Sunday, May 12, 2019

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  • Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Unlike a regular corporation, the corporations that manufacture and sell weapons to their government are virtually 100%...
  • Let’s see if we can tie together four social dynamics: the elite college admissions scandal, the decline in social mobility, the rising sense of entitlement and the unrealistically...

    • Two months ago, I heard a story. You heard it too, if you went anywhere near a television or a newspaper in the United States. The government of Venezuela needed to be overthrown because...

      The Vintage News



  • Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000) was a British legend of both stage and screen. Perhaps best known to modern audiences for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy...
  • Massachusetts is home to much of the United States’ early history. It was there in Provincetown that the Mayflower pilgrims landed. In Boston, the state capital and one of the oldest...

    • While moving into a house can be a happy occasion, it’s also one full of pitfalls. The new owner could find dry rot in the basement, or uncover potentially life-threatening builder’s...





  • Eco-Apocalypse from Hesiod’s Trojan War Theory Through Giammaria Ortes of Venice to the Population Bomb, the Club of Rome, Peak Oil, Gore’s Inconvenient Truth and Ocasio’s...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, May 9, 2019 During Kippur War of October 1973, Kissinger and Haig Ordered Worldwide U.S...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, May 8, 2019 House Judiciary Calls for Contempt Against Barr. 24-16; Rogue Executive Rubber-Stamped...

  • Internal Monsanto records just filed in court show that a corporate intelligence group hired to “to take the temperature on current regulatory attitudes for glyphosate” reported...
  • 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 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...

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    • Wettest May-April in US history according to NOAA 2018 was the the 3rd wettest if you use the traditional Jan-Dec calendar.

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • Targeting terrorists and their networks brings only temporary success. A long-term strategy needs to focus on discrediting the ideology that spawns suicide killers. By Brahma...
  • 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...

    • 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...

      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...
  • 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...

    • 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...

  • 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



  • Chris Hughes co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg. He is no longer part of the company but left with a considerable fortune. For a time, he was publisher of The New Republic. In...
  • ( Facebook looks to be doing a fine job of breaking itself up )
  •   David Cole is National Legal Director of the ACLU. He wrote the best, most incisive analysis of the Mueller Report, describing precisely what it found. The report is an indictment...

    • Chalkbeat reports that a parent has filed a federal complaint against Success Academy for releasing her daughter’s records to the media. A former Success Academy parent filed...

  • Depending on how you look at it, either April left with a whimper, or May arrived with one.  Very little worth noting last week in science and technology guests.  No repeats of note...
  • 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...

    • 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...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Willie Soon   Today’s dose of drivel from the BBC is about wicked western countries making third world nations poorer because of climate change:   Temperatures...
  • By Paul Homewood     I was not going to comment on this as it is such transparent twaddle. But it appears to have now gone across the Atlantic to CNN and others. This is from the Guardian...

    • By Paul Homewood h/t Robin Guenier   Concerns over climate change might restrict the growth of flying in the UK, the government has admitted. The advisory Committee on Climate Change...

  • Gulfstream “barely impacted” by Arctic ice melt By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Arctic ice melt barely impacting AMOC. Day After Tomorrow scenario...
  • By Kirye April data have been coming in, and they show that warming has been missing at many sub-Arctic stations over the past decades. Canada cooling Looking at 9 stations in Canada...

    • Earlier Arctic warmth unexplained: In Franz Josef Land it was several degrees warmer in early 1930s than today By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) In...

  • Our Schools: Why Charter School Proponents Have Lost Many of the Democrats Who Once Supported Them The politics of charter schools have changed, and bipartisan support for these...
  • Answer Sheet: House Democrats Seek Cut in Federal Charter School Funding, Saying Education Department Isn’t a ‘Responsible Steward of Taxpayer Dollars’ House Democrats...

    • Shanker Blog: Federal Educational Investments Are Essential (Guest Post by Stan Litow) Our guest author today is Stan Litow, a professor of Public Policy at both Duke and Columbia...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr’s indifference to their hysteria over the Trump-Russia collusion...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The New York Times International Edition recently published an anti-Semitic cartoon of a dachshund with the face of Benjamin Netanyahu...

    • How did blue-collar voters connect with a millionaire from Queens in the 2016 election? Martin and Illie Anderson Senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson addresses that question and more...

    The Moderate Voice



  • The post Global Extinction (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
  • On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard M. Nixon resigned and left the White House. AP/Chick Harrity Ken Hughes, University of Virginia Like Donald Trump, Richard Nixon tried to stonewall congressional...

    • By GEORGE F. WILL Washington Post Columnist WASHINGTON — A man who worked in a boxer’s corner in a 1962 match against Cassius Clay, as he still was known, explained why the referee...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • Or so I hear, and Google doesn’t bring it up either, not even the shut down version. I worry about deplatforming much less than many of you do.  I remember the “good old days,”...
  • The first misunderstanding is about Facebook itself and the competitive dynamics in which we operate. We are a large company made up of many smaller pieces. All of our products and...

    • In 1820-1821, commerce between America and Haiti accounted for 4 percent of America’s foreign trade. “Historians agree that about one in ten slave ships experienced an attempted...

  • Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: This is hot. Hundreds of federal prosecutors, both Republicans and Democrats, say that Trump’s behavior would merit multiple felony...
  • 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 →

  • Presidential candidate Joe Biden wants American taxpayers to pay for illegal-alien healthcare. Indeed, he doesn’t just want us to pay for their healthcare, he says we are obliged...
  • How many quarrels, clashes and conflicts can even a superpower manage at one time? And is it not time for the United States, preoccupied with so many crises, to begin asking, “Why...

    • It’s now been more than 100 years since the births of two great conservative writers, men who laid bare the flaws of socialism — in its theory and practice...

  • The apartheid regime we know as “Israel” was built on the very ruins of Palestine and imposed a brutal regime on those who still live in their country. Millions of Palestinians...
  • "We have no other choice, we sift the weevil out of the flour and use it to make breakfast," 32-year-old Aisha, a mother of three told MintPress. Expired boxes and cans of World Food Programme...

    • The Intercept, which has long been associated with the documents shared by whistleblower Edward Snowden, has yet to fire any of the reporters responsible for these breaches that...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • Or so I hear, and Google doesn’t bring it up either, not even the shut down version. I worry about deplatforming much less than many of you do.  I remember the “good old days,”...
  • The first misunderstanding is about Facebook itself and the competitive dynamics in which we operate. We are a large company made up of many smaller pieces. All of our products and...

    • In 1820-1821, commerce between America and Haiti accounted for 4 percent of America’s foreign trade. “Historians agree that about one in ten slave ships experienced an attempted...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Why the last two seasons of Game of Thrones feel so different(tags:tv books gameofthrones writing )Change UK have given a masterclass in how not to launch a political party(tags:politics...
  • Labour's Customs Union Plan would cost us £80Bn per year(tags:labour europe uk doom )Jeremy Corbyn says second EU referendum could be 'healing process' for Britain's Brexit...

    • RemainEU.org - Voting Strategy for the 2019 EU Elections(tags:europe elections uk voting )Tactical Voting in the UK in the EU Elections 2019 - Why is it so difficult?(tags:elections...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Because some children played Pokémon obsessively in their formative years, these characters are now providing insight into the adult brain.
  • To date, experts have seen urbanization trends as a key driver of the global obesity 'epidemic,' but a major new study now challenges that assumption.

    • A study of spider venom looks deeper into its molecular makeup than ever before. The findings may lead to treatments for neurological conditions.

      InvestmentWatch



  • European states pay tiny amounts for military purposes because the USA props up a huge western sphere. As such they have discretionary funding for some socialized programs (which...
  • Friday morning’s CNN Newsroom ended on quite the interesting note as co-host and former Obama official Jim Sciutto brought on U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost to discuss...

    • The chopper company ceo says they charge only $2000 for people on medicaid while they charge more than $6000 for people on medicare. Why is there a difference in the ... Read more...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • Went to a poetry reading last night and it went on for an insane amount of time, and certainly much marijuana was smoked, so I’m writing this this morning. It was about a quarter to 5...
  • I am very pleased that Chelsea Manning is free for now, although we can’t credit the great public outcry, which basically didn’t happen, and we can’t give any credit to the authorities...

    • Of course, I would prefer to be 28 again, but today I got a 5 year metro pass for only 120 crowns, and that’s essentially for life because in five years I’ll be 70 and then it’s free. ...

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