[Daily Caller] A new study published Monday found no link between hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and asthma, despite numerous claims a link did exist in media coverage of the study. It makes my lumbago act up.
USA Today, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and CBS News all claimed the study directly linked fracking to asthma, when the authors of the study openly state they have no data to show fracking causes asthma or make symptoms worse. It causes bunions, too. You should see the people who live near it hobbling around!
The data shows counties with the most asthma have little to no fracking. The study was directly funded by a foundation with close ties to an environmental movement -- the official position of which is anti-fracking. They started fracking near me and I got a butt boil. Boy, did that hurt!
"News outlets were quick to link fracking to asthma even though the authors admitted they do not have the data to support it," Dr. Katie Brown, a spokeswoman for the energy industry group Energy In Depth, told The Daily Caller News Foundation." That important caveat was purposely buried in the study, and not part of the press release. Unfortunately, the media wrote what the researchers wanted them to write, I suppose, because it’s easier to be a stenographer than a researcher."
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Cattle are stupid. They will drink crude oil from a pipeline or tank leak until the fall over dead. Same goes for fracking chemical spills. As far as I know, well injection miles deep into the earth has not yet been proven to harm livestock. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
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if counties with the most asthma have little or no fracking, perhaps fracking inhibits asthma. This would indeed be a link between asthma and fracking.
[HotAir] The U.S. military has a manual for everything, from how to dress to how to wage war.
Now the Pentagon has sent out a detailed written instruction to commanders on how a service member can change his or her sex in a step-by-step process that allows for extended time off.
The directive restricts personnel from living their "preferred gender" lifestyle, or "Real Life Experience," on a military base among peers until the sex change transition is complete.
The Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy must set up a bureaucracy -- dubbed the Service Central Coordination Cell -- to guide commanders overseeing sex change transitions.
Rather than a doctor, the service member’s commanding officer will need to personally take charge of this situation. The rules go into effect this October and state that the service member must obtain a physician’s diagnosis that becoming a transgender person is "medically necessary" for the man or woman to meet military obligations. I’m sorry, but how’s that going to work again? What jobs in the military would make it "medically necessary" for them to surgically change their gender in order to do their job? And if that is a requirement for some jobs, how have we managed to get them done for all this time?
Beats me. This is apparently the new rule of the road under the vision of the Obama administration. All I can tell you is that I’ve still got a copy of my Bluejacket’s Manual from the 1970s around here and I’m pretty sure it didn’t cover anything like this.
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Going into the military is now voluntary. It's a unique culture with separate set of rules and laws as recognized by the Constitution which gives Congress the power to make those laws. The battlefield is the ultimate Darwinian environment. There are no appeals, no due process, just life or death. It is not civil society. The jerks who can't fix an economy, run stable foreign affairs, or bother themselves to secure their own sovereign border, now seek to remake this separate culture into their fantasy of what they believe it should be but can't. You can defend this globalist attitude hundreds of times, THEY only have to be successful once to destroy your insulated cosmopolitan world.
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I do not understand this. The transgendered need daily prescription medication support to maintain their change. In a war zone this is not necessarily possible, posing a danger to the person in question and those around it.
[Independent] The Government has maintained it still intends to reduce net migration to tens of thousands per year after Amber Rudd failed to put a figure on the target.
The Home Secretary said on Tuesday she will aim to bring immigration down to "sustainable levels", declining to confirm whether this met with the Tory manifesto pledge of bringing net migration down to tens of thousands by 2020.
The target was missed during the last Parliament, as net levels exceeded 330,000 last year - up 20,000 on 2014.
[Daily Caller] The Obama administration has released a new report arguing the massive $1.3 trillion student debt load is helping the economy.
"Investing in Higher Education: Benefits, Challenges, and the State of Student Debt" is the work of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). The 78-page report argues that, despite the widespread belief student loans are dragging down young U.S. workers, the surge in debt has actually been a boon for the United States.
"Federal student loan programs help expand access to high-quality education, which has long-lasting benefits to individuals as well as the overall macroeconomy through higher labor productivity and faster GDP growth.
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Well, the Donks always were for indenture servitude in one form or another. We keep you alive to serve this ship the state. Row Vote well, and live.
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If they were worthwhile degrees, there would be at least a sliver of an argument. As they are 5-6-7 year womyn's studies and queer science degrees, not so much...
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It's good for the scam artists' economy.
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Federal student loan programs help like he said, if they can be paid off within a few years... Mine were paid off in about three years, with a hefty, but not burdensome, rate - about 8% of my gross, IIRC. As a civil engineer.
But I gotta idea - have the Feds pay off the interest!
Sounds like a plan, until I remember where they get 'their' money.
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It's certainly been a bonanza for the government-banker-educrat complex, i.e Democrats.
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My student loans, as little as they were, cost me 1.5% interest and that only started some time after I graduated. I was making more on my savings in my bank account than that, so I paid them off as slowly as legally possible.
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It's certainly been a bonanza for the government-banker-educrat complex, i.e Democrats.
Like I said, Cravit, it's good for the scam artists.
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Its broken window economics. The type of model where its argued that a broken windows is good since it generates business for the window company and installers.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Nice attack, claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), touched the world. Statements following the massacre spoke of La Belle France as the country of enlightenment. This captivating country has managed to find humans’ greatest value, represented in universal brotherhood. The Nice attack may be an example of targeting the state, not just its policies, because of La Belle France’s historical influence on humanity.
There have been major French historical and influential figures, from the era of philosopher Rene Descartes to that of philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who taught Dr Moajab al-Zahrani, director of the Arab World Institute in Gay Paree, at the Sorbonne. French culture’s major concepts have influenced the Arab and Moslem worlds. La Belle France has also contributed to organizing human values and civil concepts.
In his book "The Two Treatises of Civil Government," English philosopher John Locke, who greatly influenced the French, wrote: "Men being... by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
"The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community, for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security against any, that are not of it.
"And thus that, which begins and actually constitutes any political society, is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of a majority to unite and incorporate into such a society. And this is that, and that only, which did, or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world."
Those attacking people with trucks or jacket wallahs cannot understand the social contracts that were established in Europe through solid and theoretical influence.
Descartes
In his book "Entrance to the European Enlightenment," Hashem Saleh wrote that Descartes "influenced an entire community and instilled his traits in them to the point where we can no longer differentiate between the people and the individual. He was a nation on his own. Even the organization of streets and public squares in La Belle France carries the systematic features of Descartes in terms of clarity and accuracy.
"But who knows that Descartes feared churchmen to the maximum? And that he lived almost his entire life avoiding their sword held over his head? This is despite the precautions he took and the pious measures he followed to survive their evil. This is why he left his country, La Belle France, which was full of fanatics as per the Catholic sect, and he went to live in a Protestant country that was more free and liberal, The Netherlands."
This was La Belle France five centuries ago. It is as if it survived radical Catholicism only to confront other forms of radicalism. La Belle France, as President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... has said, will remain the country of enlightenment and freedom to the world.
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If I remember correctly, in his Egyptian campaign, Napoleon found out what's the only enlightened approach Muslims understand.
[LI] European Union commissioner Johannes Hahn told the media he believes President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his purge list before the coup:
"It looks at least as if something has been prepared. The lists are available, which indicates it was prepared and to be used at a certain stage," Hahn said.
"I’m very concerned. It is exactly what we feared."
The government has arrested more than 6,000 people, some who did not even know they participated in the coup. They claimed their commanders told them "they were taking part in military manoeuvres."
Behind a semi-pay wall. Luttwak notes the incompetence of the coup-plotters and the beliefs of Yippie's most fervent followers. His point: the coup was inevitable, and so was its failure.
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[DAWN] WHILE last weekend’s abortive coup in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... highlighted the fragile nature of democracy in that country, the aftermath will have long-term consequences if the government chooses to act in anger and ignores the demands of justice.
So far, thousands of soldiers, including 112 generals and admirals, have been suspended or locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in what obviously is a purge of the armed forces. In addition, an astonishing number of police personnel, estimated at nearly 9,000, and a large number of judges, have been sacked, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... pledging to obliterate the ’virus’ responsible for the attempted putsch.
Yippie has moved rather quickly against the 10,000, hasn't he? Almost as if the lists had been drawn up well in advance...
The brains behind the failed coup had focused on the personality of Mr Erdogan and appeared determined to oust him even if it meant eliminating him physically. But that should not colour his view of the situation.
The eyes of the world are on Turkey, a country bordering Syria, hosting 2.7 million refugees, facing a renewed Kurdish insurgency and having problems with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... on the refugee trek.
Such a situation demands a commitment to democracy and due process rather than moves to revive the death penalty -- something EU leaders have denounced in strong terms.
The military clique responsible for the night attack on democracy must, no doubt, face the law, but the government shouldn’t give the impression that it is using the traumatic events of July 14-15 as a cover to crush all dissent. Instead, the suspects should be tried in a manner where the judicial process conforms to international standards.
America and EU leaders have cautioned Ankara against "retribution", and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... has criticised the "revolting scenes of caprice and Dire Revenge" against soldiers in the streets.
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Anybody with a sense of history knows this script. This was the Reichstag fire.
These sub-humans do not understand how the people stand at our side.
[Wash Times] CLEVELAND -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put Hillary Clinton on trial Tuesday at the Republican National Convention, laying out a point-by-point case against her and asking the crowd to render a verdict. Convention crowd screams "Lock her up."
On every charge that she mishandled her job as secretary of state or misled the American people, the crowd filling Quicken Loans Arena roared: "Guilty!"
Mr. Christie, a former federal prosecutor, said he was holding the mock trial because the Justice Department had declined to pursue criminal charges against Mrs. Clinton for her secret email setup as secretary of state and mishandling classified material.
"Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, let’s present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Clinton," he said. "She was America’s chief diplomat. Look around at the violence and danger in our world today every region of the world has been infected with her flawed judgment."
It capped two days of relentless attacks on Mrs. Clinton at the convention, and the exercise provoked a thunderous chant of "lock her up, lock her up," which has become the Republican battle cry for 2016.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The recent atrocities in Nice and Orlando have led to the realization that terrorism has a new face. The insistence of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that it is acting in the name of Islam suggests to many that the group’s war is one of theological ideology.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the profiles of the perpetrators in Nice and Orlando, who acted in the name of ISIS, demonstrate the criminal impulse of its followers rather than their devotion to Islam. To understand ISIS’s appeal, we need to understand the actions and profiles of its followers.
Criminality
Nice’s Mohammed Lahaouaiej Bouhlel and Orlando’s Omar Mateen prove that you do not need to espouse an ideology to execute a terrorist attack. It is enough to be a criminal. Both massacres were executed by criminals who happened to be Moslems of Middle Eastern descent.
Their acts serve ISIS’s aim of being ubiquitous. In the age of social media, the group is garnering popularity worldwide, especially among loners, low achievers and misfits such as Bouhlel and Mateen. They find in the group a haven for restoring their self-esteem and sense of belonging.
Although they do not develop an ideological devotion to ISIS, they act on the animalistic impulse that is easily stimulated by its barbarism. It is enough to make them one of its soldiers - ideological and theological devotion is not necessary. This is restructuring the dynamic of modern jihadism and jihadist archetypes. Today’s snuffies are no longer anonymous actors serving an ideology, but humans with personal traits of love, stress, insanity, anger, loneliness and sexual preferences.
Al-Qaeda was personified by its late leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who has left the building... , the mysterious villain who we feared but did not expect to be our neighbor. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... ISIS jihadists are independent and visible individuals who orchestrate their own acts of terror and come up with unconventional methods, such as Bouhlel’s use of a truck. ISIS has invaded every aspect of our lives. Rising public fear following the massacres in Nice and Orlando is propelled by the idea that almost anyone among us could be a terrorist.
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Zoochosis a brain dysfunction caused by stress.
The following behaviors are symptomatic of zoochosis: pacing and circling, tongue-playing and bar-biting, neck twisting, head-bobbing, weaving and swaying, rocking, overgrooming(fascination with fashion) and self-mutilation(tattoos and piercings), vomiting and regurgitating(bulimia and anexoria)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
