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...

  • The Feedback Loop of Doom: When Mobile Creatives and Capital Abandon Unaffordable, Dysfunctional Cities

    19 hours ago
  • 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...

  • The Resistance Takes a Stand for Keeping Trump in Office

    20 hours ago

    • 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...

      The Vintage News



  • 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...

  • Entire Abandoned Spanish Villages Are Being Sold Cheap to Raise Money

    a day ago
  • 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...

  • Why Does the Shape of the Heart Symbol Look Nothing Like a Real Heart?

    a day ago

    • 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!




  • Some inconvenient truths for peace activists and #BDS

    25 minutes ago

  • Lost in Transmission: Colossal Cost of Connecting Remote Wind & Solar

    2 hours ago

    • 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...

      TARPLEY.net



  • 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...

  • UK Allows Dubious Chinese Firm Huawei as Contractor for 5G Communications; Move Could Allow Beijing Totalitarians to Penetrate Cheltenham GCHQ and Thus NSA Fort Meade; Another Reason Why Zombie Prime Minister Theresa May Must Go; Move Shows Inner Logic of Brexit: Britain as Satellite of China And Banker for Organized Crime!

    a day ago
  • 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...

  • Leader of New Mexico Paramilitary Anti-Refugee Gang Arrested as Felon Holding Firearms; Accused by FBI of Eyeing Attacks on Obama, Hillary, Soros

    2 days ago

    • 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...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • 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...

  • Collusion Or Coincidence? Records Show EPA Efforts To Slow Herbicide Review Came In Coordination With Monsanto

    7 days ago
  • 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 Curbs the Spread of Foodborne Pathogens – New Study

    7 days ago

    • 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...

      sunshine hours



  • South / North

  • Arctic Sea Ice Volume 24-Apr-2019

    19 hours ago
  • From DMI

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 113 – 2019

    2 days ago

    • 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...

  • Global Silence on China’s Gulag

    17 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, an internationally syndicated column from Project Syndicate In the absence of international censure, China has stepped up its systematic persecution of Muslims...

  • Why Tibet matters ever more in India-China ties

    25 days ago

    • 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...

  • Mueller Report Debunks MSM’s Russia Collusion Stories, But They Still Get Green Check from NewsGuard

    7 hours ago
  • 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...

  • NOTHING in the Bank is Yours | Will Lehr

    7 hours ago

    • 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...

      Ramani's blog



  • 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...

  • Rahul Gandhi Director Backhops Ltd UK British Citizen Document Four Passports

    5 days ago
  • Mr Gandhi had called himself "British" on the annual returns of a UK-based firm "Backops Limited".

  • First Thirukkural Malayalam Manuscript 1595 Before Tamil

    8 days ago

    • 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...

  • Bill Phillis: Repeal HB 70 Now!

    17 hours ago
  •   ‌ ‌ ‌ 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”...

  • Pastors for Florida Children Organizes to Support Public Schools

    18 hours ago

    •   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...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • 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...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of April 8

    12 days ago
  • 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...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of April 1

    19 days ago

    • 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...

  • Greenland Temperature Data For 2018

    2 days ago
  • 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...

  • Rising electricity prices are forcing Britain’s poorest to underheat their homes

    2 days ago

    • 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...

      NoTricksZone



  • 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...

  • Alarm-Silencing Spring: Data Show March Mean Temperatures Have Not Been Warming Alarmingly As Claimed

    2 days ago
  • 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...

  • German Institute Delivers Bad News On CO2, E-Cars: “Electric Vehicles Not A Panacea For Climate Change”

    3 days ago

    • 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...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • 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"

    2 days ago
  • 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

    3 days ago

    • 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...

  • The Cathedral: Mirror of the West, Then and Now

    3 days ago
  • 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...

  • Russian ‘Collusion’s’ Greatest Hits

    3 days ago

    • 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...

  • Trump Isn’t Really Tough, We’re Just Weak.

    13 hours ago
  • 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...

  • On Impeachment, Will Democrats Put Country Over Party?

    18 hours ago

    • 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...

  • Did rising health care expenditures damage the U.S. savings rate?

    6 hours ago

    • 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...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



  • Donald Trump lives by: “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.” Continue reading →

  • How popular is MAGA Man

    14 days ago
  • Why is Donald Trump MAGA Man, Moscow's Agent Governing America? Continue reading →

  • Bombshell Report About Copycat Legislation Written by ALEC but Adopted by Your State

    20 days ago

    • 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...

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  • 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...

  • Joe Biden Running, Portrays Trump as Neo-Nazi Sympathizer - Top Headline

    13 hours ago
  • 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...

  • Maduro Uses Threats to Keep Military Loyal, Frustrating Opposition

    16 hours ago

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

      MintPress News



  • 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...

  • Venezuelan Opposition Reps Throw Temper Tantrums When Confronted About Lack of Legitimacy, Interventionist Plans at OAS

    21 hours ago
  • 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...

  • US & Its Afghan Trainees Now Killing More Civilians than the Taliban

    2 days ago

    • 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...

  • Did rising health care expenditures damage the U.S. savings rate?

    6 hours ago

    • 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...

  • Interesting Links for 24-04-2019

    2 days ago
  • 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...

  • Interesting Links for 23-04-2019

    3 days ago

    • 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.

  • Medical News Today: Is drinking cold water bad for a person?

    10 hours ago
  • 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...

  • Medical News Today: How to recognize and treat an infected wound

    15 hours ago

    • 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...

      InvestmentWatch



  • 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...

  • London Gold Market Imports and Exports

    7 hours ago
  • by Jesse Gold is flowing from West to East.

  • Missed It By That Much: Hillary Clinton Almost Wins ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ But Then Shouts ‘Easter Worshiper’ Instead Of ‘Christian’

    7 hours ago

    • 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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