Wednesday, October 31, 2018

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  Washington's Blog



  • It seems self-evident that the divisiveness that characterizes this juncture of American history is manifesting profound social and economic disorders that have little to do with...

  • 4 Years Into the War- the Outlook for Lugansk People’s Republic

    a day ago
  • Leonid Pasichnik, the acting Head of Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR)has been in office for almost one year. With the state of his reforms in LNR, you want to judge him against leaders...

  • Talk Nation Radio: Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Migrant Caravan

    a day ago

    • Suyapa Portillo Villeda is an Associate Professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer College. She recently published an article in Counter Punch called An...

      The Vintage News



  • For some children out there, and a fair few grown-ups, a plastic doll is more than just a plaything. People frightened of dolls find those happy smiling faces take on the aspect of something...

  • Disney-Themed House With Mickey Mouse Shaped Pools Up For Sale

    11 hours ago
  • Some people really love Disney World. In fact, they want to be reminded of it every minute of the day and night. A Disney-themed house with two Mickey Mouse-shaped pools is up for sale...

  • A Red Velvet Clue in the Ongoing Mystery of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Missing Head

    11 hours ago

    • Just in time for the 400th anniversary of Sir Walter Raleigh’s execution for treason, questions swirl about what became of his head following that famous chop of the ax. His body...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!



  • Originally posted on Inforrm's Blog: Judges have their role to play, and Parliamentarians theirs, and “it is for the public to judge whether what I have done is right or wrong”...

  • Robert Craig: The Peter Hain Case: The Effect of Article IX

    2 hours ago
  • Originally posted on UK Constitutional Law Association: Peter Hain’s decision to breach an interim injunction granted by the Court of Appeal in the case of ABC v Telegraph Media...

  • Best Sellers or Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove

    2 hours ago


    • The Truthseeker



  • Gearoid O Colmain -Jews have nothing to fear from Christian critique of political Judaism

  • Everything points to a synagogue massacre that DID NOT take place at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life

    18 hours ago
  • Nothing whatsoever has been presented that proves the synagogue massacre even happened

  • Collaboration of Bellingcat Founder and ISIS Twitter Account Exposed in New Report

    21 hours ago

    • Exposing ties between Western 'security experts' linked to government think tanks and a twitter troll who recruited ISIS militants

      TARPLEY.net



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Dead Cat Bounce for Stocks, but Mediocre Facebook Results Set Stage for...

  • At White House Briefing, Corporate Media Have No Questions About Wall Street Crash, the Biggest Voting Issue of Them All!

    2 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, October 29, 2018 89 Years After 1929 Panic, Wild Swings in Stock Prices as Dow Gyrates Across...

  • Trump Hooverized by Ongoing Stock Market Implosion

    4 days ago

    • Ominous S&P Double Top Emerges; S&P Now in Correction Territory at 2659; A Dive Below 2580 Would Unleash “The Sum of All Fears”; FBI’s Bombing Suspect Cesar Sayoc Is...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • Sustainable Pulse interview with Christine Fitzgerald, Owner of SmartVine, the first ever Glyphosate Residue Free certified wine. When did your company start to produce wine and...

  • Bombshell New Study Calls for Ban On Pesticide Family Tied To Brain Damage In Kids

    5 days ago
  • The entire family of widely used pesticides known as organophosphates causes brain damage in children even at low levels of exposure ― and should be phased out. Source: By Alexander...

  • New EWG Tests Find Glyphosate in All Kids’ Cereals Sampled

    6 days ago

    • A second round of tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group found the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer in every sample of popular oat-based cereal...

      sunshine hours



  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 299 – 2018

    4 days ago
  • A bit of a jump in Arctic/Global South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 297 – 2018

    6 days ago

    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • Our tastes are seasonal. As winter approaches, we eat less salad and fish and more stews, and I for one listen to less swamp pop and more Leonard Cohen and Townes Van Zandt. What’s true...

  • Not debating diversity

    4 days ago
  • Was Mill right? This, ultimately, is the question raised by the argument over whether centrists should debate with rightists whether diversity is a threat. Mill thought that: [Mankind’s]...

  • Our feeble intelligence

    7 days ago

    • I don’t have cancer. I know most of you don’t give a damn about this, but it highlighted for me an under-appreciated fact - of just how limited a role intelligence plays in our life...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • Over the last couple of years, the China-policy debate in the US has begun to reflect more realism, with a growing number of voices recognizing China’s ambition to supplant its American...

  • The linchpins for a rules-based Indo-Pacific

    6 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Japan Times The spotlight on the Beijing summit between Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping cannot obscure the more substantive discussions starting...

  • Pakistan’s double game stymies Trump’s Afghan peace effort

    6 days ago

    • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times The US war in Afghanistan has already lasted more than twice as long as World War II, exacting a staggering cost in blood and treasure. With the...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • Zionist war propaganda to portray themselves as righteous victims reacting defensively to the aggressive actions of the Palestinian terrorists. The opposite is true. The propaganda...

  • France Sends Top Envoy to Push Restarting Israel-Palestinian Talks — Preparations for Paris Peace Forum in November

    4 hours ago
  • France Sends Top Envoy to Push Restarting Israel-Palestinian Talks by RAOUL WOOTLIFF, https://www.timesofisrael.com/, 31 Oct 2018 National security adviser reportedly...

  • Pompeo Called on Saudi Arabia to Stop Air Strikes on the Yemen

    4 hours ago


    •   Socialist Economic Bulletin



  • By John RossThe US is fighting the trade war against China on two fronts.·         The first is the US external economic attack on China, primarily centred at present...

  • Austerity isn’t over. It will resume, but it has been suspended for one year

    2 days ago
  • By Tom O’LearyThe claim for the latest Tory Budget is that ‘austerity is coming to an end’, and has been dutifully echoed by the Tory press and the BBC.In reality austerity policies...

  • The changing character of the workforce

    17 days ago

    • By Tom O’Leary The British workforce is undergoing tumultuous changes. It is important for both economic policy and political strategy to grasp the nature of those changes. In...

      Ramani's blog



  • 2. Azhwars's dates are also based on Tamil kings' List. 3. Tamil Kings's List is mainly based on Temple Epigraphy and Tamil literature. It is a fad to dismiss Epigraphy as nonsense if...

  • Lemuria Landmass North West Sri Lanka New Archeology Find

    3 days ago
  • One would find a lot of anamolies in the landmass presently called as India. Though there are more than twenty eight languages and over 3000 dialects, there is an undercurrent … Continue...

  • Sabarimala Iyappan Vrata Mensurating Women Entry Clarification

    4 days ago

    • They compliment each other but never compete. Each has a distinct identity and function,which can not be performed by the other. I am yet to see a Man who can change a diaper with ease,who...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • You need a laugh today.

  • Mike Pence’s Fake Rabbi Was a Defrocked Fake Rabbi: A Fake Fake Rabbi

    10 hours ago
  • We will never find out how low they will go. This one, at least, is funny. Mike Pence held a rally in Michigan. He wanted to show his respect to the victims of the massacre at the Tree of Life...

  • New Orleans: Delta Charter School Ordered to Desegregate by Federal Appeals Court

    12 hours ago

    • A federal appeals court ordered the Delta Charter School to accept more African-American students. The school expanded into another parish, which was under a desegregation order...

      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

    a month 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

    2 months 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



  • While I have complained regularly this year about the (relative) dearth of late night and other talks how bookings of science and technology related guests, this past week was one...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of October 15

    8 days ago
  • Last week started with one of the frequent themes in these posts – an actor from The Big Bang Theory.  Kunal Nayyar, who plays an engineer on the show, was on with Ellen on October 15...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of October 8

    18 days ago

    • Even in reruns, October is shaping up to be a record for Neil DeGrasse Tyson.  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert re-ran both of his September appearances this past week.  On the 9th...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Robin Guenier   Once again, the IEA is trying to stir things up re “fossil fuel subsidies”:   Worldwide fossil fuel consumption subsidies almost halved...

  • Fracking’s enemies are wrong to call these earthquakes

    11 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood   Matt Ridley writes in The Times:   Last Saturday, BBC Radio 4 ran throughout the day with headline news about the shale-gas company Cuadrilla causing “micro-earthquakes”...

  • Coastal Erosion Is Nothing New

    16 hours ago

    • By Paul Homewood John Gummer was trying to scare us about coastal erosion last week, but perhaps he ought to study a bit of history. Countryside Magazine has a neat summary of some of...

      NoTricksZone



  • While German activists are growing hysterical over fine particle emissions from today’s relatively cleaner diesel automobiles, the German Allgemeine Zeitung here reports...

  • Climate Book By Japanese Physics Professor: “The Globe Isn’t Warming Anymore”…IPCC “Scientifically Immoral”

    9 days ago
  • By Kirye Edited by P Gosselin A climate skeptic book by Japanese physicist and Professor Emeritus Yuh Fukai released in October, 2015, was recently released in Kindle version...

  • 2 New Papers: World’s Heat-Related Deaths Are Declining…Cold Weather Is 20-42 Times More Deadly

    10 days ago

    • Observations from two new papers undermine the narrative that says recent and future warming may be dangerous and undesirable. Scientists have determined that (1) people are...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Educating. Institutional Mourning: Chicago School Closings and the Supreme Court The Children Are Watching In 2013 Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel closed 49 public schools at one...

  • Answer Sheet: Education Professor: My Students Asked Who I Would Vote For. Here’s What I Told Them.

    a day ago
  • Answer Sheet: Education Professor: My Students Asked Who I Would Vote For. Here’s What I Told Them. Voters read sample ballots outside the Pulaski County Regional Building in Little...

  • Cloaking Inequity: Examining the Myth of Accountability, High-Stakes Testing and the Achievement Gap

    3 days ago

    • Cloaking Inequity: Examining the Myth of Accountability, High-Stakes Testing and the Achievement Gap We are proud to announce a new peer-reviewed paper entitled Examining the...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness A“caravan”—the euphemism for a current foot-army of more than 10,000 Central Americans—of would-be border crossers has now...

  • One Person can (In)validate the Steele Dossier and No One Seems to Bother

    2 days ago
  • Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in Ricochet Christopher Steele deliberately constructed his Trump dossier to be unverifiable. As long as it remains...

  • New Online Course at Hillsdale College

    3 days ago

    • I will be teaching a new online course on World War II at Hillsdale College. See the following tweet for more information. Purchase a copy of The Second World Wars here.   We have a new...

    The Moderate Voice



  • WASHINGTON — Eleven Jews are dead in Pittsburgh, gunned down during Shabbat services allegedly by a man who shared President Trump’s paranoia about a migrant caravan. Pipe bombs...

  • Why Halloween is so Monstrously Like Election Day

    6 hours ago
  • Raging Moderate by Will Durst Be careful out there folks, because we’re in the middle of that scary time of year when spooky, hollow-eyed, costumed creatures come begging for treats...

  • Trump’s Trick or Treat

    9 hours ago

    • The president’s games of Let’s Pretend and vilification have dire consequences. By Michael Winship U.S. President Donald Trump talks with a child dressed as a skeleton with...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • The original Sears mail-order catalogue changed how African Americans in the South shopped: …the catalogue format allowed for anonymity, ensuring that black and white customers...

  • Hope is not lost

    3 days ago
  • While some say wisdom comes with age, younger Americans are better than their elders at separating factual from opinion statements in the news, according to a new analysis from Pew...

  • Wednesday assorted links

    12 hours ago

    • 1. Cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes. 2. No Coase theorem: “Opinion polls show more than 50 per cent of Greeks oppose the June deal because the government controversially...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



  • When the Republican Party endorses a Democratic candidate running against another Democrat, you know who the fake Democrat is. Continue reading →

  • Trump’s Anti-Semitic “Dog Whistles” and More

    2 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In 2016, Trump’s campaign ads appealed to (very) thinly disguised anti-Semitism. He let his friends in the Alt Right know that he was...

  • Cancer threatens a combat vet’s best friend and lifesaver

    a month ago

    • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Guest post by Lisa Bonnington Robbie spent four years as a US Marine before he became a Green Beret Special Forces medic in the Army...

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  • After the tragic Saturday shooting that claimed 11 lives at a Pittsburgh synagogue, there has been, lamentably, a predictable response.

  • Lindsey Graham to Introduce Bill to Eliminate Birthright Citizenship

    6 hours ago
  • Until birthright citizenship is eliminated, efforts to get a handle on the country's problem of illegal immigration, might be doomed to failure.

  • Yahoo Users Fed Steady Diet of Liberal Headlines

    7 hours ago

    • If Yahoo users’ knowledge of the world, or at least the U.S. political and social scene, were limited to what they see on Yahoo, they would conclude that America is a pretty liberal...

      MintPress News



  • “Most of the Arab regimes in question are corrupt, extremely repressive and beholden to imperialism, and have no great political differences with Israel.” -- Lebanese-American...

  • American Woman Turns to Hunger Strike to Break Media Blackout on Yemen

    12 hours ago
  • “How unfair it is for me to have food when millions of people, including pregnant women and children, don’t have any food because of corrupt people in my complicit media hiding...

  • US Sanctions Cost Venezuela $6B Since August 2017, Sparking Humanitarian Catastrophe

    14 hours ago

    • Cutting Caracas out of the international market has already triggered a widespread humanitarian catastrophe causing ordinary Venezuelans to suffer the consequences. The post...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • 1. Cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes. 2. No Coase theorem: “Opinion polls show more than 50 per cent of Greeks oppose the June deal because the government controversially...

  • Do female department chairs matter?

    14 hours ago
  • Appointing female managers is a common proposal to improve women’s representation and outcomes in the workplace, but it is unclear how well such policies accomplish these goals...

  • Can You Outsmart an Economist?

    17 hours ago

    • Can You Outsmart an Economist? is an excellent book of puzzles put together by Steven Landsburg. Steve includes a lot of classics such as the Girl Named Florida Problem, the Potato...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (tags: programming language history design ) German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients (tags: murder germany healthcare ) The...

  • Interesting Links for 30-10-2018

    2 days ago
  • The U.S. Catholic Church is facing an unprecedented wave of sex abuse investigations (tags: abuse catholicism usa crime ) Remainers shouldn't assume EU leaders will welcome another...

  • Testing self-driving cars

    3 days ago

    • There's an interesting discussion here of self-driving car safety, and how to measure how effective it is.And while it seemed reasonable enough, I realised that what I'd really like...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • While vaccines exist for hepatitis A and B, researchers are still developing a vaccine for hepatitis C. Learn more about future treatments in this article...

  • Medical News Today: How to treat severe eczema

    11 hours ago
  • Treating severe eczema can be challenging, but certain intensive treatments can help reduce symptoms. Learn about what doctors can do for severe eczema in adults and children here...

  • Medical News Today: Forms of tobacco that give you cancer

    11 hours ago

    • Many people try nicotine replacement or vaping as an alternative to smoking cigarettes. However, people often speculate as to whether there is a link between nicotine consumption...

      Jon's Text



  • I helped cure all cancers, heart disease, diabetes, the common cold, mental health problems and AIDs.Ultrasound - cancer cureBy Jonathan M ThomasonView this Author's SpotlightPaperback...

  • So HIV/AIDs was cured 2012

    6 hours ago
  • Due to my time doing PhD work at Sheffield University 2000, I thought the idea of using High Intensity UltraSound to clear cancer. But no medic will admit it. They want to prescribe drugs...

  • Drug companies gone

    9 hours ago

    • Since the Moffitt cancer centre published the cure to cancer in 2002, no Dr. or medical professor has real to research biochemistry. They've found High Intensity UltraSound totally...

      InvestmentWatch



  • by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan The so-called “Godfather” of market chart analysis said that the damage already done to the stock market is much worse than most people are talking...

  • Tips for basic home food preservation and canning

    2 hours ago
  • by: Zoey Sky (Natural News) Have you noticed that the nutrition labels on your favorite fruits, vegetables, and other commercially preserved foods often contain sodium and different...

  • Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan brags that there is no agency of government which can overrule the actions of the Fed.

    2 hours ago

    • The deceptively-named “Federal Reserve” is really a private, foreign-owned, profit-making bank which has complete control over our money supply and credit. It is not a government...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • I posted a post two days ago (I’ve looked at the time, in fact it’s almost exactly 48 hours as I’m writing this) on what I think is the most important issue facing  us at this moment...

  • Trump in Pittsburgh

    a day ago
  • Donald Trump is in Pittsburgh right now, offending as many people as egregiously as possible, either because he’s retarded or he’s just that much of a jerk or (and in his case, this...

  • Why Right Wingers Win

    2 days ago

    • I’m quite worried by Bolsonaro’s election.  Partly because of Brazil’s size (both in population and in area, it’s more than 50% of South America), partly because he’s...
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