Wednesday, October 03, 2018

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  Washington's Blog







  • Is there a labor shortage in the U.S.? Employers are shouting “yes.” Economists keep looking for wage increases as evidence of a labor shortage, and since wage increases are...

    •   #NoWar #Afghanistan #WorldBEYONDWar



  • Piloting an airplane is a responsible job, and being a pilot requires a lot of training and knowledge. However, with today’s advanced technology, it’s easy to imagine that the...
  • As many hairstyle trends come and go, there seems to be one that resurfaces with a vengeance like the seasonal flu. The mullet features close-cropped hair on the sides and long flowing...

    • A bizarre-looking oval-shaped sea creature that looks like a cross between a leaf and a thumbprint and grew to be four and a half feet long and almost as wide is being hailed as the “Holy...



      Utopia – you are standing in it!






  • Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Credit: NASA Meet ‘The Goblin’. This body’s maximum distance from the Sun is a massive 2300 times further out than Earth’s. A...

    • Originally posted on BBC Watch: The September 22nd edition of the documentary series ‘Our World’ aired on the BBC World News channel and the BBC News channel was titled ‘Gaza...



  • Having failed in Syria, the U.S. is switching to an option set up by the Obama administration in 2014 as a potential flashpoint for confrontation with Russia...
  • Found in the archives of the U.S. Department of Justice, this 1988 document confirms that satanic mind controls methods are not the stuff of fiction
  • The Streets of Paris

    8 hours ago

    • This video illustrates why Chinese tourists are being advised to avoid what was once known as the "world's most romantic city". Like other European cities, Paris is developing its...



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Republicans Demand Report Be Kept Secret from Public; Farcical FBI Background...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, October 1, 2018 White House Lawyer McGahn Puts Just Four Names on Witness List, and Trump Lies...

    • FBI to Probe Charges Against Kavanaugh; Trump’s Senate Majority Crumbles Under Popular Revulsion; Flake Shamed into Breaking GOP Phalanx by Two Brave Rape Victims in Elevator...



  • Brazil’s federal public prosecutor has filed a public civil action requiring the suspension of commercial release of three GM maize seed varieties: Monsanto’s MON87411...
  • The Environmental Working Group, joined by food and nutrition companies including MegaFood, Ben & Jerry’s, Stonyfield Farm, MOM’s Organic Market, Nature’s Path, One...

    • The scientific journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology has issued a rare “Expression of Concern” and requested corrections to articles it published that failed to...



  • South / North
  • South / North

    • Winter is a killer. An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades. The director of the...



      Stumbling and Mumbling





  • Jeff Sparrow accuses the left of being smug elitists who dismiss ordinary people as being dopes and fools. I don’t doubt that there is an element of superciliousness within the left...
  • When detail matters

    3 days ago
  • Chris Giles says that in predicting that a no-deal Brexit will cause house prices to fall 35%, Mark Carney’s has fallen “into the trap of giving his audience precise numbers at...

    • There’s something that troubles me about Labour’s otherwise admirable plan for greater worker ownership. It’s that it could fall victim to neoliberal* performativity...



      Stagecraft and Statecraft





  • Russia, China and Iran now backing Taliban and stymieing U.S. peace efforts Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review Not for the first time, the U.S. is showing signs of desperation...
    " making allies pay their fair share for defense."
    Too funny. Puppet governments are unable to pay more for 'defense' than their national budget. Cost comes from bombing the poor from large aircraft with atrocious operating expenses and ridiculous outlay for ordnance.  And if Trump is referring to anyone else - foreign adventures are a matter of 'defense' only to the geographically challenged.
  • The China Backlash

    5 days ago
  • US President Donald Trump’s headline-grabbing trade war with China should not obscure a broader pushback against the country’s mercantilist trade, investment, and lending...

    • 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...



      Socio-Economics History Blog





  • PressTV Published on Oct 2, 2018 On the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, the sun does not rise for four months of the year and it is so cold that no trees grow there. end...
  • RonPaulLibertyReport Streamed live 9 hours ago As often happens, the US trade war with China is heating up and spilling over to the military realm. Recent skirmishes in the South...

    • Over 50 Injured as Israeli Forces Use Live Fire to Disperse Gaza Protesters by https://www.presstv.com/ More than 50 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli gunfire and tear...



      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





  • Though considered an Avatar of Siva he composed hymns on Devi,Subrahmanya,Ganesha,Vishnu
  • It is quite sometime that I stopped writing about other Religions,excepting to draw comparative analysis. And about Politics. Reason is that my readers felt that I should write on...

    • The age of, Eight for Brahmins, Twelve for Kshatriya, Sixteen for Vaisya.



  • Commonweal, the highly respected Roman Catholic Magazine, posted an editorial opposing the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh because of his “injudicuousness.” The editors...
  • The Network for Public Education Action Fund endorses Vangie Williams for Congress in Virginia! Vangie Williams is running in Virginia’s First Congressional District. She is...

    • The Intercept runs down a list of the most egregious lies told by Brett Kavanaugh to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The issue is no longer what did or did not happen in the summer...



  • 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...
  • 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...

    • 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...



  • Given the week in politics in the United States, it’s not that surprising that there was little this week in science and technology bookings during late night.  Thankfully, not...
  • 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...

    • 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...



      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT





  •   DMI confirm that the average Arctic sea ice extent during September was the fourth highest since 2006, and the greatest since 2014.       http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover_30y.uk.php...
  • By Paul Homewood   Silly season continues at the BBC:   Insects will be at the heart of worldwide crop losses as the climate warms up, predicts a US study. Scientists estimate the pests...

    • By Paul Homewood   H/t Dave Ward     Virtue signalling Isabel Hardman finds out the hard way why nobody wants electric cars, other than a few eco nuts.   From the Mail:     My electric...



  • A recent study by Xiong et al titled Holocene sea-level history of the northern coast of South China Sea tells us that sea level rise today is total within the range of natural variability...
  • 6 New Papers Link Arctic/North Atlantic Climate Changes To Natural Factors 1. Natural variability/NAO/AMO “predominantly force ocean temperatures” and Greenland ice sheet...

    • We have to face it: The West has done our planet no favor by moving industrial production and manufacturing to China. Trump is right, many of factories and industries are better back...



      NEPC Blog Post of the Day





  • Shanker Blog: Weaning Educational Research Off of Steroids Our guest authors today are Hunter Gehlbach and Carly D. Robinson. Gehlbach is an associate professor of education...
  • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Detracking? About one-third of 8th graders now take algebra. Thirty years ago, about 16 percent took...

    • Cloaking Inequity: California Just Banned For-Profit Charter Schools. Why? California just banned for-profit charter schools. Existing California law, the Charter Schools...



      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers





  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Michael O’Hanlon presented recently a persuasive argument why Defense Secretary James Mattis should stay on the job for at least the duration...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Conventional wisdom suggests that, if confirmed, Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh forever will be “smeared” and stained by past frenzied...

    • From An Angry Reader: Dear Dr. Hanson, I am an angry reader. I am angry because my two candidates for Senator from the state of California are both evil and/or just plain stupid. Who should...



    The Moderate Voice





  • Did you know Brett Kavanaugh likes beer? You would be forgiven if you didn’t catch Kavanaugh’s like for beer during last Thursday’s confirmation hearing before the Senate...
  • For this week’s Great Music, I am returning to probably my favorite composer – Chopin. Since I written about Chopin before, I’ll just remind you that he was born in Poland and...

    • Gianmarco Daniele, Bocconi University Italy is not the only country with an organized crime problem. But movies and TV shows like “Scarface,” “The Godfather” and “Gomorrah”...



      Marginal REVOLUTION





  • Donna Strickland (at right) was on Tuesday named one of the three winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. Many have noted that she is the first woman in 55 years to win the prize. The BBC...
  • 1. Why do snipers open their mouths when about to shoot? 2. The left-wing case against tenure. 3. Current policies to promote car pooling often increase social cost. 4. Register for...

    • China will be less severe with its smog curbs this winter as it grapples with slower economic growth and a trade war with the United States, according to a government plan released on...



  • 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...
  • 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...

    • 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...



  • Azusa Pacific University reversed — or at least made a strategic retreat from — its recent decision to allow same-sex romantic relationships on campus...
  • California’s Democratic Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have mandated public universities in California to provide the abortion pill to students...

    • During his recent political rally in Johnson City, Tennessee, President Trump brought up keeping Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill as one of his achievements in office...



  • The latest attack comes just hours after Saudi Arabia admitted that its forces have committed what it called “certain mistakes” in Yemen, after increasing pressure from international...
  • The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Monday examined the Saudi record on compliance with a treaty protocol on children in armed conflict, and repeatedly raised the issue of...

    • Critics warn the new agreement would make it harder "to hold Big Oil and Gas accountable" while also threatening "efforts to protect consumers, workers, and the environment." The...



      Marginal REVOLUTION





  • …led by Pat Bajari, Amazon has hired more than 150 Ph.D. economists in the past five years, making them the largest employer of tech economists.  In fact, Amazon now has several...
  • Negotiations for the preliminary agreement would be conducted under a new process, which the State Department, employing classic bureaucratic jargon, called “the selective...

    • 1. U.S.-based renewable energy firms were not hurt by the election of Trump. 2. Commuting by bicycle in the U.S. is down since 2014.  The post also considers why. 3. There are now more...



      Made from Truth and Lies





  • DUP 's Arlene Foster says Good Friday Agreement not 'sacrosanct' (tags: uk NorthernIreland Ireland doom ) U.S. to partners of U.N. LGBTQ staff: Get married, or get out (tags: marriage...
  • Nicolas Cage: ‘If I don’t have a job to do, I can be very self-destructive’ (tags: acting movies ) Postman Pat and… the law of merchandise (tags: merchandising law contracts...

    • You are always allowed to leave (tags: boundaries advice society ) Ethiopian baboons are domesticating wolves (tags: monkey wolves ) He Got Schizophrenia. He Got Cancer. And Then...



    Featured Health News from Medical News Today





  • Why is it so hard to choose sometimes? Researchers explain what happens in the brain during this process, and what the ideal number of choices may be.
  • New research suggests that adding a virtual reality headset to your workout could boost your performance and reduce your perception of pain.

    • Psoriasis and ringworm both cause red, scaly rashes to appear on the skin. Learn how to tell psoriasis and ringworm apart, plus how to identify other common skin rashes, here...
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      InvestmentWatch


  • These guys have some dank charts: fred.stlouisfed.org Here are a few neat ones: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HTRUCKSSAAR fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PERMIT fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE...
  • PespiCo CFO Hugh Johnston told CNBC on Tuesday the company will look “critically” at investing in cannabis. Cannabis federally illegal in the U.S., but it is legal in Canada...

    • This is unbelievable: For the exact same stock… Yahoo says 28.49 P/E ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/ENB.TO/key-statistics?p=ENB.TO While Google says 168! www.google.com/search?tbm=fin&ei=01CyW6qwBOjXjwSAjqfICg&q=enbridge&oq=enbridge&gs_l=finance-immersive.3..81l3.1782.2686.0.2781.10.8.0.0.0.0.338.985.0j1j2j1.4.0….0…1.1.64.finance-immersive..6.4.984.0…0.3cP3iTfa8IY#scso=_11CyW6Ub6duPBLGqp7gF1:0...

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  • I was pretty jazzed when I read that Amazon was giving all its workers big raises, at least all those in the U.S. and the U.K., even part time and seasonal employees.  “Damn,” I thought...
  • It’s the Perjury

    2 days ago
  • I hate to be writing about the Kavanaugh case again, but a quick perusal of Facebook, my usual source for news, indicates that nothing else of significance is happening in the world. ...
  • We

    3 days ago

    • I’m reading ‘We’ by ….well, I think it’s Zamyatin, or something like that.  Russian, from around 1921 or so.  It’s influence on Orwell is obvious, he makes a big deal...

      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...
  • 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...

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