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  Washington's Blog

  • There were whispers in the village, high up in the mountains of Afghanistan. There was a Stranger here. He had made a friend and been invited to live in a home despite not being family...

  • Tulsi Gabbard’s ‘Hail-Mary Pass’ Against Hillary Clinton Failed

    3 hours ago
  • Eric Zuesse For a few days, active Democrats were stunned by — and America’s political news-media were focusing heavily upon — this string of tweets from Democratic Presidential...

  • How to Contact Washington’s Blog After the Site Is Offline

    17 hours ago
    • We’ve set up an email account which will remain active after we shut down the site: WashingtonsBlog@mail.com Several readers have inquired about obtaining archives of the site. ...

      The Vintage News

  • A Neolithic battle-axe mystery culture has been unlocked in a new study. The BAC, or “Battle Axe Culture” is a formidable-sounding group who lived in Scandinavia thousands of...

  • The First Man to Walk in Space Passes Away at 85

    3 days ago
  • The first man to ever walk in space has left this orbit for good. The history of space exploration around the world is populated by brave souls who were willing to step out of the world...

  • Ancient Mystery: Why No Ancient Texts Mention Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid

    3 days ago
    • The mystery of Egypt’s oldest pyramid and the pyramids in general attract millions of visitors and tourists each year. They are one of the most awe-inspiring wonders in the world...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • O-Ring Model

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  • It’s why we get up in the morning

    4 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, October 24, 2019 47 Republicans Have Clearances for Impeachment Hearings; GOP Cell Phones...

  • House GOP Hooligans Stage Riot in Bid to Shut Down Feared Testimony of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Laura Cooper, the First Serving Pentagon Official to Testify in Ukrainegate Hearings; Storm Trooper Tactics Fail as Cooper Testifies Later in Afternoon

    16 hours ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, October 23, 2019 GOP Big Lie Propaganda Obscures Fact That All Republican Members of Intelligence...

  • Ambassador Taylor Tells Gasping Congress How Trump Directed Illegal Foreign Policy Channel to Kiev with Goal of Extorting Political Services to Be Used in His 2020 Campaign; Key Participants Acutely Aware of Don’s Corrupt Quid Pro Quo; Ukraine’s Military Security Cynically Endangered by Delays Related to 2016 DNC Server and Scandal Material Against Bidens; Effort to Force Ukrainian President into a “Public Box”; Trump’s Criminal Exposure for Abuse of Power Aggravated

    3 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, October 22, 2019 U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Prepare for Surprise Twitter Directive to Retreat...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • Thailand edged closer Tuesday to banning glyphosate and two other controversial pesticides despite protests from farmers in a multi-billion-dollar agriculture industry aiming...

  • Let Them Eat GM Cottonseed!

    7 days ago
  • US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) regulators have approved a new type of GM cotton, the seed of which is to be used for human and animal consumption. The cotton, developed by...

  • California Ends Sale of Toxic Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

    7 days ago
    • This week, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) announced that the sale of the toxic pesticide, chlorpyrifos, will end in February 2020 as a result of an agreement...

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      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • At a time of growing international skepticism toward China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the Rajapaksa family’s potential return to power is welcome news for Chinese President...

  • Why Pakistan gets away with sponsoring terrorism

    13 days ago
  • India has to battle terrorism on its own. Adversaries will be hostile and friends won’t help. Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times The Mamallapuram summit between India and China...

  • China, India, Pakistan: Who’s really pulling the strings in Jammu and Kashmir?

    18 days ago
    • The threat of a nuclear conflict between Islamabad and New Delhi might have made global headlines, but Beijing is right at the heart of the territorial dispute in the Himalayan region...

      Ramani's blog

  • But sir, several decades ago my paternal grand father had made a vow to himself that he would place 108 Golden Lotus Flowers at the holy Lotus feet of our Sri Varu for...

  • What is The Gotra If You Do Not Know

    8 days ago
  • There is also a practice of assigning Vishnu Gotra to people who belong to Kshatriya Varna and Jambu Maharishi Gotra to Vaisyas.

  • Which Smriti To Be Followed For Present Age, Not Manu

    14 days ago
    • For the Krita are suited the laws of Manu ; for the Treta, those by Gautama (are) prescribed ; for the Dvapara those by Shank and Likhita ; for the Kali, those by Parasara are prescribed...

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Teresa Hanafin, who writes “Fast Forward” for the Boston Globe, offers some new information:   > Tim Morrison, who works in the White House on the National Security staff...

  • David Dayen: How Betsy DeVos Radicalized Her Own Staff

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  • October 25, 2019 Dayen on TAP The Education Department’s Rip-Off Schemes Radicalize Its Own Staff Billionaire daughter-in-law to the Amway fortune Betsy DeVos probably contracts...

  • Dallas: Chamber of Commerce Leads Campaign to Destroy Public Schools

    4 hours ago
    •   Tom Ultican has been writing a series of brilliant studies of cities where the Destroy Public Education Movement is busily undermining and privatizing its public schools, usually...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • Many shows were in repeats this past week, which is our only source of material for the post. Re-airings of note include Jared Harris on the October 14 edition of The Late Late Show. ...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of October 7

    12 days ago
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson featured prominently last week.  He appeared on the October 7 edition of The Late Show, the October 8 episode of The View, the October 9 Wendy Williams Show, and...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of September 30

    17 days ago
    • Last week was a bleak one for late night science and technology bookings.  All that I could find that fits in this post would be a commentary segment on the September 30 edition of The...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Matthew Stockford     It’s sometimes good to return to old stories, such as this one in the Independent in May 2017, particularly when the same old claims...

  • Britain Importing CO2 Emissions!! Who Would Have Guessed?

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood   No s**t Sherlock!   Britain has contributed to the global climate emergency by outsourcing its carbon emissions to developing nations, according to official...

  • China feeds coal addiction with 17 new mines this year

    a day ago
    • By Paul Homewood   From The Times:   China is expanding its coal power infrastructure despite pledges to curb carbon emissions. Analysis reveals that the amount allocated to large...

      NoTricksZone

  • German writer/rock singer Heinz Rudolf Kunze recently performed at at a city festival in Berlin Teltow, and had a message about today’s opinion intolerance, alarmism, political...

  • New Paper: West Arctic Sea Ice ‘Relatively Stable’ Since 1800s…Much Less Ice Coverage During The 1600s!

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  • A new 800-year reconstruction of Western Arctic Ocean sea ice variability (Porter et al., 2019) indicates the recent centuries (and decades) of sea ice coverage are the most extensive...

  • More Relotius Journalism: Der Spiegel And Potsdam Institute Leave Readers In The Pre-Industrial Climate Dark

    2 days ago
    • The missing context: Climate change in the Mediterranean region By the Kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P. Gosselin) On October 11, 2019, Spiegel Online once again...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Shanker Blog: A Problem Hiding In Plain Sight (Guest Post by Natalie Wexler) Our guest author today is Natalie Wexler, an educational journalist who is a senior contributor to forbes.com and...

  • Curmudgucation: Are State Takeovers a Useful Tool

    a day ago
  • Curmudgucation: Are State Takeovers a Useful Tool Earlier this month, the 74 published an unusual article from  Ashley Jochim and Paul Hill, both of the Center on Reinventing Public...

  • Alfie Kohn: It’s Time to Rethink Education Policy: Advice for the Democratic Presidential Candidates

    3 days ago
    • Alfie Kohn: It’s Time to Rethink Education Policy: Advice for the Democratic Presidential Candidates More than 50 million children attend public elementary or secondary school...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review What do widely diverse crises such as declining demography, increasing indebtedness, Generation Z’s indifference to religion and patriotism...

  • Why Do They Hate Him So?

    3 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Joe Biden claims he wants to take Trump behind the gym and beat him up. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) jokes that she would like to go into...

  • Is America Becoming Sinicized?

    4 days ago
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Alittle over 40 years ago, Chinese Communist strongman and reformer Deng Xiaoping began 15 years of sweeping economic reforms. They were designed...

    The Moderate Voice

  • It’s a quiet Sunday morning here in New Jersey and as I was wandering around YouTube looking for a subject for Great Music Chapter 53 when YouTube popped up a recommendation for my...

  • No, Donald, impeachment is not lynching

    3 hours ago
  • By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Before I became a political satirist for a great metropolitan Jewish newspaper, I was a history professor for 37 years. Consequently, I can’t remain...

  • Cummings knew the difference between winning the news cycle and serving the nation

    3 hours ago
    • WASHINGTON — There are moments when the U.S. Capitol feels like a sanctified space, a holy temple dedicated to ideals that transcend the partisan squabbles of the politicians who...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. The French may be moving back toward nuclear power. 2. “In fact, it is the least selective schools that are driving the national gender gap in bachelor’s degrees. For example...

  • Who’s a Russian Asset?

    9 hours ago
  • Mark Zuckerberg was once again pilloried in Congress. How many companies in the Libra association are headed by LGBTQ people? Isn’t it true that Libra is a project of white men? What...

  • Nathan Nunn’s recent talk on economic development

    13 hours ago
    • Here is one excerpt of many substantive points: Numerous studies have formally tested for relationships between foreign aid and conflict,using a range of identification strategies...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Teresa Hanafin writes the daily Fast Forward for the Boston Globe. ? As he did with the Vietnam War, Trump has decided to sit out the House...

  • Trump’s Roy Cohn Defense: Deny, Attack, Attack Again

    24 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:   James Hohmann of the Washington Post yesterday  described Trump’s defense when his hand was caught in cookie jar in broad daylight...

  • George Conway III and Neal Cathay: Ukraine Seals the Case for Imprachment

    a month ago
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? George Conway III and Neal Catyal are lawyers. Conway is married to Kellyanne Conway; Catyal is a former Acting Solicitor General of the...

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  • Oklahoma County District Judge Don Andrews issued a temporary injunction against a state abortion law on Wednesday, one that requires abortion facilities to inform women the effects...

  • Gabbard Ends Congressional Reelection Campaign to Focus on Presidential Bid

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  • Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that she will no longer seek reelection to Congress next year so that she can concentrate all her energy on her campaign for the presidency...

  • Trump Expedites Deportations in New Pilot Program

    an hour ago
    • The Trump administration has created a new program to send illegal aliens who claim “asylum” back home within 10 days or less, to secure the border...

      MintPress News

  • A recent memorandum authored by Attorney General William Barr announced a new “pre-crime” program inspired by “War on Terror” tactics and is set to be implemented next year...
  • (   Nah. 'Clockwork Orange' has to do with 'predictive crime.' Can you have a trial without proof ? )

  • A Public Relations Scam: J Street Conference Attracts War Criminals and Zionist Liberals Alike

    7 hours ago
  • J Street was designed to make Zionists, particularly Israeli liberals, feel good about themselves and look good to the outside world without actually having to commit to peace. The...

  • Betty McCollum Is Pushing Congress to Stop Subsidizing the Torture of Palestinian Children

    2 days ago
    • "The legislation I am introducing is expressly intended to end U.S. support and funding for Israel’s systematic military detention, interrogation, abuse, torture, and prosecution...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Toddlers understand counting years before they say numbers(tags:numbers babies psychology )Not 'Eureka', but 'That's funny…'(tags:science humour comedy )Why almost...

  • If it's not one thing...

    19 hours ago
  • Sophia fell asleep in the pram on the way home from nursery today, which is unusual for her. She then proceeded to sleep all the way through to bedtime, waking up a couple of times for long...

  • Cat-pains Log: Supplemental

    a day ago
    • Jim is definitely picking up. We were quite worried on Monday afternoon. We'd set up the hot blanket for him, and he'd lain on it, and after about twenty minutes had given two or three...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • Aplastic anemia is a rare condition that damages vital stem cells in the bone marrow. Learn about the symptoms and treatment options for aplastic anemia here...

  • Medical News Today: How to treat peripheral neuropathy naturally

    a day ago
  • Peripheral neuropathy involves damage to the peripheral nerves. This can cause various sensations, including pain. Here, learn more about the symptoms and causes and which natural...

  • Medical News Today: What do different TSH levels mean?

    a day ago
    • A thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) test measures how much TSH is in the blood, which can help doctors diagnose thyroid conditions. Here, we describe normal, high, and low TSH ranges...

      InvestmentWatch

  • by A_Less_Than_Acct I think 12 or 13 is about the age where kids start to getting into Halloween. Us this necessary? Is this the states role?  

  • Record-breaking year for CEO departures. They know something is coming

    an hour ago
  • During the first three quarters of 2019, 1,160 CEOs left their positions, according to the staffing firm Challenger, Gray, & Christmas. This figure exceeds the number of CEOs...

  • Bernie Sanders Pledges to Legalize Marijuana Nationwide via Executive Action

    an hour ago
    • Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Thursday unveiled his proposal to legalize marijuana nationwide at precisely 4:20 p.m. EST — an homage to what has been dubbed “Weed Day.” While...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • It’s partly age, it’s partly marital status, and it’s partly just laziness and bad habits, but I truly don’t get out much.So, when a friend who I haven’t seen for several...

  • Behind The Talking Points

    2 days ago
  • You’ve got to hand it to the right. They stick to their talking points. Stick to them like burrs to velcro. It’s one reason (only one – there are many) why Warren would be a horrible...

  • The Endorsement Indicator

    3 days ago
    • Of course, just like crowd size, poll numbers, or amount of money raised, the number of endorsements does not guarantee electoral victory. But, it sure doesn’t hurt.It was great...

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