Thursday, November 08, 2018

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  Washington's Blog



  • Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is famous as an extension of their domestic infrastructure investments, but...
  • Sidebar : levees.org/contact
    The federal government’s study of the failed levee system during Katrina was convened and managed by the agency responsible for its performance – the Army Corps of Engineers.

  • What Else You Can Do

    2 days ago
  • You’ve been radically misled to believe that the only thing, or the most important thing, or one of the super important things you can do is vote. Voting in a functioning democracy...

  • Talk Nation Radio: Greta Zarro on Organizing a World BEYOND War

    2 days ago

    • Greta Zarro is Organizing Director at World BEYOND War. She has a background in issue-based community organizing. Her experience includes volunteer recruitment and engagement...

      The Vintage News



  • In 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down, forcing the people who lived in the area to evacuate. Many of those who evacuated thought that they would be able to return home in...

  • To Save Gas During WWI People (and Criminals) Zoomed by on ‘Autopeds’

    For me, this link failed to load : 9:33 am MST  Autoped    also
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  • During the First World War, it quickly became apparent to the Allies that gasoline had to be spared as much as possible if they intend to come out victorious. Among other things that...

  • The Mystery of How the Great Pyramids were Built May Finally Have Been Solved

    5 hours ago

    • The discovery of a sophisticated ramp system might solve the centuries-old mystery that has so obsessed historians and archaeologists: How did the ancient Egyptians build the Great...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • Early Christian Schisms – The Council of Nicaea – Extra History – #3

    3 hours ago

  • The Wire – McNulty has a theory

    4 hours ago


    • The Truthseeker



  • This follows new restrictions imposed by Washington last week targeting Venezuela's gold exports

  • Fight Against Last Vestige of ISIS in Syria Stalls, to Dismay of U.S.

    10 hours ago
  • Far from being a spent force, ISIS (otherwise known as Islamic State, ISIL or Daesh) could be resurgent, says US counter terrorism official

  • Yemen death toll five times higher than previous estimate, researchers say

    10 hours ago

    • At least 56,000 have been killed in the conflict since January 2016. In addition to 1.1 million cases of cholera having been reported

      TARPLEY.net



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, November 7, 2018 Trump Berserk in Defeat, Fires Attorney General Sessions; Deputy AG...

  • Civilization or New Fascist Era Hang in Balance as Americans Set New Midterm Voter Turnout Record!

    a day ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Health Care Emerges as Top Voting Issue, Eclipsing Immigration Hysteria...

  • Weekend Shift of Mass Psychology in Favor of Democrats Suggested by Last Congress, Florida and Missouri Polls!

    2 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, November 5, 2018 Our Conjecture: Democrats Gain 42 Seats in House, 2 in Senate, to Take Control...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • The Greens / European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament released the results Wednesday of a unique long-term exposure pesticide testing project, initiated by The Detox...

  • US EPA is Once Again Complicit in Driving Farmers in the Wrong Weed Management Direction

    3 days ago
  • Much will be said about the EPA’s October 31, 2018 decision to extend for two more years the conditional registration of the three dicamba-based herbicides registered for...

  • SmartVine Enters the Market as First Ever Glyphosate Residue Free Certified Wine

    8 days ago

    • 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...

      sunshine hours



  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 310 – 2018

    a day ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 309 – 2018

    2 days ago

    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • Eric Lonergan’s good discussion of fiscal rules has triggered an intemperate debate about MMT. For me, though, it poses a question: from which fact(s) should thinking about macro...

  • Not wearing a poppy

    a day ago
  • I agree with Harry Leslie Smith. I too am increasingly disinclined to wear a poppy. The thing is that the nature of national remembrance has changed. For the first 60+ years after it...

  • The triumph of the liberal technocrats

    4 days ago

    • Brexiters have something in common with anti-pornography campaigners. That’s the idea that struck me whilst reading Alwyn Turner’s account of the failure to establish public...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • India’s stance vindicated as China’s grandiose BRI plans run into resistance Brahma Chellaney, The Times of India Sierra Leone has become the latest country to scrap a Belt...

  • The End of America’s China Fantasy

    12 days ago
  • 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

    13 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...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • Kushner and Mossad in Jordan: Israeli-Arab Secret Meeting in Aqaba Revealed by SyndiGate.info, http://www.albawaba.com/, 28 June 2018 He was called the “Godfather”...

  • Major Math Error Puts Widely-Cited Global Warming Study On Ice

    14 hours ago
  • Major Math Error Puts Widely-Cited Global Warming Study On Ice by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/ An widely-circulated study which concluded that global warming...

  • Israeli Settlers Dump Sewage on Palestinian School in Qalqiliya

    14 hours ago

    • Israel Settlers Dump Sewage on Palestinian School in Qalqiliya by https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/ Israeli settlers dumped their sewage on a Palestinian school in the northern...

      Socialist Economic Bulletin



  • 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...

  • US growth under Trump is the slowest under any US President since World War II

    9 days ago
  • 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

    9 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...

      Ramani's blog



  • Christianity propagates that it is rational and grants equal rights to women. And there is no caste or subdivisions in Christianity. Christianity has over 5000 Sects Corinthians...

  • Rama Sethu Adams Bridge Description Al Biruni and Foreign Historians.

    4 hours ago
  • References to Ramayana by other foreign writers. ▪ Marco Polo- 1271 CE ▪ Ludovico de Varthema- 1470 CE ▪ Asiatic Society- 1799 CE

  • By Whom How Indian Texts Became Myths

    2 days ago

    • 1. Call Indian texts as Myths. 2. Infiltrate Hinduism in the guise of scholars like Maxmueller and destroy it cunningly,by misinterpret Hindu texts. 3.Offer inducements to converts...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • The Aspire charter chain in Memphis is in trouble and debating its future. This is one of billionaire Reed Hastings’ investments, and it is not faring well. Facing a roughly $2 million...

  • Reed Hastings: Destroyer of Public Schools

    an hour ago
  • Reed Hastings, billionaire founder of Netflix, hates public schools. He wants to eliminate school boards and replace them with corporate management. He has spent more than $100...

  • Sue Legg: Twenty Years of School Choice in Florida : Part 1

    2 hours ago

    • Sue Legg was assessment and evaluation contractor for the Fl. DOE for twenty years while on the faculty at the University of Florida. She recently stepped down as Education Director...

      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...
  • ( I suspect the state pawns ... this is an AP story...are a lot more excited about 'holocaust denial' than I am. Of course, if you want to look at the number of other holocausts which are never worthy of attention, I might do better. )

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

    2 months 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...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • 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...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of October 22

    12 days ago
  • 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

    16 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...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood       Extreme weather is the most likely and severe threat facing humanity!     For many years now, the public have refused to be scared by slightly higher temperatures...

  • Pop Up Ads

    5 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood   Somebody commented the other day about pop ups appearing on this site. It appears that WUWT and probably other WordPress sites are also affected. I have copied Anthony’s...

  • Drill, Baby, Drill!

    2 days ago

    • By Paul Homewood h/t Dave Ward   Drilling miles underground? Pumping water in under pressure? Now I wonder where I heard that before?   Drilling work is beginning at what may become...

      NoTricksZone



  • Earlier this year in Ljubljana, Slovenia, acoustics and health expert Dr. Mariana Alves Pereira explained the impacts low frequency infrasound can have on health. It’s far...

  • EU Climate Policy “In Crisis” Says Director Of London-Based Foundation To Leading Japanese Daily

    2 days ago
  • Comments on Europe’s energy transition by Dr. Benny Peiser, Director of the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation, appeared in the Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun, the world’s...

  • Dr. Mann Says Man-Made Weather Change Isn’t Rocket Science. Observations Show It’s Not Even Science.

    3 days ago

    • Image source: 2 November 2018 Washington Post According to climatologist Dr. Michael Mann, we human beings are significantly modulating the globe’s hydrological cycle by warming...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Site-Based Decision-making? A majority of voters–with or without children in public schools– have...

  • McSweeney's: Think Small

    2 days ago
  • McSweeney's: Think Small The midterms are upon us. Voting is without a doubt a bare-minimum civic responsibility for anyone in the United States who is eligible, but I can’t stop...

  • Answer Sheet: Why It Matters Who Governs America's Public Schools

    3 days ago

    • Answer Sheet: Why It Matters Who Governs America's Public Schools (iStock) (gradyreese/iStock) Does it matter who operates America’s public schools? That’s a central question...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Slavery was the issue that blew up America in 1861 and led to the Civil War. But for the 85 years between the nation’s founding and that war, it...

  • CNN’s Existential War With Trump

    3 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness It may be unwise or monotonous for President Trump to harp on CNN as a purveyor of “fake news.” And the constant refrain “enemy of the...

  • Angry Reader 11-02-2018

    6 days ago

    • From An Angry Reader: Maybe if nazi apologists weren’t threatening to lock up their political enemies, or harassing them in their columns, we might see less polarization. Hi Victor...

    The Moderate Voice



  • Email Clay Jones at clayjonz@gmail.com The post Cartoon: Trump and the 2018 Elections appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

  • Why Trump Lost

    13 hours ago
  • WASHINGTON — The 2018 elections began the demolition of the Trump coalition. There remains much work to do. The results in some states were disappointing, and President Trump’s...

  • The bottom line? Trump just fired sessions. Is Mueller next?

    16 hours ago

    • Has a political “purge” by Donald Trump started, as a headline on The Huffington Post suggests? Whether or not it is that, Trump today “asked for the resignation” of Attorney...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • Spain is currently embroiled in tremendous debate over who should pay the AJD tax, a tax on the creation of a mortgage. Should the buyers (consumers) or the sellers of the mortgage (the...

  • Acquisition Talk: A daily blog on the theory and practice of weapons system acquisition

    9 hours ago
  • That is a new blog by Eric Lofgren, an Emergent Ventures recipient.  Here is an excerpt from one post: The story was from 1938. It sounds astounding to modern ears. Congress did not...

  • Forecasting tournaments, epistemic humility and attitude depolarization

    10 hours ago

    • People often express political opinions in starkly dichotomous terms, such as “Trump will either trigger a ruinous trade war or save U.S. factory workers from disaster.” This...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



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

  • California: Is Marshall Tuck a Republican?

    3 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The race for State Superintendent of Instruction in California is the most expensive in history for a top state education job. California-based...

  • Thurmond vs Tuck and how FAKE Democrats are fooling voters with help from Alt-Right Billionaires

    5 days ago

    • Originally posted on Crazy Normal - the Classroom Exposé: Politico.com reported on November 1, five days before the 2018 election, “In the race to be California’s top educator...

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  • Bureaucrats call for the gutting of the Second Amendment as a solution to armed violence.

  • Democrats Suffer Trump Derangement Seizure Over Sessions Departure

    an hour ago
  • The ensuing Trump Derangement Seizure among Democrats after President Trump demanded Attorney General Jeff Sessions' resignation was nearly, but not quite, as entertaining as...

  • Blexit — Is the Democrat Monopoly of the Black Vote Ending?

    20 hours ago

    • President Trump’s support among African-Americans has risen to levels not seen for a Republican president in decades.

      MintPress News



  • Many industries have a vast financial interest in keeping marijuana prohibition laws on the books including pharmaceutical giants, alcohol lobbies, casinos, and the prison industrial...

  • Nations the World Over Disapprove of US Foreign Policy, Except for Israel

    13 minutes ago
  • You don’t need a Pew poll to know which way the world thinks. But it is useful. The post Nations the World Over Disapprove of US Foreign Policy, Except for Israel appeared first on MintPress...

  • As Venezuela Prepares to Dump Dollar, Caracas Moves to Repatriate Gold from Bank of England

    an hour ago

    • The reported initiative follows a recent trend by Venezuela to take back control of its national reserves and move away from US- and dollar-controlled financial institutions. The...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • I will be doing a Conversation with her, here is her home page: Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University Also...

  • How much do the experts wish to discount the future by?

    2 days ago
  • …we find that expert opinion is particularly varied on the rate of time preference.  The modal value is zero, in line with many prominent opinions.  But with a median (mean) of...

  • Gang update

    2 days ago

    • From El Salvador (WSJ): Politicians must ask permission of gangs to hold rallies or canvass in many neighborhoods, law-enforcement officials and prosecutors said. In San Salvador...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Preschool children remember what they hear while they're asleep (tags: sleep children memory ) Women who give birth to boys much more likely to have postnatal depression (tags: depression...

  • Interesting Links for 07-11-2018

    a day ago
  • Federal Judge Blocks Native Americans in North Dakota from Voting (tags: usa voting racism OhForFucksSake ) Why is British media so transphobic? (tags: transgender lgbt UK media...

  • Interesting Links for 06-11-2018

    2 days ago

    • Discovered a lovely word today: “apricity.” (tags: language sun temperature ) Irish government says Dominic Raab’s Brexit backstop plan not worth the paper it's written...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Aseptic technique is a set of best practices that healthcare professionals use to prevent the transfer of germs in clinics and hospitals and protect patients from infection. Learn...

  • Medical News Today: What's the difference between rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis?

    3 hours ago
  • Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA) are two conditions that cause pain and stiffness in the joints. They have different causes and treatments. Learn about the differences...

  • Medical News Today: Broken heart syndrome: How complications affect death risk

    5 hours ago

    • New research has examined the effect of cardiogenic shock on long- and short-term mortality risk among people with broken heart syndrome.


      InvestmentWatch



  • The elections went as planned, it was not about getting the house and senate it was about getting the senate, the investigations are complete, they are now in the hands ... Read more...

  • Phase II has Begun, The Push Back Is Real, Power Of Control

    3 minutes ago
  • Theresa May is trying to sell the plan to the people and they will do everything and anything to make the people back her for the unfinished plan. Mortgage application ... Read more...

  • The many ways conventional deodorant threatens your health

    4 minutes ago

    • by: Derek Henry (Natural News) Odor and wetness shouldn’t come with a price greater than the cost of a deodorant stick, but unfortunately there is mounting evidence that when you...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • It was less of a blue wave than it was a mixed bag.  Enough for all sides to claim victory, enough for all sides to be disappointed in defeat.  Sure, Democrats won control of the house...

  • An Unproductive Day

    2 days ago
  • Got sweet fuck all done today.  Haven’t done anything in a week on my best of my blog book, but if I keep selecting the way I’ve been selecting, I’ll wind up with a selection I need...

  • Mid-Term Madness

    3 days ago

    • Tomorrow are the American mid-term elections and so that’s all  anybody on my Facebook page is talking about.  It’s worse than Halloween or Mother’s Day or any of those days...

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