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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/19/where-to-invade-next-michael-moores-latest-examination-of-american-exceptionalism/ February 19, 2016 Where to Invade Next: Michael Moore’s Latest Examination of American “Exceptionalism” by Michael Donnelly The creator of the top two Documentaries of all time – Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 – is back. Michael Moore and his merry band of co-conspirators have a new documentary out in an expanding number of theaters after a six-year hiatus. It’s an Election Year gift. Where to Invade Next is not an expose of the Perma-War nature of 21st Century American Imperialism, as the title would seem to imply. It is rather a sly travelogue take on how other countries have used American ideals to gain many cultural improvements US citizens are told are unattainable by both wings of the Wall Street Perma-War Party. Reprising his bemused everyman role, Moore visits Germany, France, Slovenia, Tunisia, Portugal and a raft o...

This gets into the absolute DUMB FUCKNESS of DUMB FUCK designers... Who really should know fucking better..... They are the sorts of retards, who deserve to have their heads smashed into their fucking desks, just for being SO fucking stupid. Seriously - You fucking RETARDS at Karcher - really? The vacuum cleaner AND industrial vacuum transport / waste disposal systems have been used for a couple of hundred years AND you fucking RETARDS are still doing STUPID shit like this? OK the problem - everyone who uses vacuum cleaners and then has to deal with SOME (most) of the blockages that occur - it's basically because of BAD DESIGN. The piping - from the entrance on the ground, to the trash catcher or dust bag, MUST be designed to be smooth-ish and "catch point" free. I mean THIS fundamental principle - in all vacuum pulled, pressure driven, gas based conveying systems is ONE of the most fundamental of principles - BECAUSE: a)  Sharp turns, projections, catching points like st...

http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/ National Indigenous Television (NITV) is a channel made by, for and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Through us, you will discover a channel for all Australians. NITV informs, educates and entertains its Indigenous and non-Indigenous audiences about the issues that matter the most to Indigenous Australians.  NITV provides a rich diversity of cultures, languages and talent. The channel commissions or acquires content primarily from the Indigenous production sector.  NITV is proud to host the only daily national news service covering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island stories across the country. ' From its humble beginnings in 2007, then launched as part of SBS in 2012, the channel continues to grow on free-to-air television Channel 34.  The channel now reaches over two million unique viewers a month. It is available in 95% of Australian homes (see How to Watch NITV) via free-to-air and a number of additional pla...

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/02/17/senate-marine-plastic-pollution_n_9255856.html Senate Hearing Into Marine Plastic Pollution Hears About Seabirds With Stomachs Full of Plastic Shearwater seabirds don’t have beautiful plumage and they can’t parrot your words, but they are telling scientists a disturbing story about the effect of plastic on Australian marine life. The plight of these mutton-like birds was told at a senate hearing on Wednesday into the threat of marine plastic pollution in Australia. The inquiry was called for by Tasmanian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson , who bluntly told scientist Dr Jennifer Lavers her work into shearwaters was "pretty depressing". "I don't know if I'd be able to get out of bed in the morning," Whish-Wilson said. Indeed Lavers' research along with colleague Lavers and colleague Dr Ian Hutton on Lord Howe Island suggested 11 percent of juvenile shearwaters were dying as a result of marine plastic -- ...

  International Politics?   "It's not that I trust the Russians implicitly, it's just that the Americans by and large, can't be trusted at all." Moi. Obama in wonderland? US ‘schizophrenic’ on Syria as Kurds, govt forces advance  https://www.rt.com/usa/332706-obama-syria-kurds-turkey/   The US President has claimed that Russian involvement in Syria is a sign of weakness and has pressed for regime change in Damascus, brushing aside ongoing peace talks and ignoring steady gains by the Syrian army and Kurdish forces against terrorists.    “If somebody’s strong, then you don’t have to send in your army to prop up your ally,” President Barack Obama said on Tuesday, taking a break from the ASEAN summit in California to speak to the press about the US Supreme Court and the Syrian crisis. “They have legitimacy in their country, and they are able to manage it themselves, and then you have good relations with them,” Obama added. “You send in your a...

I am a fucking Grammar Nazi who LOVES standardised testing..... Unless the testing is produced by idiots, then I upgrade the idiots to non idiots. I mean I really have - done the metaphorical equivalent to dragging the shit for brains principle teacher across their desk, and saying, "Have you not ever examined what I have had to say about these assignments - the work book has been produced by a drug fucked space cadet - not only is this shit completely unworkable, it's done by people who are out of touch with reality -  SO FIXIT!" "The pyramid of Cheops is 10 meters high." - "Ahh no it's not."  Send the shit back up the system from whence it came from? Nope - your the student, your the trouble maker - blah, blah, blah.... A dumb cunt, covering up for dumber cunts. So I am both a BIG believer in state schools and standardised testing - and they also have their liabilities too. I am not a believer in one system or the other, I am a big believer in he...

How Weather And An 'Interstate of Renewable Energy' Could Save The Climate By 2030 http://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2016/02/15/how-weather-and-an-interstate-of-renewable-energy-could-save-the-climate-by-2030/#6ee8c4a9285a Rethinking how energy is delivered to our homes and businesses is not what I knew outgoing  American Meteorological Society   (AMS) President Dr. Alexander “Sandy” MacDonald to be working on. During my tenure as 2013 AMS President, the recently retired director of NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) in Boulder, Colorado came up to me and said (paraphrased), I am working on something big. You are going to want this on Weather Channel  Weather Geeks He couldn’t really say much at that time, but he was right. His new study was recently published in the journal Nature Climate Change , a very high-impact scholarly journal .    The NOAA press release  says the paper argues that by 2030 electricity in the Uni...