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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Saturday, September 24, 2016

24 September - Blogs I'm Following

11"17pm MDT

Musical Interlude: Ludovico Einaudi, “Divenire”

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 46 minutes ago
Ludovico Einaudi, “Divenire” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qvglWAHDak-

"Dogs and Whales Enjoy Mysterious Connection"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 46 minutes ago
*"Dogs and Whales Enjoy Mysterious Connection"* by Jennifer Viegas "Many animal experts believe that a primitive communication system unites virtually all mammals. Beyond that, a special connection appears to exist between dogs and whales. Check out this footage, for example, of a dog interacting with a killer whale. The orca, which could have easily grabbed the dog for dinner, appears to be displaying submissive, playful behaviors, such as exposing its underside to the dog. Luna the orca socializes with dog. Luna/L98 was a male Southern resident (fish eating) orca who died March ... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 46 minutes ago
“Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters. Hurtling through a cosmic dust cloud a mere 400 light-years away, the Pleiades or Seven Sisters star cluster is well-known for its striking blue reflection nebulae. *Click image for larger size.* This remarkable wide-field (3 degree) image of the region shows the famous star cluster near the cen... more »

Lockdown in Iowa at Mississippi River Access Point 'NO DAPL'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
Censored News A total of 12 people were arrested today at the Mississippi River access point for the Dakota Access Pipeline. Josh Bagelman, Jessica Reznicek, and Rachel "Rae" Machado locked themselves to a backhoe today at approximately 6am before workers arrived on site. They have been charged with trespassing and will be released on their own recognizance. The 5 who were part of

Fukushima Daiichi September 24 and 25

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour ago
September 24 6:57 AM September 25 1:17 AM September 25 1:22

This is Your Brain on Religion

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 hour ago
Like Michael Corleone, just when I try to go legitimate and just when I think I'm out, some assholes drag me back in. Now, before you reflexively begin leveling the usual accusations of my being obsessed with The Chadwicks (sounds like a reality TV show on the Sons of the Soil Channel, doesn't it?), I have to post a disclaimer here that this wound up in my inbox early this morning courtesy of a random reader who no doubt knows of my trials and tribulations with these lunatics. The email I post below was proferred to me, unsolicited, because she got it into her Jebus-crazed... more »

Neoliberalism's War on Youth

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 hour ago
This is as good a synopsis of the ideological scourge of neoliberalism that I've heard, particularly as it pertains to youth. Henry Giroux on RT's *Watching the Hawks*: Henry also has a hard-hitting piece up on Tikkun that's well worth a read. As editor Michael Lerner writes in his intro to the essay, *...Our Network of Spiritual Progressives’ championing of a Global Marshall Plan seems suddenly “unrealistic” so that even Bernie Sanders did not mention it or even acknowledge the potential power of countering the strategy of domination and militarism with a strategy of generosity.... more »

Composers Behaving Badly

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 2 hours ago
One of the things that has always fascinated me as I've delved further in to classical music and history is the disconnect between peoples' conceptions of classical music and the composers who wrote it and reality. To a certain degree, most people's ideas of the concert hall as being all staid and austere, where you dressed to the nines, sat board-stiff in your seat (and heaven help you if you dared clap between the movements of a symphony or a concerto) are just a stereotype. But I thought I'd focus more on composers themselves. Behind some of that saintly music of the church,... more »

Chet Raymo, "Probing The Soul”

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*"Probing The Soul”* by Chet Raymo “More than three centuries ago, Pascal said: "Man considering himself is the great prodigy of nature. For he cannot conceive what his body is, even less what his spirit is, and least of all how body can be united with spirit." Pascal lived at the dawn of the scientific era, but his words still ring true. We have sent spacecraft to the planets. We have listened to signals from the dawn of time. We have unraveled the mystery of starlight. We can even conceive what the body is. But the deeper human mystery remains: What is the spirit, and how is it u... more »

The Poet: Mary Oliver, "Evidence"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*"Evidence"* "Where do I live? If I had no address, as many people do not, I could nevertheless say that I lived in the same town as the lilies of the field, and the still waters. Spring, and all through the neighborhood now there are strong men tending flowers. Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue. But all beautiful things, inherently, have this function - to excite the viewers toward sublime thought. Glory to the world, that good teacher. Among the swans there is none called the least, or the greatest. I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, espe... more »

"We Might Just As Well..."

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” - Earl Nightingale

September 24: No. No word.

Graeme Decarie at The Decarie Report - 2 hours ago
No, there's still no word about how we're being robbed of more than forty billion dollars a year by some of our better families. In particular, there's not a word from Justin Trudeau or Dominic Leblanc or Brian Gallant. And not even a mention that our federal minister of finance is one of the better people named. Can you imagine what would happen if one of us told the minister that we were going to hide $40 from taxation? No, our money is essential because Dominic Leblanc and his wife need it to entertain the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for a weeked with full military honours. 21... more »

The American Elections Are Once Again A Fraud: Both Killary Clinton And Donald Drumpf Are Set To Meet Their Master, Netanyahu, Shortly To Once Again Pledge Their Allegiance To Israel

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago
Yes, I have been attacking Hillary "Killary" Clinton very ruthlessly over the last while, for I see that demonic creature as a mass murdering freak of nature that if allowed to steal the upcoming "election" will indeed lead the United States to ruination, despair, and a very possible World War III. This sad excuse of a woman is indeed very sick both mentally and physically and is absolutely unfit to become the next President of the United States... I also have no love for Donald Drumpf, for I see him as another Jew controlled lackey that has long been controlled by criminal Jewish ... more »

The Syrian War To Free Itself From The Evil US/Israel/NATO Criminal Cabal: Did A US Predator Drone Fire A Hellfire Missile Into That Humanitarian Convoy Last Week?

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago
The news out of Syria is now improving by the day...The Russians and the Syrians are no longer going to even listen to the liars in the United States government, and have now launched an all out offensive to finally end the US mercenaries' hold on eastern Aleppo... To me, its about freakin time and this time the good guys will no longer agree to any fraud ceasefires that the criminals will try to broker to save their "terrorist" groups..... What to me is still surprising is how the Jew spew media up here in Canada, and of course all over the formerly free United States of America, a... more »

Why GOP Voters Should Listen Very Carefully To What Ted Cruz Said About Trump When He Spoke From The Heart

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
The man in the video above, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, endorsed Herr Trumpf for president Friday. The clip was shot during a press gathering in Indiana where Trump was in the process of winning every single Indiana delegate and closing down Cruz's narrow path to victory. (The final score was Trump 590,460 to Cruz 406,380 and next door neighbor John Kasich 83,913.) Cruz eked out wins in 5 northeast counties to Trump's 87. While Indianans were still casting their ballots, Cruz said "I'm going to tell you what I really think of Donald Trump" for the very first time since the campaign be... more »

Saturday Afternoon With Little Chucky Schmucky-- Wall Street's Cat's Paw In The U.S. Senate

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
You can't imagine how hard Chuck Schumer pushed to win the Florida Senate nomination for not-Grayson. It helped that the hapless boob he put up has rich, ruthlessly corrupt parents willing to spend whatever, and that he had already proven himself an unquestioningly devoted Wall Street shill, voting with the GOP on the House Financial Services Committee to do whatever it took to disarm Wall Street oversight and reform. But Schumer shepherded $1,930,542 in Financial Sector cash into Murphy's coffers, more than any other House member other than Speaker Paul Ryan (even more than House ... more »

In Paul Ryan's Make Believe World, Obama Paid The Iranians Ransom; He Didn't... But Ryan Passed A Resolution About It Anyway

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
Republicans are still embarrassed about how Reagan got caught in what came to be known as the Iran-Contra scandal. It started as a scheme to ransom 7 U.S. hostages being held in Lebanon by having Israel sell U.S. weapons to Iran and the U.S. replacing those weapons for Israel. Oliver North's twist was to have the Iranian money shipped to fascist rebels in Nicaragua (the Contras). Reagan blocked all the investiagtions although eventually 14 of his officials were indicted, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. When Reagan went on TV to apologize, already suffering from the i... more »

Mohwak Nation News 'World Prayer'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
WORLD PRAYER Posted on September 24, 2016 Please post & distribute. MNN. SEPT. 19, 2016. Prayer is like a fart under the blanket. When disaster hits, people ask for prayers. Why? We acknowledge creation in our own way to ourselves. Our constitution doesn’t mention it. You can smell a fart. After a while you don’t even smell it anymore. It goes from your behind to your nose. Only the

A System Of Food Production For Human Need, Not Corporate Greed

Colin Todhunter at EAST BY NORTHWEST - 3 hours ago
CounterPunch, Countercurrents, RINF, Global Research, Huffington Post Don't take free content on the web for granted. If you value what I do, please read *this* There has been an adverse trend in the food and agriculture sector in recent times with the control of seeds and chemical inputs being consolidated through various proposed mergers. If these mergers go through, it would mean that three companies would dominate the commercial agricultural seeds and chemicals sector. Over the past couple of decades, there has already been a restriction of choice with the squeezing out of comp... more »

“The concept of God is degrading to man”

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 3 hours ago
Philosopher Robert Mayhew discusses what he calls “Ayn Rand’s sacred atheism”: *At the age of thirteen, Ayn Rand decided she was an atheist. Her reason: “the concept of God is degrading to man.” One major form of this degradation is religion’s effect on genuine values, including sacred values. This idea is prominent in her early writings and continues to be featured in ‘The Fountainhead’ and ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ as well as in her nonfiction.* “God, whatever you choose to call God,” she recognised, “is one’s conception of the highest possible.” If the highest possible is both unk... more »

"We Might Just As Well..."

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” - Earl Nightingale

MiniRamble: This weekend’s top 10 links

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
Always interesting to me to see which links you, dear reader, like most in each week’s Ramble. These are the links you clicked on most this weekend: 1. *Rejoice! The liberal Left that once ruled over Britain is now being destroyed* – Allister Heath, TELEGRAPH 2. *The Garbage Philosophy Behind The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Myth* – Robert Tracinski, THE FEDERALIST 3. *Terence Crutcher's police shooting & racial bias in America* – Trevor Noah, DAILY SHOW 4. *Libertarian Herman Mashaba elected mayor of Johannesburg* – GLOBE & MAIL 5. *Self-harm threat... more »

Memories of a young Alexander Hamilton A heart memory exploration with Loie

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago
NEVIS In the summer of 2015, during my conversations with the Sphere Alliance data collectors, I was told that my prior life to this one, had been as Alexander Hamilton. I have had no personal recollection of this life as that man, its one thing to be told it, another to feel it and recall it. Until now I have not had access any of these memories. I don't know the precise dates of the images nor the ages, so any amateur historians will have bear with me. I just know the images and what I felt, smelled, and saw from these old memories. Alexander grew up on the Caribbean island of ... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
Talca, Maule, Chile. Thanks for stopping by.

"Never..."

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines." – Leroy Satchel Paige

The Mogambo Guru, "Me and Manager Dan"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
*"Me and Manager Dan"* By The Mogambo Guru "I have been advised many, many times that I would suffer a lot less seething hostility from co-workers, neighbors and family members (including the one, not mentioning any names, that promised to love, honor, ‘til death do us part with this ring I thee wed blah blah blah) if I would stop being so critical of people, to the point of cruelly belittling these, what is the word I am looking for? morons. Like the evil Federal Reserve and self-delusional Keynesian econometric lunatics, for example. As for the vast majority of people who do not,... more »

Angelina Jolie Exposes Hollywood Illuminati Rituals In Leaked Video

Baxter Dmitry at Your News Wire - 6 hours ago
A stunning video has surfaced in which a 23-year-old Angelina Jolie reveals the true inner workings of Hollywood as she describes her experiences participating in “secret illuminati rituals” to close friends. In 1999 an anonymous source secretly filmed Angelina Jolie, then aged 23, speaking to two close friends about Illuminati initiation rituals she had recently taken part in while attempting to establish herself in Hollywood. Angelina describes in detail the gruesome ritual celebrities must go through to join the Order of the Illuminati. During the Illuminati ritual you are tied ... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago

"Why Can't It?"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago

Saturday Interview: Ravi Subramanian

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 7 hours ago
*Ravi Subramanian is a Labour activist and full-timer for Unison in the Midlands. Splitting his time between Nottingham and Birmingham, Ravi blogs at *More Known than Proven*, where he uses data to fact check and challenge some of the more egregious idiocies touted by leading politicians and commentators. Ravi also composes sentences of 140 characters or fewer at @RaviSubbie*. *Are there any blogs or other politics/comments websites you regularly follow?* I follow dozens of blogs on my Feedly RRS feed reader, so I’ll stick to a few key ones. First, your blog is a must read for me... more »

Local MP to hold Teleconference.

Rural at Democracy Under Fire - 7 hours ago
September 27th, 2016 - MP Larry Miller will be hosting a community TeleForum for residents in the riding of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound. 7pm-8pm. Residents will receive a phone call at approximately 7pm and will be given instructions on how to participate. Larry Miller, Member of Parliament for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, will be hosting a telephone town hall meeting (teleforum) with residents of the riding of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound on the topic of electoral reform. The teleforum will take place on Tuesday, September 27th from 7:00p.m. – 8:00p.m. Residents will have the opportunity to listen to ... more »

Brzezinski: It Is Infinitely Easier To Kill Than Control A Million People

Edmondo Burr at Your News Wire - 7 hours ago
The former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, Washington geostrategist and Obama’s handler, Zbigniew Brzezinski, says it is easier to kill than control the masses. Brzezinski, a big-time New World Order globalist insider and his mates want to depopulate the world. It would then be easier for the elites to handle the selected remaining masses under a one world government. Talk about eugenics. The neocon says it is now harder to control, but easier to kill a million people. Humans are Free reports: Specifically, he said that “new and old powers face” an unpreceden... more »

MISERRIMUS!

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
Nowadays, whenever I listen to *Poetry Please *on Radio 4 I can't help thinking of the (recently-much-maligned) comedian Jake Yapp's hilarious Radio Four in Four Minutes. Jake impersonated poet-presenter Roger McGough's idiosyncratic delivery in such a funny way that I can't help hearing the real Roger McGough though the gently mocking hall-of-mirrors lens of Jake's parody: *Roger*: Hello. [*Pause*] Welcome [*Pause*] to [*Pause*] Poetry [*Pause*] Please. [*Silence*]. One side [*Pause*] of [*Pause*] A4 [*Long pause*] read out [*Pause*] over half [*Pause*] an [*Pause*] hour. A... more »

More on Brexit Street

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
*Still *catching up.... Here's something I partly 'grabbed' while on holiday (whilst obviously *not* being on holiday enough!). It relates to Emma Jane Kirby's *Brexit Street *feature on Radio 4's *PM - *and adds to our previous posts about it. Please have a read of David Keighley's transcription of the 5 September episode of *Brexit Street *and witness again everything we've talked about before being played out yet again. The episode brought the following delightful reactions on Twitter (quoted verbatim): *Listening to #bbcpm 'Brexit Street" and feeing so disheartened by xen... more »

US Military Using White Phosphorus In Iraq

Edmondo Burr at Your News Wire - 8 hours ago
The US military is said to be using White Phosphorus on Islamist militants in Iraq. The incendiary weapon is capable of inflicting severe wounds on its victims and setting ablaze residential areas. White Phosphorus was widely used during Operation Cast Lead by Israel in Gaza. The Saudis regularly use the indiscriminate weapon in the Yemen war. US forces use it in Iraq to create signals and smokescreens, according to the US-led coalition. RT.com reports: Images posted on a Pentagon-run public affairs website Dvids show a US Army artillery unit firing white phosphorus munitions in ... more »

Joke

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
Another joke (though not one you're likely to hear on *The News Quiz*)...

Compassion

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
Today's *From Our Own Correspondent *began with Lyse Doucet recounting a story you've probably heard about before, especially as it's been widely reported on the BBC and in the press: the story of her own tearful, joyful surprise reunion with a Syrian refugee family, newly emigrated to Lyse's native Canada. If you didn't see it, Lyse runs towards the Syrians, embraces them all, cries with joy, and says, "Welcome to Canada!" Lyse exulted again here on *FOOC*. It was a story to gladden the heart, she suggested. And, yes, particularly from the way she told the story. it was impossi... more »

FBI Dump Reveals Obama's Pseudonym Use, Private Email Traffic with Hillary's Private Email per Breitbart

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago
News you won't know about if you rely on the BBC for your news. 'The Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed Friday that President Barack Obama used a private email address and pseudonym to communicate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary R. Clinton and her own private email account as early as June 2012. Posted at the FBI's Vault site, the revelation was part of a 189-page document dump of interview notes from conversations its agents conducted about how Clinton handled classified electronic correspondence, other documents, and her private email scheme during her tenure...more »

Study Says Earth’s Wilderness Will Be Gone By 2100

Edmondo Burr at Your News Wire - 9 hours ago
The Earth’s wilderness areas will be completely eliminated by the year 2100, according to a disturbing new study. Despite the importance of wilderness ecosystems on biodiversity, climate, food, shelter, medicine and other vital ecological and evolutionary processes, they are being destroyed at a dangerously rapid rate. It takes 1,000 years to repopulate a newly planted forest with tree species and it took earth one million years to create a rainforest. Scientists say that by the end of this century all life on the planet will be at risk of extinction as all wilderness land will be... more »

BBC Election Train

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 10 hours ago
The *BBC Election Train *rolled across various BBC platforms last week. It travelled the northern United States and pulled in at various stations on Radio 4, BBC TV and the BBC website. It was manned by BBC reporters/producers Aleem Maqbool, Frank Strasser and Ashley Semler. I've listened to (or watched) versions of all five of the week's reports and I really don't think they could better encapsulate the BBC's world view. Indeed, BBC reporters and presenters have piled onto Twitter to sing the series' praises (especially Aleem's interview with the pro-Trump white supremacist, ov... more »

What I Like About You

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 10 hours ago
Is that I dont have to search for reasons to love you

Orbán wants to build a Hong Kong for Arabs and blacks in Libya

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours ago
Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán keeps on presenting creative proposals that actually make sense. Hungarian Prime Minister says EU should set up refugee city in Libya He wants to grab a piece of land outside the EU – most specifically, he mentioned a place in Libya – and build a large enough camp that should host a really, really large number of migrants or self-described refugees. I chose the term "Hong Kong" because there could be a million people over there; the terms "Liberland" or "Dachau" look too small for Orbán's project. Note that Hong Kong was liberated from the Japan... more »

The Gawd'elpusfather

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 11 hours ago
Don Corbeone On the subject of the all-conquering Mr Corbyn... This week's *Newswatch *followed last week's *Feedback *in giving voice to Corbynista complaints of anti-Corbyn bias, and even Norman Smith (the BBC reporter formerly known as 'Anti-Tory Norm') got it in his hyperbolic neck for bringing up Jez's disgruntled ex once too often. I have to say that the chosen Corbynista, Kevin Foley, made his points reasonably and came across well. I could see some though not all of his points. Unlike last week's *Feedback*, however, no BBC editor was willing to appear on *Newswatch*. L... more »

The Labour leadership paradox

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 11 hours ago
Zeno's Paradox: Illustrating the Labour leadership contest, and why Owen Smith (left) could never beat Jeremy Corbyn (right) In between all this ever-so-fair-minded slagging-off of the BBC, I'd just like to put in a word for the return of one of my favourite Radio 4 programmes, *In Our Time.* This week, Marcus de Sautoy & Co. gave Melvyn a fine lecture on Zeno's Paradoxes. This didn't tell the following Zeno-based joke though, which - for your pleasure - I'll give in two distinct versions (the first Barry Cryer's, as told to Paddy on *BH*; the second Jo Brand's, as told to Matt a... more »

iN THE backwood of human existance

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 11 hours ago
In America today you have only' two chocies die or be a slave choose carefully

Just beimg average prdp [r rod ORDINGARY WOLRD

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 11 hours ago
yeah its a mind flash no lightiing goig to illumite this world but you will live and that is a good fact m[ ;tjre wpor;d wpo world as a ,at ,,, MATTER of a faCT

Fukushima Update: "Your Radiation This Week: Sept. 10 to Sept. 24, 2016"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
*"**Your Radiation This Week: **Sept. 10 to Sept. 24, 2016"* By Bob Nichols *"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”* - Shiva (San Francisco) September 24, 2016 – "Good Day, this is “Your Radiation This Week.” The city-specific radiation lever reporting of YRTW is now every two weeks until further announcements. YRTW is published every two weeks on Saturday. The next publication dates are October 8 and October 22, 2016. This is a brief hiatus in the numbers while I finish other projects. Based on seven years of historical records from EPA, the Rad numbers will continue... more »

UPDATED: White Helmets are The "Usual Suspects"

greencrow at Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 11 hours ago
*UPDATE: September 24, 2016 *BBC is reporting that Millions of Syrians living in Aleppo are now without water. Syrian forces bombed the water facilities in terrorist-held quarters of the city and, in retaliation, terrorists turned off the water to the rest of the city. Hmmmmmm is this yet another White Helmet - "humanitarian" initiative to enable the much sought after "No Fly Zone"? *Qui Bono?* *White Helmets in Syria* *The "Usual Suspect" Bombers?* Recently, during an interview with Associated Press, Syrian President Dr. Bashar al Assad was asked by the interviewer what he thou... more »

Israeli Connection to Syrian War

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago

Is There Any Point In Hybrid Cars?

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 11 hours ago
By Paul Homewood By Alister Doyle | September 19 2016 (Reuters) The last gasoline-powered car will have to be sold by about 2035 to put the world on track to limit global warming to the most stringent goal set by world leaders last year, a study said on Thursday. The report, by a Climate […]

A Brexit Collection update

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 12 hours ago
Regular readers may recall an earlier post on BBC Radio 4's Brexit Collection. Radio 4's Brexit Collection is a gathering-together of Brexit-related programmes, presumably intended to act as a showcase for the station. All the items were listed and described in that post and, taken in the round, offered such an overwhelmingly negative take on Brexit that I ended by writing: My ruling? The exhibits exhibited here by the Defence are the most damning gathering of exhibits I've ever seen. The BBC has gifted the Prosecution. The verdict is beyond reasonable doubt: The BBC is guilty of... more »

Floating in the reality of beauty

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 12 hours ago
That has been my most fortuatet; place and for the feast I got you behind the beauty a beating herat rare details these dauys

If you pull my crooked teeth I will be perfect just like you

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 12 hours ago
Well I got more than crooked teeth to fix but I do want to be perfect I dont know why cause my life is just about ideal for a human in 2016 and paradise one hundred years later

Speculation about expectations!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2016Atop the Post's front page, Tumulty proves Krugman's point: * Yesterday, in his New York Times column, Paul Krugman discussed what the press corps should and shouldn't do in reporting Monday's debate. We didn't agree with every word. In particular, we don't recommend the casual use of the term "lie" when journalists describe the misstatements of candidates, even the howling misstatements. That said, we think Krugman made a lot of good points, if you're prepared to accept a large amount of informed speculation on his part. In that chunk of informed spe...more »

Europe Report....... September 24 , 2016 ...... 1. Greece - Political , Economic and Austerity / Creditor Appeasement Items. 2.UK - Corbyn Smashes Smith - Re-eleced As Labor Leader , Article 50 / Brexit Items. 3. Odds & Ends For Europe Today - Italy , EU-Turkey Deal , ECB QE Items , Deutsche Bank Items , Turkey Cut To Junk By Moody's , Local Items From Italy , France , Sweden & Denmark .

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
Greece...... *fred walton* ‏@fredwalton216 2m 2 minutes ago fred walton Retweeted Kathimerini English Panagiotis Lafazanis (Popular Unity ) , has joined forces with Alekos Alavanos who leads Plan B( supports Greece’s return to drachma.) fred walton added, *Kathimerini English* @ekathimerini Anti-austerity parties join forces http://dlvr.it/MKfMX8 *Kathimerini English* ‏@ekathimerini 41m 41 minutes ago Athens metro Line 4 tender to be issued early next year http:// dlvr.it/MKdyfX *Kathimerini English* ‏@ekathimerini 41m 41 minutes ago Top court to rule o... more »

Ripple on still water challange

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 13 hours ago
Hey I am here I jacked up and now lets try and do the that wavy thing on pond with music giving the waves motion Every wave has a drop point and no matter what the tusma,ioc crashing on the shore most die as just anomoly but there are waves comming that will be messages from mother GIA\ and ignore them at your preil but the only way our civiliatsion surviee is communist and I will be tweeting about our prefect pest but the only intistution we belikved in is the miltiatruy\and soo comuumsit that Karl Marxx woudl aprove

You comming walking down my street and for that I do not feel alright

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 13 hours ago
I am going to shoot you dead and I have no reason to say that but I have lived fifty plus years and humans have in this time been in a constant decent after a dark ages apooge Look brother I dont want to blow your head off but do you have friends who will rape and kill me and if I kill you its one less brother one less family member that I will not face in a blow down Is this the village we wish to live in NO but look at south and central ameria they are alreay living is some kind of apocolyse The USA is responsible for all this shit and no no no never they do cleanpu

Such a beautiful Women and I am just a man

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 13 hours ago
So I got to tell you your beauty is what got me thinking I can not deny that but if you were ugly I would still buy your more beautifu; than just beautifu] your suri geniuus and likely the most beautiful women' in the world 50 or above You where always one of the true beautifuls that where just pure like a man you needed not makeup to domiate I am so lucky not just because your beautiful but because you love me as well and that is worth more than all the beauty in this world

A man of principles and honour

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 13 hours ago
I don't watch Question Time these days because I always seem to be asleep by 10:45. Of course I could catch up next day. I did so yesterday out of mild curiosity after noticing that Question Time was to have an unusually balanced panel. (Having dropped a controversial guest at the last minute and brought in Caroline Lucas instead.) The only thing I've got to say about it is that there was strange and wonderful diversity-of-audience as well. A genuine mixture. It was heartwarming to see Caroline Lucas getting a cool response and Jacob Rees-Mogg a comparatively warm one. He’s a bit ... more »

Teacher Evaluation, the Prequel

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 13 hours ago
Imagine being able to evaluate a teacher before she is even hired! Too good to be true, you say? Read on. Imagine the ability to hire a teacher that you know in advance will be able to produce those test scores necessary to 1) help your school system stay head and shoulders above your neighbors, 2) help your poorest schools avoid turnaround and charter takeover, or 2) help your charter company gain more contracts in the ESSA era of "no excuses" expansion. Imagine being able to avoid the mistake of hiring those touchy-feely humanist losers who don't have the "growth mindset" nece... more »

"Bring in That Floating Fat Man."

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours ago
...because what, after all, is the Trump family but *Dune*'s House Harkonnen minus the popping zits? What you'll never hear from the media that breathlessly reports who's dropping and who's rising in the polls is that, despite all the hundreds of millions of Daddy Warbucks being spent, all the thousands of hours of attack ads, every news cycle being consumed with tremendous trifles about the campaigns is that at least 60-65% of the electorate won't turn out to vote for this general election cycle. Meaning we're, once again, given the choice of Coke or Pepsi, Crest or Colga... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago
*Buckwheat Zydeco, bandleader who helped introduce Louisiana zydeco to the world, dies at 68 ~Keith Spera *

US Used 90s UN Weapons Inspectors To Spy On Iraq

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 13 hours ago
After the Gulf War when the United Nations ordered inspectors into Iraq to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, missile and nuclear programs Saddam would often demand that the U.S. and British members of the teams be removed. Baghdad accused those people of being spies for their respective governments. As it turned out the Americans were using the inspections to collect intelligence on Iraq. For example, the U.S. installed eavesdropping devices into the U.N. communication network to tap into the Iraqi military. In March 1996 when the inspectors installed video cameras at suspec... more »

A day in the life Redu x 2016 fucked up edition

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 14 hours ago
I woke up this morning and my mood altering drug made feel extrodinay the diazapram or whatever had not worn off that let me sleep through the horror of the eight hours I missed sleeping I did not comb my hair or shave cause those are optional these days but I did shower cause not everyone loves my stink In fact It may only be me I cant get rid of the newspaper its like a flyer for living now that I have moved on to reality where I have no pension and life is faster all round and I am pretty sure I will end up as soylent green I read the news its all in Russian cause thats the only... more »

The reason Steven Segal fights like a girl

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 14 hours ago
Real fights are not cinimatic. Make no mistake I love him, he is a tomodachi motherfuckers. True surgi generius and I collect these characters like beany babies.

Pesticide Industry Secret Study Shows Neonics Kills Bees

Edmondo Burr at Your News Wire - 14 hours ago
Tests conducted by agrochemical giants Syngenta and Bayer showed that their own pesticides caused severe harm to bees. Yet they kept their findings secret and did not make them public. Documents obtained by Greenpeace reveal that the agrochemical industry has a disregard for the environmental and food security concerns, and that regulators are no help. According to a UN study more than 40 percent of invertebrate species like bees and butterflies face extinction threats at the local level. “If Bayer and Syngenta cared about the future of our pollinators, they would have made the fi... more »

Jeremy Corbyn Re-Elected Leader Of The Labour Party

Carol Adl at Your News Wire - 14 hours ago
Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as leader of the British Labour party, after comfortably defeating his challenger Owen Smith on Saturday. Corbyn took 61.8 percent of the vote after more than half a million party members, trade unionists and registered supporters voted. Mr Corbyn said both he and Mr Smith were part of the “same Labour family” as he appealed for unity. Press TV reports: Surveys had indicated that Corbyn would easily defeat his challenger as he maintained widespread support of party members attracted by his socialist anti-austerity policies and “authentic” image. On... more »

NASA-sponsored article makes millions of Ophiuchus-born women hysterical

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours ago
Every five years or so (see 2007 and 2011), I write a blog post about the 13rd zodiac sign, the Serpentarius (the Greek name Ophiuchus is preferred by many these days but not by me) – the wearer of the snakes – in which I was born, much like everyone whose birthday is between November 29th and December 17th or so (more dates). Fall 2016 just began and it was inevitable that someone makes sure that this insight shocks millions of people, especially women. And it's here. See the recent Ophiuchus articles on Google News. An astrology-believing individual discovered an article which ... more »

Ted Cruz: When it's not okay to follow your conscience...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 14 hours ago
*when the other person's conscience doesn't agree with you.* The nevertrump peeps are "outraged", "saddened", "disappointed", and "devastated", that Ted Cruz's conscience is allowing him to support and vote for Donald Trump. Amanda Carpenter, a nobody with no influence, who used to be a senior staffer for Ted Cruz, retweeted: @*amandacarpenter* sees no "evidence that Trump has changed his behavior to allow Cruz's conscience to support Trump" Since when is it your right to vet Cruz's conscience? Is his conscience only right when he agrees with your stance? Do these people not hea... more »

Why Would Anyone Possibly Assume Trump Isn't A Health Care Expert?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago
I don't know what it's like in your state. I know a lot of nurses in Florida come from Haiti. When my friend Stephen's mom died after a long, protracted illness, he gave her primary nurse several hundred thousand dollars from his mom's estate. His mom wanted him to and Stephen described the nurse to me as an angel who made his mother's last years not just bearable, but worthwhile for her. Here in California, many nurses are also immigrants, but not from Haiti. Many come from the Philippines; many come from Mexico. I just spent a couple of years battling a rare form of cancer and C... more »

What's Wrong With Donald Trump? Are There Flaws?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago
Let's leave aside today's *Rolling Stone* interview with Bruce Springsteen that saw the rock icon declare Trump's candidacy "a tragedy for our democracy" and the candidate himself "a moron, basically." I can't imagine there's a *DWT* reader who doesn't already know that. In the video above, you can watch ABC News' Brian Ross reporting on Trump's financial entanglements with Russia. Another huge batch of retired high-ranking military officers didn't need to see it before signing onto a joint statement about Trump's unfitness for the presidency. Trump, said Army General Wesley Clar... more »

Lies, damned lies and the BBC

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 14 hours ago
This week's *Feedback *featured an interview with Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, one of the four panellists on the BBC Trust's latest impartiality review - one looking at the corporation's use of statistics (and, largely, giving the BBC a clean bill of health). When Mr Johnson and Roger Bolton turned to the question of the EU referendum, it wasn't hard to guess where the BBC might take Mr Johnson's call for the BBC to be "braver" in the future: *Roger Bolton*: But you go further than that. You say 'braver'. It's not a question of just being informed, to explai... more »

To mark the occasion...

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 14 hours ago
Historic events today call for a classic Corbyn joke (which the BBC's Laura K is free to make use of on Twitter should she so choose): Q. What's long and hard and makes you feel good? A. Twenty years of ideological purity in opposition.

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 14 hours ago
*Green Energy Revolution Folly* President Obama recently set a goal to double renewable power generation in the U.S. by 2020. At the same time, he suggested ending oil company tax breaks and using them, instead, to bolster solar and wind industries. The U.S. government is investing more than $1 trillion in green energy, the so-called "clean" energy alternative, while choking off coal and natural gas production with increasingly onerous regulations. In their book, Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy, authors Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White argue against the ... more »

Hillary Clinton Left Classified Data In Hotel During Russian Trip: FBI

Edmondo Burr at Your News Wire - 14 hours ago
Hillary Clinton forgot to take her classified documents with her after visiting a hotel in Russia while serving as U.S. Secretary of State. Documents released by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton left behind sensitive classified documents at a hotel in Russia. Doni News Agency reports: The documents, released on Friday and cited by ABC News, show that when Clinton was on a trip to Russia while serving as US secretary of state, her aide brought a classified briefing book into the hotel suite. The classified d... more »

Iceland Is Considering Suing Iceland The Supermarket

Carol Adl at Your News Wire - 14 hours ago
A new ‘cold war’ may be on the horizon as Iceland the country considers legal action against Iceland the frozen food shop. The Icelandic government has confirmed that it is considering launching a lawsuit against the British supermarket Icleand in a bid to protect its identity. Iceland’s ministry of foreign affairs said it is contemplating filing a suit against the frozen foods giant 45 years after it was founded. Metro reports: The chain, which employs more than 20,000 people in more than 850 stores, was originally controlled by Icelandic retail group Baugur up until 2009. Follow... more »

Monsanto Outsmarts the GMO Resistance

WakingTimes at Waking Times - 15 hours ago
*Christina Sarich* - Monsanto and the biotech industry stay several steps ahead of the rest of us. The post Monsanto Outsmarts the GMO Resistance appeared first on Waking Times.

Musical Interlude: Logos, “La marche des Puissances”

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
Logos, “La marche des Puissances” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5KRdBernR0

Weekend reads: World’s most prolific peer reviewer; replication backlash carries on; controversial PACE study re-analyzed

Ivan Oransky at Retraction Watch - 15 hours ago
The week at Retraction Watch featured news of a fine for a doctor who took part in a controversial fake trial, and a likely unprecedented call for retraction by the U.S. FDA commissioner. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Meet the world’s most prolific peer reviewer: 661 reviews in less than a year. (Our co-founders, STAT) […] The post Weekend reads: World’s most prolific peer reviewer; replication backlash carries on; controversial PACE study re-analyzed appeared first on Retraction Watch.

“The Truth About War and the State”

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
*“The Truth About War and the State”* by Lew Rockwell This talk was delivered at the Peace and Prosperity 2016 Conference of the Ron Paul Institute. “Not long ago I was thinking about the legacy of Murray N. Rothbard, the brilliant scholar and the creator of the libertarian movement, as well as a dear friend to both Ron and me. Would that movement have come into existence without Murray? I don’t think so. And whatever might have developed in its place would undoubtedly have been less pro-peace, and more willing to reach an accord with the warfare state, than Murray ever was. “I am... more »

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 16 hours ago
*Muslim teacher quits her job after she was told she had to shake hands with male members of staff at Swedish school * A Muslim teacher has quit her job at a school in Sweden after being told she would have to shake hands with male members of staff. Fardous El-Sakka had been working as a substitute teacher at the Kunskapsskolan school in Helsingborg, when she was asked to shake hands with a male teacher. But the 20-year-old refused as her religion forbids her from touching any member of the opposite sex who is not related to her. The man then reported Miss El Sakka to the school'... more »

Europe has a chance to be "out" when Paris comes to force

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours ago
The Paris agreement is a recent meaningless remake of the 1997 meaningless Kyoto treaty that, like the predecessor, tries to "fight against the climate change". Err once, err twice... If you remember the Kyoto treaty, Al Gore signed it but the U.S. has never ratified it, and neither has Australia. Canada later withdrew from that pact. I think that the impact of this absence of the U.S. on the production of carbon dioxide – let alone the climate – was non-existent. In fact, the U.S. saw a greater decrease of "CO2 produced per dollar or capita" than the average Kyoto signatory. But be... more »

Facts That Don't Suit Its Agenda

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Andrew Coyne used to sing the praises of the Harper Party. That was before he discovered that they were not who they claimed to be. Stephen Harper may be gone, but his party is still a fraud. Take the issue of putting a price on carbon. Coyne writes: The party of free markets, rather than support a plan that relies on the quintessential market instrument — prices — favours the most costly, intrusive and regulatory-heavy approach imaginable: the very approach that has so signally failed to date. The party of personal responsibility favours sparing people the costs of their economic... more »

"And Never, Never To Forget..."

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget." - Arundhati Roy

The Economy: “Beware of What You Wish For, You’re About To Get It”

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
*“Beware of What You Wish For, You’re About To Get It”* by Andy Hoffman September 24th, 2016 “The trading day just ended, on what may be the penultimate week of “normalcy” for generations to come. Frankly, I have never been more scared, as the certainty of my views has never been more powerful. Which are, that nothing– not Central banks, governments, nor any “supreme manipulative power”– will be able to stop the unstoppable tsunami of political, economic, and monetary reality that has already engulfed large swaths of the “emerging” world; and currently, is heading for the “develop... more »

"This Is Why the Middle Class Is Dying"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
*"This Is Why the Middle Class Is Dying"* by Bill Bonner "The road was long but I ran it There’s a fire in my heart and you fan it If there’s one fool for you then I am it I’ve one thing to say, and that’s Dammit Janet, I love you." - "Rocky Horror Picture Show," ‘Dammit Janet’ "First, some travel advice… A niece was visiting from North Carolina. She left this morning for Paris. We warned her, ‘Paris is the biggest tourist draw in the world. Naturally, it also has a thriving industry that preys on tourists. People will come up to you and say: ‘Do you speak English?’ You’ll be eager t... more »

Syrian Army Find Turkish Manual For Terrorists On Use Of Nukes

Edmondo Burr at Your News Wire - 17 hours ago
Syrian army troops have discovered a ‘manual for terrorists’ instructing jihadists on the possible use of nuclear weapons against their enemies. The manual printed in Turkey was recovered by the army after liberating a terrorist-held enclave in northern Latakia. It provides information for terrorists on “the proper conduct of war on foreign soil.” Sputnik reports: The manual, printed in Arabic and called ‘Zad al-Mujahed’ (roughly, ‘Fruits for the work of God’s Warriors’) was published in Istanbul, with its publishers making no attempt to even try to hide the book’s origins. It fea... more »

MS to Triumph Again? Neil Nails Indian Givers  (They LOL'ed! Bernie BERN MUST Restart Soon Or Else)  Cenk's Secret  (Jeffrey Sterling Suffers Heart Attack)  Losing Whole Middle Class? Almost As Rich As In 1998!  (Banking Has Become a Criminal Enterprise)  Scott Walker Leaks Dark Money  (GMO Crops Study Shows Massive Environmental Damage)  Arms-Dealing Democratic Frauds Strike Again  (Living In Vans - Middle Class Losing Ground)

Did you hear the latest? Microsoft Corporation, which can't make a stable operating system after 40 years of effort, is going to cure cancer. So, please stop yer whining about their low taxes and clever market-capturing legal manipulations. Just hush up! They are your friends. And also stop your mindless yammering about the rich and powerful controlling the national dialogue. NO ONE IS

“We Have NEVER Been Closer to World War 3 Than Now”

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
*“We Have NEVER Been Closer to World War 3 Than Now”* by Jeremiah Johnson “As can readily be seen by the current events, the world has not been this close to a nuclear war and World War 3 in a long time. There are four major flashpoints right now that could easily escalate and ignite a powder keg, transforming from a regional conflict or conflicts into a world war: Syria, the South China Sea, Ukraine, and North and South Korea. The “reconstruction” of a Cold War-type faceoff, initiated by the U.S. and NATO building up forces in Eastern Europe and facing off against Russia. A nucle... more »

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Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 20 hours ago
From Engineer John Howe: *Why lower gasoline prices begin the end of the world oil age.* Traditional economics teaches that increasing cost caused by the declining supply of an essential commodity will be supported by fewer wealthy consumers. Further reflection and twenty-twenty hindsight shows what actually occurred in the past decade while the world consumed another 300 billion barrels of oil (about one-fourth of the total 1.2 trillion barrels used to date in the entire oil age). Let’s start with thirteen poorly understood facts: (The numbered figures are from the attached p... more »

ENP. The Voice revisited: Issue 42, September 2000

Knowledge Is Power at Knowledge Is Power - 22 hours ago
The Voice Issue 42, September 2000 (front page editorial) Link for best reading: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B16HDtMQAGQJN1RNTGswYTlxN2s/view?usp=sharing

FBI Report: White House Knew Of Hillary Clinton's Private Email

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens to President Barack Obama during a meeting of his Cabinet in Washington, November 28, 2012. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque *Politico*: *Obama used a pseudonym in emails with Clinton, FBI documents reveal* President Barack Obama used a pseudonym in email communications with Hillary Clinton and others, according to FBI records made public Friday. The disclosure came as the FBI released its second batch of documents from its investigation into Clinton’s private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. The 189 pages the bureau released ... more »

Is The United Nations Helpless In The New World order?

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
UN General Assembly. Wikipedia *Ines Pohl, DW:* *The UN is helpless in the new world order* The United Nations is at its wits' end. The organization's structures have proven themselves to be outdated. They no longer function in a world where conflicts don't happen along borders anymore, where it's not about ideological domination or winning new territory. With the verbal attacks by US Secretary of State John Kerry against his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, the world now has video evidence: the bureaucratic mega-agency has no idea how it can help the Syrian people. The bombing... more »

Tonight's Movie Is 'Nuremberg'

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
From *Wikipedia*: Nuremberg is a 2000 Canadian/United States television docudrama, based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico, that tells the story of the Nuremberg trials. *WNU Editor*: I posted this movie before .... but this is a far better (and cleaner) version.

U.S. Air Force Has Sunk 65 Islamic State Boats In Iraq This Month Alone

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
A boat full of ISIS “Navy Seal” commandos, approaches the shore to carry out a clandestine mission. (Inquisitr) *CNN: **ISIS has a navy? The US is sinking it* Washington (CNN)US and allied warplanes have sunk over 100 ISIS boats, destroying 65 of them in September alone, according to the international military coalition. While Iraq is nearly entirely land-locked, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that cross that country are navigable, and ISIS has been using watercraft for a variety of purposes, including transporting fighters and conducting improvised explosive attacks. The US-led... more »

Is President Obama Facing A 'Mutiny' At The Pentagon?

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during a hearing about Defense Department readiness Sept. 15, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Goldfein joined Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson and Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller during the hearing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash) *RT*: *Washington experiencing ‘mutiny’ over Syrian conflict* The US Defense Department effectively rebelled against the president’s authority when it said it may or we may not co... more »

This Is Why It Is Difficult To Say Who Attacked That Humanitarian Convoy in Syria

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
Men drive a motorcycle near a damaged aid truck after an airstrike on the rebel held Urm al-Kubra town, western Aleppo city, Syria September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah *Popular Mechanics:** Why Can't We Say Who Attacked That Humanitarian Convoy in Syria?* What the destruction of a humanitarian aid convoy tell us about the great game being played by Russia and the U.S. in the skies over Syria. The ceasefire in Syria was already teetering when the 31-truck convoy headed toward the besieged town. Inside the Aleppo, more than 250,000 people were trapped, desperate for supplies. ... more »

The Rebel Held Part Of The Syrian City Of Aleppo Is Under Intense Bombardment. Syrian Army Prepares For A Ground Offensive

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
*New York Times*: *‘Doomsday Today in Aleppo’: Assad and Russian Forces Bombard City* Syrian government forces and their Russian allies launched a major new offensive on opposition-held areas of Aleppo on Friday, bombarding the city with dozens of airstrikes and threatening to launch a ground invasion. A video shot by a witness showed buildings burning after an airstrike on the Mwasalat neighborhood in the eastern part of the city. The escalation was the clearest sign yet that efforts to restore a cease-fire that ended this week had failed, and that the Syrian government and its ... more »

Editor's Note

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
Finishing up on a contract at the UN in New York City. Blogging will be light today and tomorrow.

A Look At How The Taliban Are Winning The War In Afghanistan

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
*Sune Engel Rasmussen, Foreign Policy*:* First Helmand, Then Afghanistan* *A trip through the country’s beleaguered south reveals demoralized soldiers, corrupt local officials, and sweeping Taliban gains in previously peaceful towns. How did Obama’s “good war” go so wrong?* LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan — Abdul Hakim seems to have just vanished. The 15-year-old boy left his madrasa across the Pakistani border to visit relatives in Afghanistan. But since crossing into Helmand province on his way to meet his parents in Bolan, a suburb of bustling shops outside the provincial capital, nobo... more »

World News Briefs -- September 23, 2016

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
*Reuters*: *Fierce air strikes on Aleppo after Syrian army declares offensive* Warplanes bombed Aleppo on Friday with what residents described as unprecedented ferocity after the Russian-backed Syrian army declared an offensive to fully capture Syria's biggest city, killing off any hope of reviving a ceasefire. Video images filmed by residents showed a young girl screaming as rescuers frantically dug her out of rubble, pulling her out alive. Another showed rescuers digging out a toddler with their bare hands, shouting "God is Great" as they lift him from the debris. The boy showe... more »

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- September 23, 2016

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
*Washington Post:** Pakistan military prepares for a possible Indian attack* ISLAMABAD — Military officials are calling it a routine exercise, but the thunderous spectacle of Pakistani fighter jets touching down on a major highway Wednesday and Thursday, with commercial flights suspended and traffic blocked for hours, has fueled public speculation that something much more ominous is afoot. The display of military readiness, which included a late-night jet flyover Thursday above this capital city, has come amid an unusually tense showdown with India, Pakistan’s nuclear-armed rival,... more »

Yahoo Admits That Hackers Stole Data From 500 Million Accounts In 2004. A State Hacker Is Being Blamed

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
*Reuters*: *Yahoo says hackers stole data from 500 million accounts in 2014* Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) said on Thursday that at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 by what it believed was a state-sponsored actor, a theft that appeared to be the world's biggest known cyber breach by far. Cyber thieves may have stolen names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, the company said. But unprotected passwords, payment card data and bank account information did not appear to have been compromised, signaling that some of the most valuable u...more »

Bell Unveils Pilotless Tiltrotor Aircraft Drone For The U.S. Marine Corps

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Bell Helicopter *Flight Global*: *Bell unveils V-247 Vigilant unmanned tiltrotor* Bell Helicopter has unveiled a unmanned tiltrotor aircraft, the V-247 Vigilant, as it looks towards a future requirement from the US Marine Corps for a large, armed platform capable of operating from ships. Although the USMC already has smaller group 1 and 3 UAVs in its inventory, including the Textron Systems RQ-7 Shadow and Boeing Insitu RQ-21A Blackjack, the service outlined its need for larger armed systems in its 2016 Marine Aviation flight plan – an effort to end its re... more »

Is The F-35 The Future Of What Air Warfare Will Look Like?

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
The F-35 Lightning II fighter production facilities at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas. Courtesy of Lockheed Martin *Amanda Macias, Business Insider*: *This is what the future of air warfare looks like* NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The largest buyer of America's most expensive weapons program is calling it the centerpiece of fusion warfare. "When you look at where the Air Force is headed, you look at coalition warfare and spend time in the Pacific, what this means to the interoperability, the ability to operate with others in the battle space and create the coalition warfare t... more »

An Out Of This World At Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey®

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 22 hours ago
We just got back from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Presents Out Of This World™ and we had an absolute blast. My 2-year-old was enthralled the entire time and anyone who has had a 2-year-old, knows that isn't easy to do. Both of my girls enjoyed the show. From the motorcycles, to the tigers, it was entertaining from beginning to end. I especially loved the added ice skating elements. We got to see some tricks that would have been amazing on solid ground, watching them happen on ice was just incredible. There are still plenty of opportunities to take your kids to this amazing s... more »

Professor Who Predicted Every President Since ’84 Says Trump Will Win

Baxter Dmitry at Your News Wire - 23 hours ago
Professor Allan Lichtman has correctly called every election since 1984 using a special system he has devised that over the years has proved more accurate than the polls. And this year, he says, Donald Trump will win. Professor Lichtman explained how he comes to a decision. His prediction isn’t based on horse-race polls, shifting demographics or his own political opinions. Rather, he uses a system of true/false statements he calls the “Keys to the White House” to determine his predicted winner. Washington Post reports: The keys, which are explained in depth in Lichtman’s book “Pre... more »

FBI: Nikola Tesla’s Death Ray Is Real, Declassified Files Reveal

Baxter Dmitry at Your News Wire - 23 hours ago
Declassified files on Nikola Tesla published by the FBI reveal that the famous inventor’s rumored Death Ray technology actually exists and was hidden from the public after his death. The declassified files, published after 73 years as a Freedom of Information release, provide vindication for conspiracy theorists who have long claimed that many Tesla innovations were suppressed by the powers that be, claims that scientists and mainstream media have rubbished as wild conspiracy theories – until now. In the 1930s Tesla reportedly invented a particle beam weapon that some, ironically, ...more »

Most Despised of all Time.....

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 23 hours ago

Heading to DC for Peace Conference

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 23 hours ago
I leave very early in the morning for Washington DC to attend and speak at this peace conference being held at American University. I will talk about Ukraine and South Korea on Sunday at 10:00 am. On Monday morning there will be a protest at the Pentagon that I will join as well. You can see the conference schedule *here*

U.S. Agency for Int'l Development Cheats Haiti

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 23 hours ago
After the earthquake in 2010 nearly $10 billion dollars of foreign aid was pledged to rebuild Haiti. Vikram Gandhi went to see just how that money is being put to use.

Palestine in America

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 23 hours ago
*National Guard soldiers stand among protesters during another night of protests over the police shooting of Keith Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sept. 22, 2016. * It happens practically every day now. Cops shoot another black person down in the streets of America. It's a war on the poor - the unwanted, the superfluous populations. I've long asked - after all the wars and killing of innocent people around the world by the US, what makes you think we here in America are so special that they won't at some point do the same to us? Well it is happening now - and first they co... more »

Different View on the Syria War

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 23 hours ago
US Peace Council organized a fact-finding trip to Syria. When they returned they held a news conference in order to confront a hostile American media that continues to lie and distort the reality of Syria. Have we not yet learned how the US imperial modus operandi really works? Washington demonizes a particular country leader, starts a war in a that country (Panama, Yugoslavia, Iraq Libya, Syria), sabotages peace efforts, turns the place into a mess killing legions of innocent people after claiming the leader of that country is killing innocent people! Here is a different view. ... more »

We are the Caretakers of Mother Earth

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 23 hours ago

The Wider World of 1889

Daniel Stack at 19th Level - 1 day ago
One thing I'd like to do in my Penny Dreadful Cthulhu game (i.e. Pulp Cthulhu by Gaslight) is be a bit more cosmopolitan than my previous exploration of the era. That doesn't necessarily mean even leaving London (though I plan on having the characters do so). I keep thinking of a scene in *From Hell *when early on in the investigation Inspector Abberline investigates the possibility that the murder (only one at this point) was done by one of Buffalo Bill's "red Indians". As it turns out Bill is off in Paris at the time, with "Mexico Joe" doing a variant show. I just like the remi... more »

Radioactive Water Contamination and the Socialization of Risk

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
My academic research looks at catastrophic risks encoded into modern infrastructures and examines the governance strategies that frame and manage these risks, particularly in relation to economic, social, and environmental welfare. I'm currently working on a short essay examining how risk was socialized and privatized in the wake of the Fukushima crisis. Here are some excerpts (NOTE: these are "in-the-rough"): SOCIALIZATION OF RISK Economists George Akerlof, Paul Romer, Robert Hall, and Greggory Mankiw[i] helped formulate contemporary understandings of how organizations can privat... more »

The Evidence Farm

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago
North Carolina is famous for its agriculture, growing staples of American life such as tobacco, cotton and produce. But North Carolina's number one crop, for which there is no particular season to plant, is manufactured evidence. Yes, that's right. Your intrepid one had actually caught North Carolina police officers planting evidence next to Keith L. Scott's dead body not once but twice, within 10 seconds of each other. Don't listen to the racist assholes out there who claim the second object was just a glove or that the brave white cops were merely protecting and helpful... more »

Twenty Bucks, Same as in Town

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago
Blogwhoring. You do it, I do it, we all do it. What have *yo*u been up to, lately? ------------------------------ Regarding the newest racist/racial execution of a black man, we start with that of Keith L. Scott in Charleston, North Carolina. John Cole at Balloon Juice shows two videos shot by two different people, including the late Mr. Scott's widow. At 2:14 in, you can plainly see the cop in the red shirt planting evidence, specifically a gun or what’s known in police parlance as a “throwdown.” And the brazen cocksucker even knew the man’s wife was filming him. ... more »

Now What for the Labour Establishment?

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 1 day ago
Unless the entirely unexpected happens - not a first for 2016 - Jeremy Corbyn is set to be reconfirmed as Labour leader tomorrow morning. As that announcement is made, a section of the party will plunge into abject despair. Some shall leave (though I hope most stay), and others must have a serious think about what they do in the party now. Just like the left has done for the majority of Labour's history, in fact. For the most visible wing of our party's establishment Jez-sceptics, the Parliamentary Labour Party, this casting about for purpose and direction is set to play out public... more »

"Do You Know Who Killed My Baby?"

William N. Grigg at Pro Libertate - 1 day ago
“Do you know who killed my baby?” That anguished question was wrested from the anguished soul of Carol Dodge as she spoke with a young girl named Destiny Osborne shortly after Carol’s 18-year-old daughter Angie was murdered in Idaho Falls in June, 1996. With the police unable to identify any viable suspects, Carol – driven by an irrepressible maternal impulse to find and punish the person who had killed her daughter – pursued her own investigation. Over the past twenty years she has accumulated a library of evidence, most of which has been ignored by the police and the Bonnevil... more »

MENA Report ....... September 23rd / 24th , 2016...... Quick Hits - 1. Yemen - While Syria , Iraq & Libya Dominate News Cycles , Yemen Remains Off Radar Screen - Responsibility To Protect Doctrine Seems To Have Been Forgotten. Libya - Items Of Note Regarding Sirte , Political Controversies De Jour. 3. Syria In Focus - Ceasefire May Or May Not Be Dead , People Definitely Will Keep Dying , Range Of Views & News .

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Yemen...... *Al Arabiya English* ‏@AlArabiya_Eng 1m 1 minute ago Coalition forces kill #Houthi general on #Saudi-#Yemen border http:// ara.tv/vvq4v *Yemen Post Newspaper* ‏@YemenPostNews 5m 5 minutes ago #UN SILENT as 10,045 civilians killed in #*Yemen* during 18 months of Saudi war dropping over 200,000 bombs & missiles. *Middle East Eye* ‏@MiddleEastEye 37m 37 minutes ago Third *Yemen* drone strike in a week kills 5 al-Qaeda suspects http:// ow.ly/bV6Q304wiI3 *Velina Tchakarova* ‏@vtchakarova 3h 3 hours ago What is happening in #*Yemen* ... more »

Chip Evans, The Progressive Democrat In Northern Nevada Who Understands Why The Time To Deal With Climate Change Is Right Now

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
The Nevada caucuses this year were fraught with the kind of ugly partisan corruption anyone who understands Harry Reid would have predicted. Whether you want to admit that Reid and his machine stole the process for Hillary or not, it was still clear that Bernie won the sprawling 2nd congressional district, basically all of northern Nevada. Most of the voters live in Washoe County, which Bernie took 54.2-45.7%. He also won Carson City and took Lander County 69.6-29.0% and Eureka County 86.4-13.6%, margins too massive even for the Reid machine to turn around. The enthusiasm for Ber... more »

Culture Watch: Isn't it time to deal with the all-consuming menace of electronic-toy tyranny?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*"Before you take me away, I justwant to update my profile picture."* *by Ken* It's time -- or more likely *well past* time -- to begin dealing with the rupture of the social fabric caused ty the menace of the electronic toys and the people who abuse them. You know who I'm talking about. They're the people (for convenience we'll call them "they," because they couldn't be *you*, right?) who brandish their toys, as they electronically suck in and spit out limitless quantities of mindless twaddle in any and all public situations without regard to the disruption caused to sane people ... more »

TTIP "Trade" Agreement Talks Indefinitely Suspended

Gaius Publius at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Despite the fervent best wishes of the U.S. corporate class, President Barack Obama, and other aligned politicians, it looks like the people of Europe have killed TTIP. **(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber; source)* *by Gaius Publius* Count this as a victory. It looks like the Atlantic version of TPP, called TTIP, has failed. Background: The U.S. corporate world has been aching to pass three trade mega-deals — TPP, TTIP and TiSA. - The first, TPP, ropes in nations bordering the Pacific, including the U.S. Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile and much of Asia (but deliberately not China)... more »

welcome to my world

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago

The Sandy Hook FRAUD Shootings: This Is Disgusting - New "Documentary" Called "Newtown" Coming Soon To Continue The Lies About This Fake Shooting

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
It has been almost 4 years now since the criminal US government and some very crooked people in Connecticut pulled off a massive swindle on the gullible American people with their fake shooting at a "school" in Newtown Connecticut.... I and others that see the truth know for a fact that NOBODY died in that fake shooting, and it does puzzle us all that there are still people out there that actually think this was a real event! It is bad enough that the Jew spew media across America still promotes this fake shooting as real and we have seen the Killary Clinton campaign try to use the ... more »

The Fraud "Race Riots" In Charlotte North Carolina USA: BUSTED... Proof Positive George Soros Funded The Charlotte Riots

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
In my last blog article, I stated unequivocally that it has been none other than Dr. Evil himself, the ultra JEWISH criminal George Soros that is behind the riots that we see taking place in Charlotte North Carolina.... I stated that this ultra criminal has been behind every single major right that has happened across America for the last few years, and that his criminal intentions have always been to use these riots to have his cohort, that criminal President Barry Soetoro, have his excuse to impose a state of martial law in the United States..... Well, for those who still may have... more »

Sept. 23: Sometimes it's all just too vile.....

Graeme Decarie at The Decarie Report - 1 day ago
The front page headline in today's irving press is "NB Power customers owe nearly $5 million in unpaid electricity bills". That's it. It's those damn, lazy poor people that are robbin' us. So we won't even bother mentioning the tens of billions of our money stolen every year by the wealthy in this country. Nor is there any mention of the tax haven scandal in any editorial or commentary in this lying, gutless irving press. There is, in fairness, an important story YOU need to know on A3. "Man gets probation for lying in road, urinating in cell." A9 has a whole page devoted to a sha... more »

"Blowing Your Mind– as Promised"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*"Blowing Your Mind– as Promised"* by Scott Adams, creator of “Dilbert” "About a year ago I told you that Donald Trump would change far more than politics. I predicted that he would change your understanding of the human condition and your role in reality. Back then, I couldn’t explain what I meant. You didn’t have the mental framework to hold this new idea– unless you were a trained hypnotist or a cognitive scientist. The ideas were too radical. Until now. I saw this situation developing last year. The Master Persuader opened a crack in the universe so we mortals could– for the... more »

Pakistan Conducts Nuclear ‘High-Mark’ Drill Over India

Sean Adl-Tabatabai at Your News Wire - 1 day ago
Pakistan launched a “high-mark” drill on Thursday in efforts to foil any possible nuclear attack coming from India. All commercial flights were suspended for a number of hours on Thursday as Pakistani fighter jets took to the skies, fuelling speculation that a military showdown between the two countries may be about to occur. Firstpost.com reports: “The display of military readiness, which included a late-night jet flyover Thursday above this capital city (Islamabad), has come amid an unusually tense showdown with India,” the report added. The blatant muscle flexing with Pakistani... more »

NASA Confirm Photo Showing Alien Base On Moon Is Real

Sean Adl-Tabatabai at Your News Wire - 1 day ago
A UFO expert has published an explosive image online that shows an alien base on the surface of the moon that NASA have confirmed is real. Mark Sawalha, from Finland, says he spotted a “strange spike” that looks like an antenna, taken by the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), during a mission to map the moon. Anonhq.com reports: Since the image appeared online, unnamed NASA officials have admitted that their unmanned Lunar Orbiter captured something that appears to show a small dark ‘spike’ casting a shadow. This admission by the officials has further ... more »

Phoenix Police Officers Force Teen To Eat Cannabis At Traffic Stop

Sean Adl-Tabatabai at Your News Wire - 1 day ago
Three Phoenix police officers have been forced to resign after a teenager was forced to eat marijuana during a routine traffic stop. The male teenager reported that he was forced to eat the marijuana found in his vehicle in order to avoid going to jail, according to a statement by Police Shief Joseph Yahner on Thursday. CBS News reports: A fourth officer, Jeff Farrior, was demoted from lieutenant to sergeant for being aware of last week’s incident and not taking appropriate action, Yahner told reporters. “Their actions are appalling and unacceptable. This conduct is against every... more »

Obama Vetoes Bill Allowing Victims To Sue Saudi Arabia For 9/11

Sean Adl-Tabatabai at Your News Wire - 1 day ago
President Barack Obama vetoed legislation on Friday that would have allowed the families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to seek justice and sue Saudi Arabia for orchestrating the attacks. Despite overwhelming public support, The White House strongly opposed the legislation, known as the “Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act” (JASTA). The bill was passed unanimously by both the House and Senate, and would have given families the chance to hold authorities in Saudi Arabia accountable for their part in sponsoring the September 11 attacks. Rt.com reports: Known as “Justice A... more »

Maryland School Replaces Detention With Meditation

Sean Adl-Tabatabai at Your News Wire - 1 day ago
An Elementary school in Baltimore, Maryland has taken a unique approach in disciplining it’s students. Instead of dishing out detentions, teachers encourage children to practise meditation. The Robert W. Coleman Elementary school in West Baltimore say that they have found that encouraging children to practise mindful meditation when they are misbehaving has completely eliminated the number of suspensions given in the last year. Thefreethoughtproject.com reports: The program is an initiative organized by the Holistic Life Foundation, a Baltimore-based nonprofit organization commit... more »

FBI Admit They Gave Immunity To Clinton Aide Cheryl Mills

Sean Adl-Tabatabai at Your News Wire - 1 day ago
Hillary Clinton’s top aide Cheryl Mills and two other staffers were granted immunity by the FBI during their email investigation. House oversight committee Chairman, Jason Chaffetz, said in a statement on Friday that chief of staff Cheryl Mills’ immunity deal prevented the agency from properly doing its job. “This is beyond explanation. The FBI was handing out immunity agreements like candy. I’ve lost confidence in this investigation and I question the genuine effort in which it was carried out.” Ap.org reports: Still, Chaffetz said he was “absolutely stunned” that the FBI would ... more »

IRS Threaten Citizens Who Refuse Obamacare

Sean Adl-Tabatabai at Your News Wire - 1 day ago
The IRS are going to send over 20 million American citizens threatening letters warning them that they must sign up for ObamaCare insurance. Obama has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to send out a strongly worded letter, “suggesting” that people sign up, much to the dismay of Congress. Forbes.com reports: “We strongly object to any action by the Administration to improperly use sensitive taxpayer information to identify and harass individuals who have rejected the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) by choosing to pay a tax rather than be forced into a health car... more »

Over 30,000 scientists say 'Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming' is a complete hoax and science lie

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day ago
This is the correct way to answer the 97 percent nonsense. The hard reality is that even fully engaged scientists are at best uncommitted and should be! Worse, the evidence of the past eighteen years has been amazingly neutral after the brief peak that occurred in 1998. However it has been neutral but warmed up which provides a shifted range of temperature variation or should. Thus we have had a better climate for twenty years. I have good reason to expect a downward shift in the next two decades as against a further upward shift. In fact, were i a betting man i would give... more »

Self-driving Tractors

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day ago
Self Driving will have issues for some time in terms of the private automobile. Most of those will not exist in the agricultural setting. The speed is naturally slow and you are interested in repetition which is not as easy on the open road. Much more significant, this technology allows for small machines which are potentially very valuable to the farm. Such machines allow for small densely cropped fields and narrow strips holding trees and fruit shrubs creating a vastly more productive biome. The most important tool is a robotic device able to pick raspberries and strawberri... more »

Why a Trump Victory in November is a Virtual Certainty

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day ago
I strongly recommend this analysis. I have made many successful calls based on paying attention to the popular vote instead of the enthusiasms of newspapermen. Here we see that the popular vote has shifted to Trump as a result of his no holds barred battle to drive the pretenders from the ring. Remember we are merely asking two folks out of every one hundred to switch. That is not much at all. And it is now the strategic end game. Trump will now easily campaign as a robust centralist Democrat as that is what he has always been. After all the Republican party is going nowhe... more »

Mountain Lion in Guy's Face

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day ago
This is interesting. A lion is an ambush hunter mostly. This looks to be a case of confrontation and stare down. Certainly enough to send the observe up a tree. I am more concerned by the lack of fear. We have not been serious about hunting apex predators for a couple of generations. That leads to a serious increase in direct confrontation. That is not a good plan. It is far better that they avoid us. This will start to be a serious problem. Young children are terribly vulnerable to both cougars and wolves who normally avoid adults. Coyotes are also a potential threat... more »

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