I
didn’t know until recently that Smedley Butler had ever been to my
town. Then I heard that he’d spoken at the University of Virginia here
in Charlottesville in 1937. The University...
Eric
Zuesse Now Twitter is just as corrupt (propaganda-organizations) as
Google and Facebook and MSNBC and CNN and Fox and the Washington Post
and The Atlantic and all the rest. Caitlin...
The
image of the Statue of Liberty is famous across the world. However the
inscription that accompanies her is less well-known. A sonnet titled
‘The New Colossus’ can be seen on...
A
new spacesuit design may put an end to a longstanding and bizarre
Russian cosmonaut ritual. In fact it is perhaps the most bizarre
tradition in the history of space travel. They have...
United
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When
you think of the alarming public health scandals the world has endured,
the curse of tobacco and asbestos quickly comes to mind. But now there
seems to be another toxic villain...
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According
to a new scientific publication, genetically engineered mosquitoes
produced by the biotech company Oxitec (Intrexon) have escaped human
control after trials in Brazil...
8 days ago
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by the rise of an increasingly muscular and revisionist China vying for
regional hegemony. But America’s...
India
is wedged between two nuclear-armed allies that routinely defy
fundamental international rules and norms. Until China and Pakistan stop
trying to undermine its territorial...
It
is interesting to note that Lord Ranganatha,The presiding deity at Sri
Rangam,is attired in Muslim tradition with Lungi,and the offering to Him
are Roti and Butter. And there is...
Sandalwood
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are added. Twice a year, a coat of camphor mixed with saffron, which
produces ochre/orange tint on...
New York State Attorney General Leticia James stated that the Sackler
Family was wiring money out of the country to protect their assets from
litigation related to the opioid crisis...
Laura
Chapman, our loyal reader and diligent researcher, writes: If you
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an appealing plausible story (with...
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concerned. Last week there were a few reruns of note. The September
2nd edition of The Talk was a rebroadcast...
For
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all will be back this Tuesday. The repeat of note is a program I missed
when it originally aired this past...
By
Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public Sometimes I think I have been
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phase out petrol and diesel vehicles in a bid...
By
Paul Homewood http://fes.nationalgrid.com/ I have sat on it for a
while, but still want to focus on the National Grid’s latest Future
Energy Scenarios. As always, there...
By
Kirye NASA GISS likes to go back in history and alter the temperature
figures from recorded datasets from all around the world, and then
declare global warming. Yet when we examine...
Since
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deaths attributable to cold weather have not. Image Source: The
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Curmudgucation:
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article pops up on my screen-- the Hechinger Report's Bracey Harris
asking "Can 15 minutes a day of...
Victor
Davis Hanson // American Greatness Pundits and politicos play the
current parlor game of counting Joe Biden’s daily bloopers, signs of
debility, or embarrassments. Unlike...
Victor
Davis Hanson // Fox News World War II ended 74 years ago. But even in
the 21st century, the lasting effects endure, both psychological and
material. After all, the war took...
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WARNING: This essay is about feminism. Any reader feeling under attack
should seek shelter in the 1950s. The post THE STUPIDEST TEA PARTY
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the World Trade Center,' assuming she might want to make contact with
this landmark historical event." - Stephen...
Boris
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just 10 days — including holding late-night and weekend sittings — in a
further sign of Downing Street’s...
1.
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India actually goes to watch movies? 3. The so-called “Third World” now
produces more gdp than does the “First...
Originally
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for many years. He used to write a blog called “The Art of Teaching
Science,” but became so upset...
Originally
posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: My friend Bernadette Hoban was
attending a business meeting at 120 Broadway, near the World Trade
Center, when the first plane hit...
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A
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Suq (market) of human trafficking on a scale never before seen in the
war-torn and war-weary nation. The post Human...
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country is ... Read more...
It’s
second hand because I didn’t actually watch the debate.. Live was not
going to happen. I suppose I could have found it streaming on the
internet if I’d wanted to stay up until...
I
must admit, I have underestimated the amount of resistance there is to
Bernie among the DNC and the media. When Bernie has a huge crowd, you
hear about it on social media, especially...
Yes,
it does sound like a medieval incantation of doom. This is one for you
from Nature’s Book of Bad Dreams. Seems we have among us a fungus that
infects periodic cicadas in a most bizarre...
So
even with my good intentions to breathe life back into the blog, it’s
been on life support in ICU for another week, hanging on by a thread
(though not of active conversation) and...
That’s
not exactly right. FUTURE status UNK, but when is that not the case?
Just sometimes more UNK than others. And we are in one of those times, I
suppose, on Goose Creek and on Planet...
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