29: Democracy ...a good idea....
...too bad we don't have one. A big story on the front page of Canada&World in our local Brunswick News is that a little, old lady left her purse on a train. A conductor found it, and returned it to her. And there's even a picture of the conductor returning it. How sweet! There were no nasty stories about people killing or starving people. That's odd. We had lots of stories when Russian bombers were killing civilians. But if you want to know what U.S. bombers are doing in Iraq, you have to go to CBC. The UN has condemned the U.S. for its deliberate killing of civilians. But the edit... more »
Compare and Contrast: First Lady Melania Trump vs Hillary Clinton...
*the contrast is startling.* One is positive, soft spoken, charming, and lady like. The other is harsh, grating, negative, and not at all lady like. You guess which is which. First: Melania Trump speaking at The Women of Courage Award Ceremony today (3/29/2017) I'm also so very grateful for not having an activist first lady shoved into my face every day. Our past first lady should have paid more attention to raising her daughters then trying to be a co-president. Next up we have Hillary Clinton in her best angry mode haranguing the audience at the Professional Business Women... more »
War is a $ham
This is the intro from the Hollywood movie, War Dogs, which is based on a true story. War is a business, a racket, a sham. The rich get richer.
Judge orders removal of gas pipeline on Native American land in Oklahoma
Major victory: Federal Judge Rules in Favor of American Indian Plaintiffs: Natural Gas Line Ordered Removed from Land In a major victory for American Indian land rights, a federal judge on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, ordered Enable Midstream Partners and its affiliates to remove a natural gas pipeline from 38 American Indian land owners’ property near Anadarko, Oklahoma. A tract of the land is part of the Kiowa Tribes of Oklahoma. The Order was entered today in the Davilla v. Enable Midstream Partners, L.P., et al., Case No. CIV-15-1262-M (Western District of Oklahoma) case. The 38 ... more »
The GOP’s New Front In Culture War Against Climate Science
Republicans and the fossil fuel interests that own them—along with their theoconservative ideologies—have opened up a new front in the culture wars. The post The GOP’s New Front In Culture War Against Climate Science appeared first on Shadowproof.
Musical Interlude: Justin Hayward, "The Way of the World"
Justin Hayward, "The Way of the World" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QUrpqOAXY
"Earth & Water, Part I – Feet of Clay"
*"Earth & Water, Part I – Feet of Clay"* By Francis Marion "All of my heroes have feet of clay." – Hardscrabble Farmer "I don’t recall exactly which thread the above quote originated from but it has been stuck in the back of my mind for months. Like a mosquito on a hot summer night, while you’re trying to sleep, it hums in my ear and distracts me from the task at hand. Most of the time it sounds like he’s close so I slap and grab in the dark but realistically, in the silence of the night he’s probably a good foot or two away which means all I’m swatting and grabbing at is air. So ... more »
Historical Lessons on Economics and Politics
Revolutionary Images: Lessons to be avoided like the plague! Left: A barricade erected by revolutionaries in Moscow, 1905. Wikimedia Commons / Imperial War Museum Right: People’s Liberation Army entering Beijing, 1949. Socialist Worker How to further the conversation between progressives and neoliberals? That was the the question I left with you at the end of […]
Myanmar Military Chief Defends Crackdown Against Rohingya In The Western Rakhine State
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (R), commander-in-chief of Myanmar's armed forces, participates in an Armed Forces Day ceremony in Naypyidaw, March 27, 2017. RFA *Sydney Morning Herald*: *Myanmar chief labels Rohingya Muslim intruders, warns against UN investigation* Myanmar's military chief has warned against United Nations intervention in his country, declaring more than one million Rohingya Muslims in western Rakhine state as "Bengali" interlopers, despite them having lived there for generations. Min Aung Hlaing also signalled his armed forces will shun a fact-finding mission ... more »
If You Post It, They Will Come
I know most of you are busy watching the all-too-real reality horror show of the 45th administration, but there has been some interesting news coming out of Russia (sorry, no meteorites or Putin’s nipples). On Sunday, somehow almost 90 thousand protesters went out on the streets in 87 cities all over Russia to protest against […]
Mohawk Nation News 'Line Up Your Prayers'
LINE UP YOUR PRAYERS Posted on March 29, 2017 Please post & distribute. MNN. Mar. 29, 2017. The United States was so happy when everybody prayed to stop the DAPL pipeline at Standing Rock. In 1974 American Indian movement became famous throughout the world for its stand on corruption. ROTISKENRAKETE. The Red Power movement started in Minneapolis in early 1970s when onkwe’hon:weh
Cops Break into Wrong House, Arrest Innocent Children, Kill Their Dog — Taxpayers Held Liable
[image: dog]Not until they had arrested all the children and killed their dog did the officers even ask if the kids had a right to be in the home.
Shedding Nuclear Liabilities: The Prioritization of Corporate Profits as Toshiba Sheds Westinghouse's Toxic Liabilities
Toshiba, a company whose corporate reputation was shocked by recent admission of financial misconduct, announces bankruptcy for its nuclear subsidiary, Westinghouse: AP (2017, March 29). Toshiba says Westinghouse filing for bankruptcy. The Asahi Shimbun, http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201703290062.html Toshiba said in a statement that it filed the chapter 11 petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of New York. The move had been largely expected. Toshiba has been eager to get Westinghouse off its books to improve its plight, and it said it would do just that from this fiscal yea... more »
The Mothman "Futility" Syndrome
*Real? Imagined? ...or something "outside" an "in-between"?* The "Mothman Futility Syndrome" by Alfred Lehmberg People suffer needlessly for the gloating convenience of craven psychopaths. I say true. Avoiding that suffering is a bullet dodged. Here's another *kind *of bullet, its recognition, and avoidance. A syndrome is defined as a *Pathology *where a group of symptoms—together—are characteristic of a specific *disorder* or disease, or something *else* resembling such, though something in the *existential*. Additionally, it follows, then, that it can be a group of *related *or... more »
"I Didn't Say..."
And this blog is not Twitter...
Musical Interlude: Justin Hayward, "The Way of the World"
Justin Hayward, "The Way of the World" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QUrpqOAXY
Free Download: Lucretius, "Of The Nature of Things"
"Again, do you not see that even stones are conquered by time, that tall turrets fall and rocks crumble, that the gods’ temples and their images wear out and crack, nor can their holy divinity carry forward the boundaries of fate, or strive against nature’s laws? Again, do Ave not see the monuments of men fall to pieces, asking whether you believe that they in their turn must grow old? Do we not see lumps of rock roll down torn from the lofty mountains, too weak to bear and endure the mighty force of time finite? For they would not fall thus suddenly torn off, if they had endured a... more »
“Foundation: The Fall Of The American Galactic Empire”
*“Foundation: The Fall Of The American Galactic Empire”* by James Quinn “The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.” – Isaac Asimov, "Foundation" “Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.” – Isaac Asimov, "Foundation" I read Isaac Asimov’s renown... more »
One picture from parliament perfectly captures the government’s attitude to your post-Brexit future [IMAGE]
An image from parliament shows just how little the Conservative government cares about rights and living standards post-Brexit. It shows two MPs apparently preferring to look at their phones rather than engaging in what is likely to be the most important issue for decades. No interest The MPs are gazing at their phones as Jeremy Corbyn responds to […] The post One picture from parliament perfectly captures the government’s attitude to your post-Brexit future [IMAGE] appeared first on The Canary.
Air raid sirens playing the Benny Hill theme to celebrate Article 50
The triggering of Article 50 has been accompanied by the catchiest of all British ditties. Namely the ‘Benny Hill theme’, which is more accurately known as Yakety Sax. Duuuuuuuuuur –Dur-Dur-De-Da-Da-Da Off The Perch caught up with Boris Johnson to find out what the jingo was going on: OTP: So, Boris. Why are you blaring the […] The post Air raid sirens playing the Benny Hill theme to celebrate Article 50 appeared first on The Canary.
A leaked EU resolution shows Theresa May is fundamentally lying about Article 50 [VIDEO]
A leaked resolution from the European Parliament shows Theresa May is fundamentally lying about Article 50, on the day she invokes it. The Prime Minister invoked Article 50, the process for leaving the EU, on 29 March. She has notified European Council President Donald Tusk by letter. Fundamentally lying In May’s accompanying statement, she said: […] The post A leaked EU resolution shows Theresa May is fundamentally lying about Article 50 [VIDEO] appeared first on The Canary.
New UK rules to partly exempt some heavy industries from renewables scheme cost
By Paul Homewood LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government presented new regulations to Parliament on Tuesday which it said will exempt certain heavy industries from some of the costs of a renewable energy support scheme, saving them around 100 million pounds ($125 million) a year. The measures will exempt around 130 energy-intensive companies in Britain […]
Has China Faked Its Coal Data?
By Paul Homewood http://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/energy_watch/china-efficiency-claim-under-cloud-03272017104635.html From Radio Free Asia: China has claimed big gains in energy efficiency for 2016 despite coal and steel production that covered cities in smog during the second half of the year. Official figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) have offered a murky mix of partial data, […]
Which crisis will we face next?
Ethical Technology - 11 hours ago
All right, here is the danger I fear most right now. The heads of four world powers desperately fear democracy in their own nations. All four want to trigger war between the United States and Iran
Satellite Images Show North Korea Preparing For A Nuclear Test
*Japan Times:* *Satellite imagery shows North Korea may be in final stages of preparing for nuclear test* Satellite imagery of North Korea’s main nuclear test site “strongly suggests” that preparations for the country’s sixth atomic test are entering the final stages, a leading U.S. website that monitors the isolated nation said Tuesday. The 38 North website, a project of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, said imagery taken Saturday of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site shows the continued presence of three to four vehicles and trailers at the entrance to an und... more »
It's Not Happenstance That Americans Pay So Much For Prescription Drugs
A few weeks ago Digby and I went to dinner with Ted Lieu and Ro Khanna, two of Congress' most dedicated legislators-- guys actually looking for ways to make people's lives better. We asked David Dayen to come as well so he could explain the intense research he has been engrossed in involving pharmacy benefit managers. His piece, "The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices," is running in the new issue of the *American Prospect* and it's worth reading in its entirety. But first a 101 definition for those who may not have heard of a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), simply "a third... more »
Man Found Dead in Belly of Python?
Police in Indonesia say that a missing man's body was discovered inside a seven-meter-long python.
"The Motive..."
"All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves." - Blaise Pascal
X22 Report, “The Push To Expose The Secret Inner Workings Of The Fed Is Underway”
*X22 Report, * *“The Push To Expose The Secret Inner Workings Of The Fed Is Underway”* - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qVMA2A0ESo “*X22 Report *is a daily show that will cover issues surrounding the economic collapse. All our reports and Daily Alerts are backed up by source links. I work very hard to bring you the facts and I research everything before presenting the report. The X22 Report and The People has been put together to benefit “The People.” When I say “The People” I am talking about everyone in the world. We as a people want freedom, we want to make a living to support ... more »
North Korea Continues To Break Sanctions
The value of China's coal imports from North Korea surged nearly 40 percent in February 2017 *Reuters:* *Exclusive: Malaysia inspects North Korean coal ship for possible U.N. sanctions breach* Malaysia briefly prevented a North Korean ship carrying coal from entering its port in Penang because of a suspected breach of United Nations sanctions, a port worker and Malaysian maritime officials told Reuters on Wednesday The KUM YA, was carrying 6,300 metric tonnes of anthracite coal, according to a worker at Penang Port who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. It was later allo... more »
Mainstream Media Finally Admits Cannabis Can Curb Opioid Epidemic
[image: opioid]Mainstream media breaks from its Big Pharma financial backers and opioid pushers to publish a report showing the benefits of cannabis legalization.
Cop Actually Charged for Shooting Small Dog Who Made Him ‘Fear for His Life’
[image: dog]A cop who shot a family's little dog with his service weapon for no reason is now facing charges — but there's more to this story.
Noam Chomsky: If Trump Support Drops, US May See ‘Staged Terrorist Attack’
[image: Chomsky]In a startling interview, esteemed analyst Noam Chomsky warns the timing is ideal for a 'staged or alleged terrorist act.'
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Scott Clark and Peter DeVries point out that with interest rates still at historically low levels, Canada would be far better off funding infrastructure for itself rather than locking itself into privatized structures: But that is not true at all at the federal level. The federal government funds its infrastructure projects by issuing 30 or 50-year bonds, which it currently can do at historically low interest rates. The costs are amortized over the service life of the project. The impact on the budgetary balance is spread over ... more »
Laura Hayes being interviewed live today
Link for live streaming at: https://www.kvmr.org/player I will come on shortly after 12:05pm PST. Jeanie is an excellent interviewer, and very knowledgeable regarding vaccine-related issues (and much more!). In case you missed my previous interviews with Jeanie, here are the...
VF-111
I'm not going to belabor my decorating decisions in the den, but I received a couple of e-mails asking for more pictures beyond the snapshot of the picture of "Lee's Old Warhorse". It's not a shrine to VF-111 (Sundowners), the venerable old squadron that saw service in World War 2, Korea and Vietnam, but it's a picture and a model aircraft (of the picture) with proper squadron markings. You'll note that I do have a preference for mahogany tables with Italian marble tops. Mia culpa. I can't help it. There are things that I like and things that I don't and if it's going in my house i... more »
Zapatistas 'The First of Several' Coffee and the Wall
. The First of SeveralZapatista Army for National LiberationMexicoMarch, 2017To the Sixth all over the world: EspanolTraduzione italianoDeutsch ÜbersetzungTradução em portugêsEnglish translationРусский переводTraduction en FrançaisCompas:We had told you we wanted to find a way to support you so that you in turn could support the resistance and rebellion of those who are persecuted and
Greg Hunter, “We All Know How This Party is Going to End”
*“Obamacare is the Reason for Anemic Growth”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Analyst and entrepreneur Karl Denninger predicted years ago that Obamacare would “kill the economy” and “eventually implode.” Today, the first quarter GDP came in at just .9%, and Denninger contends Obamacare is part of the reason the economy is so anemic. Denninger says, “Since the crash in 2008, we’ve had 2% GDP expansion roughly on an average basis, and you are trying to expand the growth of one program in the government by 8.5%, and that’s not going to work. This is the problem you have.What Obamacare... more »
Power-Sharing Talks Have Collapsed In DR Congo
Opposition supporters in Kinshasa, DRC, chant slogans during a march to press Congolese President Joseph Kabila to step down (CNS) *BBC:* *DR Congo protests turn violent after power-sharing talks collapse* Police have fired tear gas and bullets to disperse opposition protesters in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa. The protests erupted when negotiations aimed at securing the departure of President Joseph Kabila after 17 years in power collapsed. Religious leaders mediating the talks said politicians were acting selfishly. The outline for a power-sharing deal in the... more »
Research misconduct finding — which university won’t discuss — leads to second retraction for prominent physicist
A rising star in nanotechnology, Dmitri Lapotko, has received his second retraction within a month over “a finding of research misconduct” that the university will apparently only disclose on a need-to-know basis. According to the notice, the journal’s editor and publisher issued the retraction after Lapotko’s former institution—Rice University in Houston—notified them of research misconduct and […] The post Research misconduct finding — which university won’t discuss — leads to second retraction for prominent physicist appeared first on Retraction Watch.
Author duplicated a figure in three papers; two get retracted
Two journals have retracted two papers by the same group within months of each other, after editors were independently tipped off that they contained duplicated figures representing different experiments. The two papers were published by PLOS ONE and The Egyptian Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (EJBMB) in 2015 and 2014, respectively. According to the PLOS ONE paper’s corresponding author, last […] The post Author duplicated a figure in three papers; two get retracted appeared first on Retraction Watch.
Rep. Walter Jones Challenges Speaker Paul Ryan’s Refusal to Allow Afghanistan War Debate
[image: undefined] Interviewed Tuesday at C-SPAN, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) challenged the continuing refusal of US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to allow the House to debate and vote on the Afghanistan War, the costs of which Jones presents as so far including the spending of over 800 billion dollars, the death of over 2,000 Americans, and the wounding of over 20,000 more. Jones was a guest on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program to discuss HR 1666, legislation he introduced in the House of Representatives last week and says in the interview he hopes can lead to ... more »
Rep. Walter Jones Challenges Speaker Paul Ryan’s Refusal to Allow Afghanistan War Debate
[image: undefined] Interviewed Tuesday at C-SPAN, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) challenged the continuing refusal of US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to allow the House to debate and vote on the Afghanistan War, the costs of which Jones presents as so far including the spending of over 800 billion dollars, the death of over 2,000 Americans, and the wounding of over 20,000 more. Jones was a guest on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program to discuss HR 1666, legislation he introduced in the House of Representatives last week and says in the interview he hopes can lead to ... more »
Rep. Walter Jones Challenges Speaker Paul Ryan’s Refusal to Allow Afghanistan War Debate
[image: undefined] Interviewed Tuesday at C-SPAN, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) challenged the continuing refusal of US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to allow the House to debate and vote on the Afghanistan War, the costs of which Jones presents as so far including the spending of over 800 billion dollars, the death of over 2,000 Americans, and the wounding of over 20,000 more. Jones was a guest on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program to discuss HR 1666, legislation he introduced in the House of Representatives last week and says in the interview he hopes can lead to ... more »
Rep. Walter Jones Challenges Speaker Paul Ryan’s Refusal to Allow Afghanistan War Debate
[image: undefined] Interviewed Tuesday at C-SPAN, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) challenged the continuing refusal of US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to allow the House to debate and vote on the Afghanistan War, the costs of which Jones presents as so far including the spending of over 800 billion dollars, the death of over 2,000 Americans, and the wounding of over 20,000 more. Jones was a guest on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program to discuss HR 1666, legislation he introduced in the House of Representatives last week and says in the interview he hopes can lead to ... more »
IF YOU PREFER ANECDOTES TO DATA, IN A FEW YEARS YOU'LL PROBABLY THINK TRUMP BROUGHT COAL BACK
Here's *The New York Times* on the Trump administration's claim that coal can make a comeback: Many fossil fuel executives are celebrating President Trump’s move to dismantle the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. But their cheers are muted, because market forces and state initiatives continue to elevate coal’s rivals, especially natural gas and renewable energy. In coal’s favor, there is the new promise that federal lands will be open for leasing, ending an Obama-era moratorium. Easing pollution restrictions could delay the closing of some old coal-fired power plants, slowing... more »
Trump Takes Chainsaw to Obama's “Climate” Schemes
[image: trump-takes-chainsaw-to-obama-s-climate-schemes] Fulfilling some of his key campaign promises to voters, President Donald Trump moved Tuesday to dismantle huge swaths of the unconstitutional “climate” regime imposed on Americans by his predecessor. Among other important targets in Trump's latest executive order is Obama's “Clean Power Plan” decree, which sought to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide, also known to scientists as the “gas of life.” The measure signed by Trump also takes aim at multiple other schemes adopted by Obama that restricted energy production or killed... more »
Shots Fired On Capital Hill Grounds In Washington. Suspect in Custody
*FOX News*: *Driver rams into Capitol Police cruisers as car chase ends in Hill scare* A police car chase ended Wednesday morning with the suspect driving into Capitol Police cruisers and other vehicles near Capitol Hill before being arrested, in the latest security scare in the nation's capital. The chase of the female suspect appeared to be a traffic stop gone bad. A police official briefing reporters said the investigation is in “preliminary stages” but there appears to be “no nexus to terrorism.” “This incident appears to be criminal in nature,” the official said, adding t... more »
Trump’s Executive Order On Energy: This Time, He Listened To The Lawyers
By Paul Homewood https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2017/03/28/trumps-executive-order-on-energy-this-time-he-listened-to-the-lawyers/#6d8ff8aa4f5f From Forbes: President Donald Trump’s executive order dismantling large chunks of Barrack Obama’s environmental legacy is a cleverly written document that avoids the pitfalls of Trump’s controversial orders on immigration. Unlike those orders, which have been suspended by federal courts, this one bears the clear stamp of experienced […]
“Deadly heat stress could threaten hundreds of millions”
By Paul Homewood h/t Patsy Lacey Deadly heat stress is projected to affect hundreds of millions more people each year under relatively little additional climate warming. The Paris Agreement commits the international community to limit global warming to no more than 2℃ above pre-industrial (late 19th century) air temperatures, with an aspirational target […]
World News Briefs -- March 29, 2017
*Reuters:* *'No turning back': PM May triggers 'historic' Brexit* Prime Minister Theresa May formally began Britain's divorce from the European Union on Wednesday, saying there was "no turning back" from a decision pitching her country into the unknown and triggering years of fraught negotiations. Nine months after Britons voted to leave, May notified EU Council President Donald Tusk in a letter that Britain was quitting the bloc it joined in 1973. "The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union," May later told parliament in London. "This is an historic moment from which there... more »
TPPF Applauds the Texas Senate Finance Committee Passage of Bill to Strengthen Appropriations Limit
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By Vance Ginn Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Economist Dr. Vance Ginn issued the following statement on the Texas Senate Finance Committee’s unanimous approval of Senate Bill 9, relating to the constitutional limit on the rate of growth of appropriations.
TPPF Applauds Governor Abbott's Remarks on Local Control
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By James Quintero The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Local Governance Director James Quintero issued the following statement on Governor Abbott’s remarks on local control. Earlier today, Gov. Abbott reiterated concerns about the proliferation of local government rules and regulations, calling for a “broad-based ban on regulations at the local level unless and until certain standards are met.”
Mosul Campaign Day 163, March 28, 2017
The Iraqi forces (ISF) are implementing their new plan for Mosul. The Golden Division continued their march along the western flank of the Old City. They attackedthe Yarmouk and Maghreb neighborhoods. The unit claimedit freed the former last week. The Federal Police on the other hand are continuing their frontal attack upon the district moving into Midan, Suq al-Shaareen, Qadhib al-Ban, and a railway station. The police were making little headway into the area due to its dense layout and strong defenses by the Islamic State. That led to a revision of the battle plan, which now con... more »
Anthony Patch: CERN ‘666’ Countdown Has Started to Open The Abyss And Resurrect the Anti-Christ, ‘Beast’ from the Bottomless Pit!
Published on Mar 24, 2017 WARNING: Anthony Patch – CERN Will Resurrect NIMROD and His Band of Nephilim Demons. – Anthony Patch gives the low down on the plan by the Jesuit (Vatican) controlled CERN-LHC to release the ‘Beast’ ie Anti-Christ spirit from the Abyss (bottomless pit). He explains in layman terms the hidden occult […]
Karl Denninger: We All Know How This Party is Going to End
Karl Denninger: We all Know How This Party is Going to End by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Analyst and entrepreneur Karl Denninger predicted years ago that Obamacare would “kill the economy” and “eventually implode.” Today, the first quarter GDP came in at just .9%, and Denninger contends Obamacare is part of the reason the economy is so […]
Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- March 29, 2017
*Washington Post:** Amid reports of increased civilian deaths, military says no changes to air rules* The U.S. military is not considering immediate changes to procedures governing airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, officials said on Monday, as the Pentagon defends the conduct of its air campaign against the Islamic State following a spike in reported civilian deaths. Gen. Joseph Votel, the head of U.S. Central Command (Centcom), “is not looking into changing the way we operate, other than to say our processes are good and we want to make sure we live by those processes,” said Col. Jo... more »
China Has A Plan To Crush The U.S. Space Program
Photo taken on June 3, 2013 shows the assembly of the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and the Long March-2F carrier rocket at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province. The assembly was transported to the launch site on Monday morning, which marks the manned Shenzhou-10 mission entering the final phase of its preparation. The spacecraft, which will be launched in mid-June from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, will carry three astronauts and dock with Tiangong-1, target orbiter and space module. Source:China.org.cn *Clay Dillow, CNBC*: *China's secret p... more »
Russia VEB Bank in NYC Served as Cover for Spy-Spy Recruiting; Trump Advisor Kushner Met with VEB Head in December
The VEB Bank branch, harboring at least one spy-spy recruiter, wasn’t simply in New York City but in Manhattan! How … Continue reading →
Ukrainian Journalist, Now MP: Payments Received by Manafort Show All Indicators of Money Laundering and Fraud; Investigation Needed; FBI Must Examine Bank Account
[Discussion of the Banks involved and ties to previous money laundering, Bob Dole (AUB); Putin, Gazprom, Rosneft (Commerzbank) follows the … Continue reading →
Media Investigating Trump’s ties to Moscow, Now Digging in Cyprus
By Cyprus Business Mail: “Media investigating Trump’s ties to Moscow, now digging in Cyprus, 3/24/2017 cyprusbusinessmail.com/ By Stelios Orphanides Investigations … Continue reading →
Russian Citizen Pleads Guilty for Involvement in Global Botnet Conspiracy
This may be related to FBI investigation into the use of Bots for political purposes during the 2016 campaign. From … Continue reading →
Philippine President Duterte Asks The U.S. Ambassador On Why Did America Not Deploy An Armada Of Warships To Stop China Constructing Man-Made Islands
President Duterte meets with United States Ambassador Sung Kim at Presidential Guest House in Panacan, Davao City back in January. Malacanang Photo *ABS-CBN:* *Duterte: US should've sent fleet to halt China structures in disputed isles* MANILA - If the United States really wanted to avoid trouble in disputed territories in the South China Sea, it should have sent a fleet to stop China from building structures there, President Rodrigo Duterte said. In a conversation with US Ambassador Sung Kim earlier this week, Duterte said he was surprised that America did not utilize its navy’s ... more »
ER=EPR as Schur orthogonality relations
The AdS/CFT correspondence relates a murky, effective description with quantum theory in the bulk – in AdS – to a well-defined, microscopic, non-gravitational theory on the boundary – CFT. I think that most people would agree that at least at present, the CFT side is the "more well-defined one", and the relationship therefore helps us to understand what quantum gravity (in this case in AdS) actually is. I would like to have a more universal definition of quantum gravity that works for any superselection sector, whether the boundary behavior of the spacetime is flat Minkowski, AdS, o... more »
Fresh doubt over Moorside power project as Toshiba’s nuclear unit Westinghouse files for bankruptcy
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/03/29/fresh-doubt-moorside-power-project-toshibas-nuclear-unit-westinghouse/ From the Telegraph: Toshiba’s nuclear unit Westinghouse has filed for bankruptcy protection, throwing fresh doubt on the UK’s plans to build Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. The move, which had been expected, follows a series of heavy losses that have plagued the Japanese parent company. Toshiba is expecting a […]
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives mocks an SNP rival for having a Scottish accent [VIDEO]
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has been urged to apologise after mocking an SNP politician for having a Scottish accent. The accent joke Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson is a divisive figure in Scotland. The Tories became the nation’s second party after the Blairite strategy of John McTernan and Jim Murphy saw Labour wiped […] The post The leader of the Scottish Conservatives mocks an SNP rival for having a Scottish accent [VIDEO] appeared first on The Canary.
The British public have been penning their own Brexit Day goodbye notes [TWEETS]
Theresa May has finally sent over her letter ‘divorcing’ Britain from its European partners. But while MPs stress over impending negotiations, the British public are penning their own ‘Brexit Day’ goodbye notes on Twitter. Some were very dramatic: Happy Economic Suicide Day!#BrexitDay pic.twitter.com/aqtytGIDpH — ProgressOntime (@ProgressOntime) March 29, 2017 Clearly dismayed that the day has finally […] The post The British public have been penning their own Brexit Day goodbye notes [TWEETS] appeared first on The Canary.
UK motorists celebrate being able to drive in miles per gallon again
Finally, after years of having to go everywhere in kilometres, with no idea how much fuel they were using, UK motorists will be able to drive in good old British miles per gallon again. This popular move is one of a number of benefits from Theresa May triggering Article 50. For decades, UK drivers have […] The post UK motorists celebrate being able to drive in miles per gallon again... Visit www.thecanary.co to read more.
Brexit Now Official: Prime Minister May Has Triggered U.K.'s Exit From The EU
*BBC*: *'No turning back' on Brexit as Article 50 triggered* Britain's departure from the European Union is an "historic moment from which there can be no turning back", Theresa May has told MPs. The prime minister said it was a "unique opportunity" to "shape a brighter future" for the UK. She was speaking after Britain's EU ambassador formally triggered the two year count down to the UK's exit by handing over a letter in Brussels. It follows June's referendum which resulted in a vote to leave the EU. *Read more* .... *More News On Brexit Officially Beginning As Brussels Receiv... more »
The Will Of The Voters Be Damned-- Republicans Still Aren't Done Trying To Kill The Affordable Care Act
*Republicans are hoping voters already forgot this* Kansas has mostly been a one-party state in contemporary politics. Their entire congressional delegation is Republican. All 6 statewide elected officers are Republicans and the state legislature-- blood red. Of the 125 House members, only 40 are Democrats and in the state Senate-- 40 members and just 9 lonely Democrats. And yet... Monday's *Kansas City Star* reported that the legislature is moving towards expanding Medicaid along Affordable Care Act lines. This is Sam Brownback and Kris Kobach's state. The legislature is ignoring B... more »
Public Forum On The Climate Data
Tonight in Parliament House, Canberra, One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts hosted a public forum to reveal the data behind the so-called man-made global warming scare or more correctly the huge anthropogenic global warming fraud. Peter Bobroff AM with Senator RobertsPeter Bobroff presented many graphs ranging from short term to eons long. I think Peter could have gone on for weeks with all his accumulated data. Bill Johnson then followed with the quality of data collected by the BoM, showing flaws with Stevenson screens. Dr Johnston is a retired NSW Department of Natural Resource... more »
LOVE LIVES OF THE CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES
From a *Washington Post* profile of Karen Pence, wife of the vice president: In 2002, Mike Pence told the Hill that he never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won’t attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side, either. Which reminds me of something we learned about the marriage of David French, the *National Review* writer who was briefly under consideration as an anti-Trump candidate for president last year. French, also a Christian conservative, was was deployed to Iraq in 2007 as a military lawyer. So when David French was in Iraq, he wouldn't let... more »
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*Educational Sabotage* By Walter E. Williams Nationally, black junior high and high school students are suspended at a rate more than three times as often as their white peers, twice as often as their Latino peers and more than 10 times as often as their Asian peers. According to former Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the "huge disparity is not caused by differences in children; it's caused by differences in training, professional development, and discipline policies. It is adult behavior that needs to change." In other words, the Education Department sees no di... more »
Russia VEB Bank in NYC Served as Cover for Spy-Spy Recruiting; Trump Advisor Kushner Met with VEB Head in December
The VEB Bank branch, harboring at least one spy-spy recruiter, wasn’t simply in New York City but in Manhattan! How close to Trump Tower? Evgeny Buryakov pled guilty in “Manhattan Federal Court In Connection With Conspiracy To Work For Russian Intelligence” last year. He is still listed as their “Deputy Representative” at 777 3rd St. […]
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*CO2 was not cause of Global Warming between 1979-1993* I’ve been examining how global planetary temperature can be predicted from various things like pressure and tropospheric height. The reason for this is that planets appear to have their tropopause at a constant 0.1bar pressure. And like a thermometer as the temperature of the atmosphere increases, the “bulb” of the atmosphere should expand. And if the tropopause is at a fixed pressure with increasing temperature, the tropopause should rise in height – but at the same pressure because the weight of atmosphere above it remains ... more »
Japanese Leaders Want To Have The Right To Strike North Korean Missile Bases In Event Of Attack
*Daily Mail:* *'We can't just wait until we're destroyed': Japan calls for the right to carry out pre-emptive strikes for the first time since World War II as it seeks to defend itself from North Korea * * Politicians in Japan have argued for the technically pacifist country to have the ability to strike North Korea rather than relying on the US for its defence * North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests and a series of missile launches * But any change could come about following discussions with the US Japan has called for the right to carry out pre-emptive strikes for the firs... more »
Ukrainian Journalist, Now MP: Payments Received by Manafort Show All Indicators of Money Laundering and Fraud; Investigation Needed; FBI Must Examine Bank Account
[Discussion of the Banks involved and ties to previous money laundering, Bob Dole (AUB); Putin, Gazprom, Rosneft (Commerzbank) follows the Press Release.] The Ukrainian MP gives a summary in English at around 9 minutes. Before that is an English translation of the longer Ukrainian version. Link: http://youtu.be/GgIfKTOZRNk [Note that despite the title, he makes clear […]
One-Pan Parmesan Chicken, Potatoes and Broccoli
One of the most frustrating parts about cooking happens after tummies are full — clean up. As wonderful as home-cooked meals are, it often comes at the price of a load of dishes. But tasty dishes don't have to require lots of dishes, or even lots of prep. Take, for instance, this delicious One-Pan Parmsean Chicken, Potatoes and Broccoli. Your dish load will consist of a cutting board, a knife, and a baking sheet. Oh, and the food is incredible! When I need a quick fix meal that hits the spot, this is one of my favorites. Not only is it fast, and easy on the dishes, the flavor is ... more »
Trumping Climate Hysteria With Facts: Heartland's D.C. Climate Conference
[image: trumping-climate-hysteria-with-facts-heartland-s-d-c-climate-conference] It's time for Congress and President Trump to pull the multi-trillion-dollar plug on the global warming fraud industry, say climate experts at the Heartland Institute’s 12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-12) in Washington, D.C.
Sending Him To The Showers
The Liberals want to change the rules in the House of Commons. They want to limit Justin Trudeau's required appearances in the House to once a week. That's the way the Brits do it. But, Lawrence Martin writes, that won't wash here: The optics on accountability are dreadful. That the Liberals were perceived to be intent on proceeding unilaterally on this and other changes to parliamentary procedure had critics in high dudgeon. Trying to defend the initiative was Liberal House Leader Bardish Chagger. She was beaten up, as she often is. It’s hardly her fault. She’s a greenhorn, a 36... more »
Happy #Brexitday
There can be few times in modern history where the political classes and most of the media were so united in a view that was so contrary to the popular will. In many countries that clash between the political “elite” … Continue reading →
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*How to Do Hogs for the Cause Like a Boss Hog ~GONOLA*
Caroline Lucas’ Carbon Spewing Trip
By Paul Homewood https://order-order.com/2017/03/28/bad-atmosphere-caroline-lucas-flies-washington/ Guido exposes the latest green hypocrisy: Green Party leader Caroline Lucas flew in business class to Washington yesterday on a gasoline guzzling, CO2 spurting aeroplane which dumped almost a tonne of carbon into the atmosphere. A spokesman for Lucas confirmed to Guido that she flew on British Airways […]
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From Jenna Orkin British Police: No Evidence London Attacker Had Any Association With ISIS, Al Qaeda Former Vice President Dick Cheney predicts U.S. will face deadly, nuclear attack within decade Meet Alexei Navalny — the Russian opposition leader challenging Vladimir Putin Russia's largest bank just pulled out of Ukraine The CEO of period tracking app Clue wants Apple to make a device that you can put inside your body Why Breitbart is showing up in your Google ‘Top stories’ Meet SAM, Brick Laying Robot That Does The Work Of 6 Humans Coming To An Inner-City Uprising Near ... more »
Saving Zero: "Climb Every Mountain"
By Dan Burns Here’s the teaser from the pilot episode of the TV sitcom series I’m writing, “Saving Zero.” My writing partners are Sandra Williams, theater director and Artist in Residence with the Oklahoma Arts Council, and Robert Reynolds from...
April Addition: Microbiome Awareness Month
By Teresa Conrick As we get ready to enter April, with it's surreal blue glow on Autism acceptance, we need to not forget the thousands of children and young adults who are on the side of the Autism Spectrum that...
London Stock Exchange-Deutsche Boerse deal blocked by EU per BBC News
It's odd that on the very day that the Article 50 process is put into place, the EU makes a positive decision for the UK. 'EU regulators have blocked London Stock Exchange's £21bn merger with German stock exchange Deutsche Boerse. The European Commission said the deal would have created a "de facto monopoly" for certain financial services. The merger would have combined Europe's two largest stock exchange operators.' More here http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39430799
Alabama Congressman Introduces ObamaCare Repeal Bill
[image: alabama-congressman-introduces-obamacare-repeal-bill] Representative Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) introduced legislation to repeal ObamaCare outright and hopes to force a floor vote on it.
Artificial Intelligence Is What Will Win Future Wars
*Patrick Tucker, Defense One:* *The Next Big War Will Turn on AI, Says US Secret-Weapons Czar* *William Roper says the military must get better at feeding the voracious learning algorithms that will fight future battles.* The first day of the next major conflict shouldn’t look like war at all according to William Roper, who runs the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office, or SCO. Instead, imagine a sort of digital collection blitzkrieg, with data-gathering software and sensors setting of alarms left and right as they vacuum up info for a massive AI. Whoever collects the most dat... more »
The War of Northern Aggression
There is a brewing controversy here at the homestead with the place going up for sale. I'm getting push-back from Californians over this picture, hanging in my den. It is "*Lee's Old Warhorse*" by Mort Kuntsler. AND it's been framed and hanging in my den for at least twenty years. Sensitive people apparently feel that it is an advocation of slavery and it-is-not. If I had a picture of a negro picking cotton, then they might have a point, but I don't. *From Kuntsler*: On the morning of July 3rd, Longstreet and Lee rode the line out to the Confederate right. Some sporadic fire from t... more »
Restoring the Greatness of Civilizations in Decline? (Four Corners of American Politics: Delusional Dems, Feckless Repubs, Deep State Handmaidens & the Golem-King) The Dick Dr. Speaks: Let's Make War On Everyone for the Good of US (And Shut Up About It or We'll Send in the Troops) Neoliberalism Brings On Civilization-Ending Disaster or Just Self-Serving Nihilism? (Green New Deal? NO WAY!)
Well, it's okay. No one else knew about it. Except for everyone. Look at the election results (not just the large-state results). It was no mystery in North Carolina. With the decline of manufacturing jobs in the rust belt having become a significant issue in this turbulent election year, the arrival of the play in New York, where it opened on Thursday at the Public Theater after
Top U.S. General In Europe Wants To Ship Lethal Weapons To Ukraine
U.S. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti © Francois Lenoir / Reuters *RFE:* *Top U.S. Military Commander in Europe Calls For Lethal Weaponry For Ukraine* WASHINGTON -- The top U.S. military commander in Europe again backed sending more advanced weaponry to Ukraine to help it in its fight against Russia-backed separatists. U.S. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti's comments on March 28 reflected on the continuing debate that erupted following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014, and the separatist insurgency that later broke out. "I personally believe we need to con... more »
Ernst & Young no Longer Requires Degrees – No Evidence a Degree = Success
This is not a particular surprise although this likely overstates the case. Human greed has sadly diminished the product in an attempt to serve everyone. Worse, certain aspects of the curriculum has been hijacked in the so called liberal arts in order to promote a watered down version of Marxist ideology which puts the happy recipient into an alternate reality while providing no successful solutions. We are now wearing the fruits of this endeavor inasmuch as we have a crop of politicians attempting to run things whose connection with reality and the people is ephemeral. Wors... more »
Sasquatch Thwarts Rape Attack!
This is an extremely important report. What is confirmed is what i suspected all along. It is that the Sasquatch identifies with humanity and will work to protoect us and even assist us if we figure out how to ask They have been watching us forever and often even protecting us. Recall that they retain mind to mind communication which we gave up 45,000 years ago in order to accelerate our development. That allows them to actually make them selves invisible to us or near enough as to not matter. We simply keep looking away when pressed. In the case here, an opportunist attem... more »
The Truth about Hell
*[image: TruthHell]* I am not particularly aware of any competant spiritual guide ever peddling hell. By competant i do mean someone in active contact with the spirit world. The closest we seem to come is the rule of like attracting like and discoving that was a lousy idea as it well could be. Yet that identification is enough to draw you out as spirit. It is reported that there is a worst case situation in which some spirits are locked into a belief from which they are unable to rcover, but it continues to be self inflicted. That negative entities do exist is well attested, b... more »
Five Forgotten Champions of the Total State
None of all that arose in a vacuum and here we get the details fleshed out. We see the same patterns of proponents and apologists today romping around the political landscapes attempting frame opinions*.* The principle flaw of all forms of statism, including left and right and corporate is hierarchy and we have been really too stupid to successfully invent a better way. My own contemplations have generated my own Rule of Twelve which is too subtle by half but promises to work far better. Yet that subtlety keeps me from fully describing it all because fools will miss subtly and... more »
Kaliningrad Is Becoming A Key Russian Military Bastion Facing Europe
*(Click on Image to Enlarge)* Source: Institute for the Study of War *Sergey Sukhankin, Council on Foreign Relations*: *Kaliningrad: From boomtown to battle-station* The deployment of Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad has raised fears in Europe that the territory is becoming Russia's key battle-station. The deployment of Iskander-M missiles to Kaliningrad in October 2016 was the latest step in the continued militarisation of the Russian enclave. Previously hailed as the pilot region for EU-Russia relations, and even Russia’s answer to Hong Kong, it is instead turning into a military... more »
Afghanistan Rushes To Train More Special Forces To Bring The Fight To The Taliban
New recruits to the Afghan army Special Forces have their lunch after take part in a military demonstration in Rishkhur district outside Kabul, Afghanistan February 25, 2017. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani *Reuters*:* Exclusive: Afghans plan to double special forces from 17,000 as threats grow - sources* Afghanistan plans to double the number of elite special forces from 17,000 troops, officials said, part of a long-term strategy to bolster units stretched and exhausted by persistent attacks from Taliban insurgents and other Islamist militants. Special forces, who represent a small fraction... more »
Dr. Jim Willie: Top 10 Risks to the U.S. Dollar
Dr. Jim Willie: Top 10 Risks to the U.S. Dollar by https://thelastgreatstand.com/ In the following video, Right Wing News personally interviews the one and only Dr. Jim Willie about the latest happenings in the global economic market and how they relate to what we should expect from the U.S. Dollar and U.S. economic markets. – Among […]
US DEBT REJECTED – Has the Dollar Collapse BEGUN? | Jim Willie
Published on Mar 28, 2017 In this viewers’ questions edition with Dr. Jim Willie: – U.S. Treasury bonds are being rejected in U.S. port facilities? – How much gold is there in the gold? – What are safe assets and careers in the case of economic collapse? end
Economic World War III & $50,000 Gold | Bill Holter
Published on Mar 21, 2017 This interview was recorded on Sep 7, 2016. IN THIS INTERVIEW: – Economic World War III ►0:49 – Will the “rigged” system survive the economic war? ►4:40 – Stock market crash before election ►7:24 – Can you thrive during the collapse? ►11:59 – Precious metal breakout ahead ►13:32 – Is […]
US Protesters Rally Against Zionist Lobby, AIPAC
Published on Mar 27, 2017 Pro-Palestinian activists have rallied outside the White House to protest against the powerful Zionist lobby, AIPAC. The rally, which was largely attended by members of the left-wing Jewish Resistance group, came ahead of the annual AIPAC Conference in Washington D-C. The protesters condemned the policies of the U-S president and […]
Sound of Trumpets Over Jerusalem and Ring Cloud Formed in the Sky
The Sound of Trumpets Over Jerusalem In early October 2016, people in Jerusalem have been reporting the sounds of trumpets in the sky. end
SIGN OF THE END? Eerie ‘Apocalyptical Trumpet’ Noise from the Sky RETURNS in Nottingham
1 Corinthians 15:51-54 New King James Version (NKJV) 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall […]
Al Qaeda Rebranding Serves US Agenda
*March 25, 2017* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The RAND Corporation's recent piece titled, "Al Qaeda in Syria Can Change Its Name, but Not Its Stripes," all but admits what was already suspected about designated terrorist groups operating in Syria - that they are undergoing a transition in an attempt by their state sponsors to bolster their legitimacy and spare them from liquidation amid the shifting tides on the battlefield. The piece, written by Colin Clarke described by the RAND Corporation as a "political scientist at the RAND Corporation and an associate fellow at the Internationa... more »
The Zero Point of Systemic Collapse by Chris Hedges
by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 12, 2010 Crossposted from Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters Feb. 8, 2010 Aleksandr Herzen, speaking a century ago to a group of anarchists about how to overthrow the czar, reminded his listeners that it was not their job to save a dying system but to replace it: “We think […]
Tweet For Today
North Korea is preparing a nuclear test, analysts and US military warn, in fresh challenge to President Donald Trump https://t.co/24CLJhOq0r pic.twitter.com/1nBO0l9MlV — AFP news agency (@AFP) March 29, 2017
Musical Interlude: Hans Zimmer, “Time”
Hans Zimmer, “Time” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuAGGZNfUkU "The trouble is, you think you have time." - Buddha "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, time stays, we go." - Henry Austin Dobson
"A Look to the Heavens"
“This rock structure is not only surreal -- it's real. The reason it's not more famous is that it is, perhaps, smaller than one might guess: the capstone rock overhangs only a few meters. Even so, the King of Wings outcrop, located in New Mexico, USA, is a fascinating example of an unusual type of rock structure called a hoodoo. Hoodoos may form when a layer of hard rock overlays a layer of eroding softer rock. *Click image for larger size.* Figuring out the details of incorporating this hoodoo into a night-sky photoshoot took over a year. Besides waiting for a suitably picturesque ... more »
Chet Raymo, “Stretching The Imagination”
*“Stretching The Imagination”* by Chet Raymo *“Professor, that stuff you spoke of in class this morning- about the beginning of the universe..."* Yes? *"Well, you know how you said that the universe began 14 billion years ago as an infinitely small point...?"* Yes, that appears to be the case. An explosion from a point of infinite energy. Space and time expanding from nothing. Matter coalescing from cooling radiation. Stars, galaxies... *"To tell the truth, I'm having a hard time believing it. I mean, the idea that everything that exists today, the billions and billions of galaxies, ... more »
The Universe
“It's no accident that when you look closely into the eyes of another, the very first thing you see, is yourself. That when you hold their hand, you can feel your own warmth. And that when you give of yourself, you give to yourself. Because, quite simply, both you and they are me. Freaky? Maybe. An accident? No.” “Let's get it started, uh-huh -” The Universe “Thoughts become things... choose the good ones!” -www.tut.com
Educational Sabotage
[image: educational-sabotage] The new discipline imposed on public schools is called restorative justice. Rather than punish a student through exclusion (suspension), restorative justice encourages the student who has misbehaved to reflect on his behavior, take responsibility and resolve to behave better in the future. The results of this new policy are: increased violence, drug use and gang activity.
The rise of anti-immigrant attitudes, violence and nationalism in Costa Rica
Caitlin Fouratt, Professor of International Studies, California State University, Long Beach at Politics + Society – The Conversation - 23 hours ago
Workers wash freshly harvested bananas on a banana plantation near Parrita, Costa Rica. AP Photo/Kent Gilbert Costa Rica is often thought of as the “Switzerland of the Americas.” With a stable democracy and no standing army, the small Central American country of 4.8 million is often referred to as the “exception” to the conflict, violence and poverty faced in other Latin American countries. In particular, Costa Ricans pride themselves on their strong health care and education systems. But Costa Ricans have increasingly faced social and economic challenges that threaten their excep... more »
A Look At Some Sixth Generation Fighter Jet Designs
*Popular Mechanics: **'Sixth Generation' Fighters Jets Are Already Taking Shape* *The jets won't fly for another fifteen years, but are so complicated planning needs to start now.* The United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan are all in early planning stages for a so-called "sixth generation" of fighter jets. The jets won't fly until the 2030s, but governments around the world are already exploring designs. Fifth generation fighters were different from their fourth generation predecessors by incorporating stealth directly into the designs of aircraft, resulting in sleeke... more »
Trump's More Like Journey Or Confected Nashville Crap Than Like Punk Rock
When they were younger, music fans of a certain age had to choose-- Beatles or Stones. The next generation had a similar choice-- Pistols or Clash. I liked the Beatles-- a lot. I used to take acid when a new Beatles album came out so I could really get into it fully. But, like Trump, I was a Stones guy. By the time punk rock got going I was a dj on KSAN in San Francisco and KSJO in San Jose. Many people in the Bay Area will tell you that the first time they heard Anarchy In the U.K. or God Save the Queen was on one of my radio shows. Maybe other American DJs did live interviews wi... more »
Picture Of The Week
*(Click on Image to Enlarge)* A sniper of the Iraqi Federal Police takes his position at a destroyed builiding near Islamic State fighters' positions at Bab al Jadid district in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, March 26, 2017. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal *WNU Editor*: A photo gallery on the battle for the *city of Mosul is here.*
Did the IRS ‘Fast Track’ Tax-Exempt Status for ‘After School Satan’ Clubs?
The Internal Revenue Service granted nonprofit status in 2014 to an organization that now sponsors "After School Satan" clubs, two years before they were created.
Iran: Russia Can Use Iranian Military Bases ‘On Case By Case Basis
*RT*: *Russia can use Iranian military bases ‘on case by case basis,’ Tehran confirms * Russia can use Iranian military bases for airstrikes targeting terrorists in Syria on a “case by case basis,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Reuters. “Russia doesn't have a military base [in Iran], we have good cooperation, and on a case by case basis, when it is necessary for Russians fighting terrorism to use Iranian facilities, we will make a decision,” Zarif said. *Read more* .... *More News On Iran Permitting Russian Use Of Its Military Bases For Launching Air Strike... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Speak Now or Forever Hold Yer Peace'
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