Zika Cases Likely Transmitted Locally in U.S. for the First Time, Officials Say
This is the most deadly animal on the planet, and even today it kills a million or more each year.
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Shale Ready to Tango with the Saudis
"Back when prices first started to tumble, analysts believed the breakeven price for most shale projects—that is, the oil price companies would need to still turn a profit with their operations—was somewhere near $75 per barrel. Pioneer is now claiming it is operating wells that could still turn a profit with prices under $3 per barrel, putting those projects on par with the bigger conventional fields of Saudi Arabia." This took two years. What will this look like in five? And how soon before American producers are expanding the Shale Oil Revolution to the wide world? Tick tock House of Saud, tick tock. In the Immortal Words of Daniel Pipes…
Read the whole thing, but also click through to the underlying article, it has a bit more to offer. Pipes and I are approximately on the same page. I think the war of reformation will happen between the Shia primarily Iran, and the Sunni, primarily the House of Saud. I think the former are more likely to success, but that is yet open for debate. Regardless, both need to be reformed in heat of the reformational forge. Until they are there is danger of a serious conflict involving not just the Islamic nations, but the West and others as well. Cherry dumping photo goes viral, calls for change
The point is to keep you from getting a lower price. You the taxpayer are being screwed by the federal government. We need government reform, and we need the government out of the marketplace. Now. Then came the Russians, and they built something else entirely. "But then there’s all that left over communist stuff ringing the city. What exactly do you do with it all? Pulling it down and replacing it is too expensive. And many of these buildings are occupied by ethnic Russians not Latvians. (Latvia is a quarter Russian as a result of the Soviet occupation, but the city of Riga is closer to half Russian.)" Heh! You leave the crap digs for the Russians, they like this top down, neo-feudal crap. As for American suburbs looking like this crap, no, sorry none of them resembled this until the 20th century when the Bauhaus movement began to utterly destroy architecture, building the apartment horrors, and suburban horrors we are still left reeling from. This has again gained steam as recently Smart Growth cities like Portlandia began to build the progressive rejuvenation of Soviet/Bauhaus apartment hell, commonly known as TOD's. 7 Modern Buildings by Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius | Architectural Digest This is the architecture of hell. Faster, Higher, Stronger: A History of Doping in Sports . . . you can't have one without the other! This is a nice history of sports doping. Notice how early it began, as soon as there was organized sports. And with the Tour de France over, notice how soon it started in cycling. I expect if we knew the truth no cyclist up until perhaps the present could be considered "clean." Don't tell the French. Perhaps. Brouhaha About Metastatic Prostate Cancer in US
Medicine, and science more generally needs to come to grips with the fact that studies like these do nothing but damage the reputation of medical researchers, and scientist. This report was not calibrated to allow the clearing of the muddy water, it was either intentionally or negligently designed to muddy them. More below. Critics shoot holes in widely cited gun study | Fox News
Hiding data is such a tell. More after the break. |
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