Tuesday, September 11, 2018

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  Washington's Blog


  • A new report by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies “focuses on the five largest U.S. arms manufacturers — Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics...
  • 9/11 In Context

    9 hours ago
  • Only with context can we gain insight and perspective into the horrible, barbaric 9/11 attack. Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police...

    • Eric Zuesse Unless Syria will simply hand its most heavily pro-jihadist province, Idlib, to adjoining Turkey, which claims to have 30,000 troops there and is planning to add 20,000...

  • The SS Baychimo launched in 1914 under the name of Ångermanelfven. She was last seen in 1969 floating in the Arctic. For all we know, she still wanders the vast waters around the globe...
  • Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug trafficker who, during his peak in the ‘80s, controlled over 80 percent of the cocaine shipped to the United States, according...

    • It is one of the most famous car chases in cinema history, in a film famed for its gritty realism about drug crime and cops in New York City in the early 1970s. More than halfway into the...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!





  • Primordial @NZGreens

    3 hours ago


  • The Truthseeker



  • No one would think twice if you questioned the Resurrection. However, you cannot question what Israel Shamir calls the "mother of all dogmas" without risk...
  • Jews and Gentiles

    9 hours ago
  • Introduction to a talk Gilad is due to give in New York on Tuesday, Sept 11

    • We don't think so but the WSJ has published claims that Assad plans to launch gas attacks on civilians, which will signal a go-ahead for the US to strike at Syria, and maybe Iranian and...

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, September 10, 2018 Tenant of Oval Still a Useful Idiot for Kim, Who Is Building Nukes Faster...
  • Kavanaugh No Conservative, but Radical Reactionary on Roe, Obamacare, Unitary Executive, Discrimination, Unions; He Won’t Recuse, Won’t Come Clean, so Reject Him!; Constitutional...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, September 6, 2018 Subtext Is That GOP Bigwigs Have White House Under Control, So No Need...

  • New testing conducted by an independent lab found glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, in common children’s lunch foods and snacks sold in Canada. The testing...
  • France took a radical step towards protecting its dwindling bee population last Saturday by becoming the first country in Europe to ban five pesticides researchers believe...

    • Bayer has slashed its earnings forecast Wednesday due to, amongst other things, a growing global legal battle surrounding the carcinogenic weedkiller Roundup. The weaker earnings...

  •   South / North
  • Arctic is 1.3 million higher than 2012 on day 250. South / North

    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • Lord Blunkett made an interesting point on Friday’s Today programme (2’18” in): Nobody below their mid-50s will remember the early 1980s…The problem for the group who think...
  • “Higher wages prompt improvements in productivity”. This is one of the central claims in the IPPR’s report this week. But I wonder: how true is it? Certainly, it can be for individual...

    • There’s a widespread consensus that corporate short-termism is a problem. Many have welcomed Donald Trump’s call to end quarterly reporting in the hope that it might lengthen...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • Communist-ruled Nepal’s troubling tilt toward China — as exemplified by latest developments — is a reminder of the costs India is incurring for its blunder in engineering...
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times, September 4, 2018 The US has emerged as India’s most important partner. The inaugural India-US “two-plus-two” ministerial dialogue...

    • From large-scale dam-building to unbridled resource-exploitation, human activity is causing serious damage to Himalayan ecosystems. While all the countries in the region are...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • Operation Freedom Published on Sep 10, 2018 The spotlight of this Briefing focusses on yet another FAILED coup attempt of President Trump and his Administration. end...
  • PressTV Published on Sep 10, 2018 White House National Security Adviser John Bolton has threatened sanctions against International Criminal Court (ICC) judges who plan to probe...

    • RT America Published on Sep 10, 2018 As the economy is on everyone’s mind, President Trump says leaders of several countries have contacted him to discuss new trade deals. RT America’s...

      Socialist Economic Bulletin



  • By Tom O’Leary  Portugal is finally on the brink of ending the slump that began with the Great Recession at the start of 2008. But the economy remains far from a full recovery and important...
  • By Tom O’LearyThe multi-faceted attack on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party continues to include unjustified attacks on his economic policy. The liberal press...

    • By Tom O’LearyThe latest release of key data for Northern Ireland (NI) has had business organisations wringing their hands about the weakness of the economy. The CBI said the economy...

  • God does not have Religion. Madurai Meenakshi spoke to a Britishers and saved him. Raghavendra swamigal spoke to Britishers.
  • The featured image is the aerial view of Sun Temple in Teotihuacan Mexico and the Courtyard of Saint Peters Cathedral in Vatican. More information about the presence of Sanatana Dharma...

    • I seem to landing on controversies when I start writing in detail. I have written on Temple construction History. I have mentioned that temple Worship is not mentioned in the Vedas...

  • Andrew Cuomo is a disgusting politician. His campaign distributed flyers calling his underfunded opponent Cynthia Nixon an ant-Semite. This is absurd on many levels, since Nixon...
  • Politico Morning Education reports on Laurene Powell Jobs venture into redesigning the American high school: FIRST LOOK: A GUIDE FOR STATES ON REVAMPING HIGH SCHOOL: A private philanthropic...

    • Lucky you! TulsaKids magazine is hosting a screening and panel discussion of Backpack Full of Cash on September 20th followed by a week long run of the film at the Circle Theater there...

      P U L S E



  • These are extracts from Hasan Almossa’s as-yet unpublished book “I Was Born Twice”. Hasan is the founder of Kids Paradise, an NGO supporting vulnerable people and implementing...
  • The following is an excerpt from an interview with me and my collaborator Nader Hashemi that will be published soon by the excellent online magazine Qantara.de. The interviewer...

    • Twenty years ago today, on August 9, 1998, I delivered this eulogy at the dedication ceremony, or unveiling, of Eugene Zucker, my next-door neighbor growing up and a formative influence...

  • Even with most shows returning from a late summer break, this past week was notable for the repeats.  On Monday the 3rd, you could have re-watched the recent appearance of Silicon...
  • We’ll start the listings for last week with noting yet another appearance from a cast member of The Big Bang Theory who plays a scientist.  As the show recently announced it will...

    • The summer repeats continued the week of August 20.  The repeat of note that week was Jeffrey Wright’s May appearance with Carson Daly.  Wright plays an android on Westworld...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood   Anybody unsure about the safety of fracking should read this article in the Telegraph in 2013:   Wytch Farm in Dorset is in the heart of an Area of Outstanding Natural...
  • By Paul Homewood   From Roy Spencer:   Although it is still 3-4 days away, rapidly strengthening Hurricane Florence is increasing the threat of a major hurricane landfall somewhere...

    • By Paul Homewood   Yesterday the BBC’s  Country File broadcast a shamelessly anti-fracking segment:   https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bk6n4x/countryfile-essex...

  • Even though CO2 concentrations hovered well below 300 ppm throughout most of the Holocene, newly published paleoclimate reconstructions affirm that today’s surface temperatures...
  • Germany used to be regarded as a global leader in the transition to renewable green energies — especially wind and solar power — a project dubbed the “Energiewende”. But this...

    • My daughter will be visiting Wilmington next week, and so Hurricane Florence has been very much on my mind. Days ago, almost all weather models showed the cyclone curving out into the...

  • Answer Sheet: If You Don't Know What a 'Community School' Is, You Should. Take a Look at This One Students at Broome Street Academy Charter High School in New York City have fun with a...
  • OurFuture.org: It’s Back-To-Underfunding, Charter-Scandal School Time Some of the most memorable education news stories from the 2017-18 school year were the photos spreading...

    • Answer Sheet: The Real Story of New Orleans and Its Charter Schools New Orleans, seen from a ferry on the Mississippi River. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) School choice proponents...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Using funerals for political purposes has a long, but not distinguished, tradition. In 44 B.C. eulogist Mark Antony claimed to Roman mourners...
  • Toe-to-Toe with the Russkis: Is Realistic Engagement with the Russians Still Possible? Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Ralph Peters...
  • Res Ipsa Loquitur

    6 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Donald Trump in his Twitter storms apparently has no idea that he is winning. The Brett Kavanaugh opening hearing turned into a progressive...

    The Moderate Voice



  • The post Cartoon: 9/11 appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
  • Who doesn’t remember what they were doing 17 years ago today as the first fragmentary reports dribbled out about one aircraft and then a second hitting the Twin Towers of the World...

    • WASHINGTON — President Trump’s antics in his “Crazytown” White House inevitably dominate the headlines. Meanwhile, however, his wrongheaded policies are damaging far...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • A paper in Science covering over 80 thousand articles in 923 scientific journals finds that rejected papers are ultimately cited more than first acceptances. We compared the number...
  • From Kyle Myers: This paper estimates the degree to which scientists are willing to change the direction of their work in exchange for resources. Novel data from the National Institutes...

    • We find that taxes matter for innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes negatively affect the quantity, quality, and location of inventive activity at the macro and...

  • Originally posted on Crazy Normal - the Classroom Exposé: When the privatization of public education is at the heart of an election, billionaires spend record breaking sums to bend...
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: When I read something this powerful, I am moved to share it. I find the last line strange. Donald Trump will never become “the leader we...

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Rudy Guiliani and Trump have recently contended that “collusion is not a crime” but real lawyers know that “collusion” is a straw...

  • New York Times best-selling author Dinesh D’Souza explains the truth that Democrats hide and lie about: It it is their party that has been anti-black...
  • Apparently, David Hogg and liberals like him are not so sure they and their Democratic Party allies can win back Congress, and are now resorting to calling for foreign intervention...

    • According to a curriculum advisory group, Texas schoolchildren should not be taught that defenders of the Alamo are heroes.

  • The State Department said “the PLO has not taken steps to advance the start of direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel." The post US Shutters Palestine Liberation Organization’s...
  • In an interview aired Monday night, Nicaraguan President Ortega said he will talk to U.S. President Trump, but wants the U.S. government out of Nicaraguan affairs. The post Ortega...

    • While celebrating the win, activists noted that "construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline continues in other parts of the Atchafalaya Basin" and vowed to keep fighting to completely...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • We find that taxes matter for innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes negatively affect the quantity, quality, and location of inventive activity at the macro and...
  • So what is tragedy? “A work is a tragedy, Aristotle tells us, only if it arouses pity and fear. Why does he single out these two passions?” That seems wrong to me. For one thing, it...
  • Monday assorted links

    19 hours ago

    • 1. Black in the USSR. 2. The musical philosophy of Henry Flynt. 3. EconSpark, new AEA discussion forum. The post Monday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers by profoundly changing Earth's climate (tags: globalwarming farming prehistory ) "I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d...
  • The NYT “Part of the Resistance ” piece is strategic conservative propaganda, not self-promotion. (tags: republicans politics usa ) "Cuts in income tax, business tax, capital...

    • Nike’s online sales jumped 31% after company unveiled Kaepernick campaign (tags: advertising racism protests marketing ) Is there an Afro-futurism for South America? (tags...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • While many women know that they should avoid sushi during pregnancy, they may wonder whether or not sushi is safe to eat while breastfeeding. There is no reason to avoid eating sushi...
  • Aggressive brain cancer cells are able to prolong their own lifespans indefinitely. How does this happen, and what strategy might curb this mechanism?

    • A new study compares the psychological effects of intuitive decisions based on the proverbial gut feeling with decisions made after careful deliberation...

      Jon's Text



  • This idea also stops diabetes and heart disease. We want ½ minute of 8 W 1 MHz ultrasound to have her size to the chest when we have an infection.  This clears the viral and bacterial...

  • Doctors turn murderers

    18 hours ago
  • Every Dr. has promised to strike themselves off, the first day they use defective medicine.  They further promised by aware of and validate new medical advances.  And then use them...

  • Doctors murderers

    21 hours ago

    • Eight million British people.  In 2002 three medical professors from the Moffitt cancer centre published the use of high intensity ultrasound to cure cancer. They did the work on...

  • by Alexander Trigaux, Editor, GoldSilver Mike Maloney’s father had passbook savings accounts (those are his actual passbooks in the video) that returned 13.1%. Mike Maloney...
  • In early January there were 42 cryptocurrencies valued at >$ 1 billion. Today there are 15. pic.twitter.com/W1zAwv7UvX — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) September 10, 2018...

    • professionals continue getting blown out pic.twitter.com/7h1mJnzADm — Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) September 11, 2018 ugly global equity futs pic.twitter.com/OTZfnTDHBd...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • I didn’t write a blog last night because I was too stoned.  It’s not that I  haven’t written blogs stoned before, I do  it all the time, it’s probably more than half of them...
  • First, the disclaimer:  I don’t know jack shit about tennis, the scoring system is as incomprehensible to me as Czech grammar, and I didn’t watch the match in question. Nonetheless...

    • Impeachment is rare in American politics.  It’s only  been done to two presidents throughout American history.  Both of those were political hit jobs.  Neither one succeeded...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • It disturbs me not a little that Japanese Stilt Grass, Autumn Olive, Oriental Bittersweet, Garlic Mustard and (Alabama horror come true) Kudzu is invading Floyd County. As a biology...
  • …or a liberal hoax after all. Granted, human memory can be a leaky sieve and the tendency to make things markedly WORSE or BETTER “when I was a boy” is pretty common. But here is...

    • Where are we headed in the love-hate relationship of HumanKind with Nature (that is: the biotic and abiotic parts of the only planet we have from which all our resources are drawn)?...

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