Sunday, January 06, 2019

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  Washington's Blog


  • Eric Zuesse Polling on the border wall shows that Trump’s proposal is very unpopular amongst the American electorate, especially amongst the people who live near the Mexican border...

  • A Green New PayGo Shutdown

    a day ago
  • “She’ll cut your head off.” That’s Nancy Pelosi’s daughter’s praise for her mother. I guess you’re supposed to imagine it always being somebody else’s head and...

  • Why One Should Always Distrust the News

    2 days ago

    • Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org An article by the BBC on “The world’s most nutritious foods” ranks the healthfulness of foods on the basis of an article...

      The Vintage News



  • Mexican archeologists claim they have a significant discovery at hand. The country’s National Institute of Anthropology and History shared on January 2 that they’ve found...

  • The Darker Side of how P.T. Barnum Became “The Greatest Showman”

    14 hours ago
  • The Greatest Showman is Hollywood’s latest musical blockbuster, with Hugh Jackman taking a star turn as Phineas Taylor Barnum, the 19th century American showman, politician...

  • The Codex Gigas Contains the Most Famous Medieval Image of Satan

    14 hours ago

    • There is a very curious leather-bound book on display at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm, called Codex Gigas, or better known as The Devil’s Bible. It contains 310 pages...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • Stone Age Minds: A conversation with evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby

    6 hours ago

  • Why @jamespeshaw is afraid to commission an estimate of the cost of #globalwarming as a percentage of NZ GDP @mfe_news

    8 hours ago

    • From David Romer’s graduate macroeconomics textbook

    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

    16 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

    16 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



  • An Epiphany for Pelosi: With Nuclear Launch Codes Still Controlled by Deranged Individual 1, Democrats Must Pursue Impeachment to Prevent Imminent Harm; Threat of Multi-Year Government...

  • Pelosi Elected Speaker, Promises “Nothing for the Wall,” Considers Indictment of Incumbent Trump an Open Question!

    3 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, January 3, 2019 Democrats Should Learn from 2007-2011, Set Aside Global Warming Austerity...

  • On Eve of Democratic Control of House, Time to Reject Austerity Straitjacket of PayGo Proposed by Pelosi, Now Made a Mockery by GOP Tax Scam of 2017!

    4 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, January 2, 2019 Damage Done by #TrumpShutdown Escalates After 12 Days of No Funding: Mortgage...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • 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

    17 days 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...

  • Kyrgyzstan Parliament Orders 100% Organic Agriculture within 10 Years

    20 days ago

    • Kyrgyzstan is set to become only the second country in the world to change their entire nation in to a 100% organic farming paradise, 24.kg reported last week. The move by Kyrgyzstan...

      sunshine hours



  • Bjorn Lomborg has been trying to quell the hysteria about forest fires in the USA. As Lomborg writes on Facebook: Some people have pointed out that the National Interagency Fire Center...

  • Arctic Sea Ice Volume 5-Jan-2019

    11 hours ago
  •   From DMI

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 5 – 2019

    12 hours ago

    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • Labour’s ambivalence towards Brexit is coming under attack from good people. Simon Wren-Lewis says it would be an “historic error” for Labour to enable Brexit, and Chris Bertram...

  • Brexit, & limits of empathy

    21 days ago
  • “The trouble with you son” said Bill Shankly once to a struggling young player “is that your brains are all in your head.” The great man had a point, and not just about football...

  • When bad government matters

    25 days ago

    • Here’s a nice contrast. On the one hand, Tim Stanley says: Britain's still absolutely fine, by the way, probably better off than its ever been. It's just politics that's a mess. If...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • 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...

  • A mortal threat to Asia’s rise

    16 days ago
  • Governments must tackle environmental degradation as it threatens region’s future Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review Many Asian cities will ring in the New Year with high...

  • U.S. sheds its blinkers on China

    19 days ago

    • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times From Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, successive US presidents, as a matter of policy, aided China’s rise in the naïve hope that a more prosperous...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • Israeli Forces Injure at Least 23 Palestinians in Gaza Protests by https://www.presstv.com/ Israeli forces have attacked anti-occupation protests along the border between...

  • U.S. Raids on Syria Increased Despite Troops Pull Out Decision

    3 hours ago

  • Gov’ts Are Manipulating Markets Contrary To What The People Want, Time To Reset It All: K Neumeyer

    4 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...

      Ramani's blog



  • It is altogether possible that the Vedic theory, if thoroughly researched, poses a threat to many of the concepts of modern civilization and the current worldview .'...

  • World Time Zones Devised First By Baskaracharya India

    14 hours ago
  • It would be interesting to note that World Time Zones Concept was devised in ancient. India by Baskaracharya,12th Century AD, in his  Siddhandha Siromani. The West devised this...

  • How Sound Is Born From Eight Organs Tholkappiyam Tamil Explains

    3 days ago

    • The purpose of this article is to explain the scientific basis on which Indian culture, languages evolved. Tamil,as I wrote earlier,backed by evidence,dates back to between 30,000...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • Ohio Governor John Kasich once again demonstrates his cluelessness about and hostility towards educators by apoointing four businesspeople to the state board of education. Apparently...

  • John Thompson: The News from Oklahoma, Part 1

    13 hours ago
  • This is the first of a three-part series. Last spring, Oklahoma experiences a mass teacher walkout to protest underfunding of public schools. John Thompson, historian and retired...

  • Nancy Bailey: Arne Duncan Can’t Stop Peddling the Dangerous Corporate Reform Dogma

    14 hours ago

    • Nancy E. Bailey is turning into a superstar of education blogging. She is a retired teacher and she has a firm understanding of corporate reform and its dangers. In this post, she reviews...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • 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...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of December 17

    12 days ago
  • Last week was the last week most shows aired all new episodes in 2018.  Regrettably, none opted to book science and/or technology related guests. As I write this, the Science Channel...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of December 10

    22 days ago

    • Where science and technology on late night are concerned, 2018 is looking to go out with a whimper, and certainly not a bang. For this past week I can find little to note in this post. ...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood h/t Patsy Lacey   Labour’s John McDonnell is plotting a tax hike on plane tickets and getting rid of duty free at airports, the Treasury warned last night. The Shadow...

  • Kerala Floods “Likely Due To Climate Variability, Not AGW”–New Study

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood More fake climate disaster claims from Christian Aid:   https://mediacentre.christianaid.org.uk/download?id=4170&pn=21e38f435ea050ce63ac6b7e52c58d72-pdf...

  • Loony Greens Demand Meat Tax

    a day ago

    • By Paul Homewood    h/t Patsy Lacey    From the Express: A GREEN MP has called on Parliament to impose a tax on meat to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce climate change. Caroline...

      NoTricksZone



  • Markus Somm of the Swiss Baseler Zeitung (BaZ) here has an interesting commentary on why Spiegel and CNN-award wining journalist Claas Relotius had been able to get away with...

  • Lousy Water Management, Not Climate Change, Leading To Ecological Disaster In Iran

    2 days ago
  • Iran has a water problem. Although activists and alarmist scientists like to place the blame on climate change, Iran’s water problems are due to public planning mismanagement...

  • Consensus? 500+ Scientific Papers Published In 2018 Support A Skeptical Position On Climate Alarm

    4 days ago

    • In 2018,  over 500 scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Have You Heard: What’s so Funny About Education Reform? In the latest episode of Have You Heard, we talk to Roxanna Elden, author of the smart and hilarious new novel Adequate Yearly...

  • Diane Ravitch's Blog: Nancy Carlsson-Paige: Online Preschool Stinks!

    3 days ago
  • Diane Ravitch's Blog: Nancy Carlsson-Paige: Online Preschool Stinks! Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education expert who taught for many years at Lesley College in...

  • Jersey Jazzman; NJ Court Strikes Down Graduation Test; An Opportunity to Re-Think Testing?

    4 days ago

    • Jersey Jazzman; NJ Court Strikes Down Graduation Test; An Opportunity to Re-Think Testing? Miss me? Yesterday, a New Jersey appellate court struck down regulations that required...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review There was likely never going to be “comprehensive immigration reform” or any deal amnestying the DACA recipients in exchange for building...

  • The Departure of Mattis and Engagements in the Middle East

    16 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The near-destruction of ISIS in a matter of months (losing 99 percent of its landed caliphate), the restoration of sound defense budgeting...

  • The Liberal Arts Weren’t Murdered — They Committed Suicide

    19 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The great culture wars on the campuses of the 1980s were largely lost by traditionalists. And the question then became not if but when the liberal...

    The Moderate Voice



  • Yeah, if you have an issue with a congresswoman saying MF’er but you were silent the multiple times Trump used vulgarity, you’re an MF’ing hypocrite. This is a bonus cartoon...

  • Competitive elections are good for democracy – just not every democracy

    an hour ago
  • Jessica Gottlieb, Texas A&M University and Katrina Kosec, Johns Hopkins University The 2018 U.S. midterm elections were fierce, expensive and full of upsets, with political...

  • Cartoon: Humpty Trumpty

    5 hours ago

    • The post Cartoon: Humpty Trumpty appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • From Lingwei Wu and Xinyu Fan at AEA: What are the origins of gender-biased social norms? As a painful custom that persisted in historical China, foot-binding targeted girls whose...

  • Hacking Photosynthesis

    2 days ago
  • The vast majority of life on Earth depends, either directly or indirectly, on photosynthesis for its energy. And photosynthesis depends on an enzyme called RuBisCO, which uses carbon...

  • My Conversation with Sam Altman

    12 hours ago

    • 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...

      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

    15 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?

    17 days 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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  • Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Francis Rooney have introduced companion bills to add an amendment to the Constitution to limit congressional terms of office. According to...

  • Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” Represents the True Wishes of Democrats and Globalists

    17 hours ago
  • While newly minted House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Green New Deal" seems like a fanciful propostion, it tells us exactly the direction that Democrats and globalists wish...

  • Does the Constitution Allow Trump to Build the Wall Without Congressional Approval?

    a day ago

    • With Congress and the president locked in a battle over his requested appropriation to build a border wall, the question has been raised: Does Trump have the authority to build the...

      MintPress News



  • Ahead of the imminent US troop withdrawal, the US is sending large shipments of weapons to Kurdish rebel groups who have recently requested a no-fly zone be established over parts...

  • Elizabeth Warren and the Military Industrial Complex

    2 days ago
  • Warren’s views on countries in the crosshairs of the US State Department largely conform to those of her colleagues on Capitol Hill: Iran is a “bad actor,” Russia and China “are...

  • Mass Psychosis and the Church of Humanitarian Interventionism

    2 days ago

    • Like the proverbial general always fighting the last war, liberals remain trapped in the past, unable to adapt to rapidly unfolding kinetic developments. The problem is that not...

      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

    13 hours 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?

    21 hours 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



  • LEGO Porsche crashing in slow motion with 1000 fps (tags: slowmotion car lego video viaFanf ) Ministry Of Justice Staff Called A Journalist "Crazy" And A "Bitch" After She Published...

  • Interesting Links for 05-01-2019

    2 days ago
  • Here's a discussion about Harry Potter you'll never unsee... (tags: harrypotter faeces wtf ) The “Bowie Bonds” (tags: DavidBowie finance investment ) This AI hid data from its...

  • Interesting Links for 04-01-2019

    3 days ago

    • New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule (tags: space ) A new law in California requires pet stores to sell only rescue animals (tags: pets California usa ) Things Junior...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • A recent study demonstrates that being bullied can have long-lasting effects on the structure of the brain, raising the risk of mental health problems...

  • Medical News Today: How common are food allergies, really?

    21 hours ago
  • Millions of adults in the United States believe that they have a food allergy, but new research suggests that only around half of them actually do.

  • Medical News Today: Childbirth may increase risk of breast cancer

    2 days ago

    • A new study reveals that contrary to popular belief, having recently given birth may result in a slightly higher risk of breast cancer.

      Jon's Text



  • On entry Medical Service every GP promises to be aware of, validated and they use the new medicine. In 2002 the Moffitt cancer centre published 100 per cent double blind trial on high...

  • Carbon dioxide has no warming effect

    12 hours ago
  • In the Jurassic photosynthesis was less evolved, and the one periods had twice the level of carbon dioxide in. In the modern Epoch only 2 parts per 1,000,000 carbon dioxide is left in...

  • UltraSound has to cure cancer

    a day ago

    • All cancers at one session. I was published by three medical professors at the Moffitt cancer centre. Medics protest "we don't understand!" It doesn't matter. There are professional...

      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!

    a month 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

    a month 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...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • Disclosure:  I haven’t always been anti-Israel.  I’m half Jewish (the half that  counts) and in my youth I was quite the little Zionist.  I spent quite a bit of time in Israel...

  • Surplus Poems

    a day ago
  • The other day, while I was browsing through my old blogs, because I’m planning a ‘best of’ book, I came across a poem I’d posted, as a blog entry for  the day, some time in the...

  • The Reaction to Paygo

    2 days ago

    • A few comments on the incoming congress.  I  hate to totally give up all hope on them on the first day, but only 3 -Tulsi Gabbard, Ro Khanna, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez- voted against...

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