oldephartte(in training): 18 March - iG Tab

Friday, March 18, 2022

Chicago Boyz

Book Review: The Year of the French (rerun)
The Year of the French, by Thomas Flanagan (This being St Patrick’s day, I’m again taking advantage of the hook to re-post this review, in the hope of inspiring a few more people to read this incredibly fine historical novel) Ralph Peters...
18 hours ago
Aristos a la Lanterne!
When the rage of downtrodden French peasants, living-on-the-edge city dwellers and frustrated bourgeois towards the ruling nobles and royalty final exploded into a kind of civic wildfire, there was no appeasing their collective anger...
a day ago
How to Relax
5 days ago

Harris makes Biden ’20 times worse’: Gingrich
Posted originally on Rumble by Sean Hannity Published March 18, 2022
2 hours ago
The Crisis in Europe – Robbing Pension Funds to Replace QE
Armstrong Economics Blog/European Union Re-Posted Mar 18, 2022 by Martin Armstrong While in Britain Johnson was pushing for a law that allows the government to confiscate private assets of those who resist the government under the pretense...
3 hours ago
Germany to Begin Confiscating Guns
Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Mar 18, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Germany is repeating its past mistake from 1938 when Hitler authorized the Gun Control Act that banned “enemies of the state,” such as liberals and Jews, from...
3 hours ago

This Machine Fights Fascism: 'Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom!': 'BradCast' 3/17/2022
No biggie, but on today's BradCast we've got a great idea that can help defeat fascism, secure Europe and save the planet, while saving Americans money and adding a ton of new jobs in the U.S. But the best part of the plan may be that Joe Biden can...
19 hours ago
'Green News Report' - March 17, 2022
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Republicans and Joe Manchin quash nomination of a climate hawk to the Fed; Methane emissions from coal mining far higher than previously thought; ExxonMobil loses another court bid to stop climate change legal probes...
a day ago
Zelenskyy Addresses Congress, More Russian War Crimes in Ukraine, A Hope for Peace Emerges: 'BradCast' 3/16/2022
It was a day of some light amid the darkness. As usual, these days, we'll take what we can get. Today's BradCast may lurch you back and forth through both, though we do end on several upbeat notes of lightness and light. Among both the light and dark...
2 days ago

Find the kittens!
Four kittens lurk among the tigers. See if you can find them. The solution will be posted in the comments section later today.
3 hours ago
Friday happy dance
8 hours ago
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
a day ago

Western double-standards – Russian oil bad, Saudi oil good?
Three weeks into the Russian military intervention in Ukraine, launched in response to almost nine years of Western provocations since the CIA and MI6 orchestrated Euromaidan colour revolution seen democratically elected President Viktor...
3 days ago
Washington War Party Edges US Ever Closer to Russo-Ukraine War
The war over Ukraine is a tragedy. Russia’s attack was unjustified but unsurprising. Although virtually no Washington policymaker or analyst thought Moscow would launch a full-scale invasion, anyone who followed US policy understood...
3 days ago
Meme Police: DHS Scanning Employees’ Social Media for ‘Conspiracy Theories,’ ‘Extremism’
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a report recommending an increased focus on scanning the social media accounts of its employees in order to detect “extremism.”
3 days ago

Reality TV fuels people’s belief in the American Dream
By Matthew Warren. "Rags-to-riches" storylines are ubiquitous in reality TV — and can influence beliefs about economic mobility.
8 hours ago
A mother’s early life experiences of adversity can influence her baby’s sensitivity to stress
By Emma Young. Adversity earlier in life affects stress levels during pregnancy, impacting her infant's sensitivity to stress.
3 days ago
How well do you know what you look like? Research on self-perception, digested
By Emma Young. It turns out that we make some surprising mistakes about our physical appearance.
4 days ago

Hang Ah Tea Room in San Francisco, California
Tucked away in a narrow alleyway, this San Francisco institution has been dishing up bamboo steamers of dim sum for more than a century. First opened in 1920, it bears the distinction of being the oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States...
an hour ago
De Kangxi-Verbiest Hemelglobe (Kangxi-Verbiest Star Globe) in Leuven, Belgium
A courtyard at the Catholic University of Leuven is home to a unique globe, a replica of an instrument that a 17th-century Jesuit missionary created for the Chinese imperial court. Astronomy was an important science in 17th-century China...
3 hours ago
German Resistance Memorial Center in Berlin, Germany
On the Bender block of Berlin, a Neoclassical building houses the former office of the iconic Claus Von Stauffenberg, the courtyard where he was executed, and a museum that commemorates the German resistance against Hitler. By the mid 1940s...
4 hours ago

Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Ed Yong laments the U.S.' particularly dangerous spin through the pandemic cycle of panic and neglect as it is eliminating all federal funding even as the most dangerous COVID-19 wave yet begins to crest...
3 hours ago
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Tim Loh discusses how Europe's premature end to public health measures is resulting in another COVID wave. Lei Lei Wu notes that nearly two-thirds of U.S. children hospitalized with the Omicron variant...
a day ago
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Noushin Ziafati reports on the continuing challenges facing people suffering from long COVID - particularly as governments attempt to pretend the pandemic which infected them never...
2 days ago