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It’s Getting Scarier
I’ve finally figured out why so many pundits and journalists are signing on to the new cold war with Russia: they weren’t alive during the last one. They have no memory of the Cuban missile crisis, they didn’t grow up in the era of backyard bomb shelters: for them, Fail Safe and On the Beach […]
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Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi to buy Uber China
Didi has formed an international coalition with the likes of Lyft Inc. in the U.S. and Ola in India [Xinhua]The fierce battle in China between ride-hailing leaders Uber and Didi Chuxing has ended.
Uber Technologies Inc. will merge its China operations with local Chinese ride hailing service, Didi Chuxing, both companies confirmed on Monday.
The combined company will be valued at $35 billion, media reports said on Monday.
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Syria: Russia’s Dangerous Crossroads
Despite all the media coverage of the ongoing Russia’s operation in Syria, the situation has not radically changed in favor of Bashar al-Assad yet. To some extent, you can even say that the Russian military operation in Syria has started chocking. The present contingent that has been deployed to Syria is clearly not strong enough to cast a decisive blow against the infrastructure of the armed opposition.
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The art and science of climate model tuning
by Judith Curry
We survey the rationale and diversity of approaches for tuning, a fundamental aspect of climate modeling which should be more systematically documented and taken into account in multi-model analysis. – Hourdin et al. -
China manufacturing contracts in July
The official PMI came in at 49.9 for July, down from 50.0 the month before [Xinhua]China’s manufacturing sector posted a slight drop in July owing to the worst flood season in nearly two decades and also weak demand, official data showed on Monday.
The purchasing managers’ index (PMI) came in at 49.9 in July, slightly lower than June’s 50, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing.
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America’s Self-Inflicted Defense Woes
The United States poses as a champion against the great threats facing global security and stability, an uphill battle it claims requires equally great sacrifices, especially in terms of defense spending. It must be just a coincidence that the many policy think-tanks promoting this notion just so happen to be funded by huge multinational defense contractors.
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2,695 Killed in Iraq in July
At least 2,647 people were killed, and 1,048 were wounded in Iraq during July. Recent violence left 35 people dead and 26 wounded.
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Would You Trust Trump With National Security Secrets? Should Obama?
There are a lot of Americans nervous about the prospect of the Trumpanzee getting national security briefings. Harry Reid even suggested that the intelligence services prepare "fake" briefings for him so that if he sells them to the Russians or whomever else, it doesn't endanger the country's security.
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To Label Tulsi Gabbard A "Progressive" Is To Eviscerate The Very Meaning Of The Word And Stand It On Its Head
Tulsi loves Islamophobic genocidal Indian fascist Narendra ModiI don't really know Tulsi Gabbard. When she was running for Congress in 2012 she called and asked for a Blue America endorsement. Her opponent was Mufi Hannemann, an especially contemptible conservative and a real nightmare for progressives. But Gabbard had some problems of her own. Her Republican family led the anti-gay crusade in Hawaii.
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Who the Muslim Father’s DNC Speech Really Pandered To
Last Thursday night, speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Khizr Khan paid tribute to his son, U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, who died in Iraq on June 8, 2004, after he tried to stop a suicide bomber.
As for every parent, husband, wife, brother, sister and friend who lost someone any war, I grieve with them. I am sorry for the Khan’s loss. I am a parent and can all too easily be sent to thinking about the loss of a child. -
The CIA and Hollywood episode 15 Salt
Rounding off this second season we take a look at SALT, the 2010 action thriller starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian sleeper agent. We chart the development of the film, from its origins as an attempt to recreate the Bourne franchise, through Amy Pascal and Jolie’s conversations about making a female-led spy thriller. SALT is one of the less well known CIA-assisted productions, but along with technical advice from former CIA officer Melissa Boyle Mahle the producers also consulted with the CIA themselves in a video conference.
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Military-Industrial Complex News: July 2016
Keep up to date with what’s going on in the world of corrupt contracts, military, government, corporations, and the military industrial complex. If you see [...]
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Hillary Lies on Fox News Sunday
By Stephen Lendman | July 31, 2016 On Fox News Sunday, July 31, Hillary willfully and maliciously lied, claiming she knows Russia hacked DNC emails – despite no evidence suggesting it, plenty indicating otherwise. “We know that Russian intelligence services hacked into the DNC, and we know that they arranged for a lot of those […]
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John Donne: The horror and ghastliness of war
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
John Donne: War and misery are one thing
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Zadie Smith wonders if the post-Brexit U.K. can remain "united," and if it can honor its old values
Zadie Smith in 2014"Whether we still know, in Britain, what a better life is, what its necessary conditions are and how to achieve them, is what’s now in doubt."-- Zadie Smith, in "Fences: A Brexit Diary,"in the August 18 New York Review of Booksby KenThough Zadie Smith is probably better known as a fiction writer (and teacher of fiction writing; she's a tenured professor at N
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Building a Progressive International – op-ed Project Syndicate
ATHENS – Politics in the advanced economies of the West is in the throes of a political shakeup unseen since the 1930s. The Great Deflation now gripping both sides of the Atlantic is reviving political forces that had lain dormant … Continue reading →
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Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Guns for Tots
It was a beautiful evening and the kids -- Madeline, two; Seamus, almost four; and Rosena, nine -- were running across a well-tended town green...
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The Struggle for Europe: Democracy vs Power – on RadioOpenSource
To listen, click hereFiled under: DiEM, European Crisis, Greek Crisis, Politics and Economics
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Full Spectrum Dominatrix vs. Off Spectrum Narcissus
by Pepe Escobar for Sputnik News History can be a damned good screenwriter – currently presenting an excruciatingly agonizing, do-or-die choice (“Love trumps hate” vs. “Lock her up!”) not only
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FILM: The Real ‘Migrant Crisis’ Is Not In Europe, It’s In Lebanon
21st Century Wire says…
The real ‘migrant crisis’ is not in Europe, but in the small nation of Lebanon who has absorbed 2.5 million (official and unofficial) Syrian refugees since the conflict began next door in 2011. What more, outside of Lebanon, no one really knows, and no one really cares.
“The war in Syria forced millions of civilians to flee their homes. Many of them crossed the border into Lebanon. But even though they are out of the war zone, they have to fight for their lives more than ever.” -
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Russia Scholar Stephen Cohen vs. CNN Host Who Tries To Link Trump to Putin
Russian Scholar Stephen Cohen says Donald Trump is being wrongly linked to Putin and criticized because he’s trying to end the new Cold War.
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We need to talk about the bad science being funded
By Simon Gandevia | The Conversation | July 18, 2016 Spectacular failures to replicate key scientific findings have been documented of late, particularly in biology, psychology and medicine. A report on the issue, published in Nature this May, found that about 90% of some 1,576 researchers surveyed now believe there is a reproducibility crisis in […]
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Lessons from Ukraine, ‘a surprising sort of success’.
Irrussianality | July 28, 2016 According to a new report by Princeton University’s Andrew Moravcsik, ‘Western policy to block Russian assertiveness in Ukraine has been surprisingly successful.’ The report, entitled Lessons from Ukraine: Why a Europe-led Economic Strategy is Succeeding, is published by the Transatlantic Academy, which describes itself as ‘a research institution devoted to […]
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War with Russia
Irrussianality | July 11, 2016 As NATO wraps up its summit meeting in Warsaw, it will no doubt be patting itself on the back for displaying ‘unity’ and ‘resolve’ in the face of ‘Russian aggression’, in particular by agreeing to station a semi-permanent garrison of four battalions in Poland and the Baltic States. If we […]
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Trans Tokenism-- Chuck Schumer's Ugly Bigotry Trumps Love
No, not all the evil bigots are RepublicansGo the the "races" page of the official DSCC website. Tester and Schumer, who run the operation, list every state with a race this cycle from Arizona to Wisconsin-- except one. They even list 3 deep red states, Alaska, Kansas and Louisiana, that haven;t chosen candidates yet.
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Middle East prepares for Hillary’s war
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | July 28, 2016 The big question this week ought to be about Hillary Clinton’s wars, if she gets elected as the next US president. Her hawkish temperament and her bandwagon comprising neoconservative ideologues, Israeli-Saudi lobbies, military-industrial complex and so on brings us to the epilogue of the ‘Obama […]
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The Geopolitical Logos, Hollywood & Atlanticist Hegemony – Jay Dyer on ITEL
Inside the Eye invited me on to discuss a broad array of topics, including Hollywood and propaganda, MindWar, Zbigniew Brzezinski, technological supremacy and hidden tech, DARPA, Trump and Clinton, Eurasia and the West, Dugin’s view of Heidegger and the European logos, and my coming book, Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film.
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Russia SITREP July 31, 2016 Updated by Scott
Russia In response to the US and Israel shooting down Russian jet and recently shooting down the helicopter, Russia’s long range bombers bombed the US and UK training camps for
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Facing defeat, US threatens to balkanise Syria
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | July 31, 2016 The acerbic remarks calling into question Syria’s future as a sovereign country by the CIA chief John Brennan at the Aspen Security Forum meet in Colorado on Saturday betray a very high level of US frustration over emergent ground realities. (Reuters ) The Syrian […]
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Check it Out – 2 Arkansas Towns Set Up ‘Little Free Pantries’ for the Public
Something called the Little Free Pantry allows anyone to leave food or other supplies for people in need. Those in need can come by and pick up any item they wish. Anyone can donate and anyone can take an item, creating a giving community and helping bring neighbors together. It hopes to address food insecurities and food deserts that many people in the towns face.
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LIONEL PODCAST: The Corrupt Shillary Media and the Hijacking of the 2016 Election
Devoid of message and vision. But plenty of feigned mirth and overreaction. Loaded with schmaltz and hype. Contrived merriment and infectious glee substituting for a determined plot and plan. The first woman, the progressive, her turn – whatever. But never a word about qualifications, record and platform. Though she does have “experience.” As Willie Sutton had banking experience, I suppose.
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Blue Bell to Be Fined $850,000 After Listeria Outbreak
Texas health officials have stated that Blue Bell Creameries will be paying a fine of $850,000 to rectify damage caused by the listeria outbreak at their plant. [1]
The 2015 outbreak of the virus sickened several people and killed three. The company will have to pay $175,000 within the next thirty days, while the remainder may be paid over the next 18 months. If they fully comply with regulations, they may not have to pay the rest of their bill at all. -
Episode #146 – SUNDAY WIRE: ‘GLADIO GESTALT’ with guests F.William Engdahl, Vanessa Beeley
Episode #146 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes this Sunday July 31, 2016 as host Patrick Henningsen broadcasts 3 HOURS of LIVE power-packed talk radio on ACR…
LISTEN LIVE ON THIS PAGE AT THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULED SHOW TIMES:
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Lurching Toward World War III
Anti-Russian hysteria has reached extraordinary levels in Official Washington with heated allegations about Russia hacking Democratic Party emails, but this over-the-top “group think” threatens the world’s future, explains John Chuckman. By John Chuckman When did America’s establishment ever discuss, in elections or at other…Read more →
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August 1 is a Big Day for Medical Marijuana Patients in Minnesota
For more than a year, Minnesota residents with a few serious medical conditions have been able to legally purchase medical marijuana. But now, as of August 1, nearly 500 registered patients with intractable pain will finally have access to it, too.
On July 29, state health officials said that 481 patients with severe pain had pre-registered through their doctors to obtain medical marijuana. Under state law, intractable pain is defined as pain that can’t be treated with traditional drugs or therapies. [1] -
Barbarians at the Gates
A key weapon of the neo-liberal establishment in delegitimising the emergence of popular organisation to the left, is to portray all thinkers outside the Overton window as dangerous; actively violent, misogynist and racist. WikiLeaks have once again done the world a great service by publishing smoking gun evidence that the Democratic National Committee – which was supposed to be a neutral body overseeing the Democrats primary election – was doing everything possible to tilt the field against Bernie Sanders.
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IMF: Confessing to the sin in order to repeat it
You have read about the most recent IMF confession over its immolation of Greece. The question is: Does it signal a change in policies? Do not hold your breath! Recent history is pointing to a repetition of the crime-against-logic first committed … Continue reading →
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US growth slumps in Q2
US economic growth has been slow and uneven, Fed chief Janet Yellen recently warned [Xinhua]
US stocks are likely to feel the pinch from the latest less-than-encouraging data when markets open on Monday as investors are left scratching their heads wondering whether the economy is doing worse than previously thought.
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WHAT’S UP WAY DOWN THERE? AND WHAT’S GOING DOWN WAY UP ...
5/5 (19) A couple of weeks ago, more or less, I blogged about the unusual goings on in Antarctica, as an evacuation aircraft was making its way to our southern polar continent. What I found quite…
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Music Spotlight 7/31/16: Future Primates – Save Me
Every week TCRN will be sharing independent artists from all genres who promote a message of awareness, consciousness, social justice, and solutions. Furious Primates is a band. Furious Primates is YOU, but most importantly Furious Primates are all of us who decide for ourselves to love, think, work, party, laugh, and cry with intense passion. […]
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GMO wheat found in Washington state could affect US trade
Wheat was developed to be resistant to Roundup
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Brazil inaugurates new metro line ahead of Rio Olympics
Photo taken on July 30, 2016 shows the metro line 4 train in the Jardim Oceacino station of metro line 4 in Barra da Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [Xinhua]Interim Brazilian President Michel Temer inaugurated a much-anticipated subway line in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, just days before the opening of the Olympics in the city.
Rio’s new metro Line 4, which will be a major legacy of the games, links the city’s tourism district with the western Barra da Tijuca neighborhood, where many of the Olympic events are slated to take place. -
US and Russia Agree: Jabhat Al Nusra are Still Terrorists
July 31, 2016 (The New Atlas) - Consensus among the United States and Russia is rare, but just such a consensus was reached, at least rhetorically, in the wake of Jabhat Al Nusra's apparent break with Al Qaeda and an attempt to rebrand itself as Syrian forces completed their encirclement of Syria's northern city of Aleppo.Qatari state broadcaster Al Jaz
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How the West Extends its Control Over Journalism Worldwide
July 31, 2016 (The New Atlas) - Political developments are often emotionally charged, and even journalists who are expected to maintain an objective approach to reporting can find themselves swept away by sensational headlines and the temptation to wade into controversy without fully analysing background information that might significantly alter established narratives.
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