Wednesday, December 05, 2018

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  Washington's Blog

  • Glacier National Park is drip drip dripping into a puddle. People and companies and governments are cutting down trees to burn them to save the planet from global warming, mixing the...

  • Talk Nation Radio: Dave Lindorff on the Pentagon’s Fictional Budget

    2 days ago
  • Dave Lindorff is an investigative reporter who writes for the Nation, London Review of Books, Salon and Tarbell.org. He is founder of the collectively run journalists’ news site...

  • Americans’ Self-Contradictory Views of Socialized Healthcare

    2 days ago
    • Majorities want single-payer, but not from the government. Eric Zuesse On December 3rd, Gallup bannered “Government Favored to Ensure Healthcare, but Not Deliver It” and reported...

      The Vintage News

  • Today, much of the Landes region in southwestern France is a forest. Indeed, it is the largest forest in the country. But over a century ago (the mid-19th century to be exact) the scenery...

  • The Self-Made Story of Madam C.J. Walker – Breakthrough Millionaire

    4 hours ago
  • In the early 1900s, it was still unusual for African-Americans to become successful entrepreneurs. While slavery was abolished after the introduction of the Thirteenth Amendment...

  • A Ferocious Dispute Over “James Bond’s First Gun” has Canceled an Auction

    6 hours ago
    • A controversy over a gun used on the set of Dr. No has led an auction house to reluctantly cancel the sale of what had been billed as “James Bond’s first gun.” The firearm was listed...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • Why It’s Almost Impossible to Jump Higher Than 50 Inches | @WIRED

    11 hours ago

  • Hard truths about recycling – it’s mostly PR

    15 hours ago
    • Originally posted on The Inquiring Mind: From the RNZ website – Greg Roughan (formerly editor of Green Ideas) Opinion – So the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) puts out...

    The Truthseeker

  • Reuter’s makes a crucial omission, implying that Iran poses a greater threat to the West than it does

  • America Is Headed For Military Defeat in Afghanistan

    13 hours ago
  • Unless America is prepared to deploy more than 100,000 troops to Afghanistan (again), everything points towards impending defeat. A combat veteran explains...

  • Anti-Semitism is Often Justified

    13 hours ago
    • Anti-Semitism today is what blasphemy used to be, writes Henry Makow (a Jew). Have Jews replaced God?

      TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, December 4, 2018 More Chaotic Bungling from Mnuchin and Kudlow Make Matters Worse; Yield...

  • Media Frenzy Attempts Apotheosis of G.H.W. Bush Based on Fabrications and Distortions

    2 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, December 3, 2018 He Sought to End Vietnam Syndrome of Reluctance to Seek Military Solutions...

  • After Latest Cohen Revelations, Disintegration of Trump Regime Accelerates; “Individual 1” Unlikely to Complete Four-Year Term in Conflict with Democratic House and Special Counsel

    4 days ago
    • Cohen and Sater Reportedly Colluded on Moscow Tower with Dmitri Peskov, Putin’s Right Hand Man; Beware Secret Sellouts at G-20; Sherrod Brown Shows GM Plant Closings Stem from...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • Bayer, the German drugmaker that bought U.S. seed company Monsanto earlier this year, announced on Thursday the sale of a number of businesses, around 12,000 job cuts and 3.3 billion...

  • Global Anger Erupts after Chinese Scientist Claims First Gene-Edited Babies

    9 days ago
  • Chinese scientist Jiankui He has announced the birth of twin girls whose DNA he claims to have altered using the gene-editing technique CRISPR. “If true, this amounts to unethical...

  • French Government Starts Phase-Out of Glyphosate with Online Farmer Platform and Herbicide Tax

    12 days ago
    • The French government has released its glyphosate ‘phase-out’ online platform, in an attempt to help farmers across the country to stop using the world’s most used herbicide...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North

  • French government prepared to back down on carbon tax increase to €88

    a day ago
  • How do you stop a carbon tax increase? Riot. A six month reprieve. I was listening the the CBC (Canadas left-wing state-subsidized media) and not once did they mention the actual cost...

  • Arctic Sea Ice Volume 3-Dec-2018

    a day ago
    • From DMI

      Stumbling and Mumbling

  • David Cameron’s infamous 2015 tweet that we face a choice between stability and strong government under him or chaos with Ed Miliband has long become a joke – a cliché, admittedly...

  • Blind to luck

    a day ago
  • In a good article on how graduating in a recession does long-lasting damage to one’s career, Tim Harford says “it’s easy to overlook luck.” It is indeed. Evidence for this...

  • Changing the agenda

    3 days ago
    • It’s hard to believe now, but only three years ago the country was not divided between Brexiters and Remainers. In fact, the very idea of such a split would have seemed as absurd as...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Brahma Chellaney, DailyO China is the world’s biggest dam builder, with the country boasting more dams than the rest of the world combined. China is also the world’s largest...

  • India’s internal security is porous

    7 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times The unlawful, and fatal, expedition of a young American evangelist adventurer to a remote island that is home to the world’s last known pre-Neolithic...

  • A U.S.-based agency broke laws to send an evangelist to his death

    7 days ago
    • The Kansas City-based All Nations missionary agency and the agent it dispatched to India’s forbidden North Sentinel Island, John Allen Chau, broke a whole raft of Indian laws or...

      Socio-Economics History Blog

  • The Geminids meteor shower coincide perfectly with the Sigma Hydrids meteor shower out of Hydra the Serpent constellation. The Hydra constellation is the largest/longest constellation...

  • The Debate: Violation of International Treaties by US Government

    16 hours ago

  • EMERGENCY PATTERN SHIFT: Yield Curve Just Inverted

    16 hours ago

    •   Socialist Economic Bulletin

  • - includes articles by regular SEB contributors John Ross and Tom O'Leary + many more  Get your copy here.Ten years on from the near-collapse of the global financial system...

  • Even the IMF rejects Trump’s false claim that the US economy is growing fast

    a month ago
  • 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

    a month 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...

      Ramani's blog

  • Nowhere in the world would you find a similar if not identical way of social behaviour among the people of this vast country,India,be it how they eat,the practices from birth to death...

  • Lemuria Tamils Presence Australia 65000 Ago First Human Migration

    7 days ago
  • The first migration of humans was from Asia, Eurasia. It took place around 65,000 years ago. The only civilisation around that area was Lemuria. The finding of Denisovan ,a species...

  • Kerala Regressive Keralites Feudal Women Entry Sabarimala

    8 days ago
    • Is it that literacy is incompatible with Faith and value systems? Probably the writer of the article is more learned than Max Planck, Einstein,Nicholas Tesla, Einstein, Issac Newton...

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Should we offer congratulations to Alice Walton? Forbes just revealed that she is now the richest woman in the world. She has a personal fortune of $46 Billion. She spends a small part...

  • Petition Addressed to Gavin Newsom and Tony Thurmond

    an hour ago
  • The Color of Change, an online civil rights group, posted this online petition addressed to the newly elected leaders of California. Congratulations on your victories! Many of us...

  • Laura Chapman: Who and What is “School Board Partners”?

    2 hours ago
    • Our indefatigable reader and researcher Laura Chapman reports here on the organization called “School Board Partners,” which we first learned about yesterday. It is another...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • With the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. last week, many repeats were shown for the late night programs.  None merit mention here.  The drought continues… But the big science...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of November 12

    16 days ago
  • 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...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of November 5

    24 days ago
    • 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...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover_30y.uk.php   Arctic sea ice extent in November was the highest since 2008, and higher than even 2006, according to DMI...

  • Excess Winter Deaths Highest Since 1976

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood   The ONS has published the Excess Winter Deaths stats for 2017/18, and as expected they are sharply up:   https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/excesswintermortalityinenglandandwales/2017to2018provisionaland2016to2017final...

  • The World Is Losing Interest In The Climate Scare

    a day ago
    • By Paul Homewood GWPF repost today’s article in the Wall Street Journal:   France’s violent Yellow Vest protests are now about many domestic concerns, but it’s no accident...

      NoTricksZone

  • Is Germany blindly following President Emmanuel Macron in agitating its citizens with plans to impose higher fuel and heating oil taxes? Pay the carbon tax. Pay it. We will keep...

  • Japan Says ‘Sayōnara’ To Warming… Unadjusted Data Show No Signs Of Any Significant Warming At All

    a day ago
  • By Kirye Data have been showing that Japan has been seeing a warming hiatus going back 20 years, and at many locations, even 30 years. This is the case when using the unadjusted data from...

  • New Research: Methane Emissions From Livestock Have No Detectable Effect On The Climate

    2 days ago
    • Agrobiologist and scientific researcher Dr. Albrecht Glatzle, author of over 100 scientific papers and two textbooks, has published research that shows “there is no scientific...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Janresseger: Why School Choice Ends Up Creating Injustice and Inequality In his new book, Educational Inequality and School Finance: Why Money Matters for America’s Students...

  • Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Common Core Creator Slammed Reading Teachers for Having a Research Gap—How Ironic

    a day ago
  • Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Common Core Creator Slammed Reading Teachers for Having a Research Gap—How Ironic Teachers have enough difficulties. Sometimes you find an...

  • Have You Heard: In a Gentrifying City, Are Some Students Expendable?

    2 days ago
    • Have You Heard: In a Gentrifying City, Are Some Students Expendable? The latest episode of Have You Heard is inspired by a brand new, and must read book: Ghosts in the Schoolyard...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

    • a day ago
  • From An Angry Reader: Since you never state that POTUS lies 80-85% of the time when he speaks publicly, what are some examples of his fake news. Who has discredited the main stream news...

  • One-Eyed-Jack Law

    a day ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Robert Mueller’s legal team may write a damning report on Trump’s ethics, based mostly on flipping minor former business associates of...

  • Angry Reader 12-03-2018

    2 days ago
    • From An Angry Reader: This was the worst piece of historical analysis I’ve ever read in any halfway respectable publication. Please ask your alma mater for a refund on all degrees...

    The Moderate Voice

  • We know there’s hostility between our two political parties with conflict that’s beyond the pale, but the GOP has really gone over the top in finding ways to steal elections from...

  • Before He Was ‘Kinder, Gentler,’ Poppy Bush Pioneered TV Ad Lies

    12 hours ago
  • Thirty years ago at The Philadelphia Inquirer, in the early autumn of 1988, I was handed my first assignment as a political writer. The presidential candidates, Vice President George...

  • You See Ten People Drowning. You Can Only Save One. What Do You Do?

    21 hours ago
    • This morning, a good friend sent me a video titled “Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs.” The e-mail that included the video had as ‘Subject,’ “A Very Interesting...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Here is the audio and transcript, Paul was in top form and open throughout.  Yes economic growth, blah blah blah, but we covered many related topics too: COWEN: And you also think...

  • Solve for the equilibrium

    7 hours ago
  • The CEOs of Germany’s top three car firms, Volkswagen, Daimler, and BMW, said they were optimistic on avoiding US tariffs after meeting US leader Donald Trump in Washington Tuesday...

  • Why is most travel writing so bad?

    13 hours ago
    • The most painful sections of a bookshop to have to read through would be the management books, self-help, and also the travel books.  Yet management, self-help, and travel are all...

      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...

  • Despondency – The Daily Blogging Battle

    a month ago
  • 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...

  • When will Trump’s Loyalists come for you?

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

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  • It doesn’t appear as if Les Moonves, the disgraced former head of CBS, will get that $120 million payout he expected after the Tiffany Network fired him in September...

  • The Truth About the Catholic Clergy Abuse Scandal

    an hour ago
  • Is a Lavender Mafia at the root of the sex-abuse crisis rocking the Barque of Peter? A homosexual subculture wields great power in the Catholic Church...
  • Homosexual subculture or no - homosexuality does not meet the sniff test for being the same as child abuse. It isn't just the RC's who are sending signals which challenge the so-called Evangelicals ( who promote the Old Testament as if it was the new revelation. I have no words for such stupidity )

  • Migrants Breach Border, This Time In the Dark

    2 hours ago
    • The migrant attack at the border on Thanksgiving weekend might have failed, but the breach of the U.S. border has begun.

      MintPress News

  • "Netanyahu recognizes that Israeli military activity inside Israel does not lead to a confrontation. All he wants is to cause some suspense about the operation to divert attention...

  • Saudi Crown Prince Loses Support of Key Republican Senators with CIA Briefing

    an hour ago
  • "If Bin Salman went before a jury, he would be convicted in 30 minutes.” The post Saudi Crown Prince Loses Support of Key Republican Senators with CIA Briefing appeared first on MintPress...

  • Trump’s Trade War with China May Have Paved the Way to a Post-G20 World

    2 hours ago
    • The ascendence of China and multilateral trading blocks could eventually spell the doom of the G20 and U.S. global dominance as we know it. The post Trump’s Trade War with China May...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. What is responsible and irresponsible geotagging on Instagram? (NYT) 2. Experience-based retail. 3. Agnes Callard on “speaking as a woman.” (NYT) 4. Crazy Rich Asians bombed...

  • 52 things Tom Whitwell learned in 2018

    2 days ago
  • Here is one of them: 35% of Rwanda’s national blood supply outside the capital city is now delivered by drone. [Techmoran] Here is another: Advertisers place a single brown pixel...

  • Fanfare classical music meta-list, and my favorite classical music of the year

    2 days ago
    • Fanfare is the best outlet for classic music reviews I know, and each year I avidly scour the critics’ Want Lists.  These are the items that showed up more than once: Kyle Gann, Hyperchromatica...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Probably the most amazing computer graphics I've ever seen (tags: video computers graphics ) Amazon Promised Drone Delivery in Five Years... Five Years Ago (tags: amazon drone )...

  • Interesting Links for 04-12-2018

    a day ago
  • The Brexit 'legal advice' is just the latest way for the deal to die (tags: UK europe law doom ) Here’s the case for reopening Edinburgh’s lost circle line (tags: edinburgh transport...

  • Interesting Links for 03-12-2018

    2 days ago
    • 'I am worried': Macron's chat with Saudi prince captured at G20 (tags: France saudiarabia ) The World's Most Efficient Languages (tags: language viaFanf ) The Scottish Tories are...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • My name is Carrie Gale, and I am an Emmy-nominated graphic designer and writer. I also have bipolar II disorder. This is my story.

  • Medical News Today: What role do brain lipids play in Parkinson's disease?

    3 hours ago
  • Researchers studying the connection between lipids and toxic protein levels have uncovered a new potential therapeutic target for Parkinson's disease.

  • Medical News Today: Differences between HIV-1 and HIV-2

    4 hours ago
    • HIV-1 and HIV-2 are the two main types of HIV. Most people with HIV have HIV-1. Genetic differences between the two viruses mean that diagnosis and treatment of HIV-1 and HIV-2 can be...

      Jon's Text

  • The Moffitt centre found 2002, that applying external high intensity ultrasound to a cancerous organ, destroyed just the cancer cells. Medics had no idea why. But continued prescribing...

  • Medics win a noble prize for curing cancer

    4 hours ago
  • Cancer immunologists scoop medicine Nobel prize - Naturehttps://www.nature.com › news 1 Oct 2018 - Cancer immunologists scoop medicine Nobel prize ... is in New York for animmunology...

  • HIUS wins Nobel for curing cancer

    9 hours ago
    • I first read about the work on High Intensity UltraSound by three medical professors at the Moffitt cancer centre, in a cancer charity magazine. Now taken out of publication - since...

      InvestmentWatch

  • technical defect of merkels plane via google translate: Technical problems in the government plane! On the way from Berlin to the G20 summit in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires...

  • GREG MANNARINO: The Central Banks Will KEEP You GUESSING, While They GET RICHER!

    6 days ago
  • Portfolio Wealth Global, Released on 11/29/18 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the...

  • If You Want to Safely Profit from the Global Cannabis Boom, Invest in the Beverage Industry

    6 days ago
    • BY ROBERT ROSS “Jeff Sessions leaving office is a definite win for the cannabis industry.” That’s a quote from Jeffrey Zucker. He’s the president of Green Lion Partners...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • Near Coles Knob in eastern Floyd County, many acres of former mature forest are being cut (down to what’s left of the topsoil) to create pasture to grow beef cattle. (Wood chips likely...

  • Finding One’s Place

    21 days ago
  • 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...

  • The Wraiths of Riches Who Rule the Earth

    22 days ago
    • …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...
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