Category: Aggregated

Trump Is Trying to Make NAFTA Even Worse

Democracy in Nepal Passes a Second Test

Israeli settler runs over, kills Palestinian man in occupied West Bank

UN calls on Myanmar to grant citizenship to Rohingya

‘No right to stay anonymous,’ CNN analyst says… after months of channel’s unnamed source reporting

Utah’s ‘ag-gag’ law unconstitutional & violates free speech – Federal judge rules

Egypt can’t bar Qatari ships from passing though Suez waterway: Canal boss

US will test THAAD system in Alaska: Official

Palestinian baby dies after inhaling Israeli teargas

Nigeria court rejects Shia cleric’s lawsuit against army

“I have some pretty severe things we’re thinking about,” Trump said of North Korea at a news conference in Warsaw. “Doesn’t mean we’re going to do them.” What President Trump really meant is that he has painted the US into a corner with all his threats of war and really does not know what to do next.   North Korea called his ‘or else’ bluff.  Good.  No action on North Korea is better than any conceivable military operation. Last week the North Korea test fired a new, longer-ranged strategic missile, Hwasong-14, that US experts claimed was capable of hitting Alaska and … Continue reading →

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A series of fake news articles (see here, here and here), blackmail of anonymous Reddit users who had the audacity to poke fun at them and a couple of undercover videos from Project Veritas revealing CNN producers admitting their own news is “mostly bullshit,” seems to be taking a toll on CNN’s ratings. As The Federalist notes in the table below, for the week of June 26th – July 2nd, CNN’s primetime shows (Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon) managed to draw about 6% fewer viewers than multi-decade old re-runs of “Yogi Bear,” “Full House,” and “Friends” which air in the same time slots on Nick-At-Nite. Time to buy old US gold … Continue reading →

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Michael Mann has stepped into a methane-emitting cowpile. Mann is the Penn State climatologist famous for inventing the “hockey stick” graph promoting the notion that planetary temperatures spiked in the 20th century after a Golden Age of stasis. This graph was misleading at a minimum, the product of what Phil Jones, director of the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia termed “Mike’s Nature trick” to “hide the decline.” What Mann did was splice two separate data sets together to create the illusion of spiking temperatures; the graph spliced data sets together without differentiation, hiding the global temperature “decline” shown by the Briffa reconstruction set. Mann … Continue reading →

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I was first introduced to H.L. Mencken by a Jewish friend when I was in my 20’s. I’ve been hooked ever since. Times have changed a lot since then and the Republic is no more. But even so, there once was a time in this country when the press wasn’t controlled and paid to spit out propaganda. For one brief shining moment, it published freely, unfettered by dictate from the government or the mob. This man lived on the edge of that time. His wit, his intellectual ability to think outside the box of events, the people and their culture, … Continue reading →

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I, Prester John, am the lord of lords, and I surpass all the kings of the entire world in wealth, virtue and power…Milk and honey flow freely in our lands; poison can do no harm, nor do any noisy frogs croak.  There are no scorpions, no serpents creeping in the grass. –        Purported letter of Prester John to Rome and Constantinople, twelfth century. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan. I am beginning a new, exotic journey, a journey through the history of the Silk Roads – the region from Mesopotamia east to western China.  When the author … Continue reading →

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