Monday, July 06, 2020

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  • Disneyland’s Splash Mountain ride is undergoing a socially conscious revamp. Connections to controversial 1946 movie ‘Song of the South’ are behind the move. 2009’s ‘The...
  • In 1861 the U.S. Coast Survey Map used census data and newly developed cartographic techniques to create a visual indication of how many slaves were being held in the South. It was divided...
    • Of all of the artifacts collected from RMS Titanic, the violin played by bandleader Wallace Hartley as the ship was sinking has garnered the most emotion. Presently housed in the Titanic...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • Originally posted on Doc's Books: (Richard Sorge) As early as April 1941 British intelligence informed Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin of German intentions to discard the Nazi-Soviet...

  • On Independence Day, New Economic Recovery Policies Are Needed to Deal with Racial Tensions and Economic Collapse to Establish National Unity: Material Basis of Freedom and Equality...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, July 2, 2020 Reports from Subcontinent Suggest That New Large-Scale Clash Between New...
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, July 1, 2020 NSC Director O’Brien Concedes That Report of Putin’s Contract Killings...
  • South / North
  • South / North
    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Brahma Chellaney, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs While the international attention remains on China’s recidivist activities in the disputed waters of the South...
  • Brahma Chellaney, OPEN Magazine FIGHTING TWO BATTLES simultaneously — one against Chinese aggression in Ladakh and another against the China-originating coronavirus — India...
    • 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...

      Ramani's blog

  • It may be noted that The supernova explosion big 1054 AD is represented in the form of Dancing Shiva
  • Wherever Shiva is present Devi is there and wherever Devi is present Shiva IS.
    • A nation that convinces itself that it's history is a myth; it's heroes were mere legends;which considers teaching young from earliest School level it's history is a Sin...

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Today, Trump made a point of defending the Confederate flag, responding to NASCAR’s decision to ban it and Mississippi’s decision to remove it as part of the state flag. Trump...
  • Garrison Keillor’s “The Writers’ Almanac” notes that today is Frida Kahlo’s birthday. Today is the birthday of Frida Kahlo, born in Coyoacán, just outside Mexico City...
    • Peter Goodman is a long-time observer of education politics in New York State and New York City. In this post, he asks a reasonable question: Why, at a time of fiscal stringency and uncertainty...
  • 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...
    • 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...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fmetoffice%2Fstatus%2F1277577812556341250&widget=Tweet You will recall the...
  • The West v The Rest

    17 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood     Robin Guenier has a very informative essay on Harmless Sky,  about the history of international climate negotiations:   How developing countries took control...
    • By Paul Homewood       There has been a wide ranging debate about hydrogen in the last couple of days, so I thought it worthwhile to recap some of the basic facts. Most of these are from...
  • Extensive hake (fish) skeletal remains in ocean waters too cold for this species to occupy today suggest past ocean temperatures were several degrees warmer. Fish habitats are limited...
  • A commentary titled “‘Just don’t panic – also about climate change’” by Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt appearing at German site achgut.com tells us there’s no need for panic...
    • A German weekly “Die Zeit” commentary criticizes the hostility directed at skeptical climatologists and epidemiologists. “Where do we end up if a scientist’s degree of...
  • Janresseger: Public Funds Public Schools Website Provides Compendium of Research on School Vouchers Ohio was one of the first states, in 1996, to impose school vouchers, and today...
  • Answer Sheet: New Concerns Raised About a Well-Known Digital Learning Platform Over the past five years, the Summit Learning Platform has become one of the best-known online platforms...
    • Jersey Jazzman: On Comparing Education Spending Across Time I’ve noticed a lot of back-and-forth recently on social media about education spending – specifically, on how spending...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • From An Angry Reader: Professor Hanson: In your recent article Class, Not Race, Divides America, you said: Whatever Trump was, he talked to blacks just as he talked to everyone else—same...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review When mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to African-American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered...
  • When States Go Wild

    4 days ago
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In past rioting, over the last 60 years, mayors, police chiefs, and governors restored law and order. They often beseeched the federal government...

    The Moderate Voice

  • Is Donald Trump heading for defeat in the 2020 presidential election? This far out from election day, it appears as if he will lose. Then again, the same was said about Trump this time...
  • Washington (AFP) – US Sunbelt mayors warned Sunday that their cities are at risk of being overwhelmed by a surge of coronavirus cases as they pushed back against US President Donald...
    • Almost four months after his “call to arms,” as the nation needs leadership more than ever, Trump -- in his rare appearances to address the crisis – continues to duck responsibility...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. Fast-tracking your smart kid does not make them less happy, either short run or long run. 2. How to get people to wear masks/condoms. 3. “HIV-positive patients receiving TDF/FTC...
  • On my recent trip to India, just before the world went into lockdown and disarray, Shruti Rajagopalan and I visited Amit Varma’s studio in Delhi to record an episode of his podcast...
    • 1. Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea.  Yes compelling, and a sufficiently influential book that you should read it.  But aren’t you ever tempted to ask...

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  • On July 2, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order mandating the wearing of face masks across the state, but he may have based his executive order on inaccurate information...
  • Rapper and producer Kanye West set off his own fireworks July 4, announcing on Twitter his intention to run for president. And despite America’s falling statues and virtues, it...
    • VIDEO - In this episode of Behind the Deep State, host Alex Newman breaks down some of the amazing history leading up to the Declaration of Independence. Alex especially focuses in...
  • From the Twitter account of her communications firm, Asymmetrica, Vanessa Neumann accused four journalists of a “criminal conspiracy” to support Venezuelan vice-president...
  • California's competing crises of climate change, COVID-19 and convict labor have converged to create the perfect neoliberal storm. The post Fire-Engulfed California Short on...
    • Palestinian academic Ramzy Baroud, Israeli activist Miko Peled and documentary filmmaker Robert Inkalesh join MintPress to discuss the implication of Israel's coming annexation...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Listen to Wikipedia(tags:Wikipedia sounds )Humans forced to hide from sex addicted monkeys who set up HQ in disused cinema(tags:headline monkeys sex cinema )Nuclear 'Power Balls'...
  • Trump retweets video of supporter shouting 'white power'(tags:racism republicans USA politics Twitter video )Coronavirus: No plans for Scotland to quarantine UK visitors. Yet.(tags:Scotland...
    • Why the earliest sign of civilisation is a healed femur(tags:civilization )Last of Us Part II: Is this the most accessible game ever?(tags:games disability accessibility )Scottish...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • The first, and actually only thing you need to remember about Kanye West’s announcement that he’s running for president is that it should not be taken seriously. There is no more...
  • Weeding

    2 days ago
  • We’re at the cottage. I took the train up this morning, which is, in my opinion, the loveliest and most underrated way to travel. I’d planned to get a bit of writing done but, in the...
  • The Fourth

    3 days ago
    • Well, happy 4th or July, for what it’s worth. Nothing against barbecue and fireworks. It is just a holiday, and has no greater real world importance than any other symbol, like a statue...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • If you've planned something so carefully that nothing can go wrong, something will. But couldn't moving day be an exception? Apparently not.


  • Rock Hill Church Road was once a state-maintained road with a county road number (714 I think) that is now in VDOT limbo status of not abandoned but not maintained. There are three full...

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