Tuesday, December 10, 2019

10 December - iGoogle Portal - Tab 9

  • Happy Birthday Kirk Douglas and congratulations on reaching the ripe old age of 103! This Hollywood legend reached an extraordinary milestone on December 9, 2019. At 103 he is possibly...
  • Chess, as we know it, has been around for a long time. Sources agree that chess probably began in India, probably around 550 AD.  It was derived from another game of strategy, Chaturanga...
    • The action-packed trailer for Wonder Woman 1984 has landed. As the title makes clear, it’s set in the era when shoulder pads and big hair were in vogue and greed was good. Set between...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!



    • Originally posted on European Royal History : On November 16, 1936, King Edward VIII invited Prime Minister Baldwin to Buckingham Palace and expressed…...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, December 9, 2019 In Phony “Boom” Interview to Breitbart, Assistant Secretary of the...
  • Trump Hypes Alleged Creation of 266,000 Jobs in November, but Spurious Report Includes over 40,000 General Motors Strikers Returning to Work at Old Jobs, Plus Thousands of GM Sub-Contractors...
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, December 5, 2019 Mnuchin Can’t Explain Sharp Fall in Business Investment After Magical...
  • Representatives from the European Member States in the EU Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCOPAFF) voted Friday to ban the neurotoxic pesticides chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl...
  • Former Monsanto Chairman and CEO Hugh Grant will have to testify in person at a St. Louis-area trial set for January in litigation brought by a cancer-stricken woman who claims...
    • Costa Rica’s National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) has banned the use of glyphosate herbicides in all protected wild areas in the country as well as on all SINAC owned land...
  • 10th Lowest Arctic –  2016 2017 2018 2007 2010 2006 2015 2009 2012 were lower than 2019. South / North
  • 8th Lowest Arctic – 2016 2017 2006 2010 2007 2018 2012 2015 2009 were lower than 2019. South / North
    • 7th lowest Arctic – 2016 2017 2010 2006 2018 2007 are lower than 2019 South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • US President Donald Trump’s administration wants to build a rules-based and democracy-led order in the Indo-Pacific, but seems to have no idea how. If it doesn’t find the answer...
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Globe and Mail Just as German Chancellor Angela Merkel reached New Delhi last week on a state visit, noxious smog blanketed the Indian capital, forcing a shutdown...
    • Its dams are provoking regional tensions, so Beijing needs to reconsider its policy. Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review Asia, the world’s driest continent in per capita...
    • Nelspruit Nature Reserve. An ancient Hindu worship site which dates back 1,800 years, and is still in use today.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson we’re living in a comfortable neighborhood in Brooklyn but worried about economic pressure and the future. When Anu got an offer of a job in her native...
  • John Merrow writes here about the stagnant scores reported on NAEP, PISA, and every other measure. They are an indictment of the test-centric policies of Bush, Obama, and Trump, he...
    • The charter industry has lobbied for years to promote the idea that public schools and their teachers and teachers unions are uniquely responsible for denying educational opportunity...
  • Most, but not all, late night programs were in repeats this past week due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.  Of those repeats, the November 29 edition of The Late Show...
  • Once again, we can count on Silicon Valley (the show) to show up in these posts.  Lead actor Thomas Middleditch appeared on Conan November 19.  This was the key guest of a light week...
    • As is often the case, The Daily Show came through this past week.  Former Microsoft CEO and Founder of the USA Facts website Steve Ballmer came by on the November 14 episode.  The website...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   A foretaste of what will happen if Corbyn gets to nationalise all the energy companies!   Jeremy Corbyn’s electricity supplier has sparked financial deadlock...
  • By Paul Homewood     Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have purchased a nearly 7,000-square-foot home on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts...
    • By Paul Homewood   h/t WUWT     Once again Sky News Australia shows up the uselessness of our media. Congrats as well to MP, Craig Kelly:        ...
  • It’s certainly no misperception that global warming alarmists have become far more shrill over the past months with ever wilder, more sensational claims about how the climate...
  • Scientists find three Arctic (Svalbard) lakes were all ~7°C warmer than they are now about 10,000 years ago – when CO2 concentrations were only 260 ppm. According to a just-published...
    • At COP 25 in Madrid, Princeton physicist and former President Trump advisor Prof. em. William Happer spoke on the “false pretenses of a climate emergency” and called the climate...
  • Curmudgucation: Ed Tech Giant Powerschool Keeps Eating the World If you want to be a tech giant, you can try to grow organically within your company, or you can just look for companies...
  • Equity Alliance Blog: Unaccompanied Minors: Considerations About Their Education The education of unaccompanied minors calls for transformative educators and policies. A question...
    • Shanker Blog: Consent in the Digital Age: Lessons from Katie Hill Earlier this year RedState and Daily Mail published nude photographs of Congresswoman Katie Hill (D-CA)...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review There was a lot of pre-hearing hype about the Democrats’ supposedly stellar academic experts, sort of analogous to the giddiness about the...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // The Patriot Post One symptom of a society in crisis is the unreliability or even corruption of its own auditors. After all, when the watchmen have lost moral authority...
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Donald Trump promised to shake up U.S. foreign policy. He has certainly done that from the Middle East to Asia. The U.S. is currently engaged...
  • House Democrats have announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump: ‘high crimes and misdemeanor” for trying to pressure the Ukraine to get political...
  • Is it possible? With partisanship and tribalism dominating America’s political landscape, is it possible to bring the parties together? Assuming that most knowledgeable and...
    • > Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaks to the media with members of the Senate Republican leadership, Oct. 29, 2019. AP/Jacquelyn Martin Timothy Joseph...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. Vitalik on quadratic voting. 2. The erupting NZ volcano is privately owned. 3. New Keller Scholl and Robin Hanson paper on whether there was an automation revolution. 4. Marriage...
  • That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, the history with Latin America is also a big part of the Volcker story, here is one bit: Global banks raised their interest rates for lending...
  • The Old Boys’ Club

    17 hours ago
    • It is real, at least in one Asian data set, as these new NBER working paper results are brought to us by Zoë Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia: We use an event study analysis of manager...
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Happy Thanksgiving! Today is a day when we pause and give thanks to whatever deity we worship (or not) for the blessings we enjoy: our freedom...
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Waldman of the Washington Post went down memory lane with prominent Republicans who called out Trump as a phony before he was elected...
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This letter appeared in the New York Times on ? To the Editor: A plea from 33 writers: Please use language that will clarify the issues at hand...
  • The House rolled out impeachment articles against President Trump, but a small group of Democrats are floating “censure” as a middle-ground alternative...
  • MADRID -- At the request of the Canadian government, journalists from Canada's Rebel News were banned from United Nations summits--all for asking real questions. In this interview...
    • There’s a distinct possibility that 2020 will see a brokered Democrat convention, allowing the delegates to then vote for whomever they please.
  • In Yemen, Saudi forces routinely target civilians based on ideological underpinnings, a fact morbidly demonstrated by the large number of civilian casualties in the country. The...
  • The outsized role of U.S. Israel lobby operatives in abetting the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil reveals how this powerful lobby also facilitates more covert aspects of U.S.-Israeli...
    • The argument made by an Israeli court has been defacto reality in Israel since 1967: there is no West Bank, instead, the region is called Judea and Samaria, legitimate parts of the State...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Could you survive the devastating real life effects of Home Alone's booby traps?(tags:ViaDrCross video movies violence )The story of the black cat(tags:cats comic adoption death...
  • Try this flowchart to see if you should trust a tech company with your data!(tags:data trust flowchart funny )Why 536 was the worst year to be alive(tags:history apocalypse )Liverpool...
    • Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing(tags:brain )The story of Britain in three polls...(tags:UK politics polls )William The Conqueror and the...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • New research has analyzed trends in migratory bird size over a 38-year period and discovered a decline that may result from global warming.
  • The FDA have issued warnings to several companies marketing potentially unsafe products involving stem cells and other cellular material.
    • Having a stuffy nose can make falling and staying asleep difficult. In this article, learn about some home remedies for getting relief from a stuffy nose and sleeping well...
  • by Xeven They are so accustomed to working this way with the Obama admin that they presumed or assumed it would be true under Trump. All witnesses denied that anyone ... Read more...
  • The jig is up. The Democrats have now actually admitted—in writing—that their sad little attempt at impeachment is entirely baseless. The House Judiciary Committee Report...
    •   Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) managed to extract a major admission from Democratic Counsel Daniel Goldman this afternoon at the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearing...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Tulsi is announced that she is going to skip the next debate, to focus on campaigning in New Hampshire and South Carolina. I do find it rather curious that she specified those two and...
  • A Mixed Review

    2 days ago
  • One thing I particularly love about Prague are the bits of strange art you find randomly here and there, now and then. Sometimes it’s brilliant, sometimes meaningful, sometimes...
    • Of course, there are literally millions of reasons to vote for Bernie Sanders (yes, I am using the word literally correctly), but I’ll try to narrow it down a bit, for the sake of simplicity...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • It’s a niche interest, maybe; geeky, if you will. But I continue to explore ways that the computer keyboard and monitor that most of us have in our homes these days can do a better job...
  • These are the things that I tell myself every morning are in limited and consistently depleted supply. Every morning, this reality should drive me to the top of my task and projects...
    • This topic of recent interest holds the potential for a vastly expanded ramble, with a point and even a conclusion perhaps, in another life time. But for now… Suffice it to say that...

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