Trump Says "Russia Helped Me Get Elected" in Tweet
With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
From Jenna Orkin
US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'
NEWS FROM ITEC: Army’s ‘Google Earth on Steroids’ to Include Inside of Buildings
Forget "Money:" What Will Matter are Water, Energy, Soil and Food - Charles Hugh Smith
DEA Wants More Marijuana Grown And Fewer Opioids Produced In 2019. Really.
CDC gets list of forbidden words: Fetus, transgender, diversity
Malaysia plans to return 3,300 tons of plastic trash to US, UK, Canada, and Australia
China is refusing to take 'foreign garbage' from the US, so these 6 cities are burning or throwing away your recycling
Doctors are burning out twice as fast as other workers. The problem is costing the US $4.6 billion each year.
Watch: Russian Rocket Struck By Lightning During Launch
London Somalis Sending Teens Back To Africa To Escape Stabbings
Netflix says it would rethink its 'entire investment in Georgia' if an antiabortion law were adopted
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
From Jenna Orkin
Rumors of War - Kunstler
Navy Pilots Report UFOs - NYTimes
Rumors of War - Kunstler
Navy Pilots Report UFOs - NYTimes
The Largest Free Trade Deal in Nearly a Quarter-Century Seeks to Make Africa a Single Market
"The Most Destructive Breach In History": Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt
The Trump administration is reportedly stepping up its war against climate science, by forcing scientists to omit key details from a major report
Merkel Unretires: Chancellor Determined To Remain In Power Until 2021 As Succession Plan Implodes
Romania Ruling Party Boss Slapped With 3½ Year Prison Sentence For Graft
Austrian Government Collapses After Youngest-Ever Chancellor Loses Confidence Vote
Some of it from the World Trade Center. I remember an email from South Korea in December 2001, "We're getting your steel - is it contaminated?" - JO
Monday, May 27, 2019
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From Jenna Orkin
Oxford University agrees to let in disadvantaged students with lower grades
I once had a conversation with Oxford philosophy professor Sir A.J. Ayer about this subject. "Freddy" was of the old school belief that there's no getting around it; the university needed to foster talent and achievement which revealed themselves in grades, tests, etc. I believed then, and still believe, that the criteria are skewed. leaving aside math and science, which you can't fuck around with, although you can make up for lost time, it's quite possible for a brilliant kid to perform badly on tests because he or she simply hasn't been exposed to the requisite culture.
when my son had to take an iq test for first grade, I was shown the questions afterwards and knew immediately which ones he would have gotten wrong. one was a 'what's wrong with this picture?' type in which a little boy was holding a saw with the teeth facing up. I knew my son had never seen a saw and indeed, he got the question wrong. a kid whose father was a carpenter would have gotten it right.
no big deal here but there are innumerable ways in which kids get screwed on tests. witness all the immigrants at ellis island who were deemed imbeciles because they didn't speak English. ok, we've evolved beyond that, but who was the imbecile in that case?
then there's the whole issue of why it's so important to go to Oxford in the first place. the whole pipeline to power question.... - JO
when my son had to take an iq test for first grade, I was shown the questions afterwards and knew immediately which ones he would have gotten wrong. one was a 'what's wrong with this picture?' type in which a little boy was holding a saw with the teeth facing up. I knew my son had never seen a saw and indeed, he got the question wrong. a kid whose father was a carpenter would have gotten it right.
no big deal here but there are innumerable ways in which kids get screwed on tests. witness all the immigrants at ellis island who were deemed imbeciles because they didn't speak English. ok, we've evolved beyond that, but who was the imbecile in that case?
then there's the whole issue of why it's so important to go to Oxford in the first place. the whole pipeline to power question.... - JO
From Jenna Orkin
Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
Leaked Document Re Chemical Weapons in SyriaTheresa May resigns as UK prime minister, admitting failure in her quest to get Britain out of the EU
DARPA Wants To Create Mind-Controlled Weapons Of War
Amazon Developing Device That Can Recognize Human Emotions
Trump Orders FBI, CIA To "Fully Cooperate" With Barr; Grants "Full And Complete Authority To Declassify"
Skype Co-Founder Is "Desperate" To Save Humanity From AI
Mississippi Floodway May Be Opened, Unleashing 17 Million Liters Of Water Per Second
Trash Wars: Duterte Orders Tons Of Garbage Shipped Back To Canada Or Dumped In Territorial Waters
Facebook Removed A Record 2.2 Billion Fake Accounts In Q1
Thursday, May 23, 2019
From Jenna Orkin
Amazon Will Give You a $25 Gift Card to 3D Scan Your Entire Body
And $50 for your soul!
The Pentagon finally admits it investigates UFOs
Nevada Passes National Popular Vote Bill To Undermine Electoral College
May's Government In Chaos After Critical Cabinet Minister Resigns
Boeing could have prevented 2nd 737 Max crash by listening to pilots, a union said as it accused the company of a 'poisoned, diseased philosophy'
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
From Jenna Orkin
From the "Peak Oil Is Horseshit" File:
"BP’s chairman said he recognised that the world’s energy consumption was on “an unsustainable path” and the oil major’s days of chasing ever higher output are coming to an end."
From the "Peak Oil Is Horseshit" File:
"BP’s chairman said he recognised that the world’s energy consumption was on “an unsustainable path” and the oil major’s days of chasing ever higher output are coming to an end."
U.S. Wall Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence
Internal emails reveal how the chemical lobby fights regulation
Texas Pipeline Protesters May Face Up To 10 Years In Prison
UK's Second-Biggest Steel Company Collapses Into Bankruptcy As Iron Prices Climb
Britain's Largest Cell Phone Networks Drop Huawei Phones From 5G Launch
Huawei's torment in the US could be about to backfire, dealing a stinging blow to Apple
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
From Jenna Orkin