Wednesday, January 01, 2020

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  • Life is wonderful, but sadly it doesn’t last forever! 2019 saw its fair share of historical greats shaking off this mortal coil in the arts and entertainment fields , with many iconic...
  • Shannon Lee, Bruce Lee’s daughter, is suing a Chinese fast food chain for $30M. Real Kungfu has been using an image that greatly resembles Bruce Lee since 2004. Their restaurants...
    • Human origins and evolution seem to take leaps and strides every year, and 2019 was no exception. When the year is drawing to a close, it’s pretty common for various media sources...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • Originally posted on ThinkMarkets: by Arash Molavi Vasséi In a previous post, Andreas refers to George Selgin’s recent discussion of the place of fractional reserve banking...
    • Originally posted on Spontaneous Finance: (Update: Following Scott Fullwiler’s comment, I published an update here, in which I provide extra clarifications and introduce what...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, December 31, 2019 As Putin Marks 20th Anniversary of Moscow Apartment Bombings That Helped...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, December 30, 2019 An Attempted Thermidor in Struggle to Oust Trump: Washington Post, New...
    • Corporate Media Pushing Big Lie of Trump’s “Booming Economy”; Wall Street Bubble Depends on Stock Buy-Backs Funded by 2017 GOP Tax Scam; Yearend Fed Injection of $500 Billion...
  • In the West African country of Togo, it is now prohibited to ‘import, market or use glyphosate and any product containing it ‘. The decision was formalized just before Christmas...
  • The disgraced Chinese scientist who led the genetic editing of human babies was sentenced to three years in prison today for undertaking illegal medical practices. Source: Daily...
    • Sustainable Pulse interview with Axis Farms’ Partner, Mark Sanders, discussing the future of wheat farming in Canada and why they decided it is important to certify their harvest...
  •   South / North
  • South / North
    • “Meine Oma ist ne alte Umweltsau” (My grandma is an environmental scumbag) Greta’s Generational Supremacists: Indoctrinated German Girls Sing: “My Grandma Is An Environmental...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • BRAHMA CHELLANEY, Project Syndicate International law today is powerful against the powerless, and powerless against the powerful. As long as this is true, a rules-based global...
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Whereas India-China and Japan-China ties are unlikely to become non-adversarial in the near future, the forthcoming summit between prime...
    • Since China began damming the Mekong, droughts have become more frequent and intense in downriver countries By diverting river water to its mega-dams, China has emerged as Asia’s...
    • Nelspruit Nature Reserve. An ancient Hindu worship site which dates back 1,800 years, and is still in use today.
  • I just opened my email and discovered this brilliant post by Audrey Watters, whose critical voice on EdTech is indispensable. Watters lists the 100 biggest EdTech debacles of the...
  • I recently subscribed to Garrison Keillor’s daily “Writer’s Almanac.” He sends poems and interesting stories. Here is one from today’s missive:   Today is New Year’s...
    • Bob Shepherd writes, tongue in cheek: New Years Resolutions, 2020: A Report from Trumplandia Peace derives, of course, from within—from detachment of the kind I seek in my daily...
  • With Christmas landing mid-week, the late night shows were in repeats this week, if not pre-empted. Of the repeats, one that comes close to being included here is Friday’s (December...
  • With the end of the year fast approaching, most shows wrapped their new episodes for the week last week.  As has been the case the last couple of years, the pickings were slim. A segment...
    • Before I discuss last week’s science and technology content on late night, a note about the week of December 2.  I missed an appearance by Kevin Delaney on The Tonight Show.  Delaney...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   You’ll be pleased to learn if the Siberian climate does not get you this year, nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and rioting most certainly will! After...
  • By Paul Homewood   Matt Ridley launches the counter attack on the BBC and the vexatious Bob Ward, with this piece in Reaction: I was asked to appear on the Today program on Saturday 28...
    • By Paul Homewood   h/t Philip Bratby     Just to confirm what I was saying about Mark Carney’s latest intervention, Bob Dudley reminds us just why BP won’t be shutting up shop...
  • 2019 science: Absolutely no climate alarm  No alarm on every aspect: stable polar ice, normal sea level rise, no consensus, growing snow cover, less tropical storms, tornadoes...
  • CO2 concentrations rose from 345 ppm to 398 ppm in the 29 years from 1985 to 2014. Mainstream scientists sympathetic to the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) paradigm have nonetheless...
    • Child abuse by German WDR 2 public broadcasting? Young schoolgirls taught to hate, made to sing “My grandma is an old environmental scumbag” because she drives an SUV, eats meat...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Curmudgucation: Fordham: Teachers Are Downloading Junk Fordham Institute, the right-tilted thinky tank and tireless ed reform advocacy group, just released a new study that actually...
  • The Conversation: 5 New Ways for Schools to Work with Families Text messages, email alerts, open houses, fundraising appeals, robocalls – parents know the drill. They are inundated...
    • Shanker Blog: The Structure of School Segregation in the D.C. Metro Area A few weeks ago, the Shanker Institute published an analysis of segregation by race and ethnicity in D.C...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News Former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The three-year-long effort to abort the Trump presidency — now culminating with a manipulated impeachment effort — has warped U.S. foreign...
    • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness When a party, an ideological movement, and an entire political agenda are based on hatred, people and policies become warped. The left-wing...
  • Some critics of this adaptation have commented that it's unlike the other Little Women films or that not everything that happens with this movie is exactly how the novel does it...
  • As the 'Teens come to an end, the 'Twenties are not looking very promising -- that is, to people into peace, health, prosperity, justice and equality. The post Some Housekeeping at...
    • I don't like to focus on the negative, but this year, it was too easy to narrow down a list for the worst movies of the year. Of course, this list is my opinion. Not everybody will agree and...
  • Having tracked the libertarian “movement” for much of my life, I believe it is now pretty much hollowed out, at least in terms of flow.  One branch split off into Ron Paul-ism and...
  • Markets in everything

    18 hours ago
  • …if you stay in the hotel bedroom created by Christopher Samuel, don’t rush to post a scathing review. He has actually designed it to be as annoying as possible (while remaining...
    • My picks and Trump and Greta Thunberg, in that order, as explained in my latest Bloomberg column. Excerpt: My choice for second place is Greta Thunberg. In little more than a year, Thunberg...
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Today in the Washington Post,  Eric Holder criticized Bill Barr for his aggressive, partisan support of Trump. Holder was Obama’s...
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Happy Thanksgiving! Today is a day when we pause and give thanks to whatever deity we worship (or not) for the blessings we enjoy: our freedom...
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Waldman of the Washington Post went down memory lane with prominent Republicans who called out Trump as a phony before he was elected...

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  • Opinions differ about the future. But hasn't that always been the case?
  • A news release from the U.S. Census Bureau said that the nation’s population growth is slowing, especially in California and New York, which may lose seats in Congress...
    • It turns out that Grafton Thomas, suspected of stabbing five people at a rabbi’s house in New York, is the child of an illegal alien who wangled an amnesty with millions other illegals...
  • While poverty, inequality and social and economic dislocation that breed fear and resentment of the other continue to grow, the problem of racist attacks is bound to increase. The...
  • In his column entitled “The Secrets of Jewish Genius,” Bret Stephens pondered the question why Jews had achieved so much despite constituting such a small part of the world’s...
    • Assange is kept in being kept in solitary confinement 23 hours per day, often sedated, in Britain's notorious Belmarsh Prison. The post Wikileaks Still Holding Powerful to Account...
      ( No 'cruel and unusual punishment' for him apparently )

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Bushfires in Australia so big they generate pyrocumulonimbus starting more fires(tags:Australia weather fire Doom )Mansplaining convention coming to Orlando - charges women...
  • The Dazzling Designs of Alpine Lake Ice Formations(tags:Ice water beautiful Germany )Hard work and success - how interlinked are they?(tags:work success )Syd Mead, Blade Runner...
    • Girl, six, finds plea from Chinese prison slaves inside Tesco kitten Christmas cards(tags:Christmas slavery China Tesco uk )The problem with people but understanding how frosted...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • A previously unknown autoinflammatory condition has come to the fore thanks to a team of global experts, who were also able to identify its root cause...
  • A new study finds an association between the Western dietary pattern, which is high in unhealthful fats and sugars, and age-related vision loss.
    • New research in mice investigates the possibility that MDMA, a potentially addictive drug, may help in the context of mental health therapy.

    Why Did the Blackout End?

    15 hours ago
  • It does, indeed, seem that the Bernie blackout is over, and this has led to a rash of speculation and paranoid theories. A lot of Sanders supporters seem to think that the evil forces...
  • Joe the Schmoe

    a day ago
  • Believe it or not, Biden’s statement that he would consider a Republican running mate was not the most damning, disqualifying thing he has said in the last couple of days.Sure, anybody...
  • Home Again

    2 days ago
    • Home again after driving all day and it’s nice to be typing this on my own computer v. Helena’s when we were in Poland, or on my phone when we were in the car which was even awkward just...

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