Wednesday, September 26, 2018

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  Washington's Blog

  • Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Because of the U.S. Government’s repeated threats to start World War III against Russia on Syrian territory if Russia...

  • The Democratic Party Comes Out Against Foreign Military Bases

    9 hours ago
  • I confess that the idea of fighting for “the soul of the Democratic Party” has always sounded as sensible to my ear as fighting for the soul of a cow plop, and plans to improve the world...

  • 100th Anniversary of the Dumbest Parade Ever

    10 hours ago
    • September 28, 2018, marks 100 years since the stupidest parade I’ve ever heard of. And this is a world awash in stupid. Donald Trump wanted to hold an insane weapons parade in Washington...

      The Vintage News

  • The question of whether or not an underage person should be allowed to get married remains a subject of heated debate in the United States. Since 2018, only two states out of 50 ― Delaware...

  • New Planet Discovered which is Strangely Similar to Spock’s Vulcan

    17 hours ago
  • “Logical. Flawlessly logical.” That is what Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy, might have said in response to an intriguing discovery in outer space. Astronomers...

  • The Royal Dwarf “Wedding” Which Ended in a Drunken Brawl

    18 hours ago
    • The Russian Tsar Peter the Great was well known for his particular love of small people. This was somewhat ironic given his own size: at a height of six feet and seven inches, he towered...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • Renewable energy is not the face of the future

    12 hours ago

  • Why were the Mongols so effective?

    15 hours ago

    • The Truthseeker

  • Christian leaders know that Trump is ethically suspect but will continue to support him, argues Chuck Baldwin, even as he prepares for new wars

  • 1000 Mile Long “Stone-age” Tunnel Beneath Europe?

    a day ago
  • A network of tunnels has been discovered beneath Europe, estimated to be no less than 12,000 years-old. But how were they dug if humanity had no metal tools?...

  • Massive Network of European Underground Tunnels – ROBERT SEPEHR

    a day ago
    • More on the discovery of a massive network of 12,000 year old underground tunnels that stretch from Scotland to Turkey

      TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Reckless Provocation of Iran, Reckless Appeasement of North Korea...

  • Three Accusers Against Kavanaugh Establish Pattern of Depravity Which He Cannot Refute!

    2 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, September 24, 2018 Allegations from Dr. Ford, Yale Classmate Deborah Ramirez, and Avenatti’s...

  • American People Demand to Hear Prof. Ford!

    4 days ago
    • Majority Opposes Granting Vast Lifetime Powers to Totalitarian Ideologue Kavanaugh, Cementing Reactionary Pro-Trump Majority on High Court; In 2011 ACA Dissent, Kavanaugh Argued...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • The first ever home-use strip tests for identifying glyphosate residues, have been released to the public on Wednesday. It is now possible for people everywhere to find out whether...

  • Glyphosate Linked to Bee Deaths in Shocking New University of Texas Study

    2 days ago
  • The world’s most widely used weedkiller glyphosate may also be indirectly killing bees. New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that honey bees exposed to glyphosate...

  • EU Parliament Report Demands Reform of Approval Procedure for Toxic Pesticides in Europe

    5 days ago
    • The European pesticide regulation and its implementation need to be improved, says a draft report from a committee of the European Parliament, published Thursday. The report calls...

      sunshine hours

  • I think we can call the Arctic minimum. 2018 is the  7th lowest minimum. 2012 is still the lowest by far.   Year Min Max dMax dMin 1 2012 3.340 15.307 78 260 2 2016 4.145 14.566 82...

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 267 – 2018

    a day ago
  • Arcitc is still on track for 2018 to be the 7th lowest minimum. 2012 is still the lowest by far.   Year Min Max dMax dMin 1 2012 3.340 15.307 78 260 2 2016 4.145 14.566 82 251 3 2007 4.147 14.842...

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 266 – 2018

    3 days ago
    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling

  • Whilst I was away, there was a debate on Twitter about why so many Oxford PPEists become newspaper opinion writers. The question was ill-posed: in fact only a teeny fraction of PPE graduates...

  • Worker ownership: threat or promise?

    2 days ago
  • Labour’s plan to force large companies to give workers a 10% stake in them seems popular: Yougov reports that most voters and even a plurality of Tory supporters think it a good idea...

  • Radical Markets: a review

    15 days ago
    • In recent years the case for free markets has become tainted by association with a defence of the rich – an association which free market think-tanks have done too little to disentangle...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • China may be down in the Maldives, but it’s not out Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review The Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives, comprising 1,190 coral atolls, has been roiled...

  • India fumbles against a rogue neighbour

    21 hours ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, Mail Today Pakistan has turned into the Mecca of international terrorism even as its new prime minister, Imran “Taliban” Khan, has promised to make his country...

  • China expands its control in South China Sea

    10 days ago
    • BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Japan Times, September 18, 2018 As China consolidates its hold in South China Sea and wields its military, economic and diplomatic leverage, smaller countries...

      Socio-Economics History Blog

  • PressTV Published on Sep 26, 2018 Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei accuses the West of hypocrisy regarding the use of chemical weapons. Ayatollah Khamenei said today...

  • Gaza’s Economy ‘Collapsing’ Due to Israeli Blockade and Massive Funding Cuts, World Bank Warns

    3 hours ago
  • Gaza’s Economy ‘Collapsing’ Due to Israeli Blockade and Massive Funding Cuts, World Bank Warns by Bel Trew, https://www.independent.co.uk/ Half the population of...

  • The Path to World War III? Risky Israeli Behavior Threatens Everyone

    3 hours ago
    • The Path to World War III? Risky Israeli Behavior Threatens Everyone by Philip Giraldi, https://www.globalresearch.ca/ The minimal U.S. press coverage accorded to last Monday’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...

      Ramani's blog

  • I am providing the Mantra of Bala,in some different forms. More to follow on the combinations of Her Aksharas. I stress that these Mantras are to be initiated by A Guru in person and these...

  • Yagnyeswara Avatar of Adi Narayana, Manvantara Avatar

    3 days ago
  • Sri Rudra addressed to Lord Shiva elevates Yagnya to another level. While performance of Yagnya is to be without any specific desire in mind,it is hard to do so. So Sri Rudra dedicates...

  • Manvantara Kalpa Avatars Vishnu Six Classifications

    3 days ago
    • Parashurama seems to be present Dwapara,and  even in Kaliyuga as he is a Chiranjeevi, Immortal. To understand this one has to understand the Hindu Time Scale...

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • The New York Board of Regents and the New York State Education Department remain firmly committed to the testing regime that has aroused so much parent rebellion and produced no gains...

  • California: Tony Thurmond Needs Our Help As Billionaires Swarm to Aid Marshall Tuck

    12 hours ago
  • Tony Thurmond, candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, needs our help. The charter industry and billionaires are showering millions of dollars on his opponent...

  • Kevin Ohlandt: Delaware Charter School Closes Immediately, Students Out of Luck

    13 hours ago
    • Kevin Ohlandt reports that the “Delaware Academy of Safety and Security” has closed down effective immediately. The school leader has had problems with “ghost students”...

      P U L S E

  • Julian Assange barely even knows the far-right, Holocaust-denying Russian kook with six different names, the latest being “Israel Shamir.” That was the line in March 2011...

  • Trump, the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry and the Geopolitics of Sectarianization

    6 days ago
  • Nader Hashemi and I have an essay titled “Playing with Fire: Trump, the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry, and the Geopolitics of Sectarianization in the Middle East” in the Mediterranean...

  • Despite the Violence, Trump Keeps on Deporting Nicaraguans

    14 days ago
    • More than 200 Nicaraguans are in U.S. custody and facing imminent deportation back to a country where the White House, the United Nations and human rights organizations say the government...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • It was a weak week for late night science and technology guests, as my only draw is a doctor.  Freddie Highmore plays the title character on The Good Doctor, which started its second...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of September 10

    12 days ago
  • In a down year for science and technology content on late night, this was a good week. The Predator is a film premiering this week in the United States.  A follow-up to two earlier films...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of September 3

    16 days ago
    • 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...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Dave Ward   Emerging from the ice for a brief growing season every Antarctic summer, the lush green mosses of East Antarctica are finally succumbing to climate...

  • The World’s First Solar Panel Road- Not Such A Bright Idea After All!

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood     h/t Joe Public Readers might remember this headline from two years ago:     At the time even the Mail pointed out some of the drawbacks, which should be obvious...

  • Midland Summer Temperatures Rising Faster Than CET

    a day ago
    • By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Weldon   As you will remember, I challenged the Met Office’s claim that this summer was the hottest on record in England, when the CET said no such thing...

      NoTricksZone

  • PhD physicist Ralph B. Alexander has authored a new book: Science Under Attack: The Age of Unreason. What follows is a taste of what readers can expect from the book. Ideal present for...

  • Western Europe 2018/19 Winter Projected To Be Cooler Than Normal, Some Early Forecasts Suggest

    2 days ago
  • As the end of September closes in and the first signs of winter begin to appear, some people are wondering what to expect for the coming winter. Cold and snowy or mild and rainy? Meteorologists...

  • Climate Scientist Karl Zeller Sums Up The ‘Discovery’ That Pressure, Not CO2, Determines Planets’ Temps

    3 days ago
    • In an interview at the Porto Climate Conference earlier this month, Dr. Karl Zeller provided a brief overview of the theory he and Dr. Ned Nikolov developed. The model uses empirical...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • OurFuture.org: Betsy DeVos Throws Favors to For-Profit Schools The Democratic party has vowed to brand Republicans as the party of corruption in political campaigns for the...

  • Jersey Jazzman: Charter Schools Do Not Promote Diversity

    a day ago
  • Jersey Jazzman: Charter Schools Do Not Promote Diversity Peter Greene had a useful post the other day about how to spot bad education research. One sure sign is cherry-picking...

  • Shanker Blog: The Teacher Diversity Data Landscape

    3 days ago
    • Shanker Blog: The Teacher Diversity Data Landscape This week, the Albert Shanker Institute released a new research brief, authored by myself and Klarissa Cervantes. It summarizes...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is no longer fiction. We are living it right now. Google techies planned...

  • Obama Won

    2 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness By traditional metrics, Barack Obama’s presidency was mostly a failure. The economy, in a new first, never hit annualized growth of 3...

  • Oh, What a Tangled Web

    4 days ago
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The likely justification of the Republican majority for agreeing to a rehearing of the Kavanaugh nomination was political, not legal: Senate...

    The Moderate Voice

  • The American civil war was fought between 1861 to 1865. It resulted in the deaths of an estimated 620,000 people. America’s current uncivil war began near the end of the 20th century...

  • Trump is the laughingstock of the world

    11 hours ago
  • WASHINGTON — Promise made, promise kept. “The world is laughing at us,” Donald Trump often said during the campaign. The claim was not obviously true then, but Trump has made...

  • Upcoming Massacre (Cartoon, Column and Video)

    a day ago
    • Were you confused? I was. Initial reports said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was on his way to the White House to submit his resignation after The New York Times reported that...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Here is my earlier description of Emergent Ventures.  In addition to the general request for proposals, we are looking to fund research in two particular directions, so if you are...

  • My Conversation with Bruno Maçães

    15 hours ago
  • Here is the audio and transcript, here is the opening summary: Political scientist Bruno Maçães has built a career out of crossing the globe teaching, advising, writing, and talking...

  • Wednesday assorted links

    a day ago
    • 1. 1991. 2. Penelope Trunk on how the world works. 3. “Unlike prior research finding that military service provided “bridging careers” for racial minorities, black men are...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In a column by Post opinion writer Helaine Olen, she points out the “staggering hypocrisy” of Brett Kavanaugh. He has said he doesn’t...

  • Charles Foster Johnson: Why Evangelical Support for Trump Is Eroding

    5 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Charles Foster Johnson is a pastor, a supporter of public education, and a great advocate for separation of church and state. He founded...

  • Charles Foster Johnson: Vouchers Threaten Religious Liberty!

    11 days ago
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Charles Foster Johnson is a Baptist minister in Texas and founder of Pastors for Texas Children. He wrote an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle...

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  • They’re not really sure what hate is but are sure of this: They hate it. And thus should “it” — as represented by discrimination, exclusion, and a “dangerous nationalism”...

  • Top Headline - Illegal Immigrants Place a Larger Burden on U.S. Citizens

    8 hours ago
  • VIDEO - A new study shows the number of illegal immigrants in the United States is significantly higher than previously estimated. That increase shows the greater burden placed...

  • Chinese Communist Propaganda Piece in Iowa Paper Could Backfire

    9 hours ago
    • This is a blatant but clumsy attempt to influence the November midterm elections. It's doubtful it'll have any influence.

      MintPress News

  • The S-300’s superior capabilities may give Israel a pretext for increasing its attacks on Syria as well as drawing in its main ally, the United States, which has also recently sought...

  • Five Reasons to Support a Total Ban of Nuclear Weapons Today

    11 hours ago
  • The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is a roadmap to achieving the total elimination of these weapons of mass destruction. To enter into force, the Treaty must be signed...

  • What the Media Isn’t Telling You About Brett Kavanaugh

    13 hours ago
    • While Congress and the people bicker over their disagreements with Kavanaugh as he testifies, few are discussing what he has in common with both factions of the American ruling class...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Here is the audio and transcript, here is the opening summary: Political scientist Bruno Maçães has built a career out of crossing the globe teaching, advising, writing, and talking...

  • Wednesday assorted links

    a day ago
  • 1. 1991. 2. Penelope Trunk on how the world works. 3. “Unlike prior research finding that military service provided “bridging careers” for racial minorities, black men are...

  • What I’ve been reading

    a day ago
    • 1. Santiago Levy, Under-Rewarded Efforts: The Elusive Quest for Prosperity in Mexico.  Probably the best current book on Mexico’s economy and why it has not grown more rapidly. ...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • We've now had two party conferences. And thus a somewhat better idea where Labour stands. Plus more announcements from the government about how incompetent they are. (I don't think...

  • Interesting Links for 26-09-2018

    18 hours ago
  • "Think of Sweeper like a self-driving car, only with a saw on its face and a hunger for peppers." (tags: automation vegetables farming ) Possibly the best argument on Twitter (tags...

  • Interesting Links for 25-09-2018

    2 days ago
    • A Self Solving Rubik's Cube.(Is there anything humanity is necessary for now? Surely that was the last thing?) (tags: puzzle video viaSwampers ) Overweight pregnant women can safely...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • Psoriasis and pityriasis rosea are common skin conditions that can cause patches of scaly, red skin. In this article, we look at the causes and treatment of these conditions and how...

  • Medical News Today: How can psoriasis affect the mouth and tongue?

    8 hours ago
  • Psoriasis can affect any part of the body, including the mouth and tongue. The tongue may develop cracks and fissures, or smooth, red patches, in a complication called geographic...

  • Medical News Today: What are the early signs of type 2 diabetes?

    9 hours ago
    • Being able to recognize the early signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes is vital. Getting treatment and making appropriate lifestyle changes as soon as possible can reduce the risk...

      Jon's Text

  • 'Sorry is NOT enough' The contamination of blood products in the 1970s and 80s, lead to 8000 haemophiliacs dying from HIV and hepatitis C.  This is the biggest ever scandal in the NHS...

  • Medics have accepted

    9 hours ago
  • that cancer is now cured. Not using cancer drugs. But a quick buzz of ultrasound. As medically published by the Moffitt cancer centre 2002. I suggested the idea from my PhD at Sheffield...

  • Medics finely cure cancer

    10 hours ago
    • Three medical professors at a world leading cancer hospital, put out the cure of cancer using High Intensity UltraSound.  A one session cure to cancer.  Back in 2002.  That the...

      InvestmentWatch

  • New home sales disappoint despite prices dropping and having so many houses for sale. Insider selling soars as more and more get out of the market. The Fed is doing ... Read more...

  • Medical malpractice kills 500 times more Americans than accidental gun deaths… we need DOCTOR control

    3 hours ago
  • by: Isabelle Z. (Natural News) We’ve all heard the statistics about accidental gun deaths in the U.S. Many of them are overblown, of course, but even one death is too ... Read more...

  • The Presidential Alert Test & Full Senate Vote On Target

    3 hours ago
    • The deep state is pushing their agenda hard against Kavanaugh, they know that can’t all Kavanaugh get confirmed or they are done for. The deep state pushed their playbook with...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • We are always in the springtime of Utopia.  That is not to say that it is always springtime in Utopia.  That would be a silly thing to say.  If and when we ever create a Utopia, it will...

  • Poetry Chez Ad Astra

    a day ago
  • Just got back from the semi-regular, generally bi-monthly, multi-lingual poetry reading at Ad Astra, which I don’t find to be an ideal site for a poetry reading because it’s still...

  • The Heat is On

    2 days ago
    • Well the excrement has struck the proverbial fan in the Old Kavanaugh hearing.  From one witness to 3, maybe 4, with a few more salacious details.  Will ‘boofing’ be this decades...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • In an earlier column I confessed my (and my hapless wife’s) checkered association with snakes and so I suppose it’s a short step to admit that I also have an inordinate admiration...

  • WHY SWEAT THE INVASIVES?

    21 days ago
  • 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...

  • Hotter Than It Was: Not Your Imagination

    22 days ago
    • …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...
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