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Canada Is 'Desperately' Looking For Fighter Jets
An RCAF CF-18A+ over Lithuania in 2014. CANADIAN ARMED FORCES *The Warzone/The Drive:* *Canada Gets Desperate After Trade Dispute Upends Super Hornet Plans* *Spat between Bombardier and Boeing has Canadian officials scrounging abroad for second-hand F/A-18s.* As Canada continues to struggle with what to do about its participation in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, attempts to buy interim replacements for its aging CF-18A+ Hornets have turned into a saga of their own. The country's military is desperately scrounging around for places like Kuwait and Australia for second-hand... more »
Picture Of The Day
Smoke rises at the positions of the Islamic State militants after an air strike by the coalition forces near the stadium in Raqqa. REUTERS/Erik De Castro *WNU Editor:* The above picture is from this photo-gallery .... *Raqqa 'sacrificed' to defeat Islamic State* (Reuters).
"Fukushima Update: 15,415.5 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow"
*"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”* - Shiva *Updated October 7 30, 2017: Fukushima Equals 15,415.5 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow; There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad: *The 3 melted-through cores of the destroyed reactors, now melted together into a single "corium" totaling over *600 tons*, at Fukushima *daily* release the radioactive equivalent of 6.45 Hiroshima bombs directly into the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean. As of October 7, 2017 - 2,390 days since the disaster began - this equals the detonation of 15,415.5 Hiroshima atomic bombs and it is... more »
Breaking News: RNC headed by woman with total amnesia
nonnie9999 at Breaking News: RNC headed by woman with total amnesia – HYSTERICAL RAISINS - 1 hour ago
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel: During three-decades worth of sexual harassment allegations, Harvey Weinstein lined the pockets of Democrats to the tune of three-quarters of a million dollars. If Democrats and the [Democratic National Committee] truly stand up for women like they say they do, then returning this dirty money should be a no … Continue reading Breaking News: RNC headed by woman with total amnesia
The F-35 Still Has A Long Way To Go Before It Will Be Ready For Combat.
U.S. Marine Corps F-35B fighter jets (foreground) and South Korean air Force's F-15K fly over South Korea during a joint military drill, South Korea on August 31, 2017. Republic of Korea Air Force/Yonhap/via REUTERS *Dan Grazier, National Interest:* *The F-35 Program Continues to Stumble* The F-35 still has a long way to go before it will be ready for combat. That was the parting message of Dr. Michael Gilmore, the now-retired Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, in* his last annual report.* The Joint Strike Fighter Program has already consumed more than $100 billion and ne... more »
X22 Report: "The Central Banks Are Transitioning The World Away From The Dollar"
X22 Report: "The Central Banks Are Transitioning The World Away From The Dollar" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cin_3j7nJeo
"You're On Your Own!"
*"You're On Your Own!"* by Robert Gore "If the world seems incomprehensible now, just wait... Within a twenty-four-hour span the Catalonian people voted 90 percent in favor of secession from Spain, despite the Spanish government’s effort to violently squelch the referendum, and a man in a Las Vegas hotel room opened fire on a concert, killing fifty-nine and wounding over 500. There’s no tangible connection between the two incidents, but they illustrate incipient forces still gathering steam that are transforming the world. No government, military force, or intelligence unit has fi... more »
60th Anniversary of the Windscale Nuclear Fire Disaster – Events
Please join us if you can – here is a Poster to Download and Display – ThanX! Advance notice of…
Virginia's General Election Is Next Month-- And It Is REALLY Important
Aaron Blake had a wake-up call for Democrats this morning in his *Washington Post* column and thishock of glancing at those two maps above sum it right up. Democrats, he wrote, need to give up their 2016 comfort blanket-- Hillary won by 3 million votes-- because if the two campaign were based on winning the electoral college rather than the popular vote, they both would have used different strategies and there's no telling who would have won. [I]t's totally unknowable whether Clinton actually would have won if our system went by the popular vote. That's because the campaigns were ... more »
Was the Security Guard at Mandalay Bay an ‘Accomplice’ to the Las Vegas Mass Shooter?
Dubious web sites reported, without a shred of evidence, that the security guard hailed as a hero for helping stop the Las Vegas mass shooting was actually an accomplice.
The F-22 Is The U.S. Air Force's 'Scout' Plane Over The Skies Of Syria
F-22 *Robert Beckhusen, War is Boring*:* F-22s Act as Flying Scouts Over Syria* *Sensor fusion puts stealth fighters in a leading role.* Three years ago, four F-22 Raptors taking part in the second-wave of the U.S.-led coalition’s opening air strikes on Islamic State in Syria dropped their bombs. It was the first time the stealthy fifth-generation fighters had ever engaged in combat. The coalition’s war planners also used the F-22s to leverage their low-observable profiles — and far-reaching sensors — while escorting non-stealthy fighters in case Syrian fighters or air-defense syst... more »
Obama's Middle East Policy Is Causing Problems for Donald Trump
*Matthew RJ Brodsky* *Security, Middle East* [image: A voter holds a flag outside the Iranian consulate in central London June 14, 2013. The building was the focus for demonstrators, as it was used as a venue for British based Iranians to cast their vote in their country's election to choose a new president. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth] Left untouched, the nuclear agreement ensures—rather than prevents—Iran from getting nuclear weapons within the next few years. President Trump reluctantly agreed to recertify the nuclear deal with Iran in July, but he indicated that he would not do so... more »
In 1969, North Korea Shot Down a U.S. Airplane and Killed 31 Americans
*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, Asia* Everything you need to know. April 15, 1969 marked one of the deadliest days for the United States in postwar Asia. The shootdown of a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of North Korea was unprovoked, and cost the lives of thirty-one Americans. Despite stern calls from Congress to avenge the deaths of the American servicemen, President Richard M. Nixon ultimately decided to avoid retaliation, lest he start a second Korean War. Although Nixon he never acted on them, he had a range of military options should his administration hav... more »
Rocket Bomb: Why the Air Force Wants Rocket Fuel That's Also a Bomb
*Michael Peck* *Security, Americas* Insane or good idea? The military uses explosives to blow things up. The military also uses rockets to carry those explosives to their targets. So why not combine the two and create a rocket whose fuel also doubles as the warhead? That’s the idea behind an Air Force research project to develop dual-use rocket fuel that also functions as a munition. The idea has precedent, though accidental and hardly desirable. NASA keeps gawkers miles away from the launch pad when it launches rockets from Cape Kennedy, because boosters powerful enough to sen... more »
A Newspaper Headline Nearly Exposed the U.S. Navy's Codebreaking Success against Japan
*Warfare History Network* *History, Asia* Following the Battle of Midway, an overzealous reporter and a negligent naval officer nearly caused an intelligence disaster. Stanley Johnston, a reporter for the *Chicago Tribune* accredited to the Navy as a correspondent, had made two forays into the South Pacific aboard the aircraft carrier *Lexington*. He was rescued when the ship was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942. He and other survivors returned to San Diego via Noumea. En route, Johnston’s roommate aboard the cruiser *Chester* was Commander Morton Seligman, executi... more »
UK Schools Drop BC and AD to Avoid Offending Non-Christians
[image: uk-schools-drop-bc-and-ad-to-avoid-offending-non-christians] In a troubling sign of things to come across the Western world, government schools across the United Kingdom will no longer use the terms “Before Christ” (BC) or “Anno Domini” (AD) for historical dates — even in religious education.
U.S. Trains The Ukraine Army To Fight In The Eastern Part Of The Country
Servicemen march during Ukraine's Independence Day military parade in central Kiev, Ukraine, August 24, 2016.Gleb Garanich/Reuters *Defense One*: *In Ukraine, the US Trains an Army in the West to Fight in the East* For more than two years, some 300 American soldiers have been quietly helping train an enormous partner military in western Ukraine. For more than two years, the U.S. military’s contingent of 300 or so soldiers have been quietly helping train an enormous allied military in western Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russian-backed separatists appear to be keeping pace some 800 miles to... more »
Will The Korean Peninsula Ever Be Unified?
*Zach Montague, WPR*: *Korean Reunification Seems More Quixotic Than Ever. Now What?* Since the initial division of the Korean Peninsula at the end of World War II, there has been a distant hope in diplomatic circles, as well as among many Koreans, that the split might one day be undone. American officials have supported Korean reunification for years, and even China, which benefits from the buffer North Korea provides between its border and the U.S.-allied South, has quietly favored the idea at times of heightened tensions. In preparation for a possible reunion, South Korea funds ... more »
News From Vostok Ice Cores
Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest essay by Richard Taylor Introduction Our current understanding climate was influenced profoundly by the publication (J.R. Petit, et al., 1999) of deuterium (2H) measurements from metre 8 to metre 3310 of the Vostok ice-core, indicating the temperature of the nearby atmosphere from 1800 to 421000 BC. Some…
Global wind speeds slowing since 1960, but nobody knows why
Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Windy enough today? One possibility is that ‘it could be due to ageing wind speed instruments producing inaccurate results’, says the GWPF. If not – bad news for wind turbine operators. Wind speeds around the world seem to be decreasing in a phenomenon known as ‘stilling’ and European scientists…
October Arctic Surprise
Originally posted on Science Matters: Click on image to enlarge. In recent years, October has seen some rapid recoveries of Arctic ice extents. But this year may become something special. With the early onset of Siberian snow cover and the resulting surface cooling, ice is roaring back, especially on the Asian side. Consider the refreezing…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall- Part 2 – Tide Gauges
Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Why do we even talk about sea level and sea level rise? There are two important points which readers must be aware of from the first mention of Sea Level Rise (SLR): SLR is a real concern to coastal cities, low-lying islands and…
New York City Businesses Targeted With Homophobic and Racist Fliers
The NYPD and the Brooklyn district attorney's office are investigating a string of apparent hate crimes.
It's a Crisis - How Do We Protect Our Kids?
Climate activist Michael Foster convicted on felony charges in North Dakota court for shutting off the Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline.... #ClimateTrial
Anachronistic T-Rexes
I’ve previously suggested that the enormous and long walls such as the Great Wall of China constructed by our ancestors, along with walls around cities and moats around castles, were more to do with keeping wildlife out than anything else. … Continue reading →
Plate Tectonic Problems?
I received a heads-up on a recent published paper in Geophysical Research Letters by Wang, Kusky and Capitanio, titled Ancient Continental Lithosphere Dislocated Beneath Ocean Basins along the Mid-Lithosphere Discontinuity: A Hypothesis. The hypothesis is purported to explain the presence of anomalous … Continue reading →
Do South Korea And Japan Need Nuclear Weapons?
U.S. President Donald Trump meets South Korea's President Moon Jae-In and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany July 6, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria *Fritz Lodge, Cipher Brief:* *Do Japan and South Korea Need Nuclear Weapons?* The North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un conducted its sixth underground nuclear test early this September – which Pyongyang claims as its first test of a hydrogen bomb – and in late August and again, two weeks later, the hermit kingdom launched a ballistic missile directly over the territory of Hokkaido in northern... more »
GOP Fat Cats Are As Sick Of Republican Chaos And Broken Promises As Everyone Else Is-- And They're Zipping Up Their Wallets
Many of the multimillionaires and billionaires who fund Republican elections are fuming. The Trump Regime is a worse 3-ring circus than anyone ever expected-- even those who knew it would probably be a mess. Yesterday they were reading headlines about Jeff Sessions issuing new guidelines for going to war with the LGBT community again. Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed federal agencies and attorneys on Friday to protect religious liberty in a broad, yet vague, guidance memo that critics fear could give people of faith-- including government workers and contractors-- a loop... more »
History Lesson: The Great Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson on colonialism and African American rights circa 1960.
Prototypes are being built for Trump's border wall.
Courtesy of the Daily Mail: *DailyMail.com has obtained drone photos that offer a birds-eye view of construction on Trump's new Mexican border wall. * *The photos show laborers hard at work on eight different prototypes for the new border wall, which Trump hopes will more effectively keep would-be illegal immigrants from crossing into the U.S. * *The prototypes are being constructed in the California desert, near San Diego. Construction began at the end of September, after being stalled three months when firms that didn't win contracts protested. * *Reporters and photographers we... more »
Middle Finger Symphony Theater
* No Tuxedos Required * *Brought To You By BLUESJUNKY: Honorary Chair of Music - Middle Finger Symphony Music Director*
Longest War in US History Turns 16 Today – Thousands Dead, No End in Sight & It’s Getting Worse
*[image: undefined]* On this day 16 years ago, less than one month after 9/11, President George W. Bush delivered a televised address from the White House announcing the beginning of the Afghanistan War. “On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,” he said. What Bush did not say was the fact that the War in Afghanistan would become the longest war in United States history. Thousands of American lives and billions of taxpayer dollars would be wasted at the expen... more »
WHY WE NEED SANCTUARY STATESCalifornia lawmakers have just...
Robert Reich - 5 hours ago
*WHY WE NEED SANCTUARY STATES* California lawmakers have just passed “sanctuary state” legislation – the first state since Oregon, which 30 years ago passed a law preventing state agencies from targeting undocumented immigrants solely because of their illegal status. Other states should follow California’s and Oregon’s lead. Since January, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered immigration authorities to target “public safety” threats, federal arrests of undocumented immigrants have increased by over 37 percent. California is home to an estimated 2.3 million unauthorized i... more »
A VALVE TURNER’S TRIAL: MOSTLY GUILTY October 6, 2017
Excerpts (my bolds) from article published in the High Plains Reader, Fargo North Dakota A Valve Turner’s Trial: Mostly Guilty Friends call Michael Foster the valve turner a hero, the state is trying him as a criminal, and the Keystone Pipeline named him a terrorist for stopping their oil pipeline flow for eight hours in […]
Turkish-Backed Syrian Rebels Have Launched A Major Offensive On Idlib Province
*VOA*: *Turkish President Announces Start of Military Operation in Syria* ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the start of Turkish military operation into Syria's Idlib province. "There is a serious operation in Idlib at the moment, and this will continue," Erdogan announced in a speech Saturday to his party members. The military offensive is aimed at ending the jihadist control of the Idlib area. Much of Idlib is controlled by the jihadist Tahrir al-Sham alliance, which is made up of large elements of a former al-Qaida affiliate that changed its name... more »
o frabjous day! Calloo callai! It’s the 16th Anniversary
Clusterfuck accomplished. George Jr being flown onto a carrier parked outside California. Ok so that’s an other extension of the first fuckup. What a seriously delusional puke. Meat the New Boss who gave another speech on an other carrier wearing a Naval Uniform like he would ever risk his delicately manicured fingernails . Wow. What […]
Will President Trump's Resignation Ease North Korean Tensions?
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Is that one thing you resigning? I'm sure your generals told you there are zero good military options against N Korea https://t.co/uDIBg2ZQPr — Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) October 7, 2017 *The Hill*: *Dem: Trump resignation is 'one thing' that would ease North Korea tensions* Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) suggested Saturday that the only thing that could de-escalate tensions between the U.S. and North Korea was President Trump's resignation. Lieu was responding to a tweet from Trump in which the president argued that diplomacy had failed to rein in North Korea's nucle... more »
Cost of Living Summit.
Click to enlarge.In Brisbane, on Friday the Thirteenth October, Senator Malcolm Roberts has organised a conference on the Cost of Living. Ross Cameron, Mark Latham and Senator Robert's Chief of Staff Leon Ashby will be addressing the meeting. Details and how to book in the flyer above.
Hypocrisy Is Impossible for People Who Have No Self-Awareness
Steve made an essential point the other day in his post about Harvey Weinstein: I don't care how much "liberal media bias" you think there is in the mainstream press -- it will still go after liberals and Democrats. The conservative media? Critical pieces are written only when a conservative isn't conservative enough. There's no self-policing on the right. There's just boosterism, augmented by relentless attacks on the left. Today "Even the Liberal" New York Times illustrates the point with an op-ed by Bari Weiss, who specializes in lazy sniping at easy liberal targets like the Ch... more »
LIVE Rally to Protect Swinomish Salish Sea
.Rally to end Tars Sands refining on Swinomish unceded land of March Point! Oil FreeSalish Sea Log in to watch on Facebook at:https://www.facebook.com/paul.c.wagner.9/videos/1578330272187082/?hc_ref=ARRulzHl6QMsOhxkH5-vI2QVOrTCp14H_yEYeXo8v07oUDUX16ydJJlks7zEU56rGKo&pnref=story
Citations Needed, Episode 12: The Deficits Racket, Part II - Racist Media as Barrier to Government Spending
If broad government programs are so popular, why don’t we just vote them into existence? One of the primary barriers to democratic socialism - or spending, in general - is racist media coverage and racist attitudes about how government programs are administered. In this episode of Citations Needed, we explore how media-fueled racism and means-tested nickel-and-diming makes radical change that
President Trump Tweets Talks Are Useless 'Only One Thing Will Work' On North Korea
Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid...... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2017 ...hasn't worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2017 *Reuters:* *Trump says 'only one thing will work' with North Korea* WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said “only one thing will work” in dealing with North Korea after previous ... more »
This Is Going To Be The Future Of News (And I Hope The Future Of This Blog)
Photo from Meme Guy *AFP*: *Future of news: bracing for next wave of technology* Washington (AFP) - If you think technology has shaken up the news media -- just wait, you haven't seen anything yet. The next wave of disruption is likely to be even more profound, according to a study presented Saturday to the Online News Association annual meeting in Washington. News organizations which have struggled in the past two decades as readers moved online and to mobile devices will soon need to adapt to artificial intelligence, augmented reality and automated journalism and find ways to c... more »
Donald Trump Jr. attempts to use Harvey Weinstein controversy to smear Hillary Clinton, while apparently forgetting who his father is.
Weird, Hillary has been really quiet about Harvey Weinstein. You would think she would be all Over this. #WhatHappened? — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 7, 2017 Courtesy of Newsweek: *The 39-year-old also liked posts about how the film industry had covered up Weinstein's advances toward women, how close Weinstein was with several high-profile Democrats and how Weinstein planned to sue the Times for not giving him enough time to respond to the allegations. * *Trump Jr. then seized upon another part of Weinstein's statement, where the executive wrote that he "came of ag... more »
How Did The Republican Party Allow Itself To Be Taken Over By A Wack Bunch Of Neo-Nazis?
A gathering Of American Neo-Nazis-- a powerful fringe of Trump's Republican Party-- will feature their newest heroes: Bannon and Roy Moore. In less than two weeks-- October 13-15-- the extreme right of the Republican Party will gather for their annual bund rally at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in DC. Announced speakers include hate mongers and racists like Michele Bachmann, Sebastian Gorka, Laura Ingraham, Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer, a couple of *Duck Dynasty* guys, Jerry Boykin, Frank Gaffney, Mat Staver, Dana Loesch, Mark Meadows (R-NC), Oliver North, Paul Ryan (R-WI), Mark Walker (R-N... more »
Horrifying Video Shows Cops Kill Man as He Had His Hands in the Air
[image: hands]Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department comes under scrutiny following the September shooting death of a Spanish-speaking man who was attempting to turn in his handgun by calling 911.
Klee Benally's 'Power Lines' Film and Water Protectors Concert, France, Oct. 17, 2017
. 'Power Lines' and live show with Nataanii and other Water Protectors in Salon de Provence (southern France, region of Marseilles) http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=4223
3 reasons why Donald Trump is defying world opinion over Iran
Whether the chaos of the Trump administration is organised or otherwise, there is a real risk of danger if the US withdraws from the JCPOA. More The post 3 reasons why Donald Trump is defying world opinion over Iran appeared first on The Duran.
Why The Harvey Weinsten Story Is An Important Political News Story In The U.S.
*New York Times:* *Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades* *Update: *The Weinstein Company’s board is planning to investigate sexual harassment complaints against Harvey Weinstein as he takes a leave of absence. Find more *coverage here*. Two decades ago, the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein invited Ashley Judd to the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what the young actress expected to be a business breakfast meeting. Instead, he had her sent up to his room, where he appeared in a bathrobe and asked if he could give her a massage or she could watch hi... more »
The Unbearable Epiphenomenality of Firearms
Sorry this is ridiculously long. I would have written a shorter post if I had time. It's Brooks's fault. Genteel Victorian elite, via Petticoats and Pistols. *Shorter David Brooks, "Guns and the Soul of America":* Well, so according to fellow Canadian and fellow David David Frum, whenever there's one of these grotesque mass shootings, America's state legislatures jump into action to start passing gun laws, only not the way you might imagine. Instead of passing laws to make mass shootings *less* likely, they start passing laws to make guns easier to get, or easier to carry around. ... more »
Fukushima Daiichi Earthquake October 2017 and Plant Conditions
This post can be read as a pdf at the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3jjyzsj4u8nfv95/Fukushima%20Daiichi%20Earthquake%20October%202017%20and%20Plant%20Conditions.pdf?dl=1 Fukushima Daiichi's structures appear intact (at least above ground) and visible atmospheric emissions appear unaffected by Friday's earthquake, described below: AP (2017, October 7). Strong quake shakes northeastern Japan, no danger of tsunami. The Asahi Shimbun, http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201710070007.html Visible emissions on the TEPCO 1 webcam (first screenshot in linked document here) ap... more »
October Arctic Surprise
In recent years, October has seen some rapid recoveries of Arctic ice extents. But this year may become something special. With the early onset of Siberian snow cover and the resulting surface cooling, ice is roaring back, especially on the Asian side. Consider the refreezing during the last 11 days through yesterday. The graph compares […]
The Trump campaign had embeds from Facebook helping them to utilize targeted advertising.
Courtesy of CBS: *President Donald Trump talked on Twitter, but Facebook was the crucial tool that helped elect him, says the man who directed the digital aspects of the Trump campaign. Brad Parscale tells Lesley Stahl how he fine-tuned political ads posted on Facebook to directly reach voters with the exact messages they cared most about – infrastructure key among them -- and had handpicked Republican Facebook employees to guide him.* *"Twitter is how [Trump] talked to the people, Facebook was going to be how he won," Parscale tells Stahl. Parscale says he used the majority of hi... more »
Meaningful Repetition...
*Illustration likely true enough...* Our Heroes Betrayed The Flatwoods Monster is the *end* of the story... The 65th Anniversary of the Flatwoods Monster Incident by Alfred Lehmberg with Frank C. Feschino, Jr. *It's September 12th, 1952, and you're a flight officer in the nascent Air Forces of the United States. You've been assigned to an airbase on the azure, green, and frothy white coast of panhandle Florida. You are trained and educated to be part of the pool from which would later be drawn, moon-walking astronauts. You're not arrogant, only appropriately confident; see, with few... more »
WECAN Delegation to U.N. Climate Talks, Bonn, Germany, Nov. 6 -- 17, 2017
. Presenters stand in solidarity during a WECAN COP22 Morocco event - Photo via Emily Arasim/WECAN Dear Friends and Allies, This November 6 through 17, 2017, the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network will take action and advocate on the ground in Bonn, Germany during the the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP23 Climate Talks. Since
This is How You Kill A Fan's Love And Support Of The NFL
NFL Football - Miami Dolphins vs New Orleans Saints - NFL International Series - Wembley Stadium, London, Britain - October 1, 2017 New Orleans Saints players take the knee before the start of the national anthem Action Images via Reuters/Matthew Childs *Washington Examiner:* *Shock poll: NFL now least liked sport, core fans down 31%* Over just one month of player, coach, and owner protests of the flag and National Anthem, the National Football League has gone from America's sport to the least liked of top professional and college sports, according to a new poll. From the end of ... more »
Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that for your weekend reading. - Joseph Stiglitz discusses how the Republican's trillion-dollar corporate giveaway will only exacerbate inequality without doing anything to help the U.S.' economy: If inequality was a problem before, enacting the Republicans’ proposed tax reform will make it much worse. Corporations and businesses will be among the big beneficiaries, a bias justified on the grounds that this will stimulate the economy. But Republicans, of all people, should understand that incentives matter: it would be far better to reduce taxes for those companies that i... more »
Fake News Reports About China & Muslims Exposed As US Infowar
Radio Free Asia republished unproven but very serious accusations against the Chinese government which came from an untrustworthy source, the “World Uighur Congress”.
The Sport of the Gods: what is the likely outcome of the Catalan referendum
Instead of leading the political and economic regeneration of Spain Catalonia's leaders are taking their region down a reactionary blind alley More The post The Sport of the Gods: what is the likely outcome of the Catalan referendum appeared first on The Duran.
Turkish-backed rebels to launch operation in Idlib with Russian air support
BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:00 P.M.) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that the Euphrates Shield Forces are preparing to launch a new operation in the Idlib Governorate that will target areas controlled by the Al-Qaeda linked Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham militants. “We are taking new steps to ensure security in Idlib. Today, a very […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Libyan forces reportedly discover mass grave of Coptic Christians massacred by ISIS
The Libyan security forces have reportedly found the bodies of Coptic Christians from Egypt, killed by Daesh militants in Libya in 2015. The bodies of more than twenty Egyptian Coptic Christians, executed by Daesh terrorists (a terrorist group that is banned in many countries, including Russia) in 2015 in Libya were discovered in the city […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Las Vegas UPDATE: The Mo-CIA/FBI-ssad War on America
*Serpent-Faced Michael Chertoff * *- One of the Dual Citizen* *Masterminds of the 9/11 atrocity* *still "at large" and* *Heavily Involved in the Protection Racket* *"National Security" Bidness in USrael* It really makes you want to throw up. The more you read about what went down and what "lies" behind the "Mass Casualty Event" that was reported to have taken place in Las Vegas a week ago. Frankly, even at this point, having read quite a load of Sh!t about what happened (and I use that term specifically) I still don't know whether anyone actually died in the incident. All we know ... more »
Space Marvels! Be prepared to be wow'd... and proud...
Don't cheat yourselves of joy and pride. See just a glimpse of the marvels revealed by your Cassini mission to Saturn, the most discovered by curious humanity since God asked Adam to "name all the beasts." We're fulfilling that mission, and magnificently, gorgeously. You have reason to be proud to be a member of a species, civilization and nations that do stuff like this! Another truly excellent article recaps in more detail the accomplishments of the spectacular 13 year Cassini-Huygens mission that explored Saturn, Titan, Enceladus and so much more. On 12 October, asteroid 2012 TC4... more »
U.S. Suspends Military Exercises With Gulf Countries Over Qatar Crisis
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis (C) and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrive at the Al Udeid US military base in Qatar on September 28, 2017. Thomas Watkins / AFP *Middle East Monitor:* *US suspends military exercises with Gulf countries* The US has suspended military exercises which have are held annually with the participation of its Gulf Arab allies, Associated Press (AP) reported today. The US Central Command, Colonel John Thomas, announced that the decision was made in an effort to rebuke the Arab countries entangled in a months-long diplomatic spat with Qatar, whic... more »
Can A Democrat Win Back An Old Union Stronghold In Pennsylvania That Has Gone Red?
*You're out, bitch-- now go home and stop embarrassing everyone* The Tim Murphy saga started unfolding Wednesday and we mentioned it as part of the coverage of the GOP's latest anti-Choice bill. The initial reports, based on Murphy's own statements to the media, were that he would not run for reelection and then retire from office in January, 2019. After he made that announcement, Paul Ryan announced that, no, Murphy is resigning his seat immediately. That opens up the southwest Pennsylvania district below Pittsburgh (PA-18), which Murphy has held since 2002, for a special election.... more »
BREAKING: President Paddock prepares to use sword!
*SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2017Terrible swiftness expected:* Reports swirled through Washington last night, in which President Paddock is preparing to weild his terrible swift sword. According to these unconfirmed reports, Paddock became extremely angry this week when a namesake in Las Vegas seized the bulk of the nation's attention. As a result, he ordered the generals to prepare additional plans in which he could make use of his own more extensive weapons. According to unsubstantiated reports, President Paddock has vowed to make Stephen Paddock's recent attacks seem like "the calm be... more »
Donald Trump takes to Twitter to bitch about being a punchline for late night comedians, demands equal time.
Late Night host are dealing with the Democrats for their very "unfunny" & repetitive material, always anti-Trump! Should we get Equal Time? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2017 More and more people are suggesting that Republicans (and me) should be given Equal Time on T.V. when you look at the one-sided coverage? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2017 By the way the "more and more people" Trump is talking about are the voices in his head. The same voices that told him that they were finding evidence that President Obama was not born in the United Stat... more »
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