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Epic Science Fraud by Inept Journalist
Alex Berezow reminds why we cannot trust today’s journalists to tell the truth, especially regarding anything scientific. His article at American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) is La Croix And BPA: Journalist Celebrates That She Caused Millions In Losses. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. Journalism is thoroughly inept and corrupt. The quality of […]
Happy Anniversary, Magna Carta!
[image: 1215-magna-carta-rule-of-law-and-death-certificate-of-despotism] June 15 marks the anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in England in 1215. The “Great Charter,” now more than 800 years old, is an important document in the history of American liberty.
Reminder: John Durham Questioning CIA Officials About Intelligence Community Assessment…
Against the backdrop of the DOJ admitting FBI investigators never had access to the DNC servers to verify a Russian hack; and with new information about the FBI receiving partial and redacted analysis from Crowdstrike; the review by U.S. Attorney … Continue reading →
Thousands Sign Petition Calling for 5G Ban at Glastonbury Festival. No Scientific Evidence 5G is Safe.
By B.N. Frank In February, telecom industry representatives gave U.S. congressional testimony that they could provide no scientific evidence that 5G technology is safe. Plenty... more »
Breaking: Powerful explosion rocks western Damascus
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:35 P.M.) – A powerful explosion rocked the western suburbs of Damascus, today, a source from the capital told Al-Masdar News. According to the source, the explosion was reported inside the Military Project in the western part of the city. A second explosion was just reported in the same area. No casualties have […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Saudi officials visit eastern Syria to meet with US, SDF delegations
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:00 P.M.) – A Saudi diplomatic delegation, led by Saudi Minister of Persian Gulf Affairs Thamer Al-Sabhan, met with the U.S. Armed Forces and members of the Syrian Democratic Council in eastern Deir Ezzor this week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) first reported, later confirmed by pro-SDF media. According to the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Facebook’s Secret “Hate Agent” Formula Leaked by Insider
By Tyler Durden An internal Facebook document reveals that the social media giant monitors its users’ offline behavior as part of how the company determines whether... more »
What Makes a Glock Gun Different Than Any Other (Love It Or Hate It)
*Charlie Gao* *Security, * The trigger. When Glock released the Glock 17, it reinvented the striker-fired pistol. While strikers saw some usage in early semiautomatic pistols like the Savage 1907 and Ruby, they largely faded into obscurity as hammer-fired designs came to dominate pistols design during WWII and in the immediate postwar era. H&K made a brief attempt to revive the striker with the VP70, a polymer frame striker-fired pistol that came before the Glock, but the striker design in the VP70 resulted in a horrendous trigger pull and limited the success of the pistol. How... more »
Report: Navy and Marine F-35 Fighters Become ‘Erratic’ While Performing Air Combat Maneuvers
*Sebastien Roblin* *Security, * What happens now? Early in June 2019, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin struck a deal in which the former agreed to purchase 478 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters for $34 billion. This could open the door for the sophisticated but controversial new stealth fighter to begin a 76 percent faster “full-rate” production status after eighteen years of troubled development and cost overruns. Lockheed eventually hopes to sell over 2,400 F-35s to the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and over a thousand more to foreign operators. Already, over four hu... more »
How Eating An Insane Amount of Rice Almost Destroyed Japan's Navy
*War Is Boring* *Security, * The history. *At the time, the causes of the disease were unknown. It became the subject of great debate among Western medical personnel in Japan. Basil Hall Chamberlain, a preeminent Japanologist, demonstrated the lack of understanding of the disease’s causes in his 1890 Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan.* In August 1882 in Incheon Bay near Seoul, four Japanese warships were locked in a tense stand-off with two Chinese warships that had brought troops to quell a revolt on the Korean peninsula. On paper, the Japan... more »
Rare June Snowfall in Kashmir
But don’t worry, snowfall is now a sign of global warming. ___________ 14 June 2019 – The unexpected June snowfall hit the Sonamarg resort in central Kashmir, over its adjoining higher reaches and also in Drass, Kargil, Zanskar, towns in the Ladakh division, and in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim. The nation’s weather department deemed ... Read moreRare June Snowfall in Kashmir The post Rare June Snowfall in Kashmir appeared first on Ice Age Now.
US Military Intelligence Accuses Russia of Nuclear Testing, Provides No Evidence
By Jason Ditz (ANTIWAR.COM) — US military intelligence agency the DIA has issued a new statement directly accusing the Russian government of conducting low-yield nuclear tests in the... more »
Just to be clear
Cutting through a lot of noise in the news, just to be clear: – Getting dirt on a campaign opponent from a foreign entity is something of value – it is illegal to do this no matter how much it … Continue reading →
Software Tech Company refuses to work with gun/ammunition companies
Salesforce says some firearms can no longer be sold using company software: report – Fox Business News Kathleen Joyce May 31, 2019 Dick’s Sporting Goods’ sales drop due to gun policy? Fox Varney & Co News Clip – National Center for Public Policy Research, Free Enterprise Project, David Almasi on the impact on Dick’s Sporting Goods’ sales from the retailer’s gun policy. Salesforce has updated its acceptable-use policy, telling its customers to either stop selling certain firearms or forget about using its software, a report stated. The company, which describes itself as an “online s... more »
This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 15
1920 War Min Churchill wrote UK Cabinet that he was ready to give up Mosul province to save costs (Musings On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq) (Musings On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia/Iraq) (Musings On Iraq book review *Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq*) (Musings On Iraq book review *Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied*) (Musings On Iraq book review *Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930*) 1947 Mustafa Barzani revolt against govt put down... more »
Cops Arrest Tow Truck Driver For Legally Trying to Repossess Fellow Cop’s Private Vehicle
[image: truck]NYPD cops arrested an tow truck driver in an alleged act of retaliation for attempting to tow one of their fellow police officer's private vehicle.
City Rules Cops Who Executed Sleeping Man, Shooting Him 55 Times in 3 Seconds, ‘Acted Reasonably’
[image: sleeping]Despite horrifying video of police officers surrounding a sleeping man and shooting him 55 times in 3.5 seconds, the city ruled their actions were "reasonable."
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - The Globe and Mail's editorial board points out the gross dishonesty of Jason Kenney, Scott Moe and other spokesflacks for the oil sector who are looking to turn the slightest hint of consideration of the environment and Indigenous rights into grounds for a civil war. And Melanee Thomas discusses the dangers of deliberately inflaming anger over fabricated slights as a political strategy. - Meanwhile, Sharon Riley and Sarah Cox expose the massive amount of lobbying the oil industry poured into the unelected Senate to undermine any consi... more »
The Unholy Alliance Between DNA Sites and Facial Recognition
By Dagny Taggart Technology that was once only seen in dystopian science fiction is rapidly infecting real life. Two means of collecting personal data –... more »
Zero Elephants Poached in a Year in Top Africa Wildlife Park
One of Africa’s largest wildlife preserves is marking a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts call an extraordinary development.
“Romeo and Juliet” Director Franco Zeffirelli Dies at 96
Zeffirelli made it his mission to make culture accessible to the masses, often seeking inspiration in Shakespeare and other literary greats for his films.
Thought Crimes about the Latest USrael False Flag
*Norwegian-owned tanker Front Altair was set ablaze on Thursday * You always know definitively if something is *a lie*. *The "voice of Satan", BBC, touts it as the truth. *Here we have the BBC trying to "kill two birds with one stone" by setting up Iran for USrael aggression...*AND*...continuing their years long vendetta against candidate for UK PM, Jeremy Corbyn: Jeremy Hunt brands Labour leader 'pathetic' over Iran comments *The foreign secretary has branded Jeremy Corbyn "pathetic", after he questioned whether the UK had "credible evidence" Iran was behind attacks on two oil t... more »
NABC: A Supportive Space for Black Mental Health Professionals
When National Association of Black Counselors (NABC) co-founders Tamara Ferebee and Dr. Faye Barner launched the organization this past November, it was out of a need for a supportive, professional community geared specifically to the Black counselor identity.
Jesus had a reason for a men-only last supper
The amount of censorship by the Big Tech companies that have teamed up with each other and with the totalitarian Left has been incredible in recent weeks. Last night, Soph's new YouTube videos were erased within a day. A 100% polite vegan who loves black pigeons was also silenced for "extreme or repeated hate speech" for a day, before the YouTube account was restored in the wake of a huge backlash. Pinterest has internally and indefensibly labeled a pro-life group, Live Action, as "pornography" to be capable of erasing it from their platform. Eric Cochran was the whistleblower at Pi... more »
June 2019 DoJ OIG presents bad report card for immigrant sponsorship program
The Department of Justice OIG released a report on June 12, 2019 in which it cites the DOJ components reviewed as having failed to effectively coordinate with DHS on significant sponsorship events. – Audit of the Department of Justice’s Use of Immigration Sponsorship Programs PDF HERE. Law enforcement agencies utilize this immigration sponsorship program to allow foreign nationals to remain in the United States to assist in important and sometimes high-level law enforcement operations. The sponsoring law enforcement agency certifies that it assumes law enforcement responsibility for... more »
DOJ Bloodhounds on the Scent of John Brennan
[image: undefined] The New York Times Thursday morning has bad news for one of its favorite anonymous sources, former CIA Director John Brennan. The Times reports that the Justice Department plans to interview senior CIA officers to focus on the allegation that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian intelligence to intervene in the 2016 election to help Donald J. Trump. DOJ investigators will be looking for evidence to support that remarkable claim that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report failed to establish. Despite the collusion conspiracy theory having been p... more »
Iran can be Trump’s Nemesis
[image: undefined] What a coincidence that a leaked document from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) just exposed that the chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April, 2018 was most likely staged. In security parlance, it was a false flag operation — stage-managed cunningly to create the alibi for a ‘humanitarian intervention’ by the West in Syria. As it happened, the US and France did stage a missile strike at Syrian government targets in July that year, alleging that Damascus was culpable for what happened in Douma, ignoring the protests by Russia... more »
Why the S-400 Is a More Formidable Threat to US Arms Industry Than You Think
It turns out that the S-400 is a weapon system with multiple purposes that is even more lethal than previously imagined. The post Why the S-400 Is a More Formidable Threat to US Arms Industry Than You Think appeared first on The Duran.
Breaking: 2 Explosions Occur in Damascus
*Sputnik* *According to the report, the explosion occurred in a military area. Meanwhile, social media users have posted photos of black smoke over the Dummar district of the city, located in north-western Damascus.* *إنفجار مخزن أسلحة في مشروع دمر #دمشق، والانباء الأولية تتحدث عن سقوط* صاروخ pic.twitter.com/0K9U4Ns74z — ربيع (@rabiih) June 15, 2019 صور اولية للإنفجار الذي وقع في منطقة مشروع دمر في محيط #دمشق pic.twitter.com/c6Qe4d0tJB — ابراهيم شهاب (@ibrahimshehab89) June 15, 2019 #حسين_مرتضى الصوت الذي سمع صداه في دمشق ناتج عن انفجار في منطقة عسكرية بمشروع دمر pic.twitter.co... more »
Beto's Not The Only Politician Who Draws Inspiration From Music
I had such a nice response to the post Thursday night about how The Clash-- and specifically The Clampdown from *London Calling* influenced Beto's life that I decided to ask other political leaders if music was important to them or if they had any favorite artists or songs or albums. Beto still uses "The Clampdown" when he walks out on the stage at his events and... well, just watch this. Did Ted Cruz and his supporters have a clue? Quite a few members of Congress and candidates for Congress mentioned The Clash to me. California freshman *Katie Porter* has a different favorite ... more »
Our comical flight from information!
*SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2019Weintraub makes everything clear:* Since you probably didn't know it last week, Ellen Weintraub is chair of the utterly toothless, strongly Potemkin Federal Election Commission. How toothless, and how Potemkin, is this ersatz federal agency? Consider this: Weintraub's term on the FEC expired in 2007! She continues to "serve" because no president has bothered to replace her and because, under terms of federal law, a commissioner continues to serve until such time as she is replaced. Please understand! The failure to replace Commissioner Weintraub shouldn't ... more »
UK Royal Marines Reportedly Deployed to Gulf in Wake of Tanker Attacks Blamed on Iran
UK Royal Marines Reportedly Deployed to Gulf in Wake of Tanker Attacks Blamed on Iran by https://sputniknews.com/ The reported development comes amid heightened tensions in the Middle East as the United States and its regional allies have accused Iran of orchestrating an attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman earlier this week. …
"People are getting dumber. That's not a judgment; it's a global fact."
Evan Horowitz examines the global phenomenon of declining IQ scores. For a while, rising IQ scores seemed like clear evidence of social progress, palpable proof that humanity was getting steadily smarter — and might even be able to boost brainpower indefinitely. Scholars called it the "Flynn effect," in homage to J.R. Flynn, the researcher who recognized its full sweep and import. These days, however, Flynn himself concedes that "the IQ gains of the 20th century have faltered." A range of studies using a variety of well-established IQ tests and metrics have found declining scores a... more »
Nancy Pelosi’s Argument Against Impeachment Doesn’t Make Sense
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. (Source: Flickr/Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0) Nancy Pelosi has made her position clear: She is not budging from her opposition to impeachment. The speaker of the House considers those who advocate for impeachment proceedings to be naive political extremists, folks who would help get Donald Trump reelected by insisting on a useless pose of ideological purity. Her leadership of the Democratic caucus consists, in no small part, of keeping people who favor impeaching President Trump in check. She is a realist, a grown-up. There’s only one problem: He... more »
Judge Barrett and Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh
I highlight a comment in Ken Kersch's post: "If Amy Coney Barrett had been appointed instead of Brett Kavanaugh, the relevance of the ostensibly irrelevant and ostensibly superseded stuff I’m talking about in this book would be even more obvious (I would venture that it may very well loom larger for Kavanaugh himself twenty years hence)." And he observes that "Neil Gorsuch literally has a Ph.D. in the ostensibly irrelevant and ostensibly superseded stuff I’m talking about in this book." There's a difference between Judge Barrett and Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, though: She's a s... more »
Winners Take All, Education Edition
Every so often you come across a book that unpacks and reframes a part of the universe in a way that you can never unsee.* Winners Take All* by Anand Giridharadas has been a book like that for me. Giridharadas is writing about "the elite charade of changing the world," and while he is taking a broad look at the way the Betters are trying to influence our country and our world, the connections to education reform are unmistakable. I'm about to go ahead and give my grossly oversimplified take on his work and its intersection with public education; as a general guide, assume everything... more »
Winners Take All-- Read This Book (Excerpts)
*Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas might be the most important book you read this year. It is not directly aimed at education or education reform, and yet it has everything to do with education form. I'll address that in a separate post going up the same time as this one. But here I just want to share some important quotes from the book as a means of encouraging you to buy it and read it, because it offers a framework for understanding much of what's going on, from the neo-liberal wave to the wave that swept Donald Trump into office. Buy this book. * The initiatives mostly aren... more »
The Navy Thought These 'Balloons' Could Become Flying Aircraft Carriers
*Warfare History Network* *Security, Americas* [image: Wikimedia Commons] That didn't work out. It is sometimes difficult to understand just how immature aviation was in the 1920s and 1930s. Everything about flying was new. Planes sported two sets of canvas-covered wings, had limited navigational ability, and had significantly less ocean-going range than a traditional destroyer. After their debut in World War I, planes held promise as instruments of war, but air tactics were still being refined and the planes themselves were unreliable, evolving, and still unproven. They may have... more »
Army vs. Marines: Who Has the Better Snipers? (We Might Have An Idea)
*Task and Purpose* *Security, * This could get intense. The U.S. Army Special Operations Command International Sniper Competition brings around two-man sniper teams from across both the U.S. armed forces and foreign special operations forces for several days of fine marksmanship skills. And yet again, Army snipers bested their fellow sharpshooters in the Navy, Coast Guard, and, uh, Marines. *(This article by Jared Keller **originally appeared** at Task & Purpose. Follow Task & Purpose on** Twitter**. This article first appeared in 2019.)* Of the 21 teams that converged on Fort ... more »
Introducing Sig Sauer's P320: The Gun Glock Fears?
*Gun News Daily* *Security, * Or not? *So if you want more power than the 9mm Glock can offer, go for the Sig. If you still want to go for the Glock 19, you might be looking for a Glock holster.* One of the most common questions we get asked here at GND is whether you should buy a Glock 19 or a Sig P320. Both are great guns, of course, as proven by their loyal followings, but there seems to be no real consensus on which is the best. In some ways, the story of the Sig P320 is a strange one. When it was released, nobody really paid it any attention. It was just another 9mm handg... more »
How the AH-64 Apache Became the Ultimate Attack Helicopter
*Sebastien Roblin* *Security, Americas* [image: Flickr / The U.S. Army] A legend. Early in the morning of January 17, 1991, eight sleek helicopters bristling with missiles swooped low over the sands of the An Nafud desert in as they soared towards the border separating Saudi Arabia from Iraq. At 2:30 a.m., the choppers fanned out and set to work in teams of two. Rocket motors flashed as Hellfire missiles streaked towards two Iraqi radars powerful enough to potentially pick up the faint signature of a stealth plane. Minutes after the radars had been reduced to rubble, Nighthawk s... more »
HK VP9: The 9mm Pistol That Is Better Than a Glock 19?
*Gun News Daily* *Security, Americas* [image: By Marcel Fosca - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44866094] All the evidence. If there’s anything you need to know about the company Heckler & Koch, it’s that they are pretty much synonymous with quality firearms that are in service with military, law enforcement units, and civilians all over the world. And if you know anything about Heckler & Koch, then you should have heard about the HK VP9 9mm pistol, which was first released to the general market in 2014. Today, the HK VP9 competes with ot... more »
Weekend reads: How much is integrity worth?; killing the science poster; future of megajournals in doubt?
Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week at Retraction Watch featured a big announcement: You can now receive alerts about retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: How much is integrity worth?; killing the science poster; future of megajournals in doubt?
Convenient “Tanker Attacks” as US Seeks War with Iran
“…it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be. Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to … The post Convenient “Tanker Attacks” as US Seeks War with Iran appeared first on OYE Alternative News.
First National Strike in Bolsonaro’s Government Seen as Timid
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – President Jair Bolsonaro’s Administration faced its first national strike on Friday, with Brazil’s main workers’s union calling for the population to stay home to show their discontent for the government’s social security reform plans. Organizers hoped that workers from all sectors and industries would take […] The post First National Strike in Bolsonaro’s Government Seen as Timid appeared first on The Rio Times.
The Other Side of the Mountain: Restoration, Redemption, and Originalism
For the symposium on Ken Kersch, Conservatives and the Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Ken I. Kersch My new book, *Conservatives and the Constitution: Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism* (Cambridge University Press, 2019), does many things -- some of which I had in mind, some of which I was only half-conscious, and the rest of which is for others to say. One thing I clearly wanted to do in mapping what a broad spectrum of movement conservatives were saying and writing about the U.S. Constitution in the postwar, pre-Reagan “w... more »
THEY'RE SAYING WARREN IS A HILLARY CLONE BECAUSE IT SCARES THEM THAT SHE ISN'T
Jim Gerghty's *National Review* column on "The Many Similarities between Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton" is as forced and unpersuasive as Roy Edroso makes it out to be: The comparisons are absurdly weak. For example: "Both women were trailblazers in high-powered legal circles; one attended an Ivy league law school, one taught in an Ivy league law school." Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy; Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln. Also: Clinton took a lot of grief about implausible claims of being “dead broke” when she left the White House or her Tuzla Dash; Warren gets a lot... more »
Last night's Russia report & understanding the demonization of Moscow
Forty-two folks turned out in Brunswick last night for our report on the Global Network's recent study tour to Russia. There were even some new faces in attendance which does not always happen. Mary Beth Sullivan, Rev. Bill Bliss and myself each spoke and then we answered questions from the audience. We put many photos up on the screen which made it all the more real for people. When it was my turn I talked about NATO expansion that ramped up during the Clinton administration despite promises that had been made to Russia when they agreed to the consolidation of East & West Germa... more »
Upside Down CO2 Dogma
In the field of climatology, we see repeatedly that alarmists/activists turn things upside down to justify a narrative. Causes and effects are reversed in order to foster alarm about the burning of fossil fuels. This distorted way of thinking is described in more detail in essays linked at the end. This post is concerned with […]
What Does Saint Thomas say about Immigration?
There is MUCH confusion today by many people about immigration. Often those who contend to be concerned from a religious viewpoint do NOT understand what has been said by the church for many years. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), one of the “Doctors” of the Catholic Church was a renowned Biblical scholar and theologian. Here are his commentaries on immigration – based on Scripture: By John Horvat II5.1K “These are some of the thoughts of Saint Thomas Aquinas on the matter of immigration” In looking at the debate over immigration, it is almost automatically assumed that the Church’s posi... more »
Romeo and Juliet director Franco Zeffirelli dies
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Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, who worked with stars including Elizabeth Taylor and Dame Judi Dench, dies at home in Rome.
Despite being larger than Switzerland, one wildlife park is making poaching extinct
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One of Africa's largest wildlife preserves marks a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts label an extraordinary development in an area larger than Switzerland where thousands of the animals have been slaughtered in recent years.
Dogs down Blues, Suns burnt by Saints, Freo beats Power
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The Bulldogs keep their composure to beat the Blues at Docklands after the Saints beat the Suns in Townsville and the Dockers have a win over the Power in Perth.
Mike Pompeo & Tony Blair target Jeremy Corbyn for destruction (Video)
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 205. The post Mike Pompeo & Tony Blair target Jeremy Corbyn for destruction (Video) appeared first on The Duran.
Japanese Owner of Tanker Contradicts Claims That Mines or Torpedoes Damaged His Ship
[image: japanese-owner-of-tanker-contradicts-claims-that-mines-or-torpedoes-damaged-his-ship] Yutaka Katada, the owner of the Japanese tanker *Kokuka Courageous*, specifically discounted the possibility that his boat was struck by either mines or torpedoes, noting the only damage was above the water-line.
Eight Weeks of Summer: Professional Growth Plans
This post is week 1 of 8 in the 8 Weeks of Summer Blog Challenge for educators. This is a little blogventure put on by hotlunchtray.com; for eight weeks they invite teachers to respond to a prompt about how they actually spend summer. I am a sucker for A) busting the myth that teacher summers are all unicorns and pina coladas and B) a prompt. I am, of course, a retired teacher, but I'm just going to cheat and write about summers gone by. So I also get to enjoy C) the rosy glow of nostalgia. There's also the promise of D) a chance to win an Amazon gift card, but when it comes to winn... more »
New Bill Will Strip Doctors of Ability to Grant Vulnerable Kids Medical Exemptions for Vaccines
[image: vaccine]SB 276 will take away the power of doctors to grant any child, including those who are at high risk for vaccine injury, from granting exemptions to those kids.
Zuckerberg a fraud – acquires original source code from another student
by Alex Bruce, US correspondent The Truth Factory suspects that something deeper is afoot with the recent de-platforming and demonetization of numerous accounts belonging to Conservative pundits on Facebook. She takes a look at the history of Facebook to find out what is going on. She reminds us of a DARPA project called LifeLog, which […]
Language Is A Weapon
By James Corbett “In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing” wrote George Orwell 70 years ago, and the observation... more »
The New Party Configuration
For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction (University of Chicago Press, 2019). In my last two posts, I explained why we are likely to see a new constitutional regime with the Democrats as the dominant party. I argued that asymmetric polarization and demographic trends have made it difficult for the Republican Party to reproduce itself in the next generation of voters. To understand what the politics of the next several decades will look like, it is important to recognize how the slow changes in the composition of the two major parties have ... more »
Will The Real Bombers Please Stand Up
Who is attacking oil tankers in the Gulf between Oman and Iran? So far, the answer is still a mystery. The US, of course, accuses Iran. Iran says it’s the US or its local allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Magnetic mines are blamed for the damage, though […]
Syrian Army hammers northwestern Hama as they prepare to storm strategic hill
BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:30 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is currently hammering the northwestern countryside of Hama this afternoon, following their withdrawal from the strategic hilltop of Tal Malah. According to a field source, the Syrian Arab Army is striking the area around Tal Malah with several surface-to-surface missiles and artillery shells. The source […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Military base hosting US troops comes under attack in Iraq
Iraq’s military said in a statement that militants attacked the Balad Air Base north of Baghdad on Saturday, firing three mortar shells. No casualties have been reported, however, the attack caused small fires, which were extinguished immediately. According to AP, citing an anonymous security officer that American trainers are stationed at Balad air base. The […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
SDF busts ISIS sleeper cell responsible for several terrorist attacks in Raqqa
BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:30 P.M.) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) busted an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) sleeper cell that was operating inside Raqqa city. According to reports, the SDF’s intelligence units uncovered the Islamic State sleeper cell in Raqqa after a series of terrorist attacks that targeted their forces and locals in the city. During the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Breaking: Jihadist counter-offensive reverses all Syrian Army gains in northwestern Hama
BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:30 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) capture of Tal Malah and Jibeen in northwestern Hama was short-lived on Saturday as a swift jihadist counter-offensive managed to reverse all of their advances. According to a military source in northwestern Hama, the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and their allies from Jaysh […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Slavic Brotherhood 2019 military exercises begin in Serbia
An international tactical military exercise, Slavic Brotherhood 2019, began in the Serbian city of Pancevo on Friday, the country’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. The tactical drills, to last until June 27, involve over 1,000 servicemen from Russia, Belarus and Serbia, as well as about 50 pieces of military hardware and Il-76MD transport planes. […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Syrian Army captures strategic hilltop to reopen main road in northwestern Hama
BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:45 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) launched a new attack in northwestern Hama this morning that targeted all of the areas recently captured by the jihadist rebels. Led by the Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army began their assault by storming the strategic hilltop of Tal Malah in a bid to […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
The Definition of an Intellectual
Eric HofferIn his article, “The Definition of an Intellectual,” (February 16, 1969), Eric Hoffer gives a definition of the kind of intellectuals that he despised: I have been wiping the floor with the intellectuals these many years, blaming them for everything under the sun. Though I have spelled out many times who these intellectuals are, I am still being asked quite often for a definition of the intellectual. Here it is: My intellectual is a person who feels himself a member of the educated elite with a God-given right to direct and shape events. He need not be well educated o...more »
Trivia : June 15th
These things happened on this date in history…. Earthquake damage (left) and tsunami stone 1896 Sanriku Earthquake June 15, 1896 The 8.5 magnitude Sanriku Tsunami earthquake was one of the most destructive seismic events in Japanese history. It originated about 103 miles (166 km) off the coast of Honshu, resulting in two tsunamis which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths. The waves reached a record height of 125 feet (38.2 meters), a record that stood until the waves from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.Warning stones, called “tsunami stones”, were installed to ... more »
The Coast Guard Has Better Snipers Than the Marines
*Task and Purpose* *Security, Americas* [image: (U.S. Marine Corps Photograph by Pfc. Cedar Barnes)] What? Marine snipers are considered among the most elite hunters of men in the U.S. military with Hollywood movies and countless books dedicated to them, and yet, for the past two years, they have been beaten in competition by the freakin' Coast Guard. Over the past week, the 2018 International Sniper Competition has played out at Fort Benning, Georgia, with 30 teams going head-to-head from U.S. and international militaries, as well as local, state, and federal law enforcement ag... more »
Report: Marine and Navy F-35 Pilots Need to Ration Afterburners at High Altitudes
*Sebastien Roblin* *Security, Americas* [image: (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alex L. Smedegard)] Another problem for this very expensive stealth fighter. After eighteen years of troubled and controversial development, the Lockheed F-35 Lightning stealth fighter may soon enter mass production, many of its bugs having been expensively squashed after delivery of an initial four-hundred “low-rate-of-initial-production” aircraft. However, a June 2019 scoop by Defense News journalists Valerie Insinna, David Larter and Aaron Mehta has revealed thirteen ser... more »
Tragedy Averted: In 1982, Two Aircraft Carriers Nearly Went to War.
*Sebastien Roblin* *Security, * Some details that are sometimes forgotten from the Falklands War. On the afternoon of May 1, 1982, crewmen on the deck of the Argentine carrier *Veinticinco de Mayo *(“May 25”) scrambled to load six A-4Q Skyhawk attack planes with four Mark 82 bombs each. The subsonic jets were to be the tip of the spear of Argentine Navy Task Force 79 as it attacked a British Royal Navy fleet roughly 140 miles away, including the carriers *Hermes *and *Independence*, eight escorting destroyers and fifteen frigates. The opposing fleets were facing off over the spa... more »
A Navy Battleship Fired 65,000 .50 Caliber Bullets at Japan During Pearl Harbor
*Warfare History Network* *Security, * That's insane. *After the propeller screws were replaced on the Pennsylvania, she sailed back to Bremerton, Washington, for immediate repairs and was overhauled in San Francisco in 1942. She participated in the Aleutian Campaign in 1943, where she engaged in the shore bombardment at Holtz Bay, Attu, and Chicago Harbor. As she retired from Attu, she maneuvered at full speed to avoid a torpedo attack from the Japanese submarine I-31, which was subsequently sunk by the destroyers USS Edwards and Frazier.* On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, G... more »
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*A Hub of Political Correctness Gets Hit With a Big Judgment* In what is hard to characterize as anything other than poetic justice, Oberlin College and its former vice president and dean of students, Meredith Raimondo, has been hit by an Ohio jury with a multimillion-dollar judgment for libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress against a local family business, Gibson’s Bakery and Candy, which led to a boycott of the bakery over false charges of racism. What began as a simple shoplifting incident took on a life of its own because of the bakery’s proximity to one of th... more »
Heavy Rains Leave Seven Dead in Recife
By Newsfeed/Xinhua RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – At least seven people died and three others were missing after heavy rains pounded Recife, capital of Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco, firefighters said on Friday, June 14th. Five of the deaths were caused by a landslide that buried four houses in the town of Camaragibe, on the […] The post Heavy Rains Leave Seven Dead in Recife appeared first on The Rio Times.
He's Been There Before
Conservative premiers are lining up to fight two federal pieces of legislation -- Bill C-69 and Bill C-48. They say that both bills will trigger a national unity crisis. And they have worked very hard to get Quebec premier Francois Legault on their side. But Legault has refused to sign a joint communique with the other premiers. Chantal Hebert writes: The official reason for declining the invitation to sign was that the amendments the Conservative premiers were adamant Trudeau accept in the final version of bill C-69 did not reflect Quebec’s concerns. But Legault was also wary of... more »
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*What Trump's new ethanol rules mean for you* *Trump has just been on a tour in Iowa in which he takes credit for loosening restrictions on the use of ethanol in gasoline. The move will be of huge benefit to Iowa corn farmers so will undoubtedly shore up Trump's vote in the next election. And putting more ethanol in your tank will cost you slightly less than using pure gasoline. But you will also get less mileage out of a fill-up.So who loses from the new rules? All Americans. America should not be growing corn at all, other than for inclusion in dinners. Import rest... more »
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Enjoying some R&R today. Blogging will return this evening.
Will The Democrats Really Nominate An Anti-Choice Candidate For President? Biden's Been Wrong About EVERYTHING Since The 1970s
In 2008, just as Biden was about the launch another of his 5 or 6 aborted presidential runs, the *Texas Monthly* asked him-- on video tape (above)-- where he stands on abortion. First words out of his mouth: "It's going to be very difficult [for him as a slimy politician]. I do not view abortion as a choice and a right... I think we should be focussing on how to limit the number of abortions." That's always been his position and that is still his position. "I'm a bit of an odd man out in my party. I do not vote for funding for abortion. I voted against partial birth abortion." H...more »
Eels hand Broncos a lesson, Storm and Panthers get points
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The Eels make a mess of the Broncos in Parramatta after the Storm ran roughshod over the Knights and the Panthers won a close one against the Rabbitohs.
KILLING THE EARTH TO ‘SAVE’ IT : Rainforest Trees Cut Down To Make Way For Industrial Wind Turbines
“IF this had have been a transmission line connecting a coal power station, these far left brainwashed climate change believing nutters, would have been there in their thousands.” – John Clarkson *** H/t @JohnClarksonGSM @MRobertsQLD IN the good old days of ‘Greenism’, genuine environmentalists rallied against the wanton destruction of pristine flora and fauna. IN the twisted […]
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