Tuesday, December 17, 2019

17 December - iGoogle Portal - Tab 9

  • Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta are back as Sandy Olsson and Danny Zuko from Grease. Not in a new movie, but in a special appearance at a public event. The recent “Meet ‘n Grease”...
  • It’s hard to imagine love and lovers blooming in the Nazi camp of Auschwitz, but as the poets declare, love will not be denied, no matter how harrowing the circumstances. It was a period...
    • Long ago, ancient Egyptian women wore what archaeologists describe as a head cone. At first it was speculated that these were simply fictional items depicted through art on Egyptian...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, December 16, 2019 Crisis on Wall Street: Federal Reserve Set to Inject Record $500 Billion...
  • A Mirror for GOP: Once-Great Federalist Party Became Extinct After Flirting with Secessionism and Wartime Treason at Hartford Convention of 1814-1815; Monroe Presidency Then...
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, December 12, 2019 British Tragedy: Exit Polls Show Big Gains for Pro-Brexit Tories at Expense...
  • The primary mechanism of how glyphosate herbicides kill plants is by inhibiting an enzyme called EPSPS, which is part of a biochemical pathway known as the shikimate pathway. The...
  • Following the five-year re-approval of the active substance glyphosate by the European Union in 2017, the French health and safety agency ANSES is reviewing the market authorisations...
    • 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...
  • South / North
  • South / North
    • 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

  • Terrsa Hanafin of the Boston Globe’s Fast Forward writes about Rudy Guiliani:   My word, Rudy Giuliani barely stepped foot back in the US before that foot was firmly planted in his...
  • The New York Times reports that the Sackler family, one of the nation’s wealthiest families, busily transferred assets to themselves as the opioid crisis worsened The Sacklers...
    • Jan Resseger describes here the ideology and shamelessness behind the expansion of vouchers for religious schools in Ohio. She shows how the plan was cooked up by legislators who...
  • It was a light week for science and technology bookings on late night, much like this year has been.  You could have caught a repeat on The Late Late Show of Arnold Schwarzenegger promoting...
  • 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...
  • By Paul Homewood     While Matt McGrath deludes himself in Madrid, the IEA reveal the stark reality:   Coal consumption is set to rise in the coming years as growing demand for electricity...
  • By Paul Homewood     Crikey Jilly, you’re a bit late at the party, aren’t you? I was telling everybody about this six years ago!   Plans to shift Europe’s coal plants to burning...
    • By Paul Homewood   I mentioned Matt McGrath’s contribution to factual broadcasting earlier:   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50799905   It contained...
  • Few places virtue signal green as much as Germany. So not surprisingly a number of cities led by socialist/green governments have attempted to implement electric public transportation...
  • Four reconstructions from the central and western High Arctic reveal July temperatures were about 1-2°C warmer than today during most of the 1st millennium and Medieval period...
    • By Kirye and P. Gosselin Of course all we hear from the media nowadays is that weather extremes have been getting worse (over the past decades) and the planet is warming rapidly. But...
  • VAMboozled!: Teachers “Grow” Their Students’ Heights as Much as Their Achievement The title of this post captures the key findings of a study that has come across my desk now...
  • Curmudgucation: Can Rich Content Improve Education? Modern high-stakes testing really kicked into gear with No Child Left Behind, and then got another huge boost with the advent...
    • Answer Sheet: Report: Federal Government Wasted Millions of Dollars on Charter Schools that Never Opened More than 35 percent of charter schools funded by the federal Charter School...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News Donald Trump certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth. But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end of such...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // The Epoch Times
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Once liberalism and progressivism give way to Jacobinism — and they often do, as we have seen in revolutionary France, China, and Russia —...

    The Moderate Voice

  • The post Putin and the GOP (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
  • I think many of you are aware that Israel’s second national this year has ended in a total stalemate. While Likud and the Blue and White party split the national vote, neither party...
    • If the intent of the GOPs is to make a mockery of the Rule of Law, they have succeeded admirably.... The post Murdering the Rule of Law appeared first on The Moderate Voice...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Brussels has been striving to secure the deal for six years, as it seeks to prove it has the negotiating muscle to broker meaningful agreements with Beijing that can defend European...
  • 1. An occupational satisfaction index? 2. “We find that local exposure to fatal school shootings increases youth antidepressant use by 21.4 percent in the following two years.”...
    • His team analyzed more than 100,000 medical studies and 6.2 million life sciences article that were published over a 15-year period, finding that women-authored studies were 12...
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Today in the Washington Post,  Eric Holder criticized Bill Barr for his aggressive, partisan support of Trump. Holder was Obama’s...
  • 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...
  • Illegal aliens in New York are now waiting in long lines for driver’s licenses without any fear of deportation.
  • Three years ago, immigration authorities deported a border-jumping Guatemalan woman who killed four children and injured more than a dozen. Last month, cops collared her again...
    • After the United States expelled two Chinese Embassy officials who drove onto a U.S. Navy base in Virginia Beach, the Chinese asked the United States to “correct its mistake.”...
  • Mexico is in a period of profound change and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his Morena Party are charting a dramatically new path for the country.  The post Mexico’s...
  • Reflections on how mass media and leaderless movements have affected the success of popular protests from Quebec in 2012 to Lebanon today. The post A People’s Guide to Revolution...
    • From privatizing natural resources to partnering with other right-wing regimes, Bolivia's new interim government has wasted no time in reversing years of hard-fought gains. The...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • The working class has changed. Labour needs to understand that(tags:Labour politics UK class viaMarrog )Pro-Indian fake websites targeted decision makers in Europe(tags:india...
  • After three years of increasing stress watching Brexit approach, be deflected, go up against numerous crunch votes, and not quite make it through, the knowledge that it's happening...
    • Without Section 30, the law won't help Scottish independence(tags:Scotland independence law UK )Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisition Found in Miami Kitchen(tags:USA...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • A study finds that those who regularly eat hot chilis have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease compared with those who eat chilis rarely...
  • A large new study confirms the link between the use of electronic cigarettes and a significantly increased risk of chronic lung disease.
    • Some people may experience perceived or actual weight gain around the time of their period. Read on to find out why and how to prevent weight gain during a period...
  • by Jason Burack of Wall St For Main St Refinance lending has nearly doubled over the past three quarters, according to Black Knight. Cash-out refinances were up 24% since the...
  • Trump sends letter to Pelosi registering his protest of impeachment pic.twitter.com/IEniQTGkkZ — Jordyn Phelps (@JordynPhelps) December 17, 2019 Jordyn Phelps @JordynPhelps...
    • The Fed will be printing $1 trillion in a very short period of time. This is absolutely historic and yet nobody is complaining. They’re actually cheering the monetary easing to...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • I’m binge watching Star Trek, the original series, and here are my observations, about halfway through season two.I’m surprised at how well it holds up as entertainment – the...
  • Fraud

    2 days ago
  • A little over a month ago, Donald Trump was found guilty of defrauding a charity. A children’s cancer fund. Now, it was the Donald Trump Foundation, and they did donate some money...
  • Not All

    2 days ago
    • One thing that kind of ticks me off is when people say “All politicians are liars” or “all politicians are crooks” as a way of ending a political conversation, without saying...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • I’m beating the rush for New Year’s Resolutions, and thought I’d go ahead and start failing to keep mine ahead of schedule. I’ve realized that I have allowed myself to get too...
  • Tools for Thought

    8 days ago
  • 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...

    No comments: