Friday, February 01, 2019

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  Washington's Blog

  • The Russian Peace Threat

    3 hours ago" in the halls of imperial power in Washington D.C., the threat from Russia is clearly more one of peace than war." Tragic, innit ! "The U.S. and Russian governments blame each other for violating the INF Treaty. But Gorbachev had wanted to go much further and get rid of all of the nukes. Reagan (or, rather, the people around him who decided everything) refused. The INF Treaty was the best that Russia could get the United States to do. "
  • A lot more energy is invested by people in theorizing what respectable and corrupt influences motivate members of the U.S. Congress than at least some members of the U.S. Congress...

  • The Alt-Media Has Way More Fun than the Mainstream Media

    7 hours ago
  • It’s not exactly news that the Alternative Media is under assault: skeptical inquiry and dissenting narratives are smeared as “fake news,” and new suspiciously corporate...

  • Congress Finds its War Powers and Weaknesses

    a day ago
    • It’s possible that the U.S. Congress will for the first time use the War Powers Resolution of 1973 to end a war — the one on Yemen. This would be wonderful. There are some caveats...

      The Vintage News

  • Since 2009, a culinary debate regarding putting pineapple on pizza has haunted the internet and continues to divide pizza lovers all over the world. An army of haters spawned numerous...

  • Ancient Egyptian Wine Cellars Uncovered in the Nile Delta

    11 hours ago
  • Wine production flourished in the days of ancient Egypt. Grapes but also other fruits such as figs or pomegranate were all exploited for winemaking purposes. Now, archaeologists...

  • These Peculiar Aztec ‘Swords’ Struck Fear Into the Hearts of the Conquistadors

    12 hours ago
    • When the Spanish conquistadors landed in Mexico, they were confronted with a civilization that was powerful, sophisticated and characterized by an elite warrior culture. While...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • But @oxfam @greenpeace are anti-growth

    3 hours ago

  • The Age of Exploration

    7 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, January 31, 2019 Senate Votes 68-23 to Rebuke Trump’s Cut and Run Doctrine for Syria and...

  • Trump Touts Dow Back over 25,000 as Fed Promises to Avoid Interest Rate Hikes, but Brexit, China Conflict, More Government Shutdowns and Global Economic Contraction Threaten to End January Bear Market Rally!

    2 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Don’s Promises of Foxconn Job-Creation Bonanza for Wisconsin Turn...

  • UK Premier May Gets Mandate from Rubber-Stamp Parliament to Renegotiate Her Brexit Deal, Despite Brussels’ Refusal to Re-Open Agreement!

    3 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, January 29, 2019 French President Macron and Top Eurocrat Verhofstadt Repeat That Negotiations...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • After mass opposition, Syngenta has withdrawn its patent on tomatoes. As a consequence, the European Patent Office (EPO) now has officially revoked patent EP1515600. In its patent...

  • US Judge to Allow Controversial Evidence in Roundup Cancer Trials

    2 days ago
  • A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer causes cancer on Monday tentatively allowed pieces of controversial evidence...

  • New Study Claimed to Show Safety of CRISPR Shows the Opposite

    2 days ago
    • A new study by Chinese researchers has been hailed in a lobbying post as showing that plant gene editing via CRISPR is precise, predictable, and controllable. In fact, however...

      sunshine hours

  • The good news about the cold: DULUTH, MN — When it’s so cold your face hurts, and it’s hard to talk, it’s easy to forget there are actually some positives that come with these...

  • Cold Waves in the Eastern USA Are Down

    6 hours ago
  • Cold waves in Eastern USA are down according to Dr Roy Spencer. As can be seen in the plot below, there is no evidence in the data supporting the claim that decreasing Arctic sea ice…...

  • Arctic Sea Ice Volume 01-Feb-2019

    7 hours ago
    •   From DMI

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • The just-announced “agreement in principle” between the US and the Taliban should be called what it is: a Faustian bargain that will lead to still more violence in the region...

  • China’s lonely rise: After decades of heady growth, Beijing is suddenly facing resistance at home and abroad

    7 days ago
  • Xi Jinping’s word may be law, but faced with difficult choices on China’s new challenges, he now finds himself under pressure By Brahma Chellaney, The National, January 25...

  • Indigenous groups are the world’s endangered environmental guardians

    9 days ago
    • Waiapi people pose in Manilha village in Amapa state, Brazil, Oct. 15, 2017. Brahma Chellaney The Globe and Mail Brazil’s new President, Jair Bolsonaro – known for his misogynistic...

      Socio-Economics History Blog


  • BREAKTHROUGH: Thought-to-Speech Tech Will Transform Lives

    a day ago
  • RT America Published on Jan 31, 2019 Engineers at Columbia University have created a breakthrough device that they say can translate human thought into accurate and intelligible...

  • If You Don’t Think QE4 & QE5 Are Coming, You’re Smoking Something – Mike Maloney

    a day ago

    •   Ramani's blog

  • There seems to be information when we attempt to interpret them in the light of our present knowledge. I have been able to relate Indian temple architecture to Astronomy,Mantras to...

  • Rama With One Wife Krishna With More What is Morality

    4 days ago
  • Is this not a contradiction? What ,then, is Morality? Which is morally correct? Concepts of Hinduism are complex and it needs a thorough understanding of its concepts...

  • Growth of Child In Womb Stage by Stage Description Shrimad Bhagavadham Hindu Text

    14 days ago
    • Here below I am providing Slokas from the Bhagavadham,that list the stage by stage development of the Egg in the Womb. 'SB 3.31.1 — The Personality of Godhead said: Under the supervision...

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  •   Blogger Andy Spears reports that an admitted sex offender in the legislature has a key role in shaping education policy. He wrote: Yesterday, the House Education Administration...

  • Dutch Historian Tells Davos Elite That Biggest World Problem is Failure of Rich to Pay Taxes

    9 hours ago
  •   Dutch historian Rutger Bergman stunned the super-elite at the World Economic Forum at Davos by telling them that the biggest problem in the world today is the refusal of the richest...

  • Jack Schneider: Betsy DeVos Should Stop Making Stuff Up About America’s Schools

    10 hours ago
    •     Jack Schneider, historian of education, urges Betsy DeVos to stop telling lies about our nation’s schools.  Schneider offers a capsule of education history and concludes...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • The third week of 2019 dipped slightly in terms of science and technology bookings and content.  Sonequa Martin-Green continues her promotion of Star Trek: Discovery with her January...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of January 14

    12 days ago
  • Last week started off strong, with Sonequa Martin-Green appearing on the January 14 edition of The Late Show.  She plays the lead (and a scientist) on Star Trek: Discovery, which...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of January 7

    18 days ago
    • 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...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood     The US version of Jeremy Corbyn thinks that cold winters are due to global warming!      https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1091035931770003456   Perhaps...

  • NOAA’s Failed Winter Outlook

    12 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Joe Public     https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47088684     While much of  the US continues in the grip of a brutally cold winter, we can...

  • Texas town’s environmental narcissism makes Al Gore happy while sticking its citizens with the bill

    2 days ago
    • By Paul Homewood     I covered this story of Georgetown last month here. But there is more detail emerging on just how much local citizens are having to pay for their mayor’s green...

      NoTricksZone

  • Charismatic Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann posted a comment at Twitter where he wondered what flagship German ZDF television was thinking when its evening news announced...

  • 265 Papers Published Since 2017 Subvert The Claim That Post-1850s Warmth Has Been Unusual, Global

    2 days ago
  • Modern Climate Warming Is Not Dangerous, Unprecedented, Globally Pervasive Image Source: Lansner and Pepke Pedersen, 2018 The Hockey Stick Fails  The  PAGES 2k Consortium...

  • Solar Cycle 24 Going Down As Quietest In Almost 200 Years, May Put The Brakes On Warming

    2 days ago
    • The sun in December 2018 Von Frank Bosse und Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated / edited by P Gosselin) Our sun was also very sub-normally active in December last year. We are...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Tuning Out: What Happens When You Drop Facebook? (Krysten Crawford) (Guest Post by Krysten Crawford) Krysten Crawford is a freelance...

  • 10th Period: What Coulda Been (And Still Could Be) ...

    a day ago
  • 10th Period: What Coulda Been (And Still Could Be) ... This school year is the 10th since I was the Chairman of the Primary and Secondary Education Subcommittee on the House Finance...

  • The Conversation: Community Schools Score Key Victory in LA Teachers Strike

    2 days ago
    • The Conversation: Community Schools Score Key Victory in LA Teachers Strike Parents accompany their children to school on the first day back after a teachers’ strike in Los Angeles. AP...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The news obsesses over the recent government shutdown, the latest Robert Mueller arrest and, of course, fake news—from the BuzzFeed...

  • On Assimilation

    a day ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The idea of rapid assimilation, integration, intermarriage, and Americanization was once melting-pot clear. Immigrants arrived in the...

  • The Progressive Race to the Bottom

    3 days ago
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The old Democratic party championed the working classes, wanted secure borders to protect middle-class union wage earners, and focused generous...

    The Moderate Voice

  • The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is planning to honor the nation’s brave and loyal military working dogs with a new booklet of 20 stamps The post Our Postage Stamps Are ‘Going to the...

  • Black History Month 2019: Sojourner Truth

    7 hours ago
  • Black History Month 2019 begins with the Google website honoring Sojourner Truth with a doodle. Here is an excerpt from the Biography.com entry about Sojourner Truth: Sojourner...

  • Need a laugh? Then listen to this.

    13 hours ago
    • Need a laugh? Then listen to this. From Scooby Mania : Shaggy Incarnate: Matthew Lillard Some actors do Shakespeare. Other actors have farting contests with imaginary dogs. Actor...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. “Grant abstracts that are longer than the average abstract, contain fewer common words, and are written with more verbal certainty receive more money from the NSF (approximately...

  • San Francisco fact of the day

    11 hours ago
  • San Francisco has more drug addicts than it has students enrolled in its public high schools, the city Health Department’s latest estimates conclude. There are about 24,500 injection...

  • Biotech on the Blockchain?

    12 hours ago
    • Bloomberg: In a novel approach for the biotechnology industry, small-cap company Agenus Inc. is aiming to raise $50 million to $100 million by issuing digital securities backed...

      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

    a month 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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  • Many people have been shocked by the prenatal-infanticide developments in New York and, more recently, Virginia. They shouldn’t be. Oh, disgust is certainly warranted. But anything...

  • Snopes Lies About California’s Plan To Teach 5-Year-Olds Transgenderism

    2 hours ago
  • The far-left perverts and fraudsters running the website “Snopes” dishonestly styling itself a “fact-check” operation have shown yet again why they have no credibility...

  • Trump vs. the Spy Chiefs: Who’s Right?

    2 hours ago
    • While it’s not unusual for a president and the intel community to diverge on the gravity of threats, what is astonishing is that the intel leaders would declare a president to be flat-out...

      MintPress News

  • While Facebook claims impartiality in its crackdown on “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” the loyalties of the man charged with carrying out that mission. if his resume is...

  • The Real Target of the Huawei Sanctions and the Trade War

    4 hours ago
  • The U.S.-China trade war isn’t actually about soybeans and steel. Washington fears its iron grip over the post-Soviet world is waning thanks to China’s new global initiatives...

  • “Largest Land Grab Since 1948” — Israel to Expel 36,000 Palestinians From Negev

    5 hours ago
    • Given the Israeli state’s rejection of their existence, government officials have called the Palestinians living in these villagers “violators” and “squatters” –...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. “Grant abstracts that are longer than the average abstract, contain fewer common words, and are written with more verbal certainty receive more money from the NSF (approximately...

  • San Francisco fact of the day

    11 hours ago
  • San Francisco has more drug addicts than it has students enrolled in its public high schools, the city Health Department’s latest estimates conclude. There are about 24,500 injection...

  • Biotech on the Blockchain?

    12 hours ago
    • Bloomberg: In a novel approach for the biotechnology industry, small-cap company Agenus Inc. is aiming to raise $50 million to $100 million by issuing digital securities backed...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • My Daily Link Poster has gone from "Will generate posts, but can't reach Dreamwidth to post them, so I have to manually copy/paste them into the DW Update page" to "Will not generate...

  • Interesting Links for 24-01-2019

    8 days ago
  • Have Phones Become Boring? Well, They’re About to Get Weird (tags: phones thefuture design ) Scottish Conservatives to block post-Brexit trade role for Scottish Government (tags...

  • Interesting Links for 23-01-2019

    10 days ago
    • MP asks for a foreign government to intervene so as to frustrate a potential UK government policy. (tags: UK europe OhForFucksSake ) Matthew's experiment changed his family's attitude...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • Bipolar disorder is a long-term mental health condition. Although there is currently no cure, there are many treatments available that can reduce symptoms. Learn more here...

  • Medical News Today: What is a benign esophageal stricture?

    7 hours ago
  • A benign esophageal stricture is a gradual narrowing of the esophagus that has no medical links to cancer. Learn more about the condition here.

  • Medical News Today: Nanoparticles in food can alter the behavior of gut bacteria

    8 hours ago
    • A study of how natural and synthetic nanoparticles in food can impact gut bacteria offers useful information for medicine and the food industry.

      InvestmentWatch

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      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Some people think I do nothing but argue politics on Facebook all day every day and that’s not entirely true.  There is some truth to it, of course, I spend way more time arguing politics...

  • The Effect of a ‘Town Hall’

    2 days ago
  • I must say, I have been surprised many times over the past few years at how deeply corporate interests are embedded in American politics, and how fiercely they will fight to keep their...

  • Cold Snap

    3 days ago
    • Last year was a pretty bad year for hurricanes, as was the year before that.  And, last summer was extremely, at time painfully, hot.  After the summer came wildfire season, and a...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • His name would be Scout. This dog just looked like he should have that name. I think the notion came from some old 50s cowboys and Indians TV show stored deep in childhood memory. Forget...

  • Finding Old Yeller

    2 days ago
  • Read Part One: Outside of A Dog… Gandy, a week before she died on Valentines Day last year, was able to jump into the back of my truck while we unloaded wood. She always helped by selecting...

  • Outside of a Dog

    3 days ago
    • This could get complicated, seeing as how I have not spoken in public places about “the dog situation” in some months. I was forbidden to, so fraught with potential guilt in giving...

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