15 July - iG Tab - 8

 

Chicago Boyz

• Heatwave

  Yes, there is a heatwave going on in Northern Europe this week – or at least, to them it’s a heatwave. To those of us who live in Texas, it’s just a normal summer, with temperatures in the 90s and reaching three digits. Supercilious Europeans...

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• Screen Size and Depth of Dialogue

  Via Instapunit, here is an article about online motorcycle forums, which says that there used to be many of these but that they have been drying up and going away.  Why? In January 2014, desktop internet use was overtaken by mobile internet...

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• ChicagoBoyz KC Meetup, 10/7-9

  [7/13 UPDATE: Truman Library substituted for Nelson-Atkins] So, I shot my mouth off at the Denver meetup about doing the next one in KC, and Jonathan reminded me yesterday that I should set a date. I knew I wanted to do it before the midterms, and...

  3 days ago

Centinel2012

• Obama Lashes Out at Former White House Physician for Questioning Biden’s Mental Health

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jul 15, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a former White House physician under the Biden Administration, was reprimanded by former President Obama for admitting that everyone...

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• Unemployment Growing Among Chinese Youth

  Armstrong Economics Blog/China Re-Posted Jul 15, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Unemployment among the youth (16-24) in China has reached a record high of 18.4%. Unemployment is drastically more prevalent in this demographic compared to the...

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• Draghi Out – The Dominos Fall

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Italy Re-Posted Jul 15, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced his resignation on Thursday after he fell out of favor with the Five Star Movement. Similar to Boris Johnson, once your...

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The BRAD BLOG

• It's the Guns, Stupid!

  "We must face the truth," Andrew Hairston, Director of the Education Justice Project told the Advancement Project. "More militarized school environments do not address the root causes of mass violence." In fact, noted Jonathan Stith of...

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• 'Plenty of Evidence' to Charge Trump, But DoJ Needs 'a Couple More Pieces' Before They Do: 'BradCast' 7/14/2022

  The big time former federal prosecutors are only just now beginning to catch up to what our guest on today's BradCast has been saying all along: Merrick Garland's Department of Justice is, in fact, on the job and Donald Trump is, in fact, in their...

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• 'Green News Report' - July 14, 2022

  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Spain and Portugal hit with driest climate in more than a thousand years; Yes, U.S. summers are getting hotter, longer, and more dangerous; California enacts nation's most sweeping law to phase out single-use plastics...

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bluebird of bitterness

• Friday chuckles

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• Friday happy dance

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• Find the man!

  Somewhere in this peaceful woodland scene, a man’s face is hidden. See if you can find it. The solution will appear in the comments section later today.

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BlackListed News

• What Is The “Council For Inclusive Capitalism?” It’s The New World Order

  The idea that there is an agenda for global government among the financial and political elites of the world has long been called a “conspiracy theory” within the mainstream and the establishment media. And sadly, even when you can convince...

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• Hundreds of Illegal Immigrants Filmed Crossing Into Eagle Pass, Texas

  A massive group of hundreds of illegal migrants streamed across the southern border in Texas on Wednesday — marking one of the largest groups to flood into the U.S. in recent months, and a dramatic snapshot of the historic crisis facing officials...

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• Disturbing new footage shows Salvador Ramos roam Uvalde school halls, cops running away from gunshots

  Cops responding to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting ran away from gunshots while 19 children and two teachers were left to die in their classrooms, according to new footage of the horrifying attack published Tuesday...

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Research Digest

• Most of us don’t have a desire for unlimited wealth

  By Emily Reynolds. Study challenges common economic assumption that we all want unlimited resources.

  11 days ago

• Racial biases shape the way people interpret body poses

  By Emma Young. White participants saw Black, but not White, people as more aggressive when in Superman pose.

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• People with no mind’s eye have less vivid and detailed memories

  By Matthew Warren. People with aphantasia also show deficits when describing hypothetical future events.

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Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  Tobin Range (Pearce) Scarps in Winnemucca, Nevada

    At 10:54 p.m. on October 2, 1915, Pleasant Valley, Nevada, was rocked by an enormous earthquake. Its Mercalli intensity (a guide based on damage from shaking, graded in Roman numerals from I to X) was extreme (X). The Richter scale had not...

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  The Slave Port of Bimbia in Bimbia, Cameroon

  On the shores of the Atlantic, near the seaside city of Limbe, Cameroon, lies the Bimbia Bonadikombo community forest. In the 18th century, Bimbia was a slave trade port, where historians have confirmed that at least 10 percent of enslaved...

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  Czech Stop & Little Czech Bakery in West, Texas

  One of the sweetest diversions in the 200 miles between Dallas and Austin sits behind the gleaming yellow fan of a Shell Gas Station. In West, Texas, just past the gas pumps in a large, wood-paneled building, you’ll find Czech Stop & Little...

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Accidental Deliberations

• Friday Morning Links

  Assorted content to end your week.- Ricardo Duque Gabriel et al. examine how the costs of austerity extend beyond the human toll of diminished well-being to include the undermining of trust in democracy.- In case we needed to see the breakdown...

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• Thursday Morning Links

  This and that for your Thursday reading.- Glenn McConnell reports on New Zealand's continued leadership in acknowledging and fighting the avoidable spread of COVID-19. Arwa Mahdawi discusses why nobody should be bragging about continuing...

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• Wednesday Morning Links

  Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- SBS News reports on the WHO's warning that not only is the COVID-19 pandemic far from over, but cases are spiking globally. And Mike Lapointe reports on the work of at least some political...

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