Monday, August 27, 2018

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  Washington's Blog

  • At the Veterans For Peace Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, on August 26, 2018, the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation awarded its 2018 Peace Prize to David Swanson, director of World...
  • Remarks at Veterans For Peace Convention, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 26, 2018. There are a lot of things named Kellogg around here, and few who know why. The two biggest names in the...
    • Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov says the UK is plotting a chemical attack in Syria to be blamed on Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Arab Army.  He said this will...
  • Neil Simon, who wrote some of the most popular plays in the 20th century American theater, died at age 91 on August 26, 2018, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. His comedies...
  • Karma, the doctrine of inevitable consequence. The universal principle of retributive justice determining one person’s state of affairs. King Charles II of Navarre, infamously...
    • Do you have any idea who was one of the most fashionable figures of Bronze-Age Europe? Hint: She was buried in Denmark, but could have been born in Germany. Another hint? In popular culture...
  • HT: Lindsay Mitchell

    • Originally posted on American Elephants: The towering symbols of a fading religion, over 14,000 wind turbines, abandoned, rusting, slowly decaying. When it is time to clean up after...
  • Russian Ministry of Defence says "foreign specialists" are preparing to stage a chemical weapons attack in Syria in the next 48 hours to be blamed on Assad...
  • Reports of Russian warships sailing through the Bosphorus to thwart a possible U.S. strike on Syria
    • The war in Syria may be far from over
  • Nixon Had Just Two Months Left in Office When Public Learned in June 1974 He Had Been Implicated by Watergate Grand Jury, Which Wanted to Indict Him; Trump Under Attack on Eight Federal...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, August 23, 2018 Sessions Rebuffs Don’s Attack, and Gets Some Cover from Hill Cronies...
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Trump Struggles with His New Life as Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Lauds...
  • Three U.S. NGOs jointly announced Thursday that they have resolved a consumer-protection action filed by the groups against General Mills in 2016, concerning General Mills’...
  • Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has stated that they will re-visit legal channels in an attempt to receive damages for over one million people, from a group of chemical companies including...
    • The Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines has placed an immediate suspension on the importation of herbicides that contain the active ingredient glyphosate, following...

      sunshine hours

  • Hunger stones and Megadroughts   “The drought in Central Europe has shrunk the rivers & exposed “hunger stones”, where people of the past recorded droughts & the...
  • South / North
    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling

  • One thing I especially like about Jesse Norman’s Adam Smith is his description of the social and intellectual climate in which Smith grew up. In doing so, he tells us that Smith’s...
  • When I tweeted the other day that the crisis of capitalism consists of a decade-long stagnation in productivity (which has given us falling wages), a wise man replied that this is true...
    • We need Adam Smith more than ever. That’s the thesis of Jesse Norman’s new book, Adam Smith: What He Though And Why It Matters. To establish this, Norman first rescues Smith from...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • From large-scale dam-building to unbridled resource-exploitation, human activity is causing serious damage to Himalayan ecosystems. While all the countries in the region are...
  • Brahma Chellaney says recent multilateral discussions in Singapore did little to advance preventive diplomacy or conflict resolution. Brahma Chellaney, South China Morning...
    • Brahma Chellaney, Mail Today U.S. President Donald Trump’s first round of Iran-related sanctions has come into force this week, with no waiver for India in sight as yet. The U.S...

      Socio-Economics History Blog

  • INTERVIEW WITH DR DAVE JANDA AT OPERATION FREEDOM by http://goldenjackass.com/main5.html August 25th:  topics covered include the USDollar threatened in global currency...
  • PressTV Published on Aug 25, 2018 Mount Etna in Sicily sprung into action on Saturday, spitting out lava and sending columns of ash into the sky, after the volcano initially reawoke...
    • PressTV Published on Aug 25, 2018 The US government is reportedly planning to announce that it will NOT recognize the right of return to the occupied territories for millions of...

      Socialist Economic Bulletin

  • By Tom O’Leary  Portugal is finally on the brink of ending the slump that began with the Great Recession at the start of 2008. But the economy remains far from a full recovery and important...
  • 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...

      Ramani's blog

  • One such intimate relationship is Mother. This relationship is universal and supersedes all relationships. Therefore Hinduism relies heavily on this concept...
  • 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...

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Mike Klonsky reflects on our current gun-happy Secretary of Education, who wants to let schools buy guns with money intended for education, and her predecessor Arne Duncan, who bought...
  • A team of Washington Post reporters wrote this story. The veil of secrecy is falling away. Yesterday a writer compared him to MacBeth. Maybe he should be compared to Lady MacBeth. “Out...
    • Politico reported that Ben Jealous, who won the Democratic primary for governor in Maryland, is no fan of charter schools. His opponent, Republican Governor Larry Hogan, appointed...
  • The following is an excerpt from an interview with me and my collaborator Nader Hashemi that will be published soon by the excellent online magazine Qantara.de. The interviewer...
  • 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...
  • Once again, it’s the repeats that bring the content this past week.  Tuesday (August 14) you could have seen Bill Nye on a repeat of Last Call, or revisit Conan’s trip to Israel...
  • 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...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   http://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/#   As I pointed out the other day, the surface mass balance (SMB)...
  • By Paul Homewood   We are familiar with flood markers, which record high points of floods. Apparently droughts also have their own version, hunger stones as NPR reveal:   A lengthy...
    • By Paul Homewood   Further to recent posts on the Arctic, No Tricks Zone posted a relevant graph yesterday, showing historical Arctic sea ice  extent trends. It is based on a reconstruction...
  • Parts of Europe woke up to near record low temperatures, snow and surface frost this morning as cold air swept across the continent from the north. Just a couple of weeks ago the climate...
  • The contradictions we see in global warming science are often staggering. And climate scientists wonder why so many are skeptical. Some years ago I published 30 contradictory pairs...
    • As the Arctic summer ice melt approaches its peak, we can say with high certainty that this year’s ice melt will extend the trend of a rebounding Arctic ice mass by another year. Arctic...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • UCLA Center X: Mitchell Chang: Affirming Diversity In this week’s Just Talk, John Rogers sits down with Mitchell Chang, professor of higher education at UCLA.  Professor Chang...
  • Answer Sheet: Will LeBron James’s New School Work Well? Here’s What the Research Says. Basketball great LeBron James is putting millions of dollars from his family foundation...
    • Shanker Blog: Why Teacher Evaluation Reform is Not a Failure The RAND Corporation recently released an important report on the impact of the Gates Foundation’s “Intensive...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution I live on farm beside a rural avenue in central California, the fifth generation to reside in the same house. And after years of thefts, home...
  • The Bombs of August

    4 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped a uranium-fueled atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, another U.S. Army Air Forces...
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Much has been written about former CIA and FBI official Philip Mudd’s recent unhinged outburst on CNN against Paris Dennard for the latter’s...
  • When House Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote to FBI Director James Comey two years ago today to complain that the FBI was foot dragging on mounting evidence “of a direct connection...
  • He told me that to get into public service, one must have a desire to do what is right. That, while political issues may be popular, they mustn't be the motivation to devote oneself to...
    • A lot of conservatives are aghast that many liberals, Democrats, and critics of John McCain are praising him today. Some are even accusing liberals of using his death to attack Donald...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • “Realizing this, we decided to turn the standard solution to self-control on its head: What if instead of seeking advice, we asked struggling people to give it,” write Eskreis-Winkler...
  • This is only part one for the class, do not panic over whatever you think might be completely left out. That said, suggested additions are welcome I am putting the (long) list under the...
  • Sunday assorted links

    14 hours ago
    • 1. Paperwork pollution. 2. MIE: “Cornish public toilet with sea view up for auction for £15,000.” 3. DeLong on Corey Robin and socialism. The post Sunday assorted links appeared...
  • 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 →
  • No matter how hard they try, pinning something substantial on the President is a losing effort by the major media.
  • “We learn from history that we do not learn from history,” the saying goes. That the same can be said of current events brings to mind the much ballyhooed midterm “blue wave,”...
    • One would think that McCain’s nearly six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam would have made him a natural to lead the effort to recover the POWs the Nixon administration left behind...
  • All political parties in independent Yemen, including Houthis, have condemned the latest attack, saying that the blood of children had again been spilled before the blood of those...
  • While the proposed law specifically bans the use of such flags during protests and demonstrations, it defines a protest as any gathering where three or more people are present, essentially...
    • Among the most stringent measures being proposed in Congress are ones that would impose curbs on Russian sovereign debt sales and tougher limits on some of the country’s biggest...

      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

    9 days 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...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland (tags: Switzerland prostitution ) The risks of alcohol (again) (with actual details of how dangerous, and...
  • Orangemen, priests and the limits of freedom of expression (tags: freespeech religion scotland ) Eerie Skyglow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science...
    • Holed up: man falls into art installation of 8ft hole painted black (tags: art safety funny ) Brexit will cause disruption with or without a deal, EU warns (tags: uk europe doom ) Why...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • According to new research, after a certain point, ‘good’ cholesterol becomes bad for you, raising the risk of heart attack and cardiovascular death...
  • Dogs really are a person's best friend — not least because they impact both our physical and our mental health. In this Spotlight, we explain why and how...
    • New research in spoken word recognition shows how the human brain uses an 'autocorrect' function to distinguish between ambiguous sounds.

      Jon's Text

  • Mel B Discusses PTSD Diagnosis, Reveals Intention To Enter 'Therapy Programme' I have never heard of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder causing memory loss people.  Still less that...
  • In 200023 medical professors proved high intensity ultrasound will clear cancers at one appointment. 1 minute of 8 W 1 MHz ultrasound will do the job.1Mhz ULTRASOUND ULTRASONIC MASSAGER...
    • Not even hard.  The world's biggest killers for the last 15 years.  2012 medics published the use of High Intensity UltraSound to the top left to the chest and the kidneys to clear...

      InvestmentWatch

  • This was cropped out of my previous video. Posted it due to popular request! I just went in all directions, just sharing what I was feeling about all this we ... Read more...
  • The Great American Daily reports, Liberals pounced on the news that Michael Cohen claimed Trump ordered him to violate campaign finance laws. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse...
    • by Charles Hugh-Smith Here is the result of America’s neofeudalism: soaring wealth and income inequality. Let’s spin the time machine back to the late Middle Ages, at the height...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Try to remember back to a time long ago, in the last millennium even, when George Bush was president – the first one, who was as much of an evil war monger as anybody but not quite as obvious...
  • The Democratic Party has decided to limit the role of superdelegates, a little bit, and I’m not sure if it’s a win for progressives or not. On the one hand, Bernie Sanders seems to...
  • Memories

    3 days ago
    • One feature of Facebook that I’ve hated from the  beginning  has been ‘memories.’  It’s  not really about  personal memories, or  shared memories of great  events...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • Labor Day for many marks (or used to mark) the end of summer and the return of the kids to school. By that time, Floyd County students will have been in sweltering classrooms for almost...
  • I recently had the opportunity to ask one of the most knowledgeable botanists I know as many pertinent questions out of my confused and confusing plants folder as I could tastefully...
    • I had an epiphany some years back, and until this morning, I had thought that this particular insight had been free of any influence but the AHA observation: how much human or animal...

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