Monthly Archives: March 2016

The Evolving Security Environment

I came across an interesting summary of Donald Trump’s views on international relations: Trump’s critique of US-Saudi relations threatens a self-interested claque of privileged plutocrats and their lobbyist supporters, just as his threat to cut off our other mostly useless … Continue reading

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Musicians Pay Pub Owner’s Fine

H/T Klaus K for this story from Denmark: (photo shows Johnny Madsen centre left, Klaus Kjellerup centre right) Johnny Madsen supports tavern owner Well-known musicians are now supporting a tavern owner from Maribo in her fight against smoking law. Tuesday, March 29. … Continue reading

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Healthy Cooking Tips – Sausage, Egg, and Beans

(Left Eye View) Try to find, somewhere at the back of the fridge: 1 Sausage. 1 Egg. 1 tin of Baked Beans. . . . . Clear a space for your frying pan on the cooker by pushing aside saucepans … Continue reading

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Safe Space Violation

This made me laugh. ZeroHedge: Students at the Atlanta school, which has an enrollment of more than 14,000 claim their ‘safe space’ was violated when the messages appeared on sidewalks and buildings. Jim Wagner, president of the Atlanta university, wrote … Continue reading

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Is Wahhabi Islam Linked to Tobacco Control?

Is there an association between Saudi Wahhabi Islam and Tobacco Control? I know that the Islamic State is strongly antismoking (and been applauded for it by Western antismoking organisations). What about Saudi Wahhabism? According to Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Wahhab’s system, … Continue reading

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Part of Humankind

Following on from last night, ZeroHedge: That the crisis is being exploited to undermine Western culture, national sovereignty, and even nationhood itself is now beyond dispute. Top globalists are openly bragging about it. “I will ask the governments to cooperate, … Continue reading

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Always More EU

How the EU uses crises to build its centralised power. BBC: Migrant crisis: EU to prioritise new border force Hungary and Poland insist that the new EU border force must not undermine national sovereignty. The European Commission plan says the EU … Continue reading

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Majority Back Smoking Rooms in Pubs

Taking Liberties: Conducted by Populus, the survey of 1,011 adults living in Scotland found that over half (54 per cent) think pubs and private members’ clubs, including working men’s clubs, should be allowed to provide a well-ventilated designated smoking room … Continue reading

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Benefits and Costs of Smoking Bans

I started to think today about smoking bans from the perspective of Idle Theory. Idle Theory measures everything in terms of people’s time – freedom, wealth, value, profit, money, prices, good, evil, justice. It’s a unified theory. It’s a bit … Continue reading

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Smoking Is Normal

Newswire: March 21, 2016 (MMD Newswire) — In the face of the New York City Council’s and the anti-smoker organizations’ attempt to stifle dissenting conduct through force of law, smokers’ rights group NYC Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment (C.L.A.S.H.) has … Continue reading

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