Tuesday, December 10, 2019

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  • 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...

  • Historians Identify the World’s Oldest Chess Piece as an Ancient Castle

    14 hours ago
  • 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...

  • Wonder Woman Goes 80s Retro in Pulsating Trailer for New Film

    14 hours ago
    • 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!


  • The vision of the anointed — with Thomas Sowell (1995) | THINK TANK @AEI

    2 hours ago

  • Abdication: Two Days that shook the British Monarchy. December 10-11, 1936. Part I.

    3 hours ago
    • Originally posted on European Royal History : On November 16, 1936, King Edward VIII invited Prime Minister Baldwin to Buckingham Palace and expressed…...

      TARPLEY.net

  • 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...

  • Sen. Murphy (D-CT) Reveals as Many as Five Senate Republicans Are Already Considering Voting to Convict and Remove; Judiciary Committee Writing Articles, Will Review Evidence Monday

    3 days ago
  • 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...

  • Pelosi Orders Her Committee Chairs to Draft Articles of Impeachment Against Trump; U.S. Finally Showing World How to Handle Lawless Authoritarian Oppressors; Judiciary Committee to Hear Evidence Starting Monday

    5 days ago
    • 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...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • 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 CEO Ordered to Testify at Roundup Cancer Trial

    3 days ago
  • 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 Bans Glyphosate in All Protected Wild Areas

    5 days ago
    • 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...

      sunshine hours

  • 10th Lowest Arctic –  2016 2017 2018 2007 2010 2006 2015 2009 2012 were lower than 2019. South / North

  • 8th Lowest Arctic – Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 342 – 2019

    a day ago
  • 8th Lowest Arctic – 2016 2017 2006 2010 2007 2018 2012 2015 2009 were lower than 2019. South / North

  • 7th Lowest Arctic – Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 341 – 2019

    2 days ago
    • 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...

  • Stuck in a haze: New Delhi’s smog is the cost of environmental neglect

    a month ago
  • 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...

  • China is weaponizing water and worsening droughts in Asia

    a month ago
    • 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...

      Ramani's blog

    • 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: NAEP=The National Assessment of Educational Paralysis

    8 hours ago
  • 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...

  • FAIR: How the Media Turn Support for Public Schools into Opposition to Children of Color

    9 hours ago
    • 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...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • 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...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of November 18

    13 days ago
  • 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...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of November 11

    21 days ago
    • 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...

  • Obama Buys $11m Beachside Property–Sea Level Rise? You Didn’t Believe That Bull Did You?

    a day ago
  • 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...

  • Aussie MP Calls Out UN Chief’s Lies

    2 days ago
    • 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:        ...

      NoTricksZone

  • 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...

  • Warmth-Demanding Species Present In The Early Holocene Arctic Verify It Was 7°C Warmer Then

    a day ago
  • 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...

  • Distinguished Princeton Physicist Likens Climate Movement To “Madness”…A “Bizarre Environmental Cult”

    2 days ago
    • 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...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • 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

    4 days ago
  • 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

    5 days ago
    • 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...

  • When Our Guardians Fail Us

    a day ago
  • 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...

  • Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Popping Point of Maximum Pressure

    5 days ago
    • 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...

    The Moderate Voice

  • 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...

  • Bridging the Great Divide

    8 hours ago
  • 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...

  • What the Roman senate’s grovelling before emperors explains about GOP senators’ support for Trump

    8 hours ago
    • > 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...

  • Paul Volcker’s Latin American legacy

    10 hours ago
  • 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...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • 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...

  • Paul Waldman Remembers When Republicans Thought Trump Was a Charlatan and a Kook

    14 days ago
  • 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...

  • 33 Writers: Please Stop Using Term “Quid Pro Quo”

    a month ago
    • 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...

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  • The House rolled out impeachment articles against President Trump, but a small group of Democrats are floating “censure” as a middle-ground alternative...

  • Banned by UN, Real Journalists Speak Out

    3 hours ago
  • 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...

  • A Brokered Dem Convention Could Be Coming. If So, Who Would Be Chosen?

    4 hours ago
    • There’s a distinct possibility that 2020 will see a brokered Democrat convention, allowing the delegates to then vote for whomever they please.

      MintPress News

  • 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 Israel Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the Theft of Iraqi and Syrian Oil

    6 hours ago
  • 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...

  • Israel’s Case Against Human Rights Watch Reveals How Its Normalizing West Bank Land Theft

    a day ago
    • 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...

  • Interesting Links for 09-12-2019

    12 hours ago
  • 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...

  • Interesting Links for 08-12-2019

    2 days ago
    • 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.

  • Medical News Today: Companies selling risky stem cell products receive FDA warning

    16 hours ago
  • The FDA have issued warnings to several companies marketing potentially unsafe products involving stem cells and other cellular material.

  • Medical News Today: 9 tips for sleeping with a stuffy nose

    a day ago
    • 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...

      InvestmentWatch

  • 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...

  • House Judiciary Report BOMBSHELL: Dems Trying to Change the Constitution

    2 hours ago
  • 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...

  • Awesome! Doug Collins Gets Democratic Counsel to Admit Joe Biden Carried Out ‘Quid Pro Quo’ with Ukrainian Government

    2 hours ago
    •   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...

  • Top 10 Reasons to Vote for Bernie Sanders

    3 days ago
    • 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...

  • A Future of Keystrokes, Minutes and Synapses

    7 days ago
  • 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...

  • Landscape, Place and Memory

    a month ago
    • 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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