Thursday, August 09, 2018

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  Eyes on Trade



  • Contrary to Donald Trump’s claim last week that he has reduced the trade deficit by $52 billion, the United States is on track to post a record high goods trade deficit for the first...

  • Will the U.S. and EU Revive the Damaging Pro-corporate, Anti-people TTIP Agenda?

    13 days ago
  • Trump promised a new approach on trade policy that would fix past damage to working people. But what his administration and European Union officials said this week in their joint statement...

  • Today’s D.C. Visit by Top Mexican Trade Officials May Reveal Whether a Renegotiated NAFTA Deal Can Be Signed in 2018

    14 days ago

    • Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Note: Today, the top Mexican trade officials of the current Peña Nieto and incoming López Obrador administrations...

      



  • We all need a push in the right direction. Every zodiac sign has its flaws, but we also all have the ability to learn and grow. Sometimes life can get us down and into places we never meant...

  • 5 Life Lessons To Learn From The Alchemist

    2 days ago
  • Reading is a skill that can help us dive into the minds of the greatest philosophers, historians, and generation leaders of all time. Paulo Coelho is one of those writers, and The Alchemist...

  • The Human Soul is Composed of NINE Parts According to Ancient Egyptians

    3 days ago

    • The complex religion that prevailed during the almost three thousand years of the Ancient Egyptian Empire considered that the human soul was composed of nine separate parts, which...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • New research suggests that 'mechanoceuticals' may be the treatment of the future against chronic pain. Magnetic force can reduce pain signals in neurons...

  • Medical News Today: Can gripe water or gas drops treat colic?

    16 hours ago
  • A baby with colic can cause distress for caregivers, and many turn to home remedies to soothe a baby’s discomfort. Gripe water and gas drops are two popular home remedies for colic...

  • Medical News Today: Why are my fingers pruney or wrinkled?

    18 hours ago

    • Pruney fingers are a common experience after taking a long bath, swimming, or washing dishes. They may be more likely to happen in warm water than cold water. In this article, learn...

      Desdemona Despair



  • By Adam Voiland9 August 2018(NASA) – In July and August 2018, towering plumes of smoke have risen from several fires in northern California. Though heavy rains ended the lengthy...

  • National Geographic: Half of the Great Barrier Reef has been killed by marine heat waves

    11 hours ago
  • By Lauren E. James8 August 2018(National Geographic) – Half of the Great Barrier Reef has been bleached to death since 2016. Mass coral bleaching, a global problem triggered by...

  • Video: Albatrosses suffer agonizing deaths from ingested plastic

    11 hours ago

    • By Matthew Turner21 June 2018(Greener Ideal) – If images and videos of whales, dolphins, fish, seals, turtles, and other marine life consuming plastic wasn’t enough to make...

      The Daily Sheeple



  • In a historic first, a California Jury is now deliberating whether Monsanto's Roundup weed killer gave a school groundskeeper terminal cancer, after lawyers for both sides...

  • Unfriended! Democrat Drives to Man’s House and Shoots Him After Heated Political Disagreement on Facebook

    14 hours ago
  • A Facebook dispute boiled over into real life on Monday when a Democrat drove over to another man's home and shot him.

  • Breaking: Man at New Mexico Compound Was Training Children to be School Shooters

    15 hours ago

    • Several days ago, it was reported that eleven children were rescued from a compound in New Mexico which was being run by armed Muslim extremists. Today it was revealed that the father...

      Exceptional Delaware 2017



  • The Capital School District Board of Education will discuss a draft of a Certificate of Necessity tonight.  Included in this draft is a master plan to essentially rebuild the district...

  • Auditor Of Accounts Office Releases Very Questionable Report To News Journal’s Jessica Bies In Attempt To Interfere With Election & MERB Hearings

    a day ago
  • Jessica Bies with the News Journal wrote an article about State Auditor candidate Kathleen Davies and willfully withheld information provided to her that would have drastically...

  • Governor Carney’s Communications Director Jonathan Starkey On Susan Bunting: “No Comment”

    3 days ago

    • I just called Jonathan Starkey, Governor Carney’s Communications Director.  I asked him flat-out what Governor Carney is doing about the Susan Bunting situation.  I received...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetWhat will the Supreme Court’s recent Janus ruling mean for teachers unions? Jon Shelton, author of the recent (and excellent) book Teacher Strike! Public Education and the...

  • The Problem with Fear-Based Education Reform

    22 days ago
  • TweetDid you hear the one about how schools should be run more like businesses? In the latest episode of the Have You Heard podcast, Jennifer and Jack are joined by business journalist...

  • What the Sordid Saga of a Silicon Valley Start-Up Tells Us About #EdReform

    a month ago

    • TweetWhile Have You Heard co-host Jack Schneider is off doing whatever academics do during months without an ‘r,’ Jennifer has been tearing through a blockbuster new book on...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • August 9, 2018 Proton 2.0  is a Mahathirian Egotistical Dream by P Gunasegaram http://www.malaysiakini.com Malaysia’s Nightmare and Dr. Mahathir’s Egotistical Aspiration...

  • Democracy: American Leadership in Crisis

    8 hours ago
  • August 9, 2018 Democracy: American Leadership in Crisis: Fix IT by Simon Tisdall@The Guardian Dark money, unchecked presidential power and a politicised supreme court are wrecking...

  • Mahathir and the new National Car Project

    10 hours ago

    • August 9, 2018 Mahathir and the new National Car Project–Doomed to Failure Again by John Berthelsen@www.asiasentinel.com In 1984, a young researcher at a prestigious Malaysian...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • New research suggests that 'mechanoceuticals' may be the treatment of the future against chronic pain. Magnetic force can reduce pain signals in neurons...

  • Medical News Today: Can gripe water or gas drops treat colic?

    16 hours ago
  • A baby with colic can cause distress for caregivers, and many turn to home remedies to soothe a baby’s discomfort. Gripe water and gas drops are two popular home remedies for colic...

  • Medical News Today: Why are my fingers pruney or wrinkled?

    18 hours ago

    • Pruney fingers are a common experience after taking a long bath, swimming, or washing dishes. They may be more likely to happen in warm water than cold water. In this article, learn...

      Fast Company



  • A gripping tech comeback story that began back in 2014 is now complete: Intel has completely beaten out Qualcomm to provide the modem chips inside of iPhones. Fast Company has reported...

  • Facebook stock hammered after earnings miss, slow growth forecast

    15 days ago
  • Poof. There goes a quarter of really impressive stock gains. Over the last month, Facebook’s stock reflected investors’ apparent lack of concern about potentially damaging...

  • These InfoWars videos banned by YouTube are still alive on Facebook

    15 days ago

    • YouTube announced today that it had removed four videos—which express hatred toward liberals, Muslims, and trans children—by right-wing bullshit artist (proper media reference...

      Chicago Boyz



  • Instapundit quotes Jonah Goldberg, writing about Sarah Jeong: [Joseph] Schumpeter predicted, before the massive expansion of higher education, that capitalism would breed a...

  • CON Does Seem Like an Appropriate Acronym

    4 days ago
  • Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia currently impose certificate-of-need (CON) restrictions on the provision of healthcare. These rules require providers to first...

  • The Dogs Don’t Like It

    5 days ago

    • The title of this post is the punchline to an old, old story about the limits of advertising; a story which may or may not be based on fact. The story goes that a big food-manufacturing...

      Centinel2012



  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 8, 2018 by sundance The most corrupt part of congress is the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).  The SSCI is the...

  • Arresting Development: California Police Chief’s Son Arrested for Attacking Sikh Man in Viral Video…

    11 hours ago
  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 8, 2018 by sundance A 71-year-old Indian Sikh named Sahib Singh Natt was attacked in California on Monday morning. The attackers...

  • Known Wolf – Son of Prominent Imam Was Training Children as Terrorists in New Mexico….

    11 hours ago

    • RE-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 8, 2018 by sundance This is very alarming.  In testimony and documents provided to a federal court the DOJ is outlining how Islamic...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • On today's BradCast: The Election Administrator's (and Election Integrity journalist's) Prayer was decidedly not answered on Tuesday, based on reported results in at least two...

  • Kobach, Kemp and Other GOP 'Voter Fraud' Frauds: 'BradCast' 8/7/2018

    a day ago
  • On today's BradCast: While voters head to the polls today in Ohio, Missouri, Michigan, Kansas and Washington state (results and problem reports from those states on tomorrow's show)...

  • 'Green News Report' - August 7, 2018

    2 days ago

    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Northern California wildfire now largest in state history; Toxic algae blooms wreaking havoc in Florida; Europe's heat wave has made Sweden shorter, endangered...

      Below 2C



  • The 24 Reasons To Choose HOPE guide (from the Climate Reality Project) forms the backdrop for and is the primary resource for this article.The news about climate change is often...

  • Will Kinder Morgan Be the Next Pipeline to Nowhere

    8 days ago
  • Remember the Northern Gateway pipeline? How about the Energy East pipeline? Neither got built. Both projects got quashed due primarily to public resistance. As opposition and resistance...

  • Limiting Beliefs Damage Our Environment, Health and Future

    13 days ago

    • When I jog in my neighborhood and see the little knoll ahead, I often think This is going to be hard. Running begins to feel like a chore, and I consider slowing to a walk. Sometimes...

      bluebird of bitterness




  • Summertime classic: Keeping cool

    2 days ago
  • The temperature in Detroit was 98 degrees and rising on July 8, 1946, when the Goldberg brothers — Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Maxwell — walked into Henry Ford’s office and sweet-talked...

  • Face lift

    3 days ago


    •   Home



  • Two years after the Hiroshima bombing, children from a church in Washington, DC, sent art supplies to their counterparts in Hiroshima. Those children drew surprising visions of...

  • Hiroshima survivor who helped get the nuclear ban and Nobel Peace Prize

    3 days ago
  • Setsuko Thurlow is perhaps the world's best known Hibakusha -- a survivor of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. When she speaks there is rarely a dry...

  • New nuclear plans invariably involve a creek, but no paddle

    4 days ago

    • The misadventures of a planned three-reactor site in Cumbria's UK just worsened (or improved, from our perspective) as project owner, Toshiba, appeared to dismiss its latest in...

    BlackListed News



  • Smart meters monitor home energy usage in minute detail in real time. The devices transmit data to the utility company where it gets stored in databases. Anybody with access to the...

  • Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphones vulnerable to hacking

    a day ago
  • Samsung’s Galaxy S7 smartphones contain a microchip security flaw, uncovered earlier this year, that has put tens of millions of devices at risk to hackers looking to spy on their...

  • ‘Heavily armed' New Mexico extremists trained children to commit school shootings

    a day ago

    • Siraj ibn Wahhaj, the son of a prominent New York City imam, was arrested at a “filthy” compound in New Mexico, where 11 children found there had been trained in how to shoot up schools...

      Research Digest



  • By David Robson. Greater intelligence may mean that you feel younger than your years – and this seems to be reflected in biological measures of ageing...

  • Close friends become absorbed into our self-concept, affecting our ability to distinguish their faces from our own

    a day ago
  • By Christian Jarrett When we say that our close friends have become a part of us, we’re usually talking metaphorically.…

  • How kids shape their parents’ parenting style

    2 days ago

    • By Christian Jarrett. The findings have implications for the design of parenting interventions.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • "Gentle, Kind, True"—that is what the icon plaque in St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Nantucket reads. In the center, a picture of Mister Rogers, wearing his quintessential red cardigan...

  • Las Vegas Boulevard Just Took a Step Back in Time

    11 hours ago
  • Sinners seeking a taste of old Las Vegas can now get one step closer, thanks to the just-completed restoration and repainting of the iconic Silver Slipper. For decades the Silver Slipper—a...

  • The Complicated Business of Farming Snails in America

    12 hours ago

    • On weekdays, Ric Brewer lives in Seattle and works as a communications manager for a disaster-relief nonprofit. But most weekends, he heads to his five-acre spread in Quilcene, among...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Frank Rich writes that the lack of a meaningful response to the 2008 financial crisis has understandably undermined public confidence...

  • Tuesday Night Cat Blogging

    a day ago
  • Flattened cats.

  • Tuesday Morning Links

    2 days ago

    • This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jessica Corbett writes that Earth's atmospheric carbon concentration has reached levels not seen in 80,000 years, while Jonathan Watts...
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