Friday, July 08, 2022

8 July - iG Tab - 8

 

Chicago Boyz

  • I first heard of Brian Deese during the Obama administration, when he was appointed as one of the ‘Czars’ for the auto industry…and I was inspired to write this little song.  (with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan) I see that Mr Deese–now...

    5 hours ago
  • The grim and cynical judgment is that advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from deliberate malice. I am certain that grimmer and more cynical commenters than me have long since concluded that the advanced and mind-boggling incompetence...

    a day ago
  • The Constitution is not the law that governs us, it is the law that governs those who govern us. –Randy E Barnett, quoted here.  

    3 days ago

Centinel2012

  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Conspiracy Re-Posted Jul 8, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Who is the mysterious R.C. Christian who erected the Georgia Guidestones in March 1980? These four nearly 20-feet monuments were mysteriously built decades...

    10 hours ago
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Humor Re-Posted Jul 8, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Here is a bit of humor on a Friday. The G7 Summit turned into a middle school playground when world leaders began mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin for taking...

    11 hours ago
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Gold Re-Posted Jul 8, 2022 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: OK. How did Socrates know that they would find 31 million tonnes of gold in Uganda to create a bear market? I really want to hear this one. Thanks DH ANSWER: I...

    11 hours ago

The BRAD BLOG

  • Meant to say as much previously, but had trouble logging in from the road ... We're taking a much needed mental health break over this shortened holiday week. While we're gone, we're re-running our Special Coverage episodes from the blockbuster...

    2 days ago
  • Support a disappearing craft with a subscription to a political cartoonist. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...

    6 days ago
  • We have a very serious warning for voters about elections and American democracy and the corrupt U.S. Supreme Court on today's BradCast. Please tune in and listen! [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] To quickly summarize my half-hour...

    7 days ago

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BlackListed News

Research Digest

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • Every summer, Liliana Palma Santos’s parents would take the family from Los Angeles, where Palma Santos was born and raised, back to their homeland: the small rural town of Tlacolula, Oaxaca. There, she roamed the family milpas, where corn...

    6 hours ago
  • Across the 118 islands within the Venetian lagoon, drinking wine has always come more naturally to locals than producing it. For much of its 1,600-year history, Venice has instead prioritized reaping the bounties of the sea: In an old dialectal...

    8 hours ago
  • Istanbul is a huge city with thousands of mosques, many of which were built over 500 years ago. Today, more modern mosques have been constructed around the city. Taksim Mosque is among the newest.  Located in Taksim Square, the mosque was officially...

    10 hours ago

Accidental Deliberations

  • Lost Synths - Don't Mind

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  • Assorted content to end your week.- Benjamin Mazer writes that of all the other public health analogies, COVID-19 may prove most similar to smoking in the systematic failure of governments to take readily-available steps to prevent widespread...

    11 hours ago
  • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Chas Danner writes about the arrival of the BA.5 COVID-19 surge in the U.S. Nora Loreto writes about the thousands of Canadians who died of COVID acquired in hospitals - and the many people...

    2 days ago

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