A small reminder and clarification: I am an alien, really :-)
Dear friends, Yesterday one of you made a very perspicacious comment about my views: “You live in Florida, but you could as well have been writing from Neptune or the
Dear friends, Yesterday one of you made a very perspicacious comment about my views: “You live in Florida, but you could as well have been writing from Neptune or the
In April of 1958, a 22 year-old Hunter S. Thompson wrote a letter on the meaning of life when asked by a friend for advice. What makes his response all the more profound is the fact that at the time, the world had no idea that he would become one of the most important writers […]
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Media hypes the terrorism panic By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • January 12, 2016 I have written frequently on how the terrorist threat is routinely hyped to serve a number of special interests in the United States and elsewhere in the world. In many countries, including most recently Saudi Arabia and Turkey, anyone who […]
ANF News, published by Kurdish Daily News, January 10, 2016 VAN – 12 youths aged between 18-25 have been executed as a result of a house-raid conducted by Turkish terrorists in the central Edremit district of Van province early this morning. ID details of the youths remain unknown. HDP Van MP Lezgin Botan who spoke […]
As most recently predicted in the post from last week. In line with what had been predicted for well over a year now.
I watched a documentary about North Korea which explained how the government there assigns a score to each citizen, based on how large a threat to the regime s/he is perceived to be. When I lived in Taiwan under a military government years ago, such a number was encoded into every national ID card. Those citizens every interaction with the government and police force was shadowed by those scores.
Same as in 21st century post-Constitutional America.
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey | January 6, 2016 With the interruption of the peace talks, the government of Turkey started, in mid-August, to implement a security policy that unlawfully restricts fundamental rights and freedoms in those cities and towns largely populated by Kurds. Since August 2015, long-term and consecutive curfews have been declared in […]
Sputnik — 12.01.2016 Turkish authorities introduced a gag order on the media on Tuesday to restrict the dissemination of information about the explosion that shook Istanbul earlier that day, local media reported. The ban on the distribution of information will affect all kinds of news, interviews, analyses and other article formats in the printed press, […]
Press TV – January 12, 2016 Syria’s ambassador to the UN says media reports of starving civilians in the southwestern town of Madaya have been fabricated in an attempt to defame the government of President Bashar al-Assad. “Actually, there was no starvation in Madaya,” Bashar Ja’afari told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, […]
The consummate style maven. Style, not fashion. Big difference. Even in this 1976 mugshot David Bowie’s bespoke and flawless. Herein is my eulogium to the consummate chameleon. And a word on Sean Penn, the unwitting dupe of CIA, DEA and the narco-trafficking subterranean economy. You’re welcome.
It takes me hours, most of it in research, to write most DWT posts. Early in January, 2011 I was writing a post about a Blue Dog who had been in office for 5 years. She had joined both Democratic congressional reactionary factions, the Blue Dogs and the Wall Street-owned New Dems. She wasn't bad on gay issues and she was perfect on women's issues but sided with the bad guys on most economic inequality-relkated stuff. Her last rating from the AFL-CIO (2011) was a zero.
Greenpeace said in a report released last Wednesday that farmers in northeast China are illegally growing genetically modified corn. [1]
The environmental group led an 8-month investigation last year into what it describes as large-scale production of GMO corn in the northeastern province of Liaoning, a major breadbasket region. GMO strains of corn were found in 93% of field tests and in 20 of 21 samples from grain markets and supermarkets.
Does the performance of the Fairphone 2 match its ethical credentials?
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Panera Bread announced recently that its entire soup menu is now free of artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners, and preservatives.
There are 10 regular soups on Panera’s menu, and it also offers seasonal specials like Turkey Chili and Autumn Squash. Some 200 million Panera soups are ladled out each year, accounting for about 25% of annual sales, or $672 million. About 66 million servings of the company’s highly popular broccoli cheddar soup are served every year.
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As 2015 drew to a close, many in the global energy industry were praying that the price of oil would bounce back from the abyss, restoring the petroleum-centric world of the past half-century...
Question: Mr President, We have just marked the 25th anniversary of the end of the Cold War. Last year, we witnessed a great number of wars and crises across the world, something that had not happened for many years. What
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
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Tout aussi préoccupantes que soient les agressions sexuelles de masse survenues à Cologne le soir de la dernière Saint-Sylvestre, il nous paraît important d’alerter ici sur les dérives d’un jeu malsain et dangereux qui consisterait à forcer toujours plus le trait de cette « guerre de civilisation » prophétisée par nos élites.
It’s really weird when someone like David Bowie dies, because he’s one of those people who seems immortal, like they’ll be around forever; like he’s such a permanent part of the cultural landscape that he couldn’t possibly not be there anymore. It’s as if the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty were suddenly gone […]
Chobani’s new ad campaign calls out low-calorie yogurts made by Yoplait and Dannon for their artificial ingredients, and a legal battle is ensuing.
It’s the first marketing push for the yogurt, which was launched in 2014.
One of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical drug wholesalers is under fire from West Virginia’s attorney general, Patrick Morrisey.
On Friday, Morrisey announced a lawsuit against San Francisco-based McKesson Corporation alleging the company violated state consumer protection laws and the Uniform Controlled Substances Act by flooding West Virginia with tens of millions of prescription pills.
If you think fleas are annoying now, hold onto your collars; experts are warning that the little nuisances are becoming resistant to the popular flea control products that pet owners turn to in order to keep their little buddies itch-free.
Veterinarians are telling pet owners that flea treatments like Advantage and Frontline are a waste of money because they’re no longer effective at getting rid of fleas and keeping them away. The bugs have mutated in order to survive, it seems. [1]
Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel’s Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. Dozens more Israeli Jews joined the protest, refusing to take their seats. Like a parable illustrating Europe’s bottomless indulgence of Israel, Aegean staff caved in to the pressure.
The Utah Department of Health is urging people who were treated at McKay-Dee Hospital and Davis Hospital between June 17, 2013 and November 25, 2014 to get tested for hepatitis C after it came to light that 7,200 people may have been exposed to the disease at the facilities
4.8/5 (5) This article caught my eye, as it did a number of you as well, and I suspect it may have caught yours for reasons similar to why it did mine. It's straightforward enough, and…
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Consumer groups want the US government to test foods for glyphosate residues – but requests have fallen on deaf ears
Moderation: Christian Ude Vortrag und Diskussion in englischer Sprache Unter dem Titel underconstruction: europe möchte das Muffatwerk in 2016 Persönlichkeiten einladen, die sich kritisch und wach mit dem Jetzt-Zustand Europas auseinandersetzen und einen ganz eigenen Blick auf die Gegenwart und … Continue reading →
In view of today's main blog about 3-d printing and asteroid mining, ponder the following article about NASA's current efforts in non-chemical rocket propulsion technologies, power supplies, and signals-communications:
SPACE TRAVEL Strengthening Our Space Technology Future:…
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It’s clear now that Russian and Western air strikes against ISIL (Islamic State) militants in Syria and Iraq in recent months have inflicted huge human and financial losses upon it. Under these circumstances the Islamic State is desperately looking for new Muslim countries to operate in. The Islamic State leadership is seeking ways to compensate for the financial losses it has suffered, and establish new backup outposts outside the Middle East.
North Korea announced recently that it had successfully detonated its first hydrogen bomb. “This test is a measure for self-defense,” state media announced, “to firmly protect the sovereignty of the country and the vital right of the nation from the ever-growing nuclear threat and blackmail by the U.S.-led hostile forces.” South Korea, Japan, and China […]
In America, the public, some politicians, and even President Obama have a vague awareness that U.S. government policies affect the recruitment of terrorists by radical groups. However, going too far with such self-awareness leads to excessively unsettling conclusions that would demand radical changes in U.S. foreign policy. Thus, as a nation, we generally avoid going […]
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The Israeli Ministry of Education has struck a book from students’ reading lists. Big deal. Happens every day in Russia, China and Iran. But this was not a revolutionary work by a fire-eating rebel. It is a gentle novel by an appreciated female author, Dorit Rabinyan. Her cardinal sin was the plot: a love story […]
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-by Denise SullivanIt's been a day of mourning throughout the rock'n'roll nation: David Bowie, 69, died last night. The worldwide outpouring of grief transcends racial, gender and sexual orientation, economic, and national boundaries, just as the Brixton-born artist's music did. The last thing any of us need are more words or further analysis of an already well-documented life and depth of the art.
Trump may well be destroyed by those around him, not killed as Bill Bennet has claimed, but torpedoed by those who have profiled his many weaknesses and are using CIA interrogation and mind control techniques to steer him away from important subjects. Trump is being led down a path that not only trivializes American politics more than usual, something long thought impossible, but totally avoids real issues.
Brad Trun is the writer and video producer known as Libertarian Realist. His YouTube channel features commentaries, satirical bits, and travelogues exposing politically incorrect realities. In 2014, he recorded travelogues in 12 US states and 21 countries, documenting demographic decline on the streets of cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Dublin, Malmö, and Copenhagen. Libertarian Realist currently lives in Montana, where he is working on a book that will flesh out an ideology for a new ascendancy.
Leaders from the Turkmen minority group accused the Kurdish Regional Government of using the Islamic State crisis to further its own nationalistic goals. A trench currently being dug through hundreds of miles of Iraqi territory is meant to strengthen territorial claims, say the Turkmen. The Kurds say it is their right to protect themselves from […]
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Oxymoron: a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.” (Dictionary.com)
Some of you may remember my article, “Ark II Underground Bunker: largest Private Doomsday Shelter on Earth” from Jun 13, 2014, featuring the 10,000 sq/ft underground bunker built by Bruce Beach out of 43 buried school buses in Canada. Without any political or religious funding, it is the largest privately constructed fallout shelter in the world! It appears…
Some events today inspired me to post this ;-) Translated lyrics: Besieged by Greeks, so many months Troy couldn’t be taken, And it remained for long an undefeated town; But
And the cops don't even know how it works.
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Last November, just days after lethal attacks in Paris by ISIS, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu outlawed the northern wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel. He compared the group, which is tied to the Muslim Brothers, to ISIS in an attempt to frame the ban as part of the global war on terror. But in reality, the Israeli government's action was long in the making and driven by considerations of local power politics.
Chris Kendall of The Hoax Busters Call joined me on Esoteric Hollywood to discuss the blurred threshold between fiction and reality the Hollywood Machine exists to spin. Like the Matrix, we live in a system of fakery and psychological operations designed to keep us fixated in a synthetic world of illusion fostered by the mythmakers.
Unique among the countries on earth, the US government insists that its laws and dictates take precedence over the sovereignty of nations. Washington asserts the power of US courts over foreign nationals and claims extra-territorial jurisdiction of US courts over foreign activities of which Washington or American interest groups disapprove.
Dear friends, Today I ask for your indulgence. Not for the contents of the podcast which are every bit as retrograde, obscurantist and bigoted as my recent A few disjointed
Sputnik – January 11, 2016 The United States in the past year dropped more than 20,000 bombs on Muslim-majority countries Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, according to a study by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). In an article published January 7, Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at CFR, states that since January 1, 2015, […]