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  Washington's Blog

• Impeachment Safety 101 20 hours ago

  As with any dangerous tool, impeachment should be used with proper safety precautions. Among these should be taking care not to increase the chance of a nuclear war while trying to...
  

• Talk Nation Radio: Yasha Levine on the Military History and Contracts of Internet Companies a day ago

  Yasha Levine is a Russian-born American investigative journalist. He is the author of Surveillance Valley, a book about the forgotten military history of the Internet. See https://yashalevine.com...
  

• The Imperial Naivete of the American Public 2 days ago

  Whether it’s stated or not, one source of the inchoate outrage triggered by Russian-sourced purchases of adverts on Facebook in 2016 (i.e. “meddling in our election”) is the...
  

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  The Vintage News

• Is Mummy coming for dinner? Wealthy Europeans consumed ground mummies 12 hours ago

  The strange phenomenon of cannibalism has, in many different forms, been around since the earliest times of human history. While some ancient peoples resorted to this gruesome practice...
  

• Broken Arrow: the frightening amount of times the U.S. have lost nuclear bombs 13 hours ago

  The most obvious reasons to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, aside from full-blown nuclear war and terrorism, are nuclear accidents. We all know about the civilian accidents...
  

• Soviet Nuclear Spy – Klaus Fuchs 14 hours ago

  In the years leading up to World War 2, and throughout, many of the major world powers were working on advancements within the nuclear field. The Americans, the British, the Germans...
  

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  Utopia – you are standing in it!

• My @DomPost op-ed on slippery @jamespeshaw and #globalwarming’s cost to NZ an hour ago

  Is at https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/105725231/zerocarbon-economy-may-not-be-worth-the-cost?cid=app-android
  

• #OTD 2 hours ago

  If the media truly reported the important changes in the world, they could have run the headline NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN EXTREME POVERTY FELL BY 137,000 SINCE YESTERDAY every single day...
  

• Did British rule help India? 3 hours ago

  
  

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The Truthseeker

• Giant liquid water lake found under Martian ice 10 hours ago

  A 12-mile wide lake of liquid water has been found beneath Mars southern ice cap.
  

• Russia fears leak of hypersonic missile secrets to West as security services searches space agency 20 hours ago

  Intelligence about Russia's ground-breaking new weapons systems, unveiled in March, may have already been passed on to the West
  

• UK Government Office Knew About Mass Rape Gangs Decade Before Investigating 20 hours ago

  Former detective claims the authorities are more interested in hiding the problem and that the conspiracy “goes right to the top"
  

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  TARPLEY.net

• Trump’s $12b Farm Aid Won’t Stop Depression in Farm Sector; 4% GDP Growth Is Fraudulent 20 hours ago

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, July 24, 2018 “No Deal” Brexit Looms, with London’s Default on Payments Owed to Brussels...
  

• Alpha Dog Got Kicked in Helsinki-No Deals So Far from Great Dealmaker! 2 days ago

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, July 23, 2018 Awareness of Trump Weakness Grows, Making Sabotage of Mueller/Rosenstein...
  

• Not Welcome! Mobilize to Stop National Humiliation of Putin Affront 4 days ago

  Extent of Helsinki Betrayal Still Unclear as Gop Subversives Block Testimony of Translator; Has Mueller Stopped Demanding Interview Because Trump Is Now Target?; Russian State...
  

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  Sustainable Pulse

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  European Court of Justice: Gene-Editing Will be Regulated in Same Way as GMOs 12 hours ago

  The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today published its ruling on the legal status of food and feed crops derived from certain new genetic modification techniques. It gave clear...
  
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  Genetically Modified Food to Be Labeled in Iran a day ago

  Iran’s Food and Drug Administration has obliged food manufacturers and importers to label food products that contain ingredients which are derived from genetically modified...
  

• GMO Giant BASF Revealed as Member of US Organic Trade Association 2 days ago

  Living Maxwell revealed on Monday that BASF is a member of the U.S. Organic Trade Association, causing outrage across the organic world. The full Living Maxwell story is below: Upset...
  

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  sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 202 – 2018 3 days ago

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 201 – 2018 4 days ago

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 200 – 2018 5 days ago

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  Stumbling and Mumbling

• Corbyn's neglected question a day ago

  Jeremy Corbyn’s speech this morning raises a big question in economics that won’t get the attention it deserves: is there a trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency?...
  

• The Brexit con 2 days ago

  Brexiters told us that leaving the EU would be quick and easy and would save us £350m a week. With a chaotic no-deal looking a real possibility, however, Jacob Rees Mogg now tells us...
  

• Anti-communism as bad faith 3 days ago

  One of the advantages of being old is that you get the sense of perspective that comes with having seen things before. So it is with the attacks on Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani for their...
  

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  Stagecraft and Statecraft

• Japan’s Pivotal Role in the Emerging Indo-Pacific Order 11 days ago

  Brahma Chellaney, Asia-Pacific Review, Volume 25, 2018 – Issue 1 ABSTRACT The imperative in the Indo-Pacific region is to build a new strategic equilibrium pivoted on a stable...
  

• Why Moon is courting India 15 days ago

  India gains importance for Seoul as South Korea’s ‘miracle economy’ starts to face major new challenges Brahma Chellaney, The Times of India South Korean President Moon...
  

• India’s mistakes have allowed China to make inroads into Nepal 18 days ago

  Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Nepal’s new communist prime minister, K.P. Oli, has paid obeisance in Beijing, where he agreed to the proposal to extend the railway from...
  

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  Socio-Economics History Blog

• We’re on Notice: Capital Controls on 1 August 2018? “Protecting Us” From Our Own Accounts | Gregory Mannarino 21 hours ago

  Reluctant Preppers Published on Jul 23, 2018 (Recorded 7/23/18) Renowned stock trading coach Gregory Mannarino, known as “The Robin Hood of Wall Street,” answers YOUR QUESTIONS...
  

• U.S. Threats Will Be Met With Strong Response a day ago

  
  

• Trump: U.S. Ready to Make a ‘Real Deal’ with Iran a day ago

  PressTV Published on Jul 24, 2018 US President Donald Trump says Washington is “ready to make a real deal” with Iran two days after he threatened the nation with what “few throughout...
  

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  Socialist Economic Bulletin

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  Economic lessons from the left governments in Latin America – and a comparison to China 3 days ago

  By John RossNote:This article is based on Marxist economic theory and macro-economic study of Latin American countries combined with two primary direct experiences:· The author...
  
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  Misplaced optimism from the Bank of England Governor 16 days ago

  By Tom O’LearyThe Bank of England Governor has declared that the UK economic outlook is improving. He may be right in a limited sense. The recorded growth rate of the 1st quarter of...
  

• Tories’ Brexit and Trump will only damage the economy a month ago

  By Tom O’LearyUS President Trump seems to be stumbling towards a trade war. At the same time a large section of the current UK government seems intent of crashing out of the EU without...
  

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  Ramani's blog

• Bicycle In Temple Sculpture 1000 Years Ago Anamoly Panchavarneswara Worayur 2 days ago

  One can find a sculpture of a Man riding a bicycle in Panchavarneswara temple Urayur. This temple contains inscription during King Rajarajan. He is currently assigned 1010 AD. However...
  

• Inverted Temple Tower Image in Temple Wall Pinhole Camera Virupaksha Hampi 3 days ago

  Temple tank colour changes from white to black once in fourteen days, Temple tank where one can not see the others taking bath in the opposite bank, While the corridors are on par with...
  

• Tamil As Personification of Subrahmanya, Murugan,Skanda 7 days ago

  Tamil has these broad divisions -3. Iyal,Prose, Isai,Music and Natakam,Drama. Each of these has a different Form and Grammar. Tamil letters are divided into three groups,Vallinam,Idayinam...
  

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  Diane Ravitch's blog

• Breaking News from the Center for Responsible Lending About a DeVos Rule Change That Will Hurt Student Debtors 6 hours ago

  Proposed Borrower Defense Rule Shortchanges Defrauded Students, Ends Accountability for For-Profit Colleges WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Education released...
  

• Gary Rubinstein: A Short and Powerful History of the Rise and Fall of the Corporate Reform Movement 7 hours ago

  Gary Rubinstein gave a delightful talk about education reform and its distortions at his alma mater, Tufts University, in April. It is very enjoyable. Please watch...
  

• Gary Rubinstein: TFA Releases New Video, and Two of its Three Big Ideas Bash Experienced Teachers 8 hours ago

  Gary Rubinstein began his post-college career in Teach for America. He was idealistic as are other recruits to TFA and eager to make a contribution to society. He worked in TFA and remained...
  

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  P U L S E

• Morbid Symptoms: A Conversation with Gilbert Achcar 5 days ago

  Last week I had the pleasure of sitting down with the Lebanese scholar Gilbert Achcar for a conversation about the complex situation in the Middle East and various myths about the...
  

• Forum on Yassin al-Haj Saleh’s The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy a month ago

  On June 6, I moderated a panel discussion in Chicago on Yassin al-Haj Saleh‘s momentous book The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy. The event was presented...
  

• Arab Revolution: It happened before, it’ll happen again 2 months ago

  Palestinian intellectual Iyad el-Baghdadi spoke at the first Oslo Freedom Forum in Johannesburg on why the Arab Spring failed to produce tangible results, but also how Arab youth...
  

  Pasco Phronesis

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of July 9 5 days ago

  Even if there weren’t a lot of repeats, the highlight the week of July 9th-13th in late night was certainly the July 13th edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.  He did science...
  

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of July 2 16 days ago

  Last week the holiday reruns were in full effect.  Two of them featured science and technology-themed guests.  The July 6 repeat of Jimmy Kimmel Live! featured Evangeline Lilly...
  

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of June 25 23 days ago

  Last week marked the end of the Comedy Central program The Opposition with Jordan Klepper.  The program was a satirical take on the news from the perspective of an conspiracy theorist...
  

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  NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries 3 hours ago

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Dave Ward      Others have already investigated the potential cobalt cliff. Now another paper comes to the same conclusions:     Electric vehicles need...
  

• Weather Warning For Snowflakes a day ago

  By Paul Homewood   The Met Office has been justifiably blasted for its latest heatwave advice:     The Met Office has been lampooned after it issued nanny state advice warning Brits...
  

• Energy Minister Claire Perry hails success story of offshore wind–(She means more subsidies are needed!) a day ago

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Philip Bratby   Claire Perry announces yet more subsidies for offshore wind:   Meeting staff from the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult today in Newcastle...
  

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  NoTricksZone

• German Scientists: Chris Folland’s Findings On Climate Models “Good For a Loud Laugh”…”Pulling Tricks Like Troopers” 15 hours ago

  Just add volcanic dust whenever climate models some cooling Original image by NASA By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin)...
  

• Swiss Meteorologist Calls Media Claims Of Germany Extreme Heat “Complete Nonsense” 2 days ago

  The warm summer Europe is seeing is causing the desperate climate ambulance chasers to overheat and scream about how it’s all so unusual and that more human climate misery lurks...
  

• Antarctic ‘Catastrophic Ice Sheet Collapse’ Alarmism Gets Axed In 2 New Scientific Papers 2 days ago

  Newly published science reveals scientists grossly underestimated the timescales for land uplift in compensating for Western Antarctica ice mass loss, leading them to conclude...
  

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  NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• VAMboozled!: Fired “Ineffective” Teacher Wins Battle with DC Public Schools 6 hours ago

  VAMboozled!: Fired “Ineffective” Teacher Wins Battle with DC Public Schools In November of 2013, I published a blog post about a “working paper” released by the National...
  
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  Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Since School Vouchers Don’t Increase Test Scores, Racism is an Acceptable Reason for Privatization, Says Advocate a day ago

  Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Since School Vouchers Don’t Increase Test Scores, Racism is an Acceptable Reason for Privatization, Says Advocate For decades, school voucher advocates...
  

• Education in Two Worlds: "Fahrenheit 451" Lives! 2 days ago

  Education in Two Worlds: "Fahrenheit 451" Lives! Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953 in times with eerie similarities to today, is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. The novel presents...
  

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  Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

• Russianism a day ago

  Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Trump’s critics need a scapegoat to explain why they haven’t managed to vanquish him. Russianism is a psychological malady in which furor...
  

• Just How Far Will the Left Go? 2 days ago

  Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness There was no honeymoon for the unlikely winner of the 2016 election. Progressives have in succession tried to sue to overturn Trump’s...
  

• Putin’s False Equivalency 5 days ago

  Victor Davis Hanson // National Review We are in dangerous times. Amid the hysteria over the Russian summit, the Mueller collusion probe, nonstop unsupported allegations and rumors...
  

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The Moderate Voice

• The Thailand Cave Rescue: A Good Story that Keeps on Giving 4 hours ago

  When an incident or accident that could easily become a horrific tragedy turns out well, of course there is rejoicing. And the entire world celebrated the “miracle in a Thailand...
  

• Who’s losing? Dems and GOP as swing voters loom large 5 hours ago

  As the sharply divided American electorate is portrayed as a polarized 50-50 split between Republicans and Democrats, the truth is that neither party is popular and neither party...
  

• The Child King Cries ‘Help Me, I Think I’m Falling In Love (With Vlad) All Over Again’ a day ago

  You have to give Trey Gowdy and Lindsay Graham credit. Not much, but a little bit. Donald Trump’s performance at the Surrender Summit was so repulsively astonishing that they have...
  

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  Marginal REVOLUTION

• Higher education update occasionally we innovate a day ago

  Income-share agreements: To pay for his professional flight degree at Purdue University in Indiana, Andrew Hoyler had two choices. He could rely on loans and scholarships. Or he...
  

• Gdp will rise! a day ago

  For the time being, we have turned off comments on MR posts.  Is not a higher gdp a good thing? The post Gdp will rise! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION...
  

• Wednesday assorted links 7 hours ago

  1. “We are trying to obtain time-sensitive information on teams and technologies that no one else seems to think important.” 2. “In general, Gilman said he doesn’t see the...
  

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  Lloyd Lofthouse

• “Democracy”: The Attack on Our Democracy, Hidden in Plain Sight 10 days ago

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A blogger who identifies as “democracy” posted this comment, with which I agree. The bottom line is that Trump has lots and lots of Russian...
  

• The Taste of Joy and the Sound of Winning 19 days ago

  The winning roar from thousands of voices is a powerful force. Continue reading →
  

• Thank You, Wealthy Robber Barons, for the Freedom to be a Free Rider! 23 days ago

  Originally posted on gadflyonthewallblog:   ? Wow! I now have a real choice when it comes to my union! ? At least, that’s what the email I got from the Mackinac Center says! ? Now that...
  

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  Amid Racist Land Grabs, Obama Praises South African Strongman in an hour

  In a highly controversial speech in South Africa, a nation on the brink of catastrophe amid racist land grabs and brutal massacres that experts have linked to the ruling regime, former...
  
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  U.S. Airlines Bow to Chinese Pressure, Remove References to Taiwan 2 hours ago

  Reacting to pressure from Beijing, major U.S. airlines began removing all references to Taiwan as an independent nation from their websites. The White House calls it “Orwellian...
  
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  Santa Barbara Imposes Fines, Jail Time for Serving Plastic Straws 3 hours ago

  Santa Barbara, California, has banned restaurants and bars from providing patrons with plastic drinking straws, mandating huge fines and jail time for repeat offenders...
  

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  MintPress News

• Syria’s Grand Mufti: White Helmets Should Be Prosecuted for War Crimes 5 hours ago

  The Grand Mufti's remarks are one of the many recent criticisms from both Syria and Russia regarding Israel’s evacuation of the White Helmets. The post Syria’s Grand Mufti: White...
  

• Congress Officially Blocks F-35 Shipments To Turkey After Mattis Pleads Not To 6 hours ago

  It finally happened, even after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged Congress not to. The post Congress Officially Blocks F-35 Shipments To Turkey After Mattis Pleads Not To appeared...
  

• New Study Finds Links Between RoundUp (Glyphosate) Herbicide and Fetal Defects 7 hours ago

  The troubling results of this study only add to the growing body of evidence that has linked glyphosate to a host of health problems -- including cancer, digestive problems, and reduced...
  

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  Marginal REVOLUTION

• Wednesday assorted links 7 hours ago

  1. “We are trying to obtain time-sensitive information on teams and technologies that no one else seems to think important.” 2. “In general, Gilman said he doesn’t see the...
  

• Facts about economics papers 8 hours ago

  The average length of a published economics paper has more than tripled over the past four decades, and some academics are sick of wading through them. At this year’s American Economics...
  

• Every law is violent 13 hours ago

  Stephen Carter’s great column, written after the killing of Eric Garner who was being arrested for selling loose cigarettes, needs to be read and reread and periodically shouted...
  

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  Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 25-07-2018 13 hours ago

  UK snooping unlawful for more than decade (tags: UK surveillance ) Scottish public asked for views on bottle return scheme (tags: UK environment Scotland recycling ) Chrome browser...
  
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  Interesting Links for 24-07-2018 2 days ago

  The Times comes out for dictatorship (tags: newspapers uk politics OhForFucksSake ) What, exactly, are the WorldCon committee up to? (tags: conventions wtf scifi ) This is the Tories...
  
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  Feedback I just sent John Lewis 2 days ago

  I went in to your store last week and tried to buy a baby bouncer. It was out of stock, and I was told I would receive an email when it was back in stock.I received that email yesterday, phoned...
  

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: What causes feet sweating? 4 hours ago

  People sweat due to heat, stress, and a range of other causes. One area of the body that commonly becomes sweaty is the feet. Several techniques can help people to manage and prevent...
  

• Medical News Today: What is the best kind of toothpaste to use? 5 hours ago

  To choose the best toothpaste, people need to consider a range of factors. These include fluoride content and whether or not the American Dental Association (ADA) have approved the...
  

• Medical News Today: What role do immune cells play in dry eye? 6 hours ago

  Dry eye and inflammation that arise from disruption of moisturizing oil glands in the eyelids could be due to blockage by immune cells, a new study finds...
  

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  Brian M. Lucey

• a-Fisking we shall go – Ray Bassett in the Belfast Newsletter 24 days ago

  Good old Ray.  He keeps the IREXIT pot stirred, even when its boiled dry.   Below, a fisking of his latest brexity irexity musings in the Belfast Newsletter. The Irish government...
  

  Jon's Text

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  Cancer drugs are criminal 7 hours ago

  2002 the world renown Moffitt cancer centre used High Intensity UltraSound to totally clear cancer. When I suggested idea 2001, I thought you would only decreased cancer growth rates...
  
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  The cure of prostate cancer 10 hours ago

  The leading mail specific type of cancer, 2002 – now totally curable in 1 minute. Totally cured by the world renown Moffitt cancer centre 2002. There published a 100 patient double...
  
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  Cool the heat of summer 13 hours ago

  This uses the science fully devised in the 1880s. At the dawn of the industrial revolution. In of the hot countries, we use solar panels in a city centre, to generate basically free electricity...
  

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  InvestmentWatch

• Dem Rep. Joe Crowley Suggests Families Who Crossed Border Illegally Be Financially “Compensated”… Millionaire Democrat Wants To Tax Parents With More Than Two Kids As “Irresponsible Breeders” an hour ago

  As a tax payer, I would like to be compensated for the bus ticket they get for the free ride and sack lunch they get to take home. Millionaire Democrat ... Read more...
  

• Biggest Apartment-Construction Boom-Towns Are Not What You May Think an hour ago

  Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter No, it’s not Seattle. Denver is by far #1. New York isn’t even in the top 25. And it explains why rents in Chicago...
  

• Nuclear Watchdog Warns of Uranium Leak At South Carolina Fuel Factory an hour ago

  Radioactive uranium has leaked through a three-inch hole in the floor at a nuclear fuel factory in South Carolina, contaminating the soil below the plant, the US Nuclear Regulatory...
  

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  www.gurukalehuru.com

• Maria Butina an hour ago

  Maria Butina, Maria Butina, I haven’t written anything about Maria Butina yet, butina second I will. First off, it makes me laugh whenever I  hear people talking about spies. ...
  

• Hyperbole a day ago

  All political arguments end in hyperbole.  That’s one of the things I like about Bernie Sanders, is he manages to refrain from that.  I don’t, though.  So, I’ve been in ...
  

• The Case for an Open Border 2 days ago

  The U.S.A. should, in fact, open up its borders and let in all  the immigrants who want to come, and not just because it  would be the right  thing  to  do.  It would also be of tremendous...
  

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  Fragments from Floyd

• Plant Ballistics: Mountain Laurel’s Explosive Pollen Bullets 7 days ago

  The intricate design of the Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) was a marvel for me in 1970 when I was a student on a field trip to the Smokies from Auburn University. Systematic Botany...
  

• Not New To Science But To Me: Spikenard 7 days ago

  I was alerted of a low tire by the pressure sensor dashboard light before I reached the hardtop one day last week. So I pulled off at the next wide place along our gravel road and plugged...
  

• Abbott’s Sphinx Moth Caterpillar 10 days ago

  As if I knew this beauty–or even did the work to key it out for myself. I’d never seen it, and failing in a five-minute scroll of Google and Bing images of North American caterpillars...
  

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