Monday, September 21, 2020

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  The Vintage News

  • What on earth – or rather, on water – is a “floatel”? It’s a term long-established for accommodation at sea, such as that enjoyed by oil rig workers. On a swankier note, giant...

  • 10 Things You May Not of Known About -The Naked Gun

    15 hours ago
  • ‘The Naked Gun’ and its sequels rank among the world’s best-loved comedy movies. And over 3 decades on from the first chapter, those side-splitters still hold some surprises!...

  • The Mysterious Out of Place Artifact – The Stone Egg from Lake Winnipesaukee

    a day ago
    • The Mystery Stone of Lake Winnipesaukee sure lives up to its name. This egg-shaped wonder has been confusing experts since its muddy discovery in the late 19th century. Even today...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • The Orville – Addiction (Season 2 Ep. 11)

    5 hours ago

  • The Fake Neighborhoods on Google Maps

    7 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • After Tragic Loss of Eminent Jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg of Supreme Court, Democrats Must Wage Determined Effort to Block Trump’s Inevitable Reactionary Nominee! If Trump and...

  • Another Setback for Trump Gang: Federal District Judge Stanley Bastian of Washington State Finds That Trump and DeJoy “Are Involved in a Politically Motivated Attack on the Efficiency of the Postal Service,” and Issues Nationwide Order Blocking Changes That Slow Mail Delivery; Bastian Sees “Substantial Possibility” That “Voters May Be Disenfranchised”; Judge Fears That Substantial “Harm has Already Taken Place”; Also — Interfering with US Mail is Federal Crime, and DeJoy Has No Immunity

    4 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, September 17, 2020 At National Archives on Constitution Day, Benedict Donald Postures...

  • Fearing Election Defeat, Trump Caves on Pandemic Relief Bill, Urging Republicans to Go for “Much Higher Numbers,” Thought to Mean at Least $1.5 Trillion; Moscow Mitch Has Offered $500 Billion Emaciated Bill, Now Defeated in Senate; Pelosi and Schumer Are Encouraged, Insist on $2 Trillion Minimum; Will 25 GOP Austerity Fanatics Left over from Tea Party in Senate Clash with Trump over Spending?

    5 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, September 16, 2020 British Foreign Secretary Raab Comes to Washington in Search of Backing...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • A year ago Thailand was set to ban the widely used weed killing chemical glyphosate, a move applauded by public health advocates because of evidence the chemical causes cancer...

  • Bayer Inks Deals with Three Roundup Cancer Law Firms as Settlement Progresses

    4 days ago
  • Bayer AG has reached final settlement terms with three major law firms representing thousands of plaintiffs who claim exposure to Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicides caused...

  • Center for Reproductive Rights Calls for Ban on Aerial Glyphosate Spraying in Colombia over Health Risks

    12 days ago
    • As Colombia prepares to restart its aerial fumigation program, the global Center for Reproductive Rights and its local partners at the Cali, Colombia-based Universidad del Valle...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North  

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 262 – 2020

    2 days ago
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  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 259 – 2020

    5 days ago
    • South / North  

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • A common Indian refrain today is that China has betrayed India’s friendship. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Did India really draw enduring lessons...

  • The Taliban loves China’s money, but can it forget its Muslim gulags?

    9 days ago
  • Beijing has nurtured long-standing ties with the Taliban to help Pakistan call the shots in Afghanistan. Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review On the day two airplanes crashed into...

  • China’s expansionist agenda takes shape on the Indian border

    21 days ago
    • BRAHMA CHELLANEY, Special to The Globe and Mail As the past weekend’s latest skirmishes between rival troops underscore, relations between the demographic titans, China and...

      Ramani's blog

  • Valmiki Ramayana, the epic that speaks of Sri Rama mentions Kavata, Kapatapuram in Tamil,and Pandya Kingdom. Kishkindha kandam also refers to Cheras,Cholas,Andhras as well...

  • Why Hindi, of All Times,Now

    5 days ago
  • Truth has to told. To me my mother comes first. That doesn't mean I should ask others to accept her.

  • Christian Islam in Srividya Upasna Mantra Effort at Conversion

    14 days ago
    • For the benefit of those who do not know Tamil,  no 2 ,says  Devi as ' Christava Darsana Vidya Devi and no 5 reads as 'Islamya Darsana Vidya Devi'

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • I will be Zooming with Derek Black on September 23 at 7 pm EST. The information about signing up is here. If you have ever debated with friends about school choice, you will want to hear...

  • What If Trump Won’t Go?

    9 hours ago
  • What if? What if Trump loses the election but refuses to accept the results? What if he continues to say, as he will, that the election was rigged? He has actually said that the only valid...

  • “3rd Grade Reading Laws Are Harmful and Should be Abolished”

    10 hours ago
    • Veteran teacher Stephanie Fuhr writes as a guest blogger for Nancy Bailey, explaining why laws that hold back third graders if they don’t pass the state reading test are wrong and...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Philip Bratby/ Robin Guenier     Charley Boy is at it again!     The Prince of Wales has warned the climate crisis will "dwarf" the impact of coronavirus. In...

  • Sacramento’s Hottest August (Next To Highway!)

    16 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood h/t Rick P    One reader has managed to find somewhere in California where last month was the hottest August on record:   SACRAMENTO, Calif. — We all know August...

  • Wot? No Olives?

    a day ago
    • By Paul Homewood     Sometimes  it is fun looking back in time, like this story from 2006:     An environmental consultant in Devon has taken advantage of global warming to plant...

      NoTricksZone

  • Paleoclimate reconstructions that find no unusual modern warming are nonetheless characterized as showing sharp temperature increases in recent decades anyway. A new (Li et al...

  • Green Revolution Hurting Environment, Planet Far More Than Helping, Newly Released Video Shows

    2 days ago
  • Here’s a newly released 7-minute video that needs to be spread throughout the world. It illustrates how green energies are much worse for the planet than claimed. More pollution...

  • German Scientists’ Climate Skeptic Book Soars To No. 1 On Amazon List For “Engineering And Technology”

    2 days ago
    • A new book challenging the climate hysteria, which Greta has helped whip in Germany has hit the German bookshelves: Unerwünschte Wahrheiten. Was Sie über den Klimawandel wissen...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Our Schools/AlterNet: A Community of Color Was Failed by 30 Years of School Choice — Now Teachers Push a Positive Alternative “It’s something students are definitely going...

  • Janresseger: Biden and Democrats Turn Away from Two Decades of Test-Based Public School Accountability and Privatization

    3 days ago
  • Janresseger: Biden and Democrats Turn Away from Two Decades of Test-Based Public School Accountability and Privatization Joe Biden’s education plan and the Democratic Platform...

  • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Are Students “Consumers”? (David Labaree) (Guest Post by David Labaree)

    4 days ago
    • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Are Students “Consumers”? (David Labaree) (Guest Post by David Labaree) David Labaree is a professor emeritus at the Stanford...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93 percent of CNN’s coverage...

  • The Same Old, Same Old California Suicide

    5 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Fall is almost here in California. So we know the annual script. A few ostracized voices will again warn in vain of the need to remove millions...

  • Strategika #67: U.S. Troop Deployments in Germany

    5 days ago
    • America—A European Power No More? Shifting Tectonics, Changing Interests, And The Shrinking Size Of U.S. Troops In Europe Please read a new essay by my colleague, Josef Joffe in...

    The Moderate Voice

  • President Donald Trump, who seems intent on announcing a COVID-19 vaccine before Election Day, could legally authorize a vaccine over the objections of experts, officials at the...

  • Cheating for Justice

    3 hours ago
  • Because this is straight up injustice to the Justice (who asked, on her death bed, to have the winner of the election appoint her successor). The post Cheating for Justice appeared...

  • Trump Suggests Adam Schiff or Nancy Pelosi wrote RBG’s Dying Wish to Not Be Replaced Until After Election

    9 hours ago
    • Question: Why won’t the Navy name a ship after Donald Trump? Answer: Because it would sink to a new low. It’s now an excruciating Internet cliché to proclaim that Donald Trump...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • We examine the impact of criminalizing sex work, exploiting an event in which local officials unexpectedly criminalized sex work in one district in East Java, Indonesia, but not...

  • Monday assorted links

    9 hours ago
  • 1. More detail on the Venus phosphine discovery. 2. Wes Pegden on herd immunity and transmission rates. 3. Ross Douthat on the Ginsburg seat (NYT). 4. “In short, academic institutions...

  • What should I ask Audrey Tang?

    10 hours ago
    • I will be doing a Conversation with Taiwanese Digital Minister Audrey Tang, so what should I ask?  Here is Wikipedia with further information.  I am looking forward to this one...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: What if? What if Trump loses the election but refuses to accept the results? What if he continues to say, as he will, that the election was...

  • My Review of Michael Cohen’s Book about Trump

    8 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: I just finished reading Michael Cohen’s new tell-all about his years as Donald Trump’s “fixer.” It is called Disloyal: The...

  • RAGE! Trump RAGE! Trump RAGE! Trump

    12 days ago
    • “This is deadly stuff,” the president told Woodward in a Feb. 7 conversation, Continue reading →

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  • Amy Coney Barrett is the nearly perfect candidate for Justice Ginsburg’s seat, and the Left is gearing up to turn her confirmation hearing into a circus that rivals that of Brett...

  • 1619 Project: Fake History in School to Destroy US | Behind the Deep State

    4 hours ago
  • VIDEO - In this episode of Behind The Deep State, host Alex Newman exposes the Deep State propaganda machine's "1619 Project" produced by the New York Times and fringe leftwing activist...

  • RBG Was an “Intellectually Dishonest” Enemy of the Constitution — and More

    4 hours ago
    • Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death last Friday has been followed by effusive praise, even from conservatives, and New York politicians intend to erect a statue in her honor. She’s most...

      MintPress News

  • The leak of the FinCEN Files over the weekend has rocked global markets and augurs a financial crisis of epic proportions as Deutsche Bank hovers over the precipice. The post Deutsche...

  • From Mass Incarceration to Plan Colombia: Biden’s Role in the Failed War on Drugs

    7 hours ago
  • Former vice president Biden has a sordid history of opposing progressive criminal justice legislation, spearheading draconian police and immigration measures, and playing a...

  • Top 1% Responsible for Double the Carbon Emissions of Bottom Half: Oxfam

    7 hours ago
    • If the wealthiest ten percent of society continue to live as they do, the world’s entire carbon budget will be blown by 2033, even if all other emissions drop to zero. The post Top 1%...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • We found some art on the way home from nursery, so she had to climb on it. I wasn't allowed to help, even on the way down, which was a little stressful. (But I was allowed to stand 6 inches...

  • Interesting Links for 21-09-2020

    14 hours ago
  • Studio Ghibli releases a ton of high resolution stills from their movies(tags:ghibli movies art )The road from Barnard Castle - government and the problem of illegality(tags:UK...

  • Interesting Links for 20-09-2020

    2 days ago
    • Why the Queen's money never goes down(tags:UK Queen monarchy money )MOnSter 6502 - a recreation of the classic processor made with transistors you can see!(tags:technology impressive...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • For everybody bitching non-stop about 2020 being the worst year ever (which I agree with, btw, but 2021 will be worse, and 2022 more so, until there’s actually a hurricane that visibly...

  • Qanon

    4 days ago
  • I’ve been hearing about this group for quite a while but, for a few weeks now, I’ve actually had a true believer on my Facebook feed, so I’ve been seeing all sorts of stuff about...

  • Despacito

    5 days ago
    • It’s effect on the campaign will be minimal. Most people already know how they are going to vote. And it’s not as if it’s a policy thing, where he said something stupid, like “I...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll post short entries from the observations, images and thoughts that have come from two back-to-back early September visits to a local walking...

  • Life in The Cloud

    21 days ago
  • Ah yes. Now I remember. Life in the cloud. It was mysterious and eerie and the relentless fog lent a kind of drama to the aloneness that first year in Floyd County living, just me and the...

  • California: Building an ARK

    23 days ago
    • I have always been fascinated by weather. The atmosphere we experience brings the physics of the cosmos up close and personal and into our daily lives, for good or ill. And climate is...
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