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  Washington's Blog

• America Spends About Half of World’s Military Expenditures 2 days ago

  Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker The National Priorities Project headlines “U.S. Military Spending vs. the World” and reports: “World military spending totaled...
  

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Market Complacency / Euphoria 2 days ago

  A relatively reliable measure of complacency/euphoria in the stock market just hit levels last seen in late January, just before stocks reversed in a massive meltdown, surprising...
  

• Forces of Corruption Are Horrified of a Trump Impeachment 2 days ago

  If you do a daily web search for “impeachment,” here’s what you’ll get used to seeing. Most use of impeachment is outside the United States. Most use of impeachment within...
  

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  The Vintage News

• King Adolf Frederick has lost his crown: the Swedish king who ate himself to disaster in 1771 31 minutes ago

  Ideally, monarchs go down in history remembered for their great accomplishments, but that was not the case with Adolf Frederick of Sweden. This 18th-century king is instead remembered...
  

• An 11-year-old girl received a 5-pound note for naming Pluto when it was discovered in 1930 2 days ago

  Venetia Burney was an 11-year-old girl eating breakfast with her mother and grandfather in Oxford, England, in March 1930. Her grandfather, a retired head Oxford librarian, read...
  

• Abbey of Thelema: The Italian villa where occultist Aleister Crowley shocked the world 2 days ago

  Known for its medieval monuments, ancient cathedrals, and picturesque Sicilian countryside, Cefalú in Italy is a top touristic destination that attracts millions of visitors...
  

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  Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – I’ll Kill You (1998) 3 hours ago

  
  

• Monkey selfie case: another example that litigation-driven environmentalism is inferior to market-based conservation 4 hours ago

  Originally posted on FREEcology: In 2011, Naruto, a seven-year-old crested macaque played with a cameraman’s equipment, taking several selfies that have since gone viral. It’s...
  

• Dead Wrong with Johan Norberg – Oxfam is at it Again 6 hours ago

  
  

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The Truthseeker

• North Korea May Cancel Summit Over Bolton’s ‘Absurd’ Demands 3 hours ago

  It was North Korea's status as a nuclear power, not sanctions, that brought it to negotiations. Now those talks hang in the balance.
  

• Sergei Skripal’s niece again denied visa by Britain to visit relatives amid abduction fears 12 hours ago

  Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says Russia suspects that Yulia Skripal is being "held against he will"
  

• North Korea says it could reconsider Trump summit if US insists it give up nuclear weapons 12 hours ago

  Negotiations in jeopardy as Kim Jong-un's officials say they are not interested if talks mean North Korea has to abandon its entire nuclear arsenal
  

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  TARPLEY.net

• Kim of North Korea Stuns Trump with Threat to Cancel June 12 Singapore Summit 14 hours ago

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Dictator Reneges on Promise to Ignore ROK-U.S. Full Eagle and Max Thunder Spring...
  

• Over Fifty Palestinians Massacred by IDF, but White House Won’t Criticize Netanyahu or Offer Condolences 2 days ago

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, May 14, 2018 Bolton-Pompeo North Korea Sellout Seeks to Postpone War in Far East While Prioritizing...
  

• Trump’s Denunciation of Iran Pact Is Worst U.S. Foreign Policy Catastrophe Since 2003 Iraq War 4 days ago

  Betting the Ranch on June 12 Singapore Summit with Kim Compounds the Folly; Behind Pence’s Attack on Mueller Probe: What Is Veep Hiding About Himself?; Trump’s 30-Minute Red-Faced...
  

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  Sustainable Pulse

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  Weedkiller Products More Toxic than Their Active Ingredient, Tests Show 8 days ago

  US government researchers have uncovered evidence that some popular weedkilling products, like Monsanto’s widely-used Roundup, are potentially more toxic to human cells than...
  
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  US Judge Gives Green Light to Misleading Roundup Label Lawsuit against Monsanto 9 days ago

  Beyond Pesticides (BP) and The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today responded to a federal judge’s ruling against Monsanto Co.’s motion to dismiss the groups’ lawsuit...
  
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  USDA Set to Keep Consumers In Dark with QR Code GMO Labeling Proposal 12 days ago

  Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released the long-awaited proposed regulations for the mandatory disclosure of foods produced using genetic engineering (GE...
  

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  sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 135 – 2018 3 hours ago

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• Academics Baffled By 20,000 Extra Dead in UK 2 days ago

  'Academics are baffled'. Let me help them: It was very cold. The government has pushed up energy bills to pay for #renewables because scientists tell us it's going to be very warm. The...
  

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 133 – 2018 2 days ago

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  Stumbling and Mumbling

• On neoliberalism 4 hours ago

  Is neoliberalism even a thing? This is the question posed by Ed Conway, who claims it is “not an ideology but an insult.” I half agree. I agree that the economic system we have is “hardly...
  

• On guilt by association 2 days ago

  When is guilt by association not a fallacy? I ask because of two things I’ve seen recently. The first is Daniel Hannan’s fear that we’re heading for “absolutely the most harmful...
  

• Job Guarantee: Marxist or Keynesian? 5 days ago

  For decades there has been a debate about the differences and similarities between Marx and Keynes. The question of whether we should introduce a job guarantee highlights this debate...
  

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  Stagecraft and Statecraft

• India’s “hug, then repent” proclivity 8 days ago

  Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, Napoleon’s famous foreign minister, prescribed a basic rule for pragmatic foreign policy: “by...
  

• India’s Nepal challenge 9 days ago

  Brahma Chellaney, DNA Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken the right decision to visit Nepal, just weeks after he hosted his Nepalese counterpart, Khadga Prasad Oli, who chose...
  

• India-China summit highlights Modi’s hope versus Xi’s strategy 15 days ago

  An unpredictable and transactional Trump administration puts India on the back foot with Beijing Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “informal”...
  

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  Socio-Economics History Blog

• EU and Iran to Keep Nuclear Deal in Place 6 hours ago

  America and Europe are heading towards conflict. The Europeans are breaking away. – RT Published on May 15, 2018 The EU is insisting that the Iran nuclear deal remain unchanged...
  

• US Putting Serious Pressure on Iran Nuclear Deal Participants – Moscow 7 hours ago

  US Putting Serious Pressure on Iran Nuclear Deal Participants – Moscow by https://sputniknews.com/ Earlier, following his presidential campaign promise, US President Donald...
  

• Europe Is Seeking “Practical Solution” To Salvage Iran Deal 7 hours ago

  Europe Is Seeking “Practical Solution” To Salvage Iran Deal by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/ Much to President Trump’s chagrin, The European Union’s top...
  

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  Socialist Economic Bulletin

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  An Outbreak of Crass Cross-Party Economics 5 days ago

  By Tom O’LearyThere has recently been a spate of cross-party economic initiatives. Ostensibly they are designed to reach a ‘non-political’ consensus to address some areas...
  
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  How Labour can transform the economy under Corbyn - The economic impact of increased investment a month ago

  By Tom O’Leary The UK economy remains mired in stagnation caused by the crisis of investment. The official forecasts for UK growth point to the weakest expansion in the economy in...
  

• Trump's tariffs against China are bad news for US farmers, companies and workers! a month ago

  By John RossIn drawing up its list of tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese products the Trump administration carefully tried to avoid one of the chief bad effects these tariffs will have...
  

  Ramani's blog

• Naivedya Prarthana Pradakshina Ahuthi in Pre Islamic Arabia 7 days ago

  Pre Islamic society borrowed the conceptsl of Hinduism either directly or through the Hitties/Sumeria. Prophet had destroyed 360 Idols in Kaaba. There were four Major Deities...
  

• Essence Of Devotion Bhakti Twelve Azhwars of Tamil Overview 7 days ago

  Goosebumps all over,Flowing Tears from the eyes, Overflowing Bliss makes one lose one's mind, Failed words, all these make one lose balance, If these be the Divinity of Abhirami Experience,may...
  

• Brahmins’Eat From Produce from Unowned Property’ Brahmin Lifestyle Mahabharata 8 days ago

  A Brahmin should eat on the fifth quarter of the day, Never rich food, Live near the banks of Rivers, Eat vegetables,fruits and Roots grown in a property which is not owned by anyone...
  

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  Diane Ravitch's blog

• Ohio: K12 Inc Asks State for Exemption for Transfers from Closed ECOT an hour ago

  The largest virtual charter school in Ohio was the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT). Its for-profit owner William Lager collected over $1 billion in taxpayer dollars since...
  

• EdNext: Charter School Rate of Growth Drops to an All-Time Low 2 hours ago

  Education Next, the pro-charter, Pro-Choice publication, reports that the growth of charter schools fell to an all-time low of only 1% between 2017 and 2018. Despite the $200 Million...
  

• Peter Greene: What Arne and Margaret Got Wrong About Education Reform: Everything 2 hours ago

  Peter Greene commented on the opinion piece written by Arne Duncan and Margaret Spellings about education reform, in which they lament the lack of courage and vision by those that...
  

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  P U L S E

• Are there really “no good guys” in Syria? 12 days ago

  A version of this article first appeared in The New Arab.  Following the Syrian regime’s recent chemical attack on Douma, US, Britain and France took swift but symbolic action...
  

• Disagreeing on the Internet: The New McCarthyism? 14 days ago

  Originally published at Muftah on December 19, 2016. What if the United States carried out daily bombing raids in a foreign country for over two years, killing hundreds of innocent...
  

• You aren’t antiwar if you aren’t anti-Assad’s war 17 days ago

  by Anton Mukhamedov Following the joint US-UK-French strikes at the facilities associated with Syrian government’s chemical weapons programme on April 16, 2018, the international...
  

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  Pasco Phronesis

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of May 7th 3 days ago

  This past week the featured bookings revolved around a scientist who also plays one on TV.  Mayim Bialik.  The Big Bang Theory actress plays a neuroscientist on the show and has a...
  

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of April 30 9 days ago

  One thing that can be counted on for late night science and technology content remains cast members from The Big Bang Theory.  Kunal Nayyar stepped up for the show last week, appearing...
  

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of April 23 17 days ago

  The latest Marvel superhero movie – Avengers: Infinity War – blanketed the late night talk shows this past week.  Given the lack of other guests to mention, I’ll note that Mark...
  

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  NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• £23bn goes up in smoke! Chris Huhne’s pet scheme to fit ‘green’ energy boilers is open to fraud and makes pollution worse! 5 hours ago

  By Paul Homewood   Harrabin rather glossed over the report by the Public Accounts Committee on biomass boilers, in his article today. The Mail tells the full story:   Billions have...
  

• MPs criticise government clean energy policies 5 hours ago

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Joe Public     Heavy criticism has been levelled at UK government energy policies by two separate parliamentary committees. The Environmental Audit Committee...
  

• The World Wants Air-Conditioning. That Could Warm the World a day ago

  By Paul Homewood     h/t Robin Guenier   How dare they?   From the NYT:   More than crickets and fireflies, more than baseball and cookouts, perhaps nothing signals the arrival...
  

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  NoTricksZone

• Europe’s Top Climate Scientist Loses It: Claims Mankind Now Undergoing Climate-Related “Collective Suicide Attempt”…Rapid “Mass Extinction”! an hour ago

  Outgoing director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) believes mankind, through its activities, is headed for a “mass extinction” event and an anthropogenic...
  

• Japan’s Media Blackout: Findings That Hurricane Intensity Driven By Natural Oceanic Cycles Go Unreported a day ago

  Media in typhoon-prone Japan ignore new important findings suggesting hurricanes and typhoon intensification speed depends mostly on natural oceanic cycles, and not related...
  

• New Paper: CO2 Emissions From Biofuels Are Worse Than Coal, Yet EU Says Biofuels Are ‘Carbon Neutral’ 2 days ago

  Governments promote biofuels as renewable, carbon-neutral resources that serve to reduce CO2 emissions.  Meanwhile, scientists have determined that biomass burning generates...
  

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  NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  Curmudgucation: FL: Continuing the War on Littles 2 hours ago

  Curmudgucation: FL: Continuing the War on Littles Of all the toxic effects of test-centered schooling-- here's some news from Florida: Nearly half of the children who attended...
  
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  Education Law Prof Blog: What Do the War on Teachers, Charter Schools, Vouchers, School Accountability, and Standardized Testing All Have in Common? a day ago

  Education Law Prof Blog: What Do the War on Teachers, Charter Schools, Vouchers, School Accountability, and Standardized Testing All Have in Common? What do the war on teachers...
  

• Janresseger: In Arizona, Beyond Meager School Funding and Charters’ Theft of Funding, is a Third Problem 2 days ago

  Janresseger: In Arizona, Beyond Meager School Funding and Charters’ Theft of Funding, is a Third Problem In two posts earlier this week, this blog explored contributing factors...
  

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  Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

• The Nature of Progressive Insensitivity 16 hours ago

  Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Why do so many famous social-justice crusaders turn out to be racist and sexist?   Former vice president Joe Biden is back in the news yet again...
  

• Why Trump Is A President Like No Other 16 hours ago

  Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Conrad Black’s erudite biography of Donald J. Trump is different from the usual in mediis rebus accounts of first-year presidents...
  

• 5-09-18 Angry Reader 7 days ago

  From An Angry Reader: Wow. You are a moron. How is it, that Comey’s memos, which were his that he wrote, as an FBI agent, which were still his, once he was fired from his FBI job, by an obstructing...
  

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The Moderate Voice

• Studying poop samples, scientists find clues on health and disease 3 hours ago

  Though examining poop samples scientists working on the American Gut Project are getting a new perspective on the microbes in our guts. By Christos Georghiou/Shutterstock.com...
  

• Cartoon: Trump, Sadler and Loyalty 3 hours ago

  Mike Slosberg is a cartoonist and novelist. He lives with his wife and hundreds of drawing pens on the Upper Westside of Manhattan, New York. You can see more of his cartoons and learn...
  

• The Gaza Strip – What Next? 11 hours ago

  Most of you have encountered news and vivid photos of the recent Israeli-Gaza violence. It is a difficult issue to try to explain to anyone not intimately involved in the conflict...
  

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  Marginal REVOLUTION

• Wednesday assorted links 24 minutes ago

  1. Should wine be more natural? 2. “…it is a theory of limited government leading to military strength…” 3. Exit interview with Arthur Brooks. 4. MIE: “This British Airways...
  

• Is North Korea withdrawing from the nuclear talks? 3 hours ago

  No, they are negotiating, read their latest statement, it is full of “ifs.”  If you are negotiating, especially in a fraught situation, often you will feel the need to walk away...
  

• Counterterrorism Spending 3 hours ago

  The Stimson group has a new report on counterterrorism spending: In the summer of 2017, the Stimson Center convened a nonpartisan study group to provide an initial tally of total CT...
  

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  Lloyd Lofthouse

• Boredom 12 days ago

  People who are often bored are at a greater risk of developing anxiety, depression, and drug or alcohol addiction. Continue reading →
  

• Anya Kamenetz: “A Nation at Risk” Cooked the Books 16 days ago

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? In this report by NPR journalist Anya Kamenetz, we learn that the famous 1983 report “A Nation at Risk,” we learn that the Reagan-era...
  

• Queen Eva’s Gambit 21 days ago

  Originally posted on Gary Rubinstein's Blog: In the New York Post today there was a headline that read “Charter school upsets juggernaut Stuyvesant HS on way to chess crown” It...
  

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  Syria's Christian Leaders Condemn U.S. Intervention 3 hours ago

  ISTANBUL — In a joint statement, top Christian leaders across the war-ravaged nation of Syria condemned recent attacks on their nation by Western powers, calling last month's...
  
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  Irish to Vote May 25 on Repealing Pro-life Amendment 3 hours ago

  On May 25, the people of Ireland will be voting on whether to retain their Eighth Amendment, which protects the right to life, or repeal it. The vote is the result of intense pressure...
  
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  Is Trump’s Prescription Drug Plan Really “Market-based”? 4 hours ago

  HHS Secretary Alex Azar says the Trump administration's plan to reduce prescription-drug prices is "market-based." But is it?
  

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  MintPress News

• Dermot Hudson of the Korean Friendship Association on North Korea’s Motives and Likely Moves in Negotiations 5 hours ago

  With all of these parties coming into negotiations surrounding the DPRK, one question that is important to ask is, what does Pyongyang hope to achieve? The US media often asks the question...
  

• Painting “The Return” — Hopes and History on the Gaza Border 5 hours ago

  “Everyone resists in their own way -- the revolutionary youth with slingshots and stones, the photographer with the camera, and the artists with their pencils. All of us are delivering...
  

• What the United States Could Learn from Venezuelan Democracy 5 hours ago

  Vice President Mike Pence called on Venezuela to suspend its upcoming elections, only months after having clamored for them to be held. But is the United States really the model democracy...
  

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Mark's Daily Apple

• Intermittent Fasting for Women: What We Know Now 2 hours ago

  This is an updated version of a Dear Mark column from 2012. You can find the original version  archived here . The below has been completely updated for 2018. The blank slate hypothesis...
  

• Primal Snack Round-Up: 9 Tasty Options a day ago

  It’s certainly getting easier to find healthier snacks at the store, but the convenience of healthier, pre-packaged snack food often comes at steep price. For most of us, homemade...
  

• Dear Mark: More Coffee Questions (plus a Vegan Vitamin Addition) 2 days ago

  For today’s edition of Dear Mark , I’m answering five questions about coffee and one about vegan vitamins. First, was I wrong about Aeropress? Second, what’s my take on CA’s...
  

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  Marginal REVOLUTION

• Wednesday assorted links 24 minutes ago

  1. Should wine be more natural? 2. “…it is a theory of limited government leading to military strength…” 3. Exit interview with Arthur Brooks. 4. MIE: “This British Airways...
  

• Is North Korea withdrawing from the nuclear talks? 3 hours ago

  No, they are negotiating, read their latest statement, it is full of “ifs.”  If you are negotiating, especially in a fraught situation, often you will feel the need to walk away...
  

• Counterterrorism Spending 3 hours ago

  The Stimson group has a new report on counterterrorism spending: In the summer of 2017, the Stimson Center convened a nonpartisan study group to provide an initial tally of total CT...
  

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  Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 16-05-2018 7 hours ago

  Tunnellers hand-dig 90 tonnes of earth from Edinburgh sewer (tags: edinburgh construction ) Russian fleet hunts British submarine in Mediterranean (a month old, but I missed it...
  
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  Interesting Links for 15-05-2018 a day ago

  EEA+CU is the least bad version of Brexit. It is however still an extremely poor option. (tags: europe uk ) There's A Cheap And Effective Way To Reduce Gun Violence. Why Aren't More States...
  
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  Interesting Links for 14-05-2018 2 days ago

  Finland Is the Happiest Country in the World, and Finns Aren't Happy about It (tags: happiness finland ) Brexit: Falkland Islands government sounds alarm on leaving single market...
  

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: Vampires and rabies: What's the link? 3 hours ago

  Although vampirism and rabies seem worlds apart, some believe they might be intimately connected. Here, we explore the links between Dracula and rabies...
  

• Medical News Today: What are the best foods for heart health? 3 hours ago

  There are many ways to improve cardiac health, and watching what we eat is one of the most important. Here, we provide details of 16 heart-healthy foods...
  

• Medical News Today: Why is my tongue bleeding? 3 hours ago

  There are many different causes of a bleeding tongue, including ulcers, bacteria, and viruses. Treatments are available for most conditions, and home remedies can improve others...
  

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  Brian M. Lucey

• a-Fisking we shall go: Jonathan Stanley in Think Scotland 5 days ago

  Sometimes an article so boneheadedly wrong appears one has to take an hour or so to see if its a mistake, pisstake or real. Thus it is with this risible piece of nonsense in Think Scotland...
  

• a-Fisking we shall go – Hugh Bennett in Brexit Central, again!. 24 days ago

  Hugh Bennett (@hughrbennett) is the gift that keeps on giving. A rambling piece, devoid, nay utterly ignorant, of history and full of nonsequiturs and misdirection, his latest in...
  

  Jon's Text

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  Doctors strike themselves off an hour ago

  smiling mass killersOn entering medical service, every registered Doctor promises to be aware of, validate and them use new medicine. Or strike themselves off – for life. Medical...
  
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  Radio therapy criminal 6 hours ago

  High Intensity UltraSound cures all cancers ot there – in under 1 minute. The ultrasound beam is diffuse, and will catch all secondaries.I use an 8W 1Mhz ultrasound massage device...
  
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  Mental health mended 10 hours ago

  2002 American Doctors used High Intensity UltraSound to cure cancer at 1 session. 1 minute of 8W 1 or 3MHz clears all 200 cancers in 1 minute. ½ a minute each sided of the chest clear AIDs...
  

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  InvestmentWatch

• The Credit Cycle Signals That Recession Is Around the Corner 2 hours ago

  by mauldineconomics In 1999, I began saying the tech bubble would eventually spark a recession. Timing was unclear because stock bubbles can blow way later than we can imagine...
  

• The Guardian Publishes Smear Against Isolated, Arbitrarily Confined Journalist Julian Assange 2 hours ago

  by Disobedient Media The Guardian recently published a patently disingenuous article which described WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange hacking into the communications...
  

• Real News: ‘A System In Which Sociopaths Rise to the Top’ 2 hours ago

  by Jesse “It’s no accident that the size of the financial sector today as a percentage of GDP is at levels equaled only on the eve of the Great Depression. Like the decade leading...
  

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  www.gurukalehuru.com

• Travelers 20 hours ago

  …is the show I’m watching on TV at the moment, I’ve seen just 3 episodes so far and I’m kind of on the fence  as to whether I like it or not, but since there’s so much crap  on...
  

• The Horror in Gaza 2 days ago

  One of the reasons I started writing a blog in the first place, some 6 or 7 years ago, was a deluded notion that I could always find a 3rd way when everybody was stuck in a dichotomous argument...
  

• What Sarah Said 3 days ago

  I am writing this Monday morning because I didn’t write it last night, lapsing from my eternal vow to write a blog a day forever.  Sometimes it happens, but usually there’s a good...
  

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  Fragments from Floyd

• Go Get Dumpa! 12 days ago

  Regrettably, we have a long distance relationship with our grand daughters. Looking back a couple of decades from now, their memories of their mother’s parents will be sporadic...
  

• Not Exactly Bored 14 days ago

  I am plagued or blessed—depending on the way I squint my eyes when I reflect on the things that fill my vision at various moments on any day of the week—with a lot of interests. I guess...
  

• THE LAST STRAW of ONE Lifetime 15 days ago

  I pledge: to never again use a new plastic straw. I made that commitment—regrettably and only after decades of knowing about the Great Garbage Patch in the Sargasso Sea, and since...
  

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