Friday, April 26, 2019

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  Washington's Blog



  • Last week I tweeted this: “The U.S. military wants to fly small nuclear power plants into wars in order to power the wars’ weaponry. Because there was some chance we might not all...
  • At the end of any trend, everyone’s a true believer: this trend is so enduring, so broad-based, so based on unchanging fundamentals that it will never ever reverse. One such trend...

    • I’m old enough to remember when Nancy Pelosi was telling us that Trump would impeach himself. Now, Trump’s “not worth it,” as if impeachment is a favor you bestow on those most...

  • It’s unbelievable how far some people will go to gain a little notoriety, and this era of the 24-hour news cycle, online videos, and social media rants has only made matters worse...
  • In most Western countries, it seems like house prices just keep on going up and up. As populations increase, demand for homes rises and the value of the property just gets higher and...

    • Just about everyone has seen and even used the heart shape that appears on greeting cards, emojis, pillows, paintings, and personal letters. It speaks of love and romance. What we...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!






    • Originally posted on STOP THESE THINGS: RE rent seekers aren’t satisfied with $trillions in wind and solar subsidies, now they want $trillions for power grids to the middle of nowhere...

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, April 25, 2019 Warren Dominates CNN Town Halls and “She the People” Gathering with...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Putin-Kim Meet in Vladivostok to Compare Notes on Their Dupe Benedict Donald...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Rent-Gouging Landlord Makes Good: Trump Finally Gets Invite for State Visit...

  • Washington State University (WSU) researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate...
  • Newly released government email communications show a persistent effort by multiple officials within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to slow a separate federal agency’s...

    • Organic farming promotes natural resistance to common food-borne human pathogens, according to a study that evaluates the benefit of soil organisms. By protecting valuable...

  • South / North
  • From DMI

    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • In seeking to demonstrate resolve and strengthen deterrence, India ended up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Deterrence theorists...
  • Brahma Chellaney, an internationally syndicated column from Project Syndicate In the absence of international censure, China has stepped up its systematic persecution of Muslims...

    • If Tibet is at the heart of the China-India divide, water is at the centre of the Tibet-India bond. Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Wars in space are not just Hollywood fiction...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • RT Published on Apr 25, 2019 The Trump administration is on the offensive around the globe. As a candidate, Trump called out neocons for supporting American military adventures...
  • RT Published on Apr 25, 2019 Even after the 448-page report by special counsel Robert Mueller spelled out ‘no collusion’ between US President Donald Trump and Russia, multiple...

    • Reluctant Preppers Published on Apr 24, 2019 “Safe as Money in the Bank?” Thanks to the carefully managed facade of solidity and stability, you are likely to believe that what...

  • Sonia Gandhi,the driving force and the real President of the Congress Party voted illegally when she was not a citizen of India . Her name in the voter list document in the image here...
  • Mr Gandhi had called himself "British" on the annual returns of a UK-based firm "Backops Limited".

    • The Annual Report of the Cochin Archeological Department for the year 1933–34 reported an unpublished manuscript of a Malayalam translation of the Tirukkural made in 1595.'...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  •     APRIL 25, 2019 Meyerson on TAP Trump Did What Nixon Did, but Today’s GOP Won’t Convict. The story is told of the 19th-century Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster, who...
  •   ‌ ‌ ‌ Toledo Board of Education member: HB 70 is “possibly one of the most undemocratic, mean-spirited, cynical pieces of legislation ever passed in the state of Ohio”...

    •   A new organization has been launched in Florida to support the principle of public schooling and speak out against the diversion of public funds to private and religious schools...

  • The drought continues where science and technology late night content is concerned… The best I was able to do for last week’s listings is to once again mention an actor who used...
  • This past week we went to the daytime for our new science and technology related content.  Matthew Gray Gubler was on The Talk April 9th.  He plays an F.B.I. agent and behavioral scientist...

    • The previous week got me all excited, but I was hoping the crash wasn’t going to be so soon.  To butcher the old saying, March went out like a lion for science and technology related...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood   Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were being raised was destroyed in severe weather. The catastrophe occurred in 2016...
  • By Paul Homewood   Greenland yemps   The DMI has just published its Greenland Climate Data Collection for last year, and it is worth looking at the temperature data:   There are six...

    • By Paul Homewood   According to the fuel poverty report recently released by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), nearly 70% of UK households are heating...

  • Another new paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters casts further doubt on the paradigm that says CO2 has historically been a temperature driver. Evidence from southern...
  • By Kirye Today we’ll take a look at March mean temperatures and their trend for some locations for which almost complete data are available from the Japan meteorology Agency. Though...

    • A few days ago here we wrote about how a team of German scientists at the Munich-based ifo Institute released the results of a study that showed that Electric cars end up producing more...

  • Curmudgucation: Using Cultural Competency to Sell Personalized [sic] Learning Over at EdTechTimes, a site that for a consulting group that clearly is interested in pushing personalized...
  • Psychology Today: The Problems with Parental Notifications and "Opt-Outs" There is a controversy happening in my local school district where the superintendent has emailed...

    • Our Schools: Things Didn’t Go Well When Betsy DeVos was Confronted with Her Department’s Charter School Fraud During a series of recent congressional hearings in Washington...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. Despite...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The recent fires at the medieval Catholic cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris almost immediately were seen as a referendum on the West, even by...

    • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness From late 2015 until April 2019, the media, the Left, and the Obama administrative state hierarchy warned us nonstop that candidate, president-elect...

    The Moderate Voice



  • "We are in a battle for the soul of this nation," -- Joe Biden The post Joe Biden Announces 2020 Run for President appeared first on The Moderate Voice...
  • Emotionally, mentally and physically, America has gone soft – and has the leader it deserves. By Christopher Dale Well past the halfway mark of President Donald Trump’s four-year...

    • Just suppose, for the sake of argument, that a Democratic president had acted as a doormat for Russia, indulging and amplifying an unprecedented soft invasion of America via its electoral...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • The men were allowed to come on deck night and day if they wished, but it was the rule to whip the Negro men if they went in the hold with the women.  Aboard the Creole, sex was apparently...
  • Sentences to ponder

    4 hours ago
  • She also said Ms. Gardner had ranked reporters in job interviews according to how negative they were regarding tech companies, viewing that as a favorable trait, and had urged Ms...

    • Maybe so: The U.S. saving rate declined by 8 percent between 1980 and 2009. We document that the decline can be explained by rising health expenditures. Using exogenous variation...

  • Donald Trump lives by: “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.” Continue reading →
  • Why is Donald Trump MAGA Man, Moscow's Agent Governing America? Continue reading →

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Democracy is under attack, not only in D.C., but in the state capitols. To understand just how serious this attack is, how insidious it is...

  • Latest eco-alarmism: If you're sneezing, wheezing, and coughing this allergy season, it could be because plants — believing they're going extinct due to Global Warming — are...
  • VIDEO - Former Vice President Joe Biden officially enters the presidential race with campaign video falsely claiming that Trump called White supremacists and neo-Nazis at Charlottesville...

    • Lightning, or some other outside influence, might be needed to end the Maduro regime in Venezuela.

  • Think tanks like the Center for a New American Security are on the offensive as China kicks off its Belt and Road Forum in Beijinghoping to offer the world an alternative to the decades-long...
  • At the OAS, two top representatives of Juan Guaido’s US-backed shadow government – Gustavo Tarre and David Smolansky – lost their cool when confronted with critical questions...

    • The Trump administration has increasingly relied on bombing missions in an attempt to turn the tide in Afghanistan, where the Taliban has been able to gain more and more land under...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • The men were allowed to come on deck night and day if they wished, but it was the rule to whip the Negro men if they went in the hold with the women.  Aboard the Creole, sex was apparently...
  • Sentences to ponder

    4 hours ago
  • She also said Ms. Gardner had ranked reporters in job interviews according to how negative they were regarding tech companies, viewing that as a favorable trait, and had urged Ms...

    • Maybe so: The U.S. saving rate declined by 8 percent between 1980 and 2009. We document that the decline can be explained by rising health expenditures. Using exogenous variation...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease(tags:inflammation health )Scruton is part of an intellectual culture giving respectability to racism(tags:racism uk OhForFucksSake...
  • Tolkien estate disavows forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult(tags:Tolkien movies biography )US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as weapon of war(tags:rape usa war...

    • How many hobbits does it take to kill a mammoth?(tags:games funny )Noodle race (I literally choked with laughter)(tags:dogs food race viaSwampers )Six famous companies which "started...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • An interdisciplinary team of researchers has designed a patch that can limit damage after a heart attack. The patch was successfully tested in rats.
  • Drinking enough water is vital to health and good bodily functioning. However, some research suggests that the temperature of water when a person drinks it is also important. Here...

    • Symptoms of an infected wound can include increasing pain, redness, and swelling in the affected area. A person may be able to treat minor wound infections at home. However, people...

  • By Nick Cunningham Iraq will play a crucial part in meeting global oil demand over the next decade, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Iraq is...
  • by Jesse Gold is flowing from West to East.

    • Via The Babylon Bee Some people think Hillary Clinton is robotic and hard to sympathize with, but even our hearts went out to her on this one. On a special ... Read more...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • Since they don’t have any attacks on Sanders which will actually stick – no serious scandals in his personal life and several decades of principled, honest and transparent public...
  • Poetry Underground

    a day ago
  • It looks as if the poetry readings at the Souterrain Cafe on lovely Bělehradska St. are going to be a regular event.  Tonight was the second one and it was massively successful. ...
  • Side Issues

    3 days ago

    • I’m not sure how I feel about letting convicted felons vote.  I suspect that even for most convicted felons, it’s not their greatest concern.  But, very much like Sanders’...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • Don’t know about you, but for us, spring happened on Saturday (20 April.) By Sunday, the foliage of almost all trees was at least barely emerged, if not half-way, the sun setting spring...
  • FOUNDATIONS

    4 days ago

    • We got to poking around (again) around the edges of this semi-permanent feature down the valley and around the bend from the house. We were told by an long-time resident of Goose Creek...

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