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Archive for May, 2017

May 20th, 2017 - 9:28 am § in Environment, Misc.

China Threatens the Totoaba

The vaquita could go extinct this year as totoaba poaching continues to increase China’s demand for swim bladders from a giant Mexican fish called the totoaba is… NEWS.MONGABAY.COM|BY MIKE GAWORECKI[...]

May 20th, 2017 - 8:14 am § in Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia

DRUDGE SPINS TRUMP’S VISIT TO THE SAUDIS

WELCOME FIT FOR KING GREAT AGAIN: Unlike Obama, Trump doesn't bow... Receives highest civilian honor... Greeted With Deal$... $350B Arms Accord... Softbank-Saudi tech fund becomes world’s biggest with $93 billion of capital Jets, Princes, Prancing Horses... BUT: WASH POST: Probe Reaches CURREN[...]

May 20th, 2017 - 1:32 am § in Misc.

AFTER TRUMP: An Encounter in New Jersey

Ralph Drake FACEBOOK I just ran into this Nazi piggie in Shop Rite In Newton,N.J. I started to take his picture and he proudly posed…he asked,”did you vote for “the President?”...I said “yeah, twice”….he said “what he was just elected?” Then he l[...]

May 19th, 2017 - 11:37 pm § in Misc.

film festival forces women to bind their feet!

Female Film Stars Were Rejected From Last Year’s Cannes Gala Unless they Wore 4 inch Heels! Several fiftysomething women were turned away for wearing flats at the red-carpet premiere of Carol, a lesbian love story. The festival may love lesbianism, but apparently it draws the line at middle-ag[...]

May 19th, 2017 - 7:01 am § in Misc.

BREAKING NEWS 5/19

American Neofascist Appointed as High Official Over Internal Police Force Clarke Would Be the First ‘Patriot’ Leader to Hold a Federal Post Nuclear pact between Japan and India allows Japan to develop  military nukes  US Strike on Syrian Pro-Government Forces Illegitimate, Violates Sovereignty[...]

May 19th, 2017 - 12:46 am § in Misc.

The Microduffy

GENEVA — Polit­i­cal Sci­en­tists believe they are close to cod­i­fy­ing a sys­tem of mea­sure­ment for pub­lic cor­rup­tion. At an inter­na­tional sym­po­sium here Wednes­day, they have voted to name the prime unit of cor­rup­tion after Cana­dian Sen­a­tor Mike Duffy. “[...]

May 18th, 2017 - 11:58 am § in Donald Trump

A FACEBOOK DIALOG: It’s time again to consider leaving the United States.

This is a good time to consider leaving the United States. Jonathon Golub Hyperbolic? Consider: The executive and legislative branches of the federal government (and most state governments) are now completely aligned to support a Trump-lead authoritarian kleptocracy.  The Judiciary (including the j[...]

May 18th, 2017 - 9:38 am § in The Ave Scene

Why Seattle’s Voucher System Is NOT A Cure for Election Corruption

Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program: A Candidate’s View   James Passey was running for a city council seat this year, but he recently withdrew, citing the Voucher Program as one of the reasons. Here is his view: “In 2015, Seattle voters passed an initiative to create a public-finance[...]

May 18th, 2017 - 9:37 am § in Misc.

BREAKING NEWS 5/18

Senate intel chairman: No decision from Flynn on honoring subpoena Mount St. Helens ‘recharging’… New quake swarms…Conservatives begin to whisper: President Pence… Advisers Urge Trump to Hire an Outside Lawyer VP Builds War Chest… WSJ: The Special Counsel Mistake&[...]

May 18th, 2017 - 8:55 am § in Misc.

CHINA vs US ,,, as the century unfolds

One Belt, One Road, One Global PR Blitz Over the weekend, Beijing hosted an international conference to promote its “Belt and Road” initiative, which aims to link China with countries across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East through trade and investment in infrastructure. President Xi Jinping pr[...]