The decisions behind Monsanto's weed-killer crisis
Monsanto blames farmers for a crisis that it caused
Monsanto blames farmers for a crisis that it caused
A British government minister was apparently so dedicated to her work that she spent a “family holiday” in Israel conducting 12 undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials, including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Opposition from France and Italy doomed an EU vote to reauthorize glyphosate, a decision that came hours after Arkansas regulators moved to ban an alternative weedkiller for much of 2018
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | November 9, 2017 The influential Russian daily Kommersant reported today on an intriguing development with ominous overtones for long-term India-Russia defence cooperation. It seems that Indian authorities gave access to a US Navy delegation of “well-trained technical specialists” to enter the top secret Russian nuclear submarine under the […]
Nowhere is the practice of engaging with a diversity of ideas more important than at universities, but the growing trend of conflating speech with violence spells certain doom for the future of political discourse.
Chainsaw bayonet, lists of accusers and powerful predators + this day in history w/another nuclear false alarm and our song of the day by Prolly Knot on your Morning Monarchy for November 9, 2017.
And he’s been there since Tuesday. Quite accidentally I stumbled across some very minimal coverage of this news just this morning. Turkish media is reporting on it. 5 eyes media, alt and msm, not so much. Given the strategic importance of the Turkish/US relationship, as it relates to NATO minimally, I would have thought there would have been more coverage.....Pence and Yildirim TodayWhat will the spin will be afterwards?!
The Saudi crown prince is rumored to soon take over as king. He has moved against possible rivals within his own family and seized billions of dollars. Meanwhile he’s threatened Lebanon and his government has ordered Saudi citizens to leave Lebanon. This while blaming Iran for a Yemeni missile that hit near an airport in Riyadh. The US is backing Saudi moves against Yemen and Lebanon to the hilt. Is something big about to happen? We suspect it is. More today in the Liberty Report:
As Democratic support is unlikely, the American public will have to endure several weeks or months of grandstanding, proposed amendments, and further neutering of any real benefit to taxpayers. The worst thing about these rituals is they are always largely a debate over absurdities. Here are just a few of the perennial favorites.
Hoax: A high profile “hate crime” involving racist graffiti swept the nation a little over a month ago, creating tremendous excitement in the mainstream media. An unidentified black cadet pretended to be a victim of racial slurs but actually had written them himself. [...]
Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece and author of “Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment,” explains that the rise of Donald Trump and the alt-right is a symptom of the failure of the establishment and liberal capitalism. Following is a transcript of the video.
This is a solar energy cell (source)by Gaius PubliusThe news about solar energy has been getting better and better for a decade or more. As storage schemes improve, so does the potential for completely replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources.
Any observer of American politics must be struck by the ever-expanding roster of things people have asserted they have rights to. The shared desire or wish for a certain thing supposedly implies that there should be right to it. Few have thought as carefully about this confusion between wishes and rights as Leonard Read, whose views still deserve serious consideration on the 50th anniversary of their publication.
Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who lured Donald Trump, Jr., into a meeting during the election campaign, rendezvoused with Fusion GPS, the authors of the fake Russian dossier, before and after her meeting with Don Jr. Note that she did not have a proper visa to enter the US and had to be cleared by the Obama administration under “extraordinary circumstances.” The episode reeks of an attempted entrapment. [...]
The United Nations admitted in its emissions-shortfall report that even when you add up all the CO2-reduction pledges from all of the countries that signed on to the Paris Climate Accord, it equals a paltry one-third of what is supposedly needed to stop the world from warming 2-degrees. [...]
Texas church shooter Devin Kelley brutally assaulted both his ex-wife and infant stepson years prior to the shooting, which resulted in a bad-conduct discharge from the US Air Force and disqualified him from legally buying firearms. He also escaped from a mental institution. There are laws in place that made it illegal for Kelly to purchasing guns, but that didn't stop him from doing so. [...]
The UK will support a total ban on insect-harming pesticides being used across Europe, environment secretary Michael Gove has announced
The post UK to back total ban on bee-harming pesticides appeared first on Positive News.
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We encourage students to invest in all sorts of tutoring, extra-curricular activities, sports, and high-profile internships in hopes that these opportunities will make their college application stand out. At the same time, we discourage them from picking up a low-level job because it might distract from their homework or their quest for the latest scholarship. Are we misguided in such a course?
In today’s show originally broadcast on November 9 2017, TBR Radio’s Andrew Carrington Hitchcock interviews Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson for a show based upon his article in the September/October issue of The Barnes Review entitled, “Lessons From Charlottesville.” We discussed: Matt’s article in the July/August issue of The Barnes Review entitled, “Was Rohm A Genuine…
Although the trends leading to the aggravation have not altogether disappeared, the absence of new missile tests or ambitious statements is perceived by the mass consciousness as a certain relax of tension.
However, the author would like to use this pause to once again illuminate on the non-obvious reasons that may influence further dynamics in an unfavourable way.
U.S. propaganda claims Iran causes Mideast instability, but the truth is that Saudi Arabia – from backing Islamic extremists to blockading and bombing Yemen – is the real culprit, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. By Paul R. Pillar…Read more →
We have a tendency to glorify war. People are drawn to the warrior, the strong and powerful leader who proclaims his willingness to go toe to toe with the "enemy". And in so doing, we neglect those whose aim was peace.
By Connor Freeman | The Libertarian Institute | November 7, 2017 House Concurrent Resolution 81 (H.Con.Res.81) is sponsored by Representatives, Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Walter Jones (R-NC), Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and 39 other lawmakers. The resolution commands an end to U.S. participation in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The sponsors of this resolution […]
Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli
The Indicter
Last week, a bombshell was dropped by former Qatari politician Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabel al-Thani, who oversaw Qatari intervention in Syria until 2013. Simultaneously occupying the post of prime minister and foreign minister during the so-called “Arab Spring,” Hamad was at the forefront of his country’s role in the proxy war against Syria and thus has first-hand inside knowledge of the covert discussions that were being held between the various countries mutually hostile to the Syrian government at the time.
I, of course, was speaking on behalf of the pure free-market position on the welfare state, going further even than F.A. Hayek to say that the whole thing ought to be scrapped. There is nothing that the welfare state contributes to our lives that couldn’t be replaced by the normal operations of the market and civil society.
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How the Chinese treated Obama a year ago and how they treated President Trump during his latest visits are night and day.
Article by Vladimir Putin, The 25th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Danang: Together Towards Prosperity and Harmonious Development November 8, 2017 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/56023 The 25th anniversary APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting will take place in Danang very soon,
Press TV – November 9, 2017 The parliamentary bloc of Hezbollah has called on Saudi Arabia to stop interfering in Lebanon’s domestic affairs after Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced his resignation while on a trip to Riyadh. In a televised statement on Thursday, Hezbollah lawmaker, Hassan Fadlallah, said the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc supported […]
RT | November 9, 2017 The ICC prosecutor’s decision to pursue a probe into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan is “completely political” and won’t amount to anything, law professor Francis Boyle believes. He said it will be a “cold day in hell” before any Americans are prosecuted. The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, […]
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Tuesday was the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power, which led to the establishment of a communist regime in Russia and eventually in many other nations around the world. It is a good time to consider what lessons we can learn from this horrendous history.
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[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2017-11-09%20Marwa%20Osman.mp3"][/audio]The Lebanese Prime Minister has resigned on Saudi tv. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has rounded up a dozen other princes in the House of Saud in a startling move that threatens to upset the kingdom. Reports saying that King Salman will step aside for the crown prince abound. What the hell is happening?
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It is an accident of history that the rise of markets and high technology liberated much of humanity from back-breaking hard labor just as the rise of mass schooling yoked us with soul-crushing neuroticism toward work, learning, and play. But if we deschool ourselves and unschool our children, then work need not be a curse, but can be a joyful, flow-filled blessing.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
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Edwin Waugh
From The Man of the Time
He is a sterling nobleman
Who lives the truth he knows;
Who dreads the slavery of sin,
And fears no other foes.
Who scorns the folly of pretence;
In 2017 the GM crops planting area in the EU declined from 136,338 to 130,571 hectares
THE COST OF WAR FOR THE U.S. TAXPAYER SINCE 9/11 IS ACTUALLY THREE TIMES THE PENTAGON’S ESTIMATE
Jack Moore
Newsweek, Nov. 8, 2017
The United States military has spent more than $5.6 trillion on conflicts since 2001, more than three times the Pentagon’s actual estimate, according to a new study.
http://www.newsweek.com/how-many-trillions-war-has-cost-us-taxpayer-911-attacks-705041?yptr=yahoo