Saturday, August 18, 2018

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  Washington's Blog


  • Rashida Tlaib has nothing about war or peace on her website. And she’s going to be elected to the seat held by Congressman John Conyers, famous for giving speeches for things like...
  • Since elections are extremely profitable for traditional media / social media corporations, your sanity will gleefully be sacrificed in the upcoming election–if you are gullible...

    • Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org All of the sanctions (economic, diplomatic, and otherwise) against Russia are based on clearly demonstrable intentional...

  • A part of a U.S. Destroyer hit by a Japanese mine in World War II was finally discovered in the waters off the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, almost 75 years to the day since it was sunk. Sonar...
  • In 1836, Alexander Hamilton’s son avenged his father’s death thirty-two years earlier by disparaging Aaron Burr in court, as Burr’s wife’s divorce attorney. Burr was accused...

    • He was ridiculed plenty throughout his extraordinary career, but it seemed Michael Jackson wasn’t averse to poking fun at himself. This was nowhere more evident than in the work...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!







  • The Kamand has been dubbed the "Iranian Phalanx" after the U.S. naval defence system that shreds incoming missiles with automated machine guns
  • Allegations of "anti-Semitism" within the Labour Party have achieved their aim. Party members now endlessly obsess about alleged "anti-Semitism" in their ranks while ignoring...

    • The UK media works closely with British intelligence. In exchange for snippets of real intelligence, they publicise disinformation. This is an example

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, August 16, 2018 Comey Told AG Lynch of “Cadre of Senior People” at FBI New York Field...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, August 15, 2018 DC Sees Desperate “Tyrant,” “Autocrat,” and “Despot”...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, August 14, 2018 She Asserts Trump Knew of Wikileaks Trove of DNC Tapes Before They Went Online...

  • Professor Channa Sudath Jayasumana from Rajarata University announced earlier this week that a group of farmer organizations, researchers, patients and the families of deceased...
  • The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear a challenge to a key provision of the state’s landmark chemical consumer-disclosure law, Proposition 65, brought by Monsanto...

    • Following the guilty verdict handed out on Friday to Monsanto in the landmark legal case in San Francisco, which judged that the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup causes cancer...

  • South / North
  • The electrical pricing is setting old people up to not use the air conditioning that they may truly need at some point to save their life. Steeply tiered electricity costs can nail people...

    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • Simon has a good discussion on whether fiscal or monetary policy is better at stabilizing output. I’d suggest, though, that neither is in practice particularly good and that what...
  • You will all have had experience of somebody flying off the handle on the slightest provocation – brushing against them in a crowded pub, or pulling out in front of them in traffic...
  • Our broken politics

    8 days ago

    • Many of you believe that our politics is broken. I suspect this is right, in a particular sense. What I mean is that pretty much all social institutions can be thought of as selection...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • As unpredictable as Trump can be, several of his key foreign-policy decisions suggest that his administration is pursuing a coherent vision aimed at reviving America’s global...
  • Brahma Chellaney, Panorama Journal, Vol. 01/2018 In the four years that he has been in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has animated domestic politics in India and the country’s...

    • Why India shouldn’t rush into engaging with the new Imran-led Pakistan Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times, August 4, 2018 It has taken the Pakistani military a full year to complete...

  • The Western Financial System Teeters on the Brink — Only a New Bretton Woods Agreement Among the Four Powers Can Prevent Chaos by https://larouchepac.com/ The Western monetary...
  • Greg Hunter’s Weekly Update: Brennan Loses Security Clearance, Big Tech Killing Free Speech, Dollar, Trade War And Global Reset by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (WNW...

    • RT America Published on Aug 16, 2018 Mexico’s Economy Secretary has visited Washington every week for the past month as part of a push to renegotiate terms of NAFTA. US trade officials...

      Socialist Economic Bulletin



  • By Tom O’LearyThe multi-faceted attack on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party continues to include unjustified attacks on his economic policy. The liberal press...
  • By Tom O’LearyThe latest release of key data for Northern Ireland (NI) has had business organisations wringing their hands about the weakness of the economy. The CBI said the economy...

    • By John RossNote:This article is based on Marxist economic theory and macro-economic study of Latin American countries combined with two primary direct experiences:· The author...

  • Though many books and articles have used and are using Ramani's blog as one of the sources to validate ancient thoughts, I am particularly happy when Scientists take reference to my...
  • There is a saying in Tamil that there is none who has prospered continuously for ten years,nor one who has suffered for ten years. Life ,which includes Nature,is a Cycle. Every thing...

    • Read the clever misinformation that Chariots came to India from Mesapotamia and Hittites. They are from Indian and Tamil civilization. Please refer my articles on this. Please...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • Aaron Regunberg is running for Lt. Governor of Rhode Island. He is 28, and he is part of the new wave of progressive Democrats trying to remake the party. If you live in Rhode Island, please...
  • A very welcome column about our odious Secretary of Education by the brilliant Gail Collins. The Bane That Is Betsy DeVos https://nyti.ms/2MvmgC5?smid=nytcore-ios-share Today...

    • Tom Torlakson, the outgoing state superintendent of public instruction in California, has created a task force to review the charter school laws in the state. California has more...

      P U L S E



  • Twenty years ago today, on August 9, 1998, I delivered this eulogy at the dedication ceremony, or unveiling, of Eugene Zucker, my next-door neighbor growing up and a formative influence...
  • Guest post by Dr. Mary Ellsberg, a Professor of Global Health and International Studies, and Founding Director of the Global Women’s Institute of the George Washington University...

    • Last week I had the pleasure of sitting down with the Lebanese scholar Gilbert Achcar for a conversation about the complex situation in the Middle East and various myths about the...

  • If it wasn’t for Harry Connick Junior’s daytime show Harry, I’d have nothing to write about for this past week.  This time it’s the August 7th repeat of a show from January. ...
  • You know it’s the doldrums of summer when even The Tonight Show is cutting back its new episodes during the summer.  The week of July 30 continued the season’s trend (echoed throughout...

    • During the week in question, a topic for many late night shows was a paper in Science suggesting a lake of liquid water on Mars.  As Stephen Colbert noted in his monologue (jump to roughly...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood   The BBC has news of the terrible floods in India:   At least 324 people have been killed in flooding in the southern Indian state of Kerala in what local officials...
  • By Paul Homewood   Today’s offering from the dumbed down Telegraph is from silly little girl called Lucy Mangan:   I’m on holiday in Norfolk at the moment, and was standing on...

    • By Paul Homewood   Drought is always a tragedy for farmers, but is the current drought in NSW really as bad as the Telegraph is making out?   On Monday afternoon, James Hamilton, a sixth-generation...

  • To keep informed on how the Atlantic hurricane season is developing, I find that hurricane expert Philip Klotzbach of the Colorado State University does a good job at that at Twitter...
  • Aerial photos show that the 15 temperature observation stations the JMA is using to determine mean temperature anomalies are likely impacted far more by urbanization than the agency...

    • Scientists have determined that today’s Arctic sea ice concentrations are still much higher than they have been for most of the last several thousand years, undermining claims...

  • Have You Heard: A Star-Powered Promise: LeBron Takes a Shot at School Reform When LeBron James announced that he was opening a new school in his hometown of Akron, OH the crowd went crazy...
  • VAMboozled!: ACT Also Finds but Discourages States’ Decreased Use of VAMs Post-ESSA Last June (2018), I released a blog post covering three key findings from a study that I...

    • OurFuture.org: WI Governor’s Race Puts Education in the Spotlight Tony Evers leads in polls among the slew of Democratic candidates vying to take on Scott Walker to become Wisconsin’s...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Some 450 days ago we were treated to melodramatic announcements from the media about the start-up of Robert Mueller’s “dream” and...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Trumpism is sometimes derided as an updated know-nothingism that rejects expertise and the input of credentialed expertise. Supposedly...

    • From An Angry Reader: Subject: You are a racist idiot Your articles and ideas lower the IQ of this country every time they are published. The racism you employ in articles about Black...

    The Moderate Voice



  • The post Cartoon: John Brennan appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
  • Joseph Graf, American University School of Communication Mainstream press coverage of President Trump has been unfavorable. Thomas Patterson found that 80 percent of stories...

    • The brave men and women in our Armed Forces do not need a $92 million self-aggrandizing military parade. What they need is more respect for those fighting the wildfires out West. Airmen...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • Contemporary art had taught them [young Iranian artists] that there is always a different way of seeing. That is from The Dawn of Eurasia, by Bruno Maçães, and it is worth more than...
  • 1. A Bitcoin joke. 2. Are there hot streaks in individual careers? 3. Claims about populism (pdf, slides). 4. NPR: “The Story Behind the Numbers”: Full Episode: https://n.pr/2L2c13m...
  • Drifter

    10 hours ago

    • Studio Drift had a great exhibit at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam featuring drifter, a monolithic block that levitates, rotates and moves around and in space. Drifter personifies...

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: When I read something this powerful, I am moved to share it. I find the last line strange. Donald Trump will never become “the leader we...
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Rudy Guiliani and Trump have recently contended that “collusion is not a crime” but real lawyers know that “collusion” is a straw...

    • What defines a fake Christian? Continue reading →

  • “Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices,” and “the Trump administration ... won’t let that happen.” So wrote President Trump...
  • The Q "conspiracy" phenomena on the Internet raises a larger question: Are all conspiracy theories just bunk, or could some of them be true?

    • Letter from former intelligence chiefs reveals the globalist/Deep State/Council on Foreign Relations handprint that has been behind America’s decline for decades...

  • The warning is contained in an annual Pentagon report prepared for Congress called Military and Security Developments Involving The People's Republic of China 2018, which further...
  • On Thursday, the Pentagon announced that the parade would not move forward this year, after estimates for the events cost jumped more than 600 percent from previous proposals. The...

    • The US is the world’s hegemon, imposing global neoliberalism. The Ortega government in Nicaragua has been targeted by the hegemon precisely because it has not served as an unquestioning...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • 1. The Volokh Law School. 2. Bahamas guitarist Joseph Spence (New Yorker). 3. Those new service sector jobs: intimacy directors. 4. Robot peers. 5. Nearly half of the mud volcanoes...
  • I will be doing a Conversation with him.  Bruno is the author of Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, published earlier in the United Kingdom but just now in the United...

    • Let’s say there is only a mild amount of statistical discrimination in a system.  Not prejudice, just a social judgment that some groups are more likely to succeed at some tasks...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • The Next Ten Billion Years (tags: thefuture short_story scifi ) Job interviews are worse than useless (and so are academic ones) (tags: interviews fail research psychology work...
  • Israel has turned into a police state (tags: Israel rights OhForFucksSake ) Rare jumping spider discovered in UK for first time ever (tags: spiders uk ) First biomarker evidence of...

    • Babies in prams exposed to 60% more pollution (tags: babies pollution ) Argumentative relationships open the door to disease: Study links couples' hostility and gut bacteria, inflammation...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Listening to a rhythm can produce synchronized rhythms in the brain. According to new research, low-frequency sounds help the brain lock onto the beat...
  • Having a preference for evening activities, as well as sleeping at different times in the weekdays and weekends, may lead to weight gain in some people...

    • Rosy cheeks can be the result of many benign causes, such as being hot. However, there are several causes that may require medical attention, including acne, rosacea, and lupus. We...

      Jon's Text



  • The UK generates 45 GW of power.  That use 44,000,000,000,000 pounds of power every year.  That is trillion.  If we link a 50x1cm plasma tube to a thermoelectric generator the national...
  • Ben Franklin discovered electricity in a lightening involved. No combustion involved. He actually stumbled across light element nuclear fission1 H2O+TU->2H++O++3e-2 H++e- ...

    • My suspicions were raised, when the medics to talk about 'the four year average'childhood diabetic great increasing.  This is a standard technique for statistical lying. So I took...

  • by legitqu So at the moment barely a day goes by when we’re not coming across some new argument for why we’re due a downturn and/or recession [*] It got ... Read more...
  • Will the Fed cause a crash on purpose? Or is everything happening naturally? The Federal Reserve and other central banks had printed trillions but what happens when they turns off...

    • via MS Developed-market assets, including US stocks and credit, are not immune to the conditions that have dragged down emerging markets this year, according to fixed-income strategists...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • There’s another scandal  of Catholic priests molesting small children, mostly boys.  Of course, this  scandal comes up  now  and again.  But it  seems this  is  a ...
  • The presidency, I’m sure, is  a tough job.  Trying to protect the environment, not tank  the economy, negotiating with foreign  powers who all have different interests, and...
  • Isle of Dogs

    3 days ago

    • We went to see Isle of Dogs tonight, but the idea was more just to go see something at the outdoor cinema, which is a very cool thing to do, both  in  the literal and metaphorical senses...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • I promise. Not fake news. Not an alternative fact. I did see this. On Goose Creek. Yesterday. It’s Planet Floyd. Trust me. I’m a stable genius. The above is true. Except for the stable...
  • Yet another spider web. This one, freshly minted, just opened for business. Another day, another web. If you’re an orb-weaver, it’s your work. It’s what you do. No big deal...
  • Balm of Gilead

    3 days ago

    • Neither of these words in the title are likely too familiar, and less so in these parts the tree that sometimes goes by that common name. Balm of course is a soothing ointment, and Gilead...

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