Tuesday, January 15, 2019

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  Eyes on Trade


Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Note: In his Oval Office address, Donald Trump again falsely claimed that somehow his revised North American...



  • To combat the constant overwhelm, the modern world imprints on an Empath, they need to protect themselves and work to stay grounded. Nowadays, with the constant bombardment...
  • Spiritual Masters are guides on our individual journeys, they discover the real peace within. Throughout life, every person is going to be travelling a different path on their spiritual...

    • Empath overwhelm is often caused by being “peopled”. Every Empath experiences it at some point and it is one of the most challenging aspects of being Sensitive. The overwhelm endured...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • By exploiting cancer cells' innate adaptability, scientists halt invasive spread in mice by transforming malignant breast cancer cells into fat cells.
  • New research shows that high cardiorespiratory fitness cuts the risk of heart attack in half among healthy people with no history of heart disease.

    • In a new study, researchers aim to determine the impact of sleep duration and sleep quality on a person's risk of developing cardiovascular problems.

  • By Lisa Cox15 January 2019(The Guardian) – Port Augusta in South Australia has reached 48.9C on Tuesday, as a heatwave sets in across much of Australia threatening more record hot...
  • By Matt Coughlan14 January 2019(AAP) – More fish are likely to die in NSW as state and federal water managers prepare for an emergency meeting to canvass options to mitigate the ecological...
  • ( No management solutions will be available from Florida )

    • IRVINE, California, 14 January 2019 (UCI) – Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017, according to a study published today in  Proceedings...

      The Daily Sheeple



  • For decades this was a massive black market.
  • It appears CBS News doesn't want their readers to know how many women are said to be raped by coyotes and smugglers while attempting to cross illegally into our country...

    • Our health care system is deeply broken, and it has been designed to squeeze as much money out of all of us as it possibly can.

  • Last June, Delaware legislators passed a concurrent resolution which created a task force to look at curriculum for drug prevention in Delaware’s public schools.  The final...
  • I was wondering why Delaware Governor John Carney’s office resent the same media advisory today that they sent on Friday.  I figured there had to be some change to the big shindig...

    • In the coming months, Red Clay Consolidated School District will have a new Superintendent.  All indications are pointing to three final candidates.  Who are they? I can’t say. ...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard, we talk to Roxanna Elden, author of the smart and hilarious new novel Adequate Yearly Progress. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll...

    • TweetCan listening to the Beatles “When I’m 64” make you younger? In a word, no. But listening to the latest episode of Have You Heard will definitely make you smarter. Education...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • January 17,2019 Theresa May Races to Save Her Brexit Deal From a Historic Defeat BreXit–GOD Save May LONDON — Ahead of a vote on her Brexit plan that could go down to a humiliating...
  • January 15, 2019 How can Malaysia become a developed nation? –-Practise Meritocracy. by Koon Yew Yin January 15, 2019 12:29 PM   https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2019/01/15/how-can-malaysia-become-a-developed-nation/...

    • January 15, 2019 DJT And His Team of Morons DJT And His Team of Morons by Paul Krugman There have been many policy disasters over the course of U.S. history. It’s hard, however, to think...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • New research shows that high cardiorespiratory fitness cuts the risk of heart attack in half among healthy people with no history of heart disease.
  • In a new study, researchers aim to determine the impact of sleep duration and sleep quality on a person's risk of developing cardiovascular problems.

    • People can use certain treatments, home remedies, and lifestyle changes to prevent psoriasis flare-ups. Learn about 11 ways to prevent psoriasis flares here...

      Chicago Boyz



  • Some books that I read and liked over the last year… The Future is History, Masha Gessen.  Russia during the last days of Communism, during the transitional age, and under Putinism...
  • There have been a couple of discussions of 3D printing in the past. Mr. Hornick has a video, entitled “3D Printing State of the Art: Industrial” from May of 2015 which gets into detail...

    • Minimize paper, phone calls, driving, errands, quarrels, litigation, surgery. Maximize time with loved ones and time alone. Nobody’s that good. Most things aren’t your problem...

  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on January 14, 2019 by sundance Love this. I especially love how much this draws out the elitist pontificating opposition; now tone-deaf...
  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on January 14, 2019 by sundance {{{snicker}}} Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. Oh, remember that White House meeting with the big four German automakers...

    • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on January 14, 2019 by sundance Tonight the 2018 College Football Playoff National Champions, Clemson University Tigers, celebrate...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Intense winter storms wreak havoc from coast to coast; Trump's ongoing government shutdown threatening public health and safety; 2018 was the hottest year...
  • On today's BradCast, it's another one of those impossible Mondays catching up with a weekend full of news in the Trump Era, and the seemingly impossible fight on behalf of voters who...

    • * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...

      bluebird of bitterness




  • Recently Sunny Skyz posted a collection of the most wholesome tweets of 2018. I’m recycling a few of my favorites here.  See them all here.

  • Sunday funnies

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  • A decade after starting his one-man mission to get solar lighting to Ethiopian villages, Samson Tsegaye Lemma and his team have constructed solar projects in four villages, distributed...
  • Legal counsel for Beyond Nuclear (Diane Curran, of Harmon, Curran, Spielberg, & Eisenberg, L.L.P. of Washington, D.C.; and Mindy Goldstein and Caroline Reiser of the Turner...

    • Opposition to consolidated interim storage facilities (CISF) for irradiated nuclear fuel, targeted at the Southwest, persists. On Dec. 17, a coalition of environmental groups...

  • One person is dead and a dozen others hospitalized after a mass fentanyl overdose in Chico, California, over the weekend. The overdose was reported to law enforcement at 9:12 am Saturday...
  • Plants are growing on the Moon for the first time in human history. Cotton seeds germinated in a small biosphere carried to the far side of the Moon by China’s lunar lander Chang’e-4...

    • A community is outraged this week as a former Columbus police officer of 20 years was sentenced to just 90 days in jail for possession and distribution of child porn involving small...

  • By Christian Jarrett. Study time would be better spent testing yourself after the first viewing.
  • By Christian Jarrett. Trait self-control and effective strategy use may represent two separate routes to greater persistence.

    • By Jesse Singal. The research involved reminding female participants of the stereotype that women are inferior at maths.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • It took one man more than 20 years to turn a large granite outcropping on the edge of Lake Kabetogama into an extensive series of terraced gardens, water pools and stone sculptures...
  • In the garden of a rather unassuming church in the Kentish town of Gravesend stands a monument to one of the most famous Native American women in history, Pocahontas, who through her...

    • The Schoonoord historical garden is a beautiful time capsule of an early 19th-century private garden. The area of the park stems back to the 17th-century when it was a regularly flooding...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Erlend Sandoy and Saskia Kerkvliet offer a graphic explainer of the causes and costs of high-end tax avoidance. And Eric Rankin reports...
  • This and that for your Sunday reading.- Talia Lavin writes about the value of shifting the Overton window to enable serious discussion of higher tax rates on the people who have far...

    • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- The Economic Policy Institute charts how government policy is exacerbating inequality in the U.S. And Sam Pizzigati discusses how Alexandria...

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