Saturday, December 22, 2018

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  Eyes on Trade


  • On NAFTA’s Quarter-Century Mark, Data Reveal a Wide Gap Between 1993 Rosy Promises and 2019 Realities As the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) marks a quarter century...

  • As Battle Over NAFTA 2.0 Heats Up, New Report Documents 25 Years of NAFTA's Disproportionate Damage to U.S. Latino and Mexican Working People

    18 days ago
  • With the signing of the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Nov. 30 as the migrant crisis at the border escalates, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement...

  • Signing of NAFTA 2.0 Does Not End Fight for Progressive Improvements to the Agreement

    23 days ago

    • The NAFTA 2.0 text that is being signed contains some improvements that progressives have long demanded, some damaging terms we have long opposed and some important unfinished business...

      



  • Empath overwhelm is often caused by being “peopled”. Every Empath experiences it at some point and it is one of the most challenging aspects of being Sensitive. The overwhelm endured...

  • 6 Tricks To Shift Your Mental Focus From Negative To Positive

    3 days ago
  • Even if you’re not directly affected by external negative forces, your past programming may catch you off guard. A positive mind helps raise your vibration. Having a higher vibration...

  • This Is When The Universe Decides To Send You The Right Person

    5 days ago

    • Life doesn’t appear to be a random process. On the contrary. Everything that happens to us seems to be by intelligent design. There are no coincidences, no accidents, instead just...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Sweating at night may be a sign of low testosterone in males or menopause in females. Treatment often involves supplementing the hormone to correct an imbalance. Learn more here...

  • Medical News Today: What to know about acanthosis nigricans

    12 hours ago
  • Acanthosis nigricans is a common skin condition often caused by diabetes or hormonal conditions. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of acanthosis nigricans here...

  • Medical News Today: What is fibrocystic breast disease?

    13 hours ago

    • Fibrocystic breast disease causes a person to have lumpy, and sometimes painful, breasts. It is a very common condition and not harmful. Learn more in this article...

      Desdemona Despair



  • By Shreya Dasgupta5 December 2018 (Mongabay) – A Honduran court has convicted seven men in the murder of indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres in 2016.Until her death on March...

  • Japan to resume commercial whale slaughter after leaving International Whaling Commission – “This is the path of a pirate whaling nation, with a troubling disregard for international rule”

    2 days ago
  • By Justin McCurry and Graham Readfearn19 December 2018TOKYO (The Guardian) – Japan is to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling...

  • An Indian perspective on the Poland climate meeting: Not much help for the world’s poor and vulnerable

    3 days ago

    • By Arun Agrawal19 December 2018(The Conversation) – The international climate change conference that concluded in Katowice, Poland on 15 December 2018 had limited ambitions...

      The Daily Sheeple



  • The benefits of this push to legalize industrial hemp cannot be understated and may well fundamentally change how some parts of our country's economy work...

  • Personal Bank Accounts in Venezuela Frozen to “Fight Terrorism”

    8 days ago
  • Upon controlling the money flow, they could strangle any entity that is opposed to the totalitarian state.

  • Trump’s Border Policy Is Meant To ‘Traumatize’ Children, Says Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley

    8 days ago

    • Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon said on CNN’s “New Day” Friday that the Trump administration’s border policy is designed to “traumatize” children...

      Exceptional Delaware 2017



  • We can’t celebrate successful schools that don’t celebrate diversity, period. During the State Board of Education meeting tonight, a fascinating conversation took place...

  • State Board of Education Approves 7 Charter Schools For Renewal, Newark Charter School Gets 10 Year Renewal

    a day ago
  • Tonight, in a half hour part of their monthly meeting, the Delaware State Board of Education approved seven Delaware charter schools to be renewed. Design Thinking Academy, First...

  • Will Charter School of Wilmington Try To Have Delaware DOE As Their Authorizer?

    2 days ago

    • After the beat down and humiliation they received from the Red Clay Board of Education last night, the Charter School of Wilmington is very angry.  They were called out as a racist...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetCan listening to the Beatles “When I’m 64” make you younger? In a word, no. But listening to the latest episode of Have You Heard will definitely make you smarter. Education...

  • In a Gentrifying City, Are Some Students Expendable?

    a month ago
  • TweetThe latest episode of Have You Heard is inspired by a brand new, and must read book: Ghosts in the Schoolyard, by sociologist Eve Ewing. Ghosts excavates the long backstory...

  • The Zombie: The Undying Attacks on Schools of Education

    2 months ago

    • TweetPerhaps no issue is as deserving of ‘zombie’ status in the great education debates as schools of education and their myriad failures. [Insert specific criticism here]...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • December 22, 2018 Navigating the new international economic policy landscape by Shiro Armstrong and Peter Drysdale, ANU http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/12/19/navigating-the-new-international-economic-policy-landscape/...

  • The Dangers of Neo-Feudalism

    2 days ago
  • December 20, 2018 The Dangers of Neo-Feudalism by Dr. SharifahMunirah Alatas http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com   We Malaysians are so used to feudalism. The culture of patronage...

  • The War on Huawei

    2 days ago

    • December 20, 2018, The War on Huawei Dec 11, 2018 Jeffrey D. Sachs http://www.project-syndicate.org The Trump administration’s conflict with China has little to do with US external...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Acanthosis nigricans is a common skin condition often caused by diabetes or hormonal conditions. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of acanthosis nigricans here...

  • Medical News Today: What is fibrocystic breast disease?

    13 hours ago
  • Fibrocystic breast disease causes a person to have lumpy, and sometimes painful, breasts. It is a very common condition and not harmful. Learn more in this article...

  • Medical News Today: How to treat paronychia (an infected nail)

    14 hours ago

    • Paronychia is the medical term for an infection in the skin around the nail, which becomes inflamed, swollen, and painful. People can treat mild paronychia at home, and a doctor can...

      Chicago Boyz



  • Pamela Garber write about her experiences. What motivates the people who are expressing such rage about the President and his supporters?  While surely some of them have thought...

  • Print the Legend

    a day ago
  • “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” So goes the line from the Jimmy Stewart-John Wayne tale, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Spread all over...

  • Group Identification

    2 days ago

    • Cross-posted from Assistant Village Idiot. I was listening to a podcast that included female pastors talking about Methodism, both noting with approval that John Wesley encouraged...

      Centinel2012



  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 21, 2018 by sundance Following up to the earlier report conspicuously missing from MSM reports, Homeland Security...

  • White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller -vs- U.S. State Run Media Wolf Blitzer…

    15 hours ago
  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 20, 2018 by sundance White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller appears on U.S. state run television for a policy...

  • House Votes For Short-Term Funding Bill That Includes Border Security…

    15 hours ago

    • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 20, 2018 by sundance The House of Representatives voted tonight to include $5.7 billion for border security in a spending...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • if (window.document.getElementById('post-12835')) window.document.getElementById('post-12835').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';It has been an exhausting...

  • 'Trump, The Presidency'! Thrilling Season Finale!: 'BradCast' 12/20/2018

    a day ago
  • Every great Reality TV show needs a dramatic and gripping season finale. So too, apparently, does does every horrible Reality TV Presidency! [Audio link is posted below] Today is...

  • 'Green News Report' - December 20, 2018

    2 days ago

    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate change is expensive, particularly for the U.S. military; 2018 on track to be fourth costliest year in U.S. history for weather disasters; Polls show...

      bluebird of bitterness





  • Signs of the times

    17 hours ago

  • Friday happy dance

    18 hours ago


    •   Home



  • Opposition to consolidated interim storage facilities (CISF) for irradiated nuclear fuel, targeted at the Southwest, persists. On Dec. 17, a coalition of environmental groups...

  • Vigilance needed to block federal funding for Yucca dump

    a day ago
  • Yucca Mountain, NevadaCongressional Republicans, such as U.S. Rep. Fred Upton from southwestern Michigan, have been trying hard to attach a rider to year-end budget legislation...

  • Public has till Jan. 9 to comment on DOE proposal to abandon high-level radioactive wastes in situ

    9 days ago

    • In response to a request by 76 environmental groups, including Beyond Nuclear, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted until January 9, 2019 for the public to comment on the...

    BlackListed News



  • At first glance of Amazon’s new patent application, one would be tempted to think it no more than a built-in “smart” security system.But no, this facial recognition surveillance...

  • Mattis is out, and Blackwater is back: ‘We are coming’

    a day ago
  • Mattis' resignation comes amid news that President Donald Trump has directed the drawdown of 2,000 U.S. forces in Syria, and 7,000 U.S. forces from Afghanistan, a U.S. official...

  • A deleted scene from Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who Is America?’ may have pointed to an elite pedophile sex ring

    a day ago

    • “We wanted to investigate how does someone like Harvey Weinstein gets away with doing what…get away with criminality, essentially. And the network that surrounds him. We decided...

      Research Digest



  • By Christian Jarrett. People experience love in many situations beyond just romantic relationships.

  • The physiological stress response is larger in the morning than evening

    9 days ago
  • By Emma Young. The implications for the real-world experience of stress is far from clear.

  • “An additional reason to abandon learning styles” – teachers and pupils do not agree on the pupils’ preferred learning style

    10 days ago

    • By Christian Jarrett. This is one of the first studies to look at learning styles in the context of primary age education.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • Fascinating ghouls of another era, gargoyles emerged around the 13th century in European architecture with a vast array of form and function. At first, they were designed as an indispensable...

  • A Convenient New Commute for Washington's Coyotes

    10 hours ago
  • On December 6, 2018, a lone coyote darted across Interstate 90, near Snoqualmie Pass in central Washington. The highway delivers motorists through the Cascade Mountains, and it...

  • Christmas Cake and Cheese

    11 hours ago

    • The poor fruitcake has gotten a bad rap over the past few decades, and not just a cellophane wrap. People misunderstand its booze-infused density and dank fruitiness, chalking up...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Trust - Capitol

  • Friday Afternoon Links

    9 hours ago
  • Assorted content to end your week.- Tom Parkin discusses the contrived war between the Libs' fake progressives and the Cons' phony populists:In Canada, under Conservatives and...

  • Thursday Morning Links

    2 days ago

    • This and that for your Thursday reading.- Anis Chowdhury highlights how industry-wide bargaining which avoids a race to the bottom on wages produces improved efficiency as well...
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