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This is a sponsored post provided by Tobi; all opinions are my own. I received a top in exchange for review.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Olive Top & Confident Twosday
This is a sponsored post provided by Tobi; all opinions are my own. I received a top in exchange for review.
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That olive top is lovely with denim, and perfect for cooler weather! :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for the link up!
Away From The Blue Blog
Cute top! I've been wanting to get an olive top, and this looks and sounds great!ReplyDelete
I also love the red lipstick - works great with the top!
Thanks for the link up!
I love olive for Fall, cute top I have one very similar.ReplyDelete
Love olive! That is the perfect top.ReplyDelete
I love the color of your top! This is the perfect fall look!ReplyDelete
Doused In Pink
Simply Beautiful! Love the top!ReplyDelete
This is one of my favorite outfits on you! I just really love that olive top on you. The color looks great and your hair looks really nice, too! I also LOVE those sandals!ReplyDelete
I just love this top and dying over those sandals! This chic casual look is one of my faves on you Laura!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Loving your Tobi collaborations!ReplyDelete
Dawn Lucy
Love olive!!ReplyDelete
Loving this olive green blouse, lady- and the lace-ups are super cute!ReplyDelete
Le Stylo Rouge
Gorgeous top Laura, loving the olive color and denim combination.ReplyDelete
Rachel xo
Such a cute top! I could so see myself wearing this. You look gorgeous!ReplyDelete
xx Leah / www.eatpraywearlove.com
Both the top and the shoes are SO cute together! Those shoes are so fun!ReplyDelete
You look so pretty in olive! Love how you styled the jeans and shoes.ReplyDelete
Amy Ann
Straight A Style
Olive is one of my favorite colors! This top is really pretty and the I love the drape of it. It looks fabulous styled with skinny jeans and those gorgeous shoes!ReplyDelete
Olive is my favourite colour for fall, yet I have nothing olivey...I need to fix that.ReplyDelete
I love this olive top! It looks perfect styled with the jeans and lace up sandals. Such my style!ReplyDelete
I love that top--the color is fantastic and I love the drapey material and cute pocket details. I can't get enough olive green right now either--I just picked up a cardigan and can't wait to wear it!ReplyDelete
Love the top...olive is one of my favorite colors!ReplyDelete
Great transitional fall outfit! LOVE that olive green top!ReplyDelete
Beautiful look! Love the olive top, and those jeans are fantastic!ReplyDelete
xx, Elise
you have the best shoes!ReplyDelete
Life is just Rosie
Love the olive top, it's so pretty and looks so comfy too! Lovely color for fall! XxReplyDelete
Laura, I love this neutral look. Beautiful top and your hair looks great with waves!ReplyDelete
thanks for the linkup
jess xx
Olive is one of my favorite colors for the fall. Love the look you put together. Beautifully CandidReplyDelete
I think that blouse will be a wonderful staple for you. Olive green is such a great neutral...subtle yet not harsh!ReplyDelete
But IMO what really makes this outfit work is the shoes (I know, I'm biased being addicted to shoes and all)....they are fabulous!
I've actually ordered a couple things from Tobi in the past, and been happy with them. I even had a couple issues that their customer service responded to wonderfully! I'll definitely order from them again.
I have been drawn to olive of late, and this top is a wonderful staple piece. It looks great with your jeans and fun lace up shoes!ReplyDelete
Love your outfit!! That top is so cute!ReplyDelete
I actually have a couple of tops just like this from NY&Co and I love the fabric. That olive green is perfect for fall though and looks great with those shoes.ReplyDelete
Such a gorgeous top you got from TOBI! Thanks for sharing and hosting the linkup as well.ReplyDelete
Love the olive green! Such a pretty blouse for Fall!ReplyDelete
This is the perfect summer to fall transition look!ReplyDelete
xo, Syd
This outfit is so cute and flattering on you.ReplyDelete
Sincerely, Jennie
This is a perfect transitional look and packed with fall staples that I can imagine you'll be able to wear time and time again. Love the way you've styled the olive blouse! It's understated color makes it so versatile and I love its pretty drape. I will definitely check out the Tobi website! Thanks for the tip!ReplyDelete
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Loving this casual look! And those shoes!!ReplyDelete
La Joie de Vivre
Your olive top is gorgeous! And the red lip - perfection! What a fun collab with Tobi!ReplyDelete
Glass of Glam
What a beautiful look, your top is gorgeous, suits you beautifully! Kirsten xxReplyDelete
I love the olive shirt, it's a great colour for autumn. Gorgeous sandals too!ReplyDelete
Emma xxx
Love the neutrals in this outfit & those jeans look amazing on you!ReplyDelete
Super shirt, great colour for Autumn! Jeans are fab too. JacquiReplyDelete
Omg I am obsessed with this top. I need it! Asking for it for my bday!! Great color too.ReplyDelete
What a great look! I love that shade of olive!ReplyDelete
The drape of the blouse is just lovely, and your red lip is killer!ReplyDelete
Chic on the Cheap
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2016 at 11:15 PM
I just picked up a new olive top too...but now I want yours! Ha!ReplyDelete
Like those shoes ;)ReplyDelete
Mónica Sors
You look absolutely amazing in this outfit! It seriously fits you perfectly and is so perfect for this transitional period. xxReplyDelete
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Love your blouse :) xxReplyDelete
You are so beautiful Laura!! this olive green is definitely your colour, it enhances your natural hair colour and face so beautifully! Amazing transitional look and styling, I am very inspired!! :DReplyDelete
Thank you so much for sharing and best wishes for a great September! Kisses from Mykonos!
This is so inspiring! I love the post:)ReplyDelete
I like the olive. I don't think you look too washed out, but I do love the lips. :)ReplyDelete
You look so pretty! <3 Love the lip color!ReplyDelete
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I'm not disputing that Hell exists, what I want to know is WHAT IS HELL?
In my opinion there are only two possible answers, but you might inform me of something else. Many people have argued that evil is the absence of God, hell must be evil, thus hell is the separation of us from God. As poetic as this sounds, I've never found the scripture to back this up. Maybe you have some that I haven't read yet.
The second option in my understanding is that hell is the wrath of God against the disobedient. I have found one piece of scripture that debatable states that God is in Hell, but not what He is doing down there.
Can you set me straight with the scripture that I need to understand the lake of fire?

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Kinda explains the similarity in the design of the boats.


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What's Going On in Egypt?
On Tuesday, tens of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets in Cairo and Suez, protesting the administration of President Hosni Mubarak late into the night. The protestors were gassed and beaten.
Protestors were eventually driven out of Tahrir—"Liberation"—Square around 1 a.m. by authorities using water cannons and tear gas. The Guardian has an excellent, frequently-updated record of what happened (which they'll do again today), while The Awl's Gordon Reynolds wrote an amazing first-person account of the scene:
The fire tank had not advanced more than 30 yards before a young Egyptian sprinted up the front of the vehicle and scaled up the side. He proceeded to climb up to the top of the tank, inciting ovations from the crowd... 200 protesters dropped to their knees in unison and began to pray while the rest of the crowd looked into the faces of Egyptians staring at the scene from high above in their apartment windows. "Who will be the next hero?" they chanted as they looked up. Then they burst into a new chant: "Come join us, come join us!"
Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and hoped-for opposition candidate, told al Jazeera English, "This is the beginning of an uprising. I will be going back to Egypt soon."
This video has been doing the rounds thanks in part to a scene about a minute in, when a single protestor approaches one of the water-spewing fire trucks and stands in front of it:
It's an odd, disconcerting rhyme to the iconic image of a lone protestor facing down tanks in Tiananmen Square in 1989. And, yes, we all got an inspiring image out of those protests—but they didn't work out very well for the people involved, in the end. Is this Egypt's "Tiananmen Square moment"? Let's hope not.
More pictures of the protests:
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Still unsure if to laugh off Sandy, memories of the overblown New York City panic over Irene still fresh, or if to sandbag the basement and first two floors of your house? Here is the latest on the storm courtesy of Jeff Masters' Wunderground blog, which at last check had the following characteristics: Wind: 75 MPH — Location: 29.0N -76.0W — Movement: NNE. In other words, slowly but surely approaching New York, with landfall still expected sometime Tuesday morning. One thing is certain: there will be at least some "boost" to Q4 GDP as a result of the quite a few broken windows, even as all domestic companies line up to blame Sandy for continuing to miss the top line and increasingly, their EPS numbers, some time in January.
First, some maps via Weather Underground:
Reuters reports that the death toll from Sandy in the Caribbean is now up to 41 people as Hurricane Sandy continues its track toward the U.S. East Coast this afternoon, slowly leaving the Bahamas. States of Emergency have been declared in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and New York. The hurricane is just barely still a Category 1 with surface winds of 75 mph and a minimum central pressure of 971 mb. Ocean buoys off the coasts of Florida and the Carolinas are recording sustained winds of around 45 mph this afternoon, with gusts steadily increasing and now up to 60 mph. Sandy's rainfall, which is limited to the north and northeast parts of the storm, is reaching eastern Florida, though most of it is staying offshore.
Satellite loops show an asymmetric Sandy, with almost all of the thunderstorm activity on its north side. The hurricane still has a very clear center of surface circulation which you can see on visible and infrared loops. Though the hurricane is leaving the influence of an upper level low pressure area over western Cuba, water vapor imagery shows a large area of dry air being pulled into the storm from the south, which is leading to the lack of thunderstorm activity and contributing to the weakening that Sandy is experiencing right now. The hurricane's tropical storm-force winds now extend 240 miles from the center, and could grow to 400 miles from the center by the time it reaches the East Coast.
Figure 1. Visible/infrared satellite image of Sandy as it leaves the Bahamas this afternoon. The mid-latitude trough, which Sandy will interact with over the next few days, is seen approaching from the northwest. The cold front associated with this trough is draped from upstate New York south to Louisiana, and appears as a line of clouds draped across the Midwest and South in this image.
Forecast For Hurricane Sandy
As a tropical cyclone approaches land, the worst storm surge is almost always where the winds are blowing from ocean to shore, where the wind pushes the water toward and onto the shore. In the case of Sandy's potential track, this region is on the north side of the center. In this morning's GFS scenario, Sandy's center passes over eastern Long Island, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. This would result in the highest surge north of New York City: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine. The ECMWF forecast from this morning is a bit further to the south. It's suggesting Sandy's center will meet land in New Jersey. This scenario opens up New York City, Long Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southern coastal Mass. to the largest surge. In general, the places that will avoid the largest storm surge are those that are south of where the center of the storm makes landfall. The National Hurricane Center's forecast is similar to the ECMWF, but most importantly, its forecast is also to not focus on the exact point of landfall because of the size of the storm, and that widespread impact is expected.
The Mid-Atlantic and Northeast coasts should be prepared for a storm surge no matter their exact location. A large portion of the coast will feel the impact of up to 60 mph winds and heavy rain. According to the most recent H*Wind analysis from the Hurricane Research Division is that storm surge has a destructive potential of 4.8 out of 6.0, which is a slight increase from previous analyses. Wind damage potential is holding steady around 2.3 out of 6.0. NOAA's HPC is forecasting rainfall totals of 5 to 10 inches in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and possibly more in coastal locations close to the core of the storm. Widespread power outages from Maine south to Virginia are likely, due to the combination of long-lived gale-force winds, leaves on trees, and rain that will moisten the soil and possibly increase the chances of falling trees. Snow in the Appalachians is also possible as the intense moisture meets the cold air being pulled south by the mid-latitude trough.
Figure 2. Departure of sea surface temperature from average for the Atlantic shows a large area of unusually warm waters up to 9°F above average off the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast.
Sandy to feed off near-record warm waters off the mid-Atlantic coast
During September 2012, ocean temperatures off the mid-Atlantic coast in the 5x10° latitude-longitude box between 35 - 40°N, 65 - 75° W were 2.3°F (1.3°C) above average, according to the UK Met Office. This is the 2nd greatest departure from average for ocean temperatures in this region since reliable ocean temperature measurements began over a century ago (all-time record: 2.0°C above average in September 1947.) These unusually warm waters have persisted into October, and will enable Sandy to pull more energy from the ocean than a typical October hurricane. The warm waters will also help increase Sandy's rains, since more water vapor will evaporate into the air from a warm ocean. I expect Sandy will dump the heaviest October rains on record over a large swath of the mid-Atlantic and New England.
Hurricane rains and climate change
Hurricanes are expected to dump 20% more rain in their cores by the year 2100, according to modeling studies (Knutson et al., 2010). This occurs since a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, which can then condense into heavier rains. Furthermore, the condensation process releases heat energy (latent heat), which invigorates the storm, making its updrafts stronger and creating even more rain. We may already be seeing an increase in rainfall from hurricanes due to a warmer atmosphere. A 2010 study by Kunkel et al. "Recent increases in U.S. heavy precipitation associated with tropical cyclones", found that although there is no evidence for a long-term increase in North American mainland land-falling tropical cyclones (which include both hurricanes and tropical storms), the number of heavy precipitation events, defined as 1-in-5-year events, more than doubled between 1994 - 2008, compared to the long-term average from 1895 - 2008. As I discussed in a 2011 post "Tropical Storm Lee's flood in Binghamton: was global warming the final straw?", an increase in heavy precipitation events in the 21st Century due to climate change is going to be a big problem for a flood control system designed for the 20th Century's climate.
Figure 3. Time series of the 15-yr running average (plotted at the end point of the 15-yr blocks) of the tropical cyclone Heavy Precipitation Index (red) and the associated 15-yr total of U.S. landfalling hurricanes from Atlantic HURDAT hurricane data base, from 1895 - 2008 (blue). Note the steep rise in heavy precipitation events from tropical cyclones over the past 20 years, which has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in landfalling hurricanes. Image credit: Kunkel et al., 2010, Geophysical Research Letters.


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Large and bulky like the mutated heroes of the game itself, the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine collector's edition could easily take down your average Ork. Let's take a peek inside.
I blanked on the price during the recording of the video, which is just as well, as I never would have guessed this was a $99.99 collector's edition ($79.99 on PC). It's nice to look at and smells wonderful, but I'm not convinced it's $100 worth of wonderful.
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If you didn't bother to watch the VGA's, you probably still saw some of the stunning trailers that came out of it. We got an awesome The Last of Us trailer, and of course a mysterious The Phantom Pain trailer. If you read our previous article we were one of the first to tell you that this game was actually Metal Gear in disguise. Well after watching the hints roll in and constantly watching the trailer over and over, we have an idea. Perhaps this game is for Vita!
What? No! It can't be. We know you are saying that right now, but lets dive into the details and see why this is possible.
The Visuals Don't Match Up
It's obvious this game is running off the same engine as Ground Zeroes, the Fox Engine. Yet why does it look nowhere near as good as Ground Zeroes? A bunch of jaggies everywhere, and the details are lacking. Textures in the distance become blurred rather quickly.(check out our points in the picture below)
The most important thing to look at is the models. Look at how clean models are in your favorite games, and how clean they are in Ground Zeroes. Not look at the screen below and see all the issues with it. The fact is they didn't have enough poly's to work with here. The good news is the lighting and techniques behind the Fox Engine make things look fantastic. Without these secrets, the same game looks rather bad.
Official Screens Released in Vita Resolution
The official screens from the game finally released, and all of them are in the Vita's native resolution. The Vita outputs at 960 × 544, the screens are sitting at 960 × 540. Why would you release such a fantastic looking game at that resolution? The official screens of Ground Zeroes are sitting at 1280 × 720 (HD 720)
Remember Kojima Said His Next Game Features Transfarring
IGN had the initial talk with Kojima when he was first showcasing Fox Engine. Throughout the presentation Kojima stressed that the engine is cross platform and will be set to help on all kinds of platforms for the future. He mentions Peace Walker, but at the very end of this interview he mentions something important. He notes "my next game will be multi-platform, and will feature transfarring." He says that last part right at the last second.
Transfarring is the ability to save a game on the PS3, then transfer it to the Vita and continue playing. So far no other transfer was noted.
Perhaps Kojima Already Confirmed It
Check out this interview with Kojima about Fox Engine. Again notes transfarring and includes Vita.
He notes "We have a plan moving forward, where all of our major titles will have this transfarring functionality. So you'll buy the next big game from Kojima Productions on PS3, and there'll also be an NGP version [PSVita] and take it on the go. (sic)"
Kojima is a huge supporter of Vita. He has demonstrated PS3 level games running on the system early, he had projects going for the system, and has shown love for it. He obviously liked the PSP, so why wouldn't he like the Vita? It is awesome to see, and its not hard to believe a game of this caliber is running on the system. If Sony was working closely with him, then its entirely possible.
Metal Gear Solid V Instead of Metal Gear Solid 5
Looking back, Kojima hasn't used Roman Numerals for the full title of Metal Gear Solid. During the E3 teaser for Rising they still used numbers to represent everything. So obviously putting V instead of 5 means something. Kojima is the king of making you honestly believe one thing, then telling you it all meant something else. Metal Gear Solid Vita?
Check out the hidden logo here.
The Screen Analysis (click to enlarge picture)
Points A – You can see the lack of polished edges. Sure games run into this at times, but this is rather dramatic and was easy to see in the trailer. Ground Zeroes didn't suffer as bad with this issue for example. Watch the trailer again and pay attention to the edges, it happens a lot.
Point B – Very sever lack of stuff in the environment. What is there has really no detail put into it. A lot like the initial Fox Engine demo. (Currently trying to find that video)
Point C – Again lack of texture and depth like the Ground Zeroes trailer. Still looks great, but could use more presentation value.
Point D – An example of the light giving something extreme depth and detail. The entire purpose to Fox Engine was lighting making things look great.
The only real negative side of things is the fact the Moby Dick Studio website now states "All footage is shown running in real-time on hardware equivalent to current generation consoles (PS3 & XBOX360)." They also only have PS3 and 360 logo's at the bottom, no Vita or PlayStation in general. So the question is, what do you think? Will this title (whatever it may be) be released on the Vita as well?


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The Trump/Russia narrative is a complete fabrication of the Deep State. Who is the Deep State? They are the puppets of the oligarchs who were incorrectly and illegally given the power to create money from nothing. That power is rooted in the illegal Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
Why is it illegal? Because the Constitution properly says in Article 1, Section 8; "The Congress shall have Power To... Coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures."
There is no place in the Constitution that allows or makes it legal for Congress or the Executive Branch to give or to delegate that power to private individuals. This is THE MOST IMPORTANT CHECK AND BALANCE IN THE CONSTITUTION. Failing to protect it compromised ALL OTHER PROTECTIONS.
This is THE ROOT of our corruption. Private individuals once given the ability to print money from nothing use that power to buy up our industry, our property, to get laws produced that benefit them and disadvantage the majority. They use that "money" to get their puppet politicians and judges elected, thus capturing all three branches of the People's government.
Can anyone really still wonder why the world is seeing the largest wealth disparity in history?
*Note about this video - While an excellent presentation of reality, their representation of Socialism is NOT CORRECT. Socialism would result in even distribution (except by the ruling elite), but the total wealth would be only a FRACTION of the wealth today.
Not only is the government captured, but all our markets are captured as well. Our economic data has been captured and is false.
Our MASSIVE intelligence agencies work for the oligarchs. They do not work on behalf of the people. This is the Deep State. They are not elected, they are appointed by our government puppets. The intelligence agencies are only effective at creating narratives - that is all they do, 100% of their effort is narrative creation. We, The People, only need about 10% of this mass to ensure our defense, and thus the firing of James Comey is not only overdue, but it is just the very tip of what needs to be accomplished. Yes, "Homeland Security" should be dismantled entirely, the FBI, NSA, CIA and the dozens of other hidden agencies should all be consolidated into something that is 10% of its current size.
It's important to remember the context of WWI and WWII. The oligarchs created WWI on the heals of the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, the IRS and the notion that our country must permanently collect taxes, and that we must finance budget deficits through the use of Treasury Bonds and Notes - thus having private bankers issue money as a debt to skim interest off the productive efforts of the people.
They then used WWII to foist the U.N., and the Bretton Woods Accord on the globe that created the IMF, the World Bank, and the B.I.S.. This set up the unbelievable system whereby they create "money" from nothing and lend it to countries to "stabilize" them. Their charters required repayment in gold, making the IMF the world's third largest holder of gold. No citizen on the entire globe got to vote for this system, it was simply foisted upon us as a "solution" to end the war that they created.
Tested, tried, and true, this formula is repeated over and over, changing the WHO it is that produces our money never changes.
The Deep State creates false narratives and false flag events in order to justify military action and regime change against any country that is not participating in their debt as money scam. Just look at recent conflicts - Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and now North Korea. Our "beef" is always with countries that don't participate in the oligarchs charade. And that brings us to China and Russia, neither of who are willing participants.
Turning to the Russians, they are not playing along with the IMF or World Bank, and thus the Deep State (tools of the oligarchs) is trying to make them into an enemy. They are not our enemy, and in reality never have been.
Going all the way back to the American Revolution - our fight with the British for independence - it was the Russians who stepped in to diplomatically support our independence from the British empire. Look it up. We were isolated, they were our nearly lone allies.
Then in both WWI and WWII the Russians were again our allies, fighting and dying alongside the United States. Socialists and communists they are, but they were not our enemy until the Deep State began a totally false "Cold War" against them in order to prevent their expansion following WWII so that the oligarchs wouldn't loose the global territory they gained with the ridiculous Bretton Woods Accord.
The Deep State narrative during the Cold War was that the Soviet Union was world power number 2, their awesome military was to be feared and must be stopped. This narrative justified the spending of trillions to support the oligarch owned military industrial complex. This spending became the debt of the American people who now continue to pay interest in the form of taxes to these evil private individuals.
I was in the U.S. Air Force and was one of the first to fly into the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. The Deep State narrative was instantly laid bare by the reality that I encountered there. The following passage written about that experience is from my new book "Definitive Freedom:"
Adventure into the Soviet Union at the Height of the Cold War
In 1987 the United States and what was then the Soviet Union entered into the INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty). A part of this treaty was the mutual inspection of one another's medium range nuclear arsenal.
I was called to pilot a C-141 into the Soviet Union carrying American INF Treaty nuclear weapons inspectors. When we landed the inspectors were to give the Russians a slip of paper with a destination written on it. The Russians then had just 45 minutes to then take off with the inspectors to whatever destination was written on that paper in order to carry out the inspection of Russia's nukes.
We launched our INF missions from Yokota AB, Japan, flew across the Sea of Japan, across the entirety of Siberia north of Mongolia, down the length of Lake Baikal, the world's largest fresh water lake, and landed at Ulan Ude in far western Siberia. We were among the first American military to set foot in that region in decades.
Once the treaty inspectors were safely underway we received the grand tour of Ulan Ude from the city's mayor. People we met in town could not believe we were American military, thinking we were pulling one over on them, they would state, "No, no, you must be eastern European!"
I flew this mission four times total. During each trip we would spend the night and fly out the next day. For hours I flew over the vastness of Siberia where natural resources are still unlimited and where wildfires raged yet no one cared as there was no one for thousands of miles.
|View from C-141 over Siberia, 1987.
|View of southern Lake Baikal on descent into Ulan Ude, 1987
|Me (second from left) and my flightcrew in Ulan Ude, 1987
What I saw in the Soviet Union was not the fearsome enemy our own propaganda described. Instead what I saw was a sorry and dilapidated military. In town, everywhere I went I saw drunkards in the bushes drinking their vodka. Inside every shop, every agency, everywhere… 'workers' did not bother to stand or ask if they could help you.
|Open Market Ulan Ude 1987.
|Telephone Booth, 1987 Russia.
There was NO work ethic whatsoever. This was in your face, startling different from the rest of the world. Even third-world non-socialist countries have self-interested eager people looking to better their way of life.
Not here.
There were beautifully built parks along the river with many streetlamps, yet only a few actually worked as no one bothered to change the bulbs or to fix broken glass. In the open markets where flies covered open meats, you had a choice of shoes, coats, pants, hat, baby carriages, etcetera… your choice was black, brown, or black. In fact it's hard to remember much color, today my memory of this experience is unusually black and white. No electronics, toys still made of pot metal, no plastics.
|Open Market Ulan Ude, 1987.
|Russian Man, Ulan Ude, 1987. When he smiled,
he revealed a solid gold arch of teeth.
|Russian boys and their bicycle.
All Toys were pot metal.
As a sidebar, many people in the west still holdover the cold war mentality that Russia is our enemy to be feared. But the truth is that we should not forget that they were our allies during both WWI and WWII, and that it was the Russians who provided much needed support for America as we fought our war of Independence against Great Britain (look this up if you are not aware). Because most people in the west are not experienced with Russia it is easy for fake narrative creators like certain politicians and the CIA to manipulate our minds into fearing that unknown. Fool me one, shame on you. Personally, I won't be fooled again.
Today many still vilify Russia while those same people forget that it was the Germans and the Japanese who were NOT on America's side, and thus on the side of a free and proper rule-of-law during both world wars. Later, we'll talk about their level of aggression and how an improper rule-of-law led to impossible math in both those conflicts!
In my travels I have been in many socialist, communist, and (mostly corrupted) capitalistic societies. I tell every young person who will listen my experience of how socialism destroys the work ethic and thus jeopardizes the progress of such a society. But it's worse than that, it's actually a very evil ideology. It may be born of good intentions, but history has shown that those false ideologies are the perfect pavement of the road that leads to hell. Many millions of lives lost, millions more impoverished, a dreadful setback to humanity. One that if it were to be applied worldwide would jeopardize, I believe, our species odds of long-term survival.
This is why I dread seeing so much creeping socialism today. It's rampant in Europe, and even in America we have politicians who are openly socialists. Have we not already learned that lesson? Repeatedly? Centralized anything decreases competition, decreases innovation, and stifles progression, and those are the good parts!
If you have not experienced the effects of socialism first-hand, then I would encourage you to research the effects throughout history. Yes, no system today is perfect, but some are much less perfect than others. Your understanding of what hasn't worked will help lead us, and future generations, into establishing a proper societal rule-of-law.
* All photos were taken in 1987 with 35mm film. Note the stark contrast of 1987 Russia reality versus the Deep State narrative at the time.


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The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a new climate report. And it contained some of the most alarmist language yet used by the IPCC. So alarmist that an author removed his name from the report. Not because he disagrees with the underlying science. But because the "inflammatory and alarmist claims delegitimize the IPCC as a credible and neutral institution." And why was the language so alarmist? Because the fury of global warming was going to rain hellfire down upon us unless we acted immediately to curb our carbon emissions. For the level of our carbon emissions was growing ever more perilous. Taking us to the point of no return. Again. So immediate action was required. Hence the alarmist nature of the report.
Some of those in the alarmist camp even want to go as far as jailing climate change deniers. Because it is these people that are allowing the carbon polluters to pollute with abandon. Because people believe them and their science. That man isn't causing global warming. It's because of these people that America never signed the Kyoto Protocol. And because they have not implemented economic strangling carbon reduction policies (such as a carbon tax) the United States is one of the driving forces of manmade global warming. Because of their carbon emissions. Of course, the data doesn't agree with this (see US CO2 Emissions Per Capita Are At Their Lowest Levels In 50 Years by Rob Wile posted 4/14/2014 on Business Insider).
And the following chart from AEI's Mark Perry shows the U.S. has been making significant gains in carbon dioxide reduction: At about 17 tons per capita, we are at a level not seen in half a century. Perry writes:
CO2 emissions per capita in the US increased slightly last year, but were back to the same level as in 1963 (50 years ago), and 23% below the peak in the early 1970s, thanks to the boom in shale gas, which has displaced coal for electricity generation.
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Almost a quarter of Addis Ababa residents have no access to toilets, says a new report by the Addis Ababa city authorities.
"We estimate that some three million people live in Addis Ababa. Out of this nearly 25 percent of the population have no access to toilets and defecate in rivers crossing the city" the report says.
"We cannot tolerate any more waste in rivers and roads. We should be ashamed. We want to make sure that the city is clean and a better place to live," said Mekuria Haile, a senior local government official, at the launch of the report entitled Cleaning and Beautifying Addis Ababa: Intensifying Environmental and Health Issues with Public Participation.
"Addis Ababa is one of the biggest cities in sub-Saharan Africa… but is still fighting against solid waste management and health problems posed by unsafe drinking water and inadequate sanitation," said Haile.
The outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) which hit most parts of the city in August 2009 "was the result of poor sanitation and hygiene, coupled with solid waste from the city" the report said.
"I cannot trust the water that comes through a pipeline since that outbreak. I boil my water every day before serving my family," said Senait Habte, a resident of the city's Kolfe Keraniyo slum.
"My relatives in rural Ethiopia live a better life than us in the city. They have good toilets and access to safe drinking water. Seems like the government has forgotten us," she told IRIN, adding: "There are continuous electricity blackouts. Sometimes we don't have water for five days. Life is becoming difficult in Addis nowadays."
Public relations chief at the Water Resources Ministry Bizuneh Tolcha told IRIN nearly 66 percent of the Ethiopian population has access to safe drinking water and 56 percent has access to a latrine.
"According to our water tests, the water in Addis is very clean but the problem is contamination due to its unsafe use," Tolcha told IRIN.
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) says 60-80 percent of the current disease burden in Ethiopia is attributable to environmental health risks, which include poor hygiene and inadequate sanitation.
US-based NGO Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and its partners have been promoting an ecological toilet called the ArborLoo, designed by Zimbabwean Peter Morgan specifically for African conditions. It serves both as a basic toilet and makes use of excreta for growing fruit trees.
The AborLoo is a single pit shallow compost toilet 1.0-1.5m deep comprising a ring beam, slab and st ructure.
|All my family used to defecate at the back of our house or in an open field...
"Each concrete toilet slab costs US$7-20 and anyone can use it. It best suits the elderly and disabled people. You can dig it in half a day and can also plant trees on it," says Bekele Abaire, programme manager at the CRS office in Ethiopia.
During use, fly and odour problems are reduced by regularly adding soil, wood ash and leaves to the excreta in the pit. Once full, the old toilet site is covered with soil and left to compost with the parts of the toilet being moved to another place, rebuilt and used in the same way again.
A tree is planted on the old site, preferably at the start of the rainy season, after the old pit contents have composted for a while.
"All of my family used to defecate at the back of our house or in an open field. This is the case everywhere in our `kebele' [district]; it is normal. We now understand that latrines are important for our hygiene and health. ArborLoo has helped us a lot. We plant fruits, vegetables, trees and above all we are safe from acute watery diarrhoea and other diseases," said Seid Abdo who is now using ArborLoo in Arsi Zone, Oromiya Regional State.
"Many communities achieved 100 percent sanitation coverage in areas that had 1 percent or less [coverage] before the project. And surprisingly none of these areas were affected by AWD, while others suffered from it," Bekele told IRIN.
"We are trying to implement more eco toilet projects in Addis Ababa. We want to scale it up in urban areas like Addis Ababa and Adama but we are challenged by lack of adequate policy and lack of funding," Bekele told IRIN.
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Chris Christie and the Perils of Power
A wise citizenry would take this episode as a warning about the dangers of ceding control over our lives to the government.
Many Americans might have learned from watching Chris Christie's marathon news conference on Thursday, but none more than Meryl Streep. If there is anything she doesn't know about acting, the governor of New Jersey is the person who could teach her. No one has ever done a more convincing portrayal of incredulous innocence than his.
It may be that he is far more sinned against than sinning, and that his own motives are so pure that he could never imagine bad intentions on the part of his aides. But if he is blameless, then he is also arrogant.
This is the same governor who, when state legislators raised questions about the now-infamous lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, snorted that "it just shows you they really have nothing to do." In December, however, bridge workers testifying under subpoena before a legislative committee said the closures were "unprecedented" and "wrong."
That happened a month ago. The closures happened four months ago. But not until the past few days did Christie show any curiosity about actions that caused nightmarish traffic jams for his constituents over four days.
The message Christie sent was that it was beneath him to consider the possibility that members of his administration might misuse their positions. Either he was unjustifiably certain that the charges were baseless then, or he is dissembling now. Neither makes him look good.
I don't mean to sound cynical, even when events invite it. Some people go into politics for wholesome reasons, and Christie may be one of them. He's not accused of using his office to get rich. He made his name as a prosecutor going after public corruption.
He certainly didn't enter politics to poll-test every utterance, for fear of being voted out of office. His blunt and sometimes caustic candor suggests that he has real convictions he wants to advance.
But just because he may think in terms of the public good doesn't mean everyone around him does. Many people seek power, or proximity to power, merely because they like exercising control over others or punishing their enemies. Some of those close to Christie got obvious pleasure in petty revenge.
It's not enough for officeholders to be upright. They also have to choose associates who can resist temptation. A governor who is oblivious to potential abuses by his staff is like a dog owner who lets his Rottweiler loose on a kindergarten playground. Maybe nothing will happen, but it's irresponsible to take the chance.
A worse possibility is that Christie was not exactly heedless of such behavior but encouraged it. Given his fervent denials, it's hard to believe evidence will emerge that he approved the lane closing. But it's also hard to believe that his aides went rogue, doing things they knew he would abhor. Christie doesn't seem like the kind of boss whose tolerance for mischief you would want to test.
They have some reason to think he's happy to seek revenge on political opponents. Journalists have documented numerous acts of retribution—such as stripping funding for a Rutgers professor who, as a member of a redistricting commission, voted against a plan the governor wanted. Christie does not have a thick skin when it comes to dissent.
He often gives the impression that the authority granted him by voters is his to use however vigorously and aggressively he sees fit. Elected officials ought to treat it as a conditional loan, to be exercised with great care and humility. Christie's full-throttle approach encourages abuse.
It's our good fortune that modern technology makes it easier to document such abuse, at least when committed by people too careless to take obvious precautions.
Had Christie's deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, whispered, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" to Port Authority official David Wildstein as they sat in a Starbucks, she'd still have her job. If he had chortled over kids being late to school on a stroll with a colleague, his amusement would be lost to history.
A wise citizenry would take this episode as a warning about the dangers of ceding control over our lives to the government. Anytime someone wants to expand some power of government, here's what you should assume: Kelly and Wildstein will be the ones exercising it.