Wednesday, June 17, 2020

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  • Cleopatra VII was the last ruler of the Ptolemic Dynasty of Ancient Egypt and now her tomb may have been discovered. She was born in 69 BC and famously (and allegedly) died from the bite...

  • Newly Unearthed Footage of the Last Tasmanian Tiger Ever Seen Alive

    2 days ago
  • Benjamin the last Tasmanian tiger lives again in recently-uncovered film footage! Approx 3 mins of footage previously existed of this marsupial predator. The latest find adds a...

  • Hidden Treasure Chest Worth $1 Million Found Deep in the Rockies

    4 days ago
    • Forrest Fenn’s $1 million hidden treasure has finally been found in the Rockies. Fenn is a war veteran turned millionaire art dealer in New Mexico who started an old-fashioned treasure...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa – WW2 Special

    3 hours ago

  • Addams family dancing – Joy Division – Disorder

    3 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, June 16, 2020 North Korea Blows Up Conference Center Devoted to Rapprochement with Seoul...

  • Supremes Rule 6-3 That Title VII of 1964 Civil Rights Act Banning Job Discrimination Based on Sex Extends to LGBTQ Persons; Roberts and Gorsuch Join Four Liberal Justices, with Gorsuch Signing Majority Opinion Based on Textualist Nominalism; Kavanaugh Offers Weak Dissent; Alito and Thomas Assert Reactionary View; XIV Amendment Guarantees That All States Apply Equal Protection of Laws To Everybody; Door Left Open for “Religious” Objections; And Beware Deception Posture by Court Majority as They Prepare to Back Trump Coup in Disputed Election

    2 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, June 15, 2020 Trump Behavior at West Point Graduation Triggers Online Tidal Wave of Angry...

  • Fort Bragg, North Carolina Should Be Re-Named Fort Harriet Tubman in Honor of the Intrepid Intelligence Officer and Armed Reconnaissance Operative of the Union Army During the Civil War; Born into Slavery, She Worked as Guide for Her Fellow Escapees on the Underground Railroad and Joined with Frederick Douglass to Influence Lincoln; She Assisted Secretary of War Stanton in Liberating Jacksonville, Florida; In June 1863, Tubman Guided the Union’s Combahee River Raid That Freed 750 Slaves, Who Became the Nucleus of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Best Known Today Through the Movie “Glory”

    4 days ago
    • “We Need police! We Need Police, but We Need a Police System That Is Just:” Spike Lee Wisely Admonishes Protesters That Slogan of “Defund the Police” Is “Tricky”; They...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • The Detox Project’s Glyphosate Residue Free certification for food and supplement products is growing fast in the U.S. and Canadian markets and has now received international...

  • Pesticide Giants Get $2 Billion UK Taxpayer COVID-19 Bailout Despite Mammoth Dividend Plans

    11 days ago
  • Chemicals manufacturers BASF and Bayer have been given enormous payouts of  Covid-19 support cash from the British government just weeks after announcing plans to distribute...

  • US Appeals Court Bans Dicamba in Massive Shock for Bayer

    13 days ago
    • On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of farmers and conservationists in a dispute over Bayer/Monsanto’s dicamba pesticide. The 56-page...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 162 – 2020

    6 days ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 160 – 2020

    8 days ago
    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • From Hong Kong to Himalayas, Xi Jinping seizes on disarray to expand China’s global footprints Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review President Xi Jinping, seeking to press China’s...

  • A tipping point in the Himalayas

    5 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times India extended the hand of friendship to China but was repaid with stealth aggression in Ladakh. The Chinese incursions into strategic areas...

  • India’s Appeasement Policy Toward China Unravels

    12 days ago
    • Last month’s swift and well-coordinated incursions by People’s Liberation Army troops into the icy borderlands of India’s Ladakh region were likely the product of months...

      Ramani's blog

  • And if we take into account of Lemuria,which is dated around 230 Million years ago and MU civilization abutting Lemuria and Tamil was very much in evidence,we can date these groups...

  • Reddit Removes My Indian Chariot History Date’Indians Hilarious’

    2 days ago
  • The reason for removal of the article is not really 'Off Topic' ,but the article does not show a ' Screenshot of an Indian person being Hilarious on social media'...

  • Sanatana Dharma Answers My YouTube Videos

    9 days ago
    • And it has become necessary to inform people of the latest Archeological finds that confirm our History as detailed in our Purana , Ithihasas, Sthala Puranas, References in regional...

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • In 1994, the Clinton administration allocated $6 million to help start charter schools, a brand-new idea that had no track record and looked promising. That money was intended for...

  • National Education Policy Center Interview of the Month: Yours Truly

    2 hours ago
  • This is a really fun interview with Chris Saldana of NEPC, in which we talk about the important education issues of our time. I think you will enjoy it. Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Publication...

  • Billionaire Reed Hastings Plans Luxury Resort to Train Teachers to Think Like Him

    3 hours ago
    • VOX reports on billionaire Reed Hastings’ grandiose plans to build a fabulous resort in Colorado for teachers, where they will learn to love charter schools, high-stakes testing...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • The week of May 18th marked two months since most late night and daytime talk programs had ceased normal production of their shows.  Some of them aired repeats, as would have been customary...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of May 11

    21 days ago
  • With a continued focus on the coronavirus (or in the case of Conan, an interest in avoiding it) and a decreasing amount of new entertainment content to promote, the late night and daytime...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of May 4

    a month ago
    • I’m a little surprised it took this long into the shutdown portion of the pandemic for these postings to get really, really thin.  For the first week in May, the only science and technology...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood         A wave of new coal power plants are under construction or in development after the country lifted curbs on new builds, according to a study published Tuesday...

  • No Wind, No Sun–But Plenty Of Gas & Nuclear!

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public   https://gridwatch.co.uk/ [Thanks to Joe for the appropriate tag!]     And what do we get for £10bn worth of renewable subsidies? A load of capacity...

  • Dummies Guide To Renewable Subsidies–Part II

    a day ago
    • By Paul Homewood By popular demand, Dummies Guide to Renewable Subsidies – Part II Last week I looked at the mechanics of how renewable subsidies are paid, now I will look at just how...

      NoTricksZone

  • German Coal Power Plants To Be Converted: To Burn Trees Millions of trees to be shipped from around the world to Europe to be burned as “green coal”. Image cropped from “Planet...

  • MIT’s Dr. Lindzen Pokes Fun At The ‘Naïve’, Well-Funded ‘Scientific Reasoning’ That 1 Factor – CO2 – Controls Climate

    2 days ago
  • In a new paper, atmospheric physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen summarizes the “implausible” claims today’s proponents of dangerous anthropogenic global warming espouse. Dr...

  • German Power Prices Climb 116% Since Year 2000 …Government Levies, Taxes Tripled!

    3 days ago
    • German online site Stromreport writes that since the year 2000 the average electricity price for private households has risen from 13.94 to 30.43 euro cents per kilowatt hour (2019)...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Shanker Blog: Teaching During School Shutdowns Should be a Team Sport This post is part of our series entitled Teaching and Learning During a Pandemic, in which we invite guest...

  • Have You Heard: The Right to Read

    2 days ago
  • Have You Heard: The Right to Read In 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...

  • Shanker Blog: Coronavirus is a Risk to Education in America: A Comprehensive National Response is Needed

    6 days ago
    • Shanker Blog: Coronavirus is a Risk to Education in America: A Comprehensive National Response is Needed This post is part of our series entitled Teaching and Learning During...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The ancient Greeks created new words like “paradox” and “irony” to describe the wide gap between what people profess and assume...

  • On Name Changing and Statue Toppling

    5 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review General David Petraeus wrote an impassioned article in the Atlantic this week about the need to change the names of military bases that...

  • China Isn’t Letting a Pandemic Go to Waste

    7 days ago
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis last week when a police officer used brutally excessive force to arrest him. It was the latest in a string...

    The Moderate Voice

  • These women were released from an Oklahoma prison in 2019. AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki Cynthia A. Golembeski, Rutgers University Newark At least 77 million U.S. adults have criminal records...

  • Trump and Lincoln (Mike Peters Guest Cartoon)

    15 hours ago
  • Mike Peters is recognized as one of our nation’s most prominent cartoon artists for his outstanding work as both a political and comic strip cartoonist. His favorite expression...

  • Fort Worth police say Fox News’ report on chief, protests was a ‘gross mischaracterization’

    15 hours ago
    • FORT WORTH, Texas — The Fort Worth Police Department called an inaccurate Fox News report about Fort Worth a “gross mischaracterization” in a Facebook post Monday night.On...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Rachel Harmon is a Professor at University of Virginia Law School, and an expert on policing.  Here is the audio and transcript, and here is part of the CWT summary: She joined Tyler...

  • Comparative Institutional Failure

    5 hours ago
  • The common element to our twin crises is that many of the government agencies we thought were keeping us safe and secure—the CDC, the FDA, the Police–have either failed or, worse...

  • *Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition*

    11 hours ago
    • That is the new, excellent, and timely book by Hollis Robbins, the title is descriptive, here is one excerpt: “If We Must Die” calls for resistance to violence in an environment...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: This is a very important piece. Please read it and share it. It’s by a 10-year veteran of some city in California, who calls himself a bastard...

  • America Is Burning

    17 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: These are the worst of times. Police brutality in Minneapolis murdered a black man who allegedly used a fake $20 bill. Petty crimes are adjudicated...

  • Trump’s Dangerous Malignant Narcissistic Ignorance will kill Some and might kill Many

    20 days ago
    • The facts prove that COVID-19 will not go away through the hot Summer months. Continue reading →

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  • Scientists are making discoveries that seem to augur for the eventual merger of human biology with machines.

  • Good News: Up to 45 Percent of People With COVID-19 Have No Symptoms

    an hour ago
  • Findings from the Scripps Research Institute suggest that as many as 45 percent of those infected with COVID-19 are free of symptoms.

  • Biden Once Said United Daughters of the Confederacy Are “Fine People”

    2 hours ago
    • Biden’s 1993 remarks that the United Daughters of the Confederacy is made up of many “fine people” will not get the same attacks as Trump’s comments after the Charlottesville...

      MintPress News

  • America’s power brokers are hoping murals, kente cloth, and a series of half-baked legislative reforms will appease activists into giving up the fight for real change. The post...

  • Trump Hammers Cuba While Cuba Cures the Sick

    a day ago
  • Not content to sabotage Cuba’s domestic health sector, the Trump administration has been attacking Cuba’s international medical assistance, from the teams fighting coronavirus...

  • American Exceptionalism Is on the Ropes and the End of the Petrodollar Is Nigh

    2 days ago
    • From the border wall rhetoric to trade wars, Trump is effectively setting up the implosion of the dollar and couching it as pseudo nationalistic populism. The post American Exceptionalism...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • "Aliens" Star Jenette Goldstein Reflects on being a Jew cast as Vasquez(tags:aliens movie race )Dexamethasone is first life-saving coronavirus drug(tags:virus disease medicine...

  • Interesting Links for 16-06-2020

    a day ago
  • U.S. Supreme Court bars discrimination against LGBT workers(tags:LGBT discrimination USA GoodNews )Doctors are having their insurance deferred because of COVID 19.(tags:virus...

  • Interesting Links for 15-06-2020

    2 days ago
    • Defund the police? Here's what that really means.(tags:police usa )Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You're Doing It Wrong(tags:racism behaviour viaMorag...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • I’ve seen a couple of people today posted this article on Facebook, which I read, and think it’s rubbish, actually. It’s as if magazines need to find articles to fill up space...

  • Police Still Killing People

    a day ago
  • Even after the killing of George Floyd set the whole country on fire, the police, instead of doing damage control, continued beating the hell out of peaceful protesters, pushing old...

  • Horní Malá Úpa

    3 days ago
    • We took a little trip today, to the lovely village of Horní Malá Úpa, which means there is also a Dolní Malá Úpa, and even a Velká Úpa.For the non-Czech speakers among my readers...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • Vietnam: How this country of 95 million kept its coronavirus death toll at zero – CNN Why can’t we learn to do what successful states and nations do that is working? Business as usual...

  • On Herd Immunity: or Not

    19 days ago
  • Path of least resistance AND looking at new ways of getting information (mostly for me) out of my “second brain” of Roam Research (“networked tool for thought) and into a place...

  • The Future of Feeding Ourselves

    2 months ago

    • The future of food will be different after COVID19. We should be planting our Victory Gardens NOW!
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