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Wait for it. It's 2017, so we completely understand that you may not be
exactly excited to hear the beat drop for "Uptown Funk." The song has
been drilled into our skulls every time we turn the radio on or enter
the grocery store. But, if you're a young kid, you basically grew up on
the 2014 hit. Just watch this toddler named Maddie, who waits patiently
for the chorus to drop, then promptly showc
Footage of a family getting kicked off of a JetBlue flight over the
placement of a birthday cake surfaced on Saturday. Minta and Cameron
Burke were heading to Las Vegas from JFK Airport in New York on Flight
611 on May 3 to celebrate Minta's 40th birthday with their children when
an incident between the family and the airline caused the entire family
to be kicked off the plane, despite the NYPD a
Astronomers
have been analyzing the atmosphere of a Neptune-sized planet located
430 light years away. Known as HAT-P-26b, this distant, tidally locke...
Archaeologists
have made a fascinating discovery inside a 3,800-year-old pyramid in
Dahshur, Egypt. A wooden box retrieved from within the chamber bea...
Trump Administration Shakeup Coming? by Stephen Lendman The world’s
most powerful position can be its most lonely, frustrating, unrewarding
and dangerous when US dark forces oppose the chief executive’s agenda,
key parts thereof - or if the incumbent is perceived to be too
independent. The “mess” Trump said he inherited is America’s debauched
system, its ruthlessness, its war on humanity at home
PFLP Leadership on Mass Palestinian Hunger Strike by Stephen Lendman
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader Ahmad Saadat
is one of hundreds of Palestinian political prisoners hunger striking
for justice. In 1967, he founded the organization, dedicated to
liberating Palestine from Zionist colonial occupation. In 2002, he was
politically imprisoned for 30 years - because of his
Under Paul Dacre’s 25-year reign, the paper has become the UK’s most
fanatical anti-liberal voice. We trace its growing political influence
through the past year’s headlines For me, Brexit fell from the sky. On
the night of 23 June last year, while the referendum count was in
progress, I was flying home from an Observer job in New York. When we
took off from JFK the pilot, in his measured British
Imperfect it may be, but Labour’s manifesto recognises the economic
status quo can’t be kept going for much longer Ten years ago this month,
Britain was on the cusp of change. Two things were about to happen, one
planned and one unexpected. The change everybody knew about was that
Tony Blair was going to stand down as prime minister after 10 years in
the job, during which time he had won three el
On Monday, he is expected to travel to Berlin to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, France’s most important ally.
In the end, perhaps, the bar was set too high for the Saturday Night
Live episode that was to follow an already baffling series of news
events. (Image credit: Saturday Night Live via YouTube/Screenshot by
NPR)
Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, defended
President Trump on Sunday after his shocking announcement to fire the
FBI Director James Comey, in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” with
George Stephanopoulos. “The president is the CEO of the country,” Haley
said. “He can hire and fire anyone he wants,” she added. As a diplomat
Haley noted that it’s typically unusual for her to ta
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Cayman's CTMH Doctors Hospital and Cayman Pharmacy Group has started
dispensing cannabis oil to patients with a valid medical documentation.
To meet expected demand, CTMH purchased nearly 13 liters of cannabis oil
from Canadian-based CanniMed Oils. Doctors at the hospital can now
prescribe it to selected patients who reside in the Cayman Islands. The
hospital officials stated: These advancem
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MP3, the digital audio coding format, changed the way we listen to
music and drove the adoption of countless new devices over the last
couple of decades. And now, it’s dead. The developer of the format
announced this week that it has officially terminated its licensing
program. Read more...
Before
you set up a desk for Fido, have you thought through what this really
means for your office? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Chickens
are smart, and they understand their world, which raises troubling
questions about how they are treated on factory farms -- Read more on
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Before
you set up a desk for Fido, have you thought through what this really
means for your office? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
An
unprecedented "ransomware" cyberattack that has already hit tens of
thousands of victims in 150 countries could wreak even more havoc Monday
as people return to their desks and power up their computers at the
start of the work week.
The spread of the WannaCry ransomware was aided in part by the millions
of people stuck on Windows XP. The post If You Still Use Windows XP,
Prepare For the Worst appeared first on WIRED .
Meet Estaifan Shilaita—Chicago cab driver, loving father, and former
boxing champion. From 1968 to 1976, Shilaita was the national boxing
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his Christian faith. Although he left his boxing dreams behind,
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In Bogotá, Colombia, a charismatic eleven year old named Maria
Alejandra struggles to maintain a normal childhood despite the
limitations imposed by a rare skin disease. Conflict between mother and
daughter arises when Maria refuses to attend school early one morning.
En Bogotá, Colombia, una carismática niña de 11 años llamada María
Alejandra, tiene dificultades para vivir una infancia normal de
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Back when we were in school we heard the question a million times:
"What are you going to be when you grow up?" Some of us had an answer,
others were undecided, some had no idea. But we all assumed that the
question could be answered. That whatever career we chose already
existed. But in a world where technological and societal change means
our children's future jobs likely don't exist yet, what
This week on the New World Next Week: China revs up globalization 2.0
at silk road summit; Florida passing law to imprison bitcoin launderers;
and the Big Apple is rolling out new tech to track the homeless.
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at silk road summit; Florida passing law to imprison bitcoin launderers;
and the Big Apple is rolling out new tech to track the homeless.
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Dr. William Pepper's remarkable 40 year investigation into the
assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. is summarized in his equally
remarkable book, "The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr." In this conversation we
discuss Dr. Pepper's relationship with Dr. King,
New in The EnvironmentaList
One in four Americans is drinking water that doesn’t meet Safe Drinking Water Act standards, new report finds
Storytelling project showcases the rediscovery of species thought to be long extinct
US-based company still refuses to divest from industry proven harmful to cetaceans
Bird-watching tours help preserve vital habitat while supplementing family income
President promises decision on US involvement before G7 summit, but the debate reveals deep divisions within his core team
Rehabilitation center lends a helping hand to owls and eagles, raises awareness about oft-overlooked raptors
New in The Rules of Exposition
I don't write blue books, not for a while.he title here is taken from
J.P.Sommerville . The hints and tips may be found here . KI like his
first three general points: Answer the question Organize your answer Be
precise Apparently I tend to drift a bit, especially at the opening. I
need to think more about cutting out that part of what I've written,
leaving only the parts I want people to focus on
From
W3Schools :" Tip: The element is very often used together with CSS, to
layout a web page ." No. Unacceptable. It has to be this way: " Tip: The
element is very often used together with CSS, to lay out a web page ."
"Lay out" has to be two words. Why? IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE DOING IT. Then
you have to be able to say: "I am laying out the web page." Two words.
It would be obviously wrong to say "I
The
title is from Willa Cather, at Orange Crate Art . It reminds me... I
worked for a time with a bunch of foreigners, Czechs from
Czechoslovakia, from before the days of the Czech Republic. There were
minor problems with the language. The boss and his number one man didn't
get along at all. Number one never liked anything the boss thought we
should do. One time the boss said we should do so-and-s
New in A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
Garifuna woman in Honduras prepares yucca bread, a staple of the
Garifuna diet. My Cuso International volunteer credentials have earned
me the opportunity to present at a University of Victoria student
symposium this Friday put on by the Centre for Global Studies. Here's
what I'm going to be talking about. I thought I'd be able to post a link
to the blogs that presenters have written in advance o
New in A Different Perspective
By a somewhat strange coincidence, I happened on an episode of Hangar 1
just a couple of weeks after I had interviewed Jan Harzan, MUFON
Executive Director. I hadn’t realized that the opening of the show made
such a big deal out of “MUFON’s Archives” stored in this huge
warehouse-like hangar. Harzan told me that when the producers arrived,
they asked where the files were and the current director
Monte Shriver Although I have always thought that the evidence for a
UFO crash near Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948, was probably false, this tale
keeps popping up as if it is something real. I reached out to a former
Aztec resident, a man who was in high school in Aztec in 1948, and who
has spent the last several years investigating the case, Monte Shriver.
(Interestingly, it was Scott Ramsey who rat
Well, it’s happened again, just as John Keel said it would. As I have
mentioned before, Keel had written in 1991 that by the end of the
century (meaning going into the 21 st century) there would be dozens of
people, if not hundreds, claiming to have been in Roswell at the time of
the UFO crash. Another one has appeared on the scene by the name of
Charles H. Forgus, a soldier who served during the
While the Laginas begin to power up for a new assault on the treasure
hidden beneath Oak Island, a new theory about the Money Pit has
revealed. Joy Steele, in her book, The Oak Island Mystery Solved , has
provided an interesting idea. According to her, there is no treasure,
never had been, and the alleged Money Pit is nothing more than a tar
kiln, used in the early 18 th century to produce materi
Lance Moody This week I tried something completely different and
invited a dyed in the wool skeptic to join me. Lance Moody told about
his conversion to skepticism from a younger man who was more open to the
idea of alien visitation… as many of us were. Although we did talk
about his sometimes rather nasty postings, and attempted postings to my
blog, Moody, when engaged in private conversation (o
John Burroughs, of Rendlesham Forest fame, was my guest. We focused,
quite naturally, on the December, 1980, sightings there and what all
happened from his perspective. You can listen to the program here:
https://youtu.be/rN2llEG7v3s John Burroughs I, for a long time, had been
confused about the number of days over which the events took place. I
had asked Jim Penniston, John Burroughs and Charles
New in Allen L Roland's Weblog
The very fabric of our present day reality is not only being questioned
by Donald Trump's egocentric world but being torn away by the far
greater reality of another state of consciousness that exists beyond
death and most certainly beyond ego consciousness and whose principle
property is love, altruism and the urge to unite ~ and now it has been
apparently scientifically demonstrated by my own ex
The Friendship Case caused a great media sensation in the early 1950's
and 1960's, Mass UFO sightings, for example, Humans were working
together with extraterrestrials in secret. Hundreds of people were
involved . The public wanted to know what was happening but no one could
penetrate the mystery. Now after 50 years of silence, insider witnesses
have decided to speak and hear is their basic messa
Sometimes only a LA Horsey cartoon can indicate how deep the Trump has
brought us back to the Dark Ages and Scott Pruitt's relentless push
against science ~ particularly as climate change relentlessly reminds us
that global warming has the only winning hand in a no win poker game
where our human existence is at risk: Allen L Roland, PhD "EPA
scientists who do research into the causes and effects
Since I have seen my mother when she reached through the curtain and
touched me in an after-death experience in 1987 as well as my deceased
twin brother two years ago when he intervened and saved my life on
Highway 4. I am aware that my grandfather is still very much alive in my
heart and will eventually be welcoming me home to a safe harbor with
his soft heart and warm embrace ~ for those who we
On the 26th of January, 2017, the Doomsday moved forward to 2 minutes
and 30 seconds to midnight ~ created by the Bulletin of Atomic
Scientists in 1947 to convey the urgent threat nuclear weapons pose as
well as other threats such as climate change also taken into account.
Last year, the clock remained at 3 minutes. Today, with the Inauguration
of Donald Trump, the clock has moved half a minute c
New in Angola 3 News
Join Albert Woodfox and Robert King for a Q & A and screening of
the new documentary film about the Angola 3, entitled "Cruel and
Unusual," premiering in New York City on May 26 and in Santa Monica, CA
on June 2. See flyers for more information.
( PHOTO: Albert at the Innocence Project's Network Conference in San
Diego this last month, alongside Valerie Jarret, a Chicago lawyer and
former top adviser to President Barack Obama with Albert. ) A3
Newsletter, April 17, 2017: Taking on the Clarion Call - "Free 'em all!"
"Freedom is a state of mind" Albert said at the presentation that he
and King gave at Harvard last month. That may be how Al
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Quotes
of the week: “Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for
the old.” –Aeschylus “Education consists mainly in what we have
unlearned.” –Mark Twain When you find yourself in a hole, recovery is a
multi-step process. The first step is to stop digging. The second step
is to figure out how …
Today’s
news continues, or perhaps renews, the weird sense of self-imposed
crisis surrounding U.S. North Korea policy: Entire U.S. Senate to go to
White House for North Korea briefing: https://t.co/wbRa4H0IOA
pic.twitter.com/l3E4BSEqBR — Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) April
24, 2017 Why not just have a hearing? But anyhow. Having declared an end
to the era …
Around
these parts, North Korea’s ICBM program is the national-security
obsession du jour. That’s validating for someone like me, sure. But why?
And why now? As I see it, there are good reasons and bad reasons to be
concerned, and focusing on one set or another will lead to very
different conclusions. Let’s start with the good reasons. The …
High-resolution
photographs of the airframe for North Korea’s Pukguksong
submarine-launched ballistic missile have a surprise. The airframe
appears be wound filament, not the simple metal airframes we’ve seen on
North Korea’s space launchers. That opens up a lot of possibilities for
North Korea — and ticks off an important requirement for North Korea to
build …
Quote
of the week: “We still tend to conceive of national security almost
solely as a state of armed readiness, a vast, awesome arsenal of
weaponry… We are haunted by this concept of military hardware.” —Robert
S. McNamara, The Essence of Security Whiffs of grapeshot and sarin gas
are in the air – enduring conflicts in …
Quote
of the week: “Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way
and nothing stays fixed.” —David Fromkin, The Way of the World, with
due credit to Heraclitus and Gautama In an essay published in Life
magazine, media impresario Henry Luce declared the 20th Century to be
the American Century. That was before Pearl Harbor, …
Trump Now a Captive of the Deep State April 26, 2017 Trump Now A
Captive Of The Deep State Paul Craig Roberts When the gullible and
insouciant American public and the who participate in the deceptions
permitted the Deep State to get away with the fairy tale that a few
Saudi Arabians under the direction of Osama bin Laden, but without the
support of any government or intelligence agency, were able
Beware the Dogs of War: Is the American Empire on the Verge of
Collapse? By John W. Whitehead Of all the enemies to public liberty war
is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops
the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed
debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the
domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its f
New in DAMMIT JANET!
Based
on research done by volunteers* for Abortion Rights Coalition of
Canada, one media outlet reported on a federal Canada Summer Jobs grant
of over $56,000 going to the Fetal Gore Gang last year. While literally
hundreds of anti-choice outfits are milking this program, what made this
news was the size and the MP. MPs apparently have a great deal of say
on what gets funded in their ridings. And
Back
here , we reported on the success of ARCC's latest research/data mining
project that resulted in the shutting down of federal summer job grants
to antichoice organizations. These grants were made under the Canada
Summer Jobs program which has specific criteria. Canada Summer Jobs
provides funding to help employers create summer job opportunities for
students. It is designed to focus on local
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by Roberto Rodriguez How time flies. Watching Cynthia Diaz at this
year’s Centro Guerrero convocation at the University of Arizona brought
back memories of when I first saw her. I did not actually meet her at
the time. I first saw her on an “I miss my mom” poster when she was 15
and fighting in Phoenix to bring her mother back from Mexico as she had
been inhumanely deported (whisked away from her
HEMISPHERIC INDIGENOUS CONSCIOUSNESS SUMMER CLASS: University of
Arizona graduate students can enroll themselves in the class. For
everyone else, anyone in the country can take classes at the UA so as
long as you apply to become a non-degree seeking student. You would need
to apply for that (quick application), then once accepted you can
enroll in classes. For more info, please contact Indira Arc
It is that time of year: it is either time to teach, sell or consume
Cinco de Mayo. If one decides to teach it, then people come to learn of a
great anti-imperialist struggle (1861-67) fought by poor peoples, and a
day that memorializes a heroic battle in Puebla on May 5, 1862, that
eventually culminated with the kicking out of the French from Mexico in
1867. If one decides to sell it or consume
LIBERATION OR SOCIAL JUSTICE: Was the early Chicano Movement of the
1960s and 1970s involved with social justice issues? That is what one of
my students excitedly wanted to know, after returning from a national
conference in which the primary theme was social justice.
http://diverseeducation.com/article/95703/
I have long wanted to have this debate... so on my part, here is the
opening salvo. Comments are welcome: In Chicano Manifesto (1971),
Armando Rendon made the radical claim that the United States and Mexico
were technically still in a state of war (1846-1848) because the 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was violated prior to even its signing, and
that therefore, a state of war continues to this d
New in Fort McMurray Adventures
I spent a large chunk of yesterday bird-watching but today I thought
I'd stick a bit closer to home. There's a trail that parallels the river
that I hadn't been to in some time so today seemed as good as any to go
exploring. While the Birchwood Trail system (where I was yesterday)
took a bit of damage, the destruction here is abundantly evident. The
picture below is but a 10 minute walk from my n
One of Fort McMurray's gems definitely has to be the Birchwood Trail
system. Tucked away in a valley between Thickwood and Timberlea, it is a
large area that fortunately escaped the destruction that other areas
suffered from last year's wildfire. I recall hearing rumours during the
evacuation that the fire had entered this area, (which likely would have
led to even more devastation to the west si
Heading to Banff was something that had been on my radar for well over a
year. I had concrete plans to visit last May but then we had the
wildfire here and any plans I had went right out the window. This only
left me more determined to get there. Just like last year, I made all my
travel arrangements well in advance.....and they finally came to
fruition this time. Due the sheer amount of ground I
At the risk of stating the obvious, today marks quite a day in the
history of Alberta and Fort McMurray especially. While I've known for
months that I would be marking the date with a blog post and have had
plenty of time to think of what to say, I have to admit that I'm still
looking for words and thoughts. Not because I was overly traumatized or
affected (my part of the city emerged almost unto
New in Greg Mankiw's Blog
This article about genetic testing presents a great example of adverse
selection: Pat Reilly had good reason to worry about Alzheimer’s
disease: Her mother had it, and she saw firsthand the havoc it could
wreak on a family, much of it financial. So Ms. Reilly, 77, a retired
social worker in Ann Arbor, Mich., applied for a long-term care
insurance policy. Wary of enrolling people at risk for demen
Today's column by David Brooks is excellent .
Click here to read my column in Sunday's NY Times .
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Animal and Natural Resources Institute, Animal Parasitic Diseases
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A
new article at consumerreports.org suggests that the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act* (PPACA) played a substantial role in the
decline of annual personal bankruptcies that we have seen since the high
of 1.5 million in 2010. As I showed several years ago , international
bankruptcy data support the oft-heard claim that medical bills make up
one of the biggest, if not the biggest, causes
Investor's Business Daily has a hit piece out on California, as you can
tell from the headline, "Taxifornia does it again." Here's the first
paragraph of the editorial*, to give you a good flavor of it:
California's far-left government has done it again. Not realizing its
real problems are excessive spending on misplaced priorities, excessive
taxes, too much debt and a far-too generous welfare st
This
isn't actually news, but it's news to me, and it's something you need
to know. Greg LeRoy sent me an article by James Meek in London Review of
Books (20 April 2017) that he'd been sent by a friend, documenting more
EU-permitted job piracy by Poland that preceded the case I discuss at
length in my book, Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for
Capital . There, I criticized the Euro
New in Morton's Musings
Justification for detention In Canada, there are only three grounds for
detaining an accused prior to sentence. They are commonly referred to
as primary grounds, secondary grounds, and tertiary grounds. Primary
grounds refers to whether detention is necessary to ensure the accused's
attendance in court. ] Considerations include the accused's criminal
history, their behaviour in the matter before
The Supreme Court today ( R. v. Hunt 2017 SCC 25) upheld a lower court
decision ( R. v. Hunt , 2016 NLCA 61) which limited the effect of
pre-charge delay to rare cases of prejudice. The Court below, cited by ,
stated: [ 81 ] Subject to a few specific exceptions, the laying of
indictable criminal charges is not subject to limitation periods (
Rourke ). (See also R. v. Finta , 1994 CanLII 129 (SCC)
Presidential MSH Corporation v. Marr Foster & Co. LLP, 2017 ONCA
325: [20] First, the cases suggest that a legal proceeding against an
expert professional may not be appropriate if the claim arose out of the
professional's alleged wrongdoing but may be resolved by the
professional himself or herself without recourse to the courts,
rendering the proceeding unnecessary. Of the Law Societies of Uppe
New in New Orleans Ladder
Deborah ‘Big Red’ Cotton, writer shot in Mother’s Day mass shooting,
dies ~ WGNO Remembering Deb Cotton: New Orleans must hold leaders
accountable for violence prevention ~The Lens Deborah Cotton, longtime
Gambit second line correspondent, dies at 52 ~Kevin Allman, Gambit
New in News Center PK
Why UNPO Report Targets Pakistan on Human Rights! Being the only
nuclear country in the Islamic World, Pakistan has become special target
of the US-led India and Israel, including some Western countries. After
the shift of the Great Game from Central Asia to Pakistan, American
CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad have been supporting target … Why
UNPO Report Targets Pakistan on Human Rights? is a p
The centrist Emmanuel Macron was elected French president by defeating
the ultra-nationalist and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the
second round of the French presidential election, held on Sunday (May 7,
2017). Macron of the independent En Marche party won 23.75 percent
votes and Le Pen of France’s National Front party won 21.53 percent …
France: Macron’s Election Victory, Will Discriminat
In order to deflect the attention of international community from
Indian state terrorism and the new phase of the Kashmiri Intifada, India
orchestrated the drama at a military base in Uri close to the Line of
Control (LoC) with Pakistan on September 18, 2016 and killed its own 19
soldiers in one of the most … Two Students Further Proved India’s
Arranged Uri Base Drama is a post from News Center P
Protests over Killing of Nepalese National by Indian SSB! In order to
wage India’s secret battles, the agents of the Indian secret agency have
their presence in almost all regional countries, implementing various
tactics of psychological warfare. Nepalese National Govinda Gautam
Killing In this context, M. K Dhar in his book, “Open Secrets, India’s
Intelligence … Protests over Killing of Nepalese
Despite the continued sieges and prolonged curfews, including arrests
and detentions of the Kashmir leaders, since July 8, 2016, Indian
security forces have martyred more than 250 innocent persons in the
Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), who have been protesting against the
martyrdom of Burhan Wani and for liberation of their land. With the
acceleration of … India, Losing ‘Illegitimate’ Control on K
Since Pakistan became the only declared nuclear country in the Islamic
World, US, India and Israel started acting upon their collective agenda
to destabilize it. After the shift of the Great Game from Central Asia
to Pakistan, the country has become special target of American CIA,
Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad which have been supporting … Propaganda
Campaign against Pakistan’s Key Institutions is
New in Paying attention
Last
week's quarterly report from Postmedia was predictably grim. Canada's
largest newspaper company reported revenues had fallen 13.4 per cent
from a year earlier. Plunging revenues have been a hallmark of
Postmedia's six-year existence. The corporation has slashed costs, but
not enough to keep up with revenue losses. Postmedia took in $181
million in the quarter, $28 million less than the previo
New in Pesticide Action Network
Chlorpyrifos might not quite be a household word yet, but it's getting
there. The story of the astonishing decision by EPA Administrator Scott
Pruitt to reverse course on agency plans to pull this child-harming
insecticide off the market has captured headlines across the country and
around the world. It could be this is getting so much attention because
it was EPA's first major decision under the
Of the Big 6 seed and pesticide giants, there are three proposed
mergers in the works: Dow with Dupont, Monsanto with Bayer, and Syngenta
with ChemChina. Despite opposition from several farmer organizations,
the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and other anti-trust agencies
around the world seem relatively unconcerned with this ever-increasing
concentration in the agrichemical industry. But it’s
This Saturday, Pesticide Action Network will be in the streets of San
Francisco, marching for science. We march because we believe that the
freedom and ability to conduct independent science, by and for the
people, is critical to our collective ability to create a healthy, just
and sustainable world. We march to reclaim science from corrupt
corporations and to defend the practice of science from
This conversation is part two in the “Voices from the Frontline” blog
series that tells the stories of how pesticides and industrial
agriculture directly affects the lives of people across the country.
Claudia Angulo is a mother from Orange Cove, CA, whose kids attend
schools near heavy pesticide use on citrus groves. In collaboration with
the local nonprofit El Quinto Sol De America , a journali
As we honor World Malaria Day, we in the PAN International network
stand with communities around the world suffering from the scourge of
this disease. At PAN Africa, we also continue our community work to
share better information about environmental strategies for mosquito
control — with great progress in communities near Dakar, Senegal, where
we've been working since 2012. We are heartened to no
This conversation is the first part of the “Voices from the Frontline”
blog series that tells the stories of how pesticides and industrial
agriculture directly affects the lives of people across the country.
Patti Edwardson farms with her partner, George Naylor, near Churdan,
Iowa. In 2017, they expect to obtain organic certification on 100 acres
of their farm with another 60 acres in transition.
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you didn't think you had to say but apparently do. In Florida it is
still illegal to try to get an employee or former employee to waive
their right to apply for unemployment. It's a crime. Yet I've seen a
couple of draft releases in proposed severance agreements attempting to
do exactly that. And I also recently got a demand email complaining that
a client had signed a release and was there
It
used to be that when people lost their jobs, there was only one way to
keep insurance coverage, and that was COBRA. The only problem is that
when you lose your job, you have to pick and choose what bills to pay
and COBRA is crazy expensive. Most people had to go bare. If they had
preexisting conditions, it was literally a matter of life and death
because they would never get insurance again. Th
I've
always said that sexual harassment is not about sex: it's about power.
In that way it's just another form of bullying. And if you remember your
playground bullies, if they got away with it once, they accelerated
their behavior. Sexual harassers, like bullies, engage in more and more
extreme behavior until someone stops them. The other thing about
playground bullies is that their behavior is c
In
a movement that started in Massachusetts, states and cities are
starting to ban employers from asking applicants about their salary
history. The reason behind the legislation is that basing pay on prior
salary can lock in pay discrimination. The sponsor of the Philadelphia
ordinance explained: “Simply put, when a woman is paid less at the
beginning of her career she will continue to earn less t
New in Stranger in a Strange Land
Milton William "Bill" Cooper (May 6, 1943 – November 6, 2001) was an
American C onspiracy Theorist , radio broadcaster, and author best known
for his 1991 book, Behold a Pale Horse in which he warned of multiple
global conspiracies.
Published on August 18, 2014 CD available at www.spiritvoyage.com Blessings
Left hand of picture would better read as, maintain sickness and cut
your lifespan short. Right hand would read as, prevent illness and build
a strong immune defense for better health.
Streamed live on April 27, 2017 Wikileaks Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Julian Assange joins the Liberty Report to discuss the latest push by
the Trump Administration to bring charges against him and his
organization for publishing US Government documents. How will they get
around the First Amendment and the Espionage Act? The US government and
the mainstream media -- some of which gladly publish W
New in Syria Comment
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Photo from al-Sanamayn, April 2017. It is
often thought that the regime has a grand strategy for suppressing the
rebellion in the western half of the country that constitutes the main
conflict within the Syrian civil war. In reality though, there is no
one-size-fits-all approach , and the question of how the regime deals
with restive areas very much depends on area and c
Revisiting the Malki Affair By Christopher Solomon @Solomon_Chris For
Syria Comment – April 23, 2017 On April 22, 1955, a charismatic young
Syrian army officer was gunned down on a football field. The
assassination of Adnan al-Malki brought about the one of the first
political crackdowns in Syria’s history. The Malki Affairs and its
aftermath shed light on one of the country’s earliest shifts tow
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