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  Eyes on Trade

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  New Data Show Trump’s First Quarter 2018 China and Mexico Trade Deficits Largest on Record as All Eyes Focus on This Week’s Trade Discussions in China, Looming NAFTA Deadline 6 days ago

  U.S. Trade Deficit With World Largest Since 2008 Financial Crisis, Contrary to Trump’s Campaign Pledge to Quickly Reduce Deficit to Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs WASHINGTON...
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  New Trump Administration Trade Report Sticks to the Status Quo a month ago

  The Trump administration’s recently released 2018 National Trade Estimate Report could become classic reading for political science students studying the “deep state”...
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  On Announcement of Revisions to U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement a month ago

  Statement of Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the administration announced revisions to the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement...

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• The 9 Most Important Lessons By Osho They Should Have Taught Us In School 16 hours ago

  Shree Rajneesh is an Indian mystic and spiritual leader. Widely known as Osho, Rajneesh taught about meditation, love, and courage. For him, every human being is capable of enlightenment...

• Quantum Consciousness — Body Scan Meditations for Clarity and Clearing 16 hours ago

  One of the main commonalities of any body scan processes for clarity is the flow of energy downward, beginning from the crown. by Ethan Indigo Smith; Wake Up World There are many meditation...

• Stephen Hawking’s Last Words: We Live In ‘The Matrix’? 16 hours ago

  Ten before his death, Hawking finished his final theory on the origin of the universe – now published posthumously – and it offers an interesting departure from earlier ideas...

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: Do nightshade vegetables make arthritis worse? 3 hours ago

  Some believe that nightshade vegetables, including potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants, may cause inflammation or make arthritis worse. There is no current evidence for this, though...

• Medical News Today: Existing drug may be the answer to hair loss 6 hours ago

  Treating hair loss is an ongoing challenge for researchers. A recent paper concludes that an osteoporosis drug may just hold the secret.

• Medical News Today: New protein may help to catch lung cancer early 6 hours ago

  Japanese-based researchers have uncovered a biomarker that may help to diagnose lung cancer much earlier than the current tests can.

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  Desdemona Despair

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  New Antarctic process contributing to sea-level rise and climate change revealed, that “may trigger a transition from a cold regime to a warm regime, characterised by high rates of melting from the base of ice shelves” a day ago

  24 April 2018 (University of Tasmania) – A new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)-led study has revealed a previously undocumented process where melting glacial...
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  WHO report: 90 per cent of world population breathes polluted air 3 days ago

  2 May 2018 (UN News) – In a call for Member States to take action urgently, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, warned that air pollution...
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  UN forest accounting loophole allows CO2 underreporting by EU, UK, US – “There may not be a pathway to 1.5 degrees anymore — at all. Carbon capture and storage is a fantasy.” 3 days ago

  By Justin Catanoso2 May 2018 (Mongabay) – For the past ten years, Mary Booth, an ecologist with the Partnership for Policy Integrity in Pelham, Massachusetts, has immersed herself...

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  The Daily Sheeple

• Residents Say Cops Too Aggressive: ‘Just Because You’re Wearing A Badge, It Matters More?’ 16 hours ago

  When the search continued for the gunman who shot an ATF agent in the face, local and federal police canvassed the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago, some neighbors said they...

• Mother Raped by Texas Officer After Being Jailed for Half Gram of Weed: Lawsuit 16 hours ago

  In Texas, a 26-year-old mother has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that after she was arrested for possessing less than a half gram of marijuana, a Harris County jailer raped her...

• A Male Professor Told a Female Professor a Stupid Joke. Now He Faces Disciplinary Charges. 17 hours ago

  A misguided elevator joke certainly seems like something two adults could have handled on their own—without formal investigation, and the threat of sanction...

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  Exceptional Delaware 2017

• Delaware School Board Election 2018 Results 11 hours ago

  The Department of Elections for each county are still counting a lot of the votes, but some unofficial results are in which are usually a good indicator for where things are going. Congrats...

• Building A Mystery 13 hours ago

  In 1981, a ten-year old boy witnessed something very unusual involving two other children. For 37 years, this event haunted the boy.  Finally, I am ready to tell his story. The boy...

• Delaware DOE’s Charter Diva Stouffer Replaces Chuck Taylor At Providence Creek Academy 5 days ago

  I knew Providence Creek Academy had no choice but to finally find a new Head of School after their “three-year search”.  Chuck Taylor was never supposed to stay that long.  It...

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  Have You Heard

• Getting Fundamental: Do Americans Have a Right to Public Education? 8 days ago

  TweetWhat does the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, have to do with the teacher walkouts that are sweeping across the land today? Everything, explains law professor Derek Black...

• Takeover! What’s Behind the State Takeover of School Districts? 21 days ago

  TweetHave You Heard looks at what’s behind state takeovers of school districts. As guest Domingo Morel explains, laws authorizing states to take over urban districts appeared...

• The Data Boyz: What *Counts* in Education Research? a month ago

  TweetAs the latest episode of Have You Heard explores, the issue of what *counts* in education research is the subject of a heated debate. We invite economist Jesse Rothstein into...

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  Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger

• Malaysia: GE-14 Four Possible Scenarios 3 hours ago

  May 9, 2018 Malaysia: GE-14 Four Possible Scenarios by Ross Tapsell and Liam Gammon http://www.newmandala.org   Few observers of Malaysian politics have made hard and fast predictions...

• GE-14: A Political Storm Ahead 5 hours ago

  May 9, 2018 GE-14: A Political Storm Ahead by Dr. Bridget Welsh@www.malaysiakini.com COMMENT | In this quiet morning in Kuala Lumpur – after more than two weeks traveling across...

• GE-14: Is a ‘Malay tsunami’ on the horizon? 9 hours ago

  May 9, 2018 Today, Malaysians Go to the Polls to elect a New Government GE-14 : Is a ‘Malay tsunami’ on the horizon? ANU experts assess the likelihood of the Pakatan Harapan coalition...

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: Do nightshade vegetables make arthritis worse? 3 hours ago

  Some believe that nightshade vegetables, including potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants, may cause inflammation or make arthritis worse. There is no current evidence for this, though...

• Medical News Today: Existing drug may be the answer to hair loss 6 hours ago

  Treating hair loss is an ongoing challenge for researchers. A recent paper concludes that an osteoporosis drug may just hold the secret.

• Medical News Today: New protein may help to catch lung cancer early 6 hours ago

  Japanese-based researchers have uncovered a biomarker that may help to diagnose lung cancer much earlier than the current tests can.

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  Dublinmick's Breaking News

• Russia And China Declare All Out War on US Petrodollar — Prepare for Ex 10 months ago

  Source: The Free Thought Project The formation of a BRICS gold marketplace, which could bypass the U.S. Petrodollar in bilateral trade, continues to take shape as Russia’s largest...

• Bezmenov- West Capitulated to Communist Subversion 10 months ago

  Communism is the Protocols of Zion in action. This excerpt from a crucial 1985 interview with KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov throws our predicament into stark relief. Essentially...

• Lawyer Investigating Sandy Hook Shooting Found Dead 10 months ago

  A lawyer who was investigating the Sandy Hook shooting was found dead in his overturned car. Police ruled Gugsa Abraham (Abe) Dabela’s death as a suicide despite a gunshot wound...

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  Fast Company

• How I’ve Learned To Get Someone To Put Down Their Phone And Listen 5 hours ago

  Over the past few years, researchers have found the mere presence of a phone in front of two people trying to have a conversation can distract them both. With a device in sight, the...

• Here are the companies that contributed to Michael Cohen’s secret LLC 5 hours ago

  Trump’s embattled lawyer allegedly used a shell company called Essential Consultants LLC to pay hush money to porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep her from speaking about her affair...

• Apple is pulling apps that share location data without user consent 7 hours ago

  Apple is continuing its aggressive (and welcome) approach to protecting user data. This time the company has now reportedly began pulling third-party apps from the App Store that...

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  Chicago Boyz

• Preference Cascades and Past Elections 2 days ago

  So, I meant to write something sarcastic and slashing about … whatever over the last weekend, but I got distracted by life, and by a couple of different news reports – one of them...

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  Chicagoboyz celebrate Cinco de Mayo. UPDATE: The true story of Sinko de Mayo, via commenter Gringo.

• A Disturbingly-Declining Rate of Return in Pharma R&D? 4 days ago

  Here’s an interesting analysis

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  Centinel2012

• Why National Debts Eventually Default 22 minutes ago

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Sovereign Debt Crisis Re-Posted May 9, 2018 by Martin Armstrong   QUESTION: If governments have been borrowing without limit since world war 2, are you...

• Has Draghi Just Lost It? an hour ago

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Central Banks Re-Posted May 9, 2018 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Why are long-term yields on risky European debt below that of US Treasuries? Is this the...

• President Trump Announcement on Iranian JCPOA – 2:00pm EST Livestream… 18 hours ago

  Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on May 8, 2018 by sundance President Trump is scheduled to make an announcement about his final determination on the future of the Iran Deal...

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  CanadaFreePress.Com

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  New Utah State University Study helps cities budget for Water Main Breaks 5 days ago

  New data from Utah State University Buried Structures Laboratory quantifies water main breaks by pipe material type, helping towns and cities across Canada and the U.S. predict...
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  Trump to send $15 billion in spending rescissions later today 10 hours ago

  You can argue it would have been better not to sign the Omnibus in the first place, but this will be a very positive end result if he can get it through Congress...
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  Former Dem Sen. Robert Torricelli: Dems don't deserve to govern, because their message isn't good enough 10 hours ago

  There are a lot of reasons Democrats don’t deserve to govern.  Their ideas are horrible, they trend toward the destruction of the constitution at every opportunity, your rights...

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  The BRAD BLOG

• Trumping Iran: The Howl Heard 'Round the World: 'BradCast 5/8/2018 11 hours ago

  On today's BradCast, guest hosted by me, Angie Coiro, it's Iran Iran Iran - today's developments and (with help from the BradCast archive) historical context. Then a changeup - the...

• Childish Gambino: The Opposite of Trump 'BradCast' 5/7/2018 a day ago

  On today's BradCast, Brad is out and I am in! He's on vacation this week. Today was just another day when someone of talent, depth, grace, and style glowed in serious contrast to the Toddler...

• Sunday 'Hush Money' Toons 3 days ago

  And from the Wayback Machine ... "Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA director says"

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  Below 2C

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  Is Kinder Morgan Just An Economic Pipe-Dream 4 days ago

  While Trudeau and the Liberal government offer up slogans to justify why the Kinder Morgan pipeline “must be built”, a chorus of thoughtful commentators have recently provided...
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  From Trudeau to Crudeau – How It Happened 11 days ago

  It started so well. In December of 2015, newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada emerged from the Paris Agreement talks as a rising climate star and a beacon of hope for...
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  Canada on Earth Day – Climate Crisis, Carbon Pricing, Clean Energy 18 days ago

  Perhaps every day needs to be Earth Day as we begin to adapt to the era of climate crisis. The earth is heating up. “We must make up our minds about it, before it makes up our minds for us,”...

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  bluebird of bitterness

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  Happy V-E Day a day ago

• Happy birthday, Peter 2 days ago

  In honor of the birthday of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), here is a scene from Swan Lake, performed by a Chinese dance troupe with absolutely no respect for the law of gravity...

• Happy birthday, Johannes 2 days ago

  Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) composed his Academic Festival Overture in 1880 on the occasion of his being given an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau. Included...

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  Home

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  Keeping on Keeping Uranium in the Ground 2 days ago

  Just over 30 years ago — on April 10, 1988 — seven indigenous activists from different parts of the world set out on a three-week public awareness tour through Germany. They called...
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  Two women helped boot Russian nukes out of South Africa 2 days ago

  Liz McDaid of SAFCEI (above left) and Makoma Lekalakala of Earthlife Africa (above right) helped lead a legal fight that sent Rosatom packing. Thier victory was a win last year in...
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  First atom bombs, now climate change. Marshall Islands in peril 2 days ago

  The US government exploded 67 atomic bombs on what is now the Republic of the Marshall Islands. These so-called "tests" -- which were also radiation experiments on human beings --have...

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BlackListed News

• North Korea releases three American as Kim Jong Un prepares to meet Trump 9 hours ago

  North Korea on Wednesday released three American detainees, the communist country's latest gesture of good will toward the United States in advance of an unprecedented summit...

• Israel Setting The Stage To Attack Iran Over Phony Claims Of Iranian Missile Threats 9 hours ago

  As Israel sets the stage for a possible attack on Iranian forces inside Syria under the false pretext of “pre-emptive” self-defense against Iranian missiles, it appears that...

• Tesla Model S Bursts Into Flames After "Horrific" Crash, Killing Two Men Trapped Inside 9 hours ago

  Less than two months after a Tesla Model X burst into flames in Mountain View, CA after a gruesome crash attributed to an autopilot error trapped the driver in the burning car resulting...

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  Research Digest

• More time spent abroad increases “self-concept clarity” – confidence in and clarity about who you are 4 hours ago

  The new findings support the words of German philosopher Hermann von Keyserling: “The shortest path to oneself leads around the world.” By Emma Young...

• Our beliefs about nationality are mixed and malleable, and may help explain attitudes toward immigration a day ago

  Participants who endorsed a more genetic and fixed theory of nationality were more likely to hold anti-immigrant attitudes. By Christian Jarrett

• Learning by teaching others is extremely effective – a new study tested a key reason why 5 days ago

  The findings have practical implications for how the learning-by-teaching approach is applied in education and training. By Christian Jarrett

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  re: The Auditors

• Speaking Engagements/Conferences 8 days ago

  I added a link to the details for the May 2 fraud conference in New York, where I will be a panelist with Michelle Leder of Footnoted.org, Tracey Coenen, Donn Vickrey, and moderated by...

• Mick Mulvaney, the CFPB and a “thing” 10 days ago

   Warning:  Coarse language, because we may get a lot of snow in Chicago but we’re no snowflakes. Last week I went to an American Bankers Association Conference for bank government...

• Update: KPMG: The Indictments 18 days ago

  Just a reminder to my readers: The mystery outside consulting firm that helped KPMG analyze the data Brian Sweet andCynthia Holder allegedly brought over from the PCAOB is still a...

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  Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  The Spirit That Crosses the Equator Twice Before It Hits Your Glass 13 hours ago

  When pouring Linie Aquavit into cocktails at The NoMad Bar in New York City, bar manager Nathan O'Neill often regales customers with a unique yarn: about the journey that the spirit...
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  How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit 15 hours ago

  Graybeards were thin on the ground in the 13th century. For even wealthy landholding males, average life expectancy was about 31 years, rising to 48 years for those who made it to their...
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  A Czech Museum's 432-Million-Year-Old Plant Sprouts Surprising Information 16 hours ago

  So far, 2018 is quite the interesting year for the Czech National Museum in Prague. During a major construction and audit of the building, officials discovered much of their five-carat...

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  Accidental Deliberations

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  Tuesday Night Cat Blogging 13 hours ago

  Summery cats.

• Tuesday Morning Links a day ago

  This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tom Parkin writes that greed is the only reason why we haven't yet completed a full health care system with a pharmacare program:If we had a universal...

• On full pictures 2 days ago

  I've previously pointed out the obvious bad faith behind the Saskatchewan Party's attempt (PDF) to monetize existing agricultural practices as a substitute for actually reducing...