Monday, June 11, 2018

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  Washington's Blog

  The Vintage News

  Utopia – you are standing in it!

The Truthseeker

  TARPLEY.net

  Sustainable Pulse

  sunshine hours

  Stumbling and Mumbling

  • Measuring competition 3 days ago

    How do you measure competition? I ask because on yesterday's PM programme Lynsey Hooper claimed (15 min in) that Amazon's broadcasting of some Premier League games next season means...

  • Britain's open borders policy 6 days ago

    Whilst cycling the other day, I crossed the Leicestershire-Rutland border. And I was shocked to see…nothing. No border controls, no passport checks, no customs officials. Here...

  • Why the MPC needs experts 10 days ago

    There’s no doubt that Jonathan Haskel is an excellent appointment to the MPC. What we should be asking is rather: isn’t he over-qualified? What I mean is that not much hangs upon...

  Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • The challenge of America’s new extraterritorial sanctions 3 days ago

    The United States, by imposing extraterritorial sanctions, seeks to effectively extend its jurisdiction far beyond its borders. However, such sanctions — which it euphemistically...

  • The World According to Trump and Xi 4 days ago

    Trump’s “America First” strategy and Xi’s “Chinese dream” are founded on a common premise: that the world’s two biggest powers can act in their own interest with impunity...

  • Can democracy and communism coexist? 4 days ago

    Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review When Nepal’s new pro-China communist prime minister, Khadga Prasad Oli, shortly pays obeisance in Beijing, he will seek not only greater...

  Socio-Economics History Blog

  Socialist Economic Bulletin

  • An Outbreak of Crass Cross-Party Economics a month ago

    By Tom O’LearyThere has recently been a spate of cross-party economic initiatives. Ostensibly they are designed to reach a ‘non-political’ consensus to address some areas...

  Ramani's blog

  Diane Ravitch's blog

  P U L S E

  Pasco Phronesis

  NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • Global Cooling Led To More Extremes Of Rainfall a day ago

    By Paul Homewood   We are constantly told that global warming has led to more extreme rainfall and other weather. As HH Lamb showed though, monthly extremes in rainfall actually increased...

  • Hydrogen fuel cell trains herald new steam age 2 days ago

    By Paul Homewood   The Times reports:   Britain’s railways are to enter a new steam age with up to 100 ageing commuter trains poised to be converted to run on eco-friendly hydrogen...

  • Chris Landsea Urges Caution Linking Hurricanes To Warming 3 days ago

    Thank goodness for honest climate scientists, such as Chris Landsea.   From CFACT:   The news media should be cautious about linking hurricane activity to global warming, according...

  NoTricksZone

  NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • A Reply to Ronald Radosh’s Smear 4 days ago

    Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In a strange attack on my criticism of former CIA director John Brennan’s lack of veracity, Ron Radosh alleges that I have engaged in a...

  • Ten Paradoxes Of Our Age 4 days ago

    Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution The 21st century is reminding of us of some uncomfortable truths. Abroad, recent controversies over the rise of Chinese mercantilism...

  • Europe’s Vanishing Calm 4 days ago

    Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Europeans claim to be building a new democratic culture but the governing elites of the European Union consider voters little more than members...

The Moderate Voice

  • It’s Time For Paul Manafort To Trade In His Designer Threads For A Prison Jumpsuit 3 hours ago

    Of all the bad actors who attached themselves to Donald Trump in the course of the Russia scandal, former campaign manager Paul Manafort may be the baddest, and so it would be fitting...

  • Of Special Relationships and ‘Special Places’ 13 hours ago

    “There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the...

  • Solo (2018) 17 hours ago

    In the years to come, Solo will have to go solo and be relegated as a footnote in the Star Wars cinematic universe — or, galaxy. The post Solo (2018) appeared first on The...

  Marginal REVOLUTION

  • What should I ask Vitalik Buterin? 17 minutes ago

    I will be doing a Conversation with him (no associated public event), what should I ask him? If you have been living under a rock, here is his Wikipedia page.  Here is his Twitter account...

  • We will never disapprove of current levels of animal cruelty 2 hours ago

    Not fundamentally, no.  However terrible our current treatment of animals may be, most of us don’t seem to mind very much, and I suppose that is consistent with what a Darwinian...

  • The long-run consequences of male-biased sex ratios 9 hours ago

    From Pauline Grosjean & Rose Khattar, forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies: We document the short- and long-run effects of male-biased sex ratios. We exploit a natural...

  Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Boredom a month ago

    People who are often bored are at a greater risk of developing anxiety, depression, and drug or alcohol addiction. Continue reading →

  • Anya Kamenetz: “A Nation at Risk” Cooked the Books a month ago

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? In this report by NPR journalist Anya Kamenetz, we learn that the famous 1983 report “A Nation at Risk,” we learn that the Reagan-era...

  • Queen Eva’s Gambit 2 months ago

    Originally posted on Gary Rubinstein's Blog: In the New York Post today there was a headline that read “Charter school upsets juggernaut Stuyvesant HS on way to chess crown” It...

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  MintPress News

Mark's Daily Apple

  • The Carnivore Diet: Pros, Cons, and Suggestions 19 days ago

    All-meat diets are growing in popularity. There are the cryptocurrency carnivores . There’s the daughter of the ascendant Jordan B. Peterson, Mikhaila Peterson, who’s using...

  • Summer Preview: What’s In Store For Mark’s Daily Apple 20 days ago

    Where I’m from, snow showers aren’t unheard of over graduation weekends. To this day, I hold to the traditional “Memorial Day to Labor Day” timeline—and, well, here we...

  • Dear Mark: More On Women and Fasting 21 days ago

    Last week, I updated an older post on women and intermittent fasting . For today’s edition of Dear Mark , I’ll be answering some of the comments and questions from that post. First...

  Marginal REVOLUTION

  • What I’ve been reading a day ago

    Gregory Claeys, Marx and Marxism, a better than expected take on where Marxism came from and how Marx’s different intellectual periods fit into his life.  One of the better introductions...

  • Income inequality has stabilized as of late 2 days ago

    But from 2007 through 2014, the figure stabilized. Looking at market income, inequality increased by only 3 percent. Once you add in cash payments and in-kind transfers from government...

  • Saturday assorted links 2 days ago

    1. The link between pay and productivity is still largely intact. 2. An exceptionally effective lobbyist. 3. Referenda tend to be anti-business. 4. Mister Rogers fixed old shows...

  Made from Truth and Lies

  • Interesting Links for 10-06-2018 a day ago

    Brexit causes surge in support for united Ireland (tags: ireland ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

  • Interesting Links for 09-06-2018 2 days ago

    Talkin’ Treble: How Android engineers are winning the war on fragmentation (tags: android ) EU Brexit chief rejects plan for Northern Ireland backstop to apply to whole UK (tags...

  • Interesting Links for 08-06-2018 3 days ago

    Belfast woman to challenge NI abortion law (tags: NorthernIreland abortion ) Breakthrough pregnancy blood test can predict delivery date and help tackle risky premature births...

Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  Brian M. Lucey

  Jon's Text

  • Diesel the cleanest power 4 hours ago

    It produces 25% less CO2 and NO/NO2 (NOx) than burning petrol. It runs off by vegetable oil. Which takes in CO2 and NOx as it grows. It is a carbon and nitrogen zero fuel. CO2is plant food...

  • High Intensity UltraSound and cancer 19 hours ago

    1Mhz ULTRASOUND ULTRASONIC MASSAGER PAIN THERAPY ANTIAGING WRINKLE LOSS MACHINE£11.37Buy it nowor Best Offer+ £1.50 P&P55 watching|149 soldIn only 10-15 minutes...

  • Drugs illegal a day ago

    In 2002 the Moffitt cancer centre published by 100 patient double blind trial on High Intensity UultraSound clearing cancer at one application. Iuse 8W 1MHz ultrasound from a massage...

  InvestmentWatch

  www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Creativity 15 hours ago

    It was a creative day, in a few small ways.  I woke up from a dream in which I was teaching, and got an idea for a great game, emphasizing repetition of the ‘th’ sound, which all non-English...

  • The Arrest of Sam Ronan 2 days ago

    Once again, a major story is being practically  ignored by the MSM so, just to piss into the wind, I’m going to talk about it.  If you Google ‘Sam Ronan arrested’ you  see an...

  • A Perfect Life is Not Enough 3 days ago

    Anthony Bourdain’s death surprised me and shocked me.  Perhaps we will  find out more in  the coming days about why he killed himself.  I’ll be surprised if  we don’t. ...

  Fragments from Floyd

  • The Smaller-Hammer Approach 18 days ago

    Don’t get me wrong: the bigger-hammer folks still prevail in the arena of strip-mining the soil for maximizing profit from monoculture-derived soy, corn, cotton and the like...

  • E(mesis) Pluribus Unum 19 days ago

    Or…Whatever you want to do you have to do something else first. One from the many–interruptions, distractions, diversions and alteration of so-called plans. Source: various...

  • Aging in Place 20 days ago

    And so this is where the actuarial rubber meets the road. Baby boomers appeared of a sudden, historically. We swelled the ranks of the middle class. We demanded and got affordable housing...
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