Tuesday, January 15, 2019

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  Washington's Blog



  • When is a nation-state no longer a functional state? It’s an interesting question to ask of the European nation-states trapped in the devolving European Union. Longtime correspondent...

  • Talk Nation Radio: Rob Kajiwara on U.S. Bases on Okinawa

    2 hours ago
  • Rob Kajiwara is an Okinawan-Hawaian singer-songwriter and visual artist. In 2017, he was made a cultural ambassador for his ancestral village of Nakagusuku, Okinawa. In 2018 he...

  • The World Will End in Fire

    2 hours ago

    • Proclaiming that the end is nigh has now become the labor of the very opposite of a deluded religious devotee. And the question framed by Robert Frost of whether the world will end in...

      The Vintage News



  • The story of Robinson Crusoe, recounted in the epic adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, is a classic of English literature. This timeless tale records the story of a man shipwrecked on...

  • Extraterrestrial Mineral Harder than Diamonds Discovered in Israel

    3 hours ago
  • A new discovery in the mountains of northern Israel has caused significant excitement for geologists around the world. While working in the Zevulun Valley, close to Mount Carmel...

  • The Stories Behind 5 Iconic Movie Studio Logos

    6 hours ago

    • The distinctive logos of movie-making studios greet audiences as they settle down with their popcorn. A master stroke of brand identity, each major player has their own particular...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • Ten Minute History – The Russian Revolution

    2 hours ago

  • Thomas Sowell – A Closer Look At Discrimination

    2 hours ago


    • The Truthseeker



  • America has become, a nation of too many totalitarian-minded sheep who don’t even know they’re being manipulated into destroying their own country...

  • As This is the Solstice, Happy Birthday, Great Master, Jesus the Christ

    25 days ago
  • Today, writes Les Visible, I'm celebrating the birth of one of my greatest heroes

  • Call To Declare War With Russia Tabled In Ukrainian Parliament

    25 days ago

    • If the resolution is passed it will give Poroshenko a pretext to call off the upcoming presidential election in March 2019, which he’s expected to lose by a wide margin...

      TARPLEY.net



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, January 14, 2019 Polling Shows Growing Majority of Americans Blame Trump for Shutdown; Wall...

  • GOP Party of Chaos and Ungovernability Courts Extinction with Longest Government Shutdown in U.S. History; Fate of Federalists, Whigs, and Knownothings Beckons!

    3 days ago
  • Trump Still Dithers on Brink of Launching Emergency Dictatorship to Impose Fascist Wall, Showing There Is No Emergency; Press Reveals: In May 2017, FBI Started Counter-Intelligence...

  • Trump Lurches Towards Emergency Dictatorship to Hijack $14 Billion in Disaster Relief Funds for Unpopular Wall; Claims He Never Promised Mexico Would Pay!

    5 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, January 10, 2019 Stiffed by Don, 800,000 Federal Employees and Families Face First Payless...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today announced that the District of Columbia Superior Court rejected Ben & Jerry’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit OCA brought...

  • Russia’s Clear GMO Labeling Rules Reach the Shelves across Eurasian Economic Union

    13 days ago
  • The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), including the countries of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Belarus, has introduced clear GMO labeling on all food and supplement...

  • New GMO Labeling Rules are a Disaster for US Food Transparency

    a month ago

    • A new disclosure rule issued today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture will not help consumers easily identify food that has been genetically engineered or that contains genetically...

      sunshine hours



  • 1,000,000,000£ subsidy for burning wood pellets might be scrapped? Controversial subsidies for burning wood in power stations could be scrapped in the drive to clean up Britain’s...

  • Arctic Sea Ice Volume 14-Jan-2019

    4 hours ago
  •   From DMI

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 14 – 2019

    5 hours ago

    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • If I’d told you just four years ago that I was a Remainer, you wouldn’t have known what I was talking about. The fact that we now speak about little else reveals an under-appreciated...

  • Commercialization effects in universities

    4 days ago
  • Responding to students’ call for the sacking of John Finnis from Oxford University because of past homophobic writing, I tweeted yesterday that: If I spend £30,000 on a car I don't...

  • What is evidence?

    5 days ago

    • By now you’ll all have seen Robert Yeh’s paper showing that there is no evidence that parachutes save the lives of people jumping from a plane. This raises a question for all social...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • Brahma Chellaney, The Times of India On 70th anniversary of PRC’s founding, the limits of its Party-led model are showing Four decades ago, the Chinese Communist Party, under its...

  • The Vital Isolation of Indigenous Groups

    2 days ago
  • BRAHMA CHELLANEY, a column internationally syndicated by Project Syndicate After the American missionary John Allen Chau ignored successive warnings, the isolated Sentinelese...

  • China’s India trade funds its containment strategy

    10 days ago

    • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times, January 5, 2018 China is emphasizing public diplomacy to help soften Indian public opinion and mute Indian concerns over an increasingly...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • RT America Published on Jan 14, 2019 Yellow Vest protests continue to rock France despite the government’s attempts at appeasing demonstrators. Investigative journalist...

  • The Agenda Behind The Shutdown, It’s Not What You Think

    17 hours ago
  • X22Report Published on Jan 14, 2019 EU is willing to extend the BREXIT but will not change the agreement. What the EU wants is for May to convince her government to go along with the...

  • Frenemies Be Like… Trump Threatens to ‘Devastate’ Turkish Economy If Ankara Attacks Kurds

    17 hours ago

    • RT Published on Jan 14, 2019 Donald Trump has warned its NATO ally to beware of the devastative wrath of US economic pressure if Turkey dares to attack the Kurdish allies America is...

      Ramani's blog



  • And Kancheepuram,Tamil Nadu is called the City of temples. And Kumbakonam. But the city that had over one thousand temples is, Bhubaneswar/Cuttack. Most of the temples have been...

  • Adhik Maas Additional Month Hindu Calendar Purushottam Maas Details

    7 days ago
  • Those who follow the Lunar calendar,Chaandra Manasa have one month extra once in three years. This extra month is called the Adhik Maas, additional month to align it with the Solar...

  • Route By Vanaras New-Zealand Far East Ramayana Description Accurate

    7 days ago

    • Here the Vanaras are given directions to search for Sita. From the ease of Indiafrom Australia, New Zealand,Japan, Indonesia, Thailand and in the passing reference is taken to America...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • By the time you read this, I will be in the air, en route to Los Angeles. Tomorrow I will join the picket line. I’ve planned this trip for a long time, as a reward for finishing my book...

  • The Los Angeles Strike: Whose Perspective Matters

    3 hours ago
  • The “Red Queen in LA” (aka Sara Roos) tries to sort the players in the Los Angeles teachers’ strike. Who represents the public? Who represents the public interest? Who speaks...

  • Southern Poverty Law Center: What Mollie Tibbett’s Family Did about the “Immigration Crisis”

    4 hours ago

    • The Southern Poverty Law Center is one of my favorite charities. It fights hate and bigotry in all its forms and it is super-busy these days. Here is a story that I just got in the mail...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • While it’s too early to call a trend for 2019, the first full week of the year was encouraging for science and technology related guest bookings.  And, as per usual, The Daily Show...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of December 31

    6 days ago
  • The year goes out like a whimper where science and technology guests are concerned.  That’s true most years, as programs are often in repeats, and the MythBusters megamarathon...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of December 24

    17 days ago

    • As expected with the Christmas holiday, late night programs were in repeats, if not pre-empted, this past week.  Of the repeats, one of note is Jeffrey Wright on the December 28 edition...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood   h/t AC Osborn   Another mindbendingly naive piece by the Mail’s Joe Pinkstone:   Antarctica is shedding ice at a staggering rate. Scientists have discovered...

  • Subsidies of up to £1billion given to firms for burning wood in power stations could be axed – as critics argue it creates same CO2 as coal

    6 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood     Interesting news from the Mail:   Controversial subsidies for burning wood in power stations could be scrapped in the drive to clean up Britain’s air. Firms...

  • Killer Tits!

    a day ago

    • By Paul Homewood   h/t Joe Public   Have we now reached peak climate lunacy? From Popular “Science”:   Every year, little black-and-white birds called pied flycatchers make...

      NoTricksZone



  • Although resistance to littering the landscape with industrial wind turbines continues to grow strongly, the German government refuses to back off its expansion of wind energy...

  • Regional Models: 3-10°C Warming In The Next 80 Years. Observations: No Warming In The Last 40-100 Years.

    a day ago
  • There are large regions of the globe where observations indicate there has been no warming (even cooling) during the last decades to century. Climate models rooted in the assumption...

  • Sun As Main Driver: Japanese Scientist Cites 7 Major Examples How Real Climatic Data Contradict AGW Claims

    2 days ago

    • By Kyoji Kimoto kyoji@mirane.co.jp 1. Warmer period of the 1930s In 1998 D. Dahl-Jensen et al. pointed out in the journal Science that the 1930s is 0.5°K warmer than the present...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Answer Sheet: It's a Really Bad Way to Fund Schools - But Texas May Adopt It Anyway For years many public school districts have been begging states for more funding, strapped for cash...

  • Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Teach for America: Their Harmful Effect on Special Education

    a day ago
  • Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Teach for America: Their Harmful Effect on Special Education Since 1990, America has put many school children, usually poor, in classrooms with...

  • Janresseger: Decades of Academic Research Support Community Schools Strategy in New York City’s Renewal Schools

    4 days ago

    • Janresseger: Decades of Academic Research Support Community Schools Strategy in New York City’s Renewal Schools So-called “corporate” school reform has been defined by...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Estimates suggest that there are eleven million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally. Millions...

  • Can Higher Education Be Saved?

    7 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review America is schizophrenic about its major universities and, to a lesser extent, its undergraduate colleges. On the one hand, higher education’s...

  • Actually, 2018 Was a Pretty Good Year

    8 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The year 2018 will be deplored by pundits as a bad year of more unpredictable Donald Trump, headlined by wild stock market gyrations, the...

    The Moderate Voice



  • “We sure could use a little good news today.” That is the ending statement of a song recorded by Canadian singer Anne Murray and released in 1983. That lament is applicable right...

  • Why are Republicans suddenly outraged over King’s racism?

    17 hours ago
  • WASHINGTON — Republicans are shocked, shocked, to learn that Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is a dyed-in-the-wool racist. Also that snow is cold, the ocean is wet and the sky is often blue...

  • Is U.S. Freedom of the Press in Jeopardy? (Updated)

    a day ago

    • “Journalists from Latin America…are in a unique position to help us better appreciate what we are facing in the U.S. — and where we might be headed if we do not defeat the virulent...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • Yes, yes, I know she is only running the interviewing process, but that is how Dick Cheney ended up as vice President.  Here is one excerpt from my Bloomberg column: You might argue...

  • Tuesday assorted links

    3 hours ago
  • 1. “Crowdfunding research flips science’s traditional reward model. Students and junior investigators are more likely than senior scientists to secure crowdfunding for...

  • Subtitling>Dubbing

    7 hours ago

    • We study the influence of television translation techniques on the worldwide distribution of English-speaking skills. We identify a large positive effect for subtitled original...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Lots of readers of this blog don’t like to hear what conservatives, Republicans, or pundits like Thomas Friedman have to say. I disagree...

  • Sherrilyn Ifill: Racism is a National Security Concern

    23 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Racism and segregation are our nation’s greatest sin, written into our founding and our history. We live with their consequences every...

  • Trump vs Hillary – are you keeping score?

    a month ago

    • How many times did Hillary Clinton invoke the 5th amendment during her testimony during the Benghazi invitation and for the private e-mail server witch hunt? Continue reading →...

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  • Some urban counties are quitting 287(g), an ICE program allowing sheriffs to assist ICE in deporting illegal aliens, but some rural sheriffs are continuing the program...

  • Pressure Building to Remove Venezuela’s Marxist Dictator

    2 hours ago
  • The Marxist dictatorship of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is likely coming to an end, as the United States is planning to stop buying Venezuelan oil and South American nations...

  • New Migrant Caravan Begins March North; Troops To Stay Eight Months. Trump: Build the Wall!

    3 hours ago

    • With news of another “migrant caravan” heading toward America, Trump reiterated his insistence on the need for a strong border wall, and said the military will stay at the border...

      MintPress News



  • The Houthis boycotted a meeting chaired by the head of a UN-led ceasefire monitoring team in Hodeida, accusing the head of the team of pursuing a Saudi coalition agenda. The post Yemen’s...

  • A Chance for a New US Congress to Rethink Knee-Jerk Support for Israel

    5 hours ago
  • If ever there was a chance to approach members of the U.S. Congress with challenging issues, and a re-examination of oppressive Israeli behavior, this is it. These first few weeks...

  • Outgoing IDF Chief Says Yes, We Armed Anti-Government Extremists in Syria

    5 hours ago

    • That Israel was assisting rebel groups with extremist ideologies in Syria has been widely believed by a number of observers, who were often derided as “conspiracy theorists”...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • January 28, San Francisco, 5:30, register here. So what should I ask Sam Altman? The post My Conversation with Sam Altman appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION...

  • Sunday assorted links

    9 days ago
  • 1. Ann Coulter. 2. Why Indian forms dominated Chinese forms in southeast Asia. 3. The Federalist Society (NYT). 4. Entry fees for Venice? 5. The Congo elections where things stand. ...

  • How to reform scientific grants?

    9 days ago

    • Using the economic theory of contests, Gross and Bergstrom modeled a controversial alternative: awarding grants instead by partial lottery. Under a partial lottery system, funds...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Labour MP Tulip Siddiq delays Caesarean for Brexit vote (tags: UK europe politics birth caesarians OhForFucksSake ) From now on, all episodes of Star Trek must be watched like this...

  • Interesting Links for 14-01-2019

    a day ago
  • "52 things I learned in 2018" (I think #31 is the most astounding) (tags: ) Latest polls on voting intention and Brexit (tags: polls uk europe politics ) Make Susie Gay, You Cowards...

  • Interesting Links for 13-01-2019

    2 days ago

    • What do you do when you can't give away a building, can't sell it, and can't demolish it? (tags: architecture scotland ) Misconceptions about Alexander Hamilton (tags: politics history...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • By exploiting cancer cells' innate adaptability, scientists halt invasive spread in mice by transforming malignant breast cancer cells into fat cells.

  • Medical News Today: Exercise can halve heart attack risk in healthy people

    4 hours ago
  • New research shows that high cardiorespiratory fitness cuts the risk of heart attack in half among healthy people with no history of heart disease.

  • Medical News Today: A good night's sleep could lower cardiovascular risk

    5 hours ago

    • In a new study, researchers aim to determine the impact of sleep duration and sleep quality on a person's risk of developing cardiovascular problems.

      Jon's Text



  • Solar Water Pump System Kit w/100W PV Solar Panel + 15A Controller for WateringLast one.7£149.69Free postageWas £166.32 Save 10%Get it by Friday, 18 Jan from Leicestershire...

  • Alzheimer's cured

    6 hours ago
  • At Saint Clement's Church Salford Quays, 2013.  I had an 8 W 1 MHz ultrasound massage device with me.  My version of a high intensity ultrasound used by the Moffitt cancer centre to...

  • Christie kill by cancer

    a day ago

    • 2002 and three medical professors at the Moffitt cancer centre used High Intensity UltraSound to clear cancer.  Every registered Dr. In the world bought an 8 W three MHZ ultrasound...

      InvestmentWatch


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      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • We started a diet today, my wife and I.  I don’t know all the details, she’s got a whole schedule written out, every day of the week.  I’ve never actually dieted like this before. ...

  • A Rose is a Rose is a Rose x 25,000

    2 days ago
  • Nobody seems to know exactly how much money Nancy Pelosi has.  When I googled Nancy Pelosi net worth, I saw estimates ranging from $29 million to over $100 million.  But, it’s a...

  • Tulsi is Running!

    3 days ago

    • I woke up  to the news that Tulsi Gabbard has announced her candidacy (well, technically she just announce that she’s going to officially announce soon, but that’s good enough...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • Spontaneous generation? They just are there–in the five pound bag of flour you just brought home yesterday. There, in the mixing bowl that was going to hold the biscuits for dinner...

  • New Book: Fifth Risk

    6 days ago
  • We are lurching forward into an unknown and unchartable future where there are no rules or precedents in the halls of government. Where might we end up when uninformed democracy breaks...

  • Old Dog: New Tricks? Maybe.

    8 days ago

    • Just when a geezer gets comfortable with “the way things were” they morph out from under him. And that isn’t all bad. Nothing like a rocking boat to test your equilibrium. So now...
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