Wednesday, June 17, 2020

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  • Habits that many people struggle with repeatedly. The fundamental cause of unhappiness is not the situation you’re in, but your thoughts about it. It’s a good idea to change your...
  • It is time to let go of guilt and unload the heavy baggage you carry around, let go of these feelings of guilt and move on with your life. Most people experience guilt. It doesn’t...

    • Buddhists have the saying that Loneliness is a good thing as it is part of our fundamental human nature. Since no one can guarantee your happiness, it would be good to make friends with...

  • TweetStudents flailing without real teachers. Sky-high dropout rates. Aggressive sales pitches. Sound familiar? Have You Heard revisits America’s first great love affair...
  • TweetA looming budget calamity worse than the Great Recession could mean mass teacher layoffs and deep cuts to school spending. In our latest episode Have You Heard previews the bleak...
  • The Right to Read

    a month ago

    • 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...

      Chicago Boyz



  • Here’s an interesting piece suggesting that there is a tradeoff between spending on police and spending on prisons.  It is claimed that money diverted from prisons to policing...
  • Here are some of mine: Movies Death In Venice – I walked out of this one in college. A middle-aged man’s erotic infatuation with an adolescent boy simmers, it is suggested, beneath...
  • Saying “No”

    6 days ago

    • I lifted a graphic from last weekend’s Powerline Week in Pictures, and posted it on my Facebook feed (where I post only anodyne stuff and things to do with my books, home improvements...

      Centinel2012



  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Basic Concepts Re-Posted Jun 17, 2020 by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Marty; Your report on the cyclical methodology v academic is excellent. You should...
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Jun 17, 2020 by Martin Armstrong Bill Gates says his foundation is funding the construction of factories for seven coronavirusvaccine...

    • Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on June 16, 2020 by sundance U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is testifying tomorrow at 10:00am to the House Ways...

  • On today's BradCast: President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are ramping up efforts to pretend, lie and try to distract their way out of the coronavirus crisis in advance...
  • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: U.S. Supreme Court clears the way for controversial fracked natural gas pipeline; Microplastics are raining down on our national parks; Trump plans to open...

    • On today's BradCast: You've almost certainly heard by now about Georgia's disastrous primary election last week, when new computer voting systems, shuttered polling places and...

      bluebird of bitterness




  • Find the snake!

    a day ago
  • A snake lurks somewhere in the jungle. See if you can find it.


  • The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will conduct a public meeting via webinar soliciting comments on a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Holtec International’s...
  • Do Black Live Matter to the nuclear power industry? We look at examples of discrimination against African American communities. Read our article on Beyond Nuclear International...

    • Systemic racism in the nuclear industrial complex has endured for decades. Native Americans mined uranium without protection. The Nevada atomic tests irradiated downwinders...

  • Northrop Grumman, the third largest military contractor in the world, was allegedly involved in falsely accusing CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou of “revenge porn.” The false...
  • As the world makes its way through the coronavirus pandemic together, questions are starting to surface about what the post-coronavirus global economy is going to look like. Among...

    • Just a week or so ago the mainstream media and thousands representing the “medical community” told us we must throw out the “stay-at-home” orders and go to the streets to protest...

  • By Emily Reynolds. Sans Forgetica font did not improve memory for short passages of text.
  • By Matthew Warren. Research suggests we believe lower-income people need less, and this restricts our perceptions about what is "permissible" to buy.

    • Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web There’s been a lot in the media…

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • In 1968, Jimi Hendrix released his third studio album, Electric Ladyland. That same year, Hendrix and his manager Michael Jeffery purchased a defunct nightclub in New York City that...
  • In what once was a valley noted for a Lenape sacred oak and a German witch doctor/abbess, Squire Boone Sr., a former weaver-blacksmith, built a log cabin, of which only the basement...

    • According to Nairobi-based director, producer, and author Wanuri Kahiu, African art needed a jolt of fun, fierceness, and frivolity. Too often, she says, the stories that come out...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Thomas Walkom writes about the Libs' dangerous efforts to turn the page on COVID-19 as Canada's primary political concern.-...
  • On imbalanced budgets

    an hour ago
  • This week’s resumption of activity in the Legislative Assembly has given rise to a familiar back-and-forth over the provincial budget. As usual, we’re seeing the government...



  • Cats getting comfortable.

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