Monday, May 27, 2019

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  • Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org The Wall Street Journal headlined on May 27th, “Iran’s Crude Buyers Jump Ship” and reported that “the country’s...
  • The status quo measures wealth with “money,” but “money” is not what’s valuable. “Money” (in quotes because the global economy operates on intrinsically valueless...

    • The U.S. Army tweeted a harmless rah-rah tweet and got hit with a burst of reality never encountered on corporate-controlled media. Score one for the internet. The Army asked: “How...

  • The biblical Noah may have survived the flooding of the planet with the construction of his ark, but for the owners of the 510-foot-long Noah’s Ark replica in Northern Kentucky...
  • Pink Floyd and their legendary performance at Pompeii was one for the ages. Anyone going to a rock gig will agree that the venue can make a big difference to the atmosphere. Outdoor arenas...

    • The last slave ship researchers believe to arrive in the United States from Africa has been discovered after an investigation that took more than a year, says the Alabama Historical...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!



  • Originally posted on The Inquiring Mind: This article at The Atlantic by Heidi Tworek had as a sub-title – Regulators should think carefully about the fallout from well-intentioned...
  • Originally posted on Fruits and Votes: Today, the Knesset of Israel took the first step towards passing a bill to dissolve itself and set an early election, probably for 9 September...


  • Brexit Insanity Devours Its Peddlers: Zombie UK Premier Theresa May Finally Quits; Freakish Boris Johnson Wants to Replace Her with Catastrophic No-Deal Brexit; Choices Narrow...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, May 23, 2019 Trump and Minions Deny Yesterday’s Psycho Episode; Pelosi Suggests Don...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, May 22, 2019 Dotard Whines About Pelosi’s Charge He Is “Organizing a Coverup,”...

  • Bayer’s public relations headaches over its mammoth takeover of Monsanto intensified Tuesday, as a scandal about “watch lists” of pro- or anti-pesticides figures kept by...
  • Russia’s consumer rights protection watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has filed an administrative violation case against Nestle Russia after finding genetically modified papaya...

    • Fruit and wine production is among the agricultural sectors with the highest pesticide applications. Yet, the extent to which such public places are affected by pesticide drift...

  • Arctic is 399,000 sqkm higher than 2016. South / North
  • Arctic is 400,000 sqkm higher than 2016. South / North

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      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • Brahma Chellaney, Globe and Mail Faced with a choice between a stable, firm government and a possible retreat to political drift and paralysis, voters in the world’s largest democracy...
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Japan Times Is the human species becoming a cancer on the planet? This question arises from the grim findings of a new United Nations study that human actions...

    • Targeting terrorists and their networks brings only temporary success. A long-term strategy needs to focus on discrediting the ideology that spawns suicide killers. By Brahma...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • Gregory Mannarino: Gold & Silver Greatest Trades on Earth by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Market analyst and professional trader Gregory Mannarino doesn’t feel good...
  • RT America Published on Apr 30, 2019 RT America’s John Huddy joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the skewed mainstream coverage of Tuesday’s violent clashes and protests in Venezuela...

    • If Americans Knew Published on Apr 30, 2019 Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included...

  • I will be delivering a lecture on Distortion of Indian History and Education on 18 May,2019 at Leeds,UK. I had delivered a lecture on Our Forgotten Past in April at Bradford,UK. Subsequently...
  • Sonia Gandhi,the driving force and the real President of the Congress Party voted illegally when she was not a citizen of India . Her name in the voter list document in the image here...

    • Mr Gandhi had called himself "British" on the annual returns of a UK-based firm "Backops Limited".

  • The Washington Post Editorial Board is made about charter schools. They were also over the moon for Michelle Rhee’s authoritarian rule of the D.C. schools, which launched a short...
  • Julian Vasquez Heilig is a leading authority on the subjects of equity and social justice. His blog is one of the brightest spots on the Internet because of his scholarship and creative...

    • Thanks to Los Angeles blogger Sara Roos for calling my attention to this very interesting article by journalist Rachel Cohen. We have had an extended exchange about the article. Cohen...

  • The Late Show marked the week before Memorial Day with three shows containing science and technology related content.  On May 20th Juliana Margulies visited to discuss her role...
  • As I suspected, the last episodes of The Big Bang Theory were the focus last week’s science and technology activity on late night.  The main cast took over The Late Show on Thursday...

    • May continues to be a struggle to find guests in the science and/or technology areas.  As with the previous week, the saving grace for last week is the publicity engine for the finale...

  • By Paul Homewood   Now, why am I not surprised? From Silly Jilly in the Telegraph:     The EU’s most polluting states are pocketing funds earmarked to help wean the bloc from coal-fired...
  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Robin Guenier   Sometimes I feel like I’ve been sucked into a black hole and reappeared in a different universe! From the “Independent”:   Taxpayers’...

    • By Paul Homewood The Russians are busy building nuclear powered icebreakers, for when the sea ice has all melted:     ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Russia launched a nuclear-powered...

  • A new paper published in Remote Sensing reports substantial summer cooling of Antarctica’s entire sea ice region due to an increase in surface albedo between 1982 to 2015. Zhou...
  • If you’re in government and don’t like the findings of the IPCC reports, then just change them! This is what the German government appears to have done recently. =====================================================...

    • Again today we are seeing earlier sensational, hysterical alarmist predictions made by “climate scientists” falling to pieces before our eyes. Recall how back in 2012 parts...

  • VAMboozled!: States’ Math and Reading Performance After the Implementation of School A-F Letter Grade Policies t’s been a while! Thanks to the passage of the Every Student Succeeds...
  • OurFuture.org: Epic Fail of Charter Schools in Louisiana When Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education under President Barack Obama, said Hurricane Katrina was the “best...

    • Answer Sheet: Here are 7 'Schools of Opportunity’ that 'Show Us a Way Forward’ ​ Five years ago I began spotlighting the winners of an annual project called “Schools of Opportunity,”...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. One, the Washington swamp of fixers such as Paul Manafort and John...
  • The United States is at a crossroads with an increasingly aggressive China, which could define America’s security and the international order for decades to come, Hoover scholar Victor...

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review There are lots of ways to adjudicate the present political divide over the collusion hoax. One method might be to see whether those targeted...

    The Moderate Voice



  • WASHINGTON — The late Steve LaTourette came into Congress as part of Newt Gingrich’s 1994 conservative revolution. The Ohio Republican was a party loyalist but not an ideologue...
  • By GEORGE F. WILL Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON — Difficulties with Iran will recur regularly, like the oscillations of a sine wave, and the recent crisis — if such...
  • Memorial Day: Remember

    12 hours ago

    • The post Memorial Day: Remember appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

  • That is a new paper by Germán Gutiérrez and Sophie Pitony.  I am on the road and have not had a chance to go through this, but the abstract is of interest: We identify two undocumented...
  • Monday assorted links

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  • 1. Should you use law professors as your SCOTUS clerks? 2. Is there philosophy in China? 3. Chinese robots and Chinese wages. 4. High school football declining in California. 5. The...

    • We also find that stronger peer effects are exerted by more price-sensitive individuals. This positive correlation suggests that the elasticity of aggregate demand is substantially...

  • Never Trump Patriots are ahead of the Always Trump Loyalists by more than 21-million registered voters. Continue reading →
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? David Cole is National Legal Director of the ACLU. He wrote the best, most incisive analysis of the Mueller Report, describing precisely...

    • Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: This is hot. Hundreds of federal prosecutors, both Republicans and Democrats, say that Trump’s behavior would merit multiple felony...

  • This Memorial Day, as Americans remember those soldiers who have offered the greatest sacrifice in service of their country, one is reminded of the words of Jesus: “Greater love...
  • Mountains of fetid garbage dot the downtown area of Los Angeles, bringing an outbreak of typhus, rats and other health problems with them. Mayor Eric Garcetti and the city's leftist...

    • Despite President Trump’s strong rhetoric critical of the of the “catch and release” of illegal aliens, the practice has not only continued but is being expanded...

  • Julian Assange and WikiLeaks revealed the American military’s war crimes, the American government’s corruption and the American corporate media’s pathetic servile flattery...
  • Assange’s predicament and its broad implications for journalism and speech are evidently of little concern to Amnesty International, which wrote a letter to the Julian Assange...

    • “The fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex -- it’s like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, ‘here come...

  • That is a new paper by Germán Gutiérrez and Sophie Pitony.  I am on the road and have not had a chance to go through this, but the abstract is of interest: We identify two undocumented...
  • Monday assorted links

    12 hours ago
  • 1. Should you use law professors as your SCOTUS clerks? 2. Is there philosophy in China? 3. Chinese robots and Chinese wages. 4. High school football declining in California. 5. The...

    • We also find that stronger peer effects are exerted by more price-sensitive individuals. This positive correlation suggests that the elasticity of aggregate demand is substantially...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert(tags:happiness relationships women men )Fact checking the anti-trans sports attacks(tags:transgender...
  • Ignoring the headline, there's a good summary here. NI and Scotland haven't reported yet, but we have totals for everywhere else in the UK.Anti-Brexit parties get 40.4%, Hard-Brexit...

    • Will Boris Johnson be prime minister? We ask three witches(tags:politics funny comic Conservatives )Six more reasons to hate Theresa May(tags:immigration UK OhForFucksSake...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • A team of researchers behind a new study believe that an EEG could be a noninvasive and affordable way to detect Parkinson’s disease.
  • New research examined several plants that people have used to treat cancer since ancient times. The study identified five plants with anticancer benefits...

    • A new study in mice suggests that a combination of antibiotics may reduce the buildup of amyloid plaques, but only in male brains.

  • Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, The dystopian future George Orwell warned us all about in his iconic novel, 1984 has quickly become our reality. Widespread facial...
  • by Michael Snyder All across America, U.S. farmland is being gobbled up by foreign interests.  So when we refer to “the heartland of America”, the truth is that vast stretches...


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  • Of course, the major hurdle is getting the Democratic nomination.  The DNC, and their allies in the mainstream media, which is virtually all of the mainstream media, are dead set...
  • A couple of weeks ago, when there was the now-infamous land line poll, in which only old, technologically challenged people were interviewed (they only called land lines), and Joe...

    • When the Burj Khalifa was completed I thought “That’s it.  The race is over.  This is so much higher than any other skyscraper, and already so impractical and not cost-effective...

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