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'Humans of New York' creator blasts Donald Trump: 'The hateful one is you'
Add Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton to the growing list of high-profile people publicly opposed to a President Trump. Stanton's message for The Donald? "The hateful one is you." The blogger/photographer/world traveler wrote a lengthy open letter to the Republican presidential candidate on Facebook Monday morning, lambasting the billionaire businessman for, he said, condoning
Horse gets tailored, three-piece tweed suit (with pockets)
LONDON — We've seen a lot of well-dressed cats and dogs, but have you ever seen a horse in a tailored suit? Ahead of this year's Cheltenham Festival, veteran race horse Morestead wore a three-piece tweed suit complete with shirt, tie and flat cap, designed by former Alexander McQueen apprentice and celebrity stylist Emma Sandham-King. See also: There's a massive mural of Kim Kardashian's nude self
Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy
Via: Quanta Magazine: Two mathematicians have uncovered a simple, previously unnoticed property of prime numbers — those numbers that are divisible only by 1 and themselves. Prime numbers, it seems, have decided preferences about the final digits of the primes that immediately follow them. Among the first billion prime numbers, for instance, a prime ending […]
Minecraft to Run Artificial Intelligence Experiments
Via: BBC: Minecraft is to become a testing ground for artificial intelligence experiments. Microsoft, owner of the popular video game, revealed that computer scientists and amateurs will be able to evaluate and develop AI software using its virtual landscapes from July. The company says Minecraft is more “sophisticated” than existing AI research simulations and cheaper […]
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Sanders Sends Vegan Thugs to Attack Peace-Loving Nazis
CINCINNATI (The Borowitz Report)—Republican front-runner Donald Trump was crying foul on Monday after Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders allegedly dispatched an army of vegan thugs to attack a rally of peace-loving Nazis in Cincinnati.See the rest of the story at newyorker.comRelated:Mega-Tuesday: Can Anyone Stop Trump? Can Sanders Surprise Again?Talking About Donald TrumpWhy Donald Trump Is Wrong Abo
While America is distracted by the Trump freakshow, Indiana just passed one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the nation
While most of America observed in shocked horror as Donald Trump's ignorant mobs obediantly carried out the fascistic orders of their orange cult leader to pummel and hurl racial epithets at protesters over the past several days, a terrible new bill slipped quietly into law, completely under the radar. Frankly, it's not surprising given our national fascination with narcissistic reality show divas
America Needs ‘Y’all’
Madaise / Flickr How y’all doing? A greeting as Southern as a bowl of grits, it rolls off the tongue in a single open-mouth utterance. Sweeter than honey and often saturated with hidden meaning, it can open up a dialogue with a roomful of strangers with ease. Part of that ease hinges on the incredible versatility of the phrase’s most important word. “Y’all,” that strange regional and ethnic co
How a Palestinian teacher from Bethlehem just won $1 million
Named as the world's best teacher, Hanan Al Hroub was honored Sunday for her unique teaching strategies dealing with violence.
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Europe-Russia mission departs on hunt for life on Mars (Update 3)
A joint European-Russian mission aiming to search for traces of life on Mars left Earth's orbit Monday at the start of a seven-month unmanned journey to the Red Planet, space agency managers said.
You are what your parents ate!
Scientists have shown that diet-induced obesity and diabetes can be epigenetically inherited by the offspring via both the oocytes and the sperm.
Neanderthals diet: 80% meat, 20% vegetables
Scientists have studied the Neanderthals' diet. Based on the isotope composition in the collagen from the prehistoric humans' bones, they were able to show that, while the Neanderthals' diet consisted primarily of large plant eaters such at mammoths and rhinoceroses, it also included vegetarian food.
The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire
Half-a-billion people stored files on Dropbox. Well, sort of. Really, the files were in Amazon’s cloud. Until Dropbox built its own. And threw the switch. The post The Epic Story of Dropbox's Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire appeared first on WIRED.
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Solar Roads: Can Streets Become Giant Solar Panels?
The sun's rays can hit some roads for up to 90 percent of the daylight hours, so companies in Europe and the U.S. are experimenting with building solar panels along or above roads. But are such projects worth the cost? In France one company is hoping to distinguish itself—and reduce costs—with solar panels that are laid directly on the pavement. Click here to read more: http://news.nationalgeograp
Love Has No Age
"Love Has No Age" is a love story that got lost over fourty years of time. The two characters in this Docu-film; Ron Raffaelli, and Charlene Peters "Isis Aquarian", went their seperate ways; one joining a cult, called "The Source Family", and another continuing his legendary rock photography career... Their paths met again and they reunited on this journey.Cast: fancy
Screams of the Falling | Brain Games
Let's see how our survivors handle the stress of being dropped face-down into a 700-foot canyon. BRAIN GAMES AIRS SUNDAYS 9/8c.From: National Geographic
Michelle Obama 360
An exclusive virtual reality interview with First Lady Michelle Obama on how she mastered social media. For the best experience, watch in Google Cardboard VR or the YouTube app on a mobile device. 360 video shot on the Jaunt VR camera. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/lfcGfq Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/94XbKx Like The Verge on Facebook: http://
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The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress – FLNWO #33
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/flnwo33-lq.mp3"][/audio]This month on Film, Literature and the New World Order David Friedman joins us to discuss Robert Heinlein's science fiction classic, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. We discuss the power of Heinlein's example of an anarchistic society and examine that society's devolution into democracy. We also talk about whether books l
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In Death Valley, A Carpet of Colorful Life
A last minute trip to see rare wildflower super bloom was well worth the long haul
Berta Cáceres, Honduran Indigenous Rights Leader, Murdered at Home
Cáceres was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for her courageous opposition to mining and other mega-development projects
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Canada and US leaders commit to new goals for Arctic protection
In a joint statement today, the president of the United States and the prime minister of Canada agreed to several initiatives to advance Arctic conservation. The plan includes the establishment of protected areas. Their statement says "...we will work directly with Indigenous partners, state, territorial and provincial governments to establish this year a new, ambitious conservation goal for
Record year for rhino poaching in Africa
The number of African rhinos poached in 2015 is higher than previously thought with new figures from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) showing that a record 1,338 were killed across the continent last year – 33 higher than earlier estimates. This is the highest level since the current poaching crisis began in 2008 and takes the number of African rhinos killed since then to
Coral bleaching renews concerns for Great Barrier Reef
Reports that an island in northern Australia is experiencing the worst coral bleaching since 2002 is sparking renewed concern for the Great Barrier Reef. Earlier this week, WWF-Australia released video and photographs of bleaching on the reef's Lizard Island showing a wide variety of corals being impacted. "Right now, the Great Barrier Reef is on a knife-edge," said WWF-Australia Great B
Lack of support endangers wildlife rangers
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The men and women who protect the planet's wildlife feel they lack support from governments to enable them to do their do jobs safely, the results of an Asia-based survey released on World Wildlife Day shows. Ranger Perceptions: Asia surveyed 530 rangers across 11 tiger range countries and found that 63 per cent had faced a life-threatening situation, 74 per cent of ranger
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In Summary
Too many times I've seen assertions in Op-Eds and comments that "there is no evidence for a biological origin for transsexuality". Sometimes it's "no evidence whatsover", sometimes "no convincing evidence", "no peer-reviewed evidence". The impression is given that there's only one or two papers written by pay-for-comment idealogues in vanity press publicati
Correcting a falsehood
The state’s Human Rights Commission wants to be clear: A new rule allowing transgender people to use restrooms that match their gender identity does not permit men to undress in women’s locker rooms. The agency sent out a news release Friday responding to a recent incident in which a man undressed in a women’s locker room in Seattle. According to the news release, the man refused to leave, citing
Sometimes you win...
With such a document, I can apply for a correction of my UK birth certificate under the UK Gender Recognition Act (Overseas Track).I've been waitimg (and agitating and lobbying, and informing, and educating, and persuading) for ten years. I can wait another 6 months.
Ethical Guidelines Related to Mental Health Care
For the record...Mental health professionals need to be certified or licensed to practice in a given country according to that country’s professional regulations (Fraser, 2009b; Pope & Vasquez, 2011). Professionals must adhere to the ethical codes of their professional licensing or certifying organizations in all of their work with trans- sexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming clients.T
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Civil liberties activism is a battle against pernicious totalitarianism
Rigorous freedom of expression advocacy, applied irrespective of societal taboos and dominant attitudes, is always political because it always has an effect towards leveling the playing field between powerful state-backed corporate and institutional forces and the individual. Discourse, including the extremes, is the main democratic mechanism against spontaneous advances of totalitarianism.
A response by McGill Professors to Principal Suzanne Fortier’s condemnation of BDS
A response by McGill Professors to Principal Suzanne Fortier’s condemnation of BDS As McGill professors committed to justice and equity, we strongly disagree with Principal Suzanne Fortier’s official response on behalf of the university administration to the recent Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) motion in support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel and
It's the Geopolitics, stupid!
By Denis G. Rancourt, PhD Geopolitics determines domestic policy. Geopolitics determines domestic policy. Geopolitics determines domestic policy. This is apparent in the client country "Canada", where no sovereignty is allowed, and where domestic policy is entirely about preventing any emergence of actual democracy. It is glaringly obvious, to anyone who escapes the constant institutiona
Canadian Members of Parliament Vote in Express Contempt for Democracy, in Support of Israel's Apartheid Regime
On February 22, 2016, 68% of the federal members of parliament in Canada's House of Commons voted FOR this motion: That, given Canada and Israel share a long history of friendship as well as economic and diplomatic relations, the House reject the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which promotes the demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel, and call upon the
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Powerful ad! --- Must seePosted by Click Me Baby on Monday, February 8, 2016
Powerful ad! --- Must seePosted by Click Me Baby on Monday, February 8, 2016
Column: This is what happens when you take Ayn Rand seriously
Column: This is what happens when you take Ayn Rand seriously: The core of Ayn Rand's philosophy is that unfettered self-interest is good and altruism is destructive. So what if we indeed allowed ourselves to be blinded to all but our own self-interest?
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Clinton Fades,Trump Implodes And Bernie Shines
THE FABRICATOR * THE ARROGANT BULLY * THE REAL THING We're halfway through the Presidential Primaries and already a trend is becoming apparent; Hillary's credibility baggage is far too heavy and her light is fading; Trump's arrogance and bullying tactics are now a mirror of many of his followers as his campaign implodes while Bernie's tenacious empowering message wins the day in Michigan ~ and wi
China Meltdown Triggering Worldwide Recession
"China syndrome" is a fanciful term that describes a fictional worst-case result of a nuclear meltdown, where reactor components melt through their containment structures and into the underlying earth, all the way to China. In today's global economic climate it means that China's over built managed economic boom fueled by margin buying and excessive debt has exposed its global illusion o
Tap Into The Field And Heal Yourself In The Process
The basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy field of love and soul consciousness ( the Unified Field ) which lies not only beyond time and space but also beneath our deepest fears ~ and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite. Tap into this timeless and joyous energy field by surrendering to love and heal yourself in the process as countless others, b
Asymptotic Freedom Proves Gravity Subject To Another Force ~ Love
Click on photo to enlargeMerging black holes, spiraling white dwarfs, and spinning neutron stars all emit gravitational radiation. For the first time, astronomers have seen one of these elusive signals / Astronomy: Roan Kelly Now that Gravitational fields have been detected and heard from deep space ~ it's time to postulate that even Gravity may be subject to a subtle but a far more powerful for
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Albert Woodfox and Robert H King interviewed by CNN's Christine Amanpour
Watch the video interview here, or embedded above.
Poem by Tina Otito Tamsho-Thomas: Tribute to Albert Woodfox
Tribute to Albert WoodfoxAngola 3 Political PrisonerEach and all are waitingHeart, Spirit,Mind.Waiting for the justice day,Liberating Humankind.Years forty three imprisoned,conscious voice unarrested.Waiting for the justice day,Liberty attested.We will bring our warrior home, gifted to the world,Honouring his justice day,freedom flags unfurled.Copyright©Tina Otito Tamsho-Thomas
A3 Newsletter: Albert Is Free - Support Albert's Fund
A3 Newsletter, February 25, 2016: Oh Happy Day - Albert Woodfox is Free At Last (PHOTO: Left to Right, Robert King, Albert Woodfox, and Malik Rahim. This photo and two further below of Albert spending quality time with friends and family are courtesy of Palomita Firecracker's Facebook page.)Giving ThanksWe dedicate this newsletter to the spirit of Anita Roddick for her dedication to the Angola 3 s
Democracy Now! interviews Albert Woodfox
Well, joining us now in a broadcast exclusive from New Orleans PBS station WLAE is Albert Woodfox himself, giving his first televised interview since his release on Friday. Also joining us there is Robert King, the other surviving member of the Angola 3. And Albert Woodfox’s attorney, Billy Sothern, also joins us from New Orleans.We welcome you all to Democracy Now! Albert Woodfox, how does it fe
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Reagan in 1988: Senate's "Obligation" to Fill Supreme Court Vacancy in Election Year
..By MARC McDONALDMaybe this wasn't news to many progressives, but until I saw MoveOn.org's recent email about this, it was news to me. In 1988, Ronald Reagan (as shown in the video above) stated clearly that it is the Senate's "obligation" to work to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year.Kudos to MoveOn.org for drawing attention to this story. But I will point out that it's p
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Did The GOP Establishment Just Enlist K-K-Karl Rove To Take Down Trump Starting With Planting The David Duke KKK Stories?
BUSH's BRAINI recently got in touch again with a political activist friend of mine, plunger, after about 10 or so years. I mentioned to him the David Duke endorsing Donald Trump stories in the "news" right before a primary sticking out like a sore thumb as far as some powerful people trying to take down Trump, and plunger said that tactic has Karl Rove written all over it. I would never
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Liberals Reneging on Pot Reform Promises !!! Trudeau Instructs Police Forces To CONTINUE Arresting Canadians For SImple Possession. LYING LIBERALS !!
LYING LIBERALS RENEG ON POT REFORM - 'Keep busting them' says Trudeau!!!Justin Trudeau has advised the nations police to continue to harass and arrest Canadians for simple possession of marijuana. What a lying bunch of opportunists you guys elected as the federal government:Straight.com
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Dear readers: The post of Paul Craig Roberts that I re-post below has caused me to reflect on a man from Serbia who I met in 2001 when we were both Invited Professors of Research at Universités de Paris 6 et 7. And, with probability near zero, we turned out to be doing the vey same type of research and using the very same spectrometer! (See photo below). We had no trouble sharing the spectrometer and became great friends. Pavle told me that back in Serbia he had taken part in, I think, about 50 demonstrations against the dictator Slobodan Milošević, who was charged with war crimes including genocide and crimes against humanity in connection to the wars in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. At that time Pavle apparently believed that the NATO attack then in progress was to unseat Milošević. So for a while we used to converse by email and sent each other Christmas photos. Then he broke off all communication with me, not answering any of my subsequent emails. The only conclusion I can…
Murder Is Washington’s Foreign Policy — Paul Craig Roberts March 4, 2016 | Original Here | Use original if you wish to receive his newsletter via email Murder Is Washington’s Foreign PolicyPaul Craig Roberts Washington has a long history of massacring people, for example, the destruction of the Plains Indians by the Union war criminals Sherman and Sheridan and the atomic bombs dropped on Japanese
By now the readers of my blog know that Paul Craig Roberts is my main source of materials to repost, and he is my hero. Still, my ability to explain my attachment to him is no match to the kudos that Professor Edward Curtin has writen to honor him in this short essay built around PCR's most recent book.
The Neoconservative Threat To World Order: Washington’s Perilous War For HegemonyReview of Paul Craig Roberts’ Book By Prof. Edward Curtin Region: USAGlobal Research, February 28, 2016 Theme: Global Economy, U
Is America the greatest country on earth? Answer, only if you are rich. "Your" Congress has passed laws that allow the big banks and real estate brokers to break any law that they wish, while the people they rip off cannot challenge them (if the even the victims know what is being done to them). If any of my U.S. readers are victims who have have lost their house and job and wonder how they are going to survive on your pension or social security, come down to San Carlos, Mexico, where you can find not only houses you can afford, but also cheap medicine and denistry, beautiful beaches, and a safe environments (cops don't shoot people down here).
Subprime Mortgage Whistleblowers Warn Bigger Crash on Its Way Whistleblowers Richard Bowen and Michael Winston, along with UMKC's Bill Black, discuss the rampant fraud at Countrywide and Citigroup and how today's high foreclosure rates in states like Nevada could be a sign of what's to come - February 21, 2016 Subprime Mortgage Whistleblowers Warn Bigger Crash on Its Wayhttps://youtu.be/OO5DxgEBn
Most Americans don't understand what is going on in Syria, and those who think they know believe its citizens are trying to overthrough the (supposidly) represive government headed by (the democraticlly-elected) Assad ...and that the Russians have been bombing the supposed freedom fighters. All of this is propaganda spread by the crazed Americal neoconsevatives who literally own the U.S. government and plan to dominate the rest of the world ...or die destroying it (together with all the rest of us) in a nuclear holocaust. Below, Paul Craig Roberts explains what is REALLY going on in Syria and who is actually attacking it. Hint: not Russia, who to the contrary is defending it from ISIS/ISIL/Islamist State/ Daesh plus their providers, Washington, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Read the history below to learn where things are heading now.
The Neoconservatives Are Brewing A Wider War In Syria — Paul Craig Roberts February 14, 2016 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letterThe Neoconservatives Are Brewing A Wider War In SyriaPaul Craig RobertsWhile you are enjoying your Sunday, the insane neoconservatives who control Western foreign policy and their Turkis
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The Doc the Koch Brothers Don't Want You to See
One year ago, Global News pulled "The Koch Connection" by acclaimed Canadian TV producer and investigative journalist Bruce Livesey just days before it went to air. Promo material about the Koch brothers' influence in Canada, including an interview with an Alberta cattle rancher, was also scrubbed off their site. Livesey told his story on Canadaland and was subsequently fired - along wit
Shopping for human rights
Passed yesterday in the House : "That, given Canada and Israel share a long history of friendship as well as economic and diplomatic relations, the House reject the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which promotes the demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel, and call upon the government to condemn any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or indiv
Cons struggle to find their opposition feet
"They're stealing all our best shit," wailed CPC MP Remplestiltskin from her parliamentary selfie twitter account, rattling off all the HarperGov ideas embraced by the Liberals since they formed a majority government in October :Saudi arms deal - checkTPP signed - checkReturn of the F35 bid - checkKeystone XL pipeline - checkEnergy east pipeline - checkVoted for C-51 - checkCanadian Whea
Cindy Blackstock
Who knows about love and fairness? Children do.Racial discrimination against children must no longer be tolerated in Canada.First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada filed their complaint in 2007. Tyee : Scared and Spied On Under Harper, Why Child Advocate Didn't Give UpAlso, while we're at it ... Cindy Blackstock for Governor General of Canada.
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Health Minister Philpott Blows a Dog Whistle
Health Minister Jane Philpott blew an anti-choice dog whistle on Tuesday. Did you catch it? While pro-choice activists marched through Charlottetown's streets to protest the lack of abortion services on P.E.I., the issue received some attention in the House of Commons Tuesday.It came in the form of a question from the NDP MP from Nanaimo-Ladysmith, Sheila Malcolmson, who said the service must be a
Mocking the Predators: Guelph Report
40 Days of Preyers seems to be rather a fizzle in Canada this year. First, they're down to only 8 cities -- and a part-time vigil in Saskatoon -- from 15 in the fall last year.There's not much bragging on social media of huge turn-outs or of women successfully coerced convinced to turn around.And if a Québécois MNA is successful with her private member's bill, all such predatory demonstrations wou
Nope. This "Preborn" Victims Law Won't Pass Either
I'm loath to get into this one again, as it drives people cuckoo-bananas, but this is my beat and this story is part of it. Just about a year ago, we reported on the fallout from a brutal murder of a pregnant woman that also resulted in the death of her fetus. That fallout was a petition titled "Molly Matters: Reconsider and Pass Bill C-484."Ken Epp's private member's bill C-484, or &quo
Abortion in Canada: Good and Not Nearly Good Enough News
To its credit, Global News has been running several stories lately about abortion -- especially abortion access -- in Canada. Yesterday, it had two.First, a new poll on unrestricted abortion.Canadian attitudes toward abortion appear to be shifting, according to a new Ipsos poll, as six in ten say abortion should be permitted whenever a woman decides she wants.The Ipsos poll, given exclusively to G
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Love Is Not Enough
Following is the transcript for the 25th Dispatch From the Endocene, which can be heard at ExtinctionRadio.org. The artwork is by Arthur Rackham, whose depiction of trees rendered them veritable sentient characters in his illustrations of fairy tales.Thanks as always Gene, and welcome Listeners, to the 25th Dispatch From The Endocene. The transcript and pertinent links will be found on my blog,
A Borrowed Poem
With his kind permission, please find below a poem written by Lee McCormack, a hermit living in the dank and moldy primal forests of Martha’s Vineyard. Writing poetry for 55 years, he is the first ever Martha’s Vineyard Poet Laureate in the island’s history, nominated from 162 members of the MV Poetry Society. He is also a member of the Cleaveland House Poets.Late For the Dance?Can you believe the
I think we're in real trouble
~ Mitch Brenner, from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, 1963Thank you Gene, and welcome listeners, to the 24th Dispatch From the Endocene.As winter is drawing to a close, I thought I would quote from Silent Spring, which Rachel Carson published in 1962. She described the changes to a bucolic town…“...a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Some evil spell had settled on t
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Tucson Alternative Spring Break Tax-Deductible Donations:
TUCSON ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS:(Please post and share)Tucson, Az March 14-20In a little over a month, an amazing confluence of conferences, gatherings and events are taking place in Tucson, during spring break, between March 14-20, 2016. They are being co-sponsored by many departments and organizations throughout the state of Arizona, but principally the Mexican American
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The Modern Paul Revere in The New Millennium
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17 Krishnamurti Quotes That Will Turn Your World View Outside In
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” ―Jiddu Krishnamurti by Dylan Charles A sage is someone who can put into words the aspects of our mysterious nature that most of us can only feel. At times in my life I have been overwhelmed by the world and confused about the purpose of it all. I spent much time in anguish, behaving in self-destructive ways, wonde
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Understanding Sustainability
Dearest Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a great honor to announce the release of my new book, Understanding Sustainability, a collection of seventy-four reviews of sustainability-related books. It’s vital that humankind develops a competent understanding of ecological sustainability, and pursues it with all deliberate speed. A sustainable way of life is one that can continue for millennia without
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Argentina: UFO Photographed in Catamarca
Source: El Ancasti (www.elancasti.com.ar)Date: 03.06.2016Argentina: UFO Photographed in CatamarcaThe photo was taken at Paraje Chaschuil, Tinogasta, in the Catamarcan "Puna" (montane grassland region) by a group of youngsters traveling across Paso de San Francisco.The photo was taken by one of the youths, whose hobby it is to photograph the most desolate regions of the La Puna region, ac
Argentina: "The South is Being Visited by UFOs"
Argentina: "The South is Being Visited by UFOs"By Andrea Pérez Simondini, Visión OVNI & CEFORAWe have a story to tell you. The newspapers have startled us today with a multiple sighting in the Punta Loyola, Santa Cruz (Argentina) area. It seems that the south has been surprising us with a series of observations which, we could say, require profound investigation.First, there was the
Venezuela: UFOs Over Venezuela? Sightings Reported
Source: Planeta UFO and Informe 21Date: 02.11.2016Venezuela: UFOs Over Venezuela? Sightings Reported Alleged unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have been seen over the Venezuelan cities of Caracas and Barquisimeto in recent days, generating reactions in the communications media and the population at large. Are we being visited from otehr worlds.The phenomenon was seen in Barquisimeto and recorded
Argentina: Airliner Has a Run-In with UFO Over Rio Grande
Source: Luis Burgos (FAO), Jorge Fernandez Gentile (Quinto Milenio) and www.infouegina.comDate: March 3, 2016Argentina: Airliner Has a Run-In with UFO Over Rio GrandeA pilot from a well-known airline saw a strange "object" as he was about to land in Rio Grande, this object was in an area "forbidden" or restricted to air traffic at such a time, and the pilot asked the tower if t
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When all the smoke clears and you see
I’m just back in Nicaragua after a couple of weeks back in Canada hanging out with my family, and I’m going through one of those re-entry things where I’m suddenly reawakened to the many sad stories in Managua. Mostly, people cope down here, and with a smile on their face. But when you re-enter after two weeks of happy family time with all your healthy, well-fed and extremely well-tende
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Ramphastos toucans of Bolivia
Ramphastos Toucans are the largest of the toucan family, related to the Asian/African hornbills, along with woodpeckers, barbets, jacamars and kingfishers.These toucans are tropical and subtropical near passerine birds from Mexico, and Central and South America, which are brightly marked and have enormous, often colourful, bills.This genus has a size ranging from 42 to 61 centimetres (17 to 24 in)
New York Times on Bolivia; journalism or malicious gossip?
For years we have passed information to the New York Times and other papers. They have ignored it, even when a Bolivian consul offered his house to a NYT journalist and offered to set up an interview with Evo Morales. A press reception in the Bolivian consulate in New York, on 30 June, 2010, was ignored by the NYT, the NY Post and the NY Daily News. A short cab or subway ride away from their offic
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To those going to #AERA16: Make us care
Because we don’t. And by we I mean teachers. As a former college professor who has attended meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), I know what magic stands behind that curtain. The vast, vast majority of teachers have no idea about AERA or, if they do, don’t care about it. The goal of […]
Extending school days and year will continue flux in DCPS
The Chancellor of DC Public Schools is hell bent on transitioning the entire District, mainly vis a vis most beleaguered schools, to an extended day and school year. The Mayor and Chancellor recently announced a list of roughly ten schools who will be implementing an extended school year of 20 days. These schools are all […]
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F*ck the Habermasian-Beckian Project of a Homogeneous World Culture: We Require a Bioregional Hellenization Instead of an Unrepresentative Globalist Elitism
Castells en Tarragona, EspañaPardon my French. Or Spanish. I was riled--riled like only one can be riled when you have much in common with a thinker though you differ on many small points. Only small points of disagreement between like minds seem to prickle sharper for their rarity. They go against what you thought was a common smooth grain shared between like minds. However, sometimes a tiny pain
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Two Books I'm Reading
A friend hepped me to The Devil in the White City by Eric Larson. It's about the building of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893; and Larson shows how it was a snap-shot of the times. For instance; the world's first Ferris Wheel was designed for it as US-American engineers' response to the Eiffel Tower that wowed the world at the Paris World's Fair of 1889. Also, while I've read fairly extensively ab
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why i'm in favor of single payer, and other topics...
by russell As most folks probably know, I write code for a living. I build software. It's a funny industry, by which I don't mean funny-ha-ha, and is prone to strange enthusiasms. It can be a little volatile. I currently work for a company that's been around for a while - probably about 12 years, depending on when you start the clock. The owner started by reselling a software-based service, us
Your Weekend Thread of Openness
by Ugh So the GOP Presidential candidates spent last night pretending they're not all scary monsters. YMMV. The Trump or Cruz question is quite something. Meanwhile, the SCOTUS rumpus continues, with the Republican led Senate Judiciary Committee looking more and more ridiculous. That the press treats this as anything other than a naked partisan power play is Bad For Democracy. But whatevs. On
Mix and Match . . . Or Not
by wj A little while ago, Leonard Pitts had a column entitled If Hollywood Does Not See You — And Reflect You — Are You Really There? It was his take on the much-commented lack of minority, specifically black, actors nominated for the Oscars this year. Now certainly there is reason to wonder why Hollywood seems to have such a limited number (relative to population) of black actors. Especially at
Hilzoy on how the Republicans got Donald Trump
by Doctor Science Hilzoy, formerly of this establishment, has moved on from political blogging, but she's active on twitter. The other day she wrote a tweetstorm that's been storified as How the Republicans got Donald Trump. Excerpts: @hilzoy GOP has for a long time been destroying trust in press, experts, basically everyone ppl don't know personally.— hilzoy (@hilzoy) March 1, 2016 @hilzoy So th
THE WHITE HATS REPORT2 unread articles // actions
March 7, 2016 – White Hats Report #52 – The Trump Factor – Bush crime family pulls out the Tramp in an attempt to discredit The Donald
The 2016 US Presidential election season has officially entered the Twilight Zone.Before we cue up the Rod Serling lead-in, a history lesson is in order. It’s always good to review the past in order to put the present into proper context. In the US, from now until November, the Presidential election party primary circuses will take center stage. The traveling road shows are in full swing with th
February 29, 2016 – White Hats Report #51 – The Trump Factor – More obfuscation, this time by the alternative media
As we gear up for resumption of operations, it has been brought to our attention that a website has cited Lord James’ historic speech of February 16, 2012 as source material for an article that is filled with inaccuracies. Before we get to that, it should be pointed out that this is the second time his speech has been cited in a disinformation piece, the first being penned by Gordon Duff of Veter
PAYING ATTENTION1 unread article // actions
All in, I'd rather have cheap, bad buses
I've begun to treat my bus ride to work as a sign of how the day is going to go.If I have an OK seat, not too crunched and arrive not limping, I bounce away from the bus whistling. Nod cheerily to the man with the wire cages full of puppies and the two guys who spend their days turning pallets into furniture by the side of the road.It's an easy commute. I walk about 10 minutes to the Carreterra Ma
PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK7 unread articles // actions
Scientific integrity? Yes, please.
Late last year, a respected scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) filed a whistleblower compaint, claiming scientific suppression of his research on pesticides and pollinators. Today, PAN and our supporters helped deliver comments to USDA from more than 140,000 concerned individuals, calling on the agency to respect and support scientific integrity. As a recent article from
People power in the San Joaquin Valley
There’s a lot of power in the San Joaquin Valley. It's a hub for industrial agriculture interests, no doubt, as they've grown in size and scale. But there’s also power in the communities that are organizing to reclaim and protect shared water, soil and farmland. That was the focus this week, as a group of academics, farmers, students, food and environmental justice advocates, and community o
EU puts the brakes on Monsanto's RoundUp
In a surprise move earlier this week, European officials put a hold on continued use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's flagship herbicide RoundUp. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now well into its seventh year of reviewing the controversial chemical. The European delay comes in the face of strong opposition to the proposed 15-year re-licensing agreeme
Monsanto's dream bill is back
You heard right, the "DARK Act" is back. Next week, Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) is planning to introduce a bill that would block state rights to label genetically engineered (GE) food, even if labeling laws are already on the books. The bill would also prohibit states from regulating GE crops at all. Dubbed the "Denying America's Right to Know" Act by opponents, a version
PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENT1 unread article // actions
Personalised, Individualised or Precision Medicine: Three Unaddressed Socio-economic Hurdles
After the BRAIN initiative of 2013, in 2015 US president Obama announced another large scale government funding scheme for biomedical science, on so-called Precision Medicine. Just recently this initiative announced its first pilot study. Leaving the unfortunate terminological analogue of "precision bombing" (eventually known precisely for its lack of precision) to a side, precision medi
REAL HISTORY BLOG1 unread article // actions
What it's like to phonebank for Bernie Sanders
I spent the afternoon phonebanking for Bernie. I have to tell you, the tools the Bernie Sanders campaign are using are much more sophisticated than what the Obama campaign had. Then, we were still working off of paper lists which volunteers had to type into computers. Bernie's team has built an incredible app you can do from a phone alone or from a phone and computer. This was the most
THE NUCLEAR GREEN REVOLUTION4 unread articles // actions
Nuclear Industry Subsidies Part I: Definitions
Update: I am reposting this series on Nuclear Power Industry subsidies in proper order. This reposting will serve as an introduction to a new series on subsidies which will look at the justification of subsidies as well as their motives. The primary focus of these new posts will be on the justification, if any, of nuclear power subsidies. Any analysis of nuclear industry subsidies should begin
Nuclear Industry Subsidies Part II: The Mining Sector
Doug Koplow, in a Union of Concerned Scientists report titled, Nuclear Power: Still not viable without subsidies," has offered us an attempt to assess subsidies offered by the Government to the Nuclear Industry. Koplow charges that one form of government subsidy has to do with Uranium mining,The mining and milling stages have historically been environmentally damaging, and available data (Tab
Nuclear Industry Subsidies Part III: The Military Connection
This is the Part III of my review of Doug Koplow, Union of Concerned Scientists report titled, Nuclear Power: Still not viable without subsidies. ThePart I offered some definition of subsidies, and noted that very large government subsidies to the renewable power industry had not made renewable generated electricity cheap. Part I noted that the definitions of subsidy and nuclear industry needed to
Nuclear Industry Subsidies Part IV: Conclusions on Koplow
Update: I am reposting this 4 part series on Nuclear subsidies which critiques inaccurate claims about subsidies to the nuclear power industry, made by lobbiests for thev fossil fuel and the socalled renewable power industries. These two industries, often viewed as enemies, often appear to be joined together at the4 hip, by their shared hostility to clean, safe nuclear power. I am planning to b
SCREW YOU GUYS, I'M GOING HOME2 unread articles // actions
Florida Adds "Financial Information" To List of Trade Secrets That Can Get You Tossed In Jail
Florida continues to be one of the worst states in the nation for employees. Zippo has passed so far in favor of employees this legislative session, but legislators thought, "Gee, Florida just isn't rotten enough for employees. Let's make it worse."So they added the very broad category of "financial information" to the list of trade secrets that, if taken, can land employees in
Employment Law Blog Carnival (#ELBC) Freaky February Holiday Edition
February isn't just Valentine's Day, despite what the greeting card and flower industries would like you to believe. February ought to be designated National Weird Holiday Month, because it is filled with odd and different holiday celebrations. Since I'm honored to be hosting the Employment Law Blog Carnival this month, featuring the best employment law blogs around in one handy place, I get to sh
SYRIA COMMENT6 unread articles // actions
Call for Submissions: Syrian Studies Association Prizes for Outstanding Dissertation and Article on Syria
Call for Submissions: Syrian Studies Association Prizes for Outstanding Dissertation and Article on Syria In order to promote and highlight excellence in research, the Syrian Studies Association each year awards prizes for the best writing on Bilad al-Sham until 1918 and on Syria in the period following. In 2016, the SSA seeks submissions for the most outstanding dissertation published between Jul
Harakat al-Hawiya al-Arabiya al-Druziya: Defending Druze Identity in Suwayda’
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Emblem of Harakat al-Hawiya al-Arabiya al-Druziya, using the familiar colours associated with the Druze sect. Although the Druze originate from a sect within Shi’i Islam, the religious movement evolved over time such that the Druze identity is deemed separate from that of the Shi’a. The same has been true of the Alawites, though as is well known, a number of efforts have
The Dir’ al-Watan Brand: Liwa Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi A logo of Liwa Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi The previous post profiled the emergence of Liwa Dir’ al-Watan (Homeland Shield Brigade) as a Damascus-based militia during the autumn of 2015, complete with its own media office and social media profile. As was also made clear, Liwa Dir’ al-Watan, despite its outward Syrian nationalist appearance, is actually led by the commander of
Liwa Dir’ al-Watan: A New Pro-Assad Militia in Damascus
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Emblem of Liwa Dir’ al-Watan The brand of “Dir’ al-Watan” (“Homeland Shield”)- and more broadly the concept of a “shield” force- gained increasing currency among pro-Assad militias last year. In part, this branding reflected a regime strategy of consolidating and defending areas deemed more vital in the wake of the loss of more peripheral areas like Idlib and Palmyra, wh
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Recalibrating the BBC’s scales
Improbable as it might sound, all news media are obliged to present themselves as unbiased. This is quite understandable. The alternative would be to openly declare that they distort the truth to suit their own agenda. As the ostensible purpose of news is to convey truth, this would be an own goal. Other, less frank, news outlets would round on the transgressor, shrieking in indignation – how coul
THE HIGH-FAT HEP C DIET2 unread articles // actions
The state of nutritional science, 2016
Someone sent me a link to this paper the other day, it's not something I would have looked at otherwise. However, next time you read a "totality of the evidence" snowjob supporting guidelines on saturated fat consumption, this paper will probably have been thrown on the pile, weighting it a little bit further. Finucane OM, Lyons CL, Murphy AM et al (19 authors). Monounsaturated fatty ac
Good News from Melbourne University's NZO Mouse LCHF "Paleo" Study
The egregious behaviour of Prof Sol Andrikopoulos in his press release to global media has obscured the finding that was the primary purpose of the "Three Mouseketeers" study.The study was supposed to answer a question that is actually of great importance in diabetes research: - the blood sugars of people with diabetes usually improve and can become completely normal on the LCHF diet - t
THE EARTH AND MAN: SETTING THE STAGE3 unread articles // actions
The Bottom Line About "Climate Science" and "Global Warming"
The war of words over "climate change" and "global warming" continues to be a fragmented one, with a wide diversity of opinions and little focus overall. Most writers on the subject are set in their views now, as the consensus authorities--alarmist propagandists all--have been all along, in the interest of their own favored positions and of the political power these radical act
Ben Is Glory, Glory Is Ben
I read a comment on the jonova site that referred to "the gravitational warming theory". My response: There is no "gravitational warming", per se. There is instead gravitational distribution of atmospheric pressure (the pressure at any level is just the weight of the atmosphere above that level), which imposes a vertical temperature distribution (the "lapse rate" stru
In One Ear and Out the Other
The Real Science site has a post on "Understanding Climate Science in One Paragraph", a paragraph that informs the reader that the globe warmed from 1977 to 1991, and very little if any since. I find this interesting, because I informed the Real Science author and his readers of this (I specified the time period as 1976 to 1989/90) as early as September 2013, nearly two and a half years
THE GALLOPING BEAVER3 unread articles // actions
Cons can't help themselves
Yep, you just keep doing what you're doing, Conservatives. Crass, insensitive, completely oblivious to context and lacking in basic decorum: they still haven't figured out this lost them the last election. Perhaps they've forgotten how to do politics any other way? Popcorn?
F-35, IT edition
The latest fun from the plane that just refuses to work is that the radar sometimes fails and needs to be rebooted. There are rumours that Lockheed Martin are proposing to install a direct line to their tech support in all production F-35s.
New Con boss on the Twitters
I think it's going to take the Cons a long time to climb out of the pit their last boss and his pals dug them into. They've maybe got an intractable problem now in that their vision of the country is simply unpalatable to 60 to 70% of the electorate. This number is likely to shrink further as the older generation (60+ years) of hardline Tory voters passes on. Younger Canadians, X-ers,
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE7 unread articles // actions
Walter Haut - Lost in the Roswell Minutae
Over the years Walter Haut made many recorded statements about what he had done and seen in Roswell in July, 1947. For decades, all he had done, according to those statements, including many to me, was write the press release. He had taken that release to the various media outlets in Roswell… or he had called them and read the release to them over the telephone. He signed an affidavit to that effe
An Experiment about Page Views
A couple of days ago Rich Reynolds over at the UFO Conjectures blog put up a brief article that has something to do with Roswell. Apparently some of his readers took issue with his return to Roswell and made comment on it. Reynolds said that each mention of Roswell boosted the page views of the blog and he provided a screen shot to prove his point. There was a spike on it. And in the comments sect
Roswell Slides - Is This Still a Thing?
There are some things that I believe have been resolved and then something happens and I realize that the issue isn’t dead. I believed that after the placard in front of the mummy had been “deblurred” by so many in so many locations that it proved that the Roswell Slides showed an unfortunate child who had died several hundred years ago (I still refuse to post more pictures… it seems to be disresp
Project Camelot and My Life on Mars
The other day I did Rob McConnell’s X-Zone radio show. As usual, we had a lot of fun and he mentioned to me that Kerry Cassidy had been on his show a few days earlier. It was her premise that “Soldiers who are alleged to be going to Iraq or Afghanistan are actually being sent off planet to places like Mars to fight battles alongside other alien races. Those men and women will have their minds wipe
LEXICON DAILY2 unread articles // actions
City of Davis Fire Department fleet costs and Chief's statement
Upon a public records request I was given the following information regarding the cost of fuel, repair and maintenance of the Davis Fire Department's five fire engines and how many miles each was driven in 2015:Vehicle Miles Gallons of fuel Cost of Fuel Repair/Maintenance Total fuel + repair 330-E31 10,0232,221$6,721.12$29,841.23$36,562.35330R-E231 2,908470.28$1,333.61$39,052.26$40,385.87320-E32 7
"What Everyone Should Know About Bicycles for Fun and Safety"
Below are the front and back cover and a few interior pages from a booklet I found among her books called, "About Bicycles." My mom likely brought this home from an S&L in Davis then called Central California Federal Savings and Loan Association. I think this is the same institution that became Heart Federal and today is a branch of US Bank.The copyright on this booklet is 1965, thou
MAJIA'S BLOG25 unread articles // actions
On Fukushima's Anniversary
Last night I told my husband that George Orwell was right. We are living in a world resembling Orwell's 1984.Newspeak, in particular, is everywhere one looks.Everyday I look at the headlines and read selected stories from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, the Mainichi and select other Japanese newspapers (Asahi Shimbun free this month!)Deliberate propaganda infus
Pentagon Deployed Spy Drones Over US
More evidence that we have tipped into fascism:Gregg Zoroya, Pentagon Deployed Spy Drones Over US. Pentagon Deployed Spy Drones Over US. USA Today, March 10, 201, 1B.The Pentagon has deployed drones to spy over US territory for non-military missions over the past decade, but the flights have been rare and lawful, according to a new report....A senior policy analyst for the American Civil Liberties
Remove The Fascists And Try Them For Crimes Against Humanity
Read the entire outrageous report at Truthout: Exclusive: Navy Secretly Conducting Electromagnetic Warfare Training on Washington Roads Monday, 07 March 2016 00:00 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35111-exclusive-navy-secretly-conducting-electromagnetic-warfare-training-on-washington-roads Without public notification of any kind, the US Navy has secretly been c
TEPCO Externalizes Costs - Japan Taxpayers Pay for Fukushima Disaster
The Fukushima accident was catastrophic and the costs are being externalized, although TEPCO (and GE) bear direct responsibility for the disaster. In north east Honshu, property owned by generations of families was devalued or made uninhabitable by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. As of December 2014, six municipalities contaminated by the March 2011 explosions remain closed because of radiation co
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Damages
I recently read an American case where a sportscaster received a judgment for over $50,000,000 for the harm cause when a peeping tom took some nude pictures of her in a hotel. The hotel was at fault and had been careless in protecting the sportscaster's privacy. I thought more about the case. The sportscaster had not lost a job or any material assets; indeed she had thrived professionally since t
Consecutive intermittent sentences improper
R. v. Clouthier, 2016 ONCA 197:[27] Section 732(1) of the Criminal Code describes the circumstances in which a sentence of imprisonment may be served intermittently. The subsection provides: 732 (1) Where the court imposes a sentence of imprisonment of ninety days or less on an offender convicted of an offence, whether in default of payment of a fine or otherwise, the court may, having regar
Another Dr Smith case
The Court of Appeal for Ontario today set aside a guilty plea holding the accused was forced into the plea though innocent by the risk of wrongful conviction. Some might ask how rare is this type of powerful plea inducement? R. v. Shepherd, 2016 ONCA 188:Setting Aside the Guilty Plea[13] It is firmly established that this court has jurisdiction to set aside a guilty plea entered at first ins
Governor General Vincent Massey fishing for Arctic Char at CamBay in March 1956
MIKAN 4313949 [ Full size ]Governor General Vincent Massey fishing for Arctic Char at Cambridge Bay, N.W.T. mars 195Of the Law Societies of Upper Canada and Nunavut
MUSINGS ON IRAQ35 unread articles // actions
Islamic State’s Raid On Iraq’s Abu Ghraib
As the Islamic States loses more ground in Iraq it has reverted to high profile terrorist attacks and raids to keep itself in the headlines and promote an image of constant victory. One such operation was an all day assault upon Abu Ghraib in western Baghdad province. The insurgents seized several buildings, and successfully brought food back to Fallujah from which the raid was launched. Al Mada
Iraq’s Continued Displacement Crisis
Iraq’s displaced population has passed 3.3 million. Over 90% of those internal refugees reside in the center and north of the country. That places a huge burden on those provinces in the time of a financial crisis. The larger problem is that there is no process or timetable for when these people will be able to return to their homes, and more displacement is expected in the future as more cities
NEW ORLEANS LADDER17 unread articles // actions
The Latest: Obama declares flood-hit Louisiana a disaster ~AP
The Latest: Obama declares flood-hit Louisiana a disaster ~AP
Marching to the Ides of March ~Douglas Handshoe, Slabbed
Marching to the Ides of March ~Douglas Handshoe, Slabbed
What’s really going on in our legislature: Special interests addicted to greed ~Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, The Lens
What’s really going on in our legislature: Special interests addicted to greed ~Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, The Lens
In Gentilly, Füd Bar will revamp the cafeteria for the modern era ~Todd A. Price
In Gentilly, Füd Bar will revamp the cafeteria for the modern era ~Todd A. Price
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