Wednesday, November 21, 2018

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  Washington's Blog


  • I love romaine lettuce … It stays crunchy and crispy for days at a time. But first the Centers for Disease Control, and then the Food and Drug Administration, warned all Americans...
  • Barry Sweeney is a member of the coordinating committee of World BEYOND War, of which I’m the director. Barry is based in Ireland, but is often in Vietnam and Italy. His background...

    • Preface: Our approach is to build bridges in the climate debate (see the postscript, below).  But one of our duties as investigative journalists is to debunk unscientific claims...

  • In the early 20th century, a construction boom took hold in large cities of the U.S. such as New York and Chicago. Gigantic skyscrapers were erected from the ground up, demonstrating...
  • Following the unusually hot, dry summer, the water levels in a reservoir in Derbyshire, England, have recently dropped low enough to reveal two drowned villages. Winter rains have...

    • As early as 1908, Oskar Kokoschka was making a name for himself among the emerging Viennese Expressionists, who were taking down the classical pillars of art in Europe, and replacing...

  • Originally posted on Why Evolution Is True: In my view, the only good thing that the Trump administration has done is to revise the standards American colleges should use to judge sexual...



  • Despite ISIS having been defeated (by the Russians), the U.S. is in no hurry to leave. The weapon in question was White Phosphorus (favoured by the Israelis)...
  • After 12 years away, Fred Reed returns to China to find a nation transformed

    • Trump's campaign pledge remains – like Obama’s promise to shut down Guantanamo Bay detention center – unfulfilled
      (  :) So maybe Trump can fulfill Obama's promise. That would discredit criticism big time )

      TARPLEY.net



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, November 20, 2018 Tired of Costly Failures by Their Discredited Buffoon and Puppet, Wall...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, November 19, 2018 California’s Blue Tsunami: All House Seats in Former Bastion of Orange...

    • British Government Hangs by a Thread as Tories Split into Warring Camps; Clamor for Second Referendum and Brexit Rollback Grows; Democratic Gains in U.S. House Now 37 Seats and Counting...

  • The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) has welcomed the decision of the South African biosafety authorities, rejecting Monsanto’s application for the commercial release...
  • Despite the existence of chemical-free methods to eradicate pests, Americans use more than a billion pounds of agricultural pesticides per year. These chemicals are mostly out...

    • Risky genetically modified (GM) “male-sterile” mosquitoes are due to be released in the very near future, in Burkina Faso by the Target Malaria research consortium. However...

      sunshine hours



  • No shortage of snow
  • The truth aboout carbon taxes is emerging. They con you into thinking it will be 20$ or 20€ and then suddenly they admit it will need a massive increase.   Carbon tax will have to increase...


  •   Stumbling and Mumbling



  • Nick Cohen makes a good point: Political correspondents, who couldn’t find a big picture in a multiplex, buzz around Westminster hyperventilating about the number of letters...
  • Conservative men of a certain age used to speak approvingly of some men (it was always men) as having “bottom”. By this they meant a combination of a moral code and loyalties that...
  • Angry Brexiters

    6 days ago

    • Brian Cox asks a good question: The thing I don’t understand about these Conservative MPs is that they are such angry people. They haven’t done badly out of Britain - they aren’t...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • President Sirisena’s bloodless coup in Sri Lanka is backfiring. By bringing governance to a standstill, it is undermining the president. And by seeking to install Rajapaksa as...
  • The deepening relationship between Japan and India serves the goal of forestalling the emergence of a China-centric Asia. If they can leverage their relationship to generate progress...

    • The centenary of the World War I armistice is a reminder that the war was triggered by European power struggle for territories, resources and client-states — the very pursuits of...

  • Israel Justice Minister: Trump’s Deal of the Century Peace Plan is a ‘Waste of Time’ by David Rosenberg, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/ Justice Min. doubtful...
  • Italy D-DAY: Salvini REFUSES to Change Budget – Sending SHOCKWAVES Through Brussels by CIARAN MCGRATH, https://www.express.co.uk/ ITALY and the European Union are on course...

    • Israel Closer Than Ever to Controlling Part or All of Gaza, Strategic Affairs Minister Says by Noa Landau, https://www.haaretz.com/ Gilad Erdan also says he will ask U.S. lawmakers...

  • By John RossThe new US GDP growth data released by the US last Friday entirely confirms the earlier analysis of ‘US growth under Trump is the slowest under any US President since World...
  • 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...

    • 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...

  • Sabarimala Vrata and Trupti Desai Entry
  • In 78 CE, the Hindu king Vikramaditya defeated him and killed him in the Karur region, located between Multan and the castle of Loni. The astronomers and other people started using...

    • In this heat, people are not aware that the Sabarimala Temple was set fire to and the Idol was disfigured.

  • The Missouri State Board of Education rehired the State Commissioner ousted last year by disgraced ex-Governor Eric Greitens. Margie Vandeven will resume the position from which...
  • Jeremy Mohler of “In the Public Interest” has advice for you. You should consider subscribing to its website, which keeps tabs on the privatization movement, which is attacking...

    • John Thompson here writes about his reaction to the annual conference of the Network for Public Education, where the implicit theme was that David is beating Goliath, but Goliath...

  • The drought of 2018 continues.  The highlight this past week is the only entry for the week.  On November 16 you could see the repeat of Johnny Galecki’s September appearance on...
  • Last week’s midterm Congressional elections dominated the late night and daytime talk programs, so the drought of science and technology guests continued. However, the reruns...

    • The highlight of last week’s science and technology late night content was “Science Bob” Pflugfelder.  He returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on November 1.  The science educator...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood    From the The Times:     The government has slashed the financial support on offer for new offshore wind farms, forcing developers to find further cost savings...
  • By Paul Homewood   h/t stewgreen   Andrew Montford writes in the Spectator:   It’s not like the green blob to keep quiet when there’s a threat to the environment in the offing...
  • Comme Ci, Comme Ca!

    3 days ago

    • By Paul Homewood     I could not help noticing the contrast! A few hundred hippies trying to save the planet here. Meanwhile in France there are nationwide protests against carbon...

  • Ice core study: Industrialization not the cause of the end of the Little Ice Age By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P. Gosselin)...
  • Recently I presented here an article on filmmaker Marijn Poels’s new documentary that featured former Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson, who stated that the theories of climate...

    • In the scientific literature, wind energy’s effects on human populations has increasingly garnered an ignominious reputation in recent years.  For example, wind energy is...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Curmudgucation: Should Your Three-Year-Old Attend On-line School? The short answer is, "No." Or maybe, "Hell, no." You may wonder why the subject even needs to be discussed, and...
  • Janresseger: Northwestern University Economist Uses Data to Prove Students’ Test Scores Fail to Measure Quality Teaching Mike Rose, a UCLA education professor, understands...

    • VAMboozled!: “You Are More Than Your EVAAS Score!” Justin Parmenter is a seventh-grade language arts teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. Via his blog — Notes from the...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In the post-election aftermath, Republicans are wondering about how they can capture that missing 2-5 percent of the electorate that lost...
  • The Structure of the Contemporary International System Please read a new essay by my colleague, Joseph Joffe in Strategika. A monopoly obtains when one firm is free to set prices and...

    • Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Exit polls showed that health care was the top factor in motivating voters in the 2018 election. Democrat candidates...

  • WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi had an exceptional 2018 midterm election cycle. Her prodigious fundraising and the message discipline she helped impose propelled House Democrats...
  • Saudi Killer

    41 minutes ago
  • The post Saudi Killer appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

    • By David Ignatius Washington Post Writers Group Columnist MENLO PARK, Calif. — Here’s a simple four-word wish for Thanksgiving 2018 — a day when most of us take a break from the...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • John is one of the smartest people I know, and one of my favorite people to talk to, here is the transcript and audio.  Here is the opening summary: Raised in the Philippines and taught...
  • Imagine if an alien came to earth and told us some new scientific fact that no human had ever known. Artificial intelligence is starting to do just that. Computers and AI have long given...

    • Excellent review, in Quillette, here is part of the closing sequence: Ultimately, absorbing the thesis of Stubborn Attachments would entail a radical loss of purpose for the...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Daniel Dale is a reporter for the Toronto Star. This article appeared in the New Zealand Herald. He is obsessed with fact-checking Trump...
  • Originally posted on Suzie Speaks: The last few weeks have been pretty amazing, particularly with the once-in-a-lifetime experiences that The Bloke and I have participated in for...

    • Tomorrow on November 6, 2018, if you vote, your vote will determine if you are an American Patriot or a Trump loyalist. Continue reading →

  • "Indivisible" is one of the most high-profile anti-Trump "Resistance" groups, but it is only one of many "progressive" organizations participating in the Communist Party’s...
  • It's the Fed. It's not durable goods orders or the "death cross" or other reports of an allegedly fading economy that's behind Wall Street's worries.

    • The Department of Homeland Security is using paid undercover informants to gather information on the migrant caravan moving towards the U.S. border.

  • Our future depends on your support. We need your financial help to not only sustain MintPress operation costs but to help us make a comeback against the powers that be who are trying...
  • Footage of Trump mentioning WikiLeaks and its releases over 140 times in October 2016 alone has since resurfaced, suggesting that Trump’s recent claims of ignorance in regard...

    • The day after the Pittsburgh massacre, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, was asked whether President Trump’s rhetoric motivated such attacks. Dermer instead proceeded...

  • That is the new book by David Colander and Craig Freedman, here is one short bit: The best way of conveying our conception of what is at least suggestive of a Classical Liberal stance...
  • In New York it costs billions of dollar per mile to build new subways, a price far higher than anywhere else in the world. That’s one reason why Elon Musk’s The Boring Company has...

    • Bayesian theories of perception have traditionally cast the brain as an idealised scientist, refining predictions about the outside world based on evidence sampled by the senses...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • George R.R. Martin, now 'in hiding,' has wondered if he'll ever finish The Winds of Winter (tags: gameofthrones GeorgeRRMartin ) The predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold...
  • Edible insects: Expensive, taste of sawdust, and have too many eyes. I really can't see people paying _more_ to eat insects! If insect protein was cheap, and turned into a delicious...

    • Comparing Brexit to the collapse of Yugoslavia. (tags: UK euros Yugoslavia history media fascism ) Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation (tags: surveillance...

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  • Licorice root may offer potential health benefits, such as fighting infection, preventing tooth decay, and relieving stomach discomfort. Learn more about the possible benefits...
  • People with low testosterone can increase their levels by eating certain foods. Learn about eight of the best testosterone-boosting foods here.

    • Milk of magnesia is a common over-the-counter medication for constipation relief. Learn about the uses, dosage, risks, and interactions here.

      Jon's Text



  • Global photosynthesis on land and sea Carbon dioxide at two parts per million.  Nitrogen oxides at four parts per billion.  Levels of these gases double above the arctics in winter...
  • The climate change pundits now accept global photosynthesis C02 at two parts per 1,000,000, nitrous oxides at four parts per 1,000,000,000.  Levels of these gases double above...

  • Free clean power

    2 hours ago

    • At the basal water fell, we see water turn into helium and oxygen gases. With light flashes, X-rays and massive heat.1 H2O+TU->He+O+E2+L+X-ray I told Sheffield University about...

  • From Birch Gold Group Home builders across the U.S. are struggling to come to grips with an incredibly toxic combination of rising rates and lack of affordability in the...
  • by Jon Rappoport Here I am printing the abstract of a new study: “Aluminium in brain tissue in autism.” The publication is Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology...

    • by Dr. Eowyn During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump and his “deplorable” supporters repeatedly called for “locking up” Hillary Clinton for her illegal use...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • Normally, when I see headlines saying “Mic drop” or “totally eviscerates” with regard to some tweet somebody has tweeted, I don’t even bother looking because every time...
  • 2035? Too Slow

    a day ago
  • I do like Tulsi Gabbard, so this blog is about one detail of one policy, in which I totally agree with her in  the main.  Among her stated goals, she lists “complete change to renewable...
  • Stage 2

    2 days ago

    • While planting massive numbers of trees will go a long way to cleaning up the environment, cost very little money, and have lots of side benefits, it is still  only part 1 of the solution...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • The title is the name of the first section of what I once imagined–and still sometimes am certain–will be a book whose title will be “One Place Understood.” The first chapter...
  • …Brazil has elected a new far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, who favors abolishing protected indigenous lands. He has promised to scale back enforcement of environmental...

    • No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well...

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