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Malkin: Who’s funding shady ballot harvesting schemes?
Ragnar, 'Nox & Friends - 16 hours ago
Found on AlphaNews: AND YOU THOUGHT REP. OMAR WAS DOING SOMETHING ILLEGAL…..HERE CITY OFFICIALS ARE BREAKING ELECTION/STATE/FEDERAL LAW!!!!! Excerpts: Last week, while on a business trip in Wisconsin, I learned about an insane ballot harvesting scheme that appears to be tied to a deep-pocketed liberal advocacy group subsidized by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund. (Bold and Italics mine.) Conservative talk radio host and grassroots activist Vicki McKenna blew the whistle after hearing ads ...
First Air Strikes in 2 years in support of OIR
Uriel, 'Nox & Friends - 1 day ago
Carrier-launched airstrikes hit ISIS targets in Iraq as USS Nimitz patrols Persian Gulf Stars and Stripes Chad Garland September 28, 2020 For the first time in over two years, carrier-launched U.S. aircraft conducted an airstrike against Islamic State targets in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, the global coalition battling the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria. A pair of Navy F/A-18F Super Hornets from Carrier Air Wing 17, embarked on the USS Nimitz, conducted the strikes on Sept. 23, Cmdr. Rebecca Rebarich, a spokeswoman for the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, confirmed via email o...
Another update about the CovID-19 from JM in The Netherlands
greencrow, Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 1 hour ago
*JM's New Avatar - "Starry Night" by * *Vincent Van Gog*h *Greencrow says:* A week or more ago I received an e-mail from a woman who lives in The Netherlands. She was reporting on how the *CovID-19 Scamdemic/Plannedemic/Fraud/HOAX* was damaging her country...as it has been damaging all countries over the Globe. Here is an update from JM: ****************** *Dear gc: * *I hope you are doing fine, in times like these is very hard to stay positive and strong. * *The drums of war are getting louder by the day. Our PM has just steered up the fear factor by announcing that the mask...
Armenian Foreign Minister to BBC: "If Turkey Interevenes, We'll Respond" IF Turkey Intervenes...
Penny, Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours ago
*"If Turkey Intervenes" **So, Turkey has not intervened. Clearly. Despite the disinfo circulating.* *That's a quote from Armenia's Foreign Minister to BBC in an Interview which is featured below:* * It also needs to be pointed out that while Armenia and her citizens feel Nagarno Kharabak is Armenian- It is in fact internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan. Don't construe my statement astaking sides, moral or otherwise, I'm just stating facts* *The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the the following transcript of the BBC interview.* *BBC: Minister, I ask y...
The World Bank says in its Documents that the CovID-19 "Project" will end on March 31, 2025! You will be under lockdown until then.
greencrow, Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 10 hours ago
*Please review all the documents and material located at the link below for proof positive that this is all a massive plot to destroy humanity as we know it.* https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/planned/ Proof that the pandemic was planned with a purpose The plan: inject mankind with DNA altering vaccine ------------------------------ The famous investigative journalist Anthony Patch did years of research concerning the plans to control the world, by means of created pandemics and mandatory vaccines. *During an interview in 2014* this researcher predicted the following: ‘They will ...
Covid-19 Deaths: 1 Million and Surging
Global Issues News Headlines - 11 hours ago
NEW YORK, Oct 01 (IPS) - Covid-19 deaths worldwide have surpassed 1 million. With new cases of coronavirus infections rapidly mounting again, the numbers of Covid-19 deaths are feared to surge in the coming months. Read the full story, “Covid-19 Deaths: 1 Million and Surging”, on globalissues.org →
Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 14 — Middle/Upper Sackville-Beaver Bank-Lucasville
Zane Woodford, Halifax Examiner - 11 hours ago
Lisa Blackburn was almost acclaimed for a second term. But on the final day for nominations, the deputy mayor got a challenger with Greg Frampton adding his name to the ballot. The Halifax Examiner posed the same five questions to every candidate in this fall’s election: What should Halifax be doing to create more affordable […]
Round Midnight
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 11 hours ago
September 26th was the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. In Chicago, where Voices for Creative Nonviolence is based, activists held the third of three COVID-era “Car Caravans” for nuclear disarmament, travelling through the city from Voices’ own rapidly gentrifying Uptown neighborhood to the statue on Chicago’s South Side which marks the fateful site of Earth’s first sustained nuclear chain reaction. Cars bore banners reading “End U.S. Nukes Before They End Us,” “Still Here? Dumb Luck” The post Round Midnight appeared first on PopularResistance.Org.
North Korea Continues To Build It's Nuclear Capability
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un in an image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency today *Joby Warrick and Simon Denyer, The Washington Post:* *As Kim wooed Trump with 'love letters,' he kept building his nuclear capability, intelligence shows* In a secret letter to President Donald Trump in December 2018, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un likened the two leaders' budding friendship to a Hollywood romance. Future meetings with "Your Excellency," Kim wrote to Trump, would be "reminiscent of a scene from a fantasy film." Yet even as he penned the words, Kim...
How Progressives Could Still Win The 21st Century
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 11 hours ago
Our era will be remembered for the triumphant march of authoritarianism in whose wake the vast majority of humanity have experienced unnecessary hardship and the planet’s ecosystem has suffered avoidable climate destruction. For a brief period – a period the British historian Eric Hobsbawm described as “the short 20th century” – establishment forces were united in dealing with challenges to their authority. It was a rare period in which the establishment had to face a variety of progressives, all seeking to change the world: social democrats, communists, self-management experim...
Naked Capitalism: Countering the Spin of the Mainstream Media
Jerri-Lynn Scofield, naked capitalism - 11 hours ago
My annual thank you to the Naked Capitalim community for improving my writing, and to ask you to contribute so we can counter MSM spin.
National Security Journalism Is On Trial
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
Few American media organizations seem to have noticed, but the U.S. Justice Department has spent the past few weeks trying to persuade the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales to extradite Julian Assange to the United States to face charges under the 1917 Espionage Act. The hearing is scheduled to wind down at the end of this week. At this point Assange has alienated pretty much everyone, including many erstwhile supporters, and few people on this side of the Atlantic seem troubled by his indictment or by the possibility that he will be extradited, tried, convicted, and imp...
Why We Focus On Africa
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
With reports each week of yet another Black victim of police violence, there is for many an ever-growing desperation. As activists search for a way forward, Africa’s plight does not find its way on to the movement agenda. But there is good reason to be concerned about what goes on in Africa. The problems there and the problems here are related. Africa has long been the focus of foreign exploitation of the continent’s land, resources, and people. As everyone knows, Africans find themselves in the Western Hemisphere because of slavery and its exploitation of the labor of those who w...
They Went From “Flatten The Curve” To “Put Your Hands Behind Your Back” So Fast We Didn’t Even Notice
Kate, Small Dead Animals - 12 hours ago
THE COVID MEASURES ACT OF 2020: Police are authorized to demand proof of residency and if residents refuse entry, officers will be able to obtain warrants faster through a new, virtual system that was established in collaboration with the Crown, the premier said.
Fortress On A Hill: Understanding The War Industry
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
Christian Sorenson stops by the podcast to discuss his new book “Understanding the War Industry”, a detailed look at contracting within the U.S. military industrial complex and how its giant war chest gets funneled to an endless list of contractors, without question to its necessity or what could have been purchased in its place. Everyone from libertarians to mainstream liberals to anarchists utters the words “military-industrial complex,” often as a catchall for murky forces that press the U.S. government into war. But what is this complex? The post Fortress On A Hill: Understan...
How Ecuador’s Democracy Is Being Suffocated
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
A recent poll showed that if Andrés Arauz Galarza were allowed to run in Ecuador’s presidential election of 2021, he would win in the first round with 45.9 percent of the vote. The pollsters found that Arauz—who was the minister of knowledge and human talent from 2015 to 2017—wins across “all the social strata and regions of the country, with a slight weakness among the richest voters in the country.” Andrés Arauz entered policymaking and government when Rafael Correa was the president of the country, from 2007 to 2017. The post How Ecuador’s Democracy Is Being Suffocated appeare...
Thursday Morning Links
Unknown, Accidental Deliberations - 12 hours ago
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Tom Kibasi examines how the UK Cons' mismanagement - both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic - has resulted in disastrous public health consequences. And Denna Berg and Karin Taylor find that right-wing governments in general have seen far worse outcomes than parties which aren't hostile to the concept of state action in the public interest. - Bruce Arthur questions Doug Ford's absolute failure to take signs of rapid spread in Ontario seriously, while the Globe and Mail's editorial board notes that a fall wave is somehow catching ...
COVID-19 Cases Among Health Care Workers Under-Reported
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
Fiana Tulip spent the last 10 weeks trying to figure out how her mother, a health care worker in Dallas, contracted and died of COVID-19. Isabelle Papadimitriou, 64, was a respiratory therapist at the Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation. She died on July 4, one week after contracting the novel coronavirus. Tulip said she learned after talking with her mother’s colleagues and reading her journals and text messages that the hospital failed to alert her mother and other staff members at the rehabilitation center that one of the patients had tested positive for COVID-19....
Fox News Trump-Biden ratings record. Falls short of 2016 Trump-Hillary
Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 13 hours ago
*****News Topic 58***** In TV Ratings, Trump vs. Biden Was No Match for Trump vs. Clinton The rise of streaming and familiar characters may have cut into the record viewership of four years ago. Fox News led all networks in audience size, Nielsen said. https://archive.fo/JiXvd
My Texas Tour
Bryan Caplan, Econlib - 13 hours ago
Next week, I’m touring Texas with my sons. I’m speaking for Texas Tech’s Free Market Institute in Lubbock on October 5, and at San Angelo State’s Free Market Institute on October 6. Both events are in-person, and the Texas Tech event is, amazingly, open to the public! (Though you do have to register). If you […] The post My Texas Tour appeared first on Econlib.
Western NGOs in Southeast Asia Support Anti-China Campaigns
Land Destroyer, Land Destroyer - 13 hours ago
*October 1, 2020 *(Global Times) - Southeast Asian countries have long been the focus for Western NGOs and many work hard to support women's rights and aid the underprivileged. But critics increasingly argue that some non-governmental organizations have become vehicles for Western propaganda and even engage in "China-bashing campaigns" that are far outside their purview of doing public good. Many Western NGOs have been rooted in the local societies in Southeast Asia countries for many years. They are normally most visible during local social or environmental crises, but have als...
Amazon and Price Gouging During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A Political Junkie, Viable Opposition - 13 hours ago
A recent analysis by the national non-profit organization Public Citizen looks at how one of America's largest retailers benefitted from the COVID-19 pandemic. This is of particular pertinence given that bricks and mortar stores throughout the United States were largely shuttered as a result of the pandemic and stay-at-home orders were issued by state level governments, leaving American consumers with little choice but to shop online for goods that they needed during the pandemic. As well, the fact that there could well be a second shutdown as COVID-19 tests show increasing numb...
When Can We Expect a Working Covid Vaccine?
Gaius Publius, DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
*From the source: "The figure above includes 10 vaccine candidates already in Phase I, 4 candidates in combined Phase I/II trials, 2 candidates in Phase II and 3Candidates in Phase II/III (Moderna is already for a total of 18 candidates in clinical phases."* *by Thomas Neuburger* The fastest vaccine ever developed was the mumps vaccine, and it took four years: "The invention of the modern mumps vaccine is the stuff of medical textbook legend. In 1963, a star researcher at the pharmaceutical company Merck took a swab of his own daughter’s throat to begin cultivating a weakened form...
Venezuela's Food Chain Has Broken
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago
With domestic production of food hobbled, Venezuela relies on food imports, which make up 85% of the food supply. A market in Maracaibo. Photo: Luis Bravo/Agence France-Presse *WSJ: **Venezuela’s Food Chain Is Breaking, and Millions Go Hungry* *A report found 13% of children under 5 are stunted; oil-rich nation is ‘on the edge of an irreversible catastrophe’* Ana Nuñez, a 62-year-old retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her meals often consist of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as arepas. Even when she has money to buy groceries in the city of Maracaibo...
Hearing Reveals US Govt’s Invisible Hand in Protests Around the World
Dave DeCamp, Peace and Prosperity - 11 hours ago
[image: undefined] Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee grilled Michael Pack, who President Trump recently appointed to head the US government’s state propaganda arm, the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Pack was appointed in June and started a big shakeup at the US state media outlets run by the USAGM, like Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. Pack fired senior staffers, pushed out management, and froze funding. During last week’s hearing, Democrats and Republicans on the committee teamed up to attack Pack for his purges. But what seemed more important to Congress an...
Pandemic Follies: Tyranny Won’t Keep Us Safe
James Bovard, Peace and Prosperity - 11 hours ago
[image: undefined] Politicians have destroyed more than 13 million jobs this year in a deluge of edicts aimed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 200,000 Americans still died from the coronavirus, but the anti-COVID government crackdowns probably did far more damage than the virus. The COVID crisis has also shown how easy it is for politicians to fan fears to seize nearly absolute power. In March, Donald Trump proclaimed that “we are at war with an invisible enemy.” He also declared, “I’m a wartime president…. This is a different kind of war than we’ve ever had.” Maryland’s g...
At least 40 dead and 2 million tons of rice destroyed as Jigawa sees worst flood in 32 years, Nigeria
The Watchers » Latest articles - 11 hours ago
At least 40 people have lost their lives and more than 2 million tons of rice crops - a quarter of the country's projected harvest - have been lost as northwestern Nigerian state Jigawa reels from its worst flood in 32 years, according to the Jigawa State...... Read more »
No, The Next Debate Moderator Should Not Be A Teacher
Peter Greene, CURMUDGUCATION - 12 hours ago
Within ten minutes, the comments started, and they haven’t stopped since. This is why kindergarten teachers should be paid a million dollars. Next time, pick a middle school teacher—they know how to handle this. It was like watching squabbling children. Referring to Trump as “President Manbaby.” The comparisons are unfair to teachers and children both, and while I know we’ve all got a few things on our minds, it’s worth taking a moment to think about why the comparisons are unfair. There are teacher skills that apply here. For instance, when chaos envelopes a classroom seemingly i...
Northerntruthseekers' Blog has been "Removed"
greencrow, Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 12 hours ago
*Northerntruthseeker* Folks...It's beginning to happen. Northerntruthseeker's blog has been summarily removed by Blogger. Here is the note he sent in a comment to me this morning: *[image: Blogger] Northerntruthseeker said...* *Hey Greencrow...My blog has been 'removed' for "violation of their terms of service"...I may be gone permanently, and thus I want you to let other readers know as well..I requested a 'review' of my works, and I am awaiting their 'report' in the meantime..If I am permanently removed, I will let you know..* **************************** *Greenc...
This Day In Iraqi History - Oct 1
Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago
1920 Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra as new British high commissioner of Iraq Was told to prepare for Iraqi independence 1967 Law No 123 gave Iraqi National Oil Company more power and right to develop north Rumaila oil field 1968 Govt and KDP started fighting once again (Musings On Iraq review *The Kurds, A Modern History*) (Musings On Iraq review *Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope*) 1972 US opened Interests Section in Baghdad after diplomatic relations were ended in 1967 1978 Iraq Revolutionary Command Council said it would get Arab League to reject Egypt-Israeli peace ...
Podcast — Collective Evolution — How Facebook Killed Alternative Media & How to Fight Back
The Free Thought Project, The Free Thought Project - 12 hours ago
[image: social media]If we want to prevent a world in which there is only a single narrative and all dissent is silenced, we must take action on social media now.
Verizon Brings 5g Home Internet to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Technology, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_RC2MOD94NYQ6&share=true] The roll out of the new technology continues. Verizon announced this week that on October 1—which is Thursday—they will bring 5G home Internet to a new market, the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. They also announced the arrival of a new router meant to work with the technology. The addition brings the 5G home service to a seventh market, joining Sacramento, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, and Detroit. The 5G Home Internet costs...
How the U.S. Army and Air Force Want To Link Their Weapons of War
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC26YE931A1W&share=true] Improved sensor and communications connectivity will mean that fighter jets and soldiers can better share real-time targeting information. The Army and the Air Force are planning a series of upcoming joint-service talks for the specific purpose of charting a collaborative, mutually beneficial attack network to better connect air and ground domains to one another in war. “We have a concept called Multi-Domain Operation which is our contribut...
How China Can Capitalize on America’s Plan to Sacrifice Spectrum
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] The Chinese telecom industry has close ties to the Chinese government—an entity long-known to make various attempts at espionage using technological infiltration into foreign markets. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is proposing to strip forty-five of the seventy-five megahertz of spectrum reserved for a special “safety band” to ensure safe-clear communication between first-responder vehicles, standard passenger vehicles and traffic controls at busy intersections, a move that has many U.S. government officials concern...
Senator Josh Hawley's Big Tech War Is A Big Win For Lawyers
Daniel Lyons, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Daniel Lyons* *Politics, Americas* There is a real need to approach Section 230 reform thoughtfully and carefully. Simply unleashing the trial lawyers is neither. As my AEI colleague Mark Jamison discussed yesterday, there is significant buzz on both ends of the political spectrum to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the cornerstone of internet law. Last week, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) argued that the best way to stop Big Tech censorship is to weaken Section 230’s protections and unleash the trial lawyers on Silicon Valley; in his words, “let Americans sue!” As...
How Donald Trump Is Building a New Alliance to Counter China and North Korea
William Jeynes, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*William Jeynes* *Politics, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC2K7F9ZYI05&share=true] Diplomatic vists and new understandings with Japan, India, the UAE and Bahrain are all a part of the plan. President Trump has taken keen notice of North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, as well as his “chief underwriter,” China. The dictator’s belligerent and provocative behavior, particularly his development of nuclear weapons, has caused Mr. Trump to develop an international strategy that has largely gone under the radar of the mainstre...
Gates Foundation Doubles Down on Misinformation Campaign at Cornell as African Leaders Call for Agroecology
Sustainable Pulse, Sustainable Pulse - 12 hours ago
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded another $10 million last week to the controversial Cornell Alliance for Science, a communications campaign housed at Cornell that trains fellows in Africa and elsewhere to promote and defend genetically engineered foods, crops and agrichemicals. The new grant brings BMGF grants to the group to $22 million, USRTK reported […] The post Gates Foundation Doubles Down on Misinformation Campaign at Cornell as African Leaders Call for Agroecology appeared on Sustainable Pulse.
Climate change and the Trump/Biden debate
Peter Murphy, CFACT - 12 hours ago
America faces a climate policy fork in the road. The post Climate change and the Trump/Biden debate appeared first on CFACT.
Western NGOs in Southeast Asia Support Anti-China Campaigns
Land Destroyer, Alt Thai News Network ATNN - 13 hours ago
*October 1, 2020 *(Global Times) - Southeast Asian countries have long been the focus for Western NGOs and many work hard to support women's rights and aid the underprivileged. But critics increasingly argue that some non-governmental organizations have become vehicles for Western propaganda and even engage in "China-bashing campaigns" that are far outside their purview of doing public good. Many Western NGOs have been rooted in the local societies in Southeast Asia countries for many years. They are normally most visible during local social or environmental crises, but have als...
Assange’s Seventeenth Day at the Old Bailey: Embassy Espionage, Contemplated Poisoning and Proposed Kidnapping
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 13 hours ago
Today will be remembered as a grand expose. It was a direct, pointed accusation at the intentions of the US imperium which long for the scalp of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. For WikiLeaks, it was a smouldering triumph, showing that the entire mission against Assange, from the start, has been a political one. The Australian publisher faces the incalculably dangerous prospect of 17 charges under the US Espionage Act and one under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Stripped to its elements, the indictment is merely violence kitted out in the vestment of sham legality. The r...
Doubt is a treacherous path. We must avoid being diverted towards terminal cynicism
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 13 hours ago
What I think of as the cynical left are once again berating the progressive critical left, myself included, for failing to write what they want written about Covid-19. I take this as a kind of unintended compliment: that they think we can write about their concerns better than they can themselves.
Billionaire Seagram’s Heiress Sentenced to Over 6 Years for Role in NXIVM Sex Trafficking Ring
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 13 hours ago
[image: cult]The heiress to the billion dollar Seagrem's fortune was sentenced to 81 months in prison for funding and protecting the cult while intimidating victims.
Biden: Earpiece? Smart AR Contacts? ... video
Adrienne, Adrienne's Corner - 11 hours ago
* very credible video.* I've researched as much of this as I can and not found anything alarming wrong in the presentation.
This U.S. Presidential Election Will Be Decided On Who Can Get Their Base To Go Out And Vote
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago
This debate has actually convinced some undecided voters to not vote at all. I’ve never seen a debate cause this reaction. #Debates2020 — Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) September 30, 2020 *Hot Air:* *Luntz: For first time ever, undecideds in debate focus group decided not to vote at all* Consider Frank Luntz flabbergasted. The experienced focus-group handler collected a number of undecided voters for the presidential debate, as he has in several cycles, in order to test the initial movement the event creates. Usually Luntz gets a sense that undecideds have moved toward one candidate ...
Joe Biden says he will raise taxes on the middle class and the poor while reducing them for the rich
trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 11 hours ago
Joe Biden made it clear in the debate that he will repeal Trump's tax cuts. That means he'll be raising taxes on the middle class and lowering them on the rich. Contrary to Democrat lies Trump's tax cuts helped 8 out of 10 Americans. Households saved, on average, $1400 a year and a couple with two kids saved $2900. Of course to rich Democrats like Biden who dodged $500,000 in taxes by forming a Subchapter-S corporation a few grand a year might not seem like much but to most Americans it's a big deal. Hence Joe is saying that he's going to take between a big chunk of what you ea...
Chris Wallace says presidential corruption isn't a "substantial" subject
trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 11 hours ago
During the debate Trump brought up Biden's blatant corruption; during his time as VP his family got millions from Chinese Communists, Russian Oligarchs, and corrupt Ukrainian businesses. If there was a similar record for Trump's family during the last 4 years Wallace would have been all over it. Instead Wallace said: *“We’ve already been through this. I think the American people would rather hear about more substantial subjects. As the moderator, sir, I’m going to make a judgment call here,”* What's more substantial than very credible charges that Joe Biden has set US foreign po...
The Weekly Volcanic Activity Report: September 23 - 29, 2020
The Watchers » Latest articles - 12 hours ago
New activity/unrest was reported for 2 volcanoes from September 23 - 29, 2020. During the same period, ongoing activity was reported for 12 volcanoes. New activity/unrest: Grimsvotn, Iceland | Sangay, Ecuador. Ongoing activity: Aira, Kyushu (Japan) | Copahue,...... Read more »
An open mind versus a closed mind
Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 13 hours ago
I think one of the saddest aspects of our current political, social and cultural polarization in these dis-United States is that most of us no longer listen to those with different opinions to our own. We've retreated into our "comfort zones", and we tend to stay there. Anyone who agrees with us is in that zone too; anyone disagreeing with us is instantly classified as outside that zone, and is therefore automatically to be distrusted, even shunned. I find support for this theory in the news and opinions we consult every day. I grew up with parents who encouraged me to read wid...
Could Your Medical Bills Make You Sick?
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago
Above illustration: Lincoln Agnew. NOTE: This article lays out the harmful impacts of medical debt and ways to deal with it. The problem with the solution proposed is that it exists within the framework of the unjust healthcare system we have. Medical debt doesn’t need to be “relieved,” it needs to be abolished. The United […] The post Could Your Medical Bills Make You Sick? appeared first on PopularResistance.Org.
THE ERA WHICH WAS: Blue Monday delivered some 10,000 words!
<b>bob somerby</b>, the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020* *A news report for the ages?:* Fats Domino hated Blue Monday. Nor was he ever shy about stating this point. This week, one such Monday brought the nation more than ten thousand words. We refer to the bombshell report which ate the front page of the Times. As soon as it appeared on line, it became The Report Which Was. In print editions, Blue Monday's report appeared beneath a triple headline set: *PRESIDENT'S TAXES CHART CHRONIC LOSSES, AUDIT BATTLE AND INCOME TAX AVOIDANCE* YEARS OF TRUMP RECORDS Long-Concealed Returns Point to Looming Financial Thr...
Al Kharafi-LIA : l'arbitrage à un milliard d'euros atterrit en cassation à Paris
bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago
01-Oct-2020 Le groupe koweïtien Al Kharafi veut faire confirmer ses saisies des actifs français du fonds souverain libyen LIA. Mais la sentence arbitrale dont il se prévaut a été annulée par la justice égyptienne.
Burning Amazonia: A global corporate crime
bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago
01-Oct-2020 The Mercosur-EU free trade agreement is set to intensify trends of territorial expansion, will contribute to the climate crisis, and will directly impact the rights, territories and ways of life of Amazon peoples.
Tanzanie : le Britannique Indiana réclame 95 millions $ à l'Etat pour « expropriation illégale » à Ntaka Hill
bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago
01-Oct-2020 Indiana Resources réclame 95 millions $ comme dédommagement minimum en réparation du préjudice causé par « l'expropriation illégale » de son permis d'exploration au projet de nickel Ntaka Hill.
Trusted Hardware and Software: An Annotated Bibliography
prosenzweig, Lawfare - 13 hours ago
The Pentagon, which serves as headquarters for the Defense Department (gregwest98, https://flic.kr/p/6FW8b7, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). In a world of growing dependence on technology, consumers of information and communications technology (ICT) goods face an increasingly important question of provenance: How, if at all, can users be confident that the systems on which they rely will function as they are supposed to? How can they be sure that products and systems have not been altered in the supply chain? The issue is complex. These questions vary a...
Portland: Police Arrest Far Right Protestor
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago
Portland Police have arrested a far-right protester and member of the Proud Boys who pointed a gun at antifascist protesters on Aug. 22 in downtown Portland. Alan James Swinney, 50, is being held in the Multnomah County Jail on multiple assault charges, pointing a firearm at another, unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful use of tear gas, stun gun or mace. Photographs and video from the Aug. 22 rally outside the Multnomah County Justice Center depict Swinney pointing a revolver at a crowd of counterprotesters. The post Portland: Police Arrest Far Right Protestor appeared first on...
Joe Biden vilifies a 17 year old for political gain
trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 13 hours ago
The New York Times has made a very strong case that Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self defense when he shot 3 men after he was attacked by a mob. We can argue about whether or not he should have been there and about whether or not he was there to help others and protect businesses but there is 0 evidence he went there with the intent of shooting anyone; ie he wasn't anything like the BLM organizer who drove her car into a crowd of Trump supporters. Another thing there is absolutely no evidence for is that Rittenhouse is a white nationalist or white supremacist. Yet Joe Biden used Rit...
Subway Bread Isn’t Bread, Irish Court Says
AP News, Snopes.com - 14 hours ago
Ireland’s Supreme Court has ruled that the fast food chain's bread contains so much sugar that it cannot be legally defined as bread.
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend Grieve Their Miscarriage
AP News, Snopes.com - 14 hours ago
Teigen announced their loss on social media, with pictures of her and Legend grieving together over a bundle cradled in her arms.
The Key Weapon Trump Didn't Use: Biden Will Kill Artemis and your Future
Alicia, LaRouchePAC Feed - 14 hours ago
Space Apollo to Artemis The Fight for The Future Video of Apollo to Artemis The Fight for The Future Step outside the noise for a second and think about Earth's Next 50 years. NASA has just produced a study which shows that for every dollar invested in Artemis—President Trump's Moon Mars mission—three dollars come back into the economy in terms of new technologies and productive jobs. That does not take into account the triggering of the imaginations of younger people as they look toward a vast new frontier of scientific study. Joe Biden and Barack Obama killed this program and wil...
Thousands Of Mathematicians Join Boycott Against Police Collaboration
Maddie Rose, Shadowproof - 15 hours ago
Over 2,000 mathematicians have signed a letter agreeing to boycott all collaboration with police, and insisting their colleagues do the same. The post Thousands Of Mathematicians Join Boycott Against Police Collaboration appeared first on Shadowproof.
Conflicting Rulings in Cases Brought Under the Helms-Burton Act
JBellinger, Lawfare - 15 hours ago
Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami (Phillip Pessar, https://flic.kr/p/dXkb69; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) Back in June, we reported that suits brought under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act had suffered their first significant setback, but that many open questions remained. In the last two months, courts have now handed down significant rulings on the application of two other doctrines—standing and scienter—to Helms-Burton suits. Generalizing from these rulings is tricky, as they point in different directions. While some impose stricter...
How the Media Runs Cover for the War Hawks and Coup Plotters
Alicia, LaRouchePAC Feed - 15 hours ago
How the Media Runs Cover for the War Hawks and Coup Plotters Video of How the Media Runs Cover for the War Hawks and Coup Plotters As Election Day approaches in the U.S., there are new shooting wars erupting, and regime change coups being run, which threaten to move from "little wars" into full-fledged confrontations between the U.S. and NATO, against Russia and China. President Trump has made it clear that he wants to end these wars and provocations, which were expanded by the Obama-Biden administration. Is this not something which should be included in a presidential campaign de...
L'avenir est numérique, mais les chapitres sur le numérique doivent rester en marge des accords commerciaux
bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago
01-Oct-2020 Alors que nous entrons dans une nouvelle phase du bouleversement numérique de l'économie, nous devons veiller à ne pas entraver nos institutions démocratiques dans la réglementation de la sphère numérique.
The future is digital, but we should keep digital chapters out of our trade deals
bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago
01-Oct-2020 We must ensure that, as we enter a new phase in the digital disruption of the economy, we do not shackle our democratic institutions from regulating the digital sphere.
Taiwan trade deal on Trump administration's radar, lawmaker says
bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago
01-Oct-2020 A group of Republican lawmakers seeking to counter national security and economic threats from China is calling for the United States to open trade talks with Taiwan.
Thailand tries to get Efta pact in place
bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago
01-Oct-2020 Thailand has kick-started efforts to forge a free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association, a regional trade bloc consisting of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
India to contest Vodafone arbitration judgement: Report
bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago
01-Oct-2020 The Indian government plans to contest the judgement on the Vodafone arbitration award in Hague.
EU launches legal action against UK for breaching Brexit deal and international law
bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago
01-Oct-2020 The backdrop to all of this is that trade talks between London and Brussels are entering their final phase.
FTA with Mongolia under study
bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago
01-Oct-2020 Cambodia is studying the possibility of a bilateral free trade agreement with Mongolia.
Vietnam et Royaume-Uni publient une déclaration conjointe sur leur partenariat stratégique
bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago
01-Oct-2020 Le Vietnam et le Royaume-Uni continueront à avoir des discussions sur l'ambition de Londres d'adhérer à l'Accord de partenariat transpacifique global et progressiste (CPTPP).
To Stop the Conflict in the South Caucasus, the U.S. Must Restrain Turkey
Erik Khzmalyan, Armen Sahakyan, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Erik Khzmalyan, Armen Sahakyan* *Security, Europe* Washington’s indecisiveness to contain Ankara’s belligerence runs the risk of entrapping the United States in never-ending conflicts that Turkey is facilitating. With barely any mention of foreign policy, the first 2020 U.S. presidential debate further crystalized the argument that America is dangerously distracted from world affairs. Both the Democratic and GOP party leaders are preoccupied with the upcoming elections that promise to be one of the most contested in U.S. history. This political distraction is made worse by the ...
America Gets First Iron Dome Battery from Israel
Seth J. Frantzman, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Seth J. Frantzman* *Security, * [image: Reuters] The Iron Dome system and other aspects of Israel’s unique air-defense system are getting more attention in a world that has more drone and rocket threats and where conflicts and tension are growing from Asia to the Caucuses. In a historic ceremony, the Israeli Ministry of Defense delivered the first of Israel’s famed Iron Dome batteries to the U.S. Army on Wednesday. The ceremony was conducted in northern Israel as the air-defense system developed by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems was officially provided to the United S...
Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Could Quickly Turn Into Regional War
Mohammed Ayoob, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Mohammed Ayoob* *Security, Europe* There are too many external fingers in this Caucasus pie and unless this fire is doused quickly it has the potential to turn into a major regional conflict. The latest flare-up in fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces that began in July and escalated in mid-September comes closest to the full-scale conflict that ensued between them in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the Soviet Union was disintegrating. It was centred on Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave situated within the boundaries of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socia...
Could China Really Shoot Down a U.S. Military MQ-9 Reaper Drone?
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Security, * [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2017%3Anewsml_RC1A47528E30&share=true] Beijing recently boasted that it viewed the MQ-9 as not much of a threat. A news report from the Chinese-government backed Global Times writes that China could “easily shoot down U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones,” quoting Chinese military experts claiming knowledge of the aircraft’s recent training activities. The Chinese paper makes reference to a U.S. “Exercise Agile Reaper” training event in which MQ-9s were practicing combat operations in the Pacific. ...
Why Obesity Can (Occasionally) Be Good for Your Health
Ana Johnson, Joel Parlow, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Ana Johnson, Joel Parlow* *Health, World* [image: Reuters] These results do not mean that fattening up the population in the normal weight band should become a public health goal. The World Health Organization has declared obesity to be a global epidemic that “threatens to overwhelm both developed and developing countries.” However, is obesity always bad when it comes to health? Certainly, obesity is a significant risk factor for the development of many chronic conditions, including heart disease. However, research has shown that in a number of situations, being overweight may a...
Trouble Ahead: Why Things Won't Be Getting Easier For The Federal Reserve
Steven B. Kamin, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Steven B. Kamin* *Economics, Americas* On August 27, Chair Powell announced two key adjustments to the Fed’s longer-term monetary policy strategy, coming as the culmination of its nearly two-year review of the monetary policy framework. On August 27, speaking at the Federal Reserve’s newly-virtual Jackson Hole conference, Chair Powell announced two key adjustments to the Fed’s longer-term monetary policy strategy, coming as the culmination of its nearly two-year review of the monetary policy framework.[1] First, the Fed would seek “to achieve inflation that averages 2 percent ov...
Why The Federal Reserve Accepted 2 Percent Inflation As The Norm
James A. Dorn, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*James A. Dorn* *Economics, Americas* The Fed’s message that rates will stay near zero for a long time—and that inflation will be allowed to exceed 2 percent to make up for past misses—is meant to increase inflation expectations. The unanimous decision of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to shift from inflation targeting to average inflation targeting is another step away from its mandate to achieve long‐run price stability. Section 2A of the Federal Reserve Act does not say the Fed’s long‐run objective should be 2 percent inflation. It calls for maintaining the growth...
How Coronavirus Transformed America's Southern Border With Mexico
Alex Nowrasteh, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Alex Nowrasteh* *Security, Americas* It’s important for the government to limit the spread of serious communicable diseases across borders in normal times and during pandemics, although it remains unclear that such border closures actually affected the spread of COVID-19 domestically. In response to COVID-19, the Trump administration ordered immigration enforcement agencies along the border to expel those apprehended under 42 U.S.C. § 265. That statute allows the government, in whole or in part, to close the border to prevent the spread of communicable disease – although there ...
The real Debate, Part II – Trump stops race sensitivity training [Video]
Seraphim Hanisch, The Duran - 14 hours ago
We covered this when it happened, and it was surprising that the news piece did not take off. It should have. However, as our main distribution path makes use of social networks, it is likely that the piece was shadow banned. You can find our analysis here, and you will find it is somewhat more […]
Diversity Is Our Strength
Kate, Small Dead Animals - 14 hours ago
“And here are the deputy ministers of the federal government’s departments — the people often considered the true leaders of the cabinet ministries — in early September…” Hiring this one-sided is usually blamed on overt and covert prejudices that combine to form the sort of “systemic barriers” Trudeau’s throne speech alluded to. In the… Continue reading →
Lithuanian “Smart Griffin” with American acсent
TheBalticWord, The Duran - 14 hours ago
Via The Baltic Word… Smart Griffin – 2020 exercise (Sumanus Grifonas 2020), organized by the Motorised Infantry Brigade “Žemaitija”, have begun at the training ground in the Klaipeda region (Kairiai). The Ministry of Defence of Lithuania reports that it will last until October 2. Smart Griffin 2020 is the first exercise in a new military […]
Mewling And Puking
Owen Gray, Northern Reflections - 14 hours ago
Like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson is a narcissist. John Crace writes: Like most narcissists, Boris Johnson is unable to conceive of other people having an independent existence. Rather, they are mere satellites orbiting his ego. Mere objects whose only function is to do his bidding. And to be fair, it’s a world view that has served him well enough up to now as he’s cruised his way, with a flamboyant mixture of broken promises, outright lies and back-stabbing, to his life’s goal of becoming prime minister. Family, friends and colleagues that have been trampled upon along the way ar...
DeVos Wants To Revisit Failed Merit Pay
Peter Greene, CURMUDGUCATION - 13 hours ago
Seriously. Yesterday's announcement of education department grants came packed in a lot of air-stuffed puffery from some alternate universe where we're expected to believe that these programs announced by Betsy DeVos "build on her commitment to elevating the teaching profession and empowering teachers." Because if there's anybody who's known for having teachers' backs, it's the DeVosinator. "Great teachers deserve to be treated as the professionals they are," announced the woman who called the public schools (where most great teachers work) a "dead end" and who has suggested that d...
Cometary Alignments and the Galactic Tide
Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams - 13 hours ago
A second ecliptic? What an interesting notion, referred to in a new paper from Arika Higuchi as an ‘empty ecliptic,’ constituting a second alignment plane for the Solar System. This is lively stuff, examined in a new paper in the Astronomical Journal that focuses on the aphelia of long-period comets, the points where they are […]
The Debate no one wanted you to see, Part I – on Race [Video]
Seraphim Hanisch, The Duran - 14 hours ago
Most of us are aware of the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. I watched the first half of the debate while formulating an evaluation of my own about how it went. You can read that here. However, in continuing to watch the second half of the debate, if I were trying […]
WATCH: Katie Porter, Squad Members Eviscerate Big Pharma CEOs Over ‘Exorbitant’ Drug Prices
Yves Smith, naked capitalism - 14 hours ago
ngresscritters go after drug price gouging. But what will it take to make it stop?
Joe Biden labels pregnancy a disease during Presidential debate [Video]
Seraphim Hanisch, The Duran - 14 hours ago
During the Presidential debate, Joe Biden played the gentleman when the question arose about the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The Democrat argument has largely tried to base itself on the notion that confirming a Justice in an election year or particularly close to the election is somehow “wrong”, in connection […]
CIA Brennan cover up to hide Hillary Clinton’s Russia collusion
Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 14 hours ago
*****News Topic 57***** Next declassification could flip Russia collusion script, point to effort to hurt Trump. Former NSC official says some evidence cut against claim Russia was helping. Trump.https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/next-declassification-could-flip-russia-collusion
Bright fireball lights up the sky over Ohio, U.S.
The Watchers » Latest articles - 14 hours ago
A brilliant fireball exploded over Ohio, U.S. at around 10:24 UTC (06:24 EDT) on September 30, 2020. The American Meteor Society (AMS) has so far received 701 reports about the meteor, which was observed in more than a dozen states. The event was primarily seen...... Read more »
The Lancet censors Gaza health letter after pro-Israel pressure
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 14 hours ago
The letter – “Structural violence in the era of a new pandemic: the case of the Gaza Strip” – was duly published in the The Lancet online on 27 March. Just three days later, however, in a move unusual if not unprecedented for The Lancet, the letter was taken down without comment.
Covid Tyranny Not Warranted
Ron Clutz, Science Matters - 14 hours ago
Randall Denley writes at National Post Ontario’s new COVID models show everyone should stop panicking — especially Doug Ford. His article explains the Ontario example of officials losing their nerve and reacting rather than being reasonable. This panic by political leaders is appearing currently in many jurisdictions, including Quebec where I live. Excerpts in italics […]
Half a Million Sharks Could Be Killed to Make Vaccine
Stefanie Spear, Children's Health Defense - 14 hours ago
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman, Children’s Health Defense Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline may need to slaughter half a million sharks to harvest squalene, an oil made in shark livers to make a new line of COVID jabs. Glaxo mixes squalene with a witches’ brew of proprietary surfactants to produce its controversial AS03 vaccine adjuvant. Adjuvants […] The post Half a Million Sharks Could Be Killed to Make Vaccine appeared first on Children's Health Defense.
FBI Say Russian Intelligence Is Using A 'Right-Wing' News Site To Target U.S. Voters
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
*Reuters*: *Exclusive: Russian operation masqueraded as right-wing news site to target U.S. voters - sources* LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian group accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has posed as an independent news outlet to target right-wing social media users ahead of this year’s vote, two people familiar with an FBI probe into the activity told Reuters. The latest operation centred around a pseudo media organisation called the Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens (NAEBC), which was run by people associated with the St. Petersburg-based Internet Resear...
If I Didn’t Believe, I Wouldn’t Know How to Breathe: The Fortieth Newsletter (2020)
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 14 hours ago
1 October 2020 — Tricontinental Liu Xiaodong (China), Refugees 4, 2015. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Here’s a story that encapsulates the terrible situation of our world: Associated Press reporters were on a Turkish coast guard vessel which picked up 37 migrants, including 18 children, from two orange … Continue reading If I Didn’t Believe, I Wouldn’t Know How to Breathe: The Fortieth Newsletter (2020)
Innocent Mom Hospitalized After Being ‘Legally’ Raped by Cops Looking for Non-Existent Drugs
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago
[image: raped]Because police suspected this innocent mom of having an illegal substance she was brought to jail and forcibly raped by officers who found nothing.
President Macron’s Bad Play In Lebanon
Thierry MEYSSAN, OrientalReview.org - 14 hours ago
Playing Deus ex machina, President Macron came to distribute the good and bad points to the Lebanese leaders. Sure of his superiority, he said he was ashamed of the behavior of this political class. But all this is just a bad play. Underhandedly, he is trying to destroy the Resistance and to transform the country into a tax haven.
Why people still believe the myth of tampered Halloween candy
Suzanne Rent, Halifax Examiner - 15 hours ago
News 1. Nearly 84% of Nova Scotia public schools had elevated levels of lead in water Zane Woodford reports on the results of the testing done on drinking water in schools across Nova Scotia. The results were finally released by the provincial government on Wednesday. And according to the numbers, 84% of public schools in […]
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jonjayray, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 15 hours ago
*Forgiving Federal Student Loans Is a Horrible Idea* This is not the first time, nor probably the last, that I have given my views about forgiving federal student loans. It was a horrible idea when first proposed, and remains so today—perhaps more so than ever. Before, discussing loan forgiveness, I repeat my longstanding opposition to the entire federal student loan program. It has dramatically raised the cost of college. My educated guess is that without that program for the last 50 years or so, tuition fees today would be about one-half of what they actually are. Federal studen...
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Jenna Orkin, From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 15 hours ago
From Jenna Orkin New York Region Sees 40% Bankruptcy Surge, Braces for More AP fact check: False claims flood the Trump-Biden debate Yale Economist Warns of Looming Dollar Collapse Why are America’s progressive Arab movements supporting Trump? AZERBAIJANI-ARMENIAN WAR: TURKISH F-16S ENTER THE GAME. ARMENIA THREATENS TO USE ISKANDER MISSILES - SOUTH FRONTExperimental Cancer Treatment Destroys Cancer Cells Without Using Any Drugs Filipinos make up 4% of nurses in the US, but 31.5% of nurse deaths from COVID-19 More than 250 hospitals across the US have been debilitated by a cyberattack...
Who are the Proud Boys and why did Chris Wallace denounce them?
Norma, Collecting My Thoughts - 15 hours ago
I'd never heard of Proud Boys until this week when Chris Wallace made himself 3rd person in the debate and demanded Trump denounce them. I'm not sure what they stand for on the fringes, but the Core seems pretty solid if this poster is accurate (I haven't researched it since Google controls all that). Minimal government? Secure borders? Anti-racism? 2nd amendment? 1st amendment? Less identity politics? Not sure what venerating housewives means (sounds a bit tongue in cheek), but I suppose it means not tearing down the nuclear family as BLM does in its core value statement at its ...
Halifax council approves living wage requirement for contractors
Zane Woodford, Halifax Examiner - 15 hours ago
In one of the last votes of its term, Halifax regional council approved a living wage requirement for most contracted workers. As the Halifax Examiner reported earlier this month, municipal staff proposed the policy to council as part of a new code of conduct for suppliers: It’s a response to council’s lukewarm reception of the social procurement policy passed […]
Nearly 84% of Nova Scotia public schools had elevated levels of lead in water
Zane Woodford, Halifax Examiner - 17 hours ago
Nearly 84% of Nova Scotia public schools had elevated levels of lead in water flowing from at least one tap in the past year, according to a Halifax Examiner analysis of testing data released by the provincial government on Wednesday. The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development posted the results of tests of drinking […]
Creating Family (Law): Commentary on Eskridge and Riano’s Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In-Laws
Guest Blogger, Balkinization - 14 hours ago
For the Balkinization symposium on William N. Eskridge, Jr., and Christopher Riano, Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In-Laws (Yale University Press, 2020). Doug NeJaime In their masterful book, *Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In-Laws*, William Eskridge and Christopher Riano supply what will likely become the definitive account of the LGBT movement’s campaign for marriage equality. Even those readers who lived the marriage fight as an advocate or studied it as a scholar will find new and fascinating details in the history that Eskridge and Riano document. Indeed, as someone...
Mitch McConnell's legacy is a conservative Supreme Court shaped by his calculated audacity
Al Cross, Director and Professor, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Politics/Election '20 – The Conversation - 14 hours ago
How an uncharismatic Kentucky lawyer came to rule the Senate and remake the federal judiciary from top to bottom.
Could a few state legislatures choose the next president?
Austin Sarat, Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty and Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College, Politics/Election '20 – The Conversation - 14 hours ago
This is not the first time the prospect of state legislatures ignoring the popular vote and appointing their own slate of electors has arisen.
Will German Americans again put Donald Trump over the top in the presidential election?
David Huenlich, Research Assistant, Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Politics/Election '20 – The Conversation - 14 hours ago
There are 45 million Americans of German ancestry. They gave Donald Trump his winning margin in 2016. Will they do it again?
M6.0 earthquake hits near the coast of New Britain, P.N.G.
The Watchers » Latest articles - 14 hours ago
A strong earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.0 hit near the coast of New Britain, Papua New Guinea at 10:34 UTC on October 1, 2020, at a depth of 109 km (68 miles). EMSC is reporting M6.0 at a depth of 80 km (50 miles). This is the second M6+ earthquake today....... Read more »
EVs Will Need Ten Hinkley Points
Paul Homewood, NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 15 hours ago
By Paul Homewood With suggestions that sales of conventional cars will be banned by 2030, attention is increasingly turning to how the electricity grid will be able to handle the increased demand from electric cars. Sounding ever more desperate, the National Grid keeps trying to assure us that there will be no […]
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JR, GREENIE WATCH - 15 hours ago
*Greenland is on track to lose ice mass faster this century than during any other century in the last 12,000 years, according to a new study* *“On track to”. Just another prophecy using a foolish straight-line extrapolation. The future is often NOT like the past* US researchers simulated how different levels of carbon emissions would be likely to affect the Greenland Ice Sheet – a 660,000 square mile body of ice that covers around 80 per cent of the surface of the island. Even if the world goes on a massive ‘energy diet’ the Greenland Ice Sheet’s rate of mass loss this century is ...
BECAUSE OF RIGHT-WING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, DEMOCRATS CAN'T TALK ABOUT PEOPLE OF PRAISE
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog - 15 hours ago
It looks as if our Supreme Court nominee has something to hide. A tiny religious organization tied to Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee, sought to erase all mentions and photos of her from its website before she meets with lawmakers and faces questions at her Senate confirmation hearings. ... an analysis by the Associated Press shows that People of Praise erased numerous records from its website during the summer of 2017 that referred to Barrett and included photos of her and her family. At the time, Barrett was on Trump’s shortlist for the high court seat that...
Former Top Level Facebook Executive Claims ‘150 Men Rule The World’ & Everyone Else Is A ‘Puppet’
WTStaff, Waking Times - 15 hours ago
*Gavin Nascimento* - We are far more likely to change this toxic system for the better, if we stand together and aggregate our collective capabilities and resources.
5 Problems With Democrats' Healthcare Attacks On Trump
Michael F. Cannon, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Michael F. Cannon* *Politics, * Democrats think preexisting conditions will once again carry them to electoral victory. Despite their own liabilities and callousness on the issue, they’re probably right. Democrats think preexisting conditions will once again carry them to electoral victory. Despite their own liabilities and callousness on the issue, they’re probably right. In 2018, Democrats accused Republicans of wanting to deny health care to the sick. Exhibit A, they said, was the GOP’s attempt to repeal ObamaCare’s popular preexisting-conditions provisions. The accusation w...
LG’s 77-Inch Monster C9 OLED Gets Huge $3,300 Price Drop
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Technology, Americas* [image: https://www.lg.com/us/images/tvs/md06065196/gallery/OLED77C9PUB_1600_v1.jpg] It may finally be time to act on this remarkable (nearly half-off) deal. If you’ve long been an OLED HDTV fan but always envied those much more affordable monster screens of QLEDs and other LCD-based HDTVs, you may have just caught a huge break. Just head over to LG’s website right now and you can nab the highly coveted 77-inch C9 Series OLED HDTV for $3,700—that’s a remarkable savings of $3,300 off the regular price. In the cutthroat premium HDTV war, ...
Sorry, Not Sorry: Why North Korean Apologies Aren't Worth Much
Olivia Schieber, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Olivia Schieber* *Secuity, Asia* The bottom line is that the awful Kim is not actually sorry, at least not if “sorry” means “I won’t do this again.” Last week, a South Korean government worker crossed the North-South maritime border, where he was captured and then shot by Northern soldiers, who also burned his body in what they claim was a COVID-19 preventative measure. South Korean and American condemnations predictably followed soon after. And then Pyongyang did something unexpected: apologize. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un sent a letter to the Blue House (Korea’s White Ho...
Christopher Walken Crusades Against Global Corporate Behemoth, Monsanto, In New Film ‘Percy’
WTStaff, Waking Times - 15 hours ago
*Jeremy Loffredo* - It’s not everyday Hollywood actors lend their celebrity to criticize corporate behemoths like Monsanto.
Cancelling David Hume
Alberto Mingardi, Econlib - 15 hours ago
Daniel Johnson writes on our sister website, Law and Liberty, on David Hume and cancel culture. The University of Edinburgh “decided to rename the David Hume Tower, one of the best-known landmarks on its campus; it will henceforth be known as ‘40 George Square’.” The decision was taken because what Johnson calls “the fatal footnote […] The post Cancelling David Hume appeared first on Econlib.
France to ban use of wild animals in circuses and marine parks
White Wolf, White Wolf - 15 hours ago
Mink farming will also be outlawed the French environment minister announced France's environment minister has announced a gradual ban on using wild animals in traveling circuses, on keeping dolphins and killer whales in captivity in marine parks and on raising mink on fur farms. Barbara Pompili, France's minister of ecological transition, said in a news conference Tuesday that bears, tigers, lions, elephants and other wild animals won't be allowed any more in travelling circuses "in the coming years. " In addition, starting immediately, France's three marine parks won't be able t...
Australian Daily Wind Power Generation Data – Wednesday 30th September 2020
TonyfromOz, PA Pundits – International - 15 hours ago
By Anton Lang ~ This Post details the daily wind power generation data for the AEMO coverage area in Australia. For the background information, refer to the Introductory Post at this link. Each image is shown here at a smaller size to fit on the page alongside the data for that day. If you click […]
‘Please Don’t Let Me Die’: Woman Hog-Tied, Tortured by Sadistic Cop for Over 20 Minutes
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 15 hours ago
[image: hog tie]Shocking body camera video was released this week showing an officer hog tie a woman before torturing her for 20 minutes, nearly killing her.
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