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  Washington's Blog


  • I don’t know if most people in the United States ever knew what Fallujah meant. It’s hard to believe the U.S. military would still exist if they did. But certainly it has been largely...

  • Blatant Violation, by U.S. & Its Allies, Against the U.N. Charter

    a day ago
  • Eric Zuesse America’s and its allies’ violation of the U.N. Charter, in regards to their recent actions to force a regime-change upon the sovereign nation of Venezuela, are baldly...

  • How did Zelenskiy win the 2019 Ukrainian presidential bid if Ukraine is a rigidly nationalist country?

    2 days ago

    • Although the investigation isn’t complete, I have uncovered all the working parts that make an impossible story not only plausible but show the election results as the only logical...

      The Vintage News



  • One of the most popular things to do on vacation in Asia is roam visit ancient temples and religious monuments. When we think of ancient Buddhist temples, we have certain images in our...

  • The Styrian People Who Ate Arsenic For Breakfast

    10 hours ago
  • Modern medicine is very different nowadays from what it once was. Delving back into the past, we can find all kinds of crazy examples of bizarre home remedies and strange pseudo-scientific...

  • Beautiful Images: America’s Grandest Movie Theathers Turned Into Gyms & Supermarkets

    11 hours ago

    • On top of many things the United States is known for, its film industry is undoubtedly one of the most important and iconic. It is a source of inspiration for many around the world, and...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • How Quickly Did the Crew of Apollo 13 Know They’d Lost the Moon?

    4 hours ago

  • How data drives Uber’s efficient but controversial business model

    7 hours ago


    •   TARPLEY.net



  • Henry C. Baird TARPLEY.net May 1, 2019 A Synopsis and Review of Frederick L. Schuman’s Europe on the Eve Frederick L. Schuman image courtesy ofWilliams College Archives and Special...

  • Trump’s Neocon Warmonger Bolton Pressing to Follow Failed Coup by Feckless Comprador Guaidó with Direct U.S. Military Action!

    3 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, May 2, 2019 Utopian “Full Plan” for Decapitation of Caracas Regime by Anti-Maduro...

  • “Coverup General” Barr Earns His Own Impeachment with Another Day of Flagrant Lies in Defense of Trump Before Senate Judiciary Committee; Hirono, Blumenthal, Harris Expose AG’s Crude Gaslighting!

    4 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Lindsay Graham Won’t Call Mueller; Barr Flees House Testimony; Nadler Threatens...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • Relying heavily on confidential industry research, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to re-approve glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s...

  • Bayer Shareholders Vote Against Board over Monsanto Merger

    9 days ago
  • Bayer chief executive Werner Baumann was dealt a blow Friday at the German chemical giant’s annual general meeting, amid tensions over last year’s decision to buy US seeds and...

  • Glyphosate Causes Serious Multi-Generational Health Damage to Rats – New WSU Research

    12 days ago

    • 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...

      sunshine hours



  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 123 – 2019

    a day ago
  • South / North

  • China Placing A Global Bet On Coal

    2 days ago

    • China dupes the world. China, known as the world’s biggest polluter, has been taking dramatic steps to clean up and fight climate change. Sort of. So why is it also building hundreds...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • Brahma Chellaney, DailyO As India seeks to address the terrorism challenge in Jammu and Kashmir, jihadist forces are quietly gaining ground in far-flung states, especially West...

  • Asia Is the New Ground Zero for Islamist Terror

    8 days ago
  • The murder of more than 250 churchgoers, tourists, and other civilians in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday should serve as a reminder that Asia is now the world’s leading site of Islamist...

  • Sri Lanka bombings carry a stark message for India

    9 days ago

    • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times The Sri Lanka bombings — one of the world’s deadliest acts of terrorism — highlight the growing terrorist threat to democratic, secular...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • Gregory Mannarino: Gold & Silver Greatest Trades on Earth by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Market analyst and professional trader Gregory Mannarino doesn’t feel good...

  • MSM Networks Go Nuts Over Venezuela Without Facts

    4 days ago
  • RT America Published on Apr 30, 2019 RT America’s John Huddy joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the skewed mainstream coverage of Tuesday’s violent clashes and protests in Venezuela...

  • Top CIA Analyst: Israel Partisans Push US to War

    4 days ago

    • If Americans Knew Published on Apr 30, 2019 Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included...

      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

    15 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

    17 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



  • Remember when Republicans believed in local control of public schools? In recent years, they have turned against local control and rejected democracy in their determination to...

  • Indiana: Phyllis Bush, Education Advocate, Receives Posthumous Award

    2 hours ago
  • Phyllis Bush, career teacher, education advocate, founder of the Northeast Indiana Friends of Public Education, board member of the Network for Public Education, was honored with...

  • Valerie Strauss on the Strange Case of the Charter School That Plans to Open in Rural Alabama

    3 hours ago

    •   Valerie Strauss investigated the strange case of the charter school that was approved to open in rural Alabama, over the objections of the local mayor and despite the rejection...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • While 2019 continues to disappoint in general, we have an increase of The Tonight Show listings so far.  Ocean explorer Philippe Cousteau appeared on the April 22 edition of the show...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of April 15

    14 days ago
  • 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

    21 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...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood     h/t AC Osborn     Jo Nova has the latest example of temperature shenanigans in Australia:   Friday April 19th set more records than anyone realized. Not only...

  • Christian Aid’s Blatant Climate Propaganda For Schools

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood     Someone sent me this teachers study aid being circulated around schools by Christian Aid. Far from being an educational aid, it is little more than insidious...

  • Net Zero – The UK’s (Miniscule) contribution to stopping global warming

    2 days ago

    • By Paul Homewood     GWPF have already responded to the CCC’s latest recommendations, but I have a few detailed observations to add:       https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/net-zero-the-uks-contribution-to-stopping-global-warming/...

      NoTricksZone



  • On April 29 I turned 60, and yesterday was the big bash. Today I’m not quite up to speed and so I’m taking the day off from blogging. See you soon!...

  • May Snowfall Surprises Swath Of Central Europe, Winter Road Crews Called Out! Freeze Expected Overnight!

    a day ago
  • At his Twitter site here, veteran Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann reported that many Europeans woke up to snow this morning as a blast of polar cold sweeps across the continent...

  • New Study Finds That Wind Turbines Could Have Impact On Insect Populations, Food Chain

    2 days ago

    • German DLR model computations show each year 1.2 trillion insects are killed by wind turbine rotors in Germany alone. Wind energy shows there is no free lunch. Some major drawbacks...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Our Schools: Progressives Take a Bold Stance at an Epicenter of the Charter School Movement for Public Education To learn more about school privatization, check out Who Controls...

  • Janresseger: Can We Hold Onto Our Values as We Struggle to Survive in the Trump-DeVos Holding Pattern?

    3 days ago
  • Janresseger: Can We Hold Onto Our Values as We Struggle to Survive in the Trump-DeVos Holding Pattern? I was dismayed recently when I sat down to read some excellent proposals for addressing...

  • Code Acts in Education: Learning from Surveillance Capitalism

    4 days ago

    • Code Acts in Education: Learning from Surveillance Capitalism ‘Surveillance capitalism’ has become a defining concept for the current era of smart machines and Silicon Valley...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Dictators fear being ridiculed with humor. Jokes about Stalin were punished by prison or death. In China, a...

  • Clinton Projection Syndrome

    3 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller’s massive report. She concluded...

  • Why Go West?

    4 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The harshest critics of the West in general and the United States in particular are the best arguments for it. Take the latest iconic critic...

    The Moderate Voice



  • The sports gambler from Las Vegas has dominated the game like no one else in its 35-year history. Jeopardy Productions Michael Rooney, Pasadena City College In 1997, fresh out of graduate...

  • ‘We Cannot Ignore the Threads’ that Connect Acts of Hate

    a day ago
  • By John L. Micek HARRISBURG, Pa. – Holocaust survivors, their families, their friends, and their allies all gathered in the state Capitol building here Wednesday. And they vowed...

  • Bad-Joke Saturday

    a day ago

    • Enough with the fussing about political issues. It’s time that we all take a comedy break. So, for your amusement – or groaning – here are some bad jokes for you to digest. After...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • 1. Good @CleoCZ thread on the history of the economics of discrimination. 2. Gilbert Arenas on John Wall. 3. New Samo Burja YouTube channel. The post Sunday assorted links appeared...

  • Economists at UBER

    8 hours ago
  • Here’s a good video discussing why tech companies like UBER hire economists. The post Economists at UBER appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

  • Big business isn’t big politics

    13 hours ago

    • That is my recent essay, adapted in Foreign Policy, from my new book Big Business: Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.  Here is the opening: The basic view that big business is pulling...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



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

  • How popular is MAGA Man

    23 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

    a month 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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  • The 2019 snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is higher than normal, which bodes well for the water supply in the state.  But more drought is almost certainly on the way in the future...

  • NYT Finally Admits Biden’s Strong-Arming Ukraine — and Whether His Son Benefitted — Is a Story

    20 hours ago
  • The New York Times has finally decided that former former Vice President Joe Biden’s successful push to fire a prosecutor in Ukraine, who just happened to be investigating a company...

  • Democrats Try to Block Trump’s U.S. Exit From UN Paris Scheme

    2 days ago

    • After years of playing defense, the “climate cult,” as numerous scientists have described man-made warming theorists, is striking back. Evidently hoping to destroy the U.S...

      MintPress News



  • With Guaidó rapidly losing momentum and credibility after Tuesday’s failed coup, López and his U.S. backers may turn on their own if they think it will benefit or energize their...

  • Sri Lanka: How Saudi-Backed Terror Targeted China’s Allies

    2 days ago
  • When terrorism strikes – as in any sort of criminal investigation – the first question that must be asked is “cui bono?” To whose benefit? The post Sri Lanka: How Saudi-Backed...

  • MintCast Episode 2: Failed Coup in Venezuela, Forgotten US Atrocities in the Koreas, and Joe Biden’s Race Problem

    2 days ago

    • MintCast co-hosts Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb discuss current events in Sri Lanka, France and Venezuela and also delve into U.S. efforts to hide the real history of the Korean War...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • 1. Good @CleoCZ thread on the history of the economics of discrimination. 2. Gilbert Arenas on John Wall. 3. New Samo Burja YouTube channel. The post Sunday assorted links appeared...

  • Economists at UBER

    8 hours ago
  • Here’s a good video discussing why tech companies like UBER hire economists. The post Economists at UBER appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

  • Big business isn’t big politics

    13 hours ago

    • That is my recent essay, adapted in Foreign Policy, from my new book Big Business: Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.  Here is the opening: The basic view that big business is pulling...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • The Times Newspaper Is Being Sued For Transphobic Discrimination By A Former Editor(tags:transgender lgbt TheTimes uk )Michael Gove unveils plans to take control of Holyrood cash(tags:scotland...

  • Interesting Links for 04-05-2019

    a day ago
  • Emergency stop signs projected onto waterfalls at road tunnel entrances(tags:sign driving Technology water light )Boris Johnson lies about voting Conservative(tags:Conservatives...

  • Interesting Links for 03-05-2019

    2 days ago

    • Edinburgh University under fire over job which stops lecturers's pay over the summer(tags:Edinburgh academia OhForFucksSake )M&S made my sandwich gay.(tags:lgbt food uk...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • According to a new study, a cell phone game called 'Sea Hero Quest' could assist researchers in identifying people who are more at risk of Alzheimer's...

  • Medical News Today: Colorectal cancer vaccine has promising results in early trials

    12 hours ago
  • Researchers have revealed positive results of a small, early clinical trial that tested the effects of a new vaccine on 10 people with colorectal cancer...

  • Medical News Today: Type 2 diabetes: Intensive hypertension therapy may lower death risk

    a day ago

    • New research finds that intensive therapy for lowering the blood pressure of people with type 2 diabetes reduces their risk of mortality.

      InvestmentWatch



  • via redstate: “So far, over 150,000 people have voted in the DSCC’s Twitter poll. If you’d like to join the fun, click here.”     h/t ED

  • An Explanation for the Infamous Tarmac Meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch

    3 hours ago
  • By LV   The following RedState article appeared online yesterday.   www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/05/04/leaked-transcript-loretta-lynchs-pre-exoneration-tarmac-meeting-bill-clinton-shows-anxious-speak/...

  • Credit markets are in complete denial of this bullish narrative in stocks.

    3 hours ago

    • via @TaviCosta: How are we supposed to believe in this S&P 500 rally when 2-year yields continue to fall? The idea of rate-cuts when it’s late in the cycle has never ... Read...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • In real life I am generally a non-confrontational person.  I don’t go around arguing politics with everybody.  This is normal human behavior, I think, and I try to be a normal human...

  • Bernie Speaks: The Mayor’s Show

    2 days ago
  • I don’t know how it’s possible we didn’t know about this before now, although I’m sure people in Burlington, Vermont did, but Bernie Sanders had a TV series, from 1986 to 1988...

  • Coup Coup

    3 days ago

    • When I went to Google and typed in ‘coup definition,’ what I got was ‘a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.’  There were other, more benign definitions...

      Fragments from Floyd



  •  In the spring of 2019, we acknowledged that the time had come to relocate us from the wild to the tame. Or at least tamer—closer to town, less mowing and weed whacking and firewood...

  • Spring at Full Tilt

    11 days ago
  • 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

    13 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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