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14492625_10154145926693495_8644894331301753675_nThe Clinton campaign has begun to seriously target Stein and Johnson, fearing the loss of millennial voters. Joke’s on her: They were never going  to vote for her anyways.

Richard Silverstein, over at The Mint Press, has an excellent history of how Shimon Peres bluffed the US into giving Israel atomic weapons. 

While CIA whistleblower, Jeffery Sterling, is being denied medical treatment for heart problems, the federal Bureau of Prisons is pretending he doesn’t even have them.

If you had any doubts that Gary Johnson was an idiot: He couldn’t name a single world leader, when asked by the odious Chris Matthews.

Over at Counterpuch, we get the skinny on how Donald Trump becomes president.

The precarious Chinese real-estate bubble hasn’t popped yet, but how long can the Chinese government keep it from popping?

The Mirror covers 8 key points from Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Conference speech.

Tom tries to silence Colin Kaepernick with the old “Support The Troops” ploy.

The archdruid gives us a small discourse of the Coming of the Postliberal Era.

A day late, but a 14,000-year-old campsite in Argentina adds to an archaeological mystery.

And last, but not least, Monty Python has some gripping election-night coverage. Now that you’ve seen this, you can skip the corporate coverage in November! 😉

 

 

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  • I hope everyone has a great day today, and to start it off, let me present you with a powerful argument against religion…

    https://youtu.be/Kppx4bzfAaE

    • The_Fixer

      Oh, my. Perhaps the cobwebs have not cleared from my head yet, but this seems remarkably like it could be real.

      And that is scary, both for me and everyone in the world.

      • It’s almost certainly not real, but I hear what you’re cooking: It is frighteningly realistic.

        • The_Fixer

          Yeah, it’s very well done and if you’re not paying attention, it can seem like it’s real. My tipoff was when he called Notorious B.I.G. “Notorious Big.” That’s the perfect “clueless old person” joke.

          From there, it’s easy to spot the rest of the ridiculousness. What’s just as funny are the videos of black YouTubers reacting to it. They find it hilarious, or alternately, so very wrong if they don’t immediately pick up on the joke. And that’s easy to do, being as it’s so well done and it’s so plausible.

  • Dosido3

    Hi Unka and all. *waves…slurps coffee*

  • Dosido3

    Gary Johnson is making Trump look like a Rhode Scholar. I didn’t think that was possible.

  • 17
  • 17

    Shimon Peres: Israeli war criminal whose victims the West ignored

    Shimon Peres, who passed away Wednesday aged 93 after suffering a stroke on 13 September, epitomised the disparity between Israel’s image in the West and the reality of its bloody, colonial policies in Palestine and the wider region.

    A few years ago, Peres described the Palestinians as “self-victimising.” He went on: “They victimise themselves. They are a victim of their own mistakes unnecessarily.” Such cruel condescension was characteristic of a man for whom “peace” always meant colonial pacification.

    http://anotherdayintheempire.com/shimon-peres-israeli-war-criminal-whose-victims-west-ignored/

  • 17

    Inverted Totalitarianism And The Corporate State

    Stricken with a terminal disease, the decline of traditional society is unavoidable. For decades, the political institutions that fostered a Republic based upon individual liberty and responsibility fade into fond memory. Defenders of all that made America a shining example of human freedom are attacked and ridiculed for holding onto a moral and ethical system that is based upon the dignity of every individual. Most will blame the failure of this decay on the politicians who willfully pander to the masses with the next generation of social welfare programs. While defining a politician as a scoundrel, deserving damnation, seems obvious; the underlying source of the decay that eats away the culture comes from various directions.

    http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/inverted-totalitarianism-and-the-corporate-state-video/

  • 17

    New research shows there’s one big change when cops wear cameras

    Cameras worn on police uniforms have been lauded as a possible solution to many of the problems facing officers in the line of duty, from violence against law enforcement to the unnecessary use of force. The US Department of Justice recently announced a plan to spend $20 million on body cameras for cops in 32
    states.

    The cameras are controversial, as all surveillance technology tends to be. And until recently, there’s been
    little hard evidence about how effective body cameras actually are. According to new research from the University of Cambridge, which studied seven police forces in the US and the UK, the answer is that they are transformative in at least one way.

    “It seems that knowing with sufficient certainty that our behavior is being observed or judged affects various social cognitive processes: We experience public self-awareness, become more prone to socially acceptable behavior, and sense a heightened need to cooperate with rules,” the researchers write.

  • 17

    Afghanistan; It’s the Heroin, Stupid

    “Osama bin Laden was a failed CIA asset that was used as a pretext to invade Afghanistan to restart the heroin trade, which is a trillion-dollar business. Mullah Omar was our ally against the Soviets, and a most honorable man, who shut down all the heroin plantations in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over as they considered the over 300,000 dead who died from heroin overdoses per year immoral. We turned on him and betrayed him. Osama was a guest of Mullah Omar, and he merely asked for evidence of Osama’s involvement in 9/11. Since there was none, as he was not involved, none could be furnished. Bush II ridiculed on television even the thought that he would be required to give evidence to a bow and arrow Mullah Omar”.

    http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/09/29/afghanistan-it-heroin-stupid.html

  • 17

    Media Silent as Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Spread, Construction Blocked in Iowa

    Sandusky, IA — The media blackout of opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline continues as widening
    protests, which have now blocked pipeline construction in Iowa, go unreported by the national corporate media.

    http://theantimedia.org/media-silent-dakota-access-pipeline-iowa/

  • 17

    HD footage of ongoing combat in Aleppo

    The US had no problem with the destruction of the city when they felt the jihadis had Assad over a barrel. We heard of no war crimes claims against the jihadis when they were dishing the pain out to pro-government Syrians — only when the pendulum swung back the other way… Jim W. Dean

    http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/09/28/hd-footage-of-ongoing-combat-in-aleppo/

    • kreskin

      It’s true , we have become what we once hated . Hypocrisy ? That’s an understatement , there’s gotta be a better word. Power is an embarrassment , looks like a meth head , has zero credibility . Kerry’s credibility is shot all to hell too .One lie after another , falsely accusing the Russians of doing what we are doing , it has become routine . There appears to be no difference between the neocon Republicans and these supposed Democrats when it comes to foreign policy , none at all . Putin and the Russians can’t even keep up with the lies .

      The good news is that people are catching on , the bad news is that the U.S. government doesn’t care . They’re going to do what they want to do , regardless.

  • 17

    Rules of Engagement for the Exceptional Nation

    In order to be the world’s superpower, the “exceptional nation” in a unipolar One World Order, a climate has to be created so that every nation on earth will relinquish their nation-state sovereignty and submit willingly to a hegemonic and dictatorial One World Government.

    http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/09/28/rules-of-engagement-for-the-exceptional-nation/

    • kreskin

      The New World Order , Bush SR. proudly announced it’s arrival years ago . Why do you think they’re letting this country go to hell ? Why all the open borders , foreigners and refugees ? They’re trying to destroy and do away with the nation state , they have to water down and destroy the culture to do it . That’s what this globalization is all about , the New World Order , one world government . Guess who intends to be the head of it ? Obvious much ?

      We the people have zero say , this election crap is all a charade. It’s designed to placate the masses , make them think this is a democracy.

      Think I’m nuts ? You’re in for a rude awakening.

  • SmotPoker

    We’re Going To Need A Bigger Bucket Of Tar, And Lots More Feathers

    A Pennsylvania Mayor is giving us all a sneak peek at the new, emboldened racist Republicans in America. In a sane world we would be running these assholes out of town on a rail after giving them the old tar, and feather treatment.

    http://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2016/09/28/officials-west-york-mayor-should-resign-after-racist-posts/91236864/

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3d513272ac836f9a1106d863df6d5fbe31f5ff110cc9140a94a68d84691666ac.jpg

  • 17

    America’s “Humanitarian War” against the World

    Historically, science has supported the development of the weapons industry and the war economy. “Science for Peace” indelibly requires reversing the logic whereby commissioned scientific endeavors are directed towards supporting what President Eisenhower called “The Military Industrial Complex”.

    What is consequently required is a massive redirection of science and technology towards the pursuit of broad societal objectives. In turn, this requires a major shift in what is euphemistically called “US Foreign Policy”, namely America’s global military agenda.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-humanitarian-war-against-the-world/5539814

  • MsPythia
    • 17

      Good Afternoon, MsP 😉

    • Shohanna

      Good Afternoon MsP. (And the invisible twitter post) lol

      • MsPythia

        Hi Sho! Nice to see you! 🙂

        • Shohanna

          Nice to see you as well MsP!! 😀 <3

          • MsPythia

            <3!

  • 17

    Prison paradox: Texas jail authorities ban 15,000 books… but allow Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

    The 140,000 inmates in Texas state prisons are reportedly denied access to some 15,000 books banned by the authorities – but it seem convicts can still easily get hold of a copy of Adolf Hitler’s racist diatribe ‘Mein Kampf’.

    As the US holds its annual ‘Banned Books Week’ campaign – an event celebrating the freedom to read – attention has been drawn to the list of the books that Texas authorities have banned in state prisons. Paul Wright, executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center and editor of Prison Legal News, told the Guardian that about 15,000 books were banned by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDJC).

    Wright says that when a book goes on the list, it never comes off.

    https://www.rt.com/usa/361056-texas-prisons-mein-kampf/

    • Shohanna

      Yup can’t have prisoners knowing their rights so they can sue the State and get their asses out. lol There are MOVIES based on that premise.

  • MsPythia

    You know, Trey Gowdy is a jerk, but his questions to Comey yesterday were spot-on. They’re exactly what I would have wanted to ask Comey. Like when he asked: What would Hillary Clinton had to have done to get indicted since all the evidence is now there for an indictment!!! The discovery of Stonetear on Reddit provides SOLID PROOF of INTENT.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCLRokEP75c

  • Shohanna

    Afternoon. I have to wake up and go get my new glasses. (Bifocals) gah! Hopefully this pair won’t make me feel like I am going blind. lol

    And I HATE IT when it goes from 90 degrees to 60 degrees OVER NIGHT. Really??!! I am fucking freezing over here. I need to grab the damned blankets before the ice cycles form on my nipples!! O.O Fall moved in and is bitchin! I mean seriously?! GAH!!

  • Shohanna

    Commuter Train in Hoboken, New York crashed killing 1 injuring 108 people this morning. They are not speculating on what caused it.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-jersey-traincrash-idUSKCN11Z1RA

    • MsPythia

      Heard about it and saw some of the photos. Horrific.

      • Shohanna

        Dude even said he heard an explosion. I wonder if there was one. But more then that the train hadn’t even slowed down for the stop in the hub.

        • MsPythia

          It will be interesting to find out what the cause was.

          • Shohanna

            Yes It will. Sorry had to step out to do some errands. 😀 I am back, but now I have to cook dinner. haha

          • Edwin

            whatcha cookin’?

          • Shohanna

            Homemade Taco mix, with Doritos instead of shells. Lettuce, onions, green and black olives. With some chichi’s Mexican salsa. 😀

          • Edwin

            That doesn’t sound too complicated. I could even make that here.

          • Shohanna

            Oh and lots of cheese. lol

  • doubleplusliberal

    Federal judge blocks Arkansas Planned Parenthood defunding
    AP September 29, 2016
    http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/texas/article/Federal-judge-blocks-Arkansas-Planned-Parenthood-9452377.php

    “This is a win for the Arkansans who rely on Planned Parenthood of the Heartland for birth control, cancer screenings, and other essential health care,” Suzanna de Baca, chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, said in a statement. “Every person deserves access to quality, affordable health care from the provider they know and trust, and today, the court recognized that.”

    • I feel good about this. I’d feel better if PP wasn’t all but a DNC veal-pen organization…

  • 17

    Is the Sept 11 Bill the Death Knell for the US?

    “I want Netanyahu to begin telling the truth, what the involvement of Israel was in 9/11. Over 134 Mossad operatives were picked up on 9/11. The FBI picked them up [and] debriefed them,” revealed Dr. Steve
    Pieczenik, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.

    https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/views-of-news/#sept11bill

  • 17

    I keep seeing articles concerning Deutsche Bank that range from Lehman Bros. bad to no big deal. Anybody got a good source for an honest analysis?

    • Nevin
    • Edwin

      A scan of news headlines makes it look like it’s i trouble.

    • doubleplusliberal

      Deutsche Bank crisis threatens to roil global markets
      http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-crisis-in-european-banks-threatens-to-roil-global-markets-2016-09-28

      Europe’s problems with some of its largest financial institutions could spill over into the rest of the global market.

      Deutsche Bank’s shares were sinking on Thursday on a report that a group of hedge funds were reducing their exposure to the giant financial institution

      On Wednesday, one financial blogger, Wolf Richter, wrote that deep-seated concerns about Deutsche Bank’s ability to raise enough cash to give the market comfort that it is on a sound footing speaks to a larger problem that Europe’s embattled banking sector must combat. Richter, the editor of financial blog site Wolf Street, said “the banking crisis [in Europe] has the potential to transmogrify into a financial crisis.”

      He went onto say: “All it takes is for one of the big [banks] to suddenly topple. The flow of credit would freeze up instantly. In an economic system that depends on credit, and whose lifeblood is credit, such an event is a financial crisis.”

      • Shohanna

        That doesn’t sound good at all. I smell déjà vu!

        • towerofbabel

          I smell bailout and enslavement.

          • Edwin

            the usual

            we’ll all have to tighten our belts cuz they went gambling

          • Shohanna

            Wonder what they were gambling on?

          • Edwin

            they can gamble on anything they like because we pay

          • Shohanna

            Yeah, that’s accurate. I just want to know what it was! I am curious like that.

          • Edwin

            Maybe they gambled the lot on whether Hillary would crash to the ground on 9/11 or not. They didn’t count on the SS catching her before she hit the pavement. They lost, we pay now.

          • doubleplusliberal

            I’m in Awe at How Fast Deutsche Bank is Coming Unglued
            by Wolf Richter • July 6, 2016

            http://wolfstreet.com/2016/07/06/deutsche-bank-crisis-coco-bonds-shares-new-low-bond-buybacks/

            CoCo bonds, designed to be “bailed in” so that taxpayers don’t have to foot the entire bill, are a measure of how likely investors think a bail-in is.

            Cocos are perpetual: they have no maturity date, and investors may never get their money back. But the bank can redeem them, usually after five years. Annual coupon payments are contingent on the bank’s ability to keep its capital above certain thresholds. If the bank fails to make that coupon payment, investors cannot call a default; they have to sit there and get used to it. And if the bank’s capital drops below certain thresholds, CoCos get “bailed in” by getting converted into increasingly worthless shares.

            In return for these risks, CoCos offer a juicy annual coupon of 6% or higher. Investors, blinded by NIRP, jumped on them at the time. For example, the 6% euro CoCo notes traded at 104 cents on the euro in early 2014 shortly after they’d been issued, and at 102 in April 2015. Investors are ruing the day they didn’t sell!

            The crashing shares and CoCos have a gloomy importance. Deutsche Bank will need to raise more capital to rebuild its buffer, fund more bad-loan losses, and pay more legal settlements for wrong-doing that keeps oozing from the woodwork. To raise capital, it will need to sell more shares and CoCos. With both crashing, it’s going to be tough. It’ll dilute existing shareholders, who are going to dump these shares in anticipation, which will sink them…. And issuing 6% CoCos when their brethren trade at 75 cents on the euro, or below, is going to be very expensive or perhaps impossible.

          • Shohanna

            Eeeewww I see a crash coming. Hard. Possible failure too. Which will domino across the global bank market. That is not good.

          • doubleplusliberal

            https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DB-Exposure.jpg
            https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/europes-current-economy/deutsche-bank-the-meltdown-crisis/
            Ten of the large hedge funds are withdrawing from Deutsche Bank. What must be understood here is that Deutsche Bank is the main clearing house for trades in Europe. The problem the hedge funds have is where do they move for clearing? Short-term, they can move to New York or London. With over $60 trillion derivative book at the Deutsche Bank, the government is totally incapable of even understanding how to deal with this crisis. We are looking at a major crisis in confidence.

          • Shohanna

            OH MY FUCKING GOD!!! Who was the stupid idiot that spread the fear?! Do they not understand how bad this is now?!

            EVERYONE, and I do mean ALL nations depend on “confidence”. You fucking lose that and everyone’s money becomes WORTHLESS!!!

            Holy shit. FUCK this is NOT GOOD!

          • towerofbabel

            Belive me, they will be the first to bob up to the top.

          • Shohanna

            WTF was Merckle thinking? What was she doing?! Sounds like her election was more important that helping solve the issue that DB found itself in. AND that there is some illegal shit going down. There is a run on the bank right now! What makes the author think this will last a week or more?

            A real run on a bank and it could topple in 24 hours.

          • Shohanna

            It ALL has to do with the stupid law that Merckle and her party passed. That deal with “bail in”. And the run on CoCos, that are connected to “confidence”. They dropped so much that people are losing money and DB doesn’t have enough to cover their “minimum” ass and they over extended themselves on loans and investments.

            INSTEAD of separating those goddamned investments and loans. (Mortgages, etc) they gambled using everyone’s money. Instead of having it THERE. So now we have to watch all our money get used for this “bail in” instead of being able to use it.

            Who ever wrote this better fucking hope it doesn’t spread because they opened their mouth. HELL someone reading our conversation could see it and cause a panic run on any bank near by. Whether they are in trouble or not. But considering the current weather (the same conditions that allowed for the 2008 crash) are STILL here and able to happen again only in a very, different and worse way.

            WHY did they think that investors wouldn’t think of themselves when they designed the CoCos, that is not going to work. People aren’t stupid and they want to keep their money! Shit Shit shit

          • doubleplusliberal

            Modern banking practices combined with deregulation is the disaster.

          • Edwin

            Neo-liberalism is the disaster.

          • doubleplusliberal

            ^^ this X1000

          • towerofbabel

            Maybe they can get it out of the Greeks?

          • 17

            How long they could keep the gravy train rollin’.

          • Shohanna

            This is a different situation all together. This has to do with not using tax payers money to up hold a bank that is a GLOBAL entity and pretty much holds EVERYONE’s money. Not just certain city-states, or nations. This is connected to every single fucking bank in the WORLD.

            This will have repercussions that extend to every person who has a damned account. IF this panic gets out it could cause a goddamned run on every bank we have.

            This isn’t just some “News”. Holy shit. This could turn in to Financial Armageddon. O.O

          • 17

            I saw their ties to the world mapped out somewhere. Yes, it would seem to be a very frightening deal. But we got through one meltdown, why not try another? In fact, let’s make it an every-eight-year tradition.

          • 17

            yup

    • DPL has got it right, it’s a nasty situation, of which the American press is only just noticing.

  • doubleplusliberal
    • notisaidthepig

      How interesting!

    • Shohanna

      That is so funny! I giggled lots.

  • doubleplusliberal
    • notisaidthepig

      Amazing. That has to do with the surface tension of water or something, right?

      • doubleplusliberal

        It’s an illusion…the pool cover is full of water.

        • notisaidthepig

          Oink!

    • Nevin

      The algae is terrible in that pool.

  • It’s true, @disqus_DO9XES2czI:disqus this morning’s video wasn’t a real preacher, with a real song. but Sonseed, the band who recorded this is all too real.

    https://youtu.be/7-NOZU2iPA8

  • I’m going to try to figure out what we can all do to aid our brother and sisters, fighting for us from prison. It’ll have to be the weekend, unless someone can find out first. Maybe we can do a fund-raising drive.

    https://shadowproof.com/2016/09/29/historic-prison-strike-enters-fourth-week/Holman Correctional Facility is where some of the first calls originated for a national coordinated prison labor strike, which began on September 9. Now entering its fourth week on Friday, prisoners at Holman are reportedly contemplating further action.

    On September 28, Alabama news outlet AL.com reported Warden Carter F. Davenport resigned from the Holman Correctional Facility earlier this year, making his replacement the third warden at the prison in the past nine months.

  • Shohanna
    • all_hail_the_hypno_toad

      Working great ain’t it.

      • Shohanna

        It’s working exactly as they intended. /sigh

        • all_hail_the_hypno_toad

          Yep.

    • Shohanna

      I didn’t realize that Hemp was “toke” able. I was always told never touch it. It’s not made for inhaling. I guess we know why now. LOL

    • 17

      If that dude thinks that’s an eighth, I got some pot to sell him. I foresee a healthy retirement fund.

    • The_Fixer

      Oh, for fuck’s sake. Whoever did that has brain damage. Profound brain damage.

    • SmotPoker

      That would mean that my average doobie is well over an ounce in weight….

      • Edwin

        l’m coming over to visit

  • Shohanna

    WTF?! Don’t people vet their doctors before trusting them? **BOGGLE**

    I bet he wouldn’t have gotten away with this if he wasn’t wearing a damn white coat.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/doctor-accused-making-children-vaccines-cat-saliva-article-1.2811975

    • How much vetting would you need? I mean, “I have special vaccine, make myself.” would be enough for me to be like, “I am outta here, Doctor Duck!”

      • Shohanna

        Right?! I would be like and why should I trust you know ANY thing about creating vaccines?! That’s a different specialty then GM. O.O

  • And the filthy plutocrats are going to do every slimy thing they can, to cede American sovereignty…

    Will the TPP Rise From the Dead?In a speech to the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a Washington think tank, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee whose jurisdiction includes trade agreements, said that the TPP could still be ratified in the lame-duck session after the election and before a new Congress takes office.

    • Veri1138

      Hillary needs Obama to get it done. That way, she can say, when in office, “I can’t it repealed through Congress.” and still appear to be a “Progressive” to her voter-supporters.

      That’s always been the plan. If Congress passes it under her Admin… she’ll have a hard time finding an excuse to veto it. And what little shred of “Progressive” cover she’s manufactured for herself… is blown.

      She won’t win 2020.

    • EdgarHF

      Isn’t it wonderful when our elected representatives completely ignore the people they represent.

  • Shohanna

    Oki who said there are good cops?! Seriously, I need some SERIOUS proof for this claim anymore. WHO does this?

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/apologize-tased-cake-article-1.2812263

  • Shohanna

    So yesterday it hit the fan over sexual harassment at the National Park Service. Fucker is resigning.

    http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Yosemite-chief-retiring-amid-complaints-of-9446047.php

  • Room dies when Gen.Dunford tells Sen.Wicker “to control the airspace requires us to go to war with #Syria & #Russia”

    https://twitter.com/Syricide/status/779475480596578304/video/1

    • Shohanna

      I can’t see it. Damn it all. 🙁

      • Edwin

        I can see it, but I can’t play it. 😀

        This browser does not support video playback.

    • towerofbabel

      He didn’t let Wicker live in the illusion very long.
      “Oh gee, this is real?”

    • panem et circenses

      It’s like this is the first time anyone on the inside had the courage to say that out loud to these lunatics.

    • kreskin

      Dig this . https://consortiumnews.com/2016/09/29/us-foreign-policy-elite-vs-the-evil-one/

      These fucking lunatics are just chomping at the bit to go to war with Russia . It’s madnesss ! The system is broken , there is no chain of command , there are no checks and balances to speak of , Obama has lost control . Infighting and insubordination has become the rule .

      J.C ! Just wait until that power tripping trigger happy war mongering nut job Hillary Clinton takes office. Time to start building your bomb shelter , comrades.

      • Veri1138

        Its worse. Read my post up above in “Newest”.

    • Veri1138

      Yep, someone sh*t their pants. See the look on JCS face? He’s probably contemplating just arresting any President and Congress if they try to start a war with Russia.

  • 17

    Newspapers are now being referred to as “Hobo Laptops”. Funniest fuckin’ thing I’ve heard all day.

  • all_hail_the_hypno_toad

    File this under bad news for humanity’s climate ambitions: The dams and reservoirs we use to harness ‘clean’ hydroelectric power and irrigate our crops apparently emit carbon. A lot of it. All told, man-made reservoirs release roughly a gigaton of heat-trapping greenhouse gases each year. That’s more than the entire nation of Canada.

    Scientists interested in quantifying humanity’s carbon footprint have been on the trail of man-made reservoirs since the early 2000s. Most studies to date have focused on a single type of reservoir—those used for electricity production, for instance—and just one or two greenhouse gases. Now, researchers at Washington State University have synthesized prior research to examine a wide variety of reservoirs and heat-trapping molecules. Their analysis, which appears next week in Bioscience, comes to a disturbing conclusion.

    All told, reservoirs used for everything from power to flood control to irrigation account for roughly 1.3 percent of our global carbon footprint, much higher than previous estimates. The main culprit, according to the study, is methane.
    http://gizmodo.com/scientists-just-discovered-a-major-new-source-of-carbon-1787222994

    • Meh, Hydro-electric has all sorts of ecological problems, and this is just the final straw. Better we go to wind, solar and tidal. And Nuclear, if someone can come up with a cheap, safe reactor that doesn’t spew out a bunch of waste, not that that’s likely to happen.

      • Veri1138

        They could reprocess spent nuclear fuel. But no electric company using nuke reactors would ever make a profit unless they could somehow get the taxpayer to pay for it… Nuclear energy never has been, never will be… economically viable unless the taxpayers provide the profits which we do now, while paying for the losses.

    • Edwin

      documentary

      Travelling across North America, –“DamNation”– investigates the
      growing change in national attitude from strange pride in big dams as
      domineering engineering projects, to the growing truthful awareness that
      dams have always been the great killers of rivers, wildlife, the
      salmon, the forests, coastlines, watersheds. Life is bound to water and
      health of rivers, and now, dam removal in many forms—including Monkey
      Wrenching—is reclaiming that life and spreading. Where dams come down,
      rivers come back, allowing the salmon to return after decades of being
      concreted out. By making firsthand unexpected discoveries moving through
      rivers and the landscapes altered by dams, DamNation presents a
      much-needed metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world
      to knowing ourselves as part of nature; to respect, and be humbled.
      With over two million dams in North America alone—75,000 of them over
      six feet tall—there’s much work to be done. Let’s get to it.

      http://thoughtmaybe.com/damnation/

      • doubleplusliberal

        Thanks, really enjoyed the doc…nice post!

        • Edwin

          you’re welcome

      • SmotPoker

        You really want to be amazed, wrap your head around this fact: The US Government has absolutely no idea how many damns there are in America. No clue at all. Many of them were in existence prior to records, became lost in the shuffle or were built on private lands.

    • towerofbabel

      Toad, every form of energy will have its drawbacks, some more than others. But we cannot distill everything down to carbon dioxide alone. The biochemistry of the earth is far too complex. I would also check the funding on that science. It seems oddly decontextualized.

    • Edwin

      No wonder my hair is looking so silver.

      • notisaidthepig

        What a fox!

        • Edwin

          >pat pat<

  • Mainstream Media Still Silent As Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Spread, Construction Blocked In IowaThe “Mississippi Stand” water protector encampment in Sandusky, Iowa, successfully blocked Dakota Access Pipeline construction as of Saturday, September 24th. The protests are taking place where the pipeline is planned to cross the Mississippi River.

    • kreskin

      The fourth estate ,our protector , is dead and gone .

      • towerofbabel

        Just pointing out that they are not doing their job is part of the problem. They are doing their job–propaganda–and they are doing it well. We need to call the media the propaganda organ of the oligarchy.

    • Veri1138

      Main Stream Media silent about the prison strike occurring nationwide.

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  • Veri1138

    Bad news people…

    Disgraced former CIA Director and current Hillary adviser, GEN Betraeus (Patraeus) has been on the circuit blaming the Bush admin for the creation of Jihadis in Syria. Everyone knows The US helped arm The Jihadis. Or, at least they should. Even the Jihadis.

    There are emails that show The CIA began plotting in 2009, to use Jihadis to overthrow Assad. And much more.
    So, Betreaus would have overseen the arming of terrorists by The Obama Administration as head of The CIA from 2010 to 2011.

    Let the blame games, BEGIN!

    “America Is On Our Side”: Al-Nusra Commander Tells German Press US Is Arming Jihadists -in German
    http://www.focus.de/politik/videos/syrien-al-nusra-erhaelt-angeblich-waffen-von-den-usa_id_5987317.html

    Highlights are from Al Nusra are:
    They are directly supported by the US
    They received tanks and other heavy weaponry via Libya and Turkey
    They got officers and experts from the US, Israel, Turkey inside Aleppo
    The commanders of IS are led by Western intelligence
    They are against cease-fires and aid deliveries
    “The U.S. is on our side”

    Al Nusra is a terrorist designated organization by The US Government. Aiding and providing material support to terrorists is a crime.

    Betraeus, as CIA Director from 2010 to 2011, would have been responsible for directing The Obama Administrations plan to arm US designated terrorist organization in Syria.

    Within days of the German press reports of a senior Al Nusra commander admitting that The US leadership arms terrorists, news reports blaming Russia for the downing of MH17 using secret evidence, evidence “newly discovered” by The Ukrainian Government, eyewitness and other evidence that has shown to be fake or manufactured… has been released.

    Distraction.

    Anyone get the feeling that we will be having a “New New Pearl Harbour”?Neo-cons in D.C. are getting desperate and need a diversion.

    The chances of a “New New Pearl Harbour” style attack on American interests or targets in The US, based on the behavior of our Neo-cons upping the ante, just went to 90% within the next year or less. The blame will either rest (as in be pinned on) with Russia or, less likely, an Islamic terrorist group or even Syria.

    Any such attacks from here on out, blamed on Russia, Syria, or Islamic terrorists; are to be considered inside jobs perpetrated by rogue neo-con elements within The US Government. Unless proven otherwise beyond a shadow of a doubt.

    We might as well as just go to DEFCON 2 and start warming up the ICBMS.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if an American city were nuked with a small device, most likely the primary from a “missing” W-80 nuclear warhead. They lack permissive action links designed to prevent the detonation of a nuclear warhead from unauthorized personnel. Of course, the only people who can maintain such a device and use it… are people who built it.

    • kreskin

      Gee , what a surprise.

      • Veri1138

        All of the neo-cons and Democrats (joined by quite a few Republicans) piling on about Russia being the evil in the world, as their own plans are exposed?

        Yeah, don’t be surprised by an attack on American targets by terrorists (insiders controlled from DC).

        • kreskin

          I wouldn’t be.

          I got a bad feelin that the madmen and madwoman are going to prevail and get their way . All of this poking prodding of the Russians , Ukraine , Syria , the sanctions … they are literally under attack as it is . Worst of all neither the media nor our lap dog allies will say a word against it ! U.S. / western propaganda has taken on a life of it’s own , Putin is so concerned that he took it upon himself to warn the media of what it can lead to .

          Serious stuff , this is not good .

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      • Veri1138

        Any more expos’es from the likes of Al Nura or other groups linking neo-cons in Washington, D.C., to terrorism, etc…

        Will provoke an incident orchestrated by our neo-cons.

        Hell, they could even use Soviet weapons-grade uranium or plutonium bought up after the USSR collapsed by The US to secure the weapons pits, to fashion a device, detonate it… and then blame The Russians as either losing control of their nuclear weapons or even saying that they, The Russians, provided the weapon to terrorists.

        Another scenario? A nuclear detonation in Syria blamed on The Russians supplying nuclear weapons to Syria.

        People don’t understand how far our neo-cons will go and how many millions of lives they will sacrifice, including the lives of American citizens, to further their power and greed.

        We are this . close to war.

  • kreskin

    Another endorsement ! Those Conservativeness just love Hillary Clinton ! Not all of them , apparently .

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-paper-facing-threats-endorsing-hillary-clinton-214743986.html

  • SmotPoker

    No, this isn’t me….

    It’s been said the driver also bitched that she had asthma, and it was hurting her. Ummm, guess what? Asthma is actually helped by cannabis. It’s one of the qualifying conditions in some states for getting a medical cannabis card. Nice try though you poor, poor victim.

    That said, it easily could be me. It’s been said more than once that I smell like I just smoked some weed, and my answer is a lot like his, that’s because I probably just did…..

    http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/too-smelly-for-the-bus-marijuana-smoker-fuming-over-6-month-ban/451242099

    • Chunga

      I read this morning that 10 Senators and 50 Congresscritters have asked the DEA to hold off on categorizing kratom as schedule 1 until further review and comment, and/or until several ongoing studies are concluded. So possible good news.

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