The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a trade and investment agreement involving 12 countries comprising nearly 40 percent of global output—confirms what even its most apocalyptic critics feared. “The TPP, along with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement], is the most brazen corporate power […]
Posts Tagged ‘a321’
3D printing may be cool – but also toxic, study warns
The Environmental Science and Technology Letters journal has published the results of tests carried out by a group of researchers from the University of California, Riverside, under the title “Assessing and Reducing the Toxicity of 3D-Printed Parts.” READ MORE: Patient gets 3D-printed metal ribs for the first time ever Interest in the safety of materials used […]
U.S. And Russia Prepare For World War Three In Syria
Stanley Kubrick’s outrageously brilliant film: Dr. Strangelove According to the Centre for Research on Globalisation, the United States and Russia are on the inevitable path towards world war three, over Syria. The U.S. has moved a dozen F-15C aircraft to the Incirlik Air Base, in Turkey. The F-15C’s could face Russian Su-30 combat jets. Neither type of […]
Prescription Drugs: Are they on the menu for dinner?
No, we didn’t think so. But you might get them in your dinner anyway. “Biosolids”—a euphemism for human waste – are being used by some farmers as cheap fertilizer, according the New York Times, but it is usually done very quietly. In most states and counties, details about where biosolids have been applied is […]
School Suspends Six Year Old For Playing With A Pretend Bow & Arrow
A six-year-old first grader was suspended for three days after pretending to shoot another school kid with an imaginary bow and arrow. According to the school boys parents, Matthew and Martha Miele, the incident happened last week on Thursday while their son was playing ‘Power Rangers’ with a group of friends during recess WCPO reports: […]
An exhibition to honor Romanov philanthropists in pre-Revolutionary Russia opens in Moscow
The exhibition – called “Moscow the holy land of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna” – opened at Russia’s State Historical Museum on Monday. More than 30 groups, including Russian archives and private collectors, have contributed to the event. Portraits, documents, pieces of art, and personal belongings are on display at the […]
‘The Palestinian body finally achieves the approving gaze of the settler’
We don’t think the picture below, of a young man killed in occupied Hebron by Israeli forces and surrounded by illegal settlers, would ever show up in the New York Times. And while you can say that it is too grisly for the paper of record, it has already gotten wide attention from people who […]
Halloween Fail: Israeli Air Force Pumpkin Features Image of Russian Jet – Veterans Today
. <!– –> Home Health Agent Orange Coping Gulf War Illness (GWI) Medical Disability Benefits PTSD Investigations 9/11 Holocaust JFK Assassination Paris Attacks 2015 Sandy Hook Life Art, Books, & Entertainment Economy & Business Education Environment Food, Wine & Travel History Civil War (1861-1865) Cold War (1947-1991) Gulf War (1990-1991) Iraq War (2003-2011) Korean War […]
Russian Airliner Crash: The Islamic State (ISIS) “Claim of Responsibility”
On October 31, Kolavia Metrojet (commercial airliner) Flight 7K9268 crashed 23 minutes after takeoff from Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, heading for St. Petersburg, Russia – killing all 217 passengers and seven crew members aboard, including 25 children. News reports called the crash the worst aviation disaster in Russian history. Putin declared Sunday a day of mourning […]
162 inches of snow forecast for Mt. Rainier this weekend; 70 inches for Mt. Baker
Up to 162″ of snow (13.5-feet) is currently forecast to fall on 14,411-foot Mt. Rainer in Washington state in the next 3 days. That huge snowfall total is due to an atmospheric river that will be “slamming” into Washington this weekend. THE PRECIPITATION BULLSEYE OVER MOUNT RAINIER IS MORE THAN 20 INCHES IN 48 […]