Ambrose pinto’s death after struggling with treacherous cancer for about Six months on 3 January of 2018 made me feel that this year would be bad for Dalits. His smiling face, hopeful of change, keeps flashing through my mind. I last met him when I gave a special lecture at Indian Social Institute Benuluru on January 20, 2017, in[Read More...]
By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | January 3, 2018 Short summary: scientists sought political relevance and allowed policy makers to put a big thumb on the scale of the scientific assessment of the attribution of climate change. Bernie Lewin has written an important new book: SEARCHING FOR THE CATASTROPHE SIGNAL:The Origins of The Intergovernmental […]
The Israeli military filed 12 charges on Monday against Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi. The 16-year-old, who was filmed in an encounter with soldiers in her home village of Nabi Saleh last month, could remain in Israeli prisons for years if convicted on charges including throwing stones, incitement and assaulting and threatening a soldier. Israel’s military tribunals are notorious for their near-100 percent conviction rate against[Read More...]
Are we going for retribution or transformation? In the last two weeks, there has been a great deal of controversy and commentary on recent comments from the actor Matt Damon about the #MeToo movement. This has ranged from substantive critiques to complaints that the problem is that he, as a man, is speaking at all. There has even been[Read More...]
A day after bitter criticism of Pakistan from President Donald Trump, China supported Pakistan by lauding its efforts for “outstanding contribution against terrorism” which should be acknowledged by “the international community”. At the regular press conference of the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, on Tuesday was asked: US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the US has[Read More...]
Henry Thoreau, the 19th century American poet, naturalist and philosopher once remarked: “It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look to affect the quality of the[Read More...]
The head of the Muqdadiya City Council, Adnan al-Tamimi, warned that Islamic State militants are become more active in the area. At least 23 people were killed, and 10 more were wounded in recent violence: In Baghdad, one person was killed and three were wounded by a blast in Doura. Clashes in Dibs left a … Continue reading "Anti-ISIS Operations Continue near Mosul; 23 Killed in Iraq"
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, January 3, 2018 U.S. Politics Now Focusing on XXV Amendment; In Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, Bannon Describes June 2016 Collusion Meeting with Veselnitskaya et al. as “Treasonous”; Former Strategist Is Sure Russian Guests Met with Trump; Bannon Warned That Mueller Would Target Money Laundering; [...]
Let’s get it clear right from the beginning: we don’t know what’s happening in Iran. We don’t know who’s leading the demonstrations, which are turning into riots in some parts of the country. We don’t know who, if anyone, is directing them. Yes, yes, I know: you want me to explain what’s happening, and if … Continue reading "The Iranian Rebellion: Everybody’s Wrong"
For several months we’ve been hearing a crescendo of outcries that Russia used social media to sway the 2016 presidential election. The claim has now been debunked by an unlikely source – one of the most Russiagate-frenzied big media outlets in the United States, the Washington Post. Far away from the media echo chamber, the … Continue reading "Social Media Madness: The Russia Canard"
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I met John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Christmas Eve in 1969. I joined them and a small group of local peace activists in a Christmas fast for world peace in front of Rochester Cathedral in England, a short walk from where I lived with my family in Chatham Dockyard. I was 15 years old, … Continue reading "Giving War Too Many Chances"
Kalle Lind pratar med Gunilla Bergström om Alfons Åberg, Alfons Åbergs pappa, Alfons Åbergs pappas pipa, Pippi Långstrump, Pippirull, Pennfilm och proggiga barnböcker. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play.
Someone contributes $7 and Austin hits our 2017 goal for himI really want to say thank you to all the DWT readers who helped end the Blue America efforts this year to help raise campaign funds for our House candidates on high note. We reached or surpassed almost every goal we set for ourselves for 2017.
Source : The Atlantic, Fred Kaplan, octobre 2001
La crise de Berlin de 1961 n’est pas restée gravée dans la mémoire américaine, pourtant ce fut un épisode qui a rapproché les États-Unis et l’Union soviétique d’un conflit nucléaire. Des documents récemment disponibles révèlent que la Maison-Blanche de Kennedy a élaboré des plans détaillés pour une première frappe nucléaire contre les Soviétiques, et que le président Kennedy a sérieusement étudié cette option.
By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | January 3, 2018 Storm Eleanor has lashed the UK with violent storm-force winds of up to 100mph, leaving thousands of homes without power and hitting transport links. Gusts of 100mph were recorded at Great Dun Fell in Cumbria at 1am. Wow! Hurricane force […]
In perhaps the biggest identity data breach in history, India’s entire Aadhaar data has been breached by fraudsters and over one billion Aadhaar details that includes name, address, postal code (PIN), photo, phone number and email are on sail for just Rs 500. Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) is the biggest collection of identities[Read More...]
In response to the subject line above… well of course and there's no chance many DWT readers doubted either premise at any point. This episode of the nasty little back and forth started with a David Smith report in The Guardian, basically a pre-review of Michael Wolff’s new book, Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House.
Anthony “Tony Pax” Packes host of the former radio show Animal Farm died of a brain tumor on Saturday, Dec. 30 surrounded by his family. He was 36. (Click Here For More Information)
Before he passed away, Anthony Packes and his wife Toni brought their bundle of joy, Paul Anthony Packes, into this world on December 21, 2017. Paul is Toni & Anthony’s first and only child.
As friends of the Packes family, we would like you to RALLY and SHOW YOUR SUPPORT.
By Mark Doran | January 3, 2018 If there’s one thing that the West’s state-corporate media loves to report, it’s public protest within a non-compliant country — people demonstrating against a government that has refused to roll over in the face of US aggression and greed. If you’re in the habit of examining these media […]
Friday – 2017 End of year review / predictions w/ Meria Heller (Hour too) – Warning – Profanity laced. + JB Drinking game. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
By John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute | January 3, 2018 “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” ― Nelson Mandela This is the tale of two […]
Wayward journalists who founded FusionGPS offer carefully crafted version of its role in 2016 campaign, including Steele dossier, hammering Republicans….--at deadline, Paul Manafort has filed challenge to his Mueller indictment, claiming (accurately) it’s unrelated to Russian election meddling claims
By Ramona Wadi | MEMO | January 2, 2018 Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas should be aware by now that he can no longer be taken seriously. As evidence of a shrinking Palestine continues to accumulate, Israel and the international community are well aware of this and are applying two complementary strategies. While Israel passes […]
Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort just filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Justice, its Acting and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, DOJ point man on ‘Russiagate’ – one of the Top 10 Conspiracies of 2017.
Jean-Francois Gariépy is an author, academic, and YouTuber from Sainte-Sophie, Québec, Canada. He holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the Université de Montréal, and is currently studying the molecular mechanisms of the origins of DNA-based life on Earth. He has a YouTube channel that is devoted to questions relating to society, gender, biology, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and internet history. He is the author of the forthcoming book entitled The Revolutionary Phenotype.
A video version of this interview is available here.
As far as Orrin Hatch goes-- good riddance to a rotten and Trumpified piece of crap. As far as Romney… any enemy of Trump’s… Look, a Bernie Sanders clone we were never going to get in Utah.
Den här kommentaren, skriven av pseudonymen ”Första vågen” på bloggen Det Goda Samhället, gjorde mig på gott humör. Kommentaren är visserligen från 2 mars 2017, men jag upptäckte den inte förrän idag. Patrik som också nämns är chef på Det Goda Samhället:
The "protests" in Iran are raging on as of today...
The nihilism of modern American politics extends globally with one side seeking to destroy any positive legacy of the other, as the Trump administration continues its drive to sabotage President Obama’s successful Iran nuclear accord, reports ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R.…Read more →
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In the last several days, North and South Korea have agreed to hold high-level talks, to re-establish a direct communication link, and to participate in the coming winter Olympic games. Taken together it appears a significant step toward reducing tensions on the peninsula and reducing the risk of catastrophic war. You would think the US would be pleased at the developments and hopeful that diplomacy might take over from saber-rattling. But you would be wrong.
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Mercantilism has experienced a deplorable revival with the emergence of 21th-century protectionism. Socialists, under whatever semantic guise they prefer, have always had protectionist inclinations. Instead, what characterizes 21th-century protectionism is populist proselytes propagating pernicious delusions about free trade.
On today’s show my sister Emma joins me for a raucous review of Star Wars The Last Jedi. We kick off the show by discussing our general take of the film, mainly focusing on how much we didn’t like it. We then expand on this in our “trashing section” discussing all our major grievances. Emma and I touch on the force abilities of young slave boys, Luke’s strange “milking scene”, the existence of god, and the age old question: can you drop a bomb in zero gravity? We also talk about some of the hits and misses that director Rian Johnson introduced into the Star Wars universe.
Authors of the recent book, Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities, Schapiro and Morson believe that both the humanities and economics could contribute much to the other. The humanities have become too arid and formalistic, they argue; economics has become too “mathematical” and focused on what can be measured than what should be achieved. Their objective is to encourage the unification of the two fields — a Herculean task, certainly, but they take the first steps in that direction.
By Paul Antonopoulos – Fort Russ News – January 2, 2018 TEHRAN – The above image has become synonymous with the Iranian protests that have engulfed most regions of Iran for the past week. However, there remains one problem…. The original image has nothing to do with the current protests at all. The original photo […]
January 4, 2018 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Protests have been reported across several cities in Iran over the last several days of December 2017.
Gift cards may hold currency, but there has been an alteration: the money is no longer fungible. Over the years, money has evolved to possess a number of characteristics, including durability, portability, divisibility, rarity, acceptability, uniformity, and fungibility.
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | January 3, 2018 An unexpected side effect of the ongoing unrest in Iran is that it will consolidate the Turkish-Iranian entente in regional politics. The Turkish leadership has openly reached out to President Hassan Rouhani. Following up on the contact between the two foreign ministers on Tuesday […]
As the Brexit negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union go into the next phase, the EU has suggested a transition period in which Britain essentially remains in the union for two more years. The government in London seems keen on the idea. The precedent, however, is incredible.
New York Times: Hillary Allies Paid $700k for Sex Assault Accusations Against Trump During Campaign
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/us/politics/sexual-harassment-politics-partisanship.html?_r=0
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/brock-hillary-trump-accusers/
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By Gregory Elich | CounterPunch | January 3, 2018 On December 19, in a Wall Street Journal editorial that drew much attention, Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert asserted that North Korea was “directly responsible” for the WannaCry cyberattack that struck more than 300,000 computers worldwide. The virus encrypted files on infected computers and demanded payment […]
As the new year begins, it is important for the U.S. to acknowledge its troubling history of global war-making, especially over the past two-decades, as Nicolas J.S. Davies delineates. By Nicolas J.S. Davies I met John Lennon and Yoko Ono…Read more →
