Thursday, May 07, 2020

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How Zodiac Signs Deal With The Flower Full Moon Tonight

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  • Thursday, May 7, we are coming into springtimes energetic high point. Traditionally called the Flower Moon, yet the moon isn’t too flowery. With the full moon rising in Scorpio...
  • There could be a few reasons for you to feel the need to be perfect.  Growing up, you felt the need to get your parents’ attention as you thought you were never good enough. The things...

    • In times of panic, people like to use the saying we are all in the same boat. The saying is not entirely true. It’s better to refer to the situation as a storm. We are all in the same storm...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard we dig into the recent – and surprising – decision by a federal court declaring that there is in fact a constitutional right to education...
  • TweetThe gaps between the Internet haves and have-nots have never been more glaring. Christopher Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self Reliance helps us understand the origins...

    • TweetWhat do you want to know about education in a time of pandemic? We put that question to Have You Heard listeners, then rounded up an all-star cast of experts with answers. Should...

      Chicago Boyz



  • This article by Lyman Stone at The Dispatch is certainly interesting, and I think has strong persuasive elements.  One has to get to paragraph 32 (I think.  It begins “But while...
  • I am learning French and part of that is watching French entertainment with English subtitles. I googled “Netflix shows in French with English subtitles” and stumbled upon one...
  • Reshoring

    4 days ago

    • The consulting firm Kearney updates their numbers on the foreign sourcing and US manufacturing of products.  Lots of interesting data.

  • Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By News on the Net —— Bio and Archives—May 6, 2020 Go behind the scenes with an experienced expert, virologist who worked under Anthony...
  • Such neighborly snitching and informing only happened under fascist and communist tyrannical regimes, not in an open society Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Dr. Ileana Johnson...

    • Democrats—still on a rampage to bring down President Donald Trump—may not have created the pandemic scare, but sure know how to exploit it Re-posted from the Canada Free Press...

  • On today's BradCast: We start and finish today with some good news. Everything else inside that sandwich may be a different matter. [Audio link to full show is posted below.] First...
  • Bernie Sanders, thanks to Andrew Yang, is now back on the Presidential Primary ballot in New York state. So is Yang. At least for the moment. By way of a 30-page decision [PDF] on Tuesday...

    • On today's BradCast: Rural America is under siege from the coronavirus, as the Mayor of one of the hardest hit small towns in the nation joins us to explain how they are coping with the...

      bluebird of bitterness



  • In honor of the birthday of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), here are a couple of their greatest hits, performed by St. Luke’s Bottle Band...
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  • The Japanese government intends to release 1.2 million cubic meters of water contaminated with radioiodine, radiocesium, radiostrontium and tritium into the ocean. This water...
  • Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps...

    • See a sample script for contacting your Members of Congress, to urge they demand public comment meetings in your state/congressional district (once safe to do so, post-pandemic)...

  • All across the country, law enforcement is using the pandemic as an excuse to use Chinese-made drones to monitor the public. Which breaks EVERY promise law enforcement has ever made...
  • There’s been a concerted effort recently among the oligarchs I like to call The Davos Crowd to demonize cash. From hedge fund manager Ray Dalio pronouncing ‘Cash is trash’ earlier...


  • By Emma Young. Formerly religious are more prosocial than those who were never religious, researchers argue.
  • By Emily Reynolds. Study finds viewers had slightly more negative perceptions of people with mental illness after seeing the movie.

    • By Emma Young. Fans of fictional villains share both positive and negative personality traits with them.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • Brick walls are certainly a common sight in London, and you’d be forgiven for walking down Myddelton Passage without giving the one that runs along the side of the footpath a second...
  • The forest of Yawata is infamous in Japan, so much that its full name—Yawata no Yabushirazu—has become synonymous with mazes, later evolving into an idiom meaning “to get lost.”...

    • On a gently sloping point with sweeping views of the Olympic Peninsula and the Pacific Ocean, a ceremonial altar stands watch over the simply marked graves of hundreds of Chinese...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Polly Toynbee writes that the coronavirus has highlighted how poverty kills - and how a concerted fight against inequality is...
  • Focused cat.



  • This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Sheila Block highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has only amplified the profits accruing to the wealthy few while putting added pressure...

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