Monday, July 22, 2019

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  Washington's Blog


  • Eric Zuesse —— http://archive.is/v7b5n Washington is training 65,000 militants from Al-Tanf! … A source at the Ministry of Oil: The U.S. occupation is behind the phosphate...

  • The Planetary Insanity of Eternal Economic Growth

    2 days ago
  • “Earthrise” is one of the most influential photographs ever published. Taken on the Apollo 8 mission in late December 1968 by astronaut Bill Anders, it captures Earth’s...

  • The U.S. Police-State Is Now Undeniable: The Assange Case

    2 days ago

    • Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org It’s not just that the United States has a higher percentage of its people in prison than does any other nation on the planet...

      The Vintage News



  • A huge 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement — the largest ever discovered in Israel, say archaeologists — is currently being excavated outside Jerusalem, researchers said...

  • Modern American works Longer with less Vacation than Medieval Peasants

    6 hours ago
  • Incredible as it may sound the modern American puts in longer hours than medieval peasants. While many people feel increasing pressure to work long hours in today’s economy, even...

  • Hoard of Roman Coins found linked to epic revolt of Celtic Queen Boudicca

    2 days ago

    • A hoard of Roman coins dating from the time of Queen Boudicca have been found by a metal detectorist in a field. What makes this find especially fascinating is that they may have been...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • Former NASA Astronaut Explains How Food Is Different in Space | @WIRED

    4 hours ago

  • Classic TV: Special Branch – George Sewell, Patrick Mower,Roger Rowland – S03 E06

    5 hours ago

    • Originally posted on The Inquiring Mind: Episode 1 and 2 seem to be missing https://youtu.be/O5hpYGcrzvI ? Special Branch is a British television series made by Thames Television...

      TARPLEY.net



  • Great Britain Faces Virtual Dictatorship as Boris Johnson Prepares to Take Power as Prime Minister: His Program Is Sending Parliament Home and Imposing Catastrophic No-Deal Brexit...

  • Democratic House Passes Bill to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 in 6 Years; Will “Blue Collar President” Pledge to Sign It, and Urge Grim Reaper to Speed Senate Passage? (Don’t Hold Your Breath!)

    4 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, July 18, 2019 Warren Backs Bill to End Wall Street Looting of U.S.; Key Provisions Curb Predatory...

  • Rep. Al Green Is Moral Giant of House: His Bill of Impeachment Against Trump Gets 95 Votes or 40% of Democratic Members, Up from 58 in 2017 and 66 in 2018; By 230-198, House Holds Attorney General Barr & Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in Contempt of Congress!

    5 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, July 17, 2019 By Making Medicare the Public Option, Biden’s Health Care Plan Could Be...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • The Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) have recently announced two separate lawsuits targeting Beech-Nut and Twinings over pesticide...

  • USDA Reveals Germany GMO-Free Labeling Program Erodes Demand for US GMO Soybeans

    4 days ago
  • Germany’s voluntary GMO-free labeling program is gaining momentum, generating $11 billion in sales in the country in 2018, according to a report by the US Dept of Agriculture’s...

  • Iceland Boss Malcolm Walker: We Really Were Doing It Right on GM Food

    11 days ago

    • Sir Malcolm Conrad Walker CBE, an English businessman who is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Iceland Foods Ltd, a large grocery chain in the UK, wrote the article below...

      sunshine hours



  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 200 – 2019

    2 days ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 197 – 2019

    5 days ago

    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • It is easy to get caught up in escalating strategic competition and conflict on Earth. But, 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission reached the Moon, guaranteeing the freedom to navigate...

  • Arming without a clear strategic direction

    12 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times India’s new national budget accentuates its stagnant defence spending. India’s defence spending figure of $46.3 billion contrasts...

  • Plastic waste is choking India

    24 days ago

    • Monetary incentives to waste pickers and an environmental tax on plastics can help stem the problem. Brahma Chellaney, The Times of India A G-20 environmental meeting on June 16 failed...

      Ramani's blog



  • These are called Vyaktha Kshetras,that is where Lord Vishnu makes Himself available as Idol and thus becomes Describable. There are also called Astakshara Temples as they represent...

  • Athi Venkateswara Different Musical Notes From Hanuman Vanmutti

    6 days ago
  • This temple has the Idol made of Athi Tree as the one in Kanchipuram Varadaraja Perumal temple. The moolavar is Lord Vishnu and the Utsavar is Yoga Narasimha,which is a rarity...

  • Mantras,Sources Types Letters

    12 days ago

    • I have written in my earlier post on the Definition of Mantra . In this article I shall deal with the sources of Mantras. The uniqueness of Hinduism is that it is not Theories,but are experiences...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  •     ‌ ‌ ‌ More about the indictments in the $80 million California charter school scam At least three individuals that were indicted in the California charter scam have connections...

  • Ed Johnson: Atlanta Schools Need Improvement, Not Change

    2 hours ago
  •   Ed Johnson is an adherent of the philosophy of W. Edwards Deming, who wrote and spoke about the superiority of Improvement over disruptive change. Ed lives in Atlanta, where the...

  • St. Paul: Will a Historic Church Be Razed to Make Room for a Segregated White Charter School?

    3 hours ago

    •   Sarah Lahm wrote in The Progressive about a community battle in St. Paul, Minnesota, over the fate of a historic church building.  The church in question is St. Andrew’s. Built...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • Last week many programs continued their repeats in light of the recent July 4th holiday.  What also continues is the drought of science and technology bookings.  The best I can manage...

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

    14 days ago
  • July started with reruns from most programs, in observance of the July Fourth holiday.  Of those repeats, the one of note is Ryan Eggold.  He plays a doctor on New Amsterdam, and The...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of June 24

    24 days ago

    • June goes out with a whisper, not even a whimper, where science and technology content on late night is considered.  The best I can offer this week is from the repeats.  The June 27...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood     h/t Joe Public   This story has been doing the rounds lately:   Seeing countless renewable energy records broken and milestones passed has been a constant source...

  • UHI May Account For Half Of Climate Warming In China

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood     A new study by Nicola Scafetta shows that a considerable percentage of China’s global warming from 1940 to today is due to the phenomenon of urbanization. However...

  • Germany’s Energy Future Looks Bleak

    a day ago

    • By Paul Homewood Following Adrian’s analysis, I thought it worthwhile to look at the winter figures:   http://energodock.com/germany/electricity-shares   Nuclear accounted...

      NoTricksZone



  • A few decades ago it was “consensus” science that CO2 levels had reached 400 ppm (and even up to 500 ppm) during the Early Holocene, with rising amplitudes of greater than 200 ppm...

  • FridaysForFuture Fizzles With Kids On Summer Break… Greta Sees Only 2000 In Berlin, Mostly Adults/Organizers

    a day ago
  • Not 20,000, rather only 2000 people see Greta in Berlin! Michael Krueger (Text translated/edited by P. Gosselin) Four months ago in March, 20,000-25,000 pupils and demonstrators...

  • “Join The Skeptical Movement” …Hip German Youths Push Back On Climate Hysteria, Post Skeptic Videos, Go Viral!

    2 days ago

    • What follows today is really quite cool, and highly encouraging in a country known for lockstep thought. Over the past months we’ve seen great media hype in Germany surrounding...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Tech Innovations and School Reform: Blood Cousins When asked how I got interested in the uses of technology in schools and classrooms...

  • Jersey Jazzman: Who Put the "Stakes" in "High-Stakes Testing"?

    12 days ago
  • Jersey Jazzman: Who Put the "Stakes" in "High-Stakes Testing"? Peter Green has a smart piece (as usual) about Elizabeth Warren's position on accountability testing. Nancy...

  • Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Social-Emotional Learning’s Transformation of Schools is Worrisome

    13 days ago

    • Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Social-Emotional Learning’s Transformation of Schools is Worrisome Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is being pushed into public schools...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of the...

  • The Selfish Actors of Illegal Immigration

    4 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Almost every party invested in open borders proves utterly selfish, without regard for the legitimate interests of others or of the law itself...

  • Of Progressive Carnivores and Cannibals

    7 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The Obama-era Democratic Party bears little resemblance to the themes embraced just 11 years ago by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during...

    The Moderate Voice



  • If only we could send them back. Republican lawmakers have long cut profiles in cowardice during the Trump presidency, but never before have the consequences of their leadership...

  • Send her back! (Cartoon)

    15 hours ago
  • The post Send her back! (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

  • The politics of fear: How it manipulates us to tribalism

    15 hours ago

    • Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • It is rare that anyone wishes to broach this general topic, on either side of the debate.  This is from a new working paper by Geoffrey Heal and Wolfam Schlenker: We highlight important...

  • Air Pollution Kills

    4 hours ago
  • In recent years I have substantially increased my estimate of the deadly nature of air pollution. It’s not that I had a contrary opinion earlier but the number and range of studies...

  • The threat is stronger than the execution, installment #437

    10 hours ago

    • A Pennsylvania school district is warning that children could end up in foster care if their parents do not pay overdue school lunch bills. The letters sent recently to about 1,000...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



  • Every vote in 2020 will be a vote for Donald Trump or the U.S. Constitution; no other issue counts. Continue reading →

  • The only way Donald Trump can Win in 2020 is if 68-Million Voters Stay Home

    2 months ago
  • Since Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote in 2016, the Republican Party lost six percent of its registered voters, and the Democratic Party grew by eight percent. Continue...

  • Senator Sanders: This Is Where I Came From

    2 months ago

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? This article by Senator Bernie Sanders appeared in the New York Times. ? My father came to this country from Poland at the age of 17 with barely...

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  • A look into the records of MS-13 gang members recently indicted for a series of particularly vicious murders in California showed that more than half were illegal aliens and a few were...

  • Africans Surging Into Del Rio Border Sector, More Than 1,000 Since May

    2 hours ago
  • Agents in the Del Rio, Texas, sector of the southwest border with Mexico have apprehended more than 1,100 Africans since May 30, a sign that the mass migration of the Third World into...

  • Recent Poll Reveals 95 Percent of Biologists Say Human Life Begins at Conception

    3 hours ago

    • Ninety-five percent of 5,500 biologists — with specialties ranging from anatomy, biochemistry, cellular biology, genetics, and physiology — believe that “a human’s...
    • (  Life ... not consciousness or other defining characteristics of  'being' )

      MintPress News



  • As both the United States and Saudi Arabia continue to wage war and impose economic blockades on both Yemen and Iran, it is likely that the Houthis’ political alliance with Iran against...

  • “The US Got Scared” Voices of the Resistance in Post-Coup Honduras

    3 days ago
  • Members of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup - and the Neoliberalism it brought with it - have impacted their country. The post “The US Got Scared”...

  • Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case

    4 days ago

    • Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening window into how deeply tied the U.S. government is to...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • It is rare that anyone wishes to broach this general topic, on either side of the debate.  This is from a new working paper by Geoffrey Heal and Wolfam Schlenker: We highlight important...

  • Air Pollution Kills

    4 hours ago
  • In recent years I have substantially increased my estimate of the deadly nature of air pollution. It’s not that I had a contrary opinion earlier but the number and range of studies...

  • The threat is stronger than the execution, installment #437

    10 hours ago

    • A Pennsylvania school district is warning that children could end up in foster care if their parents do not pay overdue school lunch bills. The letters sent recently to about 1,000...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Gorgeous prize-winning wildlife photography(tags:nature beauty photography )On "Remain Alliances"(tags:politics uk europe )"Hacked Off" investigates transphobia in the...

  • Interesting Links for 21-07-2019

    a day ago
  • The boy was dying. Zebrafish helped save his life (introducing the same mutation into them and then trying various drugs to see which one worked)(tags:fish genetics disease )How...

  • Interesting Links for 20-07-2019

    2 days ago

    • Boris Johnson on Varadkar: 'Why isn't he called Murphy like all the rest of them'(tags:BorisJohnson racism OhForFucksSake ireland )BritBox: ITV and BBC set out plans for new streaming...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • A new study helps to explain why some Alzheimer’s drugs work in some people but not in others, and why some yet may succeed in animals but not in humans...

  • Medical News Today: Can we blame procrastination on our genes?

    a day ago
  • New research has found a genetic difference in procrastinators, but there is a catch. The research also reveals important sex differences.

  • Medical News Today: Computer use later in life may prevent cognitive decline

    2 days ago

    • New research finds that using a computer and playing games, among other activities, can significantly reduce the risk of mild cognitive impairment.

      InvestmentWatch



  • by: Lance D Johnson (Natural News) Fatty, processed foods that are high in low density lipoproteins (LDL cholesterol) are known for causing arterial plaques and the onset of atherosclerosis...

  • Five reasons why Trump will lose the 2020 election (or could WIN if this happens instead…)

    5 hours ago
  • by: Mike Adams (Natural News) President Trump will lose the 2020 election if the five things covered here are allowed to continue. They include illegal immigration and widespread...

  • AMAZING! Massive Storms MERGE Together Above a “Triangle Craft” via Strange Conduit-like Cloud

    6 hours ago

    • July 21, 2019: ~ Giant Storm Merge Above Massive “Triangle Craft” ~ 600,000+ power outages East of Mississippi River!

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • On our  last day here, the town of Ksamil  somewhat redeemed itself.  Although I still  think it’s overly  commercialized and  kind of tacky, and could do with  a good ...

  • The Alternative to Corfu

    2 days ago
  • Our plan  for today was to take a ferry  across to Corfu, just to be in a different country for a  day,  and we  all like boat rides.  But, when we found  out it was going to  be 290...

  • Winning Strategies

    3 days ago

    • In sports,  in  business, certainly in dating, when you find a  strategy  that succeeds  for  you, you are likely to  repeat that strategy.  The same is true  in politics...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • So VDOT got a late start on this project, supposed to have begun last Monday. (And work will NOT be finished until at least July 22 or 23.) The foreman realized how bad things really were...

  • Can’t Get There from Here

    7 days ago
  • The repairs for which the road residents were first given a heads-up for completion in October of last year (after Hurricane Michael removed most of Goose Creek) is finally happening...

  • What Native Plants?

    13 days ago

    • We rounded the bend on Griffith Creek last week to find a hundred yards of creekside lined thickly with a flat-topped pink-flowered shrub I recognized as Spirea, a member of the rose...

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