Thursday, April 23, 2020

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  The Vintage News

  • A British man on lockdown has found a classic car buried in his backyard garden. Not that it was sitting on the grass – this vehicle was under it! Contracts manager John Brayshaw only...

  • Rambo’s Nemesis Brian Dennehy Dies at 81 – Great Tributes from Stallone and Others

    3 days ago
  • Veteran actor Brian Dennehy has died aged 81. Comfortable on both stage and screen, he became known for playing tough characters with a dark side. Born in 1938 to parents Edward and...

  • Funky Vintage Hairstyles that were the Epitome of Cool in their Day

    5 days ago
    • Vintage hairstyles throughout the years are filled with fads that come and go. Some go, blessedly and some favorite looks survive through different times. Here we would like to offer...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • Originally posted on Climatism: DISASTER divided : Two countries, one island, life-and-death differences WITHOUT access to fossil fuels, every tree on the planet would have been...

  • COVID-19 in Italy: An analysis of death registry data

    an hour ago
  • Originally posted on Mostly Economics: Gabriele Ciminelli and Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó in this voxeu piece: There are still many unknowns about COVID-19. We don’t know its true...

  • Australia is socially distancing; NZ is locked down #COVID19

    5 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Breaking: In Attempted Purge of Competent Scientists to Make Way for Pro-GOP...

  • A New Epicenter of Coronavirus May Be Emerging in Northern China Along Russian Border, Fueled by Sick Chinese Nationals Returning from Siberia; Russian Case Count Is Highly Unreliable, but Reportedly Increased by 5,642 Last Night

    a day ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Cuomo Meets with Trump, but Apparently Fails to Extract Any Concrete Commitments...

  • In Worst Day Ever for Petroleum Markets, May Oil Futures Plunge Deep into Negative Territory as Covid Shrinks World Demand; Dow Dives 592; Eager to Make US Motorists, Commuters, and Farmers Pay to Prop Putin and MBS, Trump Orders 75 Million Bbl for US Strategic Reserve

    2 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, April 20, 2020 Trump’s Dress Rehearsal of Hooligan Shock Troops for November Yields Meager...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • In 2019, manufacturers and processors achieved a turnover of around 8.8 billion euros with goods carrying the “Ohne GenTechnik” (Without Genetic Engineering) seal. In shops...

  • New Academic Paper Slams EU Pesticide Risk Assessment Practices

    a day ago
  • A new peer-reviewed paper authored by a group of experts in law, policy, and toxicology, including GMWatch editor Claire Robinson, has identified systemic failings in Europe’s...

  • GMA $18 Million Fine Reinstated over Cover Up in GMO Labeling Fight

    6 days ago
    • The Washington State Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association intentionally violated Washington’s campaign finance laws while supporting...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 110 – 2020

    3 days ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 109 – 2020

    4 days ago
    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Japan Times Just as fascism led to World War II, communism has engendered the greatest global health catastrophe of our time. The Chinese Communist Party...

  • Don’t disregard the long-term threat from Tablighi Jamaat

    13 days ago
  • Wolf in sheep’s clothing? The Tablighi Jamaat claims to be apolitical but its ultimate goal — triumph in global jihad — underscores its political mission. Authorities in multiple...

  • The world will not be the same after the pandemic

    a month ago
    • Brahma Chellaney, Washington Times Historically, major wars have fostered profound changes in societies and economies. Today’s China-originating pandemic has created an...

      Ramani's blog

  • His son was Daushyanti (i.e., born of Dushyanta) Bharata.To him was born a son named Chola after whom the Solar race on this earth became illustrious

  • Raghupati Raghav Rajaram , How Original Was Changed Gandhi

    19 days ago
    • I am surprised at the lengths people would go to appease a section of the Community at the cost of another by tampering with a religious song.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • In an illuminating article in The Atlantic, George Packer argues that America is a failed state. Trump didn’t “make America great again.” He took its weaknesses, frailties...

  • Heritage Foundation’s “National Coronavirus Task Force” Recommends Universal Vouchers and Uncertified Teachers

    2 hours ago
  • Talk about taking advantage of a crisis! The rightwing extremist Heritage Foundation has issued its own report on how to recover from the pandemic. They cover it with patriotic glitz...

  • Stuart Egan: The Step-by-Step Destruction of Democracy in North Carolina

    a day ago
    • In this powerful post, NBCT teacher Stuart Egan describes the calculated attack on democracy and social justice in North Carolina. The state was once considered one of the most enlightened...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • At this point, it’s worth noting that most late night/morning talk shows will talk about the coronavirus and COVID-19, if only a little.  It’s also worth noting that scheduled...

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

    15 days ago
  • Last week the late night shows were still shaking down the details of broadcasts outside of their home studios.  While The Late Late Show was not back with new episodes, it did air a...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of March 23

    24 days ago
    • Last week most programs were either in repeats or attempting to figure out what kind of show they could do with a decentralized staff and production.  Many shows continued to generate...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   More than three decades before Greta Thunberg was born — the Swedish environmental activist on climate change — more than 20 million Americans participated...

  • Renault Zoe- Joke Of The Year

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood     I think it’s time we all deserved a good laugh – we need it!       Last Saturday the Daily Express reviewed the Renault Zoe electric car. Colin Goodwin begins...

  • John Houghton-Obituary

    a day ago
    • By Paul Homewood        John Houghton was of course at the heart of the global warming deception from the very early days, as Chairman of the IPCC Working Group I for the first three...

      NoTricksZone

  • By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin The summer of 2017 in Europe was a wet one, yet everyone seems to have forgotten that. Then came two hot and dry summers across Europe (2018 and 2019) and already...

  • Michael Moore Film May Splinter Green Movement, Calls Green Energies “A Delusion”, Billionaire Bonanza

    a day ago
  • In short, everything we’ve been told about green energies is a lie. And a select few swindlers out there are making a financial killing while the environment gets devoured by “green”...

  • Christiana Figueres: Course Set In The 2015 Paris Agreement Is “In Serious Danger”

    2 days ago
    • Setback: In a recent interview with the German Klimareporter here, former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said that a global energy system transformation “can be a joint...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Curmudgucation: We’re About to Hear Many Suggestions About How to Reshape Education. Here’s How to Sort Them Out. The vast majority of the nation’s schools have pressed pause...

  • VAMboozled!: Special Issue: Moving Teacher Evaluation Forward

    3 days ago
  • VAMboozled!: Special Issue: Moving Teacher Evaluation Forward At the beginning of this week, in the esteemed, online, open-access, and peer-reviewed journal of which I am the Lead...

  • Teacher in a Strange Land: If Technology Can’t Save Us, What Will?

    6 days ago
    • Teacher in a Strange Land: If Technology Can’t Save Us, What Will? All the ed bloggers during this pandemic are consumed with whatever we’re calling our frantic attempts to reach...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Almost every day, more studies, strange data, anecdotal reporting, and theories emerge about the virus, many of which could change existing...

  • Suppression of Expression Obscures the Truth About the Virus

    2 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Americans are acquainted with predictable but ultimately failed progressive efforts to suppress free expression by preemptive invective...

  • Angry Reader 04-20-2020

    3 days ago
    • From An Angry Reader: Professor Hanson, I am not really angry. I apologize for the subject line but I guessed that it would get my email read. My primary complaint….. Your last “angry...

    The Moderate Voice

  • Abe is quality family entertainment, with a simple and straightforward story that will bring anybody together. It is now available to rent or purchase on Vudu, Amazon, and other...

  • Two Grumpy Texas Octogenarians Disagree with their Lieutenant Governor

    15 hours ago
  • Thirty days after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested that we give the virus containment efforts “a few more days or weeks…after that let’s go back to work and go back to living…”...

  • Trump wants sports back – but fans aren’t so sure

    18 hours ago
    • The parking lot of Citifield, the home of the New York Mets, sits empty. AP Photo/John Minchillo Murray Edelman, Seton Hall University CC BY-ND Some politicians, media figures and...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Earlier I suggested that that we offer unemployed people jobs that could be done from home: A 21st century jobs program would pay people to stay home and isolate, support people without...

  • The Bali heterogeneity?

    8 hours ago
  • From a Kevin Kelly email to me: Another weird data point on the highly heterogeneous nature of this virus. A friend of mine who lives in Bali says there have been 2 confirmed Covid-19...

  • Why the low status of opposition to child abuse?

    10 hours ago
    • Michael Kaan emails me: Hi Tyler, I’m a healthcare professional in Canada and a long-time reader of your blog. For the past couple of years, observing the culture wars and various...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: You may have heard the news today that Trump fired the independent Inspector General in charge of monitoring the $2 trillion coronavirus...

  • There is No Return to Normal for the US Economy

    a month ago
  • Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the odds of Trump winning the election are slim at best no matter what he does. Continue reading →

  • David Leonhardt: What Trump Has Said About Coronavirus

    a month ago
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The main reason that the U.S. was unprepared to respond promptly to the coronavirus was that Trump repeatedly told the public that it was...

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  • A dishonest hit piece masquerading as journalism published by the far-left Daily Beast tries to defame both conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly and the grassroots John Birch Society...

  • Wisconsin Republicans Sue to Block Stay-at-home Order, Reopen State

    an hour ago
  • Wisconsin's Republican-led legislature filed a legal challenge in a bid to stop the governor's stay-at-home order, which is set to last through May 26...

  • China Expert: Covid-19 Probably “Deliberate Leak”; Could Be “Act of War”

    17 hours ago
    • China expert Gordon Chang thinks the release of the coronavirus was either accidental, which he disputes, or deliberate, to gain a march on the United States...

      MintPress News

  • So-called centrist Benny Gantz has seemingly done everything in his power to assure Israel's left and center are crippled for years to come and that Netanyahu will continue his decades-long...

  • Sanctioned Countries Are Now Leading the World in the Fight Against Coronavirus

    20 hours ago
  • Countries currently facing US sanctions, around a quarter of the world’s population, are faring far better than the United States and leading the global fight against COVID-19...

  • US Role in Destabilizing Yemen and Somalia Could Spark “Famine of Biblical Proportions”

    a day ago
    • The World Food Program is warning that Yemen and countries in the Horn of Africa – not coincidentally states that the US has been destabilizing for decades, could face mass starvation...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Pheromone in baby mouse tears makes females less interested in sex(tags:sex mice pheromones )Quarantined stuntmen challenge(tags:stunts video pandemic viaSwampers )This satire...

  • Thor update

    a day ago
  • 20 week scan went well (except for confusion about which hospital to go to), and Thor is normal sized in every way - except for having inherited Jane's extremely long legs. She is very...

  • Interesting Links for 22-04-2020

    a day ago
    • Deaths from coronavirus in the UK 40% higher than previously reported(tags:uk pandemic death )How awful men push women out of fandoms(tags:fandom men OhForFucksSake abuse )'Just...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • I am a bad person, no doubt about it. Not so much because of the things I do – I’m generally polite, easy to talk to, co-operative. I separate our garbage for recycling, occasionally...

  • Netflixed

    2 days ago
  • I am seriously beginning to worry that soon I will arrive at the point where I have watched Netflix. I mean totally watched it, in the sense of having read a book, or seen a specific film...

  • Back to Normal?

    3 days ago
    • The pattern is continuousso it should not seem strangethe only constant in our livesis that things always changewe can’t go back to normaland we never will becausethere’s no...
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