Thursday, February 20, 2020

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  • An giant rat the size of a human has been found in South America. Thankfully for the squeamish, it wasn’t alive. Archaeologists working at the Acre dig site in the western Brazilian...
  • Khaled al-Anani, the Minister of Antiquities in Egypt, has revealed that a large mummy burial site has been discovered at Tuna el-Gebel, an ancient necropolis located near Luxor...

    • Pablo Escobar’s hippos are causing a ruckus in Columbia. The man left an unusual legacy involving hippos that is causing problems many years after his demise. His huge former ranch...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • Spot on @BillMaher

    2 hours ago



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Time to Dump the Mnuchin Faction of Crackpot Profiteer Ideologues...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Trump’s Latest Flip-Flop Calls for a Vigorous Campaign of Lobbying...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, February 17, 2020 On Sunday Shows, Dem Candidates Spout Usual Platitudes, Not Grasping That...

  • A jury on Saturday awarded US$ 250 million in punitive damages to a southeastern Missouri peach farmer who argued that weedkiller dicamba that had drifted onto his orchards from other...
  • Fraud in a German laboratory has cast additional doubts on the 2017 re-approval of glyphosate and on the entire EU pesticide safety evaluation procedure, Pesticide Action Network...

    • In today’s society people are choosing to have fewer children, and delaying having children at all into later, less fertile years. These two factors have driven fertility rates...

  • South / North
  • South / North

    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • The world’s rivers are under unprecedented pressure from contamination, damming, and diversion, which are straining water resources, destroying ecosystems, jeopardizing...
  • The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership was set to become the world’s largest free trade agreement. But India’s withdrawal from it has thrown the negotiated trade...

    • Brahma Chellaney Says More… Project Syndicate, Feb 4, 2020 This week, Project Syndicate catches up with Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • If Senator Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic nomination, you can be sure that Trump will redbait  him on a daily basis. Sanders will be “red meat” for Trump’s ridicule. If...
  • Matt Barnum and Alex Zimmerman of Chalkbeat report that a new study of Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk policy found that it increased the dropout rate, especially for black boys, who...

    • Heather Gautney and Eric Blanc warn in the Guardian the Michael Bloomberg’s ideas about education would be a disaster for the nation. He is the only candidate whose ideas about education...

  • This past week was a clear break from the recent months of limited science and technology content.  “Science Bob” Pflugfelder returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on February 10 (Monday). ...
  • This past week has been dominated in late night (and daytime) talk with a lot of political content.  Of note for these pages is the failure of the Iowa Democratic Party to effectively...

    • Things ticked up for science and technology on late night in the last week of January.  On the January 26 repeat of The Late Show, you could catch host Stephen Colbert lacerating a recent...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood   This has to go down as one of the most fraudulent climate studies yet!   Want to know how sea level in your area is changing due to global warming and other factors?...
  • By Paul Homewood     Boris Johnson’s Greenest Government Evah has come up with a brilliant new excuse to duck its responsibilities for all the floods now swamping parts of Britain...

    • By Paul Homewood   h/t Keith Holland   UK airports must shut, says UK Govt backed research group:   All UK airports must close by 2050 for the country to reach its target of net zero...

  • Arctic Surprise By Professor Fritz Vahrenholt A few days ago, an international research group from the USA, Canada and Switzerland led by Lorenzo Polvani of Columbia University...
  • In Germany there have been rumors that the alleged Antarctic Seymour Island “all-time Antarctic record high” of 20.75°C set on February 9th is a hoax – originating by the AFP...

    • Greenland’s largest glacier (Jakobshavn) has quite abruptly thickened since 2016. The thickening has been so profound the ice elevations are nearly back to 2010-2011 levels...

  • Our Schools: How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools In the expanding effort to privatize the nation's public education system, an ominous, less-understood...
  • Janresseger: Ohio House Passes Emergency Amendment Which Would Solve Some EdChoice Voucher Problems Ohio’s House Speaker Larry Householder is leading his chamber expeditiously...

    • VAMboozled!: NCTQ on States’ Teacher Evaluation Systems’ Failures, Again In February of 2017, the controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) — created...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In 2020 we have finally hit peak progressivism. The adjective “peak”—apex or summit— is often used to describe something that...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review All political parties and candidates have bad days. But the new progressive Democratic Party had four of its worst days in recent memory in...

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Genius is often defined in myriad ways. One trusted criterion is the ability to do something extraordinary in a field where others could not...

    The Moderate Voice



  • Las Vegas (AFP) – Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg got hit Wednesday with a barrage of attacks from rivals during his debut Democratic presidential debate who savaged him...
  • London (AFP) – US President Donald Trump promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival’s campaign, a London...

    • The Houston Astros have targets on their backs. Perhaps not literally, but they are going to be targeted if not already. From Evan Bleier at Inside Hook: “Oddsmakers expect Houston...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • Here is a new paper from Joy Buchanan, Emergent Ventures winner: Having a larger high-skill workforce is good for economic productivity, so it is useful to understand how workers...
  • Running out of things to read?  Do you ever have the sneaky feeling that books might be overrated?  Well, for some variation at the margin try reading art books.  That’s right...

    • The unemployment rate for young college graduates exceeds that of the general population, and about 41 percent of recent college graduates — and 33.8 percent of all college...

  • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: When I joined the Marines in 1965, I wasn’t thinking of the flag or what freedom meant. I joined for another reason. I wanted to know...
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jackie Goldberg is running for re-election to the Los Angeles Unified School Board. She is an experienced public official who has supported...

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: I fear we are becoming insensitive to shock in the Trump era. And the very concept of “government ethics” seems to be an oxymoron in this...

  • A federal judge has ruled against a Health and Human Services’ pro-life rule that includes multiple provisions to ensure Americans’ taxpayer dollars are not used to fund abortions...
  • A program founded with millions from Bloomberg’s foundation provides Democratic state attorneys general with lawyers trained to advance the climate agenda...

    • Some years ago the BSA allowed openly homosexual boys in its ranks, then openly homosexual adult leaders; next came “transgender” kids and girls. Interestingly, though, most...

  • Michael Bloomberg’s campaign has called on the other “moderate” candidates, such as Amy Klobuchar, Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, to step down and unite behind him as the only...
  • Netanyahu’s frenzied lobbying efforts to halt the ICC probe suggests that the probe greatly worries him, particularly as he has linked his current reelection bid to illegal acts...

    • Judge Beryl Howell has declared a mistrial following a hung jury in the case of the four Venezuela Embassy Protectors charged with "interfering with the protective function of the...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Sabisky isn't the problem. Cummings is.(tags:fascism UK politics )7000-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered(tags:prehistory wood archeology )An optical...
  • Uber and Lyft said they would ease congestion. Instead they made it worse.(tags:transport taxi fail )Prime numbers do not like to repeat themselves(tags:PrimeNumbers mathematics...

    • Children hiding. Badly.(tags:children psychology development funny )New Downing Street adviser called for 'universal contraception' to stop 'permanent underclass' (and various...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • This business of Mike Bloomberg running for the Democratic nomination is bullshit. He is a Republican. He was a Republican when he held his only political office, mayor of New York...
  • I’ve been hearing a lot about how us Bernie Bros are rude, and argumentative, and divisive, and constantly attack other candidates’ supporters, and use bad language, and I really...
  • 3 days ago

    • Binge watching is a change in our lives which I would never have predicted. It’s different, when you swallow a show in big chunks, rather than in bite sized weekly increments. And...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • Non-native earthworms are perhaps the most serious of invasive land pests. Learn about them and avoid spreading them when possible.
  • It is a fact (barring worse-case outcomes in the real estate realm) that this date a year from now, I will not be sitting at this desk in this room at these coordinates on Planet Earth...

    • Here is served more high-fiber roughage, I suppose, that helps keep the old information digestion system moving regularly. One has to take the time to slow down and spend a few moments...

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